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Unveiling the Secrets of Magic and Magicians

 

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Authored by:

the great humane eminent scholar

Mohammad Amin Sheikho

(His soul has been sanctified by Al’lah)

1890-1964

 

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Checked and Introduced by

The Researcher and Thinker

Prof. A. K. John Alias Al-Dayran

 

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Copyright © Amin-sheikho.com

Foreword by Prof. Abdul-Kadir John Alias Al-Dayrani

The Almighty (glory to Him) says: “Their devices are but the deceitful show of witchcraft. Magicians shall never prosper, whatever they do.”

The Holy Qur’an,

Fortress[1] 20, Ta Ha ‘Ta-ha’ (Pure), verse 69

The ship of Islam moved backwards, and righteousness became frail, having previously been strong in the hearts of people. This ignorance spread widely across the world, leaving no place for faith. That is because people veered off course in their way of thinking and followed the way of imitation, so that the methods of magic prevailed in all fields, and tricksters pretended to be Muslim so as to achieve their malignant purposes.

The wolf put on the garment of a man, hiding the violent death that lurked in its fangs.

Falsehood was in command, and its followers became masters.

The common people were like a feather that was being tossed about by a hurricane, and were finally thrown to the ground, finding no way to escape.

But God’s Mercy is the rescuer of those who are obedient, and rejects oppression and degradation on their behalf, and always seeks to uplift them through communication, and makes the sacred light perfect upon them as favor and grace from Him.

And here is a high lofty sun that has risen and driven away the black darkness.

Springs of Godly Wisdom flowed up over the heart of our venerable scholar Mohammad Amin Sheikho, and passed through his tongue to become a factual and realistic science to unveil the hidden sciences and devilish tricks of the magicians.

These are great facts that entirely destroy the falsehood of these magicians, and support the base of righteousness’ edifice.

– Prof. A. K. John

Preface

Excerpts from the Inspired Science of the GreatHumane Scholar Mohammad Amin Sheikho

Many people turn to augurs, fortune-tellers and conjuring magicians for help, driven by curiosity, or by the desire to uncover hidden matters and inquire about their prospects for the near and far future.

While having their morning coffee, they like to read their horoscopes in the newspapers before going to work and entering the whirligig of daily life, stimulated by an insistent desire for optimism and good omens, and longing for a day full of hope and delight… but…!

Some of them continue to search for one who spits over knots, or who will write a spell for them, or for an exorcist who gathers and stirs up discord among people.

We also find those who want to cause harm to their enemies by means of those conjuring magicians – because of envy, through cursing them with the evil eye. And there are others who want to see wonders, or watch supernatural trickery – as they suppose it to be – for example, stabbing oneself with skewers, spiritualism, and the telling of unseen things through augury, fortune telling and necromancy.

Others covet accumulated hundredweights of gold, and wish to find golden treasures hidden beneath the ground without making any effort, and so they resort to magic and magicians.

And there are those who aspire to kingship and superiority over humanity by adopting the principles of the devil. “…I am better than him (Adam)…”

The Holy Qur’an,

Fortress 7, Al-A’raf (The Heights), verse 12

These people seek mastery and to tower over others.

Others desire adultery, but in secret, so they resort to the magicians, and at their hands they learn to join those who commit hidden sins.

When do the magicians appear?

Throughout the ages, concentrated amounts of spiritual waste and human failure appear in certain societies as a result of an aberration of manners and a deviation from morality and from the right way (which we call the ‘straight path’ in Arabic). Such practices lead their perpetrator to the gulf, where they sacrifice their humanity for enjoyment that is destructive and momentary, and that is inevitably followed by great torment. Such a person becomes devoted to their whims, and aims to fulfill their lusts in a hellish, dirty, vile way, so that they turn into an enemy of everyone else, whoever they might be: their son, their brother or even their mother.

Such people seek to destroy others and dispossess them of their characters.

They dedicate their existence to depriving others of their will until they become obedient to them. To achieve this evil aim, they veil their face behind a humanitarian mask, faking the ability to do wonders, or claiming to possess wisdom and science, or even to practice spiritual medicine and physical or spiritual therapy.

Verily, these are the magicians and conjurers, and as long as people do not think deeply, they will follow them and believe in their abilities and ideas.

These magicians will find a good market among such simple-minded people, especially those who are possessed by a love for money that dominates their life.

So, it is necessary to reveal to our gentle readers the reality of these magicians and conjurers in consecutive sections. They hide themselves behind religious clothing such as palliums and jubbahs, or behind turbans and beards, or other false faces, and include: hypnotists, spiritual doctors, magicians who spit over knots, astrologers, trick swordsmen who stab themselves with skewers, those who eat glass, who walk over fire, or who stay underwater for a long time, mediums, augurs, fortune-tellers, necromancers etc. Their masks are multiple but their hearts are alike: they are tricksters. They are all melting in a single crucible and drinking from a stagnant spring.

Only the scholar’s learning unveils the secrets of the magicians

So, he or she who wants to show the lies and disprove the falsehoods of these practitioners of magic has no means to do so except by resorting to the Holy Qur’an and the sacred Sunna of the prophet (cpth),[2] because these will unveil their hidden knowledge and their unseen statues.

Only these two holy sources frustrate these magicians’ statements and refute their destructive beliefs. The Holy Qur’an is a book that “falsehood cannot reach from before or behind…”

The Holy Qur’an,

Fortress 41, Fussilat (explained), verse 42

A strange phenomenon circulates among people nowadays and spreads through different educational, cultural and social classes.

It is the faith in those people who deal in magic, and who pretend that they have the ability to harness the world of jinn in order to fulfill people’s hopes and wishes, and to solve the hard problems that people face.

Considering the importance and gravity of this subject, we wanted to discuss it according to a set of rules that are aimed at disclosing the purpose of this magic in order to acquaint people with the facts surrounding its current credibility and influence. We found no one to reveal its reality correctly except the great humane scholar Mohammad Amin Sheikho – his soul has been sanctified by Al’lah.

Therefore, we borrowed the following elements of research from his thoughts and knowledge, which are inspired by the Holy Qur’an, in which the Almighty does not neglect anything.

Thus, the humane scholar is the vanquisher, unveiling the reality of this field of conjuring, and clarifying its reality in detail, with logical and scientific proof, supported by verses from the Holy Qur’an.

So the tongue of the heart addresses those who believe in their enemy, as mentioned in the noble verse: “…would you then worship that, instead of Al’lah, which can neither help you nor harm you? Shame on you and on your idols! Have you no sense?”

The Holy Qur’an,

Fortress 21, Al-Anbiya’ (The Prophets), verse 66-67

Chapter 1

• The Claim that Magic Proves the Validity of the Islamic Religion (Each Magician is a Beggar).
• Refuting Magicians’ Claims.
• Firstly: Pagan worshipers of fire and of cows are able to do greater devilish wonders than those already mentioned.
• Secondly: Messengers and prophets are mortal human beings like us.
• Thirdly: Magicians Are the People Farthest from Righteousness.
• Fourthly: Why have the magicians failed to liberate their occupied lands by using their magic?
• Fifthly: The Qur’anic verses state that there can be no miracle after the Holy Qur’an
• Sixthly: In general, do miracles profit anyone?
• Seventhly: Could the noble companions (may God be pleased with them) guide the nations to light by stabbing themselves with skewers!?
• Eighthly: A realistic result is better than delusion

The Claim that Magic Proves the Validity of the Islamic Religion (Each Magician is a Beggar)

Many years ago, people would watch those who wandered through the streets and markets performing their trickery in front of people, to see how they could take eggs, golden coins, birds, and razor blades from their mouths.

