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Shafiiimran99:
Empiree, suffism is not the spirituality of islam, in fact you can separate spirituality from islam so is itself spirituality. The only and pure spirituality is obedient to Allah and his messenger (peace and blessins of Allah be on him)

@shafiimran ur first point is acontradiction of the second either that or you didn't express itself priperly.....make research and think deeply on what u write before u do as imam Ali rta warned the writers of his era that angels are watching over and recording what they write....u are a nairalander whose opinion like d poets of centuries past can influence people who have no real life malam and take the seen online on this blessed platform ....we need to read deeply and as the rasool said in a hadith "be careful of your actions in its entirety"....a helpless ignorant and confused kid can come online, read ur writing and arguments and be influenced by them for life....thus setting him ... Straight like an arrow shot from a bow ...far down d wrong path and if unlucky straight to hell.. Look at d recent acknowledgment of two izala sheikhs from here in d north on d usage of prayer bead in doing lots of dhikr with it as opposed to d usage if d hand....now not d pro but forba beginner d amount u can do is limited with d hand for mainly two reasons aming ithers :u either loose track of d progress u have made entirely or if u want to do it countless no. Of times u ....after having done a little feel like u have done much.. .days why d difference between d dhikr or should I say rather tasbih to be precise, of a person with 33x 100x 200x 1000x is different from each other...moreover the mere fact of d bead touching ur hand and u seeing it will constantly remind u to do tasbih..yes d prophet did not use beads all his life but he saw some sahabas use it in his glorious masjid and said nothing and as u might already know silence means consent , secondly he has attained such a level dat his heart constantly reminds him of Allah is he never forgets Allah even for a second unlike me(especially)and u today with our mobile phones n tv n whatnot...i from personal experience use beads a lot b4 at first i was criticized ridiculed and hated....i still am.. Even by some of. My own blood for this ..as i strove and strove.. Like a stubborn goat. Some of those same people are beginning to admire me now and commend me.. Nt dat i care oooo....i mean wen u needed d commendation as a boost they were criticising me but these days I don't even count my dhikr anymore as d Hausa's put it:"abin ya bi jini sosai :"(in pidgin D tin done enter my blood wella ) ... also I don't want to keep record of d dhikr and be like aaahhh i have done x millions.... WHO IS BETTER THAN ME IN D sight OF ALLAH...lol
Don't u smell iblees from dis last sentence so. Pls even as u doo lots of good ...keep vigil day and night... of your greatest enemy ......iblees d accursed

But...I am digressing...



mind u this confession if d two sheikhs after they have made it known to d whole world their stance on beads usage..... D leader of kano chapter hisbah and isah ali fantami ie former minister of something as a case in point
.. Fantami said he knows he said it is bidiah in d past but he now realises he is wrong and he wish to be forgiven for his errorr ....can hus dead fans hear dis now!...lots of people due in d north daily alone...think of d millions who have been barred from tasbih and have died before dis brave and sincere confession or of those who might never hear of his recent acknowledgment if a mistake made....what about HISAAB...n right of these innocent ignorant souls he has misled from great good on his head?...d prophet once said to someone who complained to him DAT d laws of Islam were beginning to become too much for him ...he said to nabiyy to please give him one law he can adhere to and receive salvation and rasool saw said "let ur tongue always be wet wit dhikr
... Make no mistake abt d meaning of " ALWAYS......it is not d same as SOME OF D TIME
but it means ALL D TIME 24-7-365!!!
WHILE walking ...in d elevator..while sitting and while waiting to see someone in an office for instance.... D dhikr in d mind is more meritorious than the dhikr done outwards... mansir Kaduna advises every Sufi to go about with two prayer beads ie charbi....one in use at hand and d other smaller spare in d pocket always in case u hurriedly and absent mindedly(as a result of iblees )left home without taking the one which is usually in ur hand also keeping track daily of dhikr helps with spiritual vigilance and noble himma motivation .....u will know if for this week u could only do 12 000 istighfar whereas as at last week u did 20 000....sheikh also said if u don't have any tin good to say to someone eg a companion relative or friend u are sitting with jst keep quiet . learn to enjoy d silence n Do dhikr.. BUT wat does dhikr mean.... it means all acts of remembrance of Allah from reading autobiographies of scholars to listening to dawah on phone... Reading Quran ..giving sadaqa even performing salah is dhikr...and also on d popular misconveived one...DOING TASBIH....which d less privileged in terms of knowledge among d ranks of izala and salaf wrongly claim is zikr and call sufis zakir in a disapproving manner.. But dis title to d enlightened is to b worn as a badge of honor. For zakir means one in constant remembrance ...moving from one ibaadah to another always... Like DAT.. It is said DAT one who has reached d rank of siddique will never waste an hour of his life for passing pleasure eg watching unreligious or unenlightening TV..or football ....
Still on dhikr and silence over idle words imam Muhammad Al baqir...I think......if memory serves me right sed silence is an aid in ur religion against Satan and if u are silent d devil will leave u ...in fact haven't u noticed d relationship between talkative loud people and anger issues and quiet introverts with mild temperament?
Lastly my best guess u are young....even if u aren't ....spread wat I am about to say....from Umar RTA "seek deep knowledge before u become leaders and arrogance prevents u from humbling yourselves and seeking knowledge....I have deep profound respect for d two izala sheikhs fantami and d hizbah guy.. Dey have true faith.. Personally I believe there are still some" there-but-for-the-sake-of-God" misguided people... even among d misguided their major veil from dd righteous path is being satisfied with deir knowledge.... Develop an insatiable life-long greed for knowledge as dis is meritorious greed in sha Allah nt gred for wealth or fame for world purposes... .if I may be so bold as to suggest something... To u...
Read surah fatiha a lot.. And also if it is too hard ...which I don't think it should be for u...or u can add it to dis.. precisely "ihdinas siraatal mustaqeem" or Alkahumma ihdinas siratal mustaqeem... a lot advisably 313ce daily and 5ce after every prayer....as one who does this formula for any verse d angels for DAT verse willbe reciting it for u for some millions till d matter behind d intention is brought to fruitition and completion and success(sic)..dis is from a concerned brother...
A concerned tijniyya Sufi friend who is always praying for u and wants wat is best for u.. May Allah. Forgive any error I might have made but d pure intention remains..

