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'Let it be known that Allah's people always do good deeds' (qasida 62:11) This is the motto of this section, which is for talking about the the people of Allah who are the people who are constantly preoccupied with Allah You can find all special expressions in the Glossary. We need your comments to develop this site for you.
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In the Shadow of Sidi Abo-el-Yazid Al-Bastamy
Abo-el-Yazid Tayfour ibn Eisa Al-Bastamy was one of the famous people of Islam. His grandfather was Zoroastrian, but he converted to Islam. His Persian name was Ba’ba Yazid, but he was also known as Tayfor. He had two brothers; Adam and Ali and they were both ascetic worshipers. However, Abo-el-Yazid had the highest rank and known position. He was one of the people of Bastam. He died in 261 (some say 264) AH, when he was 73 years old. Among his sayings [AAH] are: 1. I kept driving my self to Allah while it was crying, until I drove it while it was laughing. 2. The worshiper worships Allah by his status, but the knowledgeable one worships Allah in his status. 3. The least the knowledgeable one should do is to give Allah back what He made him own. 4. He who is accompanied by his lust does not know himself. 5. It is not weird that I love you (O, Allah), as I am a poor servant. It is weird that You love me, as you are the Capable King. 6. For thirty years, I used to wash my mouth before mentioning the name of Allah, glorifying for His mentioning. 7. Some good deeds have so many sins, one do not have to do bad deeds to commit them. 8. If the slave of Allah thinks that there are people worse than him, he is arrogant. 9. Three people are the most veiled from Allah; the ascetic with his asceticism, the worshiper with his worship, and the scholar with his knowledge. 10. If the ascetic knows that Allah described the whole world as “little”, he will wonder how much he owns of it and how much he abstains from what he owns. If the worshiper knows Allah’s gift in his worship, he will know his worship in the gift. If the scholar knows that all the knowledge, that Allah has permitted to be shown in this worldly life, is only one line of the Safeguarded Sacred Tablet, he will wonder how much he knows of this line and how much he did of what he knew. 11. They have never remembered Him but while neglectful and they have never served Him but for a time. 12. The people who signal at Him the most are the farthest away from Him.
14. While I sat once in my worshipping place, I stretched my leg, then I heard a voice saying that sitting with the kings demands politeness. 15. I divorced the worldly life three times so I can never go back to it, and I walked to Allah alone. I asked Him for help, saying “Allah, I am praying for You, as I have no one left but You”. When He knew the honesty of my prayers coming from my heart, and my despair of myself, His first response was that He made me totally forget myself and let all creatures be in my service despite the fact that I am abstaining from them. 16. I called my self to go to Allah but it refused, so I left it and went to Him. 17. People are escaping from judgement trying to avoid it, but I ask Allah to judge me. He was asked "why?". He answered: because He might say to me, within that, “My slave” and I would say “labbaik” [here I am! at your service]. Saying to me “My slave” is the most wonderful thing, to me, in the whole world. After that, let Him do whatever He wills to me. 18. I saw Allah in a dream and asked Him how to go to Him. He said “leave your self and come!”. 19. Someone said to him “Tell me about something that gets me closer to Allah Almighty” He replied “Love the saints of Allah until they love you, because Allah looks at the hearts of His saints and He might see your name in the heart of one of them and forgive you”. 20. He was preaching himself saying “You are the place of all evils. Women get purified three or (maximum) ten days after their period. You have not been purified for twenty or thirty years. When are you going to be purified? To stand in the hands of the All-Pure you have to be pure”. 21. My heart ascended to the sky, cruised over there and returned back. I asked it: what did you bring with you? It replied: love and satisfaction. 22. Abo-Mosa ad-Dubly said “I asked Abo-el-Yazid “whom should I befriend?” He said “The one who visits you when you fall sick, forgives you when you do wrong, and knows of you what Allah knows of you. One of his most famous words: I got into a Mohammedan sea, on whose coast the prophets stood along. Sidi Ismail an-Nabahany said “The one who inherits the Prophet gets something, by the Prophet, that was never attained by the prophets. Such a rank is denied by many scholars. Abo-el-Yazid has been tremendously attacked for saying so, as they did not understand his intention. Because an-Nabahany said that had the help and the power of Prophet Mohammad [PPBUH].
Sidi Abo-al-Hassan ash-Shazaly said that he has power and that his words are of the strongest of all saints’ words and the most influential. Among his followers are sidi Abo-al-Hassan al-Kharqany and sidi Mostafa al-Bakry, the sheikh of al-khalwati tariqa as he gave him the Naqshabandiya order, as al-Bakry stated in his Alfiya in Sufism. Abo-el-Yazid was buried in Bastam, but the true Wali [saint] has forty shrines on earth. hree of them are known in Egypt: in al-Manial, Cairo; in Sadima, al-Gharbia province; in al-Zomrunia, al-Qalubia province. Sidi Abo-el-Yazid was titled as “the king of the saints”.
Edited by Abdelhamid Babiker Translated by Nahed |
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Whoever wants to get more about this, can browse the pages of Sufism in the official site of tariqa Burhaniya.
The Editors Team
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