Question:
Assalamalaikum
i)I had studied in the history of our mawlana sheik nazim that while he was in seclusion in sheik ABDUL QADIR JILANI ‘s madarasa he met sheik abdul qadir jilani spritually and our mawlana had taken the baya in the holy hands of sheik abdul qadir jilani .so my question is all the mureed our beloved mawlana is also the mureed of sheik abdul qadir jilani or we are only the mureed of our beloved mawlana.
II)all the naqshabandi mureed are spritually connected to sheik abdul qadir jilani or not?
Answer:
`Alaykum assalam,
We are Murids of Mawlana Shaykh Nazim and our connection is with Mawlana Shaykh Nazim. We should strengthen our knowledge of him and his teachings, and deepen our love for him and our zeal in following him. We can never thank Allah enough for meeting such as Mawlana in our lifetime. This is what adab dictates and what Shaykh `Abd al-Qadir would want because it is the way of Allah and His Prophet: to be with the truthful *in our time* and focus on the guide whom Allah placed us with as he deserves, since Mawlana brings with him, through his silsila and his inheritorship and maqam, everything else.
Hajj Gibril Haddad
