HIS HOLINESS MAHMUT EFFENDI (May Allah, the most high Sanctify His Soul)

OUR

HOLINESS TO

FATHER HIM

MEETING
AND

WITH

GRAND

SUFI MASTER, ISMET

HIGH

AFFILIATION

HIS

HOLINESS

MUSTAFA
THE MOST

GARIBULLAH EFENDI (GRAND SHEIKH) (MAY ALLAH, SANCTIFY HIS SOUL) THE AUTHOR KUDSIYE)
PROGENY) AND LIFE OF

OF DIVINE

TREATISE (RISALE-I
BE UPON HIM AND HIS

HOLY PROPHET (PEACE

HOLINESS MUSTAFA ISMET GARIBULLAH EFENDI

SHEIK OF

IS THE PROMINENT GREAT IN WHICH

HALIDI

BRANCH OF THE

NAQSHBANDI THE

HOLINESS ALI
OF

HAYDAR EFENDI

AHISKAVI (KS)
WAS INFLUENTIAL

AFFILIATED. ESPECIALLY

TEACHING THE

ISMET
AND

AROUND

GOVERNMENT

ACADEMIC CIRCLES OF DISCIPLES WERE

OTTOMAN EMPIRE. AMONG

THOSE DISTINGUISHED DECREED THAT

SULTAN ABDULMECIT I. ABDULMECIT I

HE WOULD BE BURIED IN THE YARD OF

SULTAN SELIM MOSQUE

AND THE

SHEIKH

OF THIS

DERGAH

WOULD COME AND

MAKE INVOCATIONS AT HIS

TOMB ALONG WITH HIS DISCIPLES.

HE

IS THE AUTHOR OF A BOOK TITLED IN A STANZA FORM. ME

TREATISE

ON

DIVINITY, ALLAH,
JUDGMENT, ONLY

WRITTEN MOST WILL MY THE

ONCE
THAT ON

HE

DECLARED DAY OF

THAT, LAST NOT

THE

HIGH

PROMISED ME THE

THE

HE

GRANT

AUTHORITY ALSO

OF

INTERCEDE

LIMITED GAZE

OF

FOLLOWERS, DOOR OF MY TOO.

BUT

THOSE

MUSLIMS

WHO

JUST

THROUGH

SUFI

HOUSE WITH AFFECTION.

WILL INTERCEDE FOR THEM

MUSTAFA ISMET EFENDI HALIDI THE

BRANCH OF WELL-ESTABLISHED GOLDEN

WAS

ONE

OF

THE

GREATEST WHICH

SHEIKS
IS ONE

IN OF

THE THE

THE AND

NAQSHBANDI
MOST THAT

ORDER

INFLUENTIAL BEGINS WITH WAS

BRANCHES THE

OF

SO-CALLED

LINEAGE

PROPHET MUHAMMAD
IN

(S.A.W.S). MUSTAFA ISMET EFENDI

CITY BETWEEN TODAYS HE WORKED IN HE AS A

BORN

YANYA,

BORDER

ALBANIA
AT THE

AND

GREECE. IN

HIS EARLIER AGES, JURISPRUDENCE) LOVE IN HIS

CLERK

SHARIAH (ISLAMIC
OF

COURT
HEART,

YANYA. UPON
WENT TO

THE

DOMINANCE WHERE

DIVINE

MAKKAH,

SHEIKH ABDULLAH-I MEKKI

THE FOUNDER

ERZINCANI,
OF THE TIME.

A CALIPH OF

MAWLANA HALID-I BAGHDADI, ISMET EFENDI

HIS

HALIDI THERE,

BRANCH, WAS AT THE SERVICE OF THE TARIQAH AT THAT

MUSTAFA
AND

BECAME

DISCIPLE IN

OF FIVE

ABDULLAH-I MEKKI
YEARS.

COMPLETED

SUFI

TRAINING

THEN,

HE WAS SENT TO

EDIRNE, TURKEY, HE

ON THE ASSIGNMENT OF IRSHAD

(GUIDANCE
FOR FIVE DISTRICT, MANSION

TO THE RIGHT PATH). YEARS.

SERVED AT THE HE CAME TO

SULTAN MOSQUE

SUBSEQUENTLY,

KOCAMUSTAFAPAA HSEYIN KUDSI

ISTANBUL,
HOUSE

WHERE HE CONTINUED HIS IRSHAD SERVICES AT A BY HIS THE FATHER-IN-LAW PLACE IN

OWNED HE

EFENDI. FINALLY,

BOUGHT

ISTANBULS ARAMBA

QUARTER, WHERE HIS DERGAH

(THE

PLACE WHERE SUFIS GATHER, MAKE

INVOCATIONS, PERFORM DHIKR AND GET TRAINED IN SUFI TRADITION) IS LOCATED TODAY BEING AFTER HIM.

THE

ORDER

OF

ISMET EFENDI
AND

WAS

INFLUENTIAL OF

ESPECIALLY

AROUND

THE

GOVERNMENT THOSE

ACADEMIC

CIRCLES

OTTOMAN EMPIRE. AMONG SULTAN

OF

DISTINGUISHED THE

DISCIPLES

WERE

ABDULMECIT

I,

MEMDUH PASHA,
AND MADE

INTERIOR MINISTER MUSHIR

WOULD OF BE

SULTAN ABDULHAMID II, SULTAN

AND

ZEKI PASHA,
A WILL

THE HE

TOPHANE. SULTAN ABDULMECIT I

BURIED THIS IN THE YARD WOULD OF

THAT AND

SELIM MOSQUE

THE

SHEIKH

OF

DERGAH

COME

MAKE INVOCATIONS AT HIS TOMB ALONG WITH HIS DISCIPLES.

AFTER

SIX-MONTHS-SERVICE OF IRSHAD THERE, HE PASSED AWAY IN WAS A

1289
A

(HAJIRAH), 1868 A.D. MUSTAFA ISMET EFENDI

MASTER OF ALL AWLIYAH IN HIS TIME.

