These are those action that are beyond man’s limited perception and seems supernatural . They are divided into four section :
1-Those events that are beyond human powers but are done by Prophets inspired by God’s will . They are called (Miracles) .
2-Supernatural events done votaries (pioneer
believers) to show their sincerity and devotion ; it is not related to
prophecy ; they are called (Karamat-Godly Honours).
3-Odd events done by the enemy of God by His own
will to show their fallacy ; they are called (Ihanat-offences) like that
done by Musliama the Liar , when he spited in the eye of a man to cure
him but he caused his blindness , and when he spitted in a salty well
and it became dry , and when he touched the head of an orphan that made
him bold .
4-Events inspired by the Devil , they are called
(istdrajat) temptations characterized by magic which is an act of
blasphemy ; the Al-Mighty said (Hut neither of these taught anyone (such
things )without saying , we are only for trail , so do not blaspheme) 1(وما يعلمان من احد حتى يقولا انما نحن فتنة فلا تمكفر )
So
the Karama are good events inspired by God are endowed to those
virtuoso people to houour them ; and the Mureed cannot do such things
unless he gets the power from the Sheikh . The power of the Karamat
depends on the stature of the Sheikh , each according to his hard work
in worship . people used to associate all supernatural things with magic
and devilish act , but (Alkaramat) are endowed by God and they refute
all psychological interpretation and magnetic efforts or others it by
comes clear that knives are pierced really in the flesh and the daggers
are truly inserted in the heads ; all are done by spiritual inspiration .Holy Qura’n and Sunnah as an Evidence on Al-Karamat There
are many stories in the Holy Qura’n that affirm the existence of the
Karamat of persons other than the prophets . Of these is the story of
the cave and those who slept in it over than 300 years and other 9 years
without food or any of the basis of life . Those whom all the
jurisprudence agree that they are not prophets .The
falling of ripen dates on Miriam from a dry palm three is regarded one
of the karamat since Miriam is not a prophet , rather she is a patron .The
transfer of Balqis’s throne by Al-Sif Ibin Barkhia in the twiddling of
on eye is one of the Karamat , for Asif has the knowledge of the Holy
Book , still he is not a prophet . similarly the deeds of our master
Al-Khidhr – Peace be upon him are mentioned in the Holy Qura’n to be
Karamat and the Holy Qura’n describe him to be a righteous worshipper .Pharaoh’s wife’s seeing of her house in the paradise during her torture is one of her Karamat .In
the chaste Prophetic Hadith there are many Hadith , narrated by
Al-Bukhari and Muslims , refer to the Karamat of the patrons . Of these
is the one which mention that Jureih Al-Rahib whom an infant talked him .
Another is the one which refers to the persons who were imprisoned in a
cave when a huge some closed the hole of that cave and how that huge
stone had withdrawn after they invoked Allah .Also
., the Prophet’s Hadith in which he mentions the cow which talked to
its owner when he overload her is an evidence of the existence of
Al-Karamat in the prophetic Hadiths .The Patron’s Karamat As Right All
people agree that each person who exceeds the normal limits of worship
and holy-war will have miracle or extraordinary actions if he desires in
the Book (Al-Yawaqit and
Al-Jawahir) it is narrated that Al-Sheikh Ez Ad-Deen Ibin Abdus-Dalam ,
the Sultan of knowing men in Egypt said , (All people had the limits of
the Right path as their basis , and the Sufi did too and that can be
proved through the Karamat they did . And those Karamat are not to be
done by a knowing person whatever his knowledge is , unless he follows
their way). He also said , (The most valid evidence on the legitimacy
the way of Sufism and their sincerity in their works is what they do of
Karamat and miracles).THE KARAMAT OF THE PROPHET’S FAMILY –PEACA BE UPON THEM-The
members of the Prophet’s family had may karamat and extraordinary
actions , which anyone who had not any of Allah’s care could not do them
. We had mentioned some of Al-Imam Ali’s karamat . We found it
necessary here to mention , some of the Imam’s karamat who came after
him ; his sons , grandsons . We made use of Abu Al- Hassan Ali Ibin Isa
Abu Al-Fateh Al-Arbali’s Book , (Kashf Al-Ghamah Fi Ma’arifat Al-Aiamah
which containing a great number of the chaste Imam’s karamat . So , we
use it here as a reference to prove the existence of those karamat
• Salim
Ibin Hafsah narrated that Omar Ibin sa’ad told Al-Hussein , peace be
upon him saying . (You Abu Abdullah , there were silly people who
pretended that I will kill you) Al-Hussein said , (They are not silly ,
but rather are clement . But I can see that you will eat , but little of
Iraq’s wheat) .
