... wing). The third is a mirror of the Prophet Aaron's heart, and the special name of this one is 'Abdulmurid (the Servant of the All-Willing). The fourth reflects the attributes of the Prophet Enoch's hear ...
... al-Ghazali (13 times), followed by Ahmad Sirhindi (10 times), Yunus Emre, Ibn 'Arabi (both 9 times) and Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani (8 times). Admittedly, al-Ghazali was an expert in various other fields apart ...
... ing other than God. He accepts none except God. He worships none except Him, and he asks from none except Him." He continues, quoting Bayazid saying, "I want not to want except what He wants." In anoth ...
... nd teacher was a member of the Qadiri order whilst Ramiz Efendi was a member of the Naqshbandi order. These orthodox Shari'ah-oriented Sufi orders were popular in rural Turkey at the time. One of the ar ...
... ures in religious sciences from the professor Muhammed Lütfi , a member of the Qadiri Sufi order, but also received a "modern" education in literature, philosophy, and history; he also sympathized with stu ...
... such spiritual masters as Jalal al-Din al-Rumi, Yunus Emre, and Shaykh ‘Abd al-Qadir al- Jilani. They are so modest that they see themselves as just ordinary people among others. Finally, their altruism ...
... eunited with Him. In his book "The Secret of Secrets" Hadrat Abd-al-Qadir al Jilani says that Sufis live humbly eating and drinking little. Both Rumi and Gülen follow this practice, not as an end in and of ...
... hman ibn Affan was reading when he was martyred, may God be pleased with them all... Or maybe the robe of Imam Abu Hanifa, the felt cap of Uways al-Qarani, the cap of 'Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani, the golden ...
... ce for the Sufi to not abandon the Shari'ah . Gülen would appear to be in continuation with the long line of Shari'ah -oriented Sufis, represented most strongly by the Qadiri and Naqshbandi traditions, an ...
... e eliminated disunity, restoring and protecting the faith. Bediüzzaman gives Mahdi al-Abbasi as an example in the political arena, Abd al-Qadir Jilani, Shaykh Naqshbandi, aqtab al-arbaa (four great saints ...
... n, Knowledge and Social Practice, 86. [28] See, for example, Ibn Abi 'Usaybi'a, 'Uyun al-anba' fi tabaqat al-atibba' (Beirut, 1965), 646-51. [29] Ibn Sa'd, al-Tabaqat al-kubra, ed. MuEQ \O(h,.)ammad ' ...
... ompilation. In Imploring Hearts, you will find invocations of Imam Ghazali, Abd al-Qadir Jilani, Ahmad Rufai, Hasan Shadhali, Shah Naqshband, Muhyi al-Din ibn Arabi, Imam Rabbani and others. [6] This ref ...
... amiz Efendi, instructed him in reading the Qur'an and learning Arabic). Both were influenced by Sufi scholars (in his extra-curricula Islamic school Gülen was taught by a man from the Qadiri tarekat by th ...
... educational institutions he attended alongside the public grammar school he came under the tutelage of Muhammad Lutfi Efendi, a member of the Qadiri Sufi order. Although we no longer know much about t ...
... ent of the world. However, in order to enact such a process we should raise people of great willpower who will give the people of today the newest spirit, people with the profundity of Abd al-Qadir al-Jil ...
... eople have eliminated disunity, restoring and protecting the faith. Bediuzzaman gives Mahdi al-Abbasi as an example in the political arena, Abd al-Qadir Jilani, Shayk Naqshbandi, aqtab al-arbaa (four grea ...
... does Said Nursi have on you? There have been many grand individuals whom I have admired throughout my life: Imam Rabbani, Mawlana Halid, Ghazali, Aktab-i Erbaa (four great saints: Abd al-Qadir Jilani, ...
... have served the people’s souls, senses, hearts, and consciences. Other great examples of the differences in ability are Sufyan-i Sevri, Ibrahim ibn A`tham, Beyazid-Bistami, Junayd al-Baghdadi, Abdul Qadir ...
... ite its absurdity, Goldziher used Ya'qubi's account to defame Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri, the first formal compiler of the Traditions and a narrator of one-fourth of them. "Modern" researchers in the Muslim w ...
... ontinue to learn from him about how to purify ourselves from sin until the Day of Judgment. Such great saints as 'Ali ibn Abu Talib, 'Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani, Imam Ghazzali, Imam Rabbani, Fudayl ibn 'Iya ...