QUTB,

(THE
A

SUFI MASTERS AND FRIENDS OF OF SUFIS, AND PIOUS

ALLAH)

HE

TRAINED

NUMBER

MUSLIMS.

HE

GRANTED HIS CALIPHATE TO SIXTY OF THEM.

HE

IS THE AUTHOR OF A BOOK TITLED

RISALE-I KUDSIYE (TREATISE THE

BOOK, FULL OF

ON

DIVINITY),

WRITTEN

IN

VERSE

FORM.

DIVINE

WISDOM, IS STILL GUIDING

MUSLIMS

ON THE PATH OF

SUFISM. JUDGEMENT, HE
ONLY OF MY THE

ALLAH
WILL

PROMISED ME, HE SAID, GRANT ME BUT THE ALSO

THAT
TO

ON THE DAY OF TAKE WHO CARE JUST

AUTHORITY THOSE

NOT GAZE

FOLLOWERS,

MUSLIMS I

THROUGH

DOOR OF MY DERGAH WITH LOVE.

WILL INTERCEDE FOR THEM TOO.

FIVE

PILLARS
OF

OF

ISLAM

(ARK
ARE

AL-ISLM BASIC ACTS

ALSO IN

ARKN

AD-DN

"PILLARS

RELIGION")

FIVE

ISLAM,

CONSIDERED

OBLIGATORY FOR ALL

MUSLIMS.

THE QUR'AN I

PRESENTS THEM AS A FRAMEWORK FOR WORSHIP AND A SIGN

OF COMMITMENT TO THE FAITH. TESTIFY THAT THERE IS IS A NO

THEY
TRUE

ARE

(1)

THE SHAHADAH BUT OF

(CREED)

GOD

(DEITY)

GOD (ALLAH), GOD.

AND THAT

MUHAMMAD
PRAYERS

MESSENGER (PROPHET)
FASTING DURING

(2)

DAILY

(SALAT), (3)
AND

RAMADAN (SAWM), MECCA (HAJJ)

(4)

ALMSGIVING

(ZAKAT),

(5)

THE PILGRIMAGE TO

AT LEAST ONCE IN A LIFETIME.[5]

[6]

THE DECLARATION TO
CONVERT PRONOUNCE TO

OF THE

TESTIMONY (SHAHADA)
BECOME A

ISLAM
THE

AND BELOW

MUSLIM
WITH

PERSON

NEEDS

TO AND

TESTIMONY

CONVICTION

UNDERSTANDING ITS MEANING:

TESTIFY

LA

ILAH ILLA

ALLAH, MUHAMMAD

RASOOLU

ALLAH.

THE I

TRANSLATION OF WHICH IS:

TESTIFY THAT THERE IS NO TRUE GOD THAT

(DEITY)

BUT OF

GOD (ALLAH),

AND

MUHAMMAD

IS A

MESSENGER (PROPHET)

GOD.
BE UPON

SHORT LIFE SKETCH OF MOHAMMED ( PEACE HIS

PROGENY

HIM

AND

) HIM
AND

MOHAMMED,

PEACE BE UPON

HIS

PROGENY, PEACE BE UPON HIM

AND HIS PROGENY,

WAS BORN IN THE YEAR

570 A.D. HIS

FATHER HAD

DIED A FEW MONTHS BEFORE HIS BIRTH. WAS ABOUT SIX YEARS OF AGE.

HE

LOST HIS MOTHER WHEN HE PEACE BE UPON

MOHAMMED,

HIM

AND

HIS

PROGENY WAS BROUGHT UP BY HIS UNCLE.

FINANCIALLY MOHAMMED,
VERY POOR.

PEACE

BE

UPON

HIM

AND

HIS

PROGENY

WAS

SOME

SAY THAT

MOHAMMED,

PEACE BE UPON

HIM HIS

AND

HIS
OR

PROGENY WAS ILLITERATE BUT OPINIONS DIFFER ON THIS NO WAS EDUCATION, VERY

EDUCATION

MOHAMMED,

PEACE

BE

UPON

HIM
WAS

AND

PROGENY AND

INTELLIGENT

AND

WISE.

HE

THOUGHTFUL

MEDITATIVE.

IT

IS SAID THAT OF MEDIUM

MOHAMMED,
AND

PEACE BE UPON TOO TALL OR

HIM HIM

AND

HIS HIS

PROGENY WAS NO FORMAL

BUILD

NOT

SHORT. AND

SINCE

PICTURES OF

MOHAMMED, HIS

PEACE BE UPON

PROGENY ARE PEACE BE

AVAILABLE, ONE HAS TO GO BY DESCRIPTIONS OF UPON

MOHAMMED,

HIM

AND

PROGENY WRITTEN BY HIS FOLLOWERS. AND

MOHAMMED,

PEACE BE UPON

HIM

HIS

PROGENY WAS HANDSOME, HAD A LARGE

HEAD WITH BLACK THICK HAIR, WIDE FOREHEAD, HEAVY EYEBROWS AND

LARGE

BLACK

EYES HAD

WITH A

SLIGHT NOSE,

REDNESS WELL

ON

THE

SIDES

AND A

LONG THICK

EYELASHES.

HE

FINE

SPACED

TEETH

AND

BEARD, WIDE CHEST AND SHOULDERS, LIGHT COLORED SKIN AND THICK PALMS AND FEET.

MOHAMMED,
TIME,

PEACE

BE HIS

UPON

HIM

AND AND UPON

HIS 15 HIM

PROGENY YEARS AND BE HIS

WAS

MARRIED

BY THE

KHADIJA BIBI,

EMPLOYER PEACE OLD. BE

SENIOR.

AT

MOHAMMED,
FIVE WAS YEARS

HIS

PROGENY

WERE

TWENTY PROGENY

MOHAMMED,
THIRD

PEACE

UPON THE

HIM
LADY

AND

HIS
A

KHADIJA BIBI'S

HUSBAND;

WAS AND

WIDOW WHEN SHE MARRIED PROGENY).

