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Conditions of the Ahmediya Mohammediya Tijaniya Path

The great opening of Sidna Shaykh Abil Abbas Sidi Ahmed Tijani (may Allah be pleased with him) given to him by Allah , thanks to the intervention of his grandfather the Holy Prophet (peace and blessing be upon him), started at Tlemcen, and was crowned, at Chellala, and at Abi Samghroune in the Eastern Sahara. That is where the Holy Prophet (peace and blessing be upon him) allowed Sidna Shaykh Tijani to inculcate in his Mohammedian Wird to those who require it, without any pre-conditions, apart from submission to the precepts and concepts of Islam, the approval to recite the WIRD, and the WADIFA could be given to any to any believer of both sexes, provided to be pubescent, and to agree upon the terms. It was in 1196/1781.

One of the most important steps taken by Sidna Shaykh Tijani was that he did not consider Sufism limited to a certain group of people. The Shaykh usually repeated, “Impeller of rapture (saiq as-sa'ada) drives communities to this Presence, the divine clout (sarif al-ilahi), meanwhile, strays others from (arriving into) it.” Sidna Shaykh left his door open to all seekers, instructing in the way of love all those in longing for the Mohammedian Presence (peace and blessing be upon him). As for the conditions of his Order, Sidna Shaykh, simply speaking, based it on three pillars,

(1) Praying in the mosque with the congregation whenever possible, meeting all the prerequisites for lawfully offering prayer,
(2) Praying upon the Holy Prophet (peace and blessing be upon him) and
(3) Not to visit living saints or the tombs of dead ones.

Tentang Hakekat Nabi Muhammad (Haqiqat al-Muhammadiyyah)

Ibn Arabi, menjelaskan bahwa semua Nabi as., semenjak Nabi Adam as., sampai Nabi Isa ibn Maryam as., semuanya mengambil al-Nubuwwah (ke-Nabian) dari tempat cahaya Khatm al-Nabiyyin yakni Nabi Muhammad saw., sekalipun wujud jasmaninya di akhir. Sebab pada Hakekatnya Khatm al-Nabiyyin telah wujud. Hal ini sebagaimana sabda Nabi Muhammad saw. :
كُنْتُ نَبِيًا وَآدَمَ بَيْنَ المَاءِ وَالطِِّيْنِ.
“Aku telah menjadi Nabi Ketika Adam as., masih berada antara air dan tanah”.
Dalan memahami sabda Nabi saw., ini, Ibn Arabi menegaskan bahwa Nabi Muhammad saw., telah diangkat jadi Nabi sebelum lahirnya jasad Beliau di dunia ini, dan Beliau mengetahui ke-Nabiannya, dengan demikian secara Hakekat bahwa Nabi Muhammad saw., sejak di Alam arwah telah berfungsi sebagai Rasul kepada ummat manusia sejak awal manusia melalui para nabi dan Rasul-rasul Allah.
Tentang Maqam Nabi Muhammad tersebut, dalam Surat Saba ayat 84 Allah Berfirman :
وَمَا اَرْسَلْنَاكَ إِلاَّ كَافَّةً لِّلنَّاسِ بَشِيْرًا وَنَذِيْرًا وَّلكِنَّ اَكْثَرَ النَّاسِ لاَيَعْلَمُوْنَ.
Artinya : “Dan kami tidak mengutus kamu, melainkan kepada manusia seluruhnya sebagai pembawa berita gembira dan sebagai pembawa peringatan, tetapi kebanyakan manusia tidak mengetahuinya”.

On Virtue of the Prayer on the Prophet

On Virtue of the Prayer on the Prophet (peace and blessing be upon him)

Al-Qutb al-Kabir, Imam Sidi Mohammed al-Jazouli states in Kitab Dalail al-Khayrat,

Allah Most High said: "Allah and His angels call down blessings on the Prophet. O you who believe! Call down blessings on him and ask for complete peace and safety for him." (Qur'an 33:56)

It is related that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessing be upon him) came out one day and joy could be seen in his face. He said, "Jibril, peace be upon him, came to me and said, 'Are you not pleased, O Mohammed, that none of your community blesses you but that I bless him ten times, and none of your community prays for peace on you, but that I pray it for him ten times.'"

The Prophet (peace and blessing be upon him) said, "The people most deserving of me are those who pray the most for blessing on me." The Prophet (peace and blessing be upon him) said, "If someone blesses me, the angels bless him as long as he continues to bless me, so let him diminish that or increase it." The Prophet (peace and blessing be upon him) said, "It is enough miserliness in a man that when I am mentioned in his presence, he does not call down blessing on me.

The Prophet (peace and blessing be upon him) said, "Pray for blessing for me a lot every Friday." He (peace and blessing be upon him) said, "If anyone of my community says one prayer on me, ten good actions are written down for him and ten bad actions are effaced from him."

The Prophet (peace and blessing be upon him) "My intercession will be available on the Day of Rising to anyone who says, after hearing the adhan, 'O Allah! Lord of this perfect call and established prayer, give Mohammed 'al-wasila' and superiority and raise him up to the praiseworthy station which You promised him."

The Prophet (peace and blessing be upon him) said, "If someone blesses me in a book, the angels do not cease to bless him as long as my name is in that book."

Morocco Gallery IV

The Essence of Tariqa

By Sheikh/ Mohammed El-Hafiz El-Masry

The Prophet said, “The men of learning are heirs of the Prophets and, the Prophets did not leave behind a Dinar or Derhim (wealth) for inheritance, but they did leave knowledge as an inheritance. So whoever acquires it (knowledge), he acquires a full share in abundance”.

No doubt that part of the knowledge the Prophets passed on as inheritance is the knowledge of ridding the soul and inner self of layers of darkness, purifying it from the turbidity of the matter, and guiding it to the spiritual world, to the abstractness of the higher kingdom of Allah, until the soul becomes so pure that no matter can have an effect on it; but rather its purity refines the thick; and its secret revives the lifeless when it flows into it. The Lord aids the soul with His divine light and illuminates its vision and powers so that it sees, hears, settles, moves, knows, takes, and lets under the divine guardianship of Allah the Exalted. There, Allah chooses the soul, purifies it, loves it, and draws it closer to Him. That is the special lovingness and sublime proximity!

Those heirs are doctors and healers of souls and inner selves; Allah has taught them the disease and the remedy.

And it is one of the many graces of Allah to this Mohammedan Ummah that no time is short of them till the hereafter: it is authentically reported that the Prophet said, "Some of my followers will remain victorious (on the right path) till Allah's order (Last Day) comes".

We are commanded to purify, tame, and refine ourselves. Allah, the Exalted said, “By the soul, and the proportion and order given to it; and its enlightenment as to its wrong and its right. Truly he succeeds that purifies it; and he fails that corrupts it", chapter 91, verses 6-10.

And the Prophet has drawn our attention to the benefits of good companionship and its favorable effect on self-purification: he told us the story of the repentant man who killed hundred persons and consulted a man of learning who advised him to go to such and such land, where there are people who worship Allah. He asked him to join them in worshipping of Allah, and never return to his homeland because it is an evil land. He started off his journey; and died on half way. A dispute arose between the angels of mercy and the angels of torment: the angels of mercy said that he has come as a penitent turning his heart towards Allah; the angels of torment said that he had never done a good deed. So the distance was measured; he was found closer to the land of worshippers. Therefore the angels of mercy took him.