TheRamadan of Shaykh Al-Hadith Ml ZakariyyaKandelwi by Dr Muhammad Ismail Memon Madani

the ramadan of shaikh muĤ ammud zakariyyĀ
intellect is subjugated through complete surrender of the self
to their shaikh.
For example, if a man is standing in front of the murīd and the
shaikh tells the murīd to grab both his hands, the murīd must grab
both his hands. In fact, if the shaikh tells him to grab the third hand
the murīd must put his thoughts aside and stretch out his hand to
grab the third hand. No one should think this is sufistic talk as the
Blessed Prophet s himself taught unconditional submission and
every Śaĥābī g, in accordance with their personal effort, attained
some degree of this quality. The less unconditional submission one
had, the more deprived he was. Therefore, in one narration by Abū
‘Ubaida g in Shamā’il al-Tirmidhī he says,
I cooked some food for the Blessed Prophet s. I knew the Blessed
Prophet s liked shank so I presented him with shank first. The
Blessed Prophet s asked for another and I gave him another. When
he asked for another, I said, “Oh Blessed Prophet s, a goat only has
two shanks.” The Blessed Prophet s replied, “I swear by the One
in whose life is my hands! If you had stayed quiet, the more I asked
for, the more that would have come out from the pot.” 45
Ĥađrat narrates the opinion of Manāwī in his commentary [of
Shamā’il] that, “In reality, this was a great blessing of Allah u. If
he had complete unconditional submission in the Blessed Prophet
s, pieces of shank would have come out from the pot for as long
as he asked, but as he became apprehensive [which was not suited
to the occasion], the special blessing of Allah u was removed.”
The channel of the faiđ and divine blessings of Allah u is the
shaikh who takes the place of the prophet. Any wavering in the
murīd’s unconditional submission or any such thing that appears
as an objection can be cause for the blessings and special bounties
to cease. Therefore, he who takes his knowledge as ignorance
and his personal views as darkness before he arrives at his shaikhs,
will take his full share of the shaikh’s faiđ . If he comes to the
45 Shamā’il al-Tirmidhī, mā Jā’ fī Idāmi Rasūl Allāh s
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