MOHAMMED, (PEACE

BE UPON

HIM

HIS

KHADIJA

BIBI

WAS PEACE

WEALTHY BE UPON FOR THE

AND

AFTER AND TIME

MARRIAGE

WITH

HER, IN HAD LIVE

MOHAMMED,
COMPARATIVE SEVERAL

HIM
FIRST AND

HIS
IN

PROGENY HIS LIFE. DID

LIVED

LUXURY,

THEY
NOT

CHILDREN,

BOTH

BOYS

GIRLS.

THE

BOYS

LONG AND THE GIRLS WERE GIVEN AWAY A SON NAMED

IN

MARRIAGE.

THEY

ADOPTED

ZAYED

AFTER THEIR SONS DIED.

KHADIJA BIBI
PROGENY

DIED

WHEN

MOHAMMED,
YEARS OLD.

PEACE

BE

UPON THE

HIM
OF

AND

HIS
AND

WAS

ABOUT

49

BETWEEN AT

AGES

49

63,

AFTER

KHADIJA HIM

DIED, THE PROPHET MARRIED THIRTEEN WIVES. THE AGE OF MARRIED

THE

NAMES OF ELEVEN ATE GIVEN BELOW. PEACE SIX BE UPON SAY A AND

54 MOHAMMED,
A GIRL OF OF

HIS

PROGENY AGE. OF

AYESHA,
THE

(SOME

NINE) CLOSE

YEARS

OF

AYESHA

WAS

DAUGHTER BE UPON

ABU BAKR,

DISCIPLE

MOHAMMED,

PEACE

HIM

AND

HIS

PROGENY, TO

PEACE WAS

BE

UPON

HIM

AND

HIS BE

PROGENY. UPON

AYESHA,
AND

ACCORDING

MANY

MOHAMMED,

PEACE

HIM

HIS

PROGENY, PEACE BE UPON HIM AND HIS POGENY'S MOST FAVORITE WIFE.

ZAINAB,
SON THE

DAUGHTER

OF

JAHSH

WAS

INITIALLY

MARRIED

TO

HIS

ADOPTED

ZAYED. PUT
BEAUTY OF

ONE DAY THE PROPHET

'BE

HELD IN A LOOSE UNDRESS, INTO OR AN EJACULATION OF

ZAINAB,
DESIRE. HINT,

AND

BURST

FORTH

DEVOTION

AND THE

THE
AND

SERVILE,

GRATEFUL, HESITATION

FREEMAN TO SO THE THAT MARRY

UNDERSTOOD LOVE OF

YIELDED

WITHOUT DIVORCED

THE

BENEFACTOR'. BE UPON

ZAYED HIM
AND

ZAINAB

MOHAMMED,
HER.

PEACE

HIS

PROGENY

COULD

AMONG MOHAMMED,
UPON HIM AND

PEACE

BE

UPON

HIM

AND

HIS

PROGENY,

PEACE

BE

HIS AS

POGENY'S

CONCUBINES WAS

WERE A

REHANA

AND SLAVE

MARY
GIRL

(ALSO

KNOWN TO

MARIAM). MARY
PEACE

CHRISTIAN HIM
AND

PRESENTED WHEREAS IN

MOHAMMED,
AND THE

BE

UPON

HIS

PROGENY

JUWAIRYA
WITH

REHANA

BOTH WERE

JEWISH

GIRLS CAPTURED MARRIED THE

BATTLES

JEWS. JUWAIRYA JEWISH

FAITH.

EVENTUALLY

PROPHET AND GAVE UP HER GIVE UP HER AGAINST AND HER

REHANA

DID NOT AGREE TO

JEWISH
OWN HAD

FAITH AND WOULD RATHER LIVE AS A CONCUBINE THAN THEIR MARRY MEN THE PROPHET. IN THE BE

WILL, LOST OF

BOTH JUWAIRYA
WITH AND THE

REHANA

FOLK

BATTLES UPON

MOSLEM

FOLLOWERS

MOHAMMED,

PEACE

HIM

HIS

PROGENY, PEACE BE UPON HIM AND HIS PROGENY.

AMONG

THE MANY BATTLES THAT THE PROPHET OF

ISLAM

FOUGHT WITH HIS

ENEMIES, THE KAFIRS, THE MORE WELL-KNOWN ARE THE FOLLOWING:

BATTLE BATTLE WAR

OF

BADR: UHUD:

THE

QURAYZA MOSLEMS

WERE DEFEATED.

(624 A.D.) (625 A.D.)

AND THE ATTACKERS

OF

THE

WERE DEFEATED.

OF THE DITCH:

MECCANS

ATTACK THE

MOSLEMS

ARE DRIVEN OFF.

(627 A.D.)
THE

BATTLE

OF

KHAYBAR:

JEWS

ARE DEFEATED.

(629 A.D.)

IN

THE YEAR

627 A.L). THE JEWISH

PEACE BE UPON

TRIBE OF AND

QURAYZA
PROGENY, WERE

WAS RAIDED BY PEACE BE UPON

MOHAMMED,
HIM AND HIS

HIM

HIS

PROGENY.

SOME 700

MEN

BEHEADED. AND

EDWARD
OF THE

GIBBON

WRITES IN HIS FAMOUS BOOK,

'THE DECLINE JEWS

FALL

ROMAN EMPIRE': " ... SEVEN

TO THE MARKETPLACE

HUNDRED

ERE DRAGGED IN CHAINS ALIVE INTO THE

OF THE CITY; THEY DESCENDED

GRAVE PREPARED FOR THEIR EXECUTION AND BURIAL; AND THE APOSTLE BEHELD ENEMIES. WITH AN INFLEXIBLE SHEEP AND EYE THE SLAUGHTER WERE FIVE OF HIS HELPLESS BY THE A

THEIR
LANCES,

CAMELS

INHERITED HUNDRED PORTION

MUSULMANS:
THOUSAND SPOIL."