ONLY D MISTAKES HAVE BEEN MINE
Aslm...

Narrated by Aisha (Allah be pleased with her) : The Prophet (ﷺ) said, “The most hated person in the sight of Allah is the most quarrelsome person.” (Bukhari)



There’s an amazing Hadith found in Musnad Ahmad, Tabarani, Ibn Majah, Tirmidhi and others… It says, “No people have gone astray after having been upon guidance, except that they were given argumentation.”
ما ضل قوم بعد هدى كانوا عليه إلا أوتوا الجدل
If you’ve been around Muslim life long enough, you can sense when a time-wasting black-hole is developing. It’s very tempting to go in swinging. Most youth do simply out of lack of experience. But for those who’ve been around the block, what is the point of experience, if you simply keep falling for the allure of the black hole.
Whenever an issue comes up, our stance is that we just state the position—insist on it no matter what—and move on. One of the signs of misguided groups is that they’re always arguing. In contrast, the path our Ulama have put us upon — Allah guard them and protect them — is one in which we’re really just too busy for nonsense. We have Quran to review, and still more to memorize. We have to brush up on our Arabic regularly. Fiqh needs to be delved into. Sound Aqidah needs to be taught. Hours of dhikr need to be logged. And on top of that, there is charity to be given, youth-work to be done, Janazahs to attend. Before all of that we have families to take care of. And then suddenly, it’s Ramadhan and all of that goes on hold and we put our souls through the car-wash.
Through Masajid, retreats, trips abroad, etc, life as a Muslim makes you meet so many different types of people, that it broadens your experience and polishes your Akhlaq. People are always changing. One year they’re into something knee deep and another year, they’ve balanced out. One becomes more forgiving, calm and over-looking. With every year that passes, and every drama that comes around, reaches its high point and then and rolls away like a receding wave, you come to realize what really matters in life and in deen. And that causes a person to side-step jidaal, argumentation. State your point—you may have to state it often—then move on and leave off arguing.
Imam Malik (Allah have mercy on him) was approached by a man who asked him for a debate. Malik said, “What happens if I win?” The man said I will follow you. Imam Malik (Allah have mercy on him) said, “And if you win?” The man said, then you follow me. Then Imam Malik (Allah have mercy nn him) said, “What if a third person comes and defeats both of us?” The man said, then we both follow him. Malik concluded: “Constantly changing your beliefs is not a sign of steadfastness. I know what I am upon and I have no doubt. You however, are upon doubt. So leave me alone and go debate someone else filled with doubt.”
(Tartib al-Madarik)
One of his students said, “Shall I not try to argue with them to prove to them the truth?” Imam Malik (Allah have mercy on him) replied, “Just state the position and leave it at that. If he wants to follow it, he will.”
(Tartib al-Madarik)

It was narrated that Hudhaifah (Allah be pleased with him) said: “I heard the Messenger of Allah(ﷺ) say:‘Do not acquire knowledge in order to show off before the scholars, or to argue with the foolish, or to attract people’s attention, for whoever does that will be in Hell.'” (Ibn Majah as weak

emekaRaj:
Haaa!! Na by force..... I refuse to engage in those endless arguments with u. There's ur believe I can't change it obviously, and u can't change mine, so wats d point. If u have never walk down d spiritual path u can never understand. Dats y I only engage those who understand the topic.