But we wonder: after ending their tricks, why do these magicians, who pretend to create something from nothing and to know unseen things, ask people to give them money for their show so as to allay their hunger?!

We see that magic never attains money; otherwise the magicians would create enough money to fulfill their needs, so that they would be prevented from begging.

These people are similar to the magicians for whom Pharaoh sent, in order that they use their great magic to frustrate the miracle of the staff that was carried by our master Moses (pth). Describing their poverty and begging, God says: “And when the magicians came to Pharaoh, they said: ‘Shall we be rewarded if we win?’ ”: shall you give us a reward if we win?

The Holy Qur’an,

Fortress 26, Ash-Shu’ara’ (The Poets), verse 41

So, although they were masters at creating wonders, they asked for money, though each of them was a skilled magician!! And yet they could not provide themselves with that which might have saved them from begging!!

This is how magicians are, in every place and time.

There are also those people who pretend to be strictly obedient to Al’lah, or to be blessed, although in fact, they are not so.

They stab themselves with sharp tools like spears or knives in front of a crowd of people, or they conjure up spirits, or practice necromancy to uncover hidden matters.

There are also those who spend days and weeks in a lake without breathing air who make people believe them by using devilish companions, and those who tread barefoot on firebrands or eat glass.

These are people who pretend to be strictly obedient to Al’lah. If you ask them about their reason for doing such deeds, they will answer you thus: “it is to confirm and prove the rightness of Islam in front of unbelievers”, even though they carry out their deeds in Muslim villages that include no such unbelievers. In doing so, they treat all people as unbelievers except themselves!

Refuting Magicians’ Claims

To refuting false claims of magicians that all their actions and practices are but for proving that Islam is true, and that they are the only believers; we mention the following points:

Firstly: Pagan worshipers of fire and of cows are able to do greater devilish wonders than those already mentioned

Islam is a faith of reason and logic, with rules and laws that should be followed by humanity to establish faith and then realize piety (that is, illumination by Al’lah’s Light).

It is not a haphazard course that asks you to break the existing natural laws and the perceptible cosmic discipline, or to oppose the ability for sound thinking with which man has been honoured above the animals.

Such acts of the magicians which contradict reality – like stabbing one’s own abdomen with a knife or a spear, or treading on fire – are indeed mere magic and fancy deception, in which magicians give the observer the impression that they are doing this. In fact, Islam is a faith of facts, where man can perceive its sublimity only by following its rules, not by watching the acts of tricksters and charlatans.

If Islam can be proved to be correct according to the ability to stab oneself with skewers, we must then follow the worshipers of fire and of cows.

Ibn Battuta told us about the magicians in India and China, for he had heard of and seen wonders performed by them.

Once, he visited the sultan of a region in India, and there he met two men who wrapped themselves in blankets so as to live with the spirits in a world of devilish and low companions.

These were men who had performed strange rites where they had covered their heads and used embers to tear out their hair, as some people do with the hair of their armpit.

The sultan ordered them to show Ibn Battuta their wonders, so one of them sat cross-legged and then rose up in the air until he was floating cross-legged over the heads of the people there.

Because of that scene Ibn Battuta lost consciousness, and when he came to, the first person was still levitating, and the other took a shoe and began to beat the floor with it. The shoe then floated up to the neck of the cross-legged one and began to strike him as he slowly came down, until it transpired that he was once again sitting on the floor.

Ibn Battuta told of another wonder which he had seen when he was in China. That occurred when the prince ordered one of the magicians to show them his wonders, and so he threw a long rope in the air. Its end stretched up into the sky until it could no longer be seen, and he ordered a boy to climb the rope, and the boy did so till he disappeared. Then the magician called on him three times to come down, but the child did not. So the magician took a knife in his mouth and ascended the erect rope behind the child until he also disappeared. Then he threw down the boy’s arm, his leg, the other arm… and his head. Having cut him up with the knife, he came down the rope again with his clothes completely covered in blood. He kissed the floor before the prince and talked to him in Chinese. The prince ordered him to be given money. Then the magician took the boy’s limbs and joined them together. After that he kicked him with his leg and the boy got up, alive and well.

A judge who was named Fakhr al deen – who was accompanying Ibn Battuta – said to him: “By God, they were neither ascending, nor descending, and not even cutting off limbs, but it was mere illusion and trickery”.

God the Almighty says about Pharaoh’s magicians: “…they bewitched the people’s eyes and terrified them by a display of great wonders.”

The Holy Qur’an,

Fortress 7, Al-A’raf (The Heights), verse 116

As long as the proof of the correctness of Islam is to be found in doing deeds such as stabbing yourself with skewers, eating glass, and walking over fire, then it would be more deserving to regard the faith of the worshippers of cows and of fire as the right one, as they can perform such wonders. This is so because the wonders shown to Ibn Battuta in India and China, which are still practiced by these magicians to this day, are more amazing than those who are supporters of true faith and Islam.

That means that stabbing oneself with skewers would not merit a mention in comparison with the trickery and wonders of India and China’s magicians who worship cows and fire, and so we should wonder whether their faith might be the right one, since those conjurers we mentioned prove that they are in close obedience to Al’lah and His blessedness by stabbing themselves with knives.

Some Russian magicians, who call themselves hypnotists, display their wonders in the theatres of Damascus. One of them stares into the eyes of a girl in front of people, and gestures with his fingers in front of her face until she faints and falls down. Then he carries her over to a table with his two hands, and puts her lying on it before the very eyes of the attendees. He starts murmuring, and then the table rises half a meter in the air. He takes a thick rope and binds her well to the table, then pours gasoline over her, and sets fire to it from a distance, so that both the table and the girl are engulfed in flame. After that he claps his hands and the same girl comes out through the back door of the theatre, safe and sound, to greet the attendees. When the show ends, the magician gets his reward.

Now, how can stabbing oneself with a skewer or spear deserve to be mentioned in comparison to raising the dead to life after burning their body? Does not this trickery surpass that of those who stab themselves with spears, or eat glass to confirm the rightness of Islam??

How strange their sayings are, and the strangest thing would be to believe them.

Secondly: Messengers and prophets are mortal human beings like us

The right thinking and sound of mind would not accept that a person could stab their body with a knife without being harmed; if such a thing was so, the noble messengers (far be it for them) would be the foremost in such fields: “Their apostles replied: ‘we are indeed mortals like you’…”

The Holy Qur’an,

Fortress 14, Ibrahim (Abraham), verse 11.

Furthermore, some of their noble companions were martyred in battles as a result of stabbing and wounding.

So, these acts are indisputably restricted to magicians.

There are some who have tried to explain such acts scientifically, but they have failed, as no science can physically explain the ability to safely tread on firebrands or to pass a spear through the abdomen.

It is well known that the human body consists of flesh, bones, blood vessels, and the nervous system.

We wonder: have they different physical structures from those of other mortals? Or have they been created differently, or do they belong to another species, so that neither fire nor spears nor knives affect them? They were begotten as we were, and eat the same food we eat.