THREE

HUNDRED COMPOSED

CUIRASSES, THE MOST

PIKES, OF

USEFUL

THE

ALL

THE

JEWS

THAT SURVIVED THE BATTLE OF

KHAYBAR

WERE ALSO PUT

TO THE SWORD IN

629 A.D.

IT

WAS IN UPON

630 A.D.
AND

THAT

MECCA

WAS TAKEN BY BE UPON TO OF

MOHAMMED,
HIM AND HIS AND

PEACE BE PROGENY.

HIM

HIS

PROGENY, PEACE

THE

ENTIRE

POPULATION AS THE

CONVERTED CENTER

ISLAM

THE

KAABA
WERE

ESTABLISHED

RELIGIOUS

ISLAM. ALL

KAFIRS

FORBIDDEN ENTRY INTO

MECCA. 622 A.D. THIS HIM

IS THE YEAR OF AND

THE MOSLEM

YEAR STARTS FROM

HIJRA

OR FLIGHT OF

MOHAMMED,

PEACE BE UPON

HIS

PROGENY AND

HIS FOLLOWERS TO

MEDINA.

MOHAMMED,

PEACE

BE

UPON

HIM

AND

HIS

PROGENY

BELIEVED

THAT

HE

WAS POISONED BY A

JEWISH
THE

WOMAN AS REVENGE AFTER THE BATTLE OF FOUR BECAME DIED YEARS IN OF YEARS MORE THE HIS OF HIS LIFE, HIS HIS HEALTH OTHER

KHAYBAR. DURING
DECLINED, INFIRMITIES

LAST FITS

EPILEPTIC INCREASED.

FREQUENT,

HE

YEAR

632 A.D., JUNE 8.

WITH THE HE

DURING BIBI,

THE

TWENTY-FOUR YOUTHFUL

MARRIAGE FROM DEATH

KHADIJA
RIGHT OF HIS DAY

THE

PROPHET HIS

ABSTAINED IMPENDING

POLYGAMY SLAVES:

AND

JUST

BEFORE MEN

LIBERATED THE THIRD

SEVENTEEN

AND

ELEVEN

WOMEN.

TILL

BEFORE HIS DEATH HE REGULARLY PERFORMED THE FUNCTION OF PUBLIC PRAYER.

GIBBON 656 A.D.

SAYS

IN

HIS

BOOK: AND

"IN HIS

SPITE

OF

HIS

POLYGAMY

MOHAMMED, 655
OR

PEACE BE UPON

HIM

PROGENY LEFT NO HEIR.

IN

HIS SON IN LAW,

ALI,

BECAME

COMMANDER

OF THE

FAITHFUL,

BUT HIS DESCENDANTS DID NOT RETAIN POWER".

The Naqshbandi School

SHAH NAQSHBAND
OF THE THE

BUILT HIS SCHOOL ON THE RENEWAL OF THE TEACHINGS RELIGION. THE

ISLAMIC , "WHAT

HE

INSISTED ON THE NECESSITY OF KEEPING OF THE OF

QUORAN

AND

TEACHINGS

SUNNAH. WHEN HE
ONE WHO FOLLOWS

WAS YOUR

ASKED

ARE

THE

REQUIREMENTS

WAY?" HE SAID,

"TO

FOLLOW THE

SUNNAH
IS A

OF THE RARE

PROPHET (P.U.H)." IT
KEEPS THE

HE

CONTINUED

SAYING:

"OUR

WAY

ONE.

URWAT

UL-WUTHQA, THE

UNBREAKABLE BOND,

AND IT ASKS NOTHING

ELSE OF ITS FOLLOWERS BUT TO TAKE HOLD THE

OF THE THE

PURE SUNNAH
OF

OF THE

PROPHET

AND

FOLLOW

THE

WAY

OF

COMPANIONS

PROPHET. "THE NAQSHBANDI SCHOOL

IS THE EASIEST AND SIMPLEST WAY FOR THE

STUDENT TO UNDERSTAND TAWHID. STATE OF COMPLETE WORSHIP

IT

URGES ITS FOLLOWERS TO SEEK A

OF

ALLAH,

THE

MOST

HIGH

BOTH

PUBLICLY AND PRIVATELY BY KEEPING THE COMPLETE CODE OF CONDUCT OF THE

PROPHETIC SUNNAH. IT
MODES IS OF WORSHIP FREE OF HOW

ENCOURAGES AND

PEOPLE TO

TO

KEEP

TO

THE

STRICTEST

(AZIMA)
ALL

ABANDON AND

EXEMPTIONS DEVIATIONS. HUNGER MANAGED AND OR TO THE

(RUKHSA). IT IT
DOES NOT WAKEFULNESS. REMAIN FREE

ALSO

FROM ITS THE

INNOVATIONS

DEMAND

FOLLOWERS

PERPETUAL HAS

THAT
FROM

IS

NAQSHBANDIYYA
OF THE

THE

EXCESSES

IGNORANT

CHARLATANS MOTHER OF

(MUSHACWAZAN). IN
ALL TARIQATS AND

SUM WE SAY THAT OUR WAY IS THE THE GUARDIAN OF ALL SPIRITUAL

TRUSTS. PUREST

IT

IS

THE

SAFEST,

WISEST, THE

AND

CLEAREST DISTILLED ATTACK

WAY.

IT

IS

THE

DRINKING-STATION, IS INNOCENT

MOST ANY

ESSENCE. IT

THE
KEEPS

NAQSHBANDIYYA

FROM

BECAUSE

THE SUNNAH OF THE BELOVED

PROPHET "

PRINCIPAL TEACHINGS

THE

FIRST

EIGHT

WERE

FORMULATED

BY

GHUJDAWANI,

AND

THE

LAST

THREE WERE ADDED BY

BAHA

AD- DIN

REMEMBRANCE (YAD
THE DHIKR.

KARD):

ALWAYS

ORALLY

AND

MENTALLY

REPEATING

RESTRAINT (BAZ
PHRASE

GASHT):

ENGAGING

IN

THE

HEART

REPETITION

OF

THE

"AL-KALIMAT

AT-TAYYIBA."