• On the authority of Ali Ibin Muhammad Ibin Ismael
Ibin Musa Ibin Jafar – who said ( my father Jafar Ibin Muhammad Ibin
Muhammad –Peace be upon him- said (Ali Ibin Al-Hussein Zein Al-a’bideen
invoked a blessing upon Hobabah Al-Walibiych . Allah accepted his invoke
and then , He gave here youth again . When he referred to her with his
finger , she became menstruate while she was 113 years ago)
• Abu
Hamzah Athamalui said (One day I was at Ali Ibin Al-Hussein – peace be
upon him- when a group of sparrows flew horning over him . He said to me
, (You Abu Al-Hamzah , do you know what these sparrows say ? Not I said
(They are praising Allah and asking Him When Ali their daily food)
• When
Ali Ibin Al-Hussein was on travel and while he was dining with a man a
deer came . Ali addressed it saying , (Do approach and eat , you are
safe , then that deer approached their food . The man at once held a
stone and threw it at the deer which ran away , Ali then said , (You
preached my promise , I’ll never talk you) .
• Omar Ibin Abu Salim
said , (I walked with Abu Jafar Al-imam Al-Baqir –Peace be upon him- ,
between Mecca and Yathrib . He was riding on a mule and I on an ass . A
wolf then came down from a mountain till it get to Abu Jafar who
approached that wolf and listened to it attentively then he said , (Go
now , I have done it” , The wolf , then went back), Abu Jafar said (Do
you know what it said ?) I said , (Allah and his prophet know) . Abu
Jafar that it told me that a woman in that mountain has a very difficult
delivery , so , may you invoke Allah to gave her and not to nominate
one of my offspring on one of you ) He then said , (I’ll do) .
• Ali
Ibin Al-Hussein She –Camel loitered in its walk . When he showed her the
whip and said , (Will you walk or I will do so and so ?)After that ,
she walked without any delay .
• Malik Al-Juhaini said , (I was
siting at Al-Baqir and I looked at him and said to my self , (Allah has
glorified you and made you Hujah on his creation.) He turned to me and
said , (You Malik , It is great then what you had thought.)
• Abu
Al-Hatheel related that Al-Baqir said to me , (You , Abu Hatheel . The
Night of the Decree is not hidden for us , for the angels hover over us
in it)
• Abdullah Ibin Ata’a Al-Macki said , (Once I longed for Abu
Jafar Al-Baqir which I was in Meeca . I went to Yathrib in so eager for
him . I caught a bad flu before I had reached his house . At midnight I
reached his housed . I stood at the door thinking whether I had to nock
at it or wait till morning . While I was in that state , I heard him
telling his maid to open the door , for Abu Ata’a had caught a bad flue .
• When
Ebad Ibin Kuther Al-Basri asked Al-Baqir about the faithful’s right at
Allah , he turned his face aside , when I asked him thrice , he said ,
(The faithful’s right at Allah is that if he said to that palm-tree come
. it will come at once . (I looked at the palm-tree which he refereed
to and I found it moving towards us (He then said , he pleased I did not
mean to call you) .
• Jaber said (We were fifty person at Al-Baqir
when Kuther An-Nawa’a came upon him , greeted him sat and said ,
(AlMughirah Ibin Umran claimed that you have an angel tells you who is
the believer and the disbeliever and your friend , and enemies .
(Al-Baqir said ,(what is your job ?) He replied , (I sell wheat (Al
Baqir said , (You are telling lies)
He said (I may sell barely)
Al-Baqir said , (You are telling his , You sell endocarps.) The man said
, (Who told you that ?) Al-Baqir said) the divine angel lets me know my
friends from my enemies . And you dies while you are lost). Jaber said ,
(We went to Al-Kufa asking about that man . We were told that he died
before three days which he was lost) .
• Abu Al-Baqir said that when I
came upon Abu Abdullah Al-Sadiq to show me an evidence on the Omamah ,
he said to me , (Why you come upon me while you are not clean ? I said
to him (I have done this by design .) He said to me (Have not you
trusted in Allah ? I said , (Yes but to be satisfied) He said (stand up
and go take a bath).
• Shuaib Al-Aqarqufi narrated that he and Ali
Ibin Hamzah , and Abu Al-Basir came upon Al-Sadiq and I was holding
three hundred Dinars . I put them in front of him . He took part of them
and gave me back the rest and said to me , (Shuaib) ! take this one
hundred Dinars and put it back to the place when you took it from . When
we went at my companions asked me about the matter of these Dinars . I
told them that I had taken them from my brother secretly which he
did not know about them . When we calculated them , we found them one
hundred Dinars .
• Razam Ibin Muslim narrated that Al-Mansour told
his guards to kill Al-Sadiq when he comes upon me . Abu Abdullah entered
and sat Al-Mansour send for the guard and gazed at him which Jafar
Al-Sadiq was sitting at him and then he told him to go back . The guard
went out confused and puzzled . When Abu Abdullah went , he rebuked the
guard who said , (By Allah . I have not seen him neither when he came in
nor when he came out . I saw him only when he was sitting at you ! .
• Husham
Ibin Ahmar related that Abu Abdullah handed me a list of needs to buy
them , He also wrote on that list . (tear it after you had finished
shopping.) Husham said that when he bought all the things , he hid the
list in a drawer in order to gain the blessing . When I returned he
asked me about the list . I told him that I bought everything . He asked
me whether I had torn the list . I told him that I everything . He
asked me whether I had torn the list . I told him that I put it in a
drawer and locked it and that the key is with me . He turned the side of
the piece of clothes on which he did prayers and turned the side of the
piece of clothes on which he did prayers and handed me the list and
asked me to tear it out . I rote it out , and when I went back home , I
looked for that list in the drawer , but I could not find it .