They are human in origin, but they have allowed the spirits of their malignant companions, the jinn, to surround their bodies, and to commit hidden adultery through their spirits.

They are accompanied by devilish companions who break laws and come to our world by use of their spirits in response to the call of the human devil magicians, and then these jinn pass through the bodies of these magicians to surround their spirits.

Thus they made these magicians into garments for their spirits; hence the control of these spirits of the jinn, whose bodies are originally created from fire, protects these magicians from being burnt by the firebrands on which they tread. So, as a result of this, the magicians are able to start carrying out the deceptive, devilish actions of the jinn, and indeed these are not in fact physical wonders, but rather are spiritual ones.

Among those who watch the magician’s wonders, if there was but one Godly and enlightened believer, whose heart was strictly attached to the shining lamp – the messenger Mohammad (cpth) – and if this person was to mention the name of Al’lah within their spirit, then the spirits of the devilish companions would flee from the magician’s body.

Thereupon, the magician would be unable to work a single wonder, and would certainly know that if he truly treaded on a firebrand, his feet would burn, and if he stabbed his abdomen with a spear he would die.

It is only when the true faith that is based upon the illumination of God’s light is lost that the spirits of devilish companions appear to these magicians according to their whim.

But, in the presence of true believers, whose hearts are loyal to their shining lamp (cpth), this magic becomes inactive, the magicians’ trickery is frustrated, and the spreading of their malignant spirits is hampered. In this case, the devilish companions will indeed burn, because the believer is near to Al’lah, and this is exactly what happened to the devils of Pharaoh’s magicians in the presence of our master Moses (peace is through him), so that the magicians believed in Moses (pth).

The same thing afflicted the magicians in the Arabian peninsula in the presence of our master Mohammad (cpth), except for a few of them, who were beaten by the noble, righteous companions of the prophet.

Where there is no true belief, magic and magicians spread widely, but indeed, they cannot harm anyone with their magic except those who are negligent and disobedient, and who fail to repent and follow the right path.

If people truly turn to God in repentance, they will be released from the influence of magic, and then will enter the worlds of everlasting blessings and eternal delight through their hearts, to be with the prophets, the true martyrs, and those who gained the ability to do good deeds. Their life will be good, and they will be heart-cured.

Thus, the acts of these magicians are nothing but mere magic and the making of connections with the worlds of devilish jinn, and secretly working together with them so as to bewitch people’s eyes with these deceptions and fancies.

Thirdly: Magicians Are the People Farthest from Righteousness

It is no miracle for a man to fly in the air or walk over water, because many animals and insects can do so. Righteousness itself is the real miracle.

The scholar Amin Keftaroh (may God have mercy upon him) was correct when he said: “The real miracle is to break the habits of your own spirit, not to break cosmic discipline.”

The scholar Amin made every effort to correct the false touchstone of belief which people depended on in order to recognize holy men. Indeed, some people still do depend on this touchstone, which is to witness the mere idle acrobatics that are performed by those pretenders to uprightness, the magicians. These actions are also performed by unbelievers, but neither the righteous ancestors nor their successors ever took part in such actions.

In fact, if you examine the manners and the deeds of the magicians (who pretend to be Muslim) you will find them to be the greatest perpetrators of sin and adultery of the entire population.

These acts (stabbing themselves with skewers, eating glass, walking over water or fire (as they pretend to do), and foretelling unseen matters by means of devilish companions) are nothing but magic, trickery, and amusing stories. “…magicians shall never prosper, whatever they do.”

The Holy Qur’an,

Fortress 20, Ta Ha ‘Ta-ha’ (Pure), verse 69

Islam is a faith comprised of logic and high laws, wherein there is no breaking of the magnificently strict cosmic discipline which the true faith will generate in your spirit if you think and contemplate deeply. If this occurs, you will be fit for God’s order and will be able to enter into His presence, where the disgraceful habits and unworthy qualities of the spirit are replaced with perfect characteristics such as kind behavior, generosity, bravery, and other high moral traits.

Righteousness is the real power.

Fourthly: Why have the magicians failed to liberate their occupied lands by using their magic?

Because skewers do not affect them, and fire does not burn them, and moreover they pretend falsely to know unseen things (in spite of the fact that these are things that none but Al’lah knows, but their devilish companions tell them what they have heard from the jinn companions of other people) – because of all these things, among all the people in this time, if the performers of such so-called miracles were really and truly obedient and beloved of Al’lah, then they would free their Muslim brothers from the hands of their occupiers, as neither bullets nor bombs can affect them! They would be able to establish a huge army, as there are thousands of thousands of them.

Yet they behave like poor beggars, asking people for money. They cannot even enrich themselves in order to avoid being humbled before people.

We heard about the companions of God’s messenger Mohammad (cpth), and how they suffered from wounds while they were fighting, and how some of them lost their eyes in battle. Omar Ibn Al Khattab, Othman Ibn Affan, and Ali Ibn Abu Taleb (may God honor them) were martyred, and earned the honor of martyrdom as a result of being stabbed with daggers, spears and swords.

So do those ‘obedient followers’ who stab themselves with skewers and the like have a different physical construction from that of other mortals, which means that they are not affected by material objects? Do they surpass the martyred companions in their nearness to Al’lah??

Fifthly: The Qur’anic verses state that there can be no miracle after the Holy Qur’an

The Qur’an is the everlasting miracle of the messenger (cpth), and there can be no further miracles beyond this.

With clear wording, in the verse in His Book, the Almighty says: “Nothing hinders us from giving signs except the fact that the ancients disbelieved them. To Thamoud we gave the she-camel as a visible sign, yet they oppressed themselves with it. We give signs only by way of warning.”

The Holy Qur’an,

Fortress 17, Al-Isra’ (The Night Journey), verse 59

When the Quraysh people asked the messenger (cpth) to show them a miracle, the Almighty inspired him with the verse: “Nothing hinders us from giving signs except that the ancients disbelieved them...” The ancients perished because miracles were shown to them but they did not believe in them.

The Thamoud people asked our master Saleh (pth) to bring into being a she-camel as a miracle, but they oppressed themselves when they robbed it of its young, and so they perished. That was God’s last act towards them. Their story ended with their destruction at His hands, although God did not wish that end for them.

God says, addressing those who seek a miracle from the messenger (cpth): “…We give signs only by way of warning…” All signs, such as drought, hurricanes, and earthquakes, are sent to cause fear. When these disasters occur, humanity’s spirit will seek refuge in its Provider, fearing the final account and the torment, knowing that there is a Hand which directs and sustains us.

If people do not feel afraid so that their thoughts and their spirits gather to think of their beginnings when they were mere semen, and of their end when they will be buried, they will not be truthful in seeking the truth, and then they will never be guided.

Pharaoh’s people disbelieved the miracles shown to them by our master Moses (pth), such as the staff that changed into a serpent, the bright hand, and all the nine signs: “They said whatever miracles you may work to confound us, we will not believe in you.”

The Holy Qur’an,

Fortress 7, Al-A’raf (The Heights), verse 132

They did not believe and profited nothing from the miracles, as they were occupied with vice, and so they perished.

God says in the noble verse: “When you do not show them a miracle, they say: ‘Have you not yet got one?’...”: that is: will you not show us a miracle that confirms your mission?

