Adab with the Shaykh

  From the manners of the path shaykh Salih mentions: Do not consider one’s self higher than the shaykh regardless of obtaining a state from the various states, whether its obtaining knowledges or unveilings. One must see oneself as merely an extension of the shaykh and always and perpetually submit his spirit (ruh) to the shaykh, like Sayyidi ʿAbdul Karīm al-Jīlī, may Allah be pleased with…

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Shaykh in the Barzakh

  Sayyiduna Shaykh Salih al-Ja'fari explaining the reality of the shaykh of tariqa. "Know that the founders of all the Sufi tariqas are now in the barzakh, in the other world. And from there, each has more knowledge of his murid than the knowledge of his khalifa in the world, multiple times over. This is a spiritual tarbiya (upbringing), from the category of ‘breaking norms’, and…

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