International Journal of Naqshbandi Tariqat

A Quarterly Journal Vol 1 Issue 1 Jan-March 2011
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Contents
1 Photo Gallery 4
2 Profile Sheikh Taoshobuddha 17
3 Editorial 19
4 Message from Sheikh Taoshobuddha 20
5 Message from Maulwi Jalaliddin Ahmad Ar Rowi 23
6 Origin of Naqshbandi Tariqat 24
7 Golden Chain Naqshbandiyah–Mujadadiyah-Mazahria-Ramchandria 25
8 Naqshbandi Tariqat The Way or Tariqat of Sufis 28
9 What is Naqshbandi Design 36
10 Naqshbandi design – Parable of Bahauddin 37
11 Always choose to be happy 42
12 Tariqat in Post Naqshbandi Era 43
13 From “me” to “God” - a change within by Lars Jens 48
14 Books of Taoshobuddha on Amazon.com and Create Space.Com 57
15 Naqshbandi Uwaisiyah Tariqat by Maulwi Jalaluddin Ahmad Ar Rowi 68
16 Book Reviews - Essence of Sufism 80
17 Book Reviews Maraqba – I – Rumi 83

Photo Gallery
SHRINE SHAH BAHAUDDIN NAQSHBAND (q), BOKHARA






SHRINE MOHAMAMD BAQUI BILLAH (q), NEW DELHI, INDIA

The first Naqshbandi Sheikh send to Indian Subcontinent

SHRINE SHEIKH AHMAD ALI KHAN (KHALIFA SAHIB) (q)

SHRINE SHEIKH FAZAL AHMAD KAHN (q)

SHEIKH RAMCHANDRA (LALA JI) (q)

SHRINE SHEIKH RAMCHANDRA RA – LALAJI, FATEHGARH, INDIA

SHEIKH TAOSHOBUDDHA
bujugR gujrte hE bujugIR kI rah se
bujurga gujarte hain bujurgi ki rah se
Master follows the path laid by masters

kaz #sI trIk pe Ada merI nmaj hae,
yar ke paynaj pe mera sre inyaj hae.
KAASH ISI TAREEQ PE AADA MERI NAAMAJ HO

YAAR KE PAYANAAZ PE MERA SARE NIIYAZ HO
May all my prayers be for this gesture and

Countenance of the master
And my salutations be at the holy feet of my master!!!

Profile: Naqshbandi Sheikh Taoshobuddha
Taoshobuddha is born in India in a family of Naqshbandi “The word Taoshobuddha comes from three words, „tao,‟
Sufi Masters. „sho,‟ and „Buddha‟. The word Tao was coined by the
Chinese master, Lau Tzu. It means, that which is and
He comes from the tradition of Naqshbandi Sufi Ram cannot be put into words. It is unknown and unknowable.
Chandra RA – Lalaji, Naqshbandi Sufi Raghuber Dayal RA It can only be experienced and not expressed in words.
– Chachaji, Sufi Brij Mohan Lal RA, and Sufi Onkar Nath Its magnanimity cannot be condensed into finiteness. The
RA. word Sho implies, that which is vast like the sky and
deep like an ocean and carries within its womb a
A the age of eight months his Nana Naqshbandi Sheikh treasure. It also means one on whom the existence
Sufi Brij Mohan Lal transferred the nisbet and thus showers its blessings. And lastly the word Buddha,
prepared him for what he represents the Naqshbandi implies the Enlightened One; one who has arrived home.
Tariqat in its pristine clarity.
Thus, Taoshobuddha implies one who is existential, on
The Sheikh says, whom the existence showers its blessings and one who
has arrived home. The Enlightened One.
“I am here for all that existence wants me to be.
Therefore I go on allowing happening all that existence Scores of his videos are available on various paths and
has sent me for. And whatsoever the existence does not masters on you www.youtube.com - taoshobuddha; and
want to happen I will not allow to happen. My being is many other sites.
absorbed in God. This is totality. And this, the word „God‟
means to me. This is flowing in God or cosmic harmony. He has worldwide meditation in Trinidad, Florida, Boston,
And the moment this happened, I became suddenly all- New York, Sweden and many other cities of the world.
infinite-OCEANIC... AND NOW SOUR IN INFINITE SKY
EFFORTLESSLY....” Scores of his books can be purchased at major sites
worldwide and book stores.
On the meaning of the name Taoshobuddha the Sheikh
said: List of books: From Sterling Publishers, New, Delhi, India

 Meditation The Way to Self Realization  Haripath-The Hidden Splendor

 The Secrets of Bhakti  Parijaat – the Celestial Flower
 The Essence of Sufism  Know your Samskaras
 Meditation the Ultimate in Healing
Books published from www.http//I.proclaim.Com  Leaves from a Sufi Heart Vol 1
Pittsburg PA  Leaves from a Sufi Heart Vol 2
 Shah Bahauddin Naqshband - Life and Works
 Haripath-The Hidden Splendor  Maraqba-I-Naqshbandi
 Fruits the Essence Of Life Vigor  Maraqba-I-Rumi
 Meditation the Ultimate In Healing  Japji Sahib Songs of Nanak
 Leaves from a Sufi Heart Vol 1  Sri Rama Gita
 Leaves from a Sufi Heart Vol 2  Quest for Birth And Death In Savitri Of Sri
 Shah Bahauddin Naqshband - Life And Works Aurobindo
 Maraqba-I-Naqshbandi  Tasuwware Sheikh
 Maraqba-I-Rumi  The Secrets of Spiritual Life (Talks Of
 Japji Sahib Songs of Nanak Taoshobuddha) By Lars Jensen
 Sri Rama Gita  Parables - Naqshbandi Design for Transformation
 Om Ganeshyah Namah
 Quest For Birth And Death In Savitri Of Sri Several of his documents are available free for download
Aurobindo on: www.docstoc.com; www.scribd.com and
 Savitri - Review by Taoshobuddha www.issuu.com
 Tasuwware Sheikh
 Srimad Bhagwad Purana Introduction E MAIL:
 Parables - Naqshbandi Design For Transformation mailtaoshobuddha@gmail.com
 The Secrets Of Spiritual Life (Talks Of mailtaoshobuddha@yahoo.com
Taoshobuddha) By Lars Jensen
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Editorial
It is indeed a rare opportunity to be blessed by a Sufi I am an innocent child frolicking in the garden of the
Master – Sheikh Taoshobuddha. Masters are not Sheikh. I have gathered the coloured pebbles and
bound by time or space. Masters exist in a realm oddly shaped stones.
beyond dimensions and their subtle vibrations
resonate throughout eternity. The message of all the Sitting with the Sheikh revealed many hidden
Masters is the same. It assumes various forms for the treasures. It is my intention to bring these rare gems
climate in which the message is to be delivered. Very in a continuing series of journals – under various
few are the seekers who can discern the central titles.
message of all the masters and see the underlying
oneness. In the request for truth one must be open, vulnerable
and receptive. Any fanatism, bigotry and prejudice
This Journal seeks to deliver the message via a shall not only hinder the sojourn but verily make it
Naqshbandi Tariqat. impossible to attain an iota of the masters‟ barkat
(grace). And without barakat, realization is a far cry if
It is by the grace of the Masters that I am allowed to not an impossible dream.
write a brief editorial for this our first publication. A
humble servant can but merely echo all what the Our effort in all such endeavours is merely to share
masters have said. The words are not mines, the an opportunity with the seekers to celebrate with us.
punctuation are mines….but the force which directs Ours is a caravan in which many travellers have
my pen is of the masters. gathered to sojourn. We rest and listen to stories of
ancient lore – stories of the Naqshbandi Tariqat and
the hidden patterns in existence that intertwines all
creation in one cosmic universe.

Message from
Sheikh Taoshobuddha
Sufism is the path of Love! It is of the Golden chain of Naqshbandi opportunity, certainly I will stop
the path of Trust! Trust your Tariqat in authentic way. the day of judgment.” It was
Love! Trust your being! A new customary belief among the
IT happened once. There was a people then and even today as
meaning will certainly arise in conference of the learned ones. well that on the Day of Judgment
life. Life will be a benediction. Somehow a master happened to Allah will punish all those who
This is my Certitude or Yakeen. reach there. In that conference he have deviated from the path.
read a couplet.
Beloved friends on the path I Listening to these words everyone
welcome you all now and ever. It imla jae maEka tae raek dU<ga mh;r ihsab tera in the congregation got very
does not matter who you are or angry. But then a silence
what is the particulars. The most pF<Uga muhBbt ke vae ksIde sun ke h<s prega descended. Everyone got quiet
important thing is that you are on when he recited the second line,
Aajab tera
the path. This is what matters to a which meant:
Sheikh. And your spiritual journey IF I EVER GET THE
begins from where you are. It is OPPORTUNITY, I will sing the glories of Thy
from there alone the Sheikh starts Love! Also I will chant Thy
CERTAINLY I WILL STOP THY
working on you. magnanimity! I will overflow
DAY OF JUDGMENT! WHY?
of Thy compassion! I have
It is the occasion of joy as we are I WILL RECITE THOSE lived those moments.
launching the International COUPLETS OF THY
Journal of Naqshbandi Tariqat. LOVINGNESS AND GRACE. Listening to these words Thy
The purpose of this publication is anger will certainly vanish. Such is
LISTENING TO WHICH YOUR
to make you familiar with the my certitude. My trust! This is my
ANGER SHALL VANISH!!
Tariqat and present the Tariqat, love! This is my being. This is my
life and works of various sheikhs He recited the first line, which presence.
meant, “If I ever get the

No one could escape this energy because of the Sufi path. And 4. Naqshbandi Order
field of the master! All those who shall continue erelong, as long (Afghanistan and India)
had gathered there now drowned as human heart is alive with (d.1642 AD),
within the mystical energy field or love!
5. Nimatullahi Sufi Order (Iran)
Tawwazjoh of this master. No
word! Just an indrawn mystical Sufism evolved in the deserts of (at the end of the 14th
stillness and tranquility! A stillness the Middle East. Inflicted by century AD),
that is alive! A stillness that is intense heat and the dearth of 6. Shattari Order (India) (d.1485
pulsating! A state of greenery it flourished amidst the AD)
meditativeness descended. desert of life. It evolved within the
7. Quadriyah Tariqat - S. Abdul
Everyone got quiet because it was inner sanctum of the Sufi masters.
The breath of the cosmos, the Qadir Gillani (Iraq) (1430-
TRUTH echoing. It was Love
inner light of the Holy Prophet, the 1517 AD),
overflowing. Both truth and love
are synonymous. soil of trust, and the waters of the
separation with the whole, all This process still continues
And when Truth manifests provided a congenial environment unabated in the name of an
itself there can be no better for the growth of this eternal tree ecstatic Naqshbandi master
song! No better melody! It was of mysticism as SUFI PATH. Later Sayyidina Abul Qasim Gurgani
the song of the being! The pulse of the awareness, intuition, and trust who chants erelong:
cosmos! The very essence of the of the various masters of the
master! following Orders nourished and YA ILAHI TA ABAD KAYAM
nurtured the path with their love RAHE YAH SILSILA!
This is Sufism. The path of Love! as the energy field and their
It is the path of Trust! Trust your understanding through various
Love! Trust your being! A new upheavals of life and living. Yaa #lahI ta Abd kaym rhe yh islisla,
meaning will certainly arise in life.
Life will be a benediction. This is 1. Chishti Order (India) (1143-
MAY THIS PATH OF
my Certitude or Yakeen. 1223 AD), TRANSFORMATION OF HUMAN
Sufism evolved as the inner 2. Suhrawardi Order (India) CONSCIOUSNESS CONTINUE
kernel of Islam. It is the (1234-1335 AD), TILL ETERNITY! AMEN….
fragrance of the Holy prophet. 3. Mevlevi Order (Turkey)
If Islam is alive today it is (1273), After the departure of the Beloved
Prophet Muhammad from this Naqshbandiya tariqah. other influences from Indian sub
world in 632 C.E., those who were continent. This did not mean the
closest to him passed on his Khawaja Muin al-din Hasan Chishti Tariqat is Hindu or Islamic.
teachings to the sincere seekers of gave his name to the Chistiyya Beyond the narrowness of caste
the next generation, who in turn tariqah. creed and religion is the realm of
became the perfected guides, or Abul Hasan Shadhili gave his Haq or Truth or Spirituality. Lalaji
Sheikhs, for the generation after name to the Shadhili tariqah. said:
them. This process has continued
down to our present time by the Ahmad Faruqi Sirhindi gave betaSsubI sdakt kI jan hE
Mercy of Allah. In this way, every Mujaddid to the Mujaddidi
authentic Sufi guide has a chain of tariqah. In Indian Sub continent the
Masters who leads directly back to streams of Tigris and Euphrates
the Beloved Prophet Muhammad. Sultan Makhdoom Ashraf Jahangir merged with Ganges and Yamuna
Such a chain of Masters is known gave his name to the Ashraf ya to emerge as the path for inward
in Sufism as a "Silsila" or a tariqah. journey. In English language each
“Shajarah". of these 'tariqah‟ is known as a
Mirza Mazhar Mir Jane Jana gave
his name to Mazaharia tariqah. „Sufi Order‟. Ultimately, all of
Often, one of the Sheikhs may be these orders lead directly back to
so prominent, or become so well- the Beloved Prophet Muhammad.
Sheikh Ahmad Faruqi and Mirza
known, that his students will And thus continues the path and
Mazhar Mir Jane Jana belonged to
identify themselves by saying they the process of transformation.
the tradition of Bahauddin
follow the way of such-and-such a
Naqshband. As a result the path
Sheikh. The Arabic word for way is
came to be known as
'tariqah'. (Plural: 'turuq').
Naqshbandiya Mujaddadi-
So for example, students of the Mazaharia.
great Sheikh, Abdul-Qadir al-
To this Tariqat Naqshbandi
Jilani, and his successors down to
Sheikh Ramchandra (q) –
the present day are said to follow
Lalaji added a new dimension by
the Qadriya tariqah.
bringing Hindu element. The
Similarly, Bahauddin Naqshband Tariqat that was so far considered
gave his name to the Islamic in texture merged with

Message from
Maulawi Jalaluddin Ahmad Ar-Rowi
Hadhzrat Sufi Naqshbandi Taoshobuddha, entire universe. All praises and I have read the excerpt of the journal.
glorifications belongs to Allah, May AllahTa'ala shower us with his
Wa‟alaikumussalam warahmatullahi Alhamdulillahi Rabbil 'Alamin. blessings and may he take some efforts
wabarakatuh from us to strengthen the Shari'at,
Thank you very much for the great Tariqat, Ma'rifat and Haqiqat of our
Alhamdulillah, this faqir feels very happy opportunity and the invitation that you Hadhzrat beloved Muhammad al-Mustafa
deep inside the heart when I received offer me to become as one of the editors Rasulullah wa Ahmad Al-Mujtaba
your email along with all the good news and contributors in the International 'Abdullah wa Habibullah. Peace be upon
from you, launching the International Journal of Naqshbandi Tariqat. With him, his family, his companions and
Journal of Naqshbandi Tariqat. the purpose to bring awareness about those who follows him with sincere
Naqshbandi Tariqat and its advent in obedience.
Congratulations for all the books that you the Indian sub continent.
have already published and distributed in Wassalam
the west under your pen name – Sheikh It is a great service especially to our
Taoshobuddha. May Allah Ta'ala bless all Hadhzarat Khwajagan and Piran Hadhzrat faqir Maulawi Jalaluddin
the great effort to establish the Awliya Naqshband Mujaddidan, because they are Ahmad Ar-Rowi Al-Amani 'Afa 'Anhu
Allah community in this world to the illuminating lights that brightens Naqshbandi Mujaddidi Uwaisi
strengthen the religion of Islam and to throughout the universe, who prepared
protect the secrets of Iman and Ihsan of themselves to become attracted by the Khanqah Khaliliyah Naqshbandiyah
how to attain the Gnostic Ma'rifat of attractions of Allah and attract other Mujaddidiyah
Allah's essence, actions, qualities and people to get attracted by Allah. Our Naqshband academy of Quran Sunnah
pure love of his Mahabbat and pure Khwajagan Naqshband Mujaddidan and Hadiths
servitude of his Ma'abudiyat, the lord of precedes the Jazbah attractions before Gua Damai Gombak, Selangor, Malaysia
the heavens and earths, the educator of travelling in the Suluk spiritual journey
the entire creations, the sustainer of the vertically towards his divine presence.

Origin and Evolution of Tariqat

A Sufi path or tariqat began from the Naqshaband the Tariqat came to be „How does someone come to Your
Noor of Allah Subhanhu Taala via His known as the Naqshbandiyya Way?‟ He replied, „By following the
Prophet, Hadhrat Sayyidina Wa Tariqah. And from then onwards this Sunnah of the Prophet.‟
Maulana Muhammad Mustafa remains as Naqshbandiyah Tariqah.
Rasulullah Sallallahu Ta‟ala 'Alaihi However with the passage of time He said, „We have carried in this Way
Wa Alihi Wa Ashabihi Wa Barik Wa many other additions were made but its humiliation, and in return Allah has
Sallam! original design remained. blessed us with His Honor.‟
Some people said about him that he

In the beginning this Tariqat was called Of the Naqshbandiyah Tariqah Shah was sometimes arrogant. He said, „We
“Siddiqiya” because of Hazrat Abu Naqshband said, are proud because of Him, because He
Bakr Siddiqui RA. The Tariqat continued
is our Lord, giving us His Support!‟
to be recognized as Siddiqiya until the Our Way is very rare and very precious.
emergence of Sheikh Tayfur Bayazid It is the curwati-l-wuthqa -„Firm Bahauddin said,
Bistami RA. After Hadhrath Bayzid Handhold‟. It is the way of remaining
Bistami the Tariqat came to be known firm and steadfast in the footsteps of „To reach the Secrets of Oneness is
as „Tayfurian‟. The Tariqat continued the Prophet and of his Companions. sometimes possible, but to reach the
to be known by the name Tayfurian They brought me to this Way from the Secrets of Spiritual knowledge (marifat)
until the advent of Hadhrat Abdul door of Favors, because at its beginning is extremely difficult.‟
Khaliq Gajadwani R.A., who died 12 and at its end, I witnessed nothing but
He continued,
Rabbiyul Awwal 575AH – in Bukhara the Favors of God. In this Way great
where his Shrine exists as a source of doors of Heavenly Knowledge will be „Spiritual Knowledge is like water, it
Noor. There after the Tariqat emerged opened up to the seeker who follows in takes the color and shape of the cup.
as „Khazaganiah‟ and continued as the footsteps of the Prophet. Allah's Knowledge is so great, that
Khazaganiah until 1318 when the however much we take, it is like a drop
To follow the Sunnah of the Prophet is of a huge ocean. It like a vast garden,
noor of Allah Subhan wa Taala emerged
the most important means by which the however much we have cut it is as if we
as Shah Bahauddin Naqshband. had cut but one flower.‟
door will be opened to you. He said,
„Whoever is not coming to our Way, his
With the advent of Shah Bahauddin
religion is in danger.‟ He was asked,

Golden Chain Naqshbandiyah –

Mujadadiyah-Mazahria-Ramchandria
1. Prophet Hadhrat Sayyidina Wa Maulana Muhammad Mustafa Rasulullah Sallallahu Ta‟ala s.a. (d.12
Rabbiyul Awwal 11 AH) Medina
2. Hadhrat Abu Bakr Siddique r.a. (d. 22 Jama‟dil A'lhar 13AH) - Medina
3. Hadhrat Salman al-farisi r.a. (d. 10 Rajjab 35AH) - Medina
4. Hadhrat Imaam Qasim bin Muhammad bin Abu Bakr r.a. (d. 24 Jama'dil ( Awwal/A'khar) 107AH) – Medina
5. Hadhrat Imaam Ja‟far al-Sadiq r.a. (d. 15 Rajjab Murajjab 148AH) – Medina
6. Hadhrat Bayazid Bastami r.a. (d. 14/17 Sha‟ban 261AH) – Bastam
7. Hadhrat Abul Hassan Khurqaani r.a. (d. 15 Ramda‟n 425AH) – Khurqan
8. Hadhrat khwaja Abul Quqsim Ghurghani r.a.
9. Hadhrat Abu Ali Farmadi r.a. (d. 4 Rabbiyul Awwal 477AH) – Mashad
10. Hadhrat Yusuf Hamdani r.a. (d. 27 Rajjab 535AH) – Turkistan
11. Hadhrat Abdul Khaliq Gajadwani r.a. (d. 12 Rabbiyul Awwal 575AH) – Bukhara
12. Hadhrat Muhammad Arif Riwkari r.a. (d. 1 Shawwa'l 615AH) – Tajikistan
13. Hadhrat Mahmood Injir Faghnavi r.a. (d. 17 Rabbiyul Awwal 715AH) – Bukhara