WATCHFULNESS (NIGAH

DASHT):

BEING

CONSCIENTIOUS OVER WANDERING

THOUGHTS WHILE REPEATING THE PHRASE

"AL-KALIMAT
UPON

AT-TAYYIBA."

RECOLLECTION
PRESENCE IN

(YAD
A

DASHT): CONDITION

CONCENTRATION
OF DHAWQ,

THE

DIVINE
INTUITIVE

FORETASTE,

ANTICIPATION OR PERCEPTIVENESS, NOT USING EXTERNAL AIDS.

AWARENESS

WHILE

BREATHING

(HOSH

DAR

DAM):

CONTROLLING

ONE'S OF

BREATHING THE

BY NOT EXHALING

OR INHALING

IN THE FORGETFULNESS

DIVINE.

JOURNEYING
JOURNEY

IN

ONE'S

HOMELAND THE

(SAFAR

DAR

WATAN):

AN

INTERNAL TO

THAT

MOVES

PERSON

FROM

HAVING

BLAMEWORTHY

PRAISEWORTHY PROPERTIES.

THIS

IS ALSO REFERRED TO AS THE VISION

OR REVELATION OF THE HIDDEN SIDE OF THE SHAHADA.

WATCHING

ONE'S

STEP

(NAZAR

BAR

QADAM):

DO

NOT

BE

DISTRACTED

FROM PURPOSE OF THE ULTIMATE JOURNEY.

SOLITUDE

IN A CROWD

(KHALWAT

DAR ANJUMAN):

ALTHOUGH GOD.

JOURNEY IS

OUTWARDLY IN THIS WORLD, IT IS INWARDLY WITH

TEMPORAL

PAUSE

(WUQUF-I

ZAMANI):

KEEPING

ACCOUNT

OF

HOW

ONE

SPENDS HIS OR HER TIME.

IF

TIME IS SPENT RIGHTFULLY GIVE THANKS

AND TIME IS SPENT INCORRECTLY ASK FOR FORGIVENESS.

NUMERICAL
HAS

PAUSE

(WUQUF-I
THE

ADADI): REQUISITE

CHECKING
NUMBER

THAT THE HEART-DHIKR OF TIMES, TAKING INTO

BEEN

REPEATED

ACCOUNT ONE'S WANDERING THOUGHTS.

HEART

PAUSE

(WUQUF-I
THE

QALBI): OF

FORMING

MENTAL TO

PICTURE

OF

ONE'S THE

HEART

WITH

NAME

GOD

ENGRAVED

EMPHASIZE

THAT

HEART HAS NO CONSCIOUSNESS OR GOAL OTHER THAN

GOD.

THE NAQSHBANDI GOLDEN CHAIN

OR SILSILAH INCLUDE

(IN

DATE ORDER):

IMAM

UL-AMBIYAA

SAYYIDNA MUHAMMAD
ALAIHAY WA

IBN

ABD ALLAH
WA

IBN

ABDUL
BURIED

MUTTALIB,

SALLALLAHU

ALIHI

SALLAM,

MADINAH SA (570/571 - 632 CE) ABU BAKR SA SALMAN QASIM JAFAR

AL-FARSI, RADIYA-L-LAHU`ANH AS-SIDDIQ, RADIYA-L-LAHU`ANH D

13AH,

BURIED

MADINAH,

35AH

BURIED

MADAA'IN, SA. MADINAH SA.

IBN

MUHAMMAD

IBN

ABU BAKR 107AH (AFTER

BURIED

AS-SADIQ, BURIED

ALAYHI-S-SALAM

WHICH

MOVES

TO

IRAN)

148AH

MADINAH SA.
AL-BISTAMI

TAYFUR ABU YAZID

CANH

BAYAZID BASTAMI,

RADIYA-L-LAHU

261AH

BURIED

BISTAAM, IRAN (804 - 874 CE).

QADDASA-L-LAHU SIRRAH

ABUL HASSAN ALI

BURIED

AL-KHARQANI,

425AH

KHURQAAN, IRAN. (AFTER

WHICH MOVES TO

ABU ALI

AL-FARMADI, QADDASA-L-LAHU SIRRAH

TURKMENISTAN) ABU YAQUB YUSUF

BURIED

477AH

BURIED

TOUS, KHORASAN, IRAN.

QADDASA-L-LAHU SIRRAH

AL-HAMADANI,

535AH

BAYRAM-ALI, MARY, TURKMENISTAN.

AL-GHUJDAWANI, QADDASA-L-LAHU SIRRAH

ABDUL

KHALIQ

575AH

BURIED

GHAJDAWAN, BUKHARA, UZBEKISTAN.

ARIF

AR-RIWAKRI,

QADDASA-L-LAHU

SIRRAH

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715AH

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BURIED

BABA

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SIRRAH

755AH

SAMAAS, BUKHARA, UZBEKISTAN. AMIR KULAL,

QADDASA-L-LAHU SIRRAH

AS-SAYYID

772AH

BURIED

SAUKHAAR, BUKHARA, UZBEKISTAN. MUHAMMAD BAHA'UDDIN SHAH NAQSHBAND BAHA-UD-DIN NAQSHBAND BUKHARI,
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AZ-ZAHID,

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SIRRAH

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QADDASA-L-LAHU SIRRAH

970AH

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CENTURY. QADDASA-L-LAHU SIRRAH, DIED END OF

14TH

MUHAMMAD

AL-BAQI

BI-L-LAH

(MOHHAMMAD BAQI BILLAH BERANG),

BURIED

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TO EL AL-BADAWANI, QADDASA-L-LAHU SIRRAH