He (cpth) replied to them as the Almighty ordered: “…say ‘I follow only what is revealed to me by my Lord,’…”: i.e. in the Holy Qur’an, “…this book is a veritable proof from your Lord, a guide and a mercy to true believers”: do you not think of my revelation? Does it not guide you to the truth? This Qur’an is a miracle, and its true guidance is something that profits you. Does it include anything that is in contradiction of logic?

The Holy Qur’an,

Fortress 7, Al-A’raf (The Heights), verse 203

Many were shown miracles, but they availed them nothing. Should you not think of this Qur’an and be guided by it?

If people do not follow the course of belief shown by the Almighty, nothing will profit them, no matter what they see and hear, because God says: “If We sent down the angels to them and caused the dead to speak with them, and ranged all things before them, they would still not believe unless Al’lah willed it…”

The Holy Qur’an,

Fortress 6, Al-An’am (Livestock), verse 111

The Almighty God’s will is based upon humanity’s truthfulness in seeking the truth and leaving behind forbidden matters. “…God does not change people’s conditions until they themselves change...”

The Holy Qur’an,

Fortress 13, Ar-Ra’d (The Thunder), verse 11

“Perfected are the words of your Lord in truth and justice...”

The Holy Qur’an,

Fortress 6, Al-An’am (Livestock), verse 115

If a person truly seeks the truth, God will change their condition.

Faith penetrates into a person’s heart through their honesty, not through their witnessing of miracles; therefore, they should think of death until their spirit complies with them and gathers together with their thought. Thereupon, if they think of the cosmic miracles such as the sun, the moon, night and day, rain and the clouds, the skies, the stars and the asteroids, and all the other visible signs, they will deduce that there is a Creator who provides and steers and whose Hand controls the universe, which will lead to their becoming upright and directing themselves towards Al’lah, as faith spreads into every atom of their spirit.

At this point, they become charitable to all of creation, and it was for this that we were created and came to this world. Each man and woman must truly become somebody with whom all of creation feels at ease, and when they pass into the eternal abode in the hereafter, their faces will be lit up with white light in God’s presence due to their good deeds, until they are elevated to the lofty heavens.

This was the purpose of the Provider of worlds in creating us. For the greatest happiness we were created, and this is the way that leads us there.

Signs are no longer revealed to people, and this has been the case since the time of our master Jesus (pth). The Almighty said: “If We will, We can reveal to them a sign from the heavens before which they will bow their heads in utter humility.”

The Holy Qur’an,

Fortress 26, Ash-Shu’ara’ (The Poets), verse 4

There is no verse in the Holy Qur’an indicating that God has revealed a single sign to His messenger (cpth) other than the Holy Qur’an. God says: “Is it not enough for them that We have revealed to you the Book for their instruction?”

The Holy Qur’an,

Fortress 29, Al-’Ankabut (The Spider), verse 51

Now, after this revelation and clear verses is there any who dares to say that there are miracles other than the Qur’an, or ‘supernatural tricks’, as they call them, by way of evasion?

Sixthly: In general, do miracles profit anyone?

Indeed, miracles were not of profit to any of the nations that preceded the Muslims. God the Almighty set examples of former people before us. The Israelites were shown miracles: ‘the parting of the sea, the staff with which our master Moses (pth) struck the rock whereupon twelve springs gushed from it, the serpent, the luminous hand, and the rest of the nine miracles of our master Moses (pth)…’ and yet, when he left them for forty days, they reverted to worshipping the lower life, in spite of the presence of our master Haroun (pth) among them. So the miracles of Moses availed them nothing.

Will imaginary wonders have more influence upon people, such that they may believe them more than these miracles (such as the parting of the sea into twelve parts, each part as high as a massive mountain, and wherein the water was as immovable as the mountains)?

The Israelites saw that miracle, and yet, when they came out of the sea and passed by a group of people who worshipped idols, they asked our master Moses (cpth) to make them an idol so that they could worship it.

Is this fake stabbing with skewers comparable to these miracles!?

Our master Jesus (pth) raised the dead to life, and made the likeness of a bird from clay and breathed into it, and then it became a living bird of flesh and blood by Al’lah’s leave. And he gave sight to the blind and healed lepers by Al’lah’s leave.

In spite of all that, the Jews accused him of lying and plotted to kill him, and in doing so, they deprived themselves of this great grace (Jesus, peace is through him), for the Almighty gave him and his mother a shelter on a peaceful hill-side watered by a fresh spring.

How far the allegers of these wonders are from the prophets and their miracles!

Seventhly: Could the noble companions (may God be pleased with them) guide the nations to light by stabbing themselves with skewers!?

Miracles are carried out according to the needs of the age and its people, and as we mentioned before, because our master Moses (pth) was sent at the time when magic prospered, he was given miracles that overcame and frustrated this contemporary magic all over the world, and made the magicians despise their science and prostrate themselves before the majesty of the science of our master Moses.

But neither Pharaoh nor his people, nor even the Israelites, profited from these miracles.

Our master Jesus (pth) was sent at the time when medicine prospered, and so was given miracles that surpassed the contemporary medical sciences, and yet his people profited nothing from them.

Our master Mohammad (cpth) was sent at a time when poetry, eloquence, and fluency prospered to the extent that a given tribe might become high or become low through a line of poetry, and so he was given the miracle of the Holy Qur’an which amazed and incapacitated all the eloquent scholars and fluent men of the time, even if they were opposed to him.

The people of Quraysh sent many eloquent and fluent men to our master Mohammad (cpth) so as to look into what he was reciting, and afterwards they returned submitting, praising, and bowing down their heads before this miracle. Although he challenged them all to bring forth one similar line, they could not do so, and he challenged all people in the same way throughout the ages, but they also failed and will never succeed in bringing forth a line that is similar. The Qur’an is the everlasting miracle, from more than 1,400 years ago until the hour of resurrection.

We wonder: could the noble companions guide the striking forces of aggressive nations to the light by stabbing themselves with skewers, or would it be better to acquaint all the world with this everlasting miracle?

It is known intuitively that the noble companions, the followers and leaders of the Muslims, and even the common people among them did not deal in magic.

They neither learnt it nor taught it.

Eighthly: A realistic result is better than delusion

Do you not see, dear reader, with your own eyes, how the non-Arabs profess Islam one after the other by virtue of this stabbing with skewers as well as other trickery and amusing stories!? And if such things, as they pretend, truly confirm the rightness of Islam, then the magicians of India and China deserve to be followed more than these people, as they far surpass those charlatans in their miracles, which include cutting up and joining back together people’s bodies, killing people by burning them and then raising the dead to life, etc. …

Shall we believe them and worship fire or cows?!

Finally, Islam is a faith of reason; as God’s messenger (cpth) said: “Man’s faith is what he apprehends, and he who apprehends nothing, has no faith.” [3]

Islam is innocent of what some accuse it of – contradicting logic and reason – and it is untouched by that which opposes God’s sayings in the Holy Qur’an and the Sunna of His noble messenger (cpth).

Watching wonders and miracles achieves nothing for humanity. Only one thing can release humanity from disbelief and transfer it to true belief. This thing is contemplation and deep thought about creation, as this is the creation of the great Creator, who supervises humanity with His provision and direction.