• Omar
Ibin Yazeed narrated that when Abu Abdullah suffered a great pain , I
became afraid and wanted to ask him about his successor . He answered me
before I had asked him , (there is no need to worry , I will be all
right).
• It is narrated that Yunus Ibin Dhabian said , (I was at
Al-Sadiq with a group of people and I mentioned Allah’s saying to his
prophet Ibrahim , (Take four birds tame them to turn to thee)2
(من الطير فصرهن اليك)
I
required , (were the four of many kinds or of one kind ? Al-Sadiq said
do you like me to show you a similar thing ? I said yes , He , then,
called,(Peacock ! at once a peacock came , then he called (Crow ! Hawk,
and dove) and all these birds came at the moment he called them . He
commanded to slaughter all these birds and pull their feathers out , cut
them off and mix them altogether . He took the peacock’s head and
called , (You Peacock) we saw the meat and the feather moved and became
in separation from that of the other birds till they joined with the
head and it became alive again . He did the same with the other birds
which became alive again .
• Husham Ibin Al-Hakam said , I wanted to
buy a maid . I wrote to al-Kadhim to consult him , but he did not answer
me , We were both in Mecca , and when the time of perambulation he
passed me buy while the maid was with me . At once he sent a letter in
which he wrote , (I find nothing bad in buying this maid , unless her
age might be short). I , then , said to myself , (By Allah , he did not
say that in vain I will never buy her) . Husham then said , (She was
buried before I leave Mecca)
• Al-Washa’a narrated that Al-Hussein
Ibin Ali , said (I and my uncle visited the holy lands then I wrote to
Al-Kadhim . My uncle wrote to him that he had only daughter and her men
were killed and that he had left his wife pregnant . He asked him to
invoke Allah to give her birth to be a boy . Al-Kadhim wrote back to him
that Allah had accepted the invoke , and asked him to name Muhammad .
When we returned Al-Kufa we found his wife who had delivered a boy six
days before we arrived .
• Abu Al-Hassan asked Ibrahim Ibin Abdul
Hameed , (where are you going ? To Qaba’a I answered . (For what?) He
asked (I used to buy dates every year and I want to buy it this year
too) Are you in safety from locusts ? he said . I then decided not to
buy dates that tear . I was not long when he locusts came and ate all
the dates .
• Al-Mufadhel Ibin Omar narrated that abdullah pretended
Al-Immamah after his father Al-Imam Al-Sadiq died . Musa Al-Kadhim,
commanded people to bring firewood in the center of his house and sent
for his brother Abdullah . When he came , Musa commanded to ignite the
wood and when it became embers , he sat on it and began talking the
people around him for an hour . He then stood and shake his clothes and
went back to his chair . He asked his brother to sit on that fire if he
were , as pretended , the successor of his father . Abdullah then
trembled , stood and went out of his brother’s house .
• Ishaq Ibin
Ammar narrated that Abu Baseer came along with Al-Kadhim from Yathrib to
Iraqi. He settled in (Zebaah . He sent for Abu Baseers disciple Ali
Ibin Abu Hamzah and began preaching him saying(when wee reach Kufa do so
and so) Abu Baseer became angry and went out saying . (By Allah . I
will never accompany this man , for his passes me over with my disciples
(One day later , Abu Baseer a fever . He called for Al-Hamzah to ask
Allah for pardon for the bad suspicious he had towards Al-Kadhim who
know that Abu Hamzah will die and that he will never reach Al-Kufa .He
then died in Zebalah .
• Ali Al-Ridha went out aiming to visit the
holy lands in the same year when Haroon Al-Rasheed did too . He reached a
mountain , on the left , called (Fara’a) He looked at it and said (You ,
the one who destroys will be cut into pieces) we did not realize
anything . When Al-Rasheed reached that mountain , Jafar Ibin Yahya
Al-Bermaki commanded his companions to build him a house in that place
and when he came back from Mecca he commanded them to destroy it . When
he went back to Iraq Haroon Al- Rasheed cat Jafar into pieces .
• A
woman from Kharasan called Zeinab pretended that she was from Ali’s
birth , when Ali Al-Ridha heard of that said ,(she is lying)(She
standard him He , then , brought her at the Sultan said for him ,)She
was far , for she pretends to be from the birth of Ali and Fatimah , and
the one who is really from that birth , his meat is to be forbidden for
beasts . Throw her in a pool pf beast , for if she is true , the beasts
will never approach her ! When she heard that she said , (You ! go down
, for if you are true , they will never come close to you ). Al-Imam
Al-Ridha went down to the pool . When he reached the bests the beasts ,
they sat down on their backs . He came on them one by one passing his
each one’s head and back , He , then , went out while people were
looking at him . He said to the sultan ,(Throw this liar down ) When she
refused , the sultan commanded his guard , to throw her . When the
beasts saw her , they pounced upon her and ate her)
• Ibrahim Ibin
Musa said , (I insisted on Abu al-Hassan to do me something I had asked
him someday while he always promised ) when he went to meet the ruler of
Yathrib and while he was done , I came to him and said ,(the feasts
came while I have no money.) He rubbed the earth with his whip , then he
stroke it with his whip hand . He puled out a golden ingot and said to
me ,(make use of it and conceal what you have seen) .THE COMPAINION’S KARAMATThe
companions had many Karamat , but they did not need them to affirm
their belief , for their belief was strong . Their karamat did not have
great importance because of the prophetic light at that time . They
increased and became important after the death of the prophet-peace be
upon him-Of theses we mention the following :
*Al-Imam Ali lifted a metal gate with his hand , in the battle of Khaibar , which a group of strong men fail to lift it .