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MUJADDIDI,

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MAZHAR
SIRRAH

AD-DAHLAWI, QADDASA-L-LAHU

(AFTER

WHICH

MOVES

IRAQ / DAMASCUS)
QADDASA-L-LAHU SIRRAH

MUHAMMED HALID ZIYADDIN,

ABDULLAH

EL

MCAVIRU

FI

BELEDILLAH

QADDASA-L-LAHU SIRRAH

MUHAMMED MUSTAFA SMET 1868

BURRIED IN

GARIBULLAH,

QADDASA-L-LAHU

SIRRAH,

IN

ISTANBUL ZARAV,
QADDASA-L-LAHU SIRRAH, IN

HALIL NURULLAH
BURRIED IN

EL

1893

ISTANBUL BEZZAZ, BANDIRMA

QADDASA-L-LAHU SIRRAH, QADDASA-L-LAHU SIRRAH, IN

ALI

RIZA

EL

1911

YILINDA

BURRIED IN

ALI HAYDAR EL EHISHEVI, ISTANBUL EYHUNA MAHMUD ISTANBUL

(1870-1960),

EL OF (KADDESSALLAHUTEALAESRARAHUM)

AT

PRESENT,

SUFISM SUFISM
IS A IS THE TERM OF THE MYSTICAL MOVEMENT WITHIN

ISLAM;

SUFI

MUSLIM

WHO DEDICATES HIMSELF TO THE QUEST OF ACHIEVING HIS

CREATOR
PRESENT

COMMANDMENTS. IN THE

MYSTICAL

AWARENESS ATTITUDE

WAS TO

CERTAINLY

PROPHET MOHAMMADS MYSTICAL

MANY MOST

ALLAH,

THE

MOST HIGH, AND TO OF DESCRIBE HIS

IS AN ENTIRELY APPROPRIATE ADJECTIVE OF HIM. TO

EXPERIENCES

THE KORAN, MOHAMMAD,

WHICH

THE

BOOK

ALLAH,

THE

HIGHS REVELATIONS OF A MYSTICAL

CONTAINS THE

NUMEROUS

PASSAGES

CHARACTER,

GUIDE

SUFIS.

Holiness Master Mahmud (USTAOGU ) EFFENDI :

He was born in 1931 in Of province. Lady Fatma, his mother had not had a child after she her marriage; that in this moon for a long time she to was her position descended

pleading Allah, the most high to have one. Once dreamed the bosom and gave the light to a while from the surroundings. the world after dream. this

Master of His Holiness came into

Holiness Master as a child was taken to a doctor because of an illness caught. Doctor, said I saw this child as an amazing one. I suppose, whether he would die or live as a prominent person. He completed his primary education with his father. He completed also memorizing whole Quran in Of. He finished his Islamic education under the supervision of the husband of his elder daughter

and got his certificate of competence in classical Islamic science. He, himself after receiving the title gave the certificate of competence student told his as teaching the part all of subject life as methodology of classical important to his including follows: I

Islamic teaching. He

enrolled the military in 1952. Firstly city of Bursa

then

bandirma

province

was

my

service place; as

after this I came Istanbul. I have been serving an imam made my military service a

of the Aga Mosque. Allah, the most high means for unification

with my holiness father. In Bandirma province I have had the opportunity to meet with him. When I performing my military duty in Bandirma we used to go to perform our Friday prayer in Haydar Cavus mosque where the shrine of holiness Ali Riza Bezzaz the grand Sufi master, situated next to it. It had a distance of 20 minutes on foot in there. While we were going to their I was warning my friend not to mention that I am an Islamic scholar. Among them I had a student of mine named Hafiz Osman (a person can recite the whole Quran verses by heart), who leaked the information them that I am a hodja and I should give them a sermon. After this they made me giving a sermon to them. This conducts produced an intimacy with them. Actually, I am a shy person towards the foreing ones but with my attendant of the mosque if there a with the grand Sufi acquantes I grand sufi would develop a sincere intimacy. I asked the master there? I did this for I had had interested master. The responded me there but that they had not a grand sufi master of the

they had had in Istanbul and he was the successor burried grand sufi master. I asked to be

informed the burried grand master and they did show his grave. I went that grave. I recited some Quran verses and spoke in a humble way such as : I did not come here as an Islamic scholar but as a humble servant; accept me. Till that time it never happened to me to utter such a word but the omnipotent made me spoken like this manner. At that time I was seized. Again we went to perform our Friday prayer in the same mosque. After the prayer I noticed man performing on the right side of the mosque a pray (names) together two

persons. His illuminated face and eyes of kings attracted me. I kept asking for each departing person from mosque who was this person and nobody knew him. It was my habit to run away when I see a master of Islamic teaching. But for my surprise I did not feel to escape from him. Then I began to wait the imam of the mosque Sir Fahri. I thought that he was the person to know that person. I asked him; I was informed that he was the grand Sufi chief of Istanbul in their path. I requested him to make me meet with him. He responded that now it was daylight and for my going there and at night time he would make me introduce with him. At that time it was the time of forbidden. Turkey made a prey for infidels. All things were forbidden related religion. To have beard, to wear shalwar, turban were forbidden;

robe,

outer

garment

of

women

was

forbidden.

There were severe interdiction against Islamic safe altitude. When my Holliness Father attempted to come here Bandirma from Istanbul; due to was being late for Friday prayer because of vapor late departure. He performed his Friday prayer outside of the mosque. Why? To make Mahmut to find him. It was Allah, the most high will. After prayer we went to a military base. In the night time we communed in a house to see holy father. While we were waiting for him we were informed that he would not come; we returned back.