14. Hadhrat Azizane Ali Raamitni r.a. (d. 718/721AH) – Bukhara
15. Hadhrat Muhammad Baba Samasi r.a. (d. 755AH) – Bukhara
16. Hadhrat Sayyed Amir Kulaal r.a. (d. 772AH) – Bukhara
17. Hadhrat Kwajah Bahauddin Naqshband r.a. (d. 2 Rajab al-Murajjab, 791AH) - Qasr-e-Aarifan (Bukhara)
18. Hadhrat Alaa‟uddin Attaar r.a. (d. 20 Rajab 802AH) - Jafaaniyan (Mawralnahar)
19. Hadhrat Ya‟qoob Charkhi r.a. (d. 5 Safar, 851AH) - Charkh (Bukhara)
20. Hadhrat Ubaydullah Ahraar r.a. (d. 20/29 Rabi al-Awwal, 895AH) – Samarqand (Mawralnahar)
21. Hadhrat Muhammad Zaahid r.a. (d. 1 Rabi al-Awwal, 936AH) - Wakhsh (Malk Hasaar)
22. Hadhrat Darwish Muhammad r.a. (d. 19 Muharram, 970AH) - Samarqand (Mawralnahar)
23. Hadhrat Muhammad Waaqif Amkanki r.a. (d. 21/22 Sha'baan, 1008AH) - Akang (Bukhara)
From here on the Naqshbandi path enters the Indian Sub – continent via Sheikh Baqui Billah through the capital city of
New Delhi
24. Hadhrat Khwajah Baaqi Billaah r.a. (d. 25 Jumaad al-Aakhar, 1012AH) - Delhi (India)
25. Hadhrath Imam Rabbani, Mujaddid Alf Thani, Hadhrat Shaykh Ahmad Farooqui Sirhandi r.a. (d. 28 Safar,
1034AH) - Sirhind (India)
26. Hadhrat Muhammad Ma‟soom Farooqui r.a. (d. 9 Rabi al-Awwal, 1079AH) - Sirhind (India)
27. Hadhrat Sayfuddeen Bin Ma‟soom Farooqui r.a. (d. 19 Jumad al-Oola, 1095-1096AH) - Sirhind (India)
28. Hadhrat Noor Muhammad Badyooni r.a. (d. 11 Dhul Qa‟dah, 1135AH) – Lodhi Road, Delhi (India)

29. Hadhrat Mirza Mazhar Jaan-I-Jaanan r.a. (d. 10 Muharram, 1195AH) - Khanqah Mazharia Turkman Gate Delhi
(India)
30. Hadhrat Abdullah Shah Naimullah r.a. (d. 22 Safar, 1240AH)Bahraich U.P. (India)
31. Hadhrat Mawla‟na Muradullah r.a. (d. Dhul Qa‟dah, 1248AH) - Lucknow U.P.(India)
32. Hadhrat Sayyed Abul Hasan Sa‟eed r.a. (d. Sha'ba'n, 1272) - Rai Bareli U.P.(India)
33. Hadhrat Mawla‟na Khalifa Ahmad Ali Khan r.a. left on 04.11.1904(AD) Kaimganj, Distt. Farrukhabad (Uttar
Pradesh) India
34. Hadhrat Mawla‟na Shaah Fazl Ahmad Khan r.a. (1857-1907 A D) Qusba- Raipur Distt. Farrukhabad (Uttar
Pradesh) India
35. Hadhrat Mawla‟na Abdul Ghani Khan r.a. (1867-1952 AD) Qusba-Bhogaon, Distt. Mainpuri (Uttar Pradesh)India
From here the Hindu influence became predominant in the Tariqat. Almost one hundred years ago a forecast was
made by the 33rd Naqshbandi Master Hadthrath Sayadina Kutub-i-alam Abul Hasan Naseerabadi. He mentioned of
this to his Khalifa Sufi Ahmad Ali Khan (Khalifa Sahib) Kayamganji. It was he who had predicted the advent of Hindu
Influence in the Tariqat.
36. Mahatma Sufi Ramchandra (Lalaji) Ji Maharaj (1873-1931 AD) r.a. Fatehgarh (Uttar Pradesh) India
37. Mahatma Sufi Raghubar Dayal (Chachchaji) Ji Maharaj (1875-1947 AD) r.a. Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh India
38. Mahatma Sufi Brij Mohan Lal (1898-1955 AD) r.a., Lucknow Uttar Pradesh, India
39. Mahatma Sufi Onkar Nath (1941-2008 AD) r.a. Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh,India
After Shah Bahauddin the Tariqat got divided into many sub paths and each considers itself to be the authentic one.
These evolved as many new streams arising from the main stream of Shah Bahauddin Naqshband r.a..

Naqshbandi Tariqat – The Way or Tariqat of Sufis
Tariqat means the path, the PARABLE OF SHAH FIROZ: HEEDLESSNESS?‟ „THAT IS
method. The journey from the outer PRECISELY THE DIFFICULTY,‟ SAID
to the inner! The outer is the SHAH FIROZ, WHO IS REMEMBERED THE SUFI. „BECAUSE HEEDFULNESS
circumference, the haqiqat the inner AS THE MASTER OF MANY VERY IS SO MARKED IN SOME THINGS,
is a centre and tariqat is the radius DISTINGUISHED SUFIS, WAS OFTEN PEOPLE IMAGINE THAT IT MUST BE
proceeding from the circumference ASKED WHY HE DID NOT TEACH A PART OF THEIR TEXTURE.‟
to the center. THEM FASTER. HOWEVER, „I CANNOT UNDERSTAND
THAT SORT OF REMARK,‟ SAID THE
The initiative path that leads from HE SAID, „BECAUSE EVEN THE MOST
KING, „AND PERHAPS YOU WILL
outward observance to inner DEDICATED WILL, UNTIL A CERTAIN
REGARD ME AS UNSUITABLE
conviction, from belief to vision, from POINT OF UNDERSTANDING, NOT IS
BECAUSE I CANNOT FATHOM YOUR
potency to act, from dream to reality TEACHABLE AT ALL. HE IS HERE IN
RIDDLES.‟
is TARIQAT or method, technique, THE FLESH, BUT ABSENT IN EVERY
path, way, Tao, or Dhamma. This is OTHER WAY.‟ „NOT AT ALL,‟ RESPONDED THE
the whole science of religion. The SUFI, „BUT A WOULD-BE DISCIPLE
HE ALSO RECITED THIS TALE.
circumference is there, the centre is CANNOT REALLY HAVE A DEBATE
THERE WAS ONCE A KING WHO
there, but one has to move from the WITH HIS PROSPECTIVE MASTER.
WANTED TO BECOME A SUFI. THE
circumference to the center. We SUFIS DEAL IN KNOWLEDGE, NOT
SUFI WHOM HE APPROACHED
have to use a certain radius to move IN ARGUMENT. BUT I WILL GIVE
ABOUT THE MATTER SAID,
from circumference to the center. YOU A DEMONSTRATION OF YOUR
„MAJESTY, YOU CANNOT STUDY
Only a radius can join the HEEDLESSNESS, IF YOU WILL
WITH THE ELECT UNTIL YOU CAN
circumference to the centre. What is CARRY OUT A TEST AND DO WHAT I
OVERCOME HEEDLESSNESS.‟
the radius that Sufis propose? They ASK IN RESPECT TO IT.‟ THE KING
are the people of the path because „HEEDLESSNESS‟, SAID THE KING. AGREED TO TAKE THE TEST, AND
they have devised many techniques. „AM I NOT HEEDFUL OF MY THE SUFI TOLD HIM TO SAY „I
They have the most potential RELIGIOUS OBLIGATIONS? DO I BELIEVE YOU‟ TO EVERYTHING
TARIQAT – Techniques. NOT LOOK AFTER THE PEOPLE? WHICH SHOULD BE SAID TO HIM IN
WHOM CAN YOU FIND IN MY ENTIRE THE ENSUING FEW MINUTES.
Now first this parable of Sufi Shah
REALM WHO HAS A COMPLAINT
Firoz;
AGAINST ME ON THE GROUNDS OF

„IF THAT IS A TEST, IT IS EASY dimensions. That is the original leaves you, your corpses will just
ENOUGH TO START BECOMING A source of the concept of Trinity, or look life you. But it is not you. The
SUFI,‟ REPLIED THE KING. the Hindu idea of Trimurti the three real has left. The subtle has left.
faces of God. Or we can say that Only the gross is lying there on the
NOW THE SUFI STARTED THE TEST. religion exists on three planes- ground. That creates trouble because
HE ASKED: „I AM A MAN FROM because man also exists on three people become so much acquainted
BEYOND THE SKIES.‟ planes. Man exists in the body, in with the face that they go on
the mind, in the soul. Religion also believing that the corpse is alive.
„I BELIEVE YOU,‟ SAID THE KING.
has a body, a mind and a soul. If you
THE SUFI CONTINUED: „ORDINARY Islam is fragrance of the Holy
only exist in the body you cannot
PEOPLE TRY TO GAIN KNOWLEDGE, Prophet. When Holy Prophet was
relate to any other religion except
SUFIS HAVE SO MUCH THAT THEY there to breathe life into it, it was a
the outermost. If you exist as a
TRY NOT TO USE IT.‟ „I BELIEVE totally different kind of religion. That
psychology - as a mind, as a psyche
YOU,‟ SAID THE KING. is called sharia. Sharia means
- then you can relate to the second
layer of religion, otherwise not! And exotericism or the ritual, the formal,
THEN THE SUFI SAID: „I AM A LIAR.‟
until you exist as a soul, there is no the Sunday religion. It does not
„I BELIEVE YOU,‟ SAID THE KING.
possibility of coming to encounter affect you at all. It gives you certain
THE SUFI WENT ON: „I WAS the innermost core of religion or respectability in the society. It is
PRESENT WHEN YOU WERE BORN.‟ „I Tasawwuf, the ultimate. This is what more social than spiritual. And it is
BELIEVE YOU,‟ SAID THE KING. „AND the Sufis are searching for. The Sufis more political than religious. Islam
YOUR FATHER WAS A PEASANT,‟ have three names for these three without Holy Prophet and Hinduism
ASKED THE SUFI. „THAT IS A LIE!‟ planes. These have to be understood without Krishna and Buddhism
SHOUTED THE KING! THE SUFI as they are very significant. without Buddha are nothing but
LOOKED AT HIM SORROWFULLY AND garbed political standpoints alone. In
SAID: „SINCE YOU ARE SO The first is called Sharia. Sharia the name of religion politics breads
HEEDLESS THAT YOU CANNOT FOR means the body of religion. It may in!
ONE MINUTE REMEMBER TO SAY “I be alive, it may be dead. Both
possibilities exist. When a Buddha is When God is not there to breathe
BELIEVE YOU” WITHOUT SOME
alive, sharia is alive. When a into the body, the Devil starts
PREJUDICE COMING INTO PLAY, NO
Mohammed is alive, sharia is alive. breathing into it. So a dead body is
SUFI WOULD BE ABLE TO TEACH
Holy Prophet breathes life into it. But not only dead, it is very dangerous
YOU ANYTHING.‟
when Holy Prophet is gone there will as well. It can be possessed by the
Before I go into the parable certain be a corpse. The corpse resembles Devil, your mind and its negativities.
things need to be explained first. the real body but it is not. It only The politician is the Mind. When the
RELIGION exists in three resembles the original. When life master is no more the body is there.

Anyone can enter into it. Somebody and some day somebody brought dead religion. This is a corpse
can start having that body. It your head in front of you, would you religion.
resembles the real. When the master be able to recognize it? You would
is gone the priest will use it, the not recognize it at all. Your All so called religions exist at this
politician will use it, and many will be acquaintance with yourself is also level. The crowd believes in sharia.
deceived by it because they know very superficial. It is okay with the This is the reason the crowd always
only the face. Think of it in this way. others. You look at them from the remains non-religious. The crowd as
When you look at another human outside. But at least with yourself such is not religious. You can find
being, do you know anything more you are not outside, you are inside. only individuals religious. Religion
than the face? Even your beloved, Why cannot you look at yourself can never exist as a crowd. A crowd,
even your child! Do you know from the inside? No, even to look at by its very nature, is insane. A
anything other than the face? Have yourself you need the help of an crowd, by its very nature, is political,
you ever penetrated farther than the outside mirror. So the mirror but never religious. In fact, if you
face? Your acquaintance remains reflects, and you become an outsider are alone you cannot be political.
very superficial. It is not even skin to yourself even. Only then you can Have you ever thought about it? If
deep. It remains formal. Only of the see. Only then you know that face, you are left alone on the earth you
form! But the face is not the person; that body, that form. cannot be political at all. For politics
the personality is not the person. the other is needed. If you are left
The outer shape is not the inner Our so-called knowledge of ourselves alone on the earth you can be
reality. Will you be able to recognize and others is very much body- religious. There will be no
your beloved as a spirit? You will not rooted. Hence we never enter deeper obstruction. But you cannot be
be able to. Will you able to recognize into any dimension other than the political. Politics needs the crowd,
your own child if the child comes as body. That dimension is called the collective mind. Religion needs
a spirit, not as a body? You will not sharia. Sharia is the outer dimension only you. You are enough unto
be able to recognize it at all. You will of religion. When a Mohammed walks yourself. Your very aloneness
get frightened. You will think that a on the earth, or a Buddha, or a becomes the passage towards
ghost has come. Mahabir, you simply watch the body. religion. That is why when a person
You watch his behaviour. You watch wants to be religious he goes into
We know people only by their faces. how he sits, what he eats, what he aloneness. He seeks solitude. He
Why? Because we know ourselves wears, how he talks, and his goes to the mountains or to the
only by our faces as seen in the gestures. You watch these things. desert. He wants to escape from the
mirror! You would not recognize And out of these things you create a crowd because the crowd is basically
even your own head if you had not certain discipline and you start mad.
seen it in a mirror before. If you had following that discipline. This is a
never seen yourself in the mirror,

Kierkegaard, one of the most decide about man! A rat is just his dead man he announced the victory
perceptive thinkers of the West, has behavior. He has not yet grown of the Greeks. It is a beautiful myth.
said: „The crowd is the untruth.‟ individuality. He has not yet grown a It shows that the dead Masters act
Truth is always individual. A Buddha self. But one thing has to be said in for a while as if they are still alive.
has it, a Mohammed has it, and a favor of Skinner and others of his But only for a little while! Maybe one
Jesus has it. Truth is always a kind. About the crowd they are right. year, ten years, fifty years, perhaps!
flowering of the individual The crowd has the same state as the Yes, this happens.
consciousness, but the crowd never rat. But they certainly miss the
has it. The crowd always has the exceptional. Remember the When a Mohammed disappears from
untruth. Even from a Buddha or a exceptional is the essence of the body, the body has tasted so
Christ or a Mohammed the crowd humanity. They can explain your much joy. The body has known a
gathers the superficial. Crowd behavior through the study of rats. different celebration. The dance goes
understands what he eats, when he But they cannot explain a Buddha or on. That myth is really beautiful and
goes to sleep etc. What I eat is a Mohammed. But they still go on meaningful. At least about the great
meaningless. What I am is trying. And there they go berserk. Masters it is true. For a few years
meaningful. What I do is irrelevant. things go on happening as if they are
What I am is relevant. Man is not The sharia is created by watching the still alive.
equal to his behavior. He is more behavior of the enlightened person.
And it is okay when the enlightened This happens because of the
than that. And the greater the man,
person is in his body. But when he is tremendous energy released by the
the bigger will be the difference.
no more in the body then what will dying Master. His very place
Ordinarily a man is exactly like what
you do? You will start worshipping becomes a sacred place for
his behaviour is. What you do, that
the body, the clothes. And pilgrimage. That is how a Mecca is
you are. But when a Buddha is there
sometimes it happens that when a created. That is how mount Kailas
then he is very, ordinary and what
great man like a Mohammed or a becomes of great significance for
he is, is tremendously extraordinary.
Buddha is no more alive for a few Hindus.
The distance is so vast that you can
never fathom his being through his days something hovers around him,
That is how Jainas have Gimar and
behavior. as if he is still alive. That also
Shikharji. On the mountains of
creates trouble.
Shikharji, twenty-three Jaina
But the modern mind suffers from
You must have heard the famous teerthankaras have died. Out of
this disease. You can go and see B.
Greek story. The story is told that twenty-four great Masters, twenty-
F. Skinner or Pavlov and others.
the runner of Marathon was dead an three Masters have died on a small
Psychologists watch the behavior of
hour before he reached Athens. He hill. The whole hill has become
rats to decide what the human mind
was dead yet he still ran. And as a overflowing with the vibe of the
is. Watching the behavior of a rat to

beyond. But that continues only for a Mohammedan is not of much use. so is Hinduism, so is Christianity.
while. This creates a problem. Then But to become a Sufi is immensely Sufis you can count on your fingers.
the disciples think that the corpse is beautiful and valuable. To become a Yogis you can count on your fingers.
still alive because things go on Buddhist is just changing your Hassid or Zen Masters you can count
happening. clothes. However to become a on your fingers. They never exist like
follower of Zen is really moving the crowd. You will have to search
Naturally, they will think that towards transformation. To remain a for them. And if you have a real
everything is as it was before. But Jew is nothing, but to be a Hassid is desire to find them, only then you
that is a fallacy. Once the man is great splendor and benediction. will find them. Otherwise you will go
gone, within a few years time those on missing.
vibes that were created, and the This is the second point, the
echo of those vibes that were innermost core. At the first, sharia, For the Sharia you need not go in
created, will disappear into there is politics, society, morality search anywhere. The sharia comes
nothingness. The sharia is the and a thousand and one things. in search of you. The Sharia comes
superficial core of religion or the Because of sharia the Quran is so full to convert you to Islam. The
body. Beware of this. of social rules. Only few and far Buddhist monk comes to convert you
between will you find real statements to Buddhism. But if you want to
The second layer is called Haqiqat. about religion. They are there even search for a Sufi or a Hassid you will
The sharia is the circumference of a in Manusmriti, in the Vedas and in have to move. You will have to
circle whose center is Haqiqat. The the Quran as well. However such discover a sincere seeker in you. And
word Haqiqat comes from „haq‟. Haq statements are not only few but far you will have to learn many things
means truth. Just pure truth! apart as well! Only if you are really on the way. Remember for one real
Haqiqat! That is why Mansur in search of them will you be able to Master there are ninety-nine false
declared, an-el-haq! I am the Truth. find them, otherwise the diamond is Masters. And the false will appeal to
Haqiqat means the truth, pure, lost in the mud. The mud is sharia you more because you are false. The
uncontaminated by anything. and the diamond is Sufism. false will appeal to you more
Haqiqat means the centre of the because you understand the
circumference, the very soul of Always rush towards the centre. language of the false. The real may
religion. Never be too attached to the body. not appeal to you at all. The real
Create this continuous awareness of may sometimes create fear in you.
At the point of sharia Islam, looking into depth. Instead of looking You will resist the real Master and
Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism exists. into the circumference be at the you will fall and become a victim of
At the point of Haqiqat there is centre not on the circumference. And the unreal. Beware of that! You are
Sufism, Zen, Hassidism, and Yoga. the circumference is big, the centre unreal. So naturally you are
Remember it. To become a is very small. Islam is a great crowd, attracted by the unreal. The unreal

promises you things that you want. absolutely devoted to his do not be afraid. It depends how
He will say, „If you follow me, you understanding of the religion. The long it is. For each person it
will have more wealth, you will have scripture was his soul. He would not functions differently.
more power, more prestige, this and move an inch on his own. He was
that.‟ That is what you are seeking already a dead man. But he was I will show you the way. You take
for lives. perfect as far as ritual was this chalk and start climbing. For
concerned. You could not find a each sin of adultery, fornication,
The real can only promise one thing. single fault in him. He was faultless. lechery, or whatever you have
If you come close to a master, you And this man followed him. committed or you have thought of
will die. The real can promise only committing; go on marking with your
death. The real can promise only one Then one night he dreamed. He chalk. Each sin has to be marked on
thing. „I am going to destroy you dreamed that he died and went up to one rung. When you have finished
utterly‟ because only after death is meet St. Peter, asking, „Can I come and you have made a mark for every
the resurrection is possible. The real into heaven?‟ He was very confident single act or thought, you will come
Master is a cross. The real Master is about it because he had followed to the end of the ladder and the gate
a door into death. You disappear into perfectly whatsoever had been told of heaven will be in front of you. So
him. Yes, you will come out, but you to him. He had followed all the it depends. If you have committed
will come out as a totally new being. commandments mechanically. And numerous sins then it will be very
The real Master is a fire. One gets never committed a single error! So long. If you have done very few it
frightened. One feels very much he was very certain. will not be that long. This ladder is
afraid. One remains aloof. From far flexible. It changes with the person
away one watches a real Master. He asked, „Can I come into heaven?‟ who is climbing on it. The man was
That was just to be polite. Good very happy. He took the chalk and
I have heard. A man lived a very heavens, said Peter. „This is not started climbing the ladder. He kept
religious life. Religious in the sense heaven.‟ Peter then explained that on going for ages. His legs ached, his
of sharia! He followed all the rituals the Pearly Gates were much higher arms ached, yet he met no one. And
of his religion. Also he followed the up and could only be reached by a no sign of any gate! And the ladder
moral precepts that his religion long ladder. He showed him a ladder was still the same, going farther and
prescribed. He followed a Master. which went up and up and farther.
And yet both were in the same boat. disappeared somewhere in the
He followed the Master because the clouds. The man looked at the ladder Then one day he got very fed up
Master was very, very perfect in and became frightened. The ladder with the whole journey. But now he
following the same principles that he seemed to be endless. The man said, was stuck because to go back would
was following. He was ahead. The „When will I reach? This ladder take the same time again. „It is
Master was an extremist. He was seems to be endless!‟ St. Peter said, better to go on. Some day! Perhaps!

