Sahaba - The Blessed

estrange the short-sighted people from the imâm by alleging that
he denied the Wahdat-i-wujûd which was a science for spiritual
improvement established by the great shaikhs of Islam. They tried
to antagonize his admirers by asserting that he denied the
Meshâikh-i-izâm and boasted of having attained the ma’rifat of
Allâhu ta’âlâ directly without a guide. The defamations
culminated when they finally tried to besmear him with the
political felony of insubordination against the government and
contempt for the laws and, into the bargain, many another libel
which a Muslim could never commit against another.
26– His alleged denial of the Meshâikh-i-izâm was a blatant lie.
The truth becomes manifest immediately upon beginning to read
his book Maktûbât, which is a clear evidence of his profound
respect towards the Meshâikh-i-izâm, so much so that he attaches
beautiful meanings even to their words that are vulnerable to
misinterpretation and which for centuries their enemies have
exploited as fulcrums to bring their calumniations to bear, -as for
their words that do not seem to be susceptible of a benevolent
interpretation, he says that they were the erroneous words which
those great people had said during their apprenticeship and which
they corrected after attaining higher grades. He says that errors of
kashf (in the paths of Tasawwuf), like errors of ijtihâd (committed
by scholars who have attained the grade of ijtihâd), are not only
pardonable but also meritorious acts that are likely to be rewarded
(in the Hereafter). As regards his alleged denial of Wahdat-iwujûd;
those who read Maktûbât will know that the truth is quite
the other way round and that he handles the matter with
unprecedented adroitness by, on the one hand, protecting Islam’s
honour and, on the other, paying heed to the dignity of those great
people.
27– The statesmen under the time’s Sultân Selîm Jihânghir
Khân, including his grand vizier, his chief muftî and his harem,
were not Sunnî Muslims. However, most of the Imâm’s letters, and
also his booklet Radd-i-rawâfid, especially, repudiate people
without a Madhhab and explain that they are ignorant, stupid and
base people. Imâm-i-Rabbânî sent that booklet of his to Abdullah
Jenghiz Khân, the time’s greatest Uzbek Khân in Bukhârâ, with the
note, “Show this booklet to the Iranian Shâh Abbâs Safawî! If he
accepts it, things will be quite all right. If he does not, then it will be
permissible to make war against him.” When the Shâh’s answer was
in the negative, a war was made. Abdullah Khân took Herat
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