Shaykh (Maulana) Muhammad Hasan Tai (HA) & Shaykh (Maulana) Saleem Bahauddin (HA) (Florida, USA) are the last of their generation of what a person can witness in our lifetimes.
Shaykh (Maulana) Muhammad Hasan Tai (HA) in a small house and his front room is his Madrasa & his Khanqah. Some of his Mureeds & Khulafa are super rich and YET Hazrat (HA) gives me tea and biscuits from his own old tin container and his home cups! He has had the same house and the same room for decades.
There is no expensive, lavishness in his attitude or his living. He likes dipping biscuits in his tea and he will break half the biscuit and share it with his guests. When he needs to pray he will come down and start praying on the prayer mat 3 feet away and then get back to talking to you.
Shaykh answers phone calls of total strangers and even in his sickness if people insist on driving down from 100+ miles, he doesn’t deny them.
Shaykh (Maulana) Saleem Bahauddin (HA) (Florida, USA) is pretty much the same.
They stand as a constant reminder to me as to what “Tassawuff” should be and
not the commercial enterprise which it has become in UK.
There are NO CHAMCHAY hanging around, nobody singing praises of the Shaykh and whatever he says (
still) he normally quotes a Hadeeth (
in Arabic) and then explains.
There is a very strong attachment to Hadeeth in his Tassawuff which I believe is probably the legacy of Shaykhul-Islam (RA) & Shaykh Yusuf Binori (RA). He doesn't quote "Hazrats and dreams" as much as he quotes Hadeeth in his conversations and
he does this constantly over and over again quoting Aheedth in Arabic!
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