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Murshed,
I've Seen
No Other!
The Mystical
Accounts of a Sufi's
45-year Journey into
Islamic Spirituality
Major (Retd) Ghulam
Muhammad
Like My Murshed
I've Seen No
Other
The Mystical Accounts of a Sufi's
45-year Journey into Islamic
Spirituality
Translation: Aves E
Contents
Preface .................................................................................7
Chain of Succession ..................................................... 10
Certificate of Succession ........................................... 12
Special Instructions..................................................... 15
His Words Are Full of Fragrance ........................... 18
Keep Praying for Your Steadfastness .................. 31
The Last Guide............................................................... 38
Memories of Him .......................................................... 43
Conversation with Spirits ......................................... 68
Fana Baqa ........................................................................ 78
In Idols You Have Hopes ........................................... 88
My Head is Bowed to Thy Will ............................ 101
Those Who Forgot their Place ............................. 109
This World is of No Use to You ............................ 115
The Companion Jinn ................................................ 126
Aetkaf in Awaisia Mosque .................................... 140
Dying before Death .................................................. 151
Did You Even Know?................................................ 155
Preface
On one hand, it's an honor that I have been blessed
with the opportunity to write this preface. But on the
other hand, I do not consider myself worthy to write
the introduction to the articles written by my highly
affectionate and respected teacher and Hazrat Allah
Yar Khan'sRA Authorized Successor, Major (Retd)
Ghulam Muhammad. My tongue and my pen are not
at all worthy of commenting on what Hazrat Ghulam
Muhammad has written. However, as it was my
Hazrat's wish, I am daring to write these lines in the
compliance of his orders.
Major Ghulam Muhammad Sahib is a resident of Wan
Bhachran district Mianwali. He was just two months
old when he lost his mother. He had not started going
to school when his father also expired. His parental
aunt raised and educated him. He earned
scholarships throughout his schooling, from the fifth
grade to the university, so he didnt face any problem
in completing his education. He got a commission in
the Pakistan Army in 1966. He met Hazrat Allah Yar
KhanRA in the last month of 1969. That was the day
he stepped into the field of Tasawwuf and Salook,
and since then, he never stopped walking on this path
to this day. He is now the leader of a Jamaat of Silsila
Naqshbandia Awaisia.
Chain of Succession
Prophet Muhammad
Sall-Allahu-alaih-Wasallam
(1)
Certificate of Succession
Hazrat Major Ghulam
Muhammad
From Chikrala
28-9-1974
Special Instructions
Hazrat Allah Yar KhanRA
().
Alaih
, from
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Arabic letter B
Allah, Allah. One should say Subhan-Allah, or LaIlaha-il-Allah. The Darood Sharif or