In that night holy father was in the house of Sir Ali, the sweat seller. In hope of seeing him we came for the morning prayer; but holy very might late act be of morning prayer; them and we father was there to in the junkman Sir Abdullah. They were in the thought willing women we behind went not

breach the rules ritual and went back. In that day afternoon reached Holiness Father thank to Allah, the most high. We went Holiness Father with acquaintances. I said them ever mention that I am an Islamic scholar. I was afraid of not being able to answer his possible questions on Islam. But in secret they gave a paper informing my case. He used to ask many he questions. Then it was happening as usual and

started asking about. First with the easy ones and getting more and more hardest ones. When it was the time for harder ones I lost my mind. As a grace of Allah, the most high we felt intimacy each other. Instead of escaping from him I am affiliated in a firm manner to him. He told me that If only you came to me ten years before that I would serve you. He meant that he could give me spiritual shape. After the meeting we returned to the barracks. Holiness and his Father with his Pilgrimated wife daughter Sister Zahide

were leaving to go his father-in-law in Inegols Edebey village. We committed like that. I left him but I could not forget him. My heart longs fiercely; after one, two three days still was my heart longing fiercely. I am telling myself my heart beating they went possible. for them but they were absent for My going there was not I could not endure anymore. Inegol.

At last

There was an old person working as a clerk of the regiment, Sir Osman I went him. I told him write me a permission paper so that I might take a free day. He did so. When I suddenly understood that he did not go. I was making my mind like that. He was going to Inebol. I went to his room, as I was kissing his hand he told me that; Mahmut you should not have left me so many times! This word pleased my should so gently still I am feeling it.

At that time they prepared a table for eating. There were many nice foods. We began to eat. Holiness Master Mahmud When he asks it was started to question me. not easy to answer his Nur surah,

questions. He asked me with regard to

verse 60; And women of post-menstrual age who have no desire for marriage - there is no blame upon them for putting aside their outer garments [but] not displaying adornment. But to modestly refrain [from that] is better for them. And Allah, the most high is Hearing and Knowing. This means the women of post-menstrual age who have

no desire for marriage - there is no blame upon them for putting aside their outer garments [but] not displaying adornment. But to dress like a young woman is better.

Holiness Master asked; is no sin for them

what is the purpose of aside their outer

Allah, the most high? He is saying that but there putting garment and but also saying that not leaving their garment is better for them. Poor Mahmut, ponder and ponder; how should I know? I was thinking Holiness Father told them have the over and also the others broke eating and began to think the same matter. continue to eat he should think over it. I could no response. I said, Holiness Father I dont answer please you guide us. Then he explained

like this when we were in the directorship of religious affairs of Istanbul, we were asked regarding covering the teeth? Whether to cover a tooth is legible or not? If the person becomes septic after being operated and asking the question we used to tell him to not dismantle the cover. But if he had not covered the tooth we did not give him permission. The reasoning of this is if you permit for making a cover for man who has decayed tooth the other man will take a sample and he would cover his/her healthy tooth may be for aesthetic motive. As a matter of fact in the Hanefi sect covering the decayed tooth is permitted. In the verse Allah, the most high is so

permitted to putting aside the other garment and immediately saying it is better not to do youth and make them get means; elders should be a good example for the accustomed to wear it. For the young women might imitate the elder ones. We must close the mouth of corruption.

Ali Haydar Efendi, within his capacity explained and entrusted to the successor the secret of sovereignty finest detail. and realm of being saint, to the

This went on for several years. to their

My holiness father's wife as a natural desire was willing to entrust the saintship mandate children. My Holiness Father's to prove that it is

unnecessary issue a night time telling let's invite

called mother; snore.

one of our own children and

they received upon calling a mere sound of

When they called the name of Mahmud Efendi he immediately appeared in their presence saying yes Sir! Sons Ali Haydar Efendi told that : "My Father and Reverend Mahmud Effendi would remain head to head during the mid-morning for a long of time. He said once, "My son! You see, I will transfer everything to him. But gradually I am doing it in order to keep him under my observation during the spiritual process. Mind can not tolerate the acquisition the actuality of the spiritual realm. "My father would receive some sheikhs in situation. ecstasy they

Ali Haydar Efendi reads them, and with

Allah, the most high will, within seven days

would recover. Holiness Master Mahmud Effendi, with the means private conversations and also with the means of the famous Sufi books he such as Masnavi, Mektubat, Reahat, such as the Risale-I Kudsiye which are full of wisdom, him had seen prepared When he my son based on the lore of those books.

him until late at night he is examining to read these books

and studying " to encourage him Mahmud you will not find enough time

use of this time for improving yourself. For the

realization of the magnitude of Imam Holiness Rabbani I dare to say that, Reahat may abc of it. Reverend Mahmud Effendi informed us saying: hold holding my hand. Truth is poor man's hand mean hold "Holiness Ali Haydar Efendi said, "who will Mahmoud's hand mean that which hold this

the Rizal Bezzaz holiness as hands. Thus, like a rings in chain it will reach the Prophet 'e (peace be upon him). Here we call it able to transfer water the from a true genuine and spring on the be righteous hand. Again he used to say, I say to be mountain it needs village water pipes

attached to each other like a chain row. If the village is missing one of the pieces of these pipes water divine heart." -So from these will words one be person could be understood benefit which point the path will reach or getting. cannot reach to the village. Like this if one the blessing cannot reach in the person's of the golden chain of the Sufi path is missed

-To be well informed and and better understanding of the realm of the golden chain and Holiness Father disposition we must read Sufi with deeds. works. In fact this reality cannot be expressed by words but

He used to say

"My son, Mahmoud! When I order inside of it the the had the them

something, you do it with enthusiasm. As an iron taking the color of fire as it is great saint he was improving and taking truth in which Sheik Ali Haydar, Holiness been embodied. and He was accepting and the statements Longfellow. orders realizing

distance and he was melting away in the pot of

There was a man in the Holiness mystery of Now the title held to be

Ismet dervish house who found the existence and truth.

handed over. In that house Holiness father told me that, my holiness master father came to me as the real one and holding your hand saying take this and handed you out to me. From that day Allah, the most high has not separated from Ali Haydar Efendi. I wish the bottom of my heart He will and scattered us from not make us separate. To our barracks one person came from Bursa province the Bandrma. I was sent to Gebze. I began to

visit aramba. Holiness father told me once if it was possible my transfer to stanbul? It was hard but in the end I managed high. to come stanbul. I received the help and grace of Allah, the most Again I continued to visit holiness father. Once I told that I am disturbing you for I am coming so often. Holiness father told me that

never speak out like this! Who delivered you to me! I am finding solace with you.