A seeker of truth will be honest for their faith if they know for certain that they will die, for then they will fear this inescapable end.

The beginning of the way of belief may also be found in listening (which is associated with thinking): listening to the call of the herald that requests humanity to believe in God, leading us, when we are honest, to true witnessing.

The Holy saying reads: “To think for an hour is better than to worship for sixty years.” [4]

If you seek the truth and think deeply and honestly, you will believe as our father and master Abraham (pth) believed, and as our master Mohammad (cpth) believed in the cave of Hira’a.

Chapter 2

• Is There a New God in the Sky of Islam?
• Between Polytheism and Binding
• Is it Permissible to Bind Oneself to Sheikh Abdul-Kadir Al-Jaylani or Sheikh Ahmad Al-Rifaee or Other Former Holy Men (may Al’lah have mercy upon them)?
• Is it Permissible to Bind Oneself to Sheikh Abdul-Kadir Al-Jaylani or Sheikh Ahmad Al-Rifaee or Other Former Holy Men (may Al’lah have mercy upon them)?
• A True Story - The Man Who Fell
• A Logical Discussion on the So-called ‘Miracles’ Ascribed to Sheikh Abdul-Kadir Al-Jaylani (may God have mercy upon him)
• A True Story - The Magician Sheikh and His Jinn-Companion

Is There a New God in the Sky of Islam?

The reader may wonder at this title; moreover they may consider it a kind of disbelief or atheism concerning the lofty mission of Islam, which is to obey one God. But if we study and go to the roots of the marginal ways that were brought to Muslims recently as a result of contact with other religions, such as Zoroastrianism and the Hellenic and Indian schools, we would find the following:

When His obedient followers sought to devote themselves to Almighty God and to adhere to His instructions, they abstained from life’s pleasure and its vanity, renouncing many of the things that people pounce upon, such as delight, money, and power, instead isolating themselves from people to worship, which had been general behavior among the ancients. The ascetic worshiper continues advancing in purity and high feelings, or ‘states’, until they witness that there is no god except Al’lah, and they achieve knowledge and monotheism, which is what they aim for in order to attain happiness. Then they rush towards work and jihad to please the merciful God.

Yet some of the latter who didn’t believe in Al’lah as their Provider, and did not want to believe in God, took themselves to places of seclusion, aiming to uncover the veils and attain superior speech in their meetings with other people. They were lacking the necessary qualities to attain overt superiority; they turned in another direction instead, in order to look for superiority in covert ways.

Through their actions, they made methods that rely on the immaterial and that defy constituent humanity’s perceivable powers and faculties, and in their methods, they deviated from righteousness. They noticed that temporary spiritual purity could be acquired by those who feel hunger and loneliness.

Therefore they isolated themselves, but without righteousness. They felt hungry but with the intention of becoming superior, so that their spirits became transparent and clear only to reflect the lower worlds. And the devil’s intent against them manifested itself as they learned magic from him. After that, they came out in front of people, claiming that they had the power to make predictions, that they had connections with what was hidden, and that they had attained heavenly support, as they compared themselves to the stars.

They alleged that there was a relationship between themselves and God, just as there was one between themselves and the believing jinns. These sorcerers, masked behind beards and with the outward appearance of religious people, cultivated wide-ranging relations with magicians of other countries, and so introduced magic to their nations as a kind of supernatural power.

They surrounded themselves with a holy halo that controlled the minds of some people. For example, they claimed that they could make whomsoever they wanted close to Al’lah, could exclude whom they chose from paradise, compel those that they wanted to break God’s order whenever possible, and do whatever they liked with their magic, their spells, their incantations, and the like.

They also pretended that they were people of honor, removed from accountability, rather than the manipulators they really were, in order that their disobedience to God would be seen by people as a kind of obedience. They did so despite the fact that the Almighty says: “…say: ‘Why then does He punish you for your sins? Surely you are mortals of His own creation’...”

The Holy Qur'an,

Fortress 5, Al-Ma'ida (The Table), verse 18

The messenger (cpth) never disobeyed God even before he met him and throughout his whole life. God says: “Worship your Provider till certainty overtakes you” (that is, until death).

The Holy Qur'an,

Fortress 15, Al-Hijr (Stone Buildings), verse 99

So, are they better than him (cpth)? Absolutely not.

In this way, and with their cunning and tricks, they set out to fabricate an unseen authority from which they drew their power and imposed it upon thoughtless people, where it found fertile ground and a rich pasture among their weak minds.

All of that is a sort of war against the word ‘Al’lah’ and His right religion, as well as being in compliance with the first cursed devil, the enemy of the children of our master Adam (pth).

Then they imputed upright people with those ways, people who were, in reality, far above them.

After that, impious devious children were born under the wing of Islam in the wake of forms of heresy, the ‘philosophy of infidelity’, and in addition, their renewals and their mixings brought down the traditional divides among the partitions of Islam. All of them glorified and sanctified the saints, asked for blessings at their tombs, and faked popular stories about them that were full of fables and trickery.

Those from among the spirituals who held the view of the Sabaeans say:

“We do not seek to know the Maker of the universe, who is too exalted through His creation of the universal changes of day and night and all things in this world, and we should confess the inability of knowing His Majesty directly. So, we draw nearer to Him through His closest mediators. They are the deliverers who are purified and sacred in their holy secrets, actions and states.

“They are exalted above physical materials, free from bodily powers and far above spatial movements and temporal changes. We approach them and lean on them because they are our providers, our gods, our ways, and our intermediaries to Al’lah who is the Provider over providers and the God over gods. [5]

“Therefore we have to stimulate a relationship between ourselves and the spiritual ones so as to ask them to help us with our needs and inform us about our states, and we must defer to them in all of our affairs, so that then they will act as intermediaries between ourselves and our Creator.

“We cannot get help from the spiritual ones except by entreating them and beseeching them through invocations, performing prayers, presenting sacrifices and immolations, burning incense, and using incantations.

“In this way, our spirits can prepare themselves and support themselves with no further mediator. Our own judgment and the judgment of one who claims the revelation will be of one accord.”

That is what we find in many sayings of those dishonest tricksters.

So, shall we return to the religion of the Sabaeans after we have been guided by Al’lah?!

Oh God of all! Please keep us safe by means of your wise Qur’an.

Between Polytheism and Binding

If humanity takes precautions to protect its faith from the frivolity of inclination, and reflects on what has reached us from our forefathers, and if we then examine the results that come from following the Book of the Provider of worlds, which falsehood can not affect either from before or behind, our boat will land on the shore of safety.

The aberrant purposes of the irreligious and the atheists made them seize any opportunity to fulfill their desires by interpolating, telling lies and trumping up sayings and biographies so as to calumniate people of Islam and impugn their purity. Those false tales became old in the course of time, to the point where people took their direction only from such people: the ones who were workers of magic, miracles, and augury and who are mentioned in stories, and especially stories attributed to pious people who are free from such things. People then aligned themselves with these people, thinking that they had power and might.

Thereby, their spirits drew distant from God and stopped feeling awe for Him, and so they fell into polytheism and were distanced from Al’lah because of their excesses of faith and their exceeding of the bounds that are decreed for people by God in His Holy Book.

