Question:
Assalamu alaikum wa rahmathullah.
I am a 22 yr old engineering student. I love very much to be with Sufis. Especially I have started developing love towards Maulana Shaykh Nazim. But I feel myself to be inferior to take bay’ath with a shaykh, due to my laziness and lack of punctuality along with many other bad habits. I thought i will get rid of bad habits and then I can at least approach a shaykh. but day by day there is very little improvement. I am afraid that if I approach a shaykh, I may invite anger of god with lack of respect. Please advice me in this regard. My heart is wanting to live a better life than the dirty life am already in.
Answer:
wa `alaykum salam,
Baya` to a great spiritual sultan such as Mawlana Shaykh Nazim al-Haqqani will assist you to drop your bad habits and build good ones. Don’t delay, but take online initiation as soon as possible and don’t listen to Shaytan, who always tries to interfere with the best of deeds, according to the Sunnah of our Prophet (s).
Taher Siddiqui
