Sahaba - The Blessed
At the beginning of the book (The Blessed) superiority of Ashâb of our prophet, Muhammad ´alayhissalâm, is explained along with how unjust and ignorant are those who defame Ashâb-ı-kirâm. Besides, the meaning of ijtihâd is explained. In the part of cautioning, an answer is given to the book (Hüsniyye) written by an enemy of Islam. In another part, biographies of great savants of Islam - hadrat Imâm-ı Rabbâni and hadrat Sayyed Abdülhakîm-ı Arvâsi - are explained. In the part Two Apples of the Eye of Muslims superiority of hadrat Abû Bakr and hadrat Omar is explained; in the part The First Fitna in Islam events between Ashâb-ı-kirâm are explained beautifully from the pen of hadrat Imâm-ı Rabbâni Ahmad Fârûkî Sarhandi who explains that to love all of Ashâb-ı-kirâm is a fundamental condition of being Ahl-i-sunnat.
At the beginning of the book (The Blessed) superiority of Ashâb of our prophet, Muhammad ´alayhissalâm, is explained along with how unjust and ignorant are those who defame Ashâb-ı-kirâm. Besides, the meaning of ijtihâd is explained. In the part of cautioning, an answer is given to the book (Hüsniyye) written by an enemy of Islam. In another part, biographies of great savants of Islam - hadrat Imâm-ı Rabbâni and hadrat Sayyed Abdülhakîm-ı Arvâsi - are explained. In the part Two Apples of the Eye of Muslims superiority of hadrat Abû Bakr and hadrat Omar is explained; in the part The First Fitna in Islam events between Ashâb-ı-kirâm are explained beautifully from the pen of hadrat Imâm-ı Rabbâni Ahmad Fârûkî Sarhandi who explains that to love all of Ashâb-ı-kirâm is a fundamental condition of being Ahl-i-sunnat.
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person like him has come out.<br />
12– Khwâja Muhammad Bâqî ‘quddisa sirruh’ stated on<br />
another occasion: I brought this seed, which is a medicament for<br />
hearts and a cure for souls, from Samarkand and Bukhâra, and<br />
sowed it in the fertile soil of India. I spared no effort for the<br />
education and guidance of the disciples. When he surpassed all<br />
degrees and attained the highest grades of all sorts of perfection, I<br />
withdrew myself from between and left the disciples to his care.<br />
13– In a letter that Khwâja Muhammad Bâqî Billâh ‘quddisa<br />
sirruh’ wrote to Imâm Rabbânî ‘quddisa sirruhumâ’, he states as<br />
follows: “May Allâhu ta’âlâ bless you with the lot of attaining the<br />
highest grade and guiding all others as well! A line:<br />
Earth has a share from the meal table of the beneficent!<br />
“<strong>The</strong> unornamented truth is that the Shaikh-ul-islâm Abdullah<br />
Ansârî ‘rahimahullâhu ta’âlâ’ stated, ‘I was educated by Abul<br />
Hasan Harkânî ‘rahimahullâhu ta’âlâ’. However, if Harkânî were<br />
alive now, he would ignore that he had been my teacher, come and<br />
kneel down before me.’ My inaction is not due to complacency or<br />
snub; on the contrary, I am awaiting a sign implying admission.<br />
This is the truth of the matter. May Allâhu ta’âlâ bless us with<br />
guidance! May He protect us from conceit and vanity! Sayyid Sâlih<br />
of Nishâpûr, who will be bringing you this letter of mine, came to<br />
me for the cure of his heart. Because I do not have time and I am<br />
not in a convenient state, I am sending him to you lest he should<br />
waste his time with me. Inshâ-Allah, he will attain your high and<br />
generous attention and obtain something proportional to his<br />
talents.<br />
14– “May Allâhu ta’âlâ, for the sake of His beloved Awliyâ,<br />
whom He has chosen for Himself, guide also those wretched and<br />
impoverished mendicants of knowledge and sagacity, the hapless<br />
count-outs of all windfalls, and make them attain their wishes! I<br />
have been unable to present my true respect to your rank, which is<br />
a resource of Awliyâ. Yes, this is the only proper way of addressing<br />
oneself to a rank whose states are true to its name. To call you ‘my<br />
disciple’ would mean to display the most shameless insolence and<br />
to obscure the truth with the apparent contraposition. I request<br />
your benedictions, sir.”<br />
15– In addition to his own master, most of the scholars and<br />
sages of his time mentioned his name with laudatory remarks that<br />
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