The Almighty God enjoined Adam’s sons to bind themselves to their messengers and to enter into God’s grace by means of their company, in order that each of those noble messengers should become a shining lamp and a light for the hearts of those people whose spirits are bound up with them. By means of this, they would reach knowledge of God; and through the light from the Almighty coming into these messengers’ spirits, those who enter with them into God’s grace can witness Godly perfection and bright lights.

This clarifies for us the Almighty’s saying: “You who believe, see by God’s light and believe in His messenger. He will grant you two portions of His compassion, and make a light for you by which you can go, and will forgive you: Al’lah is Forgiving and Merciful.”

The Holy Qur'an,

Fortress 57, Al-Hadid (Iron), verse 28

Also, it clarifies His saying: “Al’lah and his angels stay in communication with the prophet. You, who believe, communicate with Al’lah through him and fully surrender.”

The Holy Qur'an,

Fortress 33, Al-Ahzab (The Combined Clans), verse 56

So, communication – through the prophet – is really a link and a connection with that pure and noble spirit, the spirit of the messenger (cpth), which is always present in God’s presence. If the spirit of any person is bound to him, the messenger (cpth) will uplift such a spirit to God’s presence, where the messenger’s spirit (cpth) will be like a shining lamp for the spirit that is connected with it, and will be a light for the heart of he or she who communicates himself or herself with God through his companionship.

This is what the believers depended on when entering into the grace of their Provider by keeping the company of good people close to God, who had spirits that were qualified to be lights, and were the means to lead them to the shining lamp, the messenger (cpth). God says: “Those who pray, they seek the means, the closest one, to approach (God). They crave His mercy and fear His punishment; for your Provider’s punishment is to be avoided indeed.”

The Holy Qur'an,

Fortress 17, Al-Isra' (The Night Journey), verse 57

And He says: “…and they turned towards none except God, His messenger and the believers that attained entrance into Him…”

The Holy Qur'an,

Fortress 9, At-Tawba (Repentance), verse 16

Those are the ones who really invoke their Provider. They seek to approach Him by means of the messenger (cpth). They bind themselves to him in order to become near to God. If the messenger (cpth) is not present, they should connect themselves to the nearest good believer. So, they seek the means to approach God through the one that is closest to Him.

Thus, the best reciter of the Qur’an, of the most knowledgeable or discerning person is selected to be a leader through whom people enter into God’s grace, and that is how intercession works and the means for this to occur.

There is no god except Al’lah, so each guide or messenger is only a teacher. The example of the guide in this respect is like that of a boat. It carries those who want to travel, moving them from the seashore to the great ship. The task of the boat is limited to carrying passengers from the seashore to the ship, and nothing more. As for the ship, it moves in the depths of seas that are the seas of knowing and of witnessing Godly perfection. There is only one ship, but the boats which carry people to it are many.

When the guide dies, his function is completed, and so this function moves to another living person who follows them.

God says: “In homes which Al’lah has sanctioned to be lofty for the remembrance of His Name, morning and evening, there are men whom neither trade nor profit can divert from remembering God…”

The Holy Qur'an,

Fortress 24, An-Nur (Light), verse 36-37

The Almighty has ordered all believers to be held and bound to this noble apostle and never separated from him. This meaning is proved to be true by God’s command in the clear verse: “Cling one and all to the rope of Al’lah and never separate…”

The Holy Qur'an,

Fortress 3, Al 'Imran (The Family of 'Imran), verse 103

Never separate from the messenger (cpth), because the rope is but the messenger (cpth) of whom God says: “We sent you but to be a mercy for the whole world.”

The Holy Qur'an,

Fortress 21, Al-Anbiya' (The Prophets), verse 107

The Almighty has not sent the messenger (cpth) for only one nation, because the messenger is a mercy for the whole world. He is a guide for and a saver of all mankind. God says: “It is He that has sent forth into those who directed themselves toward the messenger an apostle of their own that recites to them His revelations, purifies them and makes them understand the Book and the wisdom, though they have been in gross error before, together with others like them who have not yet been enlightened like they have…”: i.e. those that have taken the messenger (cpth) as a leader for him to lead them into God’s presence are also believers, just as much as the first group mentioned at the beginning of the verse.

The Holy Qur'an,

Fortress 62, Al-Jumu'a (The Congregation of Friday), verse 2-3

The phrase: “…who have not yet been enlightened like they have…” concerns time. That is, they will come in times after their time, and they will believe in God and adopt the same course that is within God’s Book. So, the messenger (cpth) will also recite God’s revelations to them during their communication with Him, purify them, and make them understand the Book, the Qur’an, and its wisdom.

These are the believers whose spirits acquire confidence by virtue of their good deeds, their righteousness, and their obedience to their Provider.

So, they enter into Al’lah’s presence with His messenger (cpth) by His leave, where they attain purity.

The Almighty is referring to this when He says: “Oh prophet! We have sent you forth to be a witness, a bearer of good news, a warner, calling (people) to enter into Al’lah’s presence by His leave, and as a shining lamp.”

The Holy Qur'an,

Fortress 33, Al-Ahzab (The Combined Clans), verse 45-46

By means of that lamp, the communicant believer can see the Godly perfection through his illuminated heart, and can see the wisdom behind His commands and the benefits that they contain.

As regards following the guidance of the leaders who follow the messenger (cpth), this is indicated by the noble verse when God says: “Let there become of you a nation that speaks for righteousness, enjoins justice, and forbids evil. Such men are those who have prepared themselves to do good.”

The Holy Qur'an,

Fortress 3, Al 'Imran (The Family of 'Imran), verse 104

After the messenger (cpth), these people call you to adopt the path of righteousness, so if you follow their guidance (which is taken from the messenger and derived only from God’s Book), confidence in God’s satisfaction with you will arise in your spirit. At this point, you will approach Al’lah, the Almighty, and perfection will be imprinted on your spirit due to your nearness to Him.

A person enters into God’s grace by means of the pure and clean spirit of the messenger (cpth) and through the company of a believing person. You bind your spirit to theirs in order to enter with them.

Yet if people were to confine their direction to the apostle, the saint, or the good leader, and turned only towards them, without directing themselves towards God through their company, then that would be nothing other than polytheism, and just like idolatry.

There are those who did not agree to join themselves with the messenger (cpth) and the other followers of God’s messengers as a means to enter God’s grace, and there are those who are excessive in their religion and who thus end up directing their worship towards idols of creatures rather than the Creator (thus falling into polytheism). In order to take a moderate stand in between these two groups, we say: neither were the former right in their denial of the role of the messenger (cpth), and nor were the latter right in their polytheism and turning from God.

The Almighty has referred to this in the Holy Qur’an when He says: “Those who pray seek the means, the closest one, to approach their Provider. They crave His mercy and fear His punishment; for your Provider’s punishment is avoided indeed.”

The Holy Qur'an,

Fortress 17, Al-Isra' (The Night Journey), verse 57

Thus, both of the two aforementioned groups – whether they are those who have been guilty of exaggeration or of negligence – have deviated to the right and left of the straight path, the path of those whom God favors.

The right position is that the believer should enter into God’s grace through companionship with the closest person to Him, taken only from among the living people who are upright and who adhere to the commands of God as mentioned in His Holy Book. In this way, the believer will see God’s light and perfection and His justice, as they will witness with the eye of their own heart that Al’lah alone directs the entire universe by His command alone. Thus they will know, then, in certainty and in truth, that there is no god except Al’lah.