Aslm ....new on nairaland..... Been reading this thread for days now.....may Allah( swt) bestow baraka, rahma ,ni'ima and sakeena upon the great shaykhs and legends in this thread @emekaraj, @ikupakuti, @aadoiza, @ladunaI, @empiree to mention those I can recall of-hand(pls note that I mean no offense if i failed to mention you......really typing fast....not that y'all haven't inspired,motivated and given me insights on my life challenges)....@emekaraj ...this isnt much but I want you to know that I pray for your twins in my tahajjud, sir..may Allah grant them the best of both worlds, make them prevail over all odds of life,make it easy for them to subdue, control and subjugate their nafs ,make them the apple of your eyes and make you proud...I am Zaria born and bred...grew up with izala friends but I never stopped using prayer beads I.e. charbi, I recall a certain close pal of mine who used to mock me for using it, but I never stopped, I jst smiled and ignored him..

...i hav always been fanatical about academics ...great book lover, in recent years all I read on is books appertain ing to Islamic knowledge... I hate anything average, it jst doesn't sit right with me....

i mean, why should I be OK with 50 or even70 when I can work hard for 100%...after all d prophet s.a.w said "Allah loves that when you do something, you perfect it"..... Did mentality of mine finally began to pay-off in my jamb and post utme scores in 2014 and I am someone who if he strikes a match and it catches fire, will jst keep adding wood to that fire until I burn the building down......

To quote shaykh makari (translate from Hausa to English):" in this affair I.e. the journey to Allah, when your long walk leafs you to the destined spot then START RUNNING....

Unfortunately for me, my himma and zeal was cut short by a sudden spiritual attack(though some doctors said it is schizophrenia while d ones at ABUTHsaid it is bipolar disorder, but from my lengthy research on my self these are jst symptoms of an underlying, deeper problem...cos I HV been on hospital meds for ten years now.....d illness is DAT wen I go to school, I feel, after some few hrs like...severe bouts of shame tension and unease all at once...like I am not complete or I am guilty of some evil shameful deed which people jst found out about... So I pray to god to make this seemingly exhausting lecture end, I pack my books once it does and hurry home like hell....the noise on the campus , bus , street feels less like torture...words can't describe what I felt emotionally...It was hell and I was broken in every way....even spiritually which hurt d most...
My dad has bn sick too b4he died in 2014 d same year I fell sick...in fact I fell sick few months after he died.... A certain sheikh and authority of d Quran(gwani) said to me that what left his head came upon d one who had the brightest star in the family..I started at a.b.u with a jamb score of 285(it was a big deal back then cox only 20 people got between 280 and 299 while only ten got e300 and above in Nigeria that year)...d death if my father struck few days to jamb...but it didn't kill my himma I.e. motivation...it only made me want to study harder....get out of the poverty of the lower class and help others too..then after jamb ....as u already know about me, my score only made me read like mad......some .....like my bro believe that is , coupled with d pain of d loss lead to d illness.... But I know myself very well ....I can handle stress....I am like those energetic guys who live off d adrenaline of working hard ...I read allnight and went to pray subhi that morning and didnt come back home...i felt like my family members all wanted to kill me but this was d beginning of delusions which was to follow...I was feeling abnormal and running mad gradually but u didn't know it.....I rem. Going to seek help from a Sufi sheikh(who is now my current sheikh) but he was absent at the time...he was probably doing dhikr in d masjid but I didn't know as we were not close at d time...... So I ran far away into d bush and was prepared to even spend d night there rather than GI back home my family became alarmed at ...I think 10 or so because they knew me Iam an introvert and not much of a talker as u might have guessed