There is a possibility, a hope!‟ And Sooner or later it becomes a very promise you streams of wine in
he was surprised because although ordinary thing. Sooner or later you paradise. But he is promising the
he had not committed any sins he start getting bored by it. But if you same thing. He may promise you
had thought of committing all kinds simply imagine, then you will never golden castles, palaces studded with
of them, endlessly. be bored. Then you are never going diamonds in paradise, but diamonds
to become disinterested in it. One and gold and silver and women and
The ritualistic religion makes a man day or other sinners can drop it, but wine they all belong to this world. He
repressive. This is SHARIA the body, the saints, the so-called saints, they is simply fooling you. The real Master
of a religion that makes you crippled cannot drop it. They are sitting on a only promises one thing your death.
in the body. And your mind becomes volcano. So wherever you move death awaits
very, very imaginative about all you. You have to gather courage.
kinds of wrongs. You fantasize! You This man was surprised because he You have to disappear for God to be.
commit them in the mind. Your went on marking those rungs on the This is the second dimension or
consciousness becomes more ladder for ages and still they were plane of religion Haquiqi.
contaminated when things move in coming and still he went on
your mind than when you actually do remembering. It was as if he had The third dimension is called
them. When you actually do never done anything except commit tariqat: Tariqat means the path, the
something, there is a possibility of sins in his mind. Then one day, all of method. The journey from the outer
getting rid of it by seeing its a sudden, he saw his master to the inner! The outer is a
meaninglessness. descending the ladder. He was very circumference, the Haquiqi the inner
happy to see his Master. Ah, my is a centre and tariqat is the radius
If you are angry, sooner or later Master! He said, „Are you by any proceeding from the circumference
anger itself will make you aware that chance going back for more disciples to the center. The initiative path that
it is useless. Not only useless, it is to bring to heaven?‟ „No, you fool!‟ leads from outward observance to
poisonous, destructive and suicidal said the master. „I am going back for inner conviction, from belief to
as well. But if you go on only more chalk!‟ vision, from potency to act, from
thinking of being angry, murdering dream to reality is TARIQAT or
people, destroying people, you will Beware of the false masters. They method, technique, path, way, Tao,
never come to any understanding. are not only many but go on or Dhamma. This is the whole
You will never be able to get rid of mushrooming as well. The false one science of religion.
anger. will promise you things of this world
even if he is promising them in the The circumference is there, the
If you go into sex, sooner or later other world he is promising the same centre is there, but one has to move
you will lose all the fantasies that things. He will promise you beautiful from the circumference to the
you have been creating about it. women in Paradise or firdaus. He will center. We have to use a certain

radius to move from circumference frog of the well, and said, „I come know what they are really like, you
to the center. Only a radius can join from the ocean.‟ Naturally, the frog have to eat them on the spot, just
the circumference to the centre. asked, 'Ocean? What do you mean after they have been picked. And I
What is the radius that Sufis by ocean? What is it?‟ And the frog have always considered bananas a
propose? They are called the people from the ocean said, „It is very dead fruit whose real taste escaped
of the path because they have difficult to describe, because you me. The books that pass from one
devised many techniques. They have have never left this well it seems. It period to another are dead fruits too.
the most potential TARIQAT. It can is so small. But still I will try to In another time they had a different
transform you. It can transform you explain.‟ The frog of the well taste - sharp and tangy. We should
utterly. They are not concerned with laughed. He said, „Nobody has ever have read Emile or the Persian
theology at all. They are only heard about anything bigger than Letters just after they were picked.‟ I
concerned with methodology. They this well. How big is your ocean?‟ like this passage from Jean-Paul
are not worried about whether God is And the frog of the well jumped one Sartre. Exactly so is the case with
or is not. They say, do not talk third of the space of the well and Masters. When they are alive they
nonsense! Here is a way. Go through said, „This much?‟ And the frog from have a taste, sharp and tangy. When
it and see for yourself. This is the the ocean laughed. He said, „No, sir.‟ the fruit is right from the tree it has
way to develop your eyes. And once So the frog from the well jumped a totally different quality to it. A
you have eyes then see whether God two thirds of the space and said, dead Master is like tinned fruit. You
is or are not. There is no need for „This much?‟ Then he jumped the can open the tin and you can eat the
argument. They never try to whole space and said, „Now it must fruit, but something will be missing.
convince. Their way is that of be exactly like this well.‟ But the frog Be courageous and always trust in
demonstration. They say, „Come with from the ocean said, „It is impossible life. My love towards you or your
me. I know a window from where to describe. The difference is not of love towards me should never
you can look into the open sky. quantity, it is of quality. It is vast! It become a hindrance. Love liberates.
When you are closed in this dark is not circumscribed!‟ The frog from Love makes you free.
room, how can I convince you that the well said, „You seem to be either
there is open infinite sky?‟ a madman or a philosopher or a liar. Refer to Parables – Naqshbandi
You get out from here! Do not talk Technique for Transformation by
It will be as difficult as it was for the nonsense!‟ Such is the story of all Sheikh Taoshobuddha,
frog you have heard about, who lived those who are on the first plane. Amazon.com for further reading.
in a small well. It is also a Sufi story.
One day it happened that a frog from Jean-Paul Sartre has written
the ocean came to the well. He must something that I liked: 'People have
have been a tourist. He came into often said to me about dates and
the well. Introduced himself to the bananas- you cannot judge them. To

What is a Naqshbandi Design?

The Naqshbandi way is a unique path of transformation of human consciousness. Nothing is said, nothing is done yet still
something happens. Just as the aspirant lives within the energy field of the master, something begins to grow and evolve
from deep within the aspirant.
The word Naqshband comes from two words: Naqsh and band! Naqsh literally implies impressions or designs, and
band refers to the one who makes those designs. Naqshband therefore means the designer. Naqshband is the
designer! Designer that makes the design. Such designs are not the designs of an ordinary one. These are the designs
that a master makes on the inner being of the aspirants. Thus a master carves out the design or the path of the journey
for the aspirant.
The design is like the yantras of Hindus. These contain within the entire scheme or the design of transformation. Shah
Naqshband Bahauddin was a potter by profession. He used to make beautiful designs on the pots that was his profession.
On these he used to carve intricate spiritual design. He poured his entire energy in the profession that he was involved
for his sustenance. Such is the way of the masters. Kabir remained a weaver throughout his life. He weaved his design or
the scheme into the cloth he was weaving for sustenance.
When his master Amir Kulal came to know of this he said you are indeed Naqshband. You are designing the path for
individual seeker. The path from now on will be known as NAQSHBANDI-the DESIGNER.
What is a Naqshbandi design?

Naqshbandi Design – Parable of Bahauddin

This is why Bahauddin is NAQSHBANDI – the designer. Each design is unique in itself.
Bahauddin is not creating murids on an assembly line.
Instead he is creating something Unique and Extraordinary.
The Naqshbandi silsillah derives its the cradle. He sipped the nectar of the Best of those who carried this
name from Shah Bahauddin Unseen Knowledge from the cup of lineage from the Khwajagan.
Naqshband. He is an Ocean of Reality.
Knowledge that has no shore visible. There is nothing more sublime and
Its waves were woven with the pearls If Muhammad were not the last of the sacred than the words of the
of Heavenly Knowledge. He cleansed Prophets, he would have been a masters and subsequent
humanity with his unwavering prophet. All Praise to Allah for introspection. Introspection on the
Innocence and Piety. And thus he sending such a Reviver of Religion
words of the masters or fikr forms
quenched the thirst of souls with the (mujaddid). He uplifted the hearts of
elixir of his being. The whole world,
an important part of Sufi tariqat.
humanity causing them to soar in the
including its oceans and continents, sky of spirituality. He made kings to As a result these Parables are
were within his grasp. He is a star stand at his door. He spread his explained to bring a deeper
decorated with the crown of guidance from North to South and understanding.
Guidance. He sanctified all human from East to West. He left no one
souls without any exception with his without heavenly support-even the BAHAUDDIN, GREAT TEACHER OF
holy breath. He adorned even the wild animals in jungles. He is the THE NAQSHBANDI DERVISHES,
remotest corner with the secrets of greatest Ghawth, Arch-intercessor, ONE DAY MET A CONFRERE IN
Muhammadun Rasul-Allah. His light the Sultan of Saints, and the THE GREAT SQUARE OF
penetrated every dark layer of Necklace of all the spiritual Pearls BOKHARA. THE NEWCOMER WAS
ignorance. His outstanding proofs that were bestowed on this world by A WANDERING KALENDAR OF THE
cast away the least whisper of doubt the Divine Presence. By the light of
MALAMATI, THE „BLAMEWORTHY‟.
from the hearts of humanity. His his guidance Allah caused the good to
miracles brought life to hearts after be the best and transformed evil into
their deaths and provided souls with goodness. ONCE BAHAUDIN WAS
their provision for the spiritual realm. SURROUNDED BY DISCIPLES!
He was nursed as the Arch- He is the Master of this Tariqat and
Intercessor when he was a child in the Sheikh of the Golden Chain and

„FROM WHERE DO YOU COME?‟ HE „WHAT IS GOOD?‟ BY NOW A LARGE To see where you are, what you are
ASKED THE TRAVELER, IN THE CROWD HAD GATHERED. in reality needs courage. It is nice to
USUAL WAY. believe in beautiful ideals. All ideals
„I DO NOT KNOW.‟ REPLIED THE
work only for one thing: they hide
KALANDER
„I HAVE NO IDEA,‟ SAID THE OTHER, your reality; that is why we go on
„WHAT IS RIGHT?‟ „WHATEVER IS creating beautiful ideals. Not that we
GRINNING FOOLISHLY.
GOOD FOR ME.‟ „WHAT IS WRONG?‟ are really interested in those great
„WHERE ARE YOU GOING?‟ „WHATEVER IS BAD FOR ME.‟ THE ideals; our real interest is how to hide
PERSISTED BAHAUDDIN! CROWD, IRRITATED BEYOND ITS the ugly facts.
„I DO NOT KNOW,‟ SHOUTED THE PATIENCE BY THIS DERVISH, DROVE
HIM AWAY. HE WENT OFF, STRIDING People go on talking about non-
DERVISH.
PURPOSEFULLY IN A DIRECTION violence, and all that they do in their
„WHAT IS GOOD?‟ BY NOW A LARGE WHICH LED NOWHERE, AS FAR AS lives is violence, sheer violence and
CROWD HAD GATHERED. ANYONE KNEW. nothing else. The more violent they
„I DO NOT KNOW.‟ CAME THE REPLY are, the more they talk about non-
„FOOLS‟ SAID BAHAUDIN violence. The talk about non-violence
„WHAT IS EVIL?‟ WAS THE NEXT NAQSHBAND. „THIS MAN IS ACTING becomes a camouflage.
QUESTION THE PART OF HUMANITY. WHILE YOU
WERE DESPISING HIM,' HE WAS People have talked about non-
„I HAVE NO IDEA.‟ REPLIED THE DELIBERATELY DEMONSTRATING violence for centuries, and it has not
KALANDAR HEEDLESSNESS AS EACH OF YOU happened. And it is not going to
„WHAT IS RIGHT?‟ ASKED A DOES, ALL UNAWARE, EVERY DAY OF happen because the very talk creates
MEDITATIVE BAHAUDDIN YOUR LIVES.‟ an illusion. Because then slowly and
MAN IS UNCONSCIOUS, ALTHOUGH slowly, you are not only capable of
„WHATEVER IS GOOD FOR ME.‟ CAME
HE BELIEVES HE IS CONSCIOUS. deceiving others, you start deceiving
AS THE REPLY
yourself as well. When you have
„WHAT IS WRONG?‟ BAHAUDDIN That very belief protects his talked for centuries about non-
ENQUIRED unconsciousness. Man is ignorant, violence you start thinking that you
„WHATEVER IS BAD FOR ME.‟ WAS although he believes he knows. That have become non-violent. That is
THE REPLY very belief keeps the ignorance really the purpose of talking about
intact. Man is just the opposite of non-violence. This is how man is:
„WHERE ARE YOU GOING?‟ what he thinks he is. To understand very deceptive, very cunning.
CONTINUED BAHAUDDIN! this is the beginning of a great
revolution. Those who are moving on the path
„I DO NOT KNOW,‟ SHOUTED THE have to be aware of this ideological
DERVISH.
camouflage. It is very easy to have has the ideal of love. All the religions self-torturing. And these people are
beautiful ideals. And you will be talk about love. And all that they do considered great mahatmas. They are
surprised if you watch people: and on the earth is creating hate. All the worshiped. But all that has happened
know their ideals you can be certain nations of the world talk about peace, is that their violence has turned
that they will be just the opposite of and on the contrary they go on inwards. You torture others, they
their ideals. Knowing their ideals, you increasing war arsenal. Man is torture themselves. But the torture
can deduce logically that their life reduced to a pseudo, hypocrisy. continues, and so the pleasure in
must be the very opposite of it. The torturing continues.
ideal only proves that there is No nation prepares for peace. All
something that they are hiding nations talk about peace and prepare The man who lies on the bed of
behind it. for war. War remains the reality and thorns do you think he is religious?
peace remains just smoke around it, What is so religious in it? He is simply
A man of awareness has no ideals at to hide it. torturing his body, but you will find
all. A conscious person lives through people worshiping him. He is
his consciousness. He is one. His Unless we see it through and through neurotic, but he will be thought of as
inner and outer are in harmony no there is no way to get out of it. a saint.
more divided. Whenever you want some ideal to be
fulfilled in your life, watch why. How If it is cold and snow is falling and
But all idealism divides the reality can angry person practice somebody is standing naked under
between outer and the inner. It does compassion? How? It is impossible. If the skies, what is he doing? He is
not allow you to be natural, and the angry person practices simply torturing the body, but people
spontaneous. It forces you to be compassion he will be, at the most, will think, „What a great soul.‟ He
something other than you is. It gives repressing his anger, and nothing simply needs a few electric shocks.
you many should. You should do this, else. What else can he do? He has He seems to be psychiatrically ill, he
you should do that. Because of those been angry with others, now he will is mad, he is suicidal.
„shoulds‟ you start believing that you be angry against his own anger. Now
are aspiring very high, that you are the anger has taken a new form, a It is very easy to catch hold of the
soaring very high: „pause for a new shape. murderer, it is very difficult to catch
moment to observe all beautiful hold of the person who is suicidal, but
ideals you have got and behind those The violent person wants to become both are murderers. They both enjoy
empty talk your reality is just the non-violent. What will he do? He has violence.
opposite. The greedy person wants to been violent with others, now he will
become violent with himself. This is If you keep somebody else hungry for
become non-greedy. The angry
what you call asceticism? Asceticism many days, that will be violence, but
person wants to become
is basically masochism. It finds joy in if you keep yourself hungry and call
compassionate. The unloving person
it, fasting, then this becomes
something religious. It is not. It is the evolving out of your stupidity your The possibility exists only by
same game, and even more stupidity will be strengthened. But he becoming aware.
dangerous, because when you keep can do one thing now. He can now
somebody else in a state of torture he gather information. He can gather Instead of trying to be non-violent,
at least can defend, but when you knowledge. He can start having an become aware of your violence. See
start torturing your own innocent illusion of knowing through the roots of violence. Go deep into it.
body, the body cannot defend. No knowledge. This is how people Be aware how it arises, how it
defense is possible. Your own body is become pundits, scholars, and permeates your being and your
utterly helpless. A meditative person learned professors. This is how it activities. Watch violence, and in that
cannot be angry; that is impossible. happens, but the stupidity remains very watching, becoming aware of it,
As awareness grows anger, violence there lurking from behind. you will be surprised: it starts
etc. slowly and slowly dissolve. And dissolving. And then one day when
when someone attains to total Then what to do? How to get out of you are totally aware you will realize
awareness or annihilation or stupidity? The only way is, watch it is no more.
enlightenment then he becomes your stupidity. If you are violent with
others the law can defend, the police Nobody can be consciously violent.
totally innocent. This why Sufis have
can defend, but if you are violent with This is a fundamental law, the secret.
chosen wool or the animal as their
yourself there is no law against it. In Nobody can be consciously violent; so
symbol! This is why Buddha looks so
fact even the magistrate and the all that is needed is to bring
innocent and feminine.
lawyer and the policeman will come consciousness. To become more
Meditation means you are so and worship you: you are doing conscious, to be more meditative!
conscious of whatsoever you are something beautiful. Man has Nobody can be meditatively angry;
doing; in that very consciousness the remained in darkness because of such that is impossible. At the most, you
quality of doing changes. You need stupid ideas. can act.
not have ideals. Ideals are simply
The first thing to be remembered is: This is what Jesus did when he took a
postponing the revolution, the
the violent man cannot become non- whip and went into the temple and
mutation, the change.
violent by any effort. Non-violence is threw out the money-changers,
All intellectuals go on hiding their a happening. It is the outcome of started beating those money-
stupidity behind words, knowledge, meditation. Then is there no changers, turned their tables. This is
and information. If a stupid person possibility? Yes, there is a possibility. what Sufis do. Their anger is an act
tries to be intelligent, how can he However it is does not happen for transformation. Go into its
become intelligent? In the first place, through effort, or will, or through working, its mechanism. Go into how
he will be doing everything out of his practicing being other than you are. you act. Watchfully enter into it. See
stupidity. And when something is it, how it is there, how it affects your

behavior. Watch it in its multi- Christian, Mohammedan, Communist, And that can be done right now. You
dimensionality and in that very Gandhian etc., have to be dropped. need not postpone it. At any moment
watching you will become intelligent. All these are ideals. The moment you you can watch what you are. Never
Watching is intelligence. Intelligence drop all kinds of idealism, suddenly condemn. Remember if you condemn
is a function of awareness. you have dropped your schizophrenia. then you cannot watch. Do not judge
Then you are not divided, instead you either. To judge means you have
And if you become really alert about are one. already taken a prejudice. Do not be
your stupidity, the one who has in a hurry to conclude. Life never
become alert is no longer stupid. You are simply whatsoever you are. comes to a conclusion. Life never
Stupidity is left out. You have become Then you have the innocence of a concludes because there is no death.
awareness. You have become a tree, or the innocence of an animal, It goes on and on. It is an eternal
witness. And out of this witnessing or the innocence of a bird, and process that never comes to a
another kind of life arises which has something more. You are the conclusion. Only stupidity comes to
beauty, which has benediction. It has consciousness of a human being. And conclusions.
a grace of its own. But it is arduous the meeting of the innocence of a bird
to be watchful. It is easier to have and the consciousness of a human The intelligent person goes on
ideals. being creates the Buddha. moving, flowing, growing. There is no
Buddhahood is nothing but innocence end to it; even the sky is not the
Drop all ideals. Do not try to become plus consciousness. limit. The intelligent person goes on
somebody that you are not. On the learning. He is a learner and a learner
contrary, just watch whatsoever you But the man who carries great ideals forever. He never becomes
are. Watch the fact; do not create a can never be simple and innocent. It knowledgeable.
fiction against it. Otherwise you will is impossible. He is always cunning,
always be divided. You will remain trying to be somebody, trying to This story is beautiful.
the fact and you will start believing in reach somewhere. All that he can do
the fiction. This is hypocrisy. Your is pretend then. BAHAUDIN EL-SHAH, GREAT
reality goes on persisting in the same TEACHER OF THE NAQSHBANDI
way, and just on the surface you And when I am saying this, I am
DERVISHES ONE DAY MET A
have a painted mask. That is not saying it to you and you alone. To be
with me means you have to drop all CONFRERE IN THE GREAT SQUARE
going to help at all. That has not
kinds of idealisms. This is my OF BOKHARA.
helped humanity up to now. And
certainly will not. meaning of initiation or bayat. You
have to forget both past and the Why a „the great teacher‟? The
The new man is possible only if we future. You have to forget what ordinary teacher only indoctrinates
drop all kinds of idealisms. Hindu, should be. Only watch that which is. you. He gives you information. In the

school, college, the university, that's knowledge from the older generation generation. They are agents of the
what the teachers go on doing. They to the newer generation. They past.
simply feed you with information. function as mediators between the
They stuff you with knowledge. Their going generation and the coming
whole function is to transfer
ALWAYS CHOOSE TO BE HAPPY