• Abu Bakir Al-Sadeeq foretold before his death , that he will have a new-born daughter . This was achieved after he died .
• Omar Ibin Al-khatab cried ,
(You
Sariat ! the mountain ) while he was on the pulpit in Yathrib , whereas
Sariat was in Nahawand in Iraq . Sariat heard him and obeyed his order .
Omar also , throw a boom into the Nile which was overflowing and
destroying the plants . The Nile’s water went down to the extent that
people were afraid of it . Omar then threw another book at it and said
.,(If you run by yourself , we do not need you , but if Allah makes you
run , we ask Him that.) The Nile , then , restored its natured running .
• Uthman
said ,(What happened to you . You come upon me while the evidence of
adultery in your eyes .) This was said to a man who saw a woman in his
way and he looked at her lustfully .
• Jafar Ibin Abu Talib walked in the air , and Khalid Ibin Al-Waleed had poison that never attached him .
• Allah-Mighty
and sublime be He- responded to Sa’ad Ibin Abi waqas when the latter
invoked Him . When Al-Bara’a Ibin Azib swore by Allah , Allah does him
his oath . When Khubeib Ibin Udei was captivated at the disbeliveers ,
the grapes came to him in unusual time of ripeness .
• The Usied Ibin
Khatheir’s whip lit up when he went out from the Prophet’s room ,in a
very dark night till he reached house . Amir Ibin Qaiss Abe worshipper
companion used to take the money to give the beggars . He used to give
anyone who asks him m, but when he came back , he finds his money as
before .
Al_Karamat In a New Stage
The patrons persevered from
the beginning to keep the Karamat secret because of the shyness they
felt and in order to avoid other’s suspicious . But the patron is
permitted to show his Karamat if there were a cause to do them such as
affirming the Mureed’s faith or settling it Say , Produce your proof if
ye are truthful)78
(قل هاتوا برهانكم ان كنتم صادقين)
People would not follow other men who are like them unless the latters
have some sort of superiority . This was the prophet’s perseverance ,
Allah mighty and sublime be He –says (Ye who believe ! Fear God and be
with those who are true in word and deed)3
(ياايها الذين امنوا اتقوا الله وكونوا نعالصادقين)
At a result , the Sheikhs Al-Kesnazani had shown their Karamat for two reasons :
1-For
people’s utility : The –prophet peace be upon him- was a light and a
spring of blessing for the Muslims who make use of his invokes in curing
their disease and dispelling their cares . They were seeking the
blessing of his tools . It appeared to the companions many utilities
from the use of the prophet’s tools . And since A Sheikh were the
inheritors of the prophet’s light and spiritual light , they followed
his cause and offered their blessing to the poor and sick people , and
many people made use of them .
2-The Revival of the prophetic Sunnah :
As a result of the cultural development and the introduction of the new
civilization in all its seduction and love of materials ; the
enlargement of the gap between the sound Islam represented by the great
prophet and the new generation , the new generation began at Islam as if
it wrote an old state , and the Prophet’s character and the
championships of the companions became an ordinary thing , a thing
which never around but the same thing which any hero in any literature
might arouse . The young Muslims became finding in the stories , novels
and films what might make imagine that all what he read about Islam is
similar to these thoughts , in other words , they became thinking that
all what had been ritten about Islam was just an imagination of a writer
and that the story of the unity (oneness of Allah) and the happening of
Al-Isr’a and Al-Me’raj was but a part of the pre-Islamic literature
composed by the imaginations of the writers as the Divine Comedy –
Risalet Al-Ghufran and the story of Hay Ibin Yaqthan had made in
addition to the acrobatics and the visual tricks which many persons in
the circus do depending on physical and chemical laws and psychological
basis , Thus , they became confused to the extent that what was
considered to be a miracle before 14 centuries , It new becomes a usual
thing in the sight of the new generation because of what they daily see
of extraordinary actions on the T.V . Also , the teachings if the sound
Islam are based on disobeying the whims and wishes of the self , and
that made the young people who used to follow the self’s wishes keep
clear of them . So it begins to necessary for the religious reformer who
calls revive the religion and Sunnah to show new Karamat that keep
peace with the new civilization . To be followed by people . he was to
have spiritual effectiveness upon them by means of the divine light
taken from the prophet-prophet peace be upon him-for there is no
difference between the Arabs who dwell in Peninsula and those of
nowadays society in the matter of the religious ignorance Al-Karamat are
part of the prophet’s blessing , but they are in a new style which suit
or meets the requirements of the new civilization and the high level of
thinking which differs from that of the nomad like before 14 centuries
which is the tiny miracle which Allah offered to his patrons to do
accomplish His selection of them and to make the hearts of the Mureeds
fixed . AsheikhsAl-Kesnazani who were supported by Allah to attract the
lost young people and save them from the circle of vacuum had succeeded
in bringing those men back to the sound Islam by means of showing the
Karamat whether these Karamat were to prove bodily miracle , or curing
problematic diseases . Thus showing the Karamat had became an obligatory
matter for the Sheikh and Mureed .Alkaramat After The Sheikhs’ Departure
For the patron the Karamat is a state or degree he reached or got when
Allah pleased with him and since Allah is behind all those Karamat , the
Mureed should never ascribe these Karamat to his Sheikh for such a
thought must not be given or expressed by a reasonable Muslim .