My family at diff. Parts of d country held prayers for my safe return home ...mind u then bokoharam was on d rise ...my poor mum later told me that her greatest worry was DAT I shld not run into dem...by 5pm d same day.. With the acceptance of my family's dua upon me a sudden thought came to me....."IF I DO NOT GO BACK HOME I WILL miss MY POSTUME EXAM.. dus one single thought made me decide to go back....I knew DAT bush well cox I go there to get dogoyaro for chewingstick but to illustrate my belief DAT it us a spiritual attack I almost couldn't find my way back into town....when I did with the aid of Allah I checked my phone and sawdat I had 97 missed calls from loved ones....d same people whom I claimed wanted me dead....
D first person to sight me coming back was my poor mum(I am not d crying type but wallahi as I am typing these words I am I'm tears ....MY MUM DIED LAST MONTH... after falling sick for two yrs...from another....as I believe spiritual attack which manifested as hypertensive stroke...SHE NEVER GOT THE CHANCE TO SEE ME FINISH SCHOOL....but I am only summarising...my dad wen I was in class 3 and unserious once called me aside and said touching his shirt"Hamid look I can sell my last shirt jst to c DAT my son gets an education but wat I can't tolerate is unseriousess.I quickly knelt down and said thank u father..little did I know DAT dose days i was wasting my only chance to make ythem proud.... I HV never really bn did sordid about my past with anyone not to talk of an audience but I believe DAT we are all like minds.. EVEN IF IT IS A SINCERE DUA YOU MAKE FOR ME OR JST TYPE AN advice AS I believemost of u are busy pls do I will remain forever grateful...my initial g.p. at geography dept. Was 3.85 a disappoimtment to me as u know icould do better likewipe out d whole 5.00 but d worst was yet to come as it got deeper carryovers came go dropped den spill over n funally left sch.after i differed for like years and years and den lack money to pay in the buhariyya hardship time all because of two obstacles: the anxiety attack I get at school and my sudden unbelievable apathy and inability to read school books note that even during did time I still read motivational and other books but to tell that it Is witchcraft if I hold my school books I jst immediately feel like I can't do did....dis second symptom started after jamb and my dads death but b4 post ume in fact between wen we returned from my admission at hospital and my post ume I can say with certainty DAT I only opened my book to read for like five times in all and each session didn't last up to a minute...but I still got 280 in d post ume I believe I could have made at least 300 if not for my illness...nw
ten years now I have been stock in one station in life my mate in sec. Sch. Is now a full sworn in medical doctor.... And I am ashamed to mention it to my aunt and my cousins cos they see me now asa failure cos d girl always asks after me and she even brought to me a jotter of her graduation .....I am happy for her........smiles.... BT I am strong in Allah.. He helped me towards him as a result of all this which wouldn't have happened otherwise and I take solace in d belief DAT Allah only afflicts those whom he loves and DAT if in our early years u receive great trials it could only mean one thing: great good awaits..of did I have no doubt
..it is jst DAT I will forever remain heart broken dat my dad and esp. Mum who never got fed up or tired if me to d very end never got to get any benefit of my sweat......all I cold do even when her sickness took a turn for d worst was sweet talk and promises... I dreamt of something..( I can't remember what it was anymore as its been a while ....)so it was like a parable cos days how most if my dreams come ..I got did book called the dictionary of dreams by ibn seereen which I have been using to check d Islamic interpretation of dreams now..y+'all shld get it ...I can attest to its authenticity as it has never interpreted my dream in a way which later turned out to be false)d dream meant DAT someone will soon die in my family... I got scarred worried and I even cried DAT day because my dreams always come true...I told some people but they convinced me DAT it was jst a regular dream and not what I thought 6months later my mom passed away at abuth...my health has improved by a little but some things happen to me now..I see things like a person standing in front of me...like one day wen I wanted to go and pray subhi...I noticed this and his legs were not on d ground...I started to trcitr in m mind....laqadjakum...as as at then.. Which was few days ago I was on this thread reading on d benefits of laqadjakum ...I immediately stopped are seeing him....dis jst an example at oda time I will be walk-in and would feel like sime1 is also following me but on looking back I see no one I have read wat u sed abt maqam and istiqam and I can relate...I have a dream I will like to relate so as if anyone can tell me what it means :I was in my bedroom and on the exact spot of my bed we discovered the remains of king Solomon the prophet I saw his plates and a unique cup which i hav never seen d kind b4 it stood on nothing but pointed edge like d tip of an arrow...I saw myself wearing something designed and fine on my wrist...In d dream it felt like his ring as I imagined he was a giant so it was oversize for me..but it didn't look much like a ring rather it looked like a wrist band then I saw him from behind when he was flying and as he was covered from waist down with some dark cloud...wat does did dream mean pls......anyone?

I will have to stop here for now pls anyone who has an advice sirri or wants to help me in any way pls I am expectantly waiting....I will share more wen I receive ur replies.....thanks everyone

emekaRaj:
Hi empiree, i do come in once in a while. Been extremely busy.