Principles
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Forsaking the Visitation of Other Shaykhs, Living or Deceased [Part 1]
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On the Prohibition of Visiting Living and Deceased Saints in the Tijani Path and in All Sufi Paths Some people who are ignorant of the conditions of the Tijani Path hold the view that visiting saints—whose visitation was prohibited by our master Shaykh Ahmad al-Tijani (Allah be pleased with him) for those in his path,… Continue reading
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Sitting with the Haters
Sidi al-Tayyib b. Ahmad al-Sufyani (Allah have mercy upon him) recorded in al-Ifada al-Ahmadiyya that Shaykh Ahmad al-Tijani (Allah be pleased with him) said: “Sitting with those who harbor rancor brings a poison that slowly spreads into its companion.” Sidi al-Tayyib b. Ahmad al-Sufyani commented: And from the meaning of this is the saying: Choose… Continue reading
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Ulterior Motives in Worship
The Divine openings that come from prayers upon the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) cannot be seized by force. One must simply empty their heart of ulterior motives and invoke with love and reverence, and, as Shaykh ‘Abd al-Karim al-Jili said, “observing the proprieties of reverence, magnification, awe, and shyness.” A common… Continue reading
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Judgement Belongs to God and His Messenger
Shaykh Ahmad al-Tijani (God be pleased with him) said: We have a foundational principle on which all other principles are based: Judgement belongs to naught but God and His Messenger, and no consideration shall be given to any legal ruling except what is [supported] by the words of God and His Messenger (God bless him… Continue reading
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Over Attachment to the Spiritual Books of Other Masters
The disciple of Shaykh Ahmad al-Tijani (God be pleased with him) is cautioned from doing, saying, or harboring anything in his heart that would constitute a veering toward another Shaykh (and, necessarily, away from Shaykh Ahmad al-Tijani). One form of this is getting caught up in Sufi books from Shaykhs of other paths, to the… Continue reading
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Foundations for Not Visiting the Living or Deceased Shaykhs of Other Paths
Shaykh Muhammad al-Hafiz al-Tijani (d. 1978 CE) said in his work Fasl al-Maqal concerning the matters that sever one’s connection to Sayyiduna al-Shaykh Ahmad al-Tijani (God be pleased with him): Said our master Muḥyī al-Dīn Ibn ʿArabī—may God sanctify his secret—in al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya, in the one hundred and eighty-first chapter, concerning the knowledge of the… Continue reading
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Distance from God Due to One’s Devotions?
The meaning of ghurūr (self-deception) is to hold a conviction about something contrary to its true reality. Thus, the person who is deceived is the one who believes that the spiritual openings he attains come from the virtue or power of a certain remembrance (dhikr) or practice. He then expends all his energy and lifetime… Continue reading
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Seeking God, Not Experiences
My master, Sīdī Aḥmad al-Tijānī — may God be pleased with him — said: “What I sincerely advise you is this: all that you are enamored of in seeking sainthood and lofty stations will bring you nothing but weariness. You shall gain nothing of substance thereby. For indeed, all affairs are in the hand of… Continue reading
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