Al-Mureed has to be seek Allah making use of the Sheikh standing for
Al-Mureed knows his Sheikh status at Allah Who selects him and preferred
him to his other people . Al-Sheikh’s Karamat in this life are many ,
and no one can doing them but the obstinate and stupid persons . these
are always there to meet people’s needs , for it is Allah’s willing to
make the human race make use of them . These Karamat take place by
invoking and beseeching by the intercession of the Sheikhs.
Al-Karamat takes place by virtue of Allah’s willing . The patrons are
the places where Allah permits to show His Karamat . Allah –Mighty and
sublime be He-selects the persons when He wishes o be the location to
show His miracle for people . and since Allah is always abide before
alive , these Karamat are to keep on going on because of Allah’s
perpetually . When a patron dies . Karamat will never perish or fade
away for two reasons :
1-When a patron dies , he departs to the
Isthmus which is regarded as one of the many things which are to be
existed before the resurrection . It is not be regarded as an aspect of
the other life . Thus the Sheikh’s Karamat are to go on in the Isthmus .
2-Allah
–Mighty and sublime be He-changes angles with the patron’s tombs to
meet the people’s needs . So , to visit the patron’s tombs and to be
seek Allah by their intercession is an irreproachable , for Allah
selects them and makes them the place where His secrets and miracles are
to be kept . Allah makes them loved by people . Allah enables them be
shaped in many forms . Their spiritual aspects are to appear of ine time
and in many places which are different in distances . Thus their
Karamat are not to perish , rather they continue Asheikhs know the
Mureeds and the needy persons through those two ways .THE RIGHTEOUS MEN’S TALES
*A
woman came to Al-Sheikh Abdul Qadir Al-Ghailany with her son and said
,(I found my son in strong love with you , take him to you and command
him to follow the course of Attariqa and to do holy-war). Later on ,
this woman came and found her son very thin and yellow-face as a result
of hunger watch and eating barely bread . she left him and came into the
Sheikh’s room who was eating chickens , she said ,(Sir , You cat
chickens whereas my son is eating barely) . He put his hand on the bones
and addressed the chicken saying , (stand up) .(It stood then)
Al-Sheikh then said to the woman , (When your son become like this , me ,
he can eat what he likes.)
• One of his Karamat is that he did not
suck his mother’s on Ramadhan’s days during his infancy and that files
never came upon him as it was the case4 with his grandfather , Muhammad
–peace be upon him-.
• Once and while he was preaching a kite passed
over them and puzzled them . Al-Sheikh said ,(Ye , wind take the head
of this kite off). The kite , then , fell down with its head cut off)
when he got finished , he got down from his chair .He held the kite with
his hand and passed his other hand on it and said ,(In the Name of
Allah the Compassionate and Merciful) . Then it became alive again .
• He
was passed by caravan of wine for the sultan . He commanded them to
stop , but they refused . He commanded the animals to stop and then ,
they stopped , He took the persons who were in the caravan . When they
repented , the wine changed into vinegar .
• Some of the bigoted men
(renegades) came to him with two closed straw baskets and said ,(tell us
what is inside them ? He put his hand on one of them and said , (In
this there is a crippled boy.) They opened it and found a crippled boy
in it . He held the boy’s hand and asked his to stand . The boy then
stood and began running Al-Sheikh , hen , put his hand on the other
closed straw basket and said (there is a blighted boy) When they opened
it , they sound the blighted boy . Al-Sheikh then held him from his head
and said ,(sit down) They , then , repented from this previous state
and the kept attending the Sheikh’s session .
• A man from Baghdad
came to him and said ,(The jinn kidnapped my daughter)< Al-Sheikh ,
then , said ,(Go to the place …,draw a circle and say which you are
drawing in the name of Allah and Abdul Qadir’s intention). The man did
as he asked to do . The jinn , then , passed by him in groups till their
head came and stood opposite to the circle and said to the men ,(what
is your aim?) I told him about the girl , and at once he brought her
kidnappers . He handed her to me and cut the jinn’s neck off . I then
said to him ,(I have never seen any one like you in his obedience to the
Sheikh).
• Al-Imam Jafar Al-Sadiq was calumniate to Al-Mansur . When
the slanders was asked to swear , he accepted and was told to say (I am
free from Allah’s might and power and I resort to your power and might
and that Jafar did so and so)when the slanders swore , he did at once .