It was Naqshbandi master Abdul Khaliq Gijadwani who coined happy is the greatest blessing. It unfolds a totally new
the following phrases which are now considered the principles unknown and unknowable realm.
of the Naqshbandi Sufi Order as spiritual commandments. One Sufi Naqshbandi master Shakuntala Devi, always used to
Over the period of time certain principles are added to it. bless any one bowing to her by saying “BE ALWAYS HAPPY”.
Bahauddin Naqshband added three. Another one „Always If you really decipher these simple words, these will manifest
Choose to be Happy‟ was introduced in this category as the a totally new realm. When a master says something, the
works of another Naqshbandi master Shakuntala Devi. seeker needs to introspect on these words. The master can
Thus there are twelve such commandments.These form the never be wrong or unconscious. The very fact that he or she
basis of meditation techniques.Each moment life presents is a master implies now something has changed within. A
different situations, circumstances and conditions. Certain are master may look like you, but in reality he differs in his
acceptable to human understanding while others are not. In understanding of the cosmic phenomena and awareness.
all circumstances you choose to be unhappy. And to human None of his actions are ever guided by unconscious. Even
understanding this is normal while to a meditator it is not. In when he moves his hands he is totally aware of this. Let this
all circumstances you choose to be unhappy. And slowly and be your meditation each moment. A new meaning will unfold
slowly this becomes your musculature. And your entire life in life. Serenity, blessedness will engulf you. Only then it can
centers on this unhappiness. be said that you are living in the image of a master. Then
something of the master, his awareness, his understanding,
To be happy is your choice and right. To be happy is a will be part of you as blessing.
conscious choice only you can make. But in all situations you
choose to be unhappy. Remember a happy heart is the door [LINK: YOU TUBE.COM TAG TAOSHOBUDDHA 9 „AUDIO
to the beyond, or door to the inner, or door to the being. You MEDITATION – CHOOSE TO BE HAPPY 2 PARTS
tend to be happy or unhappy because of the other or the
circumstances. No one chooses to be happy for no reason. A
happy heart is filled with gratitude towards the WHOLE. To be

Tariqat in Post Shah Bahauddin Era
As long as the sheikh is living vested interest dare not do SUB-ORDERS

anything against his wishes. However the moment the
sheikh is no more physically present vested interest There is no single authority for the Naqshbandi order
begins to mushroom. Something like this happened with today. Rather, there are numerous sub-orders which
the Naqshbandi Tariqat. What is really significant is that operate in autonomy. Among them are the Sardaria,
with Sheikh Shah Bahauddin Naqshband the path attained Owaisiah, Haqqani, Aslamiya, Hijazi, Mujarradiya,
a new direction. Bahauddin used to give bayat to people Mazaharia and Tauheedia branches. Hazrat Shah Wali
even in the first sohbat. Because of this Sheikh Hazrat Ullah has stated in his book „Al Intibah Fi Salasil e
Amir Kulal said this tariqat is now becoming Naqshbandi. Awliya Allah‟ that the most effective of all is the
Naqshbandia Owaisiah.
Therefore from Bahauddin Naqshband, the silsillah
branches into several sub-orders. One of the most Naqshbandi Tahiri
important and widespread is the Naqshbandi-Mujaddadi
branch founded by Sheikh Ahmad Sirhindi. The golden In Pakistan, Naqshbandi Order is mostly prevalent under
chain between Bahauddin Naqshbandi and Ahmad Sirhindi this branch. Previously known as Ghaffari branch, the
continues as here under: Naqshbandi Tahiri order belongs to a famous Sheikh of
Pakistan, Sheikh Muhammad Tahir Abbasi Naqshbandi
1. Khwaja Alauddin al-Bukhari al-Attar Mujaddidi, who is more famous with the name Sajjan
Saeen. The headquater of this branch is at Dargah
2. Khwaja Yaqub al-Charkhi
Allahabad, near Kandiaro, in the province of Sindh. This
3. Khwaja Ubaydullah al-Ahrar order is prevalent in all provinces of Pakistan, and many
other countries such as U.K, Germany, Australia, New
4. Muhammad Az-Zahid
Zealand, USA, etc. Sheikh Muhammad Tahir Abbasi
5. Darwish Muhammad belongs to the previously known as Ghaffari branch of
Naqshbandi order; His lineage goes back to Sheikh Fazal
6. Khawaja al-Amkanaqi
Ali Qureshi, the great Naqshbandi Sheikh of Twentieth
7. Muhammad al-Baqi Billah Century.
8. Ahmad Sirhindi Mujaddid Alf-thani

Naqshbandia Owaisiah The Reviver Sheikh
[Refer to the next chapter Introduction to Naqshbandiyah Sheikh Allah Yar Khan was born in Chakrala, a remote
Owaishiyah silsillah by my beloved brother Maulwi village of Mianwali District of Pakistan, in 1904. He
Jalaluddin Ahmad Ar Rowi of Malaysia] completed his religious education in 1934. The same year,
he met Sheikh „Abdul Rahim, who took him to the shrine
Naqshbandi Order has another famous branch called of Sheikh Allah Deen Madni. By Divine Will his spiritual
Naqshbandia Owaisiah Order. The method of spiritual connection was immediately established with the saint of
instruction is quite close to Mujaddidya order. However, the 10th century Hijra (sixteenth century CE) and he
there are two main differences. First Naqshbandia started receiving spiritual grace. His sublime education in
Owaisiah order uses the ‘Pas Infas’ method of dhikr. Sufism, signifying progressive spiritual growth and
Secondly, the method of spiritual instruction is „Owaisee‟, advancement, continued for about twenty-five years,
which means that the Sheikh can impart spiritual after which he was directed to undertake the propagation
instruction regardless of physical distance and even of Prophetic blessings - a noble mission that he
difference of time period. Seekers of Naqshbandia accomplished with singular zeal and dedication for a
Owaisiah can obtain spiritual blessing from their Sheikh period spanning half a century. Anybody who visited him
regardless of their location in the world. Owaisiah was duly rewarded with a share of spiritual bliss
connection is also useful in obtaining spiritual blessings commensurate with his/her sincerity and capacity. Sheikh
from Sufis of the Past. Allah Yar Khan‟s mission produced men and women of
deep spiritual vision and eminence.
Naqshbandia Owaisiah Order is based in Pakistan and its
modern founder was Sheikh Allah Yar Khan. Current Naqshbandi-Haqqani Golden Chain
sheikh is Maulana Muhammad Akram Awan. Headquarters
for this sect is Dar-ul-irfan, Minara, and Chakwal, The Naqshbandi Golden Chain is a lineage of Khalidiyya-
Pakistan. The Owaisiah Order employs a similar method of Naqshbandiyya. It passes from Iraq under Khalid al-
dhikr but acquires the Prophetic blessings in the manner Baghdadi to Daghestan, where it remained through seven
of Khawajah Owais Qarni, who received this beneficence generations of Sufi masters. It then returned to the
from the holy Prophet without a formal physical meeting. Middle East in Damascus with the emigration of
The dhikr employed by the Naqshbandiah is ‘dhikr-e Khafi Sharafuddin ad-Daghestani and his spiritual inheritor
Qulbi’ or remembrance of Allah‟s Name within the heart Abdullah al-Fa'iz ad-Daghestani. Later on finally to Cyprus
and the method is termed ‘Pas Anfas’, which in Persian under Nazim al-Qubrusi, who is now the leader of the
means guarding every breath. By far the greatest singular Naqshbandi-Haqqani order worldwide? Notable scholars
distinction of the Naqshbandiah Owaisiah Order is the who are Naqshbandi Haqqani, thus under the spiritual
honour of Spiritual Bayat or Oath of Allegiance directly at guidance of Sheikh Nazim, include Sheikh Hisham
the blessed hands of the holy Prophet Muhammad.
Kabbani, Sheikh Adnan Kabbani and Sheikh Gibril Haddad founded a new branch of the Naqshbandia Mujadidiah
to name but a few. Order. He named it 'Tauheediah', with a focus on unity or
Tauheed, truthfulness and love and making it more
Sheikh Nazim al-Qubrusi, leader of the Naqshbandi- practical for modern Westernized society aiming towards
Haqqani order worldwide was born in Larnaca, Cyprus, on unification of ummah... and development of humanity. It
the 23rd of April 1922, Sunday, the 26th of Shacban, has a base in Lahore, and disciples throughout the world.
1340 H. His lineage from his father's side traces its roots
to Sayiddina Abdul Qadir Jilani, founder of the Qadiri Naqshbandia-Mujaddadi-wa Mazaharia
Order. While his lineage from his mother goes back to
Sayiddina Jalaluddin Rumi, founder of the Maulwi(Mevlavi) This is another important branch of Naqshbandia silsillah.
Order. He is Hassani-Hussaini, related to the Prophet Unlike Naqshbandiyah Haqqini this Tariqat is basically
through the lineages of his grandfathers to the Family of established in India with sporadic work outside. However
the Prophet. From his father‟s side he received the Qadiri since 1981 the work has intensified in the western world
Tariqat. From his mother‟s, side he received the Mevlevi when Naqshbandi Sufi Onkar Nath frequently visited
Tariqat. United States but could not attain impetus.
During his childhood in Cyprus he sat with his Now with the settling of Sheikh Taoshobuddha in Trinidad
grandfather, who was a Sheykh of the Qadiri Tariqat, to since 1981 the work has intensified in the western world.
learn its discipline and its spirituality. Extraordinary signs In this process the modern technology is playing a major
appeared early in him. His conduct was perfect. He never role. Taoshobuddha has regular meditations in various
fought nor argued with anyone. He was always smiling cities world wide which he himself conducts.
and patient. His grandfather from his father's side and his Taoshobuddha though from the lineage of Naqshbandi
grandfather from his mother's side trained him for the Sufi Brij Mohan Lal and Sufi Onkar Nath does not hold the
spiritual path. golden chain. Yet still the flower has blossomed and its
fragrance is spreading through his works in leaps and
Sheikh Nazim al-Qubrusi is a beautiful sheikh of the bounds. About Taoshobuddha a forecast was made by a
tariqat. May Allah Subhan wa Taala give him long life so sheikh Sufi Brij Mohan Lal that he will continue the work
that he continue to spread the nisbet and tariqat of in the western world.
ancient masters. Alham-dil- allah!
It establishes a connection between Shah Bahauddinn the
Tauheedia Naqshbandia original designer, Sheikh Ahmad al Farooki Mujaddadi Alif
Thani, one who set the trends of the second millennium,
In 1955 Hazarat Kawajah Abdul Hakeem Ansari along and Hazrat Mazhar Mir Jane Jana who gave a new
with his only khaliph Hazarat Abdul Sattar Khan direction to the path. The following is the golden chain of
accompanied by Kawajah Sattar's wife and daughter sheikhs from Sheikh al Ahmad Mujadaddi Alif Thani:
1. Imam Rabbani, Hadhrat Sheikh Ahmad al Farooqui From the family of Sheikh Ramchandra his son Sheikh Jag
Mohan Narian continued to do the work until the last as
Mujadaddi Alif Thani, Sirhindi
part of the main stream and thus followed the wishes and
2. Hadhrat Khawaja Muhammad Ma'soom Farooqui commands of Sheikh Lalaji as thr shadow of Sheikh Brij
Mohan Lal. However the two sons of Sheikh Jag
3. Hadhrat Sheikh Sayfuddeen Bin Ma'soom Farooqui
Mohan Narian Sheikh Akhilesh Kumar and Sheikh Dinesh
4. Hadhrat Noor Muhammad Badyuni Kumar strayed from the main stream for various
5. Hadhrat Mirza Mazhar Mir Jaan-I-Jaana unforeseen reasons and did not understand the message
of Sheikh Lalaji. Also the other two sons of Sheikh
6. Hadhrat Abdullah Shah Naimullah Raghuber Dayal and their extended families also
7. Hadhrat Sayyed Abul Hasan Sa'eed Naseerabadi continued to do the work but not as part of the main
stream. When I said a particular person is not part of the
8. Hadhrat Mawla‟na Khalifa Ahmad Ali Khan main stream I imply this person is not in harmony with
9. Hadhrat Mawla‟na Shah Fazl Ahmad Khan the current Sheikh.
10. Hadhrat Mawla‟na Abdul Ghani Khan When a master is alive there is light and fragrance. And
11. Hadhrat Sheikh Ramchandra (Laalaaji) after the master is no more the organization begins by
the vested interest who is only interested in politicizing
12. Hadhrat Sheikh Raghubar Dayal (Chachchaji) the silsillah. Almost everyone begins striving for his own
13. Hadhrat Sheikh Brij Mohan Lal shop. Thus many sub orders mushroom. Some still
maintain connection with the main source. Such people do
14. Hadhrat Sheikh Onkar Nath not care for inner development and transformation. Their
main emphasis is on business like activities functioning
From the family of each of the Sufi Sheikhs there are out of ego. These sub orders look more real than the real
others as well who are carrying the flame in their own itself. However there is no fragrance of transformation.
way as part of the main stream. These are Sufi Devendra Organization is very easy. But to bring about
Nath, the second son of Sufi Brij Mohan Lal, Sufi transformation is an altogether different process.
Naqshbandi Lakshmi Sahai, son - in law of Sufi Brij Mohan
Lal, Sufi Sheikh Taoshobuddha grandson of Sufi Brij What is more important is bringing inner transformation.
Mohan Lal from his daughter‟ side. Of these Sheikh And when the lamp of awareness or noor is lit within its
Taoshobuddha is based in the west and is very active. light is bound to spread in the outer world. And thus
Also Dr Sharad Saxena the son in-law of Sheikh Onkar evolves the way of transformation. This happens
Nath is part of the main stream. spontaneously.

Whenever in deep silence, a flowering happens one knows those who are thirsty, will start moving towards the
that the beauty and the fragrance of this flower are not flowering of this Buddha. Just like, when a flower
going to last forever. Whatever happens to the flower is blossoms, the magnetic pull of the fragrance attracts
momentary; bees gather around the flower and begin to many bees – only bees! No dog will ever be attracted to
experience its beauty, fragrance, aliveness, presence, and this magnetic pull of a flower. Or when the lamp is lit
its fragility. This is the experience in the end, of all those moths begging to dance around the lamp! A Buddha and
who are thirsty of something emanating from deep within a commune exist only for those who have the sensitivity,
the flowering of the Being; and the flower continues to the perception, the availability, the search, and the
share its presence, its being, its silence, and its openness. Many will pass but will go on missing the
wholeness. Master and the commune.
The flower need not make any publicity. Once inner When many individuals with openness and a deep search
flowering has happened its beauty and the fragrance will within, are completely dissolved and merged into one
engulf the atmosphere. Those who are near such another, what is created there is a Buddhafield, a Sangha,
flowering, begin to experience their own inner flowering. a sanctuary of the master. Individuals with complex
This is the Secret of the Golden Flower of a Zen master, diverse potentials gather around the Buddha. Everyone
Lu Tzu. Such is the milieu. Out of this flowering, a works wholeheartedly in his or her own way without any
commune is born. A Buddhafield! Commune refers to a dictatorship or leadership. Through the Buddha or the
deep union between Meditation and Love. An oasis in the Enlightened one, Godliness starts overflowing and
desert of the world! In such an environment of deep consciousness creates a commune or Buddhafield.
lovingness, one grows in awareness, understanding, and
meditation. For this one need not make any effort. Just In the absence of this inner flowering pseudo masters
allow the flowering to happen. And the rest happens on mushroom. Prompted by ego and ego-centric desires
its own accord. many open their own shop after the master is no more. In
many cases after the master is no more this happens.
Communication between heads was replaced by the This is what happens in most of the cases. And this is the
communion of hearts! Whenever so many hearts open, reason for so many sub-orders.
many flowers blossom! Fragrance is released. This The post Naqshband era flows through the Volume 3
fragrance that surrounds a Buddha is the fragrance or the of Leaves from a Sufi Heart, and beyond as well. I will
energy of the Being or the noor of Allah. We may call this continue this era.
as Buddhafield.
Only this much for now!
If someone has attained this flowering or the noor has
descended within, a commune is bound to happen. No
one can prevent this. This is the law of the existence. All
From “me” to “God” a change within

