Madarijas-Salikeen
30th May 2007, 07:21 PM
bismillah ar rahman ar raheem
I praise Allaah ta ala who has sent the Nabi salalahu alayhi wa salam with the straight path. I praise Allaah who has completed our deen for us , which means it is not in need of newly invented matters. Our deen is not a changing religion that is weak like the manmade religions of others or corrupted religions.
Many people are flocking to sufism, they will buy into deceptive words and accept them. They will then start defending things such as istighatha, wahdat al wujud, istiana, innovated practices, mawlid, and hadra and samaa and tons of other innovations.
We are told that when a 'waliy' says 'I am Haq' etc... that they are to be excused for they are spiritually intoxicated. Ibn taymiyah rahimullah alayh also excused them if they reach this by lawfull means. As you see below:
Shaykh al-Islam [Ibn Taymiyah] said:
But some of those who have this experience may become intoxicated and irrational when in that state of oblivion, in which state they may say things like “Glory be to me” or “There is nothing in this cloak except Allaah” and other such words that were narrated from Abu Yazeed al-Bistaami. Whatever an intoxicated person says is to be overlooked; it should not be narrated or told to others, if his intoxication has not come about through haraam means such as forbidden acts of worship or performing acts of worship in ways that are not allowed. But if the cause of intoxication is something haraam, then the intoxicated person is no longer to be excused. In this regard there is no difference between physical and spiritual intoxication.
Majmoo’ al-Fataawa, 2/461
Now a sufi may say, 'but their means is lawfull'
However, this is not true. For it is part of Sufism to reach this state. They want to strive to reach this state and experiance being in the divine presence and seeing only Allaah etc... They strive to become spiritually intoxicated! This is known from their works. Fana is what they want to reach. This is their way onto their journey to Allaah.
Now, these sufis still go along saying these individuals are excused. They say you cannot hold them responsible for their spiritually intoxicated state.
BUT and thats a big BUT,
Why is it that they write books that contain kufr statements upon the dhahir? If its uttered from a spiritually intoxicated state why then write it down? If it is written down during this spiritual state, then when they come out of their (spiritual intoxication) they should destroy their writings! Yet we see that they record their writings anyways, and in order to defend themselves they use this argument of ibn arabi.
"it is unlawful to read (the sufis) books unless one attains to their level of character and learns the meaning of their words in comformity with their technical usages, neither of which is found except in someone who has worked assiduously, rolled up his sleeves, abandoned the wrong, tightened his belt, filled himself replete with the outward islamic sciences, and purified himself from every low trait connected with this world and the next. It is just a person who comprehends what is being said and is allowed to enter when he stands at the door" (Reliance of the traveler page 1082)
Perhaps some of us can understand them going into a state of madness during their innovated dhikr, but what about these works they write?
Ibn arabi claims the nabi salalahu alayhi wa salam approved of al futoohat. Yet do we know of a single one amongst the companions radiallahu anhu to state such 'inner' meanings as that described in ibn arabi's work? Or do we know of even a single sahabi writing something down that they believed the Nabi salalahu alayhi wa salam approved of in a dream? Did they focus on special inner meanings? Did they reach the divine presence and witness allaah without a veil? How ironic for indeed these same companions debated over rather the Nabi salalahu alayhi wa salam saw Allaah in his lifetime.
The statements of kufr in his works as in the fusoos and al-futoohaat are defended by the sufis as something which the scholars of the "outward islamic sciences" do not understand! The advocates of the concept of wahdat Al-wujud confirm it as it came in ibn arabis work and criticize those whom they classify as 'scholars of the shareeah" (Like ath-thahabee, ibn hajar, ibn taymiyyah, ibn katheer, and many more) who rejected this kufr! This basic argument is that this concept could only be understood by those who qualify in understanding the mystic "inward" knowledge as has been discussed above. In this regard, ahmad bin kamaal Basha (d940/1533) a defender of ibn arabi states that, "unlike the people of kashf and baatin (inward), people of the "outward"are unable to comprehend the intended meaning of some of the issues in Al-Fusoos and Al-Futoohaat." He then concluded that, "in this respect, the one who does not know the intended meaning must keep silent, because Allaah Most High said:
"The hearing and the sight and the heart each of those you will be questioned (by allaah)" Soraat Al-israa 17:36)
The people of ath-thaahir neither wrote nor propagated the corrupt thoughts and concepts of wahdat al-wujud. Those great scholars of Islaam who exposed such the false concepts should according to ahmad basha, have kept silent! This is a great misguidance.
People began defending the statements of these mystics when they are in a state of spiritual intoxications. Then they started defending their writings which only seem to be a result of their spiritual intoxications.
There is no such thing as secret knowledge in islaam. Whatever was not within the deen of al islaam as the nabi salalahu alayhi wa salam presented , will never be accepted from Allaah. Innovations such as that of the mystics and current day mystic leaders has nothing to do with Islaam let alone what is attributed to the nabi salalahu alayhi wa salam from some dream dictated to them.