Holiness Bandrma.

Father And

each was

Ramadan given an

would

go

to

extraordinary

sermons. In his sermon we felt as if we were in the Allah, the most high presence. Even from this fact it can be it was clear that he was reaching perfection in the way of Allah, the most high. Holiness Father before being a member of the sufuism he used to angry at safes and telling I had seen Buhara, met many sheiks and disciplines but all of them the Mosas was corrupted. like Even a I am or considering recognizing disciplines (p.u.h) jews

christians. However, Jew claiming that they were and Christian Jesus faith (p.u.h) in fact they are not but they had had

in artificial ones generated in their brain. In this manner the Sufis claiming that they are attached to the ah- Nakibendi, Abdulkadir Geylani, May Allah, the most high Be Well Pleased With Them but in reality they are not. Holiness Father likes very much sufism but was not able to ones he was reprimanding them while find a he was proper one. As he was witnessing the corrupted giving sermons from the lectern. The discipline of the Holiness Ali Rza Bezzaz May Allah, the most high Sanctify His Soul, also heard of this criticism

and us

became permission

upset. to

They kill this

turned

back The

to

the sheik

Holiness Father Ali Rza Bezzaz and implored give person. responded they saying do your own business. He said, Allah, the most high who made the iron to be melted in the hand of Davut the prophet like this He would melt in my hand. Holiness Father Ali Haydar once remembered that why I am putting the blame on these disciples? while I was drinking milk I am blowing to yogurt when Like this similitude my mouth burned. Now I'm eating it. These they are definitely

disciples go to the mosque before everybody go, perform prayer, commit sun to search their sheiks not corrupted ones. Upon this observation I began what I saw he was walking up to the Horse marked; I bowed and kissed his hand as a sign of respect. After this while we were meeting he told me that, in aramba I had had a Hac Hilmi Efendi in charge my affairs, make a consideration with him. I turned back to stanbul, I did not have the courage or will to enter the dervish house. But what a relief I entered inside. I told them I was dispatched here. He told me that there was a person named Malakl Ali Baba resident in ehremini visit him and come back. I went there it was a little girl opened the door. I asked is your father inside? She confirmed. I entered with her. There was a woodshed in the

house he told me climbing from there,

I am

invoking Allah, the most high here. I was furious and telling myself why I am here he is not a person to like. We went up and sat together. He asked me what I was doing. I answered him that I am an Islamic Scholar. He said to me that to be an Islamic scholar is not fitting to me. Then he asked my sect. I told I am Hanafi. He told me that leave this lies mam- Azam Ebu Hanafe (the great Imam) preferred to die not to be assigned as a judge. After got I furious began to recite the verse of Quran, tell them, will the knower and ignorant be equal? He said, good heaven he is reciting verse. This is not be fit for you to do so I answered back; why I should not? Am I unclean that I cannot recite verse? He told me that, You are not unclean you are the most impurest person of the unclean. If you were unclean you will be purified with a bucket of water, now while the water of the Black Sea will not enough to make you purified. At that moment in my heart a big affection rose towards him. I felt to lick his dirty sleeve and I started to cry. He told me that what kind of dummy Islamic scholar you are? You could not endure. Who sent you here, he asked. From sailfish house sir Ahmet Hilmi Efendi I told him. Uh He will learn how to conduct as a sheik and he will use it! He pruned my ego in a way that I

became ready to enter easily in the sufi house. Again I went to the Bandrma for listening religious conversation. The crowded community dispersed. the I was taught that they were upset to sufi path they protested and disciples like me. When they learn that I entered Nakibendi scattered. Even thought some of them started to telling I bribed the sheik to be accepted in the community. As a matter of fact I was ready to sacrifice all my belonging to be accepted their community. Thought the community number lessened I continued to attend. After a while the community number increased such a way that they were awaiting outside and gazing from the window as there was no place to enter inside. I received first sufi instruction from Sir Ahmet Hilmi Hodja aftermath he passed away and I continued with

Holiness Ali Rza Bezzaz. He was conducting our way to Allah, the most high in the sufi path. He was giving us a little food. Once I was starving such a way that I wanted to swallow the spoon as I am eating with it. All my trouble with this. They colleagues were in urging from the were

neighboring house some bread. But, I endured. I told myself if I will I lost myself. die from this I would be fringes of the dying in the way of Allah, the most high. One day It was seen the

mosques. An ostrich perched on there and keep on to tell me : Lo the King of angels and souls. Sure you are unfettered from world attributions and you the holiest one. He perched on my chest reciting. When he was taken off turned into a camel telling, 1. Is there anybody bigger than me in size? 2. Is there anybody burdened as much as me? Is there anybody drinking lesser than me? After this vision I had had a mood that never and ever I plead water bird or food, all my needs diminished. turned into a My Shiek Holiness Ali Rza Bezzaz of ostrich and came to me your sublimity and

reciting certainly I praise

perched in my bossom; after as he was leaving Lo Hac Ali Haydar! Do not complain that they are giving less food. Is there anybody eating lesser than me? Is there anybody burdened heavier than me? He wanted to say that the load of this sufi path for him. The end of my pray is praise to Allah, the most high who is lord of the worlds. ONE
SAMPLE OF HIS STANZAOF

HIS HOLINESS ISMET GARIBULLAH

IS

IN

THE

NAME

OF

ALLAH,

THE

MOST

HIGH

THE

MERCIFUL

THE

COMPASSIONATE

TOOK REFUGE IN

ALLAH,

THE MOST HIGH, LETS FORWARD

LETS LETS

MAKE AN IMMEDIATE DIVINE JOURNEY TO

HIM

PUT OUR HEAD TO

HIS

THRESHOLD,

DEAR, LET'S

LET SAY WE ARE ORPHAN AND DESTITUTE

MAKE

HOLY

JOURNEY

TO

HIS

UTMOST

PERFECTION

AND

REALM