5-Endless Bliss Fifth Fascicle - Hakikat Kitabevi

savants of Mâlikî, says, “Allâhu ta’âlâ gives such power to the
souls of the Awliyâ that they can assume various guises. Their
bodies do not leave their graves. But their souls can appear in
guises.”
Alâuddawla Ahmad-i Samnânî [1] (rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’aleyh)
was asked: “A body in the grave is without a soul, so it does not
hear. And the soul does not have a special place; it can be
present at any place. Is it necessary to go and visit the grave of
the Awliyâ, then? No matter where you are, if you turn your
attention towards a Walî’s soul, will not the soul be present
there?”
His answer was that going to the graves has many benefits:
A person who goes to visit a Walî will think of him all the time.
Each step he takes will add to his tawajjuh (turning, inclination)
towards him. By the time he gets near the grave and sees his
soil, his thoughts will be preoccupied only with him. This will
increase his tawajjuh all the more. The more his tawajjuh
increases, the more benefits will he receive. It is true that there
is no hindrance or limit for a soul. All places are the same for it.
But the body with which it lived for years in the world and with
which it will stay eternally in the Hereafter, is there, in that soil.
Therefore, the soul’s frequenting, inclination to, relation with
and attachment to that soil will be more than in the case of other
places. Alâuddawla said: One day I entered the room where
Junayd-i Baghdâdî ‘qaddas-Allâhu ta’âlâ sirrah ul-’azîz’ had
subjected himself to mortifications. There, I tasted so many
zawks. Then I visited Junayd’s grave, but I could not find the
same zawks there. When I asked my master the reason for it he
said, “Were those zawks because of Junayd?” And when my
answer was positive, he said, “Since zawks arise from a place
where he stayed a few days during his lifetime, there must be
many more zawks when you go near his body, with which he
spent many years together. Perhaps when you were by his
grave you saw other things, which might have decreased your
tawajjuh towards him.” If a person turns his tawajjuh to the soul
of Rasûlullah (sallallâhu ’alaihi wasallam) when he is in his own
[1] Alâuddawla Ahmad-i-Samnânî ‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’aleyh’ (659 [1260]-
736 [1335]), Sôfî Âbâd, was the son of the Pâdishâh (Sultan) of
Samnân, N. Iran, He dedicated himself to Tasawwuf and attained
perfection in the path termed Kubrawiyya
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