• Shaqiq
Al-Balahi narrated that he went in 149 H to visit the Holy land , when
he reached Al-Qadissiya and while he was looking at people’s beauty and
great number , he saw a handsome boy covered with wooden clothes with
slippers in his foot and sitting lonely . The man said to himself that
this boy is Sufi . I decided to go him and rebuke him . When I
approached him the boy said ,(You , Shaqiq avoid most of the suspicious
, for some of them is a fault ). He left me I said to my self ,(It is a
great matter , he know what I was just thinking of , and he knew my
name.) he must be a pious servant) I hurried to him and found him
praying while his organs were trembling and his eyes were full of tears .
I said to him ,(this is my friend ) I waited him till he finished and
sat . I walked towards him when he saw me he said).You Shaqiq read I
forgive those who repent , believe and do riht –Who are ready to receive
true guidance) 4
(اني لغفار لمن تاب وامن وعمل صالحا ثم اهتدى)
He then left me . When I asked about him , I was told that he was Al-Imam Musa Al-Kadhim .
• It
is narrated that Al-Imam Al-Ridha told his family that he will die
while he is eating grapes and pomegranate, and it was achieved . Also
said to a man ,(be ready to what is inescapable) and that man died after
three days .
• Musafir narrated that , when I was with Al-Imam Ali
Al-Ridha in Mena , Yahya Ibin Khalid Al-Barmaki passed by us with his
face covered with a handkerchief . Al-Imam then said : They are poor for
they do not know will happen to them this year . Then it was their
calamity on the hands of Al-Rasheed.
• Al-Sheikh Alwan Al-Hamawi said
: When Al-Hassan Al-Basri heard about the killing of Saeed Ibin Hubier
by Al-Hajaj he said )Oh Allah you are who destroy the mightiest may you
destroy Al-Hajaj .Al-Hajaj , and after tree days , and worms inside his
belly , then he died .
• Some patrons saw in the night of Al-Hassan
Al-Basri ‘s death that the heaven’s door were open and as if there were
a crier calling that Al-Hassan Al-Basri had come and Allah pleased with
him .
• In spring some hunters brought some hunted birds called
Zarzoor . They gathered them in bird-cage , to sell them . Al-Sheikh
Abdul Karim used to buy all these birds and pay their prices in cash ,
then sit down and being bringing out these birds from the cage one by
one till he set them all free , and then he smiled . Thus , the Sheikh
of Attariqa must be on example in his mercy with animals and birds .
• Al-Yafei
said that Habib Al-Ajmi had ill –natured with who said to him one day :
If Allah did not grant you any thing , you have to hire yourself and
work . When he went outside and did his evening_Prays , he returned home
afraid of her rebuke of him and was afraid of her wickedness . She
said : where is your wage ? He said : the one who hired me is generous
and I felt a shamed of asking him my wage . He went on this state
many-days . She then told ask for wage or to hire himself to one person
:He promised her to ask his wage when he came back at right afraid of
her , he saw smoke and food and his wife happy . She said to him . The
one who hired you , had sent us do thew generous men and his send asked
he to tell you that to work hard and also to know that they did not
postpone his wage in greediness or poverty , so let him be pleased . She
then showed him a purse full of Dinars . Hahib , then wept and said to
his wife that this wage is from the very generous giver whose hads
govern all the treasury of earth and heaven . When she heard this speech
she repented her fault and swore never to do this again .
• Al-Juneid
Al-Baghdadi sat in a mosque at noon talking to people A Christian boy
in disguise asked him about the prophet’s saying : be aware of the
faithfuls’ physiognomy , for sees with Allah’s light , Al-Juneid bowed
his head and said :confess Islam for it is the time of it) . The boys
then , confessed Islam .
• Kheir Al-Nassaj narrated
:While I was sitting in my house , It came to my mind that Abu Al-Qassim
Al-Juneid at the door . I negated the end thought it to be a suspicious
. The same premonition came to my mind again and again . In the third
time I realized that it wasn’t an evil thought . I at once opened the
door . It was a great surprise to find Al-Juneid standing at the door .
He greeted me and said : You Kheir ? Why didn’t you open it from the
first premonition .
• Al-Sheikh Abu Bakir Ashibli’s son narrated :
From my father’s behaviors , I realized that he knows my situation while
I was absent for when I did my worships , he met me with a delighted
face , or with a dejected face when I spent my time in amusements . When
I consulted him about my intent to travel to India He said to me : I
can see that the duration is about to be over , and I wished you to be
presentat my death . I said : I am not going to treat ! He said :No , go
on , and may Allah guard you , and what Allah wants to be will be . The
it was same as he said .
• A group of poor people passed by Ahmed
Ar,Rifa’ai while he was young . They stood gazing at him . One of them
said : There is no Lord but Allah and that Muhammad is Allah’s phet ,
the blessed tree appeared . The second said :It will have branches . The
third aid :It will overshadow a wide space . The fourth said :It will
have much fruit . The fifth said :People will see in it things they have
never seen before . The sixth said :It will have a great standing and
its evidence will be prominent . The seventh said :It will have many
doors and many companions .
