Question:
Assalamu’a laikum, Dear Respected elders and seniors.
Forgive me if, in my ignorance I have incorrectly posed this question.
I wanted clarification, that is it the case that The same ‘Special’ secrets poured by our Beloved Prophet Sayyidina Muhammed (pbuh) into the heart of Hazrat Abu Bakr (R.A) in the Cave of Thawr have been transmitted from Master to Master throughout the 40 in the chain, right down to our beloved Maulana Shaykh.
Also could I as a lover (not sure if I am capable of being a murid) of Maulana Shaykh access or partake of such blessings and ‘special’ knowledge or is this only for the Awliya allah.
Finally is this special outpour into the heart of Hazrat Abu Bakr, namely why the silsila comes through him and not Hazrat Ali.
If I am not to know such things, I humbly request your forgiveness.
Answer:
a`udhu billah mina ‘sh-shaytani ‘r-rajeem
Bismillahi ‘r-Rahmani ‘r-Raheem
The spiritual inheritance given to Sayyidina Abu Bakr as-Siddiq (r) has been transmitted from heart to heart via the Golden Chain to our present day Master, Mawlana Shaykh Muhammad Nazim Adil al-Haqqani. The Silsila is traced to S. Abu Bakr (r) but is also merged in many places with the physical and spiritual descendants of S. Ali (a.s). The reader is referred to Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani”s Classical Islam and the Naqshbandi Sufi Tradition, excerpted below:
http://www.isn1.net/Classical-Islam-p/bk-classicalislamandthenaqshba.htm
Shaykh Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn Abu Bakr as-Siddiq descended from Abu Bakr as-Siddiq on his father’s side and from Ali ibn Abi Talib
on his mother’s side. He was born on a Thursday, in the holy month of Ramadan.
It is narrated that he said, “My grandfather, Abu Bakr as-Siddiq, was alone with the Prophet in the Cave of Thawr during migration from Makkah to Madinah, and the Prophet said to him: ‘You have been with me all your life and you have carried all sorts of difficulties. And now I want you to make a supplication to invoke God’s favor on you.’ Abu Bakr then said, ‘O Prophet of God, you are the secret of my soul and the secret of my heart. You know better what I need.’”
The Prophet raised his hands and said, “O God, as long as my Divine Law proceeds to Judgment Day may God grant that among your descendants are those who carry it and those who inherit its inner secrets, and grant that among your descendants are those who are on the Straight Path and those who guide to it.”
The first answer to that supplication and the first one to receive that blessing was Sayyidina Qasim . In his time he was known in Madina as Abu Muhammad. People came to listen to his guidance, his lectures (suhba) and his disclosures of the hidden meanings of the Quran. Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn Abu Bakr as-Siddiq
was one of the seven most famous jurists in Madinah, being the most knowledgeable among them. It was through these seven great Imams that the Traditions, early jurisprudence, and Quranic commentaries were disseminated to the people.
Dr. Karim Tourk
