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If someone has found companionship of an ahle dil...

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, 10-05-2011 at 09:57 AM (2125 Views)
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I thought I'd post a couplet of Hazrat Moulana Hakeem Akhtar saheb Damat Barakatuh that should be the feelings of all of us.

Kissi Ahle Dil kis suhbat jo milli kissi ko Akhtar
Ussay aa gaya hai jeena, ussay aa gaya hai marna

bad translation (I request our urdu speakers to translate it accordingly.
If someone has found companionship of an ahle dil (lover of Allah) oh Akhtar
Then he has learnt to live, he has learnt to die

When Hakeem saheb Damat Barakatuh says this, Moulana Yunus Patel saheb explains that he means that ANY ahle-dil. It doesn't mean that only ones shaykh, only ones tareeqa, only ones field. We should be joyous if someone has left the filth of this world and has joined any work, whether khanqah, tableeghi jamat, or madressah. Yes, there may be fine tuning in some places, and they will happen when the intention is right. But at least the seeker has taken the first step. So, we should be happy for him, not sorrowful that he is not bay'at to my shaykh, or that he is going to khanqah, not tableeghi jamaat. etc etc


I don't want to seem conceited blogging my own post but yesterday night I remembered this post .

Shaykh Zulfiqar Ahmad Naqshbandi saheb was in town yesterday night and gave a talk in Musjid Noor, which is better known as the masjid in which Moulana Yunus Patel saheb has all his Majaalis. What struck me was to see they are of two completely different silsilahs, the former is Naqshbandi and the latter is Chishti. Yet there was so much respect in both the Shaykh for the other. It made me think of how we petty laymen fight over such small difference.

When Moulana Yunus saheb was completing his introduction of Shaykh Zulfiqar, he mentioned the same couplet I quoted in the above post.

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  1. usman mirza's Avatar
    how can i add audio file? plz tell me. i have audio file of zikr in voice of khalifa of Maulana Shah Hakeem Ahktar Sahab DB.
  2. sudoku's Avatar


    Check this thread --> http://www.sunniforum.com/forum/show...e=6#post607791

    I think br Haqir should be able to help.
  3. PouringRain's Avatar
    I enjoy reading your posts even though I don't usually comment on them.
  4. sudoku's Avatar
    May Allah keep my intention correct. Especially after reading br MujahidAbdullah's Arrogance of a Sufi.. argh, one thing I fear most, pride. Very hard to step out of the 'holier than thou' shoes.
  5. Maripat's Avatar

    The goal is to recognize Allah (SWT). That makes the differences of the tareeqah really superficial. For some time the two Masha-ikh are inter connected in my heart also. A muraqbah by Shaikh Zulfiqar (DB), that I attended, created the same effect as the one that I experienced when I listened to above couplet as recited by a reciter. Earlier I had read the hamd but it did not have any significant effect on me. On hearing it being recited the effect was completely different. And all recitations do not have the same effect. Allah only knows why. Here is my favourite recitation.
  6. sudoku's Avatar


    I understand what you mean. For example, I find when certain Shaykh recites a naat etc, then I feel more the effect, not because of the recitation, but because the emotions you feel in it. Moulana Yunus Patel saheb always cracks jokes about his voice, yet when he recites something , and a munshid recites the same thing in his beautiful voice, I prefer the former .