• While Al-Sheikh Al-Rifa’ai was reading
thr Qura’n Al-Sheikh Ali Bin Al-Wasiti , someone prepared food and
invited Al-Wasiti and his companions and other people . When they
finished their food , one of them started singing and capping while
Al-Sied Ahmed Al-Rifa’ai was at their back . When they became rest and
pleased , Al-Rifa;ai jumped and broke the tambour which was at him they
had nothing with that boy .When they reasoned him , he told them ask him
for justification . They turned to him and asked him about is breaking
of that tambour . He told them to ask the singer about the thoughts he
had breaking the tambour and they had to follow what he said , When he
was asked , he replied that he in the previous night was at people who
drunk and became intoxicated as you have done now . I thought that you
were like those . While I was thus , this boy stood and broke this
tambour , at that moment all the attendants came to Ahmed Al-Rifa’ai and
kissed his hand .
• Al-Sheikh Al-Rifa’ai used to write without ink
when he had not any . One day , a man asked him to write him an amulet .
He wrote it without ink . That man took the paper and went . After a
while , the same man came with the same paper to be written again as a
test to Al-Rifa’ai . When Al-Sheikh looked at it he said : My son , this
paper is filled with writing , he gave it back to him without being
upset .
• Al-Imam Al-Yafei talked about Abdullah Ibin Mubarak , who
was one of the most pious and religious man and said that :When he was
dyeing , he opened his eyes and said , for such situations . The
servants have to work .
• Rabe’a Al-Adawiya passed by Sheiban Al-Ra’I
and said .(I want to visit the holy lands,(He took out from his pocket a
golden coin .When she handed her hand it was filled with golden coins
and said :You take from the pocket and I take from the unseen).
• It
is narrated that a thief broke into Rabe’a’a house while she was
sleeping . The thief took the clothes away and tired to went out , could
not , find the door . He put the clothes on the earth , then he saw the
door , but when he carried them again , the door disappeared once more .
He repeated that many transparent , till a crier called him to leave
the clothes and said : We keep them even it she were sleeping .
• Al-Booni
said that this achievement is as Allah says (For each such person there
are angles in succession , before and behind him )5
(له معقبات من بين يديه ومن خلفه يحفظونه)
• Al-Tabarani
narrated that there was a man whose mother was paralyzed for twenty
years . She told him to go to Ahmed Ibin Hambel to ask him for an invoke
. When he came to him and knocked at the door , He did not open , but
said ,(Who is it ?) The man said : my mother is paralyzed and she asks
you to invoke her Ahmed then said :We are in needed for her invoke . The
man went back at once . He found his mother walking on her feet .
• Ibin
Abu Al-Ward narrated that he saw Al-Mustafa –peace be upon him – in his
dreams and asked about Ahmed Ibin Hambel .Al-Mustafa told that Musa
will came and then he can ask him . When Musa came , he asked him about
Ahmad Ibin Hambel Musa –Peace be upon him- then said :He was tested in
welfare and worst , and he proved that he was faithful , then he was
attached to those faithfully .
• Al-Sheikh Muhyi Al-Deen Kirkuk had
an Indian Mureed who worked in his garden in Qulah in Chamchamal . When
they were talking about the best kind of fig . The Mureed felt sorry and
said :I wish I were in my garden in India to here the best kind of fig
Al-Sheikh asked him whether he preferred to be in his garden . Al-Mureed
replied positively . Al-Sheikh then said to him :come and took at my
foot , when he looked at his Sheikh’s foot he found himself in his
garden . He filled a basket with figs and brought branches to be planted
and asked his Sheikh about the way to go back . Then a crier called him
to close his eyes . When he opened them he found himself in front of is
Al-Sheikh . He , then , planted those branches which now are known as
the fig of Qulah .
• Abdul-Rahman Ibin Ahmed told Sahl
Al-Tusturay that when he did his ablution , the water run in his hands
as gold and silver . Sahl then said to him :didn’t you know that when
the children cry , they are to be given bangle to play with ?
• Al-Juneid
Al-Baghdadi narrated that when he came upon Al-Siri Al-Soqati he said :
A sparrow used to come at me everyday , I gave its bread and send it
ate from my hand . One day it came but it didn’t light on my hand I
inquired about the reason behind it ? I remembered that in that day I
ate good food . I swore not eat such food then , that sparrow came as
usual to light on my hand .
• Abu Bakir Al-Daqaq said that he was
walking in Beni Israel district . It came for my mind that the knowledge
of truth is different to the Right path , then a crier from under tree
called me and said : each truth is to be followed by a Right path ;
otherwise it is disbelief .
• It is narrated that Abu Saeed
Al-Kharaz was on a journey when watch three day a kind of food came to
me . It happened later three days elapsed , but no food came . He became
weak and thin . When he was sitting . a carrier called him and said :
which one do you prefer a reason or power . He replied :power . He then
stood walked twelve days without , but he didn’t became weak or thin .
• Tha-Al-Noon
said :I saw a young man at Al-Ka’aba who did much pray . When I told
him that he did much pray he said :I am waiting to take leave from Allah
. Then a piece of leather fell upon him written upon it : From Al-Aziz
Al-Ghafar to my faithful servant , you may leave with your previous sins
forgiven .
• Some people said :When we were on ship a sick man died .