Lars Jensen, Stockholm, Sweden
The true way of life starts from within

and it can never start from any other place.
Even so you control your outer behavior and actions,
the emotions and thoughts are still alive inside you.
How can you say that you have changed,
if the fire of negative emotions and thoughts is still alive within you?
You are only changed if you have no fire within you,
regardless of what happens outside you.
Then you have become a master of your own being
In the process of transformation or life begins with a change from to sour to unprecedented heights.
Tariqat the aspirant journeys from within, at the very core of the heart
“me” to “God” a change within. of the aspirants. The only question He was the first Sufi saint that
that remains is “How to change crossed all the barriers of religion,
Of this Sufi Ram Chandra – Lalaji from within?” and “What should be caste, and creed. Lalaji was a Sufi
was aware and he made an end to removed and what should be saint who never converted to Islam.
this outer show. He never converted attached?” There is only one thing Even so when the people around
to Islam; even so people of the to understand – how to remove the started muttering and Lalaji made a
Muslim community could not accept separation between “me” and plea to his Sheikh Maulana Fazal
a Sufi master that had not “God”. Ahmad Khan to convert into Islam
converted to Islam. Instead he should that be the requirement for
changed his inner being and Among all Sufi saints of the past the Sufi Path. Hearing this Sheikh
followed the real path leading to Sufi Ram Chandra Ji maintains a went inside and returned with a
self-realization. Everything else is truly unparalleled spiritual dagger type knife, and said, „Tell me
just a play of mind at the level of prominence among Naqshbandi the name I will pass this dagger into
mind, leading nowhere on the masters. The outcome is that after the chest of that man. They are
spiritual path. 137 years of his emergence on defiling the sacredness of Tariqat.
spiritual horizon the effect continues Roohaniat is beyond all narrowness.‟
So the true purpose of a spiritual
Later on life Lalaji made these uphold the teaching. The natural outside you. Then you have become
words his guiding principle. An consequences of that people belong a master of your own being.
ecstatic Lalaji condensed the to different religions are that it
solemnity of the message of his creates otherness and narrowness. The purpose of adopting a master is
Sheikh into his lifelong teaching. Of this Sufi Ram Chandra was not to adopt his outer appearance.
aware. To dress like him or to get a beard
like him, it will never take you
betaSsubI sdakt kI jan hE
That is why he never changed anywhere on the spiritual path.
his outward appearance and Instead it will drag you back on the
To rise above narrowness is
label, instead changed his inner way, because it has become a fake
spirituality!
being. This is the real secret of show. Still some people act like this.
What is the need of changing the spirituality, to change your inner Why? They only want to become a
outer labels of life, since it has appearance and not the outer master themselves, and never want
nothing to do with your inner appearance. to become a true disciple. If you
spiritual life? Lalaji‟s emergence is just copy the outer appearance of a
Changing only the outer appearance master, people will look upon you as
the confirmation of the statement
is not more than a show, since a master or a spiritually developed
that:
nothing has changed from inside. person. You don‟t even have to be
Just like you are changing your
)kIrI beNyaj hE clothes, but you are still the same
one, you just need to look and
behave like one. It is very easy and
person inside. Nothing has really with some training anyone can to it.
Spirituality is free from all
changed only your outer It gives you respect in front of
encumbrances!
appearance. other, but in the eyes of God you
Belonging to an outward religion has disgraced Him. And you have
The true way of life starts from
creates just one more barrier missed the spiritual treasure that
within and it can never start from
between people. Jesus the Christ could be yours.
any other place. Even so you control
was not a Christian, but born a Jew. your outer behavior and actions, the
Buddha was not a Buddhist, but Instead of adopting the outer
emotions and thoughts are still alive appearance you should adopt the
born a Hindu. inside you. How can you say that inner qualities of the master.
These outer religions were never you have changed, if the fire of However difficult it may be. It is
created by any master of the past. negative emotions and thoughts is much easier to copy the outer way
It was created first after they had still alive within you? You are only of appearance than the inner aspect
left the scene, by the so-called changed if you have no fire within of life. And that is what people
follower of the faith in order to you, regardless of what happens generally do. People dress in

accordance to the belonging to their There is only one thing to resulted in the process this cup of
religious faith and to their lifestyle understand – how to remove the tea was made. First someone
and beliefs. Just look at your own separation between “me” and planted the tea plants, the sun and
self. Look at children how they try “God”. rain made the tea plant grow,
to dress and behave like their idols someone was collecting the tea
and rock stars. And you have not Your ego thinks itself being from the tea plant, and someone
changed since you where a child, separated from the Lord. Just as a else was packing it and sends it to
you are still copying the outer drop is separated from the ocean your country. It was transported by
aspects of life instead of the deeper and the island is separated from the someone else and put in the shop
side of the religion you belong to. land, your ego also thinks itself where you finely bought it. Even the
Honesty has you adopt the higher having a separate existence on its sugar you put in the tea has a
value of life of the religion you own. Therefore you have declared similarly story and the water in the
belong to? Have you become like a yourself as a unique being that is tea also has its own story and
Buddha or like a Christ, if that is separated from all other beings and depended on millions of other
your religion? Or have you only also from the Lord. This is the ego - scientific circumstances before it
adopted the outer rites and the false identity - in you speaking. came into this cup of tea. The
traditions of the religion? In that electricity power used for heating
You also believe yourself to be the
case you are not alone. But how the tea is also depended on a
doer of all your actions and the only
many have become a Buddha or a million of similar scientific
cause of all your happenings in your
Christ? It is told that such a person circumstances before it come into
life. This is also the ego in you
is not to be found even in a million your house. It was the cooker that
speaking. You think you are the
of people, maybe one in a billion. heated the water, but the cooker
doer, but you are only a dreamer.
does not say it was making a cup of
So the true purpose of a spiritual The Scriptures say there is only one
tea. It is only your ego claiming the
life begins with a change from doer in the whole creation.
doer ship of this cup of tea. Do you
within, at the very core of the heart see the hypocrisy of this statement
All happening is due to scientifically
of the aspirants. And when the inner made by your ego? Nobody else
arranged circumstances that
being is transformed the outer from the long line of bringing the
originate from a higher controlling
appearance adjusts to the inner tea, water and sugar to you is
Power, but you see yourself as the
change. The only question that claiming the doer ship of this cup of
only doer. Just take the example of
remains is “How to change from tea. It is only you. Even so without
making a cup of tea. You say you
within?” and “What should be their help and all these scientific
have made a cup of tea. Even so
removed and what should be circumstances you could never
there were millions of other
attached?” make this cup of tea. Still you claim
scientific circumstances that
you made it. Know this as your ego
speaking. approach to you and lives within Therefore make a total

your own body, you cannot say that transformation of your false identity
All Holy Scriptures say there is only you have seen Him. (with the body, mind and intellect)
one doer in the whole creation. and to merge with the ocean of
There is only One Power, no second Being identified with the ego and totality - the God Power – at the
one. God is one. That Higher Power the false identity (with the body, level of soul. Your false identity
is the Controlling Power of the mind and intellect) is the barrier thinks you are the body, intellect
whole creations and universes. That itself. This has to be removed. and mind. These are the levels,
higher Power is controlling all Where ego is there God is not. which are always subject to changes
planets in its position and There is only space for one in your and therefore at the level of
controlling you in the body. You are heart. Sufi Ram Chandra very illusions of ups and downs. But you
in the body as long as this Power is beautifully declared that: “God has are not the body, intellect or mind.
controlling you in the body. hidden himself inside your hearts You are the spirit or the soul –
and exposed you. Hide yourselves which is eternal. You have to merge
The spiritual process entails and expose God! This is the real with the God Power at the level of
harnessing the power within you spiritual practice.” Without losing consciousness in order to develop
that unites all discordance into your ego you can never reach God. the same attributes as God.
oneness. The power within knows The whole cause of coming and
beyond our knowing. Remember we going in an endless cycle of Like knows the alike. The ocean of
are not aliens nor as stranger join. transmigration is your ego. When consciousness can only be known by
We are bound to each other by a ego does not remain, who will come the soul, which also is made of
causeless force. This is the and go? consciousness. You have to rise
ESSENCE of SUFISM or the above the false identity of the body,
SECRETS of SPIRITUAL LIFE. It This separation between “me” and mind and intellect or narrowness -
is called as Rooh, soul, spirit, Atma “God” is the cause of duality and as Sufi Lalaji has summed up in one
– the indestructible, unknown and the primary obstruction in oneness word BETASSUBI - NARROWNESS
unknowable, the formless in you. with God. When you have to know God, at the level of soul.
completely surrendered yourself to
When this Power withdraws it is God, no questions or doubts remain. The droop (your false separate
called death. So He is the cause to Everything becomes serene, calm, identity) has to merge with the
your existence and He is in you and and quiet and awareness springs ocean of unity (God). The river has
you are in Him. As the rays of the forth. Then the flower of inner to lose its own identity as the river
Sun light in every corner, so does beauty blossoms and takes form of water mixes with the water of the
God permeates every being. But a Spiritual Life. Know this as the ocean there is no more trace of the
even though He is the nearest Secret Of A Spiritual Life. river water. Only the ocean exists.

Only consciousness of God exists. to know the Truth.‟ Bhagwad Gita Conscious Co-worker of the Divine
This was the way Sufi Ram Chandra 4:34 Plan.
followed and practiced. This is the
same way all saints of the past have „Devotion to God keeps one Even all our Competent Masters of
followed. entangled in this (physical) life - the past went to a master
just consider gravely, But devotion themselves since the Lord has
This is very easy to talk about, but to the Master carries one back unto ordinate this way. Jesus the Christ
very hard to practice. However God.‟ - Kabir went to John the Baptist and Kabir
there is a natural approach to make went to Ramananda. They
the transformation easy. Get in „Without a Master Soul we can themselves were more developed
contact with a true and prefect neither know nor experience the then their own masters, but they
Master. It is the only catalyst that is true nature of the Self.‟ went to a master as an example for
needed to get the process of inner Chandogya Upanishad us to follow. If such high
transformation started within you. personalities had to go to a master,
„No one can cross the ocean without
The catalyst acts without being why do we think that we could find
a Master, even if he is an ascetic
consumed itself, as it is in constant the way back to God by ourselves?
like Shankar.‟ Ram Charit Manas of
contact with the supreme and God is the unseen Power over all
TulsiDas
unfathomable reservoir of Divine working. God needs a human pole
consciousness. Sufis say to witness God in human through which He can speak.
being - a Master Soul is the Without such a pole, how can He
This is the true and universal speak - with us at our level?
essence. The Hindus believe that
Religion, which has never changed
without true Guru a man can never
and will never change. It is as This connection with a spiritual Guru
attain salvation. The Koran says
ancient as mankind and created by or Master is necessary. But who is
that God has sealed our eyes and
the Lord Himself, and so it is the Master? This subject is very
ears, but comes Himself in human
confirmed in the Holy Scriptures: misunderstood. Guru Nanak says:
form to break these seals. So
„God is the true Master and the soul
„No man cometh unto the Father, Muslims of the Sunni sect also
is the true disciple.‟
but by me (Christ Power or Master believe that there is no salvation
power)‟ Bible, John 14:6 without a Master. In all religion a The Master is always one and all
man is worshipped whether it is human beings are having one and
„Without a perfect Master none has Buddha, Christ, Krishna or any the same Master, because there is
neither found the way nor can one other being. So definitely we need only one Doer and that is God. God
do so‟ - Guru Nanak the help of some living person of is one, He is not two. It doesn‟t
our time who is commissioned by matter if He comes in different
„Adopt a Spiritual Master if you want God, whether it is a Master or a
human forms like Jesus, Guru servant of this God Power. If he beyond. So God have sent you to
Nanak, Kabir, Maulana Rumi and so claims himself as a Master, he can this world, but He has also sent
on. The Master remains the same. It never be a Master. Never so far a someone to take you back home,
is the God Power in them who is the true God-realized soul has claims through whom He is saying: „Come
Master, not the body, and this God himself as a Master. The one, who children, come back Home.
Power is always one and the same. really has seen that God Power
So Jesus and Christ were two. Jesus controlling and working through the So Master is the touchstone. By a
was the human pole in which the whole creation, can never claim touch alone iron is transformed into
Christ power, Master Power or God himself as the doer or as the Gold. And the barrier between “me”
Power manifested itself. Everything master, it is impossible. And so is and “God” can slowly begin to brake
is revealed in our Holy Scriptures, confirmed in our Holy Scriptures. and dissolve.
but we do not understand them
Jesus the Christ never said that he Sufi Ram Chandra used to say: “If
properly.
was the doer, but the Father in you sit by a fire, you feel warm. If
So it is the God Power or the Heaven. Guru Nanak and Kabir you sit by ice, you feel cold. Why
consciousness in them who is the stressed the same thing and Guru then will you not get transformed if
Master and not the body (the Gobind Singh even told: „Whosoever you sit with a person who is perfect
human pole). And that God Power is calls me God will fall into the pits of in spiritual discipline (have
not limited to manifest itself only hell; I am but His lowly servant.‟ developed the same qualities as
once in the history or in only one Prophet Mohammed also claimed God)”
body instead it is eternal beyond that God is the only doer: „There is
Master is the touchstone, which can
time and space. So that Power has no God except God‟, „I myself am
transform you from within. So being
manifested itself in all God-realized only a servant and a prophet
in the company of a spiritually
soul of the world. witnessing of Him.‟ So no true
developed soul is essential for your
Master ever claimed himself as a
So there may be many different own spiritual development. But
Master.
lamps, but the light from them masters are of different degrees.
remains the same. If a friend of you So God Power is the only one who is Kamal, the adopted son of Kabir
comes in different dresses, would Competent to help us. But he comes once told that there are four kinds
you not recognize him? to us in the human form and meets of masters:
us at our level. He is the one who
So a God-realized soul never says 1. The first kind is like my father
can drag your attention up. He can
he is the Master for it is the God Kabir. Whoever touches
take you above the body
Power who works through him who Kabir‟s feet becomes a Kabir
consciousness, the five senses, the
is the Master. He says he is a himself.
intellect and the mind, into the

2. The second kind is known to energy field. The energy field of gradually. In the beginning just as
be like a touchstone. If it Master radiate to all who are around much as we love our parents,
touches iron it turn into gold, him, just as the sun is shining equal brother and relatives, we may love
but the iron do not turn into a to the sinner and the noble people, Guru to that extend only. Then
touchstone. but it is a matter of receptivity, that gradually, as we understand his
makes the difference. It is only the greatness, love and faith in Guru
3. The third kind is like the one that are receptive that will get develops.
sandalwood, which imparts the benefit of the Masters Company.
scent to any tree, which The best way to be receptive to the Thus faith increases gradually. This
grows in its company master is to develop love for is called awakening of
provided it is receptive. If is master. Love is like a magnet that consciousness. First of all the
not receptive then the captures your attention to the disciple loves the Guru in the
sandalwood tree cannot beloved and the master‟s attention physical form and likes to render
impart its fragrance to it. as well. Therefore you love males service at physical level, such as
your love makes you more receptive messaging his holy feet, arranging
to the master‟s radiation. for his bathing and washing his
4. The fourth kind is that of
clothes etc.
gold, which though golden in
One of the beloved disciples of Sufi
it texture, cannot make other With this type of physical service his
Ram Chandra speaks form hisown
things golden. mind begins to get purified and
practical experience. Dr. Sri Krishan
Lal Ji, a close disciple of Sufi Ram tends to attain subtle state. He
5. There is yet another fifth kind Chandra, speaks about the starts to receive pure thoughts of
who is neither competent importance of love for the Guru in Guru. The disciple starts conceiving
themselves nor can they the process of transformation. He whatever positive thoughts are
import competence to anyone has revealed the secret of aroused by the Guru. This is love of
else. They are the so-called transformation with these beautiful, mental level.
masters making a show of simple and practical words (as
their mastership and collect When the love deepens further,
translated by B.K. Saxena):
disciples. then the consciousness of the
“Take the help of such a personality disciple tends to unit with that of
So just being in the company of a who has already trodden the Guru and at times it merges with
true master you are transformed. path…This is to accept or adopt a the consciousness of Guru then
The radiation or the energy field of Guru (as an idle of Love). …Love of despite being two different physical
the master penetrates and Guru does not develop at once in bodies, the pure consciousness of
transform all being within his the beginning. However, it develops the Guru flows within the disciple,

i.e., from within disciple becomes In the remembrance of the true self realization”:
one with the Guru. master your false identity will
vanish and your true identity with “Just like, when a flower blossoms,
At this level the intellect of the the soul and God Power begin to the magnetic pull of the fragrance
disciple gets absorbed with the appear. Just like the sculpture is attracts many bees – only bees! No
intellect of Guru and there after he hidden in the stone of marble even dog will ever be attracted to this
starts to love God. He considers before the artist (the master) have magnetic pull of a flower. A Buddha
only God as all in all, but duality still removed all the unnecessary marble and a commune exist only for those
prevails. After this as the love from the stone. Just like an who have the sensitivity, the
become further intense, then it is unpolished diamond that is polished perception, the availability, the
called love of soul with God. This is to a diamond. Everything was search, and the openness. Many will
culmination of love of soul. Then he already there in the beginning, but pass but will go on missing the
sees his own self (soul) in all the it is covered by your false identity. Buddha and the commune. When
living beings as well as in non-lining In the remembrance of the true many individuals with openness and
things and loves everyone to the master you become more like the a deep search within, are
equal extent.” master and like your true self (the completely dissolved and merged
pure soul). into one another, what is created
This is the process of removing the there is a Buddhafield, a Sangha.”
barrier between “me” and “God”. Master is the engine and love is the
This is the process of inner fuel in the process of This is the rose garden where inner
transformation with the help of the transformation. Master is the flowering is possible. This rose
outer touchstone (the master), as sandalwood and love is the sweet garden is under care of the
described by one of Sufi Ram fragrance emerging from the gardener, which is the master. The
Chandra‟s own disciples. When a sandalwood. rose garden is within the energy
dirty stream (“me”) joins the secret filed and protection of the master.
river Ganges (Master Power or God No true aspirant can miss the smell Once you come there, your inner
Power) it too becomes secret. When of true sandalwood. The true growth will start. This is the process
you lose the self you gain God. This aspirants feel the smell of fragrance of transformation. You have become
gives us a real life and first hand and will flock around the flowering a flower in the rose garden of the
witnesses description and evidence of a true master. But only true master.
of the greatness of Ram Chandra. aspirants will be attracted, no so-
This is a real life event and first called seekers. Sufi Ram Chandra belonged to the
hands witness or description of the Naqshbandi Sufi order, which is
greatness of Sufi Ram Chandra. Taoshobuddha has written in his known to put the utmost emphasis
book “Mediation – the way of of the role of the master. Before

Shah Bahauddin Naqshband (the transmit, clean and transform his master. It is the receptivity of the
saint of the order from whom the disciples. His motto was that no electrical appliance that allows the
order got its name) the disciple was undesirable should be initiated, but electrical energy work through the
supposed to do all the work. But if one had come, he must not go equipment.
Shah Bahauddin Naqshband back. Such was his grace.
emphasized that from now onwards Once Ramakrishna the guru of
the responsibility of inner So spirituality is like an infection Swami Vivekananda had one plate
transformation is the joint one of that can be caught but not taught. full of honey and said, “Well, look
the sheikh (master) and the murid Once a God-realized soul is met; here, Vivekananda, if you were a
(disciple) together. spirituality is caught like an bee, from which side would you eat
infection going from one heart to this honey?”
Sheikh Hadhrath Abdul Gani Khan another heart. The ultimate goal of
the Uncle Sufi masters of Sufi Ram spirituality is to establish this Vivekananda replied: “Well, I would
Chandra got even further and connection with the Source at level eat from the corner.”
declared that the system followed in of soul and have nothing to do with
“Okay, but why?” enquired
this line needs no effort on the part any lower level of mind, intellect or
Ramkrishna.
of the disciple. It is the master who emotions. True Spirituality is only to
through his grace does everything be found at the level of soul. So Vivekananda responded: “I'm afraid
for the disciple. Effort on part of the how can it be found if search is my wings would get entangled and
disciple does not lead him made at another level where it is would get stuck. Then I would
anywhere. A real Guru or a Sat not? So a connection at level of soul drown.”
Guru knows how to mould the is essential in spirituality. This
disciple from deep within, just by connection is only possible to Ramakrishna told him: “Well, it is a
mere sight. establish with the help of one who sea of immortality; plunge headlong
already has this inner connection into it. You won‟t die.”
Sufi Ram Chandra always used to with the Source. Only when such a
transmit the divine energy to his God-realized Soul is met, you can In the game of love, you can only
followers up to 2 am in the morning. be colored in the color of become one with the beloved, by
The true master is the servant to his spirituality. losing your own self. There is no
Sangat (his followers). And not the other way to win in the game of
opposite as in the so-called holy To find a true Guru is therefore a love. So don‟t be afraid of lose your
places under the protection by a so- must. Once a spiritual Sun (the own ego. By losing your ego, you
called Guru. Sufi Ram Chandra used Master) is met, you will get the light win God.
to say that his work was that of a from that Sun. It is your inner
sweeper or washer man. He used to preparation that attracts the

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Books will teach you something of the outward aspects of the inward, and so will Meditation Talks. Without
them you will make really no progress in inward journey. Remember the outward is the conductor to the
inward. But why should we not be able to do so without books? For the same reason, remember you cannot
think without words. I have to give you words so that your thinking pattern can change. Once your thinking
pattern is changed then one day I will take away the word from you and then I will connect you to your
inner silence. This is journey from WORD to WORDLESS. This is the work of a MASTER.
Whenever the darkness of ignorance, despair, and disappointment stare in your face, a passage from here
and there will certainly revive the inner cords of your being and thus will continue the inward journey. This
is my certitude.
Someone asked why do I go on writing so many books, almost an inconceivable number and go on giving talks not only
on Sufi Path instead on all conceivable Paths of Spiritual Attainment?
Books will teach you something of the outward aspects of the inward, and so will meditation talks. Without them you will
make really no progress in inward journey. Remember the outward is the conductor to the inward.
But why should we not be able to do so without books? For the same reason, remember you cannot think without words.
I have to give you words so that your thinking pattern can change. Once your thinking pattern is changed then one day I
will connect you to your inner silence.
You have been reared on books. Your mind is so altered by books and talks, by hearing and speaking, that the inward
can only speak to you through the outward. Whatever you pretend you can perceive! Man ultimately becomes what one
pretends to be. However the tragedy is that you are not interested in books. I have to create designs for interest in
books again.
This is Naqshbandi Design. Books are the Tawwazjoh or the energy field that the master creates as Designs for
Transformation.