Is it Permissible to Bind Oneself to Sheikh Abdul-Kadir Al-Jaylani or Sheikh Ahmad Al-Rifaee or Other Former Holy Men (may Al’lah have mercy upon them)?

One should seek to bind oneself only to living men, as the perfect guide’s function includes two aspects:

• Firstly, he guides you to Al’lah through his sayings, and acquaints you with the ways to Al’lah that were brought to us by His messenger (cpth) and which are to be found in God’s Book.

• Besides that, he teaches you love for God’s messenger (cpth), for through your real love for this perfect guide, sublime love for God will be impressed upon your spirit. In a little time, you’ll find yourself bound to this noble messenger, close and inseparable from him during your entrance into God’s presence.

Then, if your guide finds that you have attained access to God’s messenger, he will say to you: “Adhere to this attainment for my work with you is done. I have helped you reach the one whom Al’lah the Almighty has established as a gateway for all the world; he whom God has ordered all the believers to join and through whom they are to communicate with God Himself”.

Al’lah the Almighty refers to this in the noble verse: “Verily, Al’lah and His angels keep in communication with the prophet. You who believe, communicate with Al’lah through him and fully surrender.”

The Holy Qur’an,

Fortress 33, Al-Ahzab (The Combined Clans), verse 56

That is: connect your spirits, oh believers, with his noble spirit, so that it will ascend with you into the Godly presence where you will receive eternal illumination in God’s light during this life, the interval between death and Doomsday, and the afterlife, so that you will be one of those whose light appears, due to their good deeds and the blessings they have attained. Devils flee from them, defeated and denounced (by themselves and by those who tend to them), as the enlightened ones are the lanterns of guidance and goodness for the whole of humanity.

As for binding oneself to the spirits of guides and true men and women who have already departed from this life, this is forbidden, as it is beyond humanity’s consciousness and perception and attracts their spirits. At the moment that they – the departed guides – shifted from this lower life and became entirely absorbed in God’s grace, their spirits were elated, and in no time at all they will realize that Doomsday has come, as if it had occurred at the moment of their leaving this life. They shall feel the interval between the day they died and the Day of Resurrection as but a moment, because of the great bounties and exalted bliss that the Almighty generously gives them.

After their death, these guides will be unable to turn their spirits towards their followers due to their astonishment at what Al’lah bestows upon them – happiness unseen, untold and previously unimagined. These departed guides are absorbed in passionate rejoicing in the great manifestation that is their Provider. An everlasting bliss overwhelms them as a reward for the honorable and good deeds that they performed in life, and which benefitted all the rest of God’s creation.

As far as these messengers (ptt) are concerned, their task doesn’t end until Doomsday, as they don’t engage wholly with their gift until that time. God says: “And when messengers had been sent in their appointed times, to which day are they delayed? Until the Day of Judgement.”

The Holy Qur’an,

Fortress 77, Al-Mursalat (Rain Sent Forth), verse 11-13

He also says: “Those (prophets and apostles) are the ones whom Al’lah has guided. Follow then their guidance, you who believe…”

The Holy Qur’an,

Fortress 6, Al-An’am (Livestock), verse 90

Thus, it is forbidden to bind with these holy men after their death. Thus it is not allowed to bind oneself to either Sheikh Abdul-Kadir Al-Jaylani or Sheikh Ahmad Al-Rifaee, or even Shah Naqshband (upon whom may God have mercy), or any other. Such close bindings should only be with prophets (ptt), according to God’s own words: “Those are the ones whom Allah has guided. Follow then their guidance…”

The orders and creeds that digress from the straightforward and most Noble Qur’an are all false, in spite of their abundance. God says: “Truly, if you obey most of those in the land, they shall certainly lead you astray from God’s path...”

The Holy Qur’an,

Fortress 6, Al-An’am (Livestock), verse 116

Here is a factual story in which one performer of supernatural tricks and supposedly miraculous actions admits that he saw the reality of his deeds when faced with death…

A True Story - The Man Who Fell

The car descended into the valley and the driver lost control of the steering wheel. His eyes popped out of his head as he saw the awful end that approached, and he wondered how exactly he would die. Then he saw one of the high electro-tension towers that carry electricity from one country to the next.

Like everybody else, the men in the car had always known that one day they would die, and as the car plunged into the valley they understood that they themselves would die that very day – if not from the haphazard descent, then by colliding with the electricity tower that carried so many tens of thousands of volts of electric current. Inside of them, their spirits began to supplicate furiously and with their tongues the men began to invoke God: “Oh Al’lah! We are repenting to you! … Oh Al’lah! Save us! … Oh Succorer! … Oh Most Kind! … Would you have mercy upon us? … Oh Al’lah!” Then the pleading turned into screams of horror and dismay as the car continued on its way.

At that awful moment, with a horrible death awaiting them just a few short seconds away, one of the errant men began again to supplicate: “Oh God! I am repenting…” These words were spoken in earnest as soon as his spirit became certain of his impending death by way of electrocution. All of the man’s deeds, from the time he was sixteen years old until that day, flashed before him one by one in the space of a second and as he watched he only saw deeds that would bring shame upon him before his Provider. Because of this he turned to God in true repentance and promised to behave righteously from that day forth and to abandon his evil companions.

The car crashed into the tower, but the Omnipotent God caused it to fall in the opposite direction to the car so that, at the hands of the Most Kind, the All-Knowing One, all the passengers escaped with their lives. The man got out of the car and he could see for certain, after his brush with death, that he had been straying from the right path. The teachings that he had been following were based merely on so-called supernatural powers and false miracles, and in giving offerings to his sheikhs he was committing sins that would lead to his being condemned to hell after his death.

At that moment he made a true-hearted pledge to his Provider that he would repent and return to the right path. Would he return to his magician sheikhs after he had witnessed the truth, and seen that there was no prosperity or benefit whatsoever to be found through their methods? Of course not: “Who will come down with me into the pit – into the tomb in which the horrible fate that I have witnessed is to be found? And who will face the angels instead of me? How shall I meet my Provider with my sinful spirit and low deeds? I must find a true guide; a guide who will help me to follow the orders God has provided in His Book, for just as Al’lah saved me from death in response to my prayers, in the same way he will gather me with the true men.”

The Godly Omnipotence, which always calls people to the abode of peace, caused him to join with another true believer. He recounted his story to this man and told him of his brush with death: “I followed sheikhs who were in possession of so-called supernatural powers. I saw them performing miracles and supernatural feats that proved the truth of Islam, and I was so impressed by what I saw that I wanted to show these supernatural powers and proofs to my people, who are civilized, settled nomads. I began to perform these miracles myself – chewing on glass, walking on fire and piercing myself with skewers. Thus I had adopted the way of the sheikhs and all of my desires were within my reach. I had merely to give myself up to the magician sheikh and he would allow me to perform these miracles whenever and wherever I wanted. By invoking him and binding myself to him I could make myself feel as though skewers of metal were piercing my flesh or fiery currents were spreading inside my body, and in this way I could perform these miracles – which are in reality only tricks – without the firebrands, the glass or the skewers affecting me at all. But when I faced death, I realized that all I was doing by performing these feats was leading myself astray and heading for destruction. I realized this when the car was going down into the valley and heading straight towards the electricity tower, when I felt sure that I was about to die. At that moment all of my deeds flashed before my eyes, from the time of my childhood until that day. Now I have repented, and I place myself in your hands so that you will lead me towards the right path and guide me in virtuous conduct.”