We ask that Allaah be our protector against the deviant creeds and keep us steadfast on the Straight path Ameen
Alhamdulilah!Allaahuma sali ala muhammadin wa ala ali muhammad
wa salaamu alaykum
-mustafa
I praise Allaah ta ala who has sent the Nabi salalahu alayhi wa salam with the straight path. I praise Allaah who has completed our deen for us , which means it is not in need of newly invented matters. Our deen is not a changing religion that is weak like the manmade religions of others or corrupted religions.
Many people are flocking to sufism, they will buy into deceptive words and accept them. They will then start defending things such as istighatha, wahdat al wujud, istiana, innovated practices, mawlid, and hadra and samaa and tons of other innovations.
We are told that when a 'waliy' says 'I am Haq' etc... that they are to be excused for they are spiritually intoxicated. Ibn taymiyah rahimullah alayh also excused them if they reach this by lawfull means. As you see below:
Shaykh al-Islam [Ibn Taymiyah] said:
But some of those who have this experience may become intoxicated and irrational when in that state of oblivion, in which state they may say things like “Glory be to me” or “There is nothing in this cloak except Allaah” and other such words that were narrated from Abu Yazeed al-Bistaami. Whatever an intoxicated person says is to be overlooked; it should not be narrated or told to others, if his intoxication has not come about through haraam means such as forbidden acts of worship or performing acts of worship in ways that are not allowed. But if the cause of intoxication is something haraam, then the intoxicated person is no longer to be excused. In this regard there is no difference between physical and spiritual intoxication.
Majmoo’ al-Fataawa, 2/461
Now a sufi may say, 'but their means is lawfull'
However, this is not true. For it is part of Sufism to reach this state. They want to strive to reach this state and experiance being in the divine presence and seeing only Allaah etc... They strive to become spiritually intoxicated! This is known from their works. Fana is what they want to reach. This is their way onto their journey to Allaah.
Now, these sufis still go along saying these individuals are excused. They say you cannot hold them responsible for their spiritually intoxicated state.
BUT and thats a big BUT,
Why is it that they write books that contain kufr statements upon the dhahir? If its uttered from a spiritually intoxicated state why then write it down? If it is written down during this spiritual state, then when they come out of their (spiritual intoxication) they should destroy their writings! Yet we see that they record their writings anyways, and in order to defend themselves they use this argument of ibn arabi.
"it is unlawful to read (the sufis) books unless one attains to their level of character and learns the meaning of their words in comformity with their technical usages, neither of which is found except in someone who has worked assiduously, rolled up his sleeves, abandoned the wrong, tightened his belt, filled himself replete with the outward islamic sciences, and purified himself from every low trait connected with this world and the next. It is just a person who comprehends what is being said and is allowed to enter when he stands at the door" (Reliance of the traveler page 1082)
Perhaps some of us can understand them going into a state of madness during their innovated dhikr, but what about these works they write?
Ibn arabi claims the nabi salalahu alayhi wa salam approved of al futoohat. Yet do we know of a single one amongst the companions radiallahu anhu to state such 'inner' meanings as that described in ibn arabi's work? Or do we know of even a single sahabi writing something down that they believed the Nabi salalahu alayhi wa salam approved of in a dream? Did they focus on special inner meanings? Did they reach the divine presence and witness allaah without a veil? How ironic for indeed these same companions debated over rather the Nabi salalahu alayhi wa salam saw Allaah in his lifetime.
The statements of kufr in his works as in the fusoos and al-futoohaat are defended by the sufis as something which the scholars of the "outward islamic sciences" do not understand! The advocates of the concept of wahdat Al-wujud confirm it as it came in ibn arabis work and criticize those whom they classify as 'scholars of the shareeah" (Like ath-thahabee, ibn hajar, ibn taymiyyah, ibn katheer, and many more) who rejected this kufr! This basic argument is that this concept could only be understood by those who qualify in understanding the mystic "inward" knowledge as has been discussed above. In this regard, ahmad bin kamaal Basha (d940/1533) a defender of ibn arabi states that, "unlike the people of kashf and baatin (inward), people of the "outward"are unable to comprehend the intended meaning of some of the issues in Al-Fusoos and Al-Futoohaat." He then concluded that, "in this respect, the one who does not know the intended meaning must keep silent, because Allaah Most High said:
"The hearing and the sight and the heart each of those you will be questioned (by allaah)" Soraat Al-israa 17:36)
The people of ath-thaahir neither wrote nor propagated the corrupt thoughts and concepts of wahdat al-wujud. Those great scholars of Islaam who exposed such the false concepts should according to ahmad basha, have kept silent! This is a great misguidance.
People began defending the statements of these mystics when they are in a state of spiritual intoxications. Then they started defending their writings which only seem to be a result of their spiritual intoxications.
There is no such thing as secret knowledge in islaam. Whatever was not within the deen of al islaam as the nabi salalahu alayhi wa salam presented , will never be accepted from Allaah. Innovations such as that of the mystics and current day mystic leaders has nothing to do with Islaam let alone what is attributed to the nabi salalahu alayhi wa salam from some dream dictated to them.
We ask that Allaah be our protector against the deviant creeds and keep us steadfast on the Straight path Ameen
Alhamdulilah!Allaahuma sali ala muhammadin wa ala ali muhammad
wa salaamu alaykum
-mustafa