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This is an investigation how healing can happen. It begins with a passage from
Sri Aurobindo‟s Savitri‚ The fathomless zero occupied the cosmos and your
world of finiteness. Your physical body is mere showcase of all that happens at
other planes or bodies.
Then the question comes, from where can healing really happen. Since
physical body is mere showcase definitely it cannot be the beginning. Regular
medicine begins here but not meditation. Can you start at bio-plasmic level?
Or you still have to go a step beyond. There are so many unresolved issues in
each one of you that need to be addressed before the healing can really begin.
All these issues are stored in the fathomless zero that occupied the world. The
journey of healing has to begin from this point.
Through these meditations I am creating inner balance between body and the
mind. Only then you can attain to meditativeness. This process will continue
until new man, one who is beyond body, mind, and intellect, is born out of
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I am ecstatic that once again I have the occasion to speak to you. However this
time the overflow is of Hazrat Shah Bahauddin Naqshband, one whose very essence
pulsates through the entire Sufi path.
Spiritual awareness is like water, it takes the color and shape of the cup. Allah's
Knowledge is so great, that however much we take; it is like a drop of a huge
ocean. It like a vast garden, however much we have cut it is as if we had cut but
one flower says an ecstatic Bahauddin. Yet still the fundamentalists try to cage this
sublime awareness of eternal oneness within narrow boundaries of religion and
beliefs. Spirituality begins when you cross the narrow boundaries of religion and
religious beliefs. The entire ummat or creation is the responsibility of the one who
has attained spiritual awareness. But very rarely you find someone who is versatile to speak of various paths and
masters with authenticity and thus brings out truth in its sublimity.
Sufism is such overflow of love a great experiment in human consciousness: how to transform human consciousness into
ishq. It is alchemy. And through this work and others my effort to bring about the alchemical change in consciousness
that be possible!

This is what I am doing here with you. You may be aware, you may not be aware of it, but this whole experiment is to
create in you as much love energy as possible. Man can be transformed into pure love energy. Just as there is atomic
energy discovered by physics, and a small atom can explode into tremendous energy, so too each cell of your heart can
explode into tremendous love. That love is called ishq. It is atomic in nature. No one can destroy this. You may call this
Love or Awareness, or Consciousness or God matters not. What really matters it to be with this energy. Even more
significant is to imbibe it into your being. And then let it overflow your being. Also let it surround your life, your living.
Sufism is the path of the overflow of energy. This is Naqshbandiyah Nisbet – the Tariqat.
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When truth manifests itself there can be no better song or melody than this. Truth is
an experience. And Sheikh or a master is the embodiment of truth on the earth. This
is why when a Sheikh looks into a Tariqat it is Truth or Haqiqat itself. Naqshbandi
tariqat underwent through various periods of growth and development.
Taoshobuddha takes you through this journey. In the present classic Taoshobuddha
looks into Naqshbandi tariqat. With a crystal clarity and understanding he presents
various masters along the path and the tariqat. The present classic pauses before the
beginning of the second millennium with Sheikh Ahmad Al Farookhi Mujadadi,
Sirhindi in the Leaves from a Sufi Heart Volume 2. And the Third volume will begin
with Hazrat Mazhar Mir Jane Jana.

4. Secrets of Spiritual Life - Talks of Taoshobuddha: Talks of Taoshobuddha

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So I say: My beloved ones, I love you. And I would like you to fill the whole world with love.
Let that be our religion. Love is simply love. In love you can be a Christ. In love you can be
a Buddha. But there is no Buddhist love or Christian love and there is no Hindu or Muslim
Love. In love you disappear, your mind disappears. In love you come to an utter relaxation.
I call you a Buddha. Yes indeed you are that. And I speak to you of Buddhas. Because they
have come to know a different space within themselves! A space which cannot be confined
by the mind and which cannot be defined as part of the functioning of the mind!
That silent space when thoughts are no more! No ripples arise! This is the beginning of the psychology of the Buddhas.
This is the realm to which master belong. To this realm I want to take you to. This is just the beginning. Know this as
„The Secrets of Spiritual Life‟.
This is my message as my gift to you. The celebration of „Enlightenment‟ as the „Ultimate Flowering of Your Being‟ NOW
AND EVER AND ANON! As „The Secrets of Spiritual Life‟
Do not think of Enlightenment just as an inner experience alone. In the beginning it is an inner experience. Then slowly
bring it into your outer life. This is what I have been telling you every day. Remember whatever you experience in
meditation sessions never think the work is over. The experience that happens in meditation has to be relived and
present in your day – to – day affairs and life. Know this as „The Secrets of Spiritual Life.‟ … TAOSHOBUDDHA

5. Tasuwware Sheikh: Insight into Sheikh Brij Mohan Lal (q)

Authored by Sheikh TaoshoBuddha, Authored with Sufi Lakshmi Sahai
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TASUWWAR-E-SHEIKH – INSIGHT INTO SHIEKH BRIJ MOHAN LAL
This work is NAQSHBANDI CLASSIC BY SHEIKH TAOSHOBUDDHA DIFFICULT TO

PUT DOWN ONCE STARTED.
In this work Taoshobuddha explains the methodology that a master uses to bring
about transformation in the disciple. His way and means are unique, beyond
human comprehension, he says. When truth manifests itself there can be no
better song or melody. Tasuwware Sheikh is such a moment to moment journey
through the remembrance of the sheikh in the process of inward journey.
Tasuwware Sheikh has been coined by Shah Bahauddin Naqshband in 13th
century. And since then it has been recommended by the sheikhs as an essential
dhikr for the murids.
This present classic on Tasuwware Sheikh is the journey of a Fana-fe-ul-Murid of
Naqshbandi Sheikh Sufi Brij Mohan Lal. Riding the wings of the reminiscence of
Naqshbandi Lakshmi Sahai Sheikh Taoshobuddha has woven a classic presentation through his command on language,
understanding of the tariqat, and Nisbet-E-Illahi.
Whatever be your faith and whoever be your sheikh one thing is certain this classic will certainly connect you to your
sheikh, tariqat and in the process will become a dhikr-e-qulb in the process of transformation. Various chapters Like
„What is a Sheikh ‟ and „Master appear w hen Disciple is ready‟, explains the inner state of a sheikh and inner preparation
on part of the murid is essential. The moment disciple is ready Master appears. Various other chapters have been
designed to bring an insight into life and works of Sheikh Brij Mohan Lal and Naqshbndiyah tariqat and its advent in
Indian sub-continent, As you move through the pages feel Nisbet-e-Illahi deep within. Subhan Allah!!!
6. Maraqba-I-Naqshbandi: Insights into Naqshbandi Tariqat

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INSIGHTS INTO NAQSHBANDI MARAQBAS
Though maraqba begins in the mind, it is not real maraqba. Begin with the
mind. One day you will attain maraqba. When the mind ceases, you are beyond
it; only then real maraqba begins. Even to go beyond the mind you have to use
the mind itself. However, use the mind negatively. You will certainly attain
maraqba.
To me the most distinguished Naqshbandi Order is the way of the Companions

of the Prophet, the sheikh and those who follow them and thus the tariqat.
Sheikhs follow the path laid by the sheikhs. This is tariqat.
The designation of the Naqshbandi Golden Chain has changed over the period of
time. Only outer apparel changed not the outer. Many new tributaries and sub-
streams developed. As a result the way of teaching saw changes in the techniques of maraqba. The change was to suit
the murid however there was no change in tariqat and its inner understandings.
With changing mind patterns and social and cultural values that have bearing on mental capabilities of the murids each

sheikh has made certain changes. This current classic looks into these aspects. Sheikh Taoshobuddha has created certain
techniques of maraqba for Nafs and the modern man.
This will remain a classic for all those who seek Naqshbndiyah Nisbet and also seek inner transformation.
May this work of Sheikh Taoshobuddha be accepted to the Sheikhs and Allah Subhan wa Taala.
7. Leaves from a Sufi Heart Vol 2: Naqshbandi Sufi Tariqat

Authored by Sheikh Taosho Buddha
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Sufism is great celebration. I invite you to celebrate it with TAOSHOBUDDHA.
The Volume 1 of Leaves from a Sufi Heart paused at Bahauddin Naqshband. I thought
enough has been spoken. No, yet still much has been left unspoken of his
methodology. So when I began the Volume 2 of Leaves from the Sufi Heart I had to
begin with Bahauddin Naqshband. After Bahauddin the path developed many off
shoots. From Rasulallah Salallah Allahe Wassalam to Bahauddin the path was single
tracked. From him the main stream had developed many tributaries. Therefore it was
essential to begin with Post Bahauddin Era. However before I could do this his
methodology the unique way through parables needs to be explained. This has not yet
begun something else was knocking the consciousness. When I looked deep within it was the entire Sufi Doctrine - the
explanation of various terms.

Thus the journey of the Volume 2 of Leaves From a Sufi Heart began. This work is the outcome of the grace, the nisbat,
the faiz, or the inayat of Allah S u bh an wa Taa‟la and the Khawajans that this volume is now in your hands as the
Makhtoobats of the masters.
Without the faiz or the nisbat it could not be possible and the effects that it is creating within the readers. May Allah
shine His Noor along the path of every aspirant whom I have met and also those whom I have not yet met? Maybe I may
not meet physically, kindle their path through the Gaibana Tawajjoh each finite moment. Kudrat-E-Illahi is beyond
human comprehension. ALHAM DIL ALLAH, SUBHAN ALLAH, ALLAH HO AKBAR.
„I think your books are highly recommended for the true seekers , especially for the seekers of the highest spiritual order
Naqshbandiyah Mujaddidiyah in English language. „I pray to Allah Ta'ala may your book „THE LEAVES FROM A SUFI
HEART‟ is acceptable to Allah Ta'ala, His Prophet and the whole Ummah‟.
8. Parables - Naqshbandi Designs for Transformation: Naqshbandi Tariqat

Authored by Sheikh Taosho Buddha
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PARABLES - NAQSHBANDI Designs for Transformation
A parable is neither a lie, nor a truth. It is a design, a NAQSHBANDI. Maps have been
invented to help you. They are arbitrary. Never become too obsessed with a map. Use it if
you can; if you cannot, forget all about it. It has nothing valuable in it beyond its use.

Why parables? Just as a Ladder is a design or a devise to reach to the top and once you reach to the top the use of
ladder is finished. So too a parable is a design for transformation.
Parables have been designed by Naqshbandi Masters as devise based on the teachings or the sayings of the past masters
as a unique way to Tariqat.
Someone asked why do I go on writing so many books, almost an inconceivable number and go on giving talks not only
on Sufi Path instead on all conceivable Paths of Spiritual Attainment?
Books will teach you something of the outward aspects of the inward, and so will meditation talks. Without them you will
make really no progress in inward journey. Remember the outward is the conductor to the inward.
But why should we not be able to do so without books? For the same reason, remember you cannot think without words.
I have to give you words so that your thinking pattern can change. Once your thinking pattern is changed then one day I
will connect you to your inner silence.
You have been reared on books. Your mind is so altered by books and talks, by hearing and speaking, that the inward
can only speak to you through the outward. Whatever you pretend you can perceive! Man ultimately becomes what one
pretends to be.
This is Naqshbandi Design. Parables are the sayings of the past Sheikhs that are used by current Sheikhs as Designs for
Transformation.
9. Maraqba-I-Rumi: Sufi Maraqba Series

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MARAQBA-I-RUMI BY SHEIKH TAOSHOBUDDHA
There is something mystical in these compositions of Jalaluddin Rumi for which I

have no words to explain. However certainly there is something. Through these
compositions and meditations Taoshobuddha has created such level of beauty
through the use and mastery of musical rhythm and rhyme with the play of words,
that the reader and listener not only can appreciate the wisdom contained in these
compositions, but also reach levels of ecstasy and mystical energy that is seldom
found in other such compositions.
Certainly these connect to your being. Taoshobuddha calls these as Maraqbas. The
mastery of rhyme and rhythm is such that very often he creates a new
vocabulary, using the same old words, yet creating new feelings that are
associated with the insights of Rumi. Furthermore, often he has such mastery of
play on words or at other times he uses the same word with a different accent or
vowel twice or even thrice in the same composition, with a different meaning each
time.
One cannot help but marvel at the linguistic mastery that Taoshobuddha displays through various compositions and
meditations that he has created. One can simply drown in the essence of it and thus get connected to your being. In any
case, the end result is the same. The experience of artistic beauty of these compositions, voice modulations, rhythm and
ecstatic energy, and alpha brain wave patterns all combined together with the mental understanding of the wisdom
conveyed take the listener to the state of meditation. This is as close as one can get to the mystical experience itself,
without actually being present with Taoshobuddha.

Naqshbandi Uwaisiyah Tariqat

By
Naqshbandiyah Maulwi Jalaluddin Ahmad Ar Rowi, Malaysia
Human beings climb the ladder of egotism, Ali Qaddasallahu Sirruhu mentions in his book Virtues of
But in the end everyone must fall from this ladder, Hadhrat Khwajah Uwais Al-Qarani Radhiyallahu 'Anhu,
The higher you climb, the more foolish you are,
For your bones will be more badly broken „The Uwaisiyah Order in Tasawwuf provides directly
When you die to yourself and come alive through God, the reflexes of ENLIGHTMENT without apparent
In truth you have become one with God, contact thus rendering meaningless the barriers of
in absolute unity. time, distance and space.‟
RUMI MASNAVI IV: 2763-7 It is beyond my capacity to explain it in detail but let me
share some of the knowledge and understandings
regarding this rare path with all my readers in the light of
We praise Allah! And we pray to Him! May His blessings be the Prophet hood and ME from the sayings of the Masters
upon His Beloved Prophet, Hadhrat Sayyidina Wa Maulana who has passed through this sacred path.
Muhammad Mustafa Rasulullah Sallallahu Ta'ala 'Alaihi Wa
Alihi Wa Ashabihi Wa Barik Wa Sallam! And may Allah's HADHRAT UWAIS AL-QARANI RADHIYALLAHU
blessings also be upon the Prophet's family, his 'ANHU
companions and to those who follow him with
good presence till the Day of Qiyamah. AMIN…. In a Hadits Qudsi recorded by Hadhrat Abu Hurairah
Radhiyallahu 'Anhu, May Allah be pleased with him, the
This humble and poor slave of Allah, Jalalludin Ahmad Holy Prophet Muhammad Rasulullah Sallallahu 'Alaihi
has been requested Hadhrat Naqshbandi Sheikh Wasallam said speaking from his Lord:
Taoshobuddha to write some words regarding the
Naqshbandiyah Uwaisiyah Sufi path which, according „Allah, Exalted and Mighty is He, loves of His creation the
to Hadhrat Shah Waliyullah Ad-Dehlawi Rahmatullah 'Alaih God-fearing, the pure in the heart, those who are hidden,
was the most distinguish Sufi order in the Muslim world. and those who are innocent, whose face is dusty, whose
As Hadhrat Syeikh Maulana Abu Anees Muhammad Barkat hair is unkempt, whose stomach is empty, and who, if he
asks permission to enter to the rulers, is not granted it,

and if he were to ask for a gentle lady in marriage, he The Companions asked, „We are all Allah's slave, but what
would be refused, and when he leaves the world it does is his name?‟
not miss him, and if he goes out, his going out is not
noticed, and if he falls sick, he is not attended to, and if he The Holy Prophet Hadhrat Sayyidina Muhammad
dies, he is not accompanied to his grave.‟ Rasulullah Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wasallam said, „His name is
Uwais Al-Qarani.‟
The Companions asked him,
„O Messenger of Allah, how can we find someone like The Companions again asked,„Where is he now?‟
that?‟
The Holy Prophet Hadhrat Sayyidina Muhammad
The Holy Prophet Muhammad Rasulullah Sallallahu 'Alaihi Rasulullah Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wasallam said, „He is in
Wasallam said, Qaran.‟
„Uwais Al-Qarani is such a one.‟ The Holy Prophet Hadhrat The Companions then asked, „Has he met you before?‟
Sayyidina Muhammad Rasulullah Sallallahu 'Alaihi
Wasallam once said in his Hadith, The Holy Prophet Hadhrat Sayyidina Muhammad
Rasulullah Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wasallam said, „Not with his
„There is a man at Qaran called Uwais, who on the Day of physical eyes but he has already seen me with his
Resurrection will intercede for a multitude of my Ummah spiritual eyes.‟
(community), as many as the sheep of Rabi'ah and
Mudhar.‟ Then, the Companions asked the Holy Prophet Hadhrat
Sayyidina Muhammad Rasulullah Sallallahu 'Alaihi
In another Hadith, the Holy Prophet Hadhrat Sayyidina Wasallam what had prevented Hadhrat Uwais Radhiyallahu
Muhammad Rasulullah Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wasallam said, 'Anhu from joining the group of Sahabah? The Holy
Prophet Hadhrat Sayyidina Muhammad Rasulullah
„Amongst my Ummah, there is a man whom his Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wasallam said, „There are two reasons,
intercessions will benefits a large amount of people from firstly because of his highly intoxicated condition in love
my Ummah as many as the hairs of the sheep from the with Allah and secondly due to his following of my Syari'ah
tribes of Rabi'ah and Mudhar.‟ (religion) i.e. the responsibility to serve his mother. His
mother is a believer and too old with blind eyes. He works
The Holy Prophet Hadhrat Sayyidina Muhammad as a shepherd and with his earnings he spents for his
Rasulullah Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wasallam once said regarding mother.‟
that person who will intercedes this Ummah, „He is a slave
amongst the slaves of Allah.‟ The Companions asked, „Is it possible for us to see him?‟