We began preparing him to be thrown at the sea . Then the sea dried and
the ship settled down on the earth . We got down , dug , a grave for
him and buried him . When we get finished , the water came back to its
normal level .
• When the famine took place in Basrah ,Habib Al-Ajmi
bought food on credit to give it to the poor people . He closed his
purse and put it under his head before he had slept . When they came to
him and asking their money , he brought I out of his bed and found at
full of money .
• It is said that when Ibrahim Ibin Al-Adam wanted to
travel by ship the crew asked him to pay one Dinar . He went to the
share and there he prayed and said :Oh Allah , they asked me something I
didn’t have . The sand then , changed into Dinars .
• Abu Ya’qub
Al-Sunusi told Ahmed Ibin Mansur that he washed a died Mureed , who
Ya’qub’s finger who said :My son , let my finger , I know that you are
not died , rather it is departure from one house to another . Then he
relieved my finger .
• Ibrahim Ibin Sheiban said : I had a
well-determined young follow , when he died , I want into an immense
grief . When I bean washing him , I started with his left hand . He
pulled it away and gave his right one . I then said : You are right , I
am mistaken .
• Ali Al-Khawas said that :When I fell down on the
ground . I recovered then when some water fell my face . I opened my
eyes and saw a man on his horse . He gave me water and said :be my
companion . At that time we were in Hijaz , but it was not long when he
asked me : what do you see ? I then said : I see Yathrib . He said : get
down now and tell the prophet – peace be upon him- my regards and tell
him that his brother Al-Khadher greets you .
• Ali Al-Khawas said
that one day he was in the desert that it midday he reached at near a
pool of water . He got down and saw big beast coming towards me . He
Yielded to that beast . I saw that it was lame . It came between my
hands and put its hand into my hands , I found its hand swelling . I
took a small piece of wood and cleared that swell . I then put a piece
of clothes as a bandage on that scare and it went away .
• It is said
that when Abdulwahab Ibin Zeid was afflicted with paralysis and when it
was the time of pray he wanted to do his ablution , but there was no
body near him to help him . He then asked Allah to help him till be
finished his ablution . He then recovered his health and did his
ablution , and when he went back to his bed he again became sick as he
was before .
• Khalil Al-Sayad narrated that : When our son Muhammad
was absent for a long time we became very worried about him . I came to
Al-Sheikh Ma’ruf Al-Karkhi and said :You Abu Mahfud our son is absent
and we are worried about him . I asked him to invoke Allah to let him
back . He said :Oh Allah ! the heaven is yours , the earth is yours ,
may you let Muhammad go back home . When I came to the Shame gate I
found my son Muhammad standing there . He said : Oh Allah ! the heaven
is yours , the earth is yours , may you let Muhammad go back home . When
I came to the Sham gate I found my son Muhammad standing there He said :
Daddy , I was before on here in Al-Anbar when a crier called me to go
back to Baghdad .
• Al-Kittani said that we had a friend whose eye
was afflicted with a disease and when he was asked to cure it , he used
to say : I decided to heal it till it is absolved from sins . when I was
sleeping . I heard a someone saying : If this determination was on
those who will enter hell , we should bring them out of it .
• It is
narrated that people used to have the reading of Qura’n at night at Aina
Bint Musa Al-Kadhim . It is also narrated man asked the servant to lit
up twenty pound of oil he gave them to him in one single night . When
the servant put that oil in the lanterns and tried to set them ablaze ,
they didn’t . He bewildered at that . He saw Aminain his sleep saying :
give that oil back and tell its owner that we don’t accept but the good
oil and ask him about its source . The other day the owner of that oil
came . He was given his oil back . When he asked about the reason to
the servant told him that Amina told him in his sleeping that she can’t
accept that oil . that man said :She is true . I am a cheater .
• Ibrahim
Al-Khawas said : I went down Tigris while it was in ebb and wind moved
the waves ,. I saw a man walking on the water I kneeled and swore never
to raise my head till I knew who was that man . I was not long when a
man pushed me and said , stand up , and don’t do it once more . I am
Ibrahim Al-Karasani .
• Ibrahim Al-Ajiri said : A Jew asking me his
debt . He asked me to show him an evidence so as to confess Islam . I
told him to take his clothes off . I wrapped his clothes with mine and
put them in the fire . Then I brought the clothes out of the fire . My
clothes were as if they were not in fire whereas his had burns totally .
Then he confessed Islam .
• Al-Manarri narrated that a crocodile
took a boy and his mother came frightened to Al-Sheikh Ibrahim Al-Dusuqi
. He sent a messenger of his to the shore . The messenger said :You
crocodiles . The one while swallowed boy has to bring him back ,. The
crocodile came out of the sea . He took that crocodile to the Sheikh who
commanded it to release the boy . It then threw the boy away who was
alive .
• It is narrated that Ibrahim Al-Shafei had told his family
the time of his death before he died . He had the ability to make his
family laugh they were crying or to make them cry while they were
laughing
1-Al-Baqarah , Ayat 260.
2- Al-Baqarah , Ayat 111.
3-Al-Tawba , Ayat 119.
4- Taha Ayat 82
5-Al-Ra’ad , Ayat 11. |
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