Shaykh Abdul-Ghani says:
“It is known among the students of Sayyidi Ahmad b. Idris are those who received the Shadhili tariqa, for example, al-sayyid Muhammad Sirr al-Khatm al-Mirghani and al-sayyid Muhammad Ali al-Sanusi, and al-sayyid al-Majdhub. And there are those who received from him the Muhammadiyya Idrissiyya tariqa, for example, al-sayyid Ibrahim al-Rashidi. Each of them received the awrad from him then they received them from the Prophet ﷺ.
The sons of al-Sayyid Ahmad b. Idris, all of them, are shaykhs who have paths named after them and other paths branched off from them like al-Dandariyya, al-Ismailiyya and al-Salihiyya from the Rashidiyya tariqa. Our Imam, the reviver, the imam, al-Ja’fari, laid the foundations of al-Tariqa al-Ja’fariyya al-Ahmadiyya al-Muhammadiyya, which embodies the principles of religion and its rulings based on knowledge. His methodology is the Quran and the Sunna and the spiritual upbringing which manifests the spirit of taṣawwuf and is a manifestation of the lofty spiritual realities of taṣawwuf, bringing into practice the noble statement “My Lord taught me good manners and He taught me well”.
Our shaykh reared his students and murids on the methodology of clear guidance and made it free from every reprehensible bida’a which had entered the field of taṣawwuf. The circles of remembrance at the noble Azhar were attended and visited by scholars from all the Arab countries. Today the students of Imam al-Ja’fari extend across the Republic in districts, cities, and villages in the Sudan, rather the whole Islamic world, and their centers and circles of remembrance run on his methodology and guidance, as they pattern them on the pattern of the shaykh, as it was during his lifetime.”
In another place the shaykh says:
“Shaykh Salih’s methodology was united and mixed with that of Sayyid Ahmad b. Idris, such that his statements regarding the Jaʿfarī Order were inseparable from his statements on the Aḥmadī Order, as they both come from the same lamp.”
Admin note:
This is important for us when reading the shaykh’s poetry, because the wonderful qualities and statements he mentions about the “Ahmadi” path we can read\understand as the same as the “Ja’fari” path.