The Holy Prophet Hadhrat Sayyidina Muhammad Anyone who is a true believer can practice this system but
Rasulullah Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wasallam said to Hadhrat Abu only a few people who really know and understand about
Bakar As-Siddiq Radhiyallahu 'Anhu, „You will never see it. He lives during the Prophethood era but due to some
him but 'Umar and 'Ali will see him. His entire body is responsibilities to serve his mother, he could not spend
covered with hairs. On his left palm there is a sign as big most of his time away from her. Even though he had not
as a Dirham that looks like leprosy but it isn't. When you seen the Holy Prophet Muhammad Rasulullah Sallallahu
meet him, send my salutation from me to him and tell him 'Alaihi Wasallam physically, but he has seen the light of
to pray for my Ummah. Amongst the Awliya (saints) of spiritual reality of Muhammad in his insight.
Allah there are the Atqiya (the most pious), and he is the
best.‟ The scholars have categorized him as the greatest Tabi'in
i.e. the greatest follower of the companions of the Holy
Addressing to Hadhrat 'Umar and Hadhrat 'Ali Prophet Muhammad Rasulullah Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wasallam
Radhiyallahu 'Anhuma, the Holy Prophet Hadhrat but the Holy Prophet Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wasallam himself
Sayyidina Muhammad Rasulullah Sallallahu 'Alaihi had treated Hadhrat Uwais as one of his Sahabi
Wasallam said, „You will see him. He is a lowly man of (companion). He does meet with some of the companions
medium height and hairy, on his left side there is a white such as Hadhrat Sayyidina 'Umar Ibni Al-Khattab and
spot as large as a Dirham which is not from leprosy, and Hadhrat Sayyidina 'Ali Ibni Abi Talib Radhiyallahu
he has a similar spot on the palm of his hand. When you 'Anhuma. Due to his love and strong intention to meet the
see him, pass on my greeting and ask him to pray for my Holy Prophet Muhammad Rasulullah Sallallahu 'Alaihi
Ummah.‟ Wasallam, his name entered the list of the companions.
The Holy Prophet Muhammad Rasulullah Sallallahu 'Alaihi
The name Uwaisiyah is related to Hadhrat Sayyidina Uwais Wasallam was informed about his strong desire to see the
Ibni Amir Ibni Jaz Ibni Malik Al-Qarani Radhiyallahu 'Anhu Holy Prophet but since his mother need his full attention
(died 37 AH/ 657 CE). He was the pioneer of the and constant care, he could not get much opportunity to
Uwaisiyah spiritual system which focuses on having a visit the Holy Prophet Muhammad Rasulullah Sallallahu
spiritual connections with the Holy Prophet Muhammad 'Alaihi Wasallam in the Holy City Al-Madinah Al-
Rasulullah Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wasallam or other prophets Munawwarah. His mother was a blind old lady and need
and saints who had passed this worldly life, or the saints supervision by him.
who are still alive but residing very far and difficult to
reach without meeting them physically. In many Once he requested his mother for a leave to go to the Holy
occasions, the Uwaisi Sufi has no living Syeikh to guide his City Al-Madinah Al-Munawwarah to visit the Holy Prophet
journey but he is guided by Allah Ta'ala or His Prophet- Muhammad Rasulullah Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wasallam. She
Saint Hadhrat Nabi Khidhr 'Alaihissalam. This kind of permitted him to go to the Holy City but warned him to
spiritual connection has no limitations in time and space come back quickly. She said, „You have my permission to
and it is well known as Nisbat Uwaisiyah. go, see him once and come back straight. If the Prophet
Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wasallam is at home, you may meet with companions reached the Holy Prophet Muhammad
him and if not, come back without delay.‟ Hadhrat Uwais Rasulullah Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wasallam, he asked them to
Radhiyallahu 'Anhu made a journey of three months on look at his face. So, everyone looked at the Holy Prophet
foot, from Yemen to the Holy City Al-Madinah Al- Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam face.
Munawwarah. When he reached the Prophet Sallallahu
'Alaihi Wasallam house, he knocked the door and Hadhrat Then, the Holy Prophet Muhammad Rasulullah Sallallahu
'Aishah Radhiyallahu 'Anha, the Prophet's wife and Mother 'Alaihi Wasallam said ‚'Aishah Radhiyallahu 'Anha has seen
of the believers opened the door. She told him that Uwais Radhiyallahu 'Anhu and therefore, she has been
Hadhrat Rasulullah Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wasallam was in forgiven. As I see 'Aishah Radhiyallahu 'Anha, I have been
masjid. forgiven. And you have seen me, therefore you are all
forgiven.‟
Hadhrat Uwais Radhiyallahu 'Anhu remembered his
promise to his mother and therefore could not stay for the Subhanallah, what a dignity Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
return of the Prophet. So he said to her, had bestowed upon Hadhrat Uwais Al- Qarani Radhiyallahu
'Anhu that the Holy Prophet Muhammad Rasulullah
„Please convey my salutations to my Beloved Rasulullah Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wasallam himself gave his respect to
Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wasallam. Kindly inform him that Uwais Hadhrat Uwais Al-Qarani Radhiyallahu 'Anhu. The Holy
came from Yemen but did not find him at home and is Prophet Muhammad Rasulullah Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wasallam
returning back to Yemen, since he does not have look towards Yemen and said, „The fragrance of our friend
permission from his mother to meet him in the masjid.‟ is reaching us.‟
When the Prophet Hadhrat Muhammad Rasulullah Sallallhu The Holy Prophet Muhammad Rasulullah Sallallahu 'Alaihi
'Alaihi Wasallam came home from the masjid, he found Wasallam said, „Uwais will come back to Al-Madinah Al-
the radiance of Hadhrat Uwais Radhiyallahu 'Anhu in his Munawwarah to meet me, but we will not meet physically,
house. Hadhrat Aishah Radhiyallahu Anha explained, what for I shall then be united with my Lord.‟ The Holy Prophet
had happened and thus conveyed the salutations of Hadhrat Sayyidina Muhammad Rasulullah Sallallahu 'Alaihi
Hadhrat Uwais Radhiyallahu Anhu. The Holy Prophet Wasallam had mentioned his name many times before he
Muhammad Rasulullah Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wasallam asked passed this worldly life and had instructed his companions
Hadhrat 'Aishah Radhiyallahu 'Anha „Did you see Uwais?‟ to find Hadhrat Uwais Al-Qarani Radhiyallahu 'Anhu
present his blessed cloak to him and to request prayers
Hadhrat 'Aishah Radhiyallahu 'Anha replied, „Yes.‟ from him for the forgiveness of his Ummah.
After hearing this, the Holy Prophet Muhammad Rasulullah It is mentioned in the stories of the companions that the
Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wasallam went out of the house and search for Hadhrat Uwais Al-Qarani Radhiyallahu 'Anhu
called his companions to come at him quickly. When the has been made since the time when the Holy Prophet
Muhammad Rasulullah Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wasallam They said, „We do not ask you about your tending of
mentioned about his name and dignity but he could not be animals, or about your being a hired worker, but what is
found. Even during the Caliphate of Hadhrat Abu Bakar As your name?‟
- Siddiq Radhiyallahu 'Anhu, there was no traces of
Hadhrat Uwais Al-Qarani Radhiyallahu 'Anhu. He answered, „Abdullah (Slave of Allah).‟
Only during the last days of the Caliphate of Hadhrat They said, „All the people of the heavens and the earth are
'Umar Al-Khattab Radhiyallahu 'Anhu he was found. the slaves of Allah, but what is the name in which your
According to the Hadits, when people from Yemen came to mother named you?‟
the Holy City Al-Madinah Al- Munawwarah, Hadhrat 'Umar
Radhiyallahu 'Anhu will asked them if they know about He said, „My name is Uwais. O you two, what do you want
Hadhrat Uwais Ibni 'Amir Radhiyallahu 'Anhu? Some of the from me?‟
people from Yemen know about him and his whereabouts.
Hadhrat 'Umar Al-Khattab and Hadhrat 'Ali Ibni Abi Talib They said, „Rasulullah Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wasallam once
Radhiyallahu 'Anhuma set out a search to find Hadhrat spoke to us about Uwais Al-Qarani. He gave us a
Uwais Al-Qarani Radhiyallahu 'Anhu and they went to description of the bluish-black colour of his eyes, and he
Yemen accompanied by Hadhrat Bilal Radhiyallahu 'Anhu told us that he has a white mark under his left shoulder.
and finally they found him at the Mount of 'Arafat when So please show us if you have this mark, for then it is you
someone told them about his location. for whom we are searching.‟
Hadhrat 'Umar and Hadhrat 'Ali Radhiyallahu 'Anhuma Hadhrat Uwais Radhiyallahu 'Anhu then bared his left
then went quickly to Mount 'Arafat where they found shoulder, and they saw a white mark. They then embraced
Hadhrat Uwais were praying under a tree with camels him and kissed him and said,
grazing around him. They approached him and greeted "We declare that you are Uwais Al-Qarani, so ask for
him, saying, forgiveness for us and may Allah forgive you."
„As-Salaamu 'Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatuh.‟ Furthermore, they said, „The Holy Prophet Muhammad
Hadhrat Uwais cut his prayer short, and when he had Rasulullah Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wasallam had ordered them to
finished it, returned their greeting. They asked him, „Who pass on his greeting to you and to request you to pray for
are you?‟ the forgiveness of his Ummah.‟
He replied, „A herdsman of camels and a hired workman He answered, „I cannot even forgive myself or one of
for a tribe.‟ Adam's children. But there are on land and in the seas
believing men and women, Muslim men and women,

whose invocations to Allah are answered. Indeed you are tribes of Rabi'ah and Mudhar." Then Hadhrat 'Umar Al-
worthier than I am for this supplication‟ Khattab Radhiyallahu 'Anhu said to Hadhrat Uwais Al-
Qarani Radhiyallahu 'Anhu, „Your place is here until I
They replied, „Surely this is so. We certainly supplicate but return to Al-Madinah and may Allah have mercy upon you.
please you pray as per the will of the Holy Prophet Then I will bring you help from my provision and some of
Muhammad Rasulullah Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wasallam.‟ my clothes. This has been the meeting place between you
and me.‟
Then he said, „O you two, you know about me and I know
about my state, but who are you?‟ But Hadhrat Uwais Radhiyallahu 'anhu answered him,
„O Commander of the Faithful, there will be no other
Hadhrat Ali Radhiyallahu 'Anhu answered, „This is the meeting place, in the knowledge of Allah, between you
Commander of the Faithful (Al-Amir Al-Mukminin), Umar and me, but this one. So tell me, what should I do with
ibn al-Khattab, and I am Ali ibn Abu Talib.‟ your provision and what should I do with your clothes? Do
you not see that I am wearing a woollen gown and a
Hadhrat Uwais Radhiyallahu 'Anhu stood up straight and woollen wrapper, so when do you see me tearing them?
said, „As-Salaamu 'Alaikum Ya Amir Al-Mukminin. And you, Or do you see that my sandals are worn out and torn?
O Ali, May Allah repay you with goodness for this When do you see me out wearing them? Between your
Community (Ummah).‟ hand and mine there is a higher barrier which cannot be
crossed by a weighty person, so leave these things, and
They said, „May Allah repay you for yourself and your Allah will have mercy upon you.‟
goodness?" Having received the blessed cloak, he went
away to a corner at some distance, placed the cloak in When Hadhrat 'Umar Radhiyallahu 'Anhu heard these
front on the ground and prostrating, he prays, "O Allah the words, he struck the ground with his stick and shouted out
Almighty, I shall not wear this honourable cloak until You at the top of his voice, „O would that Umar had not been
have forgiven the Ummah of the Holy Prophet Muhammad born by his mother and that she had been sterile!‟
Rasulullah Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wasallam.‟
He had converted into Islam during the lifetime of the Holy
As he took long in prostrating, they thought he might have Prophet Muhammad Rasulullah Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wasallam.
died. When they reached near him, he raised his head He is well known amongst the Sahabah and the Sufis for
from prostration and said, "Had you not come here, I his deep love and affection towards Allah Ta'ala and His
would not have raised my head from prostration until I Beloved Holy Prophet Muhammad Rasulullah Sallallahu
had the glad tidings of forgiveness of the whole Ummah. 'Alaihi Wasallam, the practice of Zuhud (ascetism) and
Even then Allah the Almighty has promised to forgive as piety. He is the Sultan of the hidden servants of Allah. He
many sinners of the Ummah of the Holy Prophet Sallallahu is the beacon light for the seeker of spirituality. He is the
'Alaihi Wasallam as much as the hairs of the sheeps of the elixir of the intense devotion to the Holy Prophet
Muhammad Rasulullah Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wasallam. He is people. Some of his people consider him as a mad man
honoured with the title of Nafs Ar-Rahman (The Soul of due to his appearance. He ate only a few dates for fasting
the Compassionate). He reached the stage of the beloved during the day and if he has more dates than what he
of the Divine. He spent most of his time in solitude, fasting needed, he gave it to the poor as Sadaqah (charity).
during the day keep awake the whole night. Normally he Physically, he was a man of weak physique, middle height,
stood in Iqamah (standing posture) for Solat (prayers) one slightly off-white color, wide shoulders, heavy beard, black
night, spent the next night in Ruku' (kneeling posture) and eyes, sights concentrated at the place of prostration, a
spent the next night in Sajdah (prostration). He often domineering round face and unruffled hair often covered
spent his day praying in addition to the compulsory with dust. He wore a completely worn out khaki dress that
worship. consisted of two garments, a blanket made of the camel
hair and a pair of trousers. He had on palm of his left hand
Hadhrat Rabi' Ibni Khathi Rahmatullah 'Alaih, a famous a white mark of the size of a Dirham.
Tabi'in reports, „One day I went to meet Hadhrat Uwais Al-
Qarani Radhiyallahu 'Anhu. I saw him busy in his Fajr His usual dress was a cloak with many patches of cloth on
(early morning) prayer. I waited for him to finish in order it. He also has a blanket made of camel's wool. His
meeting him. Having finished his prayer, he got engaged physical appearance looks untidy which makes him
is Tasbih and Tahlil and remained so continuously until ridiculed by the children and the adults.
Zuhur (early afternoon) prayer. Likewise, this lasted
further until 'Asar (late afternoon) prayer and from 'Asar That is why most of his time he keeps himself far away
to Maghrib (sunset) prayer. Then I thought he might have from the people because in that way, he could be near to
a recess in order to break his fast, but he remained busy Allah in solitude.
in Zikir (remembrance) and litanies until 'Isha (late
evening) prayer and then to the Morning Prayer. Three The Holy Prophet Muhammad Rasulullah Sallallahu 'Alaihi
days passed by this way. He slept on the fourth night for a Wasallam often said to his companions, „I receive the
short while and ate a little. breeze of Mercy (Nasim Al-Rahmah) from the direction of
the Yemen.‟
Then he occupied himself in Istighfar (litanies seeking
forgiveness of Allah the Almighty) thus uttered this words, The Holy Prophet Muhammad Rasulullah Sallallahu 'Alaihi
"O Allah the Almighty, I seek Your refuge against the Wasallam also said, „The most superior man amongst the
sleeping eye and stomach full of food." When Hadhrat generation of the Tabi'un is Uwais. Whoever amongst you
Rabi' Rahmatullah 'Alaih witnessed all this, he returned meets him must try to seek his supplication for
and said to himself, "This is enough for me.‟ forgiveness.‟
He lives in a village called Qaran in Yemen. He was a noble His love towards the Holy Prophet Muhammad Rasulullah
and very pious person. He denied all kinds of worldly Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wasallam is so great that he always
ornaments and always keeps himself far from the crowd of keeps himself practizing the Sunnah (ethics) and love to
follow the Holy Prophet Muhammad Rasulullah Sallallahu 3. He who believes in three things has Hell nearer to
'Alaihi Wasallam! He is extinct in the Holy Prophet him than his jugular vein; they are voluptuous
Muhammad Rasulllah Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wasallam. meals, expensive dress and companionship of the
rich.
He was completely absorbed and drowned in the Light of
Muhammadi. Let us see what he had done in proving 4. Peace is in solitude.
himself as a true believer and unparallel follower of the
Holy Prophet Muhammad Rasulullah Sallallahu 'Alaihi 5. It is imperative on you to guard your heart.
Wasallam. It was stated in the traditions that had he
heard the Holy Prophet Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wasallam injured
6. You need to safeguard your heart, that is, save your
his blessed teeth in the Battle of Uhud. Hadhrat Uwais
heart from the thought of everything else. Keep
Radhiyallahu 'Anhu said, „When I came to know about the
your desires under control of your heart and not
two teeth of the Holy Prophet Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wasallam
vice versa.
having been sacrificed, I broke and took out one tooth
first. Having done this I realized that only Allah the
Almighty knew it well, but perhaps that might not be the 7. When you sleep, regard death nearer to your head
tooth that had broken. Hence I broke another, still and when you wake up regard it in front of you.
another, thus breaking them all one by one." Thus
Hadhrat Uwais Radhiyallahu 'Anhu broke all his teeth and 8. Do not regard a sin something ordinary, rather
was bestowed this martawa or the benediction as regard it something extraordinary. This is the
embodiment of his love for the Rasulullah Sallallahu 'Alaihi reason you commit sins. If you regard a sin
Wasallam something inferior, then you will also regard Allah
the Almighty inferior.
THE SAYINGS OF HADHRAT UWAIS AL-QARANI
9. It is regretted at the hearts that are in doubt and do
1. I searched for honor; I found it in service to the not seek advice.
creatures. I searched for leadership; I found it in
the creatures' welfare. I searched for humility, I 10.He who recognized Allah the Almighty, he
found it in truth. I searched for the source of pride; recognised everything and nothing remained hidden
from him.
2. I found it in Faqr (poverty). I searched for a
valuable relationship in the Hereafter; I found it in 11.Wahdat (Unity of Godhead) is nothing except Him
Taqwa (fear of Allah). I searched for highness; I comes in thoughts.
found it in Qanaah (contentment). I searched for
peace; I found it in Zuhud (piety).
12.Allah the Almighty writes recompense as many of myself, recite repeatedly Subhana Rabbiyal A'la
times as Muslim men and women for he who seeks (Glory be to our Lord Who is Most High).
forgiveness of the true Muslim, men and women.
19.If someone who is praying is hit with a bar and has
13.He who has no wealth to give away in Sadaqah not felt it at all, this act will be demonstrative of the
(charity) should seek forgiveness of true Muslim, humility of his prayer.
men and women. This is his Sadaqah.
20.If someone worships Allah the Almighty to the
14.Hadhrat Abu Darda Radhiyallahu 'Anhu reports extent of the Heaven and the Earth, Allah the
having heard the Holy Prophet Muhammad Almighty will not approve of his worship until the
Rasulullah Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wasallam as saying, "He worshipper has complete belief in Him.
who prays twenty five or twenty seven times daily
for forgiveness of true Muslim men and women will 21.O Allah, You created me when I was not worthy of
be counted amongst the people whose prayers are mention; and You provided for me when I had
met with and who are the means of livelihood of nothing; and I wronged my soul and sinned and
people on earth. confess my guilt. If You forgive me, that will in no
way augment Your authority. You can find others to
15.Hidden invocation is better than visiting and punish besides me, but I can find no one to forgive
meeting because Riya (show off) might enter in the me but You. Truly, You are the Most Merciful of
latter two. those who show mercy.
16.My Rabb's remembrance is most exalted, His 22.The best and blessed way of belief in Allah the
sayings are most true, His is the most truthful Almighty: Leave alone and do not worry about that
statement, His is the most beautiful writing of all. which has already been set aside for you and whilst
praying turn your mind off the world just as he does
17.My advice for you to follow is to emulate the so at the time of his death. This state is enjoyed
Almighty Allah's Book, the Holy Al-Quran, the way only when the human being regards death nearer to
of the good and to send Salawat (salutations) to the him than his jugular vein. If this is the state, then
Holy Prophet Muhammad Rasulullah Sallallahu the man would be the one who believed in Allah the
'Alaihi Wasallam. Almighty completely. Then his prayers would be
accepted and become one who would have the
18.I only wish that I start the prayer and spend the honor of nearness to Allah the Almighty.
night in one Sajadah (prostration) and lost control