The guide answered: “A saint is one who follows Al’lah’s guidance. Obey Al’lah’s orders and then you too will be a saint. You cannot overcome the whims and caprices of your spirit unless you implant the knowledge of the certainty of death deep within it – and an experience such as your own should be enough to do that. Then you should contemplate the universe and its signs: [6] the sun and the moon, day and night, winter and summer, all the while searching for and recognizing the evidence of God’s existence. By doing so you will come to truly believe that there is no God but Al’lah, and it is this very belief that will prevent you from sinning.

"This Godly law – that one is to think of God and be alone with him in the early morning, the late afternoon, and during the night – is mentioned in many verses of the Holy Qur’an: " 'And glorify Him in the early morning and the late afternoon'

The Holy Qur’an,

Fortress 33, Al Ahzab (The Combined Clans), Verse 42

" ' And glorify your Provider with praise before the rising of the sun and before its setting'

The Holy Qur’an,

Fortress 50, Qaf (The Letter Q = Very Near to God), Verse 39

“ 'And for part of the night prostrate yourself before Him and glorify Him the whole night long'

The Holy Qur’an,

Fortress 76, Al-Insan (Humane Man), Verse 26

“You should perceive clearly and search persistently until you witness some of the Almighty’s attributes, for otherwise your spirit’s caprices will defeat you and you will forget this event and your newfound awareness of the certainty of death. Then you will fall once again from your high and sublime station and become – heaven forbid – as wasteful as a woman who breaks the yarn that she has just spun and made strong into individual strands. Therefore, you must follow these rules and, in so doing, become a true witness to the Godly Presence. As the Holy Hadith says: ‘Son of Adam! Seek Me and you shall find me.’ ”

The man’s condition changed completely and he came to experience the happiness and pleasure of belief. An elevated state of being, along with feelings of ease, bliss and gladness, overwhelmed him as a result of his companionship with his fellow believer, but he contented himself with these sensations and did not strive to achieve true belief on his own account. He did not think of or seek out his Provider by contemplating the creation of the universe, so he forgot the certainty of his own death, and, as his heart had taken to the feelings to which it had been introduced, he did not strive to surpass them in order to reach a higher level of insight into the Godly presence.

Many months later, his heart had become hard and his spirit began to yearn once again for those hellish paths that he had once followed and he began to miss his old companions, those possessors of devilish supernatural powers and feral lusts. His guide warned him of the consequences of a return to his old ways, but his low desires took told of him and he was no longer able to refrain from indulging them, and so he began a return to his erroneous ways. The Godly Compassion refused to let him do so, however, and one night he woke his guide in an abrupt way, amazed and stricken by the wave of astonishment and bewilderment that had swept over him. He said: “I have had a horrible dream. I was standing with you before the grave of my master, Abdul-Kadir Al-Jailany, in Baghdad. I felt a great sense of respect, as if I were standing in prayer. His tomb lay on a small hill and so I walked up to look at it. When I arrived I was surprised to find the tomb open, with Sheikh Abdul-Kadir lying inside it, all dressed in white. He appeared to be the same age as me and he called out to me: ‘Give me your hand, Oh Saleh!’ With my help he leapt from the grave in one swift leap. Meanwhile, my spirit stirred and asked me ‘How can our guide say that the purpose of a saint ceases after he leaves this worldly life and that the prophet’s purpose alone continues? There he is – Magnate Al-Jailany – alive and talking with magnificent beauty and grandeur, despite not being a prophet but merely a saint!’

“My master Abdul-Kadir Al-Jailany, the creator of my path, began to reply to my spirit’s question in a clear mellow voice: ‘It is true that only a prophet continues his earthly function without cease. I am not a prophet, I am but a believing saint. I believed in God during my life – thanks to Him – and now after my death I have no function. I am innocent of that which has been ascribed to me – I know nothing of what they have wrongfully and falsely ascribed to me. What your fellow believer has said to you is true – he admonishes you, so cling to his guidance. My mission in this world has come to an end.’ ”

That vision was the last warning to that poor man, who had bitten himself with the fangs of devils. He was humiliated in his earthly life, but after this experience, without genuinely repenting and then believing in God, and then steadily following the right path, his eventual punishment in the hereafter would be even graver. After many months of accompanying people of faith, his spirit began to yearn for the devilish ways of destructive lusts and his heart became hard. This was because he did not strive to overcome the whims of his spirit as he ought to have, but instead succumbed to them and returned to the wrong path. If he had truly believed in God, however, then he would have escaped, but alas! He failed to truly become one of God's obedient followers.

Oh God of All, if only you would bestow upon us belief with no retreat thereafter.

A Logical Discussion on the So-called ‘Miracles’ Ascribed to Sheikh Abdul-Kadir Al-Jaylani (may God have mercy upon him)

The magicians ascribed miracles to Sheikh Abdul-Kadir Al-Jaylani, considering them to be indications and proof of his true sainthood and nearness to Al’lah. It should be remembered, however, that the pagan magicians had displayed even more extraordinary ‘miracles’ than these.

With a little common sense and reference to the rules mentioned in the Noble Qur’an, any Muslim – however slight his religious education – would find an account of such miracles groundless. These miracles are listed below:

1) When Sheikh Abdul-Kadir Al-Jaylani was an infant, he never suckled during the days of Ramadan. People asked: “Is the infant also charged with fasting or with curbing the desires of its spirit?”

2) They also said that he was a child in his country of Jaylan when he went out in front of the masses on Arafah Day, walking behind a plowing cow. The cow turned to him, saying: “Abdul-Kadir! You were not created for such actions.” After being addressed in this way by an animal, he decided to travel to Baghdad in search of work in scientific research and in order to visit the men of truth there. But Al-Khidr (one of God’s saints) banned him from entering Baghdad for seven years. So, instead, he dwelt on the bank eating vegetables and legumes until a green color appeared on his neck. Then, according to this account, it was the cow that guided him onto the path of scientific research!!!

Was the man they thought was the greatest magnate of them all and the grand provider of succor the disciple of a cow?! Even supposing Al’lah had made it speak, why did He send Al-Khidr to prevent Sheikh Abdul-Kadir Al-Jaylani from entering the city of science, according to these claims?!

In this example, did even the slightest fulfillment come about from this supernatural event, such as challenging unbelievers to make them believe?!

Besides this, vegetables have never been known to cause the necks of vegetarians, who spend their lives without eating meat, the result that was said to have been seen on the neck of Sheikh Abdul-Kadir Al-Jaylani!

3) He bound his spirit to a course where it would oppose its own whims. Because of this, he ate only garbage and did not drink water for a full year. Then he spent a year drinking water without eating, and for another year he never ate or drank, and nor did he sleep.

When he slept at Kisra’s Mansion he had a wet dream forty times and also performed the ritual ablutions on the shore forty times. Concerning eating garbage, we say: Al’lah has provided us with

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Texte: Amin-sheikho.com
Lektorat: Prof. A. K. John Alias Al-Dayrani
Tag der Veröffentlichung: 13.12.2012
ISBN: 978-3-7309-9582-2

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