The Uwaisis in the Naqshbandiyah Sufi Path Hadhrat Imam Rabbani Mujaddid Alif Thani Sheikh Ahmad
Farooqi Sirhindi Rahmatullah 'Alaih received the spiritual
The Masters of the Naqshbndiyah Sufi Order are Uwaisis power through the spiritual connection with Hadhrat Shah
because they received the Faidhz i.e. the overflowing of Bahauddin Naqshband and Hadhrat Sayyidina 'Ali
the spiritual blessings and the spiritual presence of Karramallahu Wajhahu. Hadhrat Syeikh Sharafuddin Ad-
Masters before them. Hadhrat Khwajah Abu Yazid Bistami Daghistani Rahmatullah 'Alaih was raised through the
Rahmatullah 'Alaih received the spiritual blessings from spiritual guidance of Hadhrat Sayyidina Abu Bakar As-
Hadhrat Imam Ja'afar Sadiq Radhiyallahu 'Anhu through Siddiq Radhiyallahu 'Anhu and the Holy Prophet Hadhrat
the Uwaisi System by meditating the spiritual presence of Sayyidina Muhammad Rasulullah Sallallahu 'Alaihi
Hadhrat Imam Ja'afar Sadiq Radhiyallahu 'Anhu at his Wasallam.
shrine. Similarly, Hadhrat Khwajah Abul Hassan Al-
Kharqani Rahmatullah 'Alaih took spiritual guidance from Hadhrat Sheikh 'Abdullah Ad-Daghistani was guided
the spiritual presence of Hadhrat Khwajah Abu Yazid spiritually by Hadhrat Sayyidina Uwais Al- Qarani
Bistami Rahmatullah 'Alaih. Radhiyallahu 'Anhu, Hadhrat Sayyidina 'Abdul Khaliq
Ghujduwani Rahmatullah 'Alaih, Hadhrat Shah Bahauddin
Hadhrat Khwajah 'Abdul Khaliq Ghujduwani Rahmatullah Naqshband Rahmatullah 'Alaih and Hadhrat Sayyidina 'Ali
'Alaih spirituality was raised up by the spiritual presence of Karramallahu Wajhahu. Hadhrat Sheikh Nazim received
Hadhrat Sayyidina Nabi Khidhr 'Alaihissalam, Hadhrat the spiritual guidance from Hadhrat Maulana Jalaluddin
Sayyidina Uwais Al-Qarani Radhiyallahu 'Anhu, Hadhrat Rumi Rahmatullah 'Alaih and Hadhrat Syeikh 'Abdul Qadir
Sayyidina Abu Bakar As-Siddiq Radhiyallahu 'Anhu and Al-Jailani Rahmatullah 'Alaih of Chistiyah order.
Hadhrat Sayyidina 'Ali Karramallahu Wajhahu. Hadhrat
Shah Bahauddin Naqshband Bukhari Rahmatullah 'Alaih , THE UWAISIYAH SUFI METHOD
the founder of Naqshbandiah path, was raised by the
spiritual presence and guidance from Hadhrat Khawajah Uwaisiyah is a form of spiritual connection and
'Abdul Khaliq Ghujduwani Rahmatullah 'Alaih, Hadhrat transmission with any of the Prophets or Saints in past or
Uwais Al-Qarani Radhiyallahu 'Anhu, Hadhrat Sayyidina present. The spirits meet in the world called 'Alam Al-
Abu Bakar As-Siddiq Radhiyallahu 'Anhu, Hadhrat Arwah (The World of Spirits) which is beyond 'Alam Al-
Sayyidina 'Ali Karramallahu Wajhahu and from the Holy Ajsam (The Material World). Whoever gains the spiritual
Prophet Hadhrat Muhammad Rasulullah Sallallahu 'Alaihi connection and spiritual knowledge from the deceased
Wasallam. Master, is called Uwaisi. The spiritual connection with the
Friends of Allah is as powerful and effective as the physical
Hadhrat Khwajah Ubaidullah Ahrar Rahmatullah 'Alaih was connection. The Uwaisiyah spiritual system focuses on
raised by the spiritual guidance of Hadhrat Sayyidina 'Isa having a spiritual connections with the Holy Prophet
(Jesus) 'Alaihissalam and Hadhrat Shah Bahauddin Muhammad Rasulullah Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wasallam or other
Naqshband Rahmatullah 'Alaih. prophets and great saints who had passed this worldly life,
or the true saints who are still alive but residing very far or prophet and imagine that there is a flow of light coming
and difficult to reach without meeting them physically. The from the upper side to that particular spirit, and then
Uwaisi Sufi has no living Syeikh to guide his journey but imagine that the light overflow from the heart of that
he is guided by Allah Ta'ala or His Prophet-Saint Hadhrat particular spirit to one's heart and keep that vision in mind
Nabi Khidhr 'Alaihissalam. This kind of spiritual connection until one feels drowning in that condition. With the grace
has no limitations in time and space and it is well known of Allah the Almighty, the spiritual connection will be
as Nisbat Uwaisiyah. established and he will gain the spiritual benefits from that
particular spirit such as spiritual guidance, knowledge,
Reminiscents of Maulwi JalaluddinAhmad ar Rowi power and blessings.
Once, this humble and poor slave of Allah was at the When I heard about this, I think that it would be a
Khanqah Sirajiah, Kundiyan Sharif, Mianwali, Pakistan great opportunity for me to try it and build the
attending the Suhbah with my Syeikh, Hadhrat Khwajah spiritual connection with all the Masters in the
Khwajahgan Pir Piran Maulana Khan Muhammad Naqshbandiyah Mujaddidiyah Silsilah. But first of all,
Sahib Mudda Zilluhul 'Ali in the month of Ramadhan in I think maybe it will be good if I have the spiritual
the year 1999. During that time, the elder disciples of connection with Hadhrat Imam At-Tariqat Shah
Hadhrat Syeikh were reading the Malfuzat (Sayings) of Bahauddin Naqshband Rahmatullah 'Alaih because I
Hadhrat Qutub Rabbani Shah 'Abdullah Ghulam 'Ali love his Naqshband Tariqat (Sufi Path).
Dehlawi Rahmatullah 'Alaih and he mentioned that to
establish the connection with any of the Masters in the So, at that night, I did as what I have heard from the
spiritual path in Uwaisi method, one must take ablution Malfuzat of Hadhrat Qutub Rabbani Shah 'Abdullah
perfectly and offer two Raka'ah Nafil or Hajat prayer. After Ghulam 'Ali Dehlawi Rahmatullah 'Alaih. After I finished all
completing the prayer by uttering Salam, one should pray the procedures, I put myself in Maraqba the whole night
to Allah, may He bless the intention to build the spiritual concentrating upon the blessed spirit of Hadhrat Shah
connection with His saints. After praying, one should recite Bahauddin. [SUBHAN ALLAH!] When I slept, a vision
Istighfar twenty five times, Surah Al-Fatihah with Bismillah came to me in my dream that I saw the spirit of Hadhrat
once and Surah Al-Ikhlas thrice and send the rewards Shah Bahauddin Naqshband is focusing his Faidhz flowing
through one's intention to the Holy Prophet Muhammad upon me until I felt that all the cells and nucleus in my
Rasulullah Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wasallam and also send it's body is uttering the word Allah! Allah! Non stop! In that
reward especially to the particular prophet or saint whom dream, I feel the whole part of my body is shivering while
he want to establish the spiritual connection. Then one uttering Allah! Allah! It could not stop and then I cried out
should sit still in Maraqba (contemplation) and focus on loudly in that dream, "O my Sheikh, what had happen to
that particular spiritual personality with sincere love and me? Why the whole part of my body couldn't stop uttering
affection. One should give his full concentration focusing Allah Allah?" Suddenly the vision stops and when I woke
on the abstract image of that particular spirit of the saint up in the morning, I can still feel the vibration in my heart,
veins, muscles and cells are still sounding the word Allah May Allah forgive this humble and poor slave if what has
Allah. At that time I was doing the regular Zikir on Latifah been written here is not appropriate for the public? My
Nafs. After I finished my regular Zikir I went to meet my hope is that by understanding the life and sayings of
Syieikh Hadhrat Maulana Khan Muhammad Sahib and tell Hadhrat Uwais Al-Qarani Radhiyallahu 'Anhu will
him everything what had happen to me from the encourage us to love him and love the path he invented
beginning. Then he said, and thus, to develop the Uwaisiyah spiritual system in our
daily life so that our spirit will always be guided by the
„Ma Sya Allah, May Allah Ta'ala bless you." Then he taught true Spiritual Masters. May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala
me how to do the Zikir in the Latifah Qalibiyah i.e. in the forgive all my sins and all the sins of all Muslim men and
subtlelities of the four elements: Air, Fire, Water and Soil. women till the day of Qiyamah. Wallahu A'lam Bissawab
It is also known as Sultan Az-Zikir. From that time, my Wa La Haula Wa La Quwwata Illa Billah.
understanding about the Uwaisi system had brought me to
love and gain Faidhz from all the Past Masters of this I, Sheikh Taoshobuddha Naqshbandiyah Mujadadiah
highest Sufi Order and all the Masters from other Sufi wa Mazaharia confirm all that our brother Hadhrat Faqir
Order as well, especially the greatest spirit of the Holy Maulawi Jalalluddin Ahmad Ar-Rowi Naqshbandi Mujaddidi
Prophet Muhammad Rasulullah Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wasallam Uwaisi has written about the teachings, path and the
even though I am residing far in the East. Allah Taa‟la‟s Sheikh. It was at my request he had agreed to write this
qudrath is not confined to any place or time. This is for the wider seekers along the path. He is the
nisbete gaib. international contributor in the monthly e magazine
„MEDITATION TIMES‟. This union has the blessing of
Indeed, the Faidhz of spiritual light is from Allah Ta'ala Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, Holy Prophet Muhammad
that He bestows it to the Holy Prophet Muhammad Rasulullah Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wasallam and the sheikhs of
Rasulullah Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wasallam and then to the the past and those who are yet to come.
Sahabah, and then to those who follows them till the Last
Day. Anyone can try to establish this kind of connection if And now this is the part of this classic on Shah Bahauddin
they intended to have the spiritual relationship with any Naqshband because the post Naqshbandi era will remain
prophet or saint spiritually. Give your love and attention to incomplete without the contribution of Hadhrat Uwais Al-
the saints and for sure they will love you and pay their Qarani Radhiyallahu 'Anhu
attentions towards you.
ALHAM DIL ALLAH WA RABBOOL ALMIM!

Book Reviews
Essence of Sufism
by
Sheikh Taoshobuddha
ISBN 978 81 207 5694 6
Published by Sterling Publishers Pvt Ltd, New Delhi India
Tariqat prepares you as an individual along the way and

Tasawwuf preserves your awareness.
This work comes to you as a prelude to Leaves from a Sufi Heart,

which is a comprehensive work on Naqshbandi Sufi masters, their
lives, and the tariqat starting from The Holy Prophet. Because of
the voluminous work the book has been divided into three
volumes. Volume 1 signifies the pre-Naqshbandi era. Volume 2
signifies the post-Naqshbandi era with the advent of Hazrat
Sheikh Ahmad Al Faruqi. This was the beginning of the Mujadaddi
era and the beginning of Naqshbandi nisbet in the Indian
subcontinent. Volume 3 signifies the break in trend when the
nisbet defied the narrowness or tasubbi and came to Sheikh Sufi
Ramchandra who came from the Hindu tradition. This was the
Mazaharia Era. The Mazaharia era began with Hazrat Mazhar Mir
Janae Jana of New Delhi in India.

such insights, so that in the process of inward

)kIrI beinyaj hE. journey the saliq can clear the states of nafs or ego
Faqiri beniyaz hai! and attain to inner harmony and oneness.
SPIRITUALITY IS BEYOND ALL HUMAN BONDAGE Around each poetic composition a Maraqba is weaved
DUALITIES AND CONFLICTS!! by Sheikh Taoshobuddha so that the tawajjoh or the
energy field of the master can envelop you along the
This present work is the combination of the kalam of path. And transformation may be possible. This is the
Prof. Rattan Lal Hangloo and other masters and way of tawajjoh or Tasawwuf of all the masters or
composers like Taoshobuddha, Mirza Ghalib, Amir nisbet to work in you so that you can journey through
Khushro, Jalaluddin Rumi, Brij Narian Chakbas, the realm of nafs and reach to the realm of ruh. This
Mahadevi Verma, Naqshbandi Sufi Ramchandra, is the only way one can really attain to taqmeel.
Naqshbandi Sufi Brij Mohan Lal, and Lalleshwari. The
essence of these compositions is blended with the „Learning the path of the Sufis or the Tariqah is the
Naqshbandi nisbet to create maraqba. It was just a key to reach the Ma’rifat (gnosis) of Allah‟s essence,
coincidence that while sitting with Prof. Hangloo one qualities, attributes, names, and actions and by
evening, the foundation of this work was laid. No practicing on the path it will lead the seekers to reach
effort had been made in the past for such a venture. the Haqiqat (reality). Practicing the path will enable
It is for the first time that this approach has been the seekers to understand the sayings and utterances
used to create the spirit of Sufism by this union of the Sufis and to understand their poems or
between Sufi poetry and the energy field of a master poetries by understanding their sacred path.
to create Maraqba. And thus allow the journey of
transcendence. This is way of the masters, so that The sayings are so beautiful that they touch the
the aspirant or saliq can continue his inward journey. seeker‟s heart. Allah‟s words are the most high above
This work will be remembered as a new beginning, all the words of the Creation that nothing can be
now and in times to come. The beginning of a new compared to them and the Holy Prophet Muhammad
era in Sufism! Rasulullah Sallallahu ‘Alaihi Wasallam’s words are the
best words amongst the Creation. Other than that,
Poets sometimes reach to such a height of are the poets who express their love and affection
consciousness where even a master cannot reach. towards Allah Ta‟ala, the sustainer of the entire
However, such a state is not a permanent happening. universe! Their words contain greatwisdom and
Therefore, this is an effort to create Maraqba around
teachings that have enlightened the hearts of seekers 6" x 9" (15.24 x 22.86 cm)
for hundreds of years. Black & White on White paper
280 pages
This book The Essence of Sufism is a great book for
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of the Sufis, and I am very thankful to Hadhrat Sufi Assigned)
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the foreword for this very valuable and precious
book. May Allah grant him great reward for sharing BISAC: Religion / Spirituality
the understanding of the Sufi poetries such as
Hadhrat Maulana Rumi, Amir Khusroo, Kabir, Jigar While traversing on the path for attaining the
Mooradabadi, Sufi RamChandra, Sufi Brij Mohan Lal, status of Sufi when the saliq undergoes certain
Janab Rattan Lal Hangloo, Janab Brij Narain Chakbas, transitions it acquires an ecstasy and the
etc. expression of that ecstasy is Tasawwuf.
May Allah shower us with his blessings through these It is in that state Rumi became a mystical poet.
Maraqbas.‟
It is candle that you hold while on your journey
Maulawi Jalaluddin Ahmad Ar-Rowi Naqshbandi inwards or outwards ultimate reality. You can
choose any Tariqa as the road but you cannot
Mujaddidi Uwaisinm Malaysia
walk unless you see the path through the light
of candle i.e., Tasawwuf.
MARAQBA-I-RUMI
It is through this light that Rumi saw the
BY SHEIKH TAOSHOBUDDHA creative essence of Allah Subhan wa Taala in
everything and everywhere. Divan-I-Shams is
Maraqba-I-Rumi: Sufi Maraqba Series such an expression of Tasawwuf.
Authored by Sheikh Taoshobuddha I am ecstatic because as a Sheikh of Naqshbandi
tariqat I am now presenting the works of Maulana
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Jalaluddin Rumi as the insights of a sheikh. Jalaluddin
comes from Maulana or Mevlavi tariqat of Sufi

dervishes. Jalaluddin very easily becomes part of any Different qualities of Rumi have been brought out by
Sufi tariqat. a variety of writers and translators. All these have
presented Rumi as an intellectual force alone. Many
In the last decades of the new translations that have appeared during the
Twentieth Century the light or nineteen – eighties have focused on various aspects
the energy field of Maulana of Rumi.
Jalaluddin Rumi has been
strongly felt by a wide cross – „He has been presented as refined and sensual, sober
section of people throughout and ecstatic, deeply serious and extremely funny,
the Western world. He is being rarefied and accessible. It is a sign of his profound
recognized in the West now universality that he has been so many things to so
even more than Iranian Omar many people.‟
Khayyam. There is a reason for
this. Omar Khayyam coming However no effort has been made to present Rumi as
from a tribal upbringing of a mystic or as a Sheikh. Also no effort has yet been
Neshapur is poet first who has made to create Maraqba or meditation around the
been touched by something of compositions of Rumi and thus bring about
the beyond and in that state Rubiyats were tremendous insights hidden deep within each and
composed. Rumi on the other hand is an Enlightened every syllable of Rumi.
Sheikh. His compositions are insights for
transformation. It is for the first time that a Sheikh of tariqat has
used the compositions of Rumi to create meditations
Jalaluddin Rumi is being recognized in the West as for the transformation of aspirants. As far as poetic
one of the greatest Sufi mystic and Sheikh of all genius of Rumi is concerned he differs from the rest
time after Sheikh Bahauddin Naqshband of of the other poets who used mysticism as the way.
Bokhara, just as he has been recognized for seven Rumi stand at the top of Parnassus.
centuries in the Middle East and Western Asia.
Rumi is more recognized for his intellectual prowess While many other poets have a mystical vision and
in the west than as mystic. A time will soon come then try to express it in a graspable language, Rumi
when he will be recognized as a mystic more than a on the other hand has never attempted to bring his
mere poet. visions to the level of the mundane. Instead he has
always expected, nay, demanded the reader to
reach higher and higher in his or her own spiritual marvel at the linguistic mastery that Rumi displays
understanding, and then perhaps be able to through these compositions. This is the work of
appreciate what Rumi was saying. This is the sheikh to bring about transformation.
difference between Rumi and other poets. This is the
reason that Rumi stands at the Parnassus. Compositions of Rumi have been translated are part
of churches, music, operas, consorts, and many such
Perhaps this is the reason that there are so many places throughout the world. Sheikhs have
layers to his poetry. These layers are not so much sung these compositions as part of discourses.
because of his writing, instead because of your But never before, have these compositions been used
understanding you‟re and as your understanding as the basic of Maraqba by and Sheikh. Thus this
transcends, you can grasp more and more of what works sets new trend in Sufi tariqat.
Rumi wants to convey to you.
There is something mystical in these compositions of
Yet there is more. While many of the translations of Jalaluddin Rumi for which I have no words to explain.
Rumi‟s poetry have tried to convey the immense However certainly there is something. Through these
wisdom contained therein, often they overlook the compositions and meditations Taoshobuddha has
musical and artistic beauty that they contain. created such level of beauty through the use and
mastery of musical rhythm and rhyme with the play
Particularly in Divan – e – Shams, Rumi has created of words, that the reader and listener not only can
such level of beauty through the use and mastery of appreciate the wisdom contained in these
musical rhythm and rhyme, that the reader not only compositions, but also reach levels of ecstasy and
can appreciate its wisdom, but also reach levels of mystical energy that is seldom found in other such
ecstasy and mystical energy that is seldom found compositions.
in other poems or any translations of his poetry.
The mastery of rhyme and rhythm is such that he Certainly these connect to your being. Taoshobuddha
often creates a new vocabulary, using the same old calls these as Maraqbas. The mastery of rhyme and
words, yet creating new feelings that are rhythm is such that very often he creates a new
associated with them. Furthermore, often he has vocabulary, using the same old words, yet creating
such mastery of play on words and puns, or at other new feelings that are associated with the insights of
times he uses the same word with a different accent Rumi. Furthermore, often he has such mastery of
or vowel twice or even thrice in the same verse, with play on words or at other times he uses the same
a different meaning each time. One cannot help but word with a different accent or vowel twice or even
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A Quarterly Journal Vol 1 Issue 1 Jan-March 2011

TO RISE ABOVE NARROWNESS LEADS TO TRUTH

Truth is Existential. Truth is beyond Time and Space!

SHRINE SHAH BAHAUDDIN NAQSHBAND (Q)

A Production Of Naqshbandia – Mujaddadia – Mazaharia – Ramchandria Tariqat

The International Journal

Printed and Published by:TAOSHOBUDDHA MEDITATIONS Managing Editor Anand Neelambar

CHIEF EDITOR: ANAND NEELAMBAR, TRINIADAD JNT EDITORIAL OFFICE:

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SHRINE SHAH BAHAUDDIN NAQSHBAND (q), BOKHARA

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SHRINE SHAH BAHAUDDIN NAQSHBAND (q), BOKHARA

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SHRINE SHAH BAHAUDDIN NAQSHBAND (q), BOKHARA

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SHRINE SHAH BAHAUDDIN NAQSHBAND (q), BOKHARA

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SHRINE SHAH BAHAUDDIN NAQSHBAND (q), BOKHARA

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SHRINE SHAH BAHAUDDIN NAQSHBAND (q), BOKHARA

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SHRINE MOHAMAMD BAQUI BILLAH (q), NEW DELHI, INDIA

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SHRINE SHEIKH AHMAD ALI KHAN (KHALIFA SAHIB) (q)

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SHRINE SHEIKH FAZAL AHMAD KAHN (q)

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SHEIKH RAMCHANDRA (LALA JI) (q)

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SHRINE SHEIKH RAMCHANDRA RA – LALAJI, FATEHGARH, INDIA

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bujugR gujrte hE bujugIR kI rah se

bujurga gujarte hain bujurgi ki rah se

Master follows the path laid by masters

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kaz #sI trIk pe Ada merI nmaj hae,

yar ke paynaj pe mera sre inyaj hae.

KAASH ISI TAREEQ PE AADA MERI NAAMAJ HO

May all my prayers be for this gesture and

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Profile: Naqshbandi Sheikh Taoshobuddha

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 Meditation The Way to Self Realization  Haripath-The Hidden Splendor

The following Titles are published from BOOKS AVAILABLE FROM

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Origin and Evolution of Tariqat

Some people said about him that he

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Golden Chain Naqshbandiyah –

3. Hadhrat Salman al-farisi r.a. (d. 10 Rajjab 35AH) - Medina

6. Hadhrat Bayazid Bastami r.a. (d. 14/17 Sha‟ban 261AH) – Bastam

7. Hadhrat Abul Hassan Khurqaani r.a. (d. 15 Ramda‟n 425AH) – Khurqan

8. Hadhrat khwaja Abul Quqsim Ghurghani r.a.

10. Hadhrat Yusuf Hamdani r.a. (d. 27 Rajjab 535AH) – Turkistan

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14. Hadhrat Azizane Ali Raamitni r.a. (d. 718/721AH) – Bukhara

15. Hadhrat Muhammad Baba Samasi r.a. (d. 755AH) – Bukhara

16. Hadhrat Sayyed Amir Kulaal r.a. (d. 772AH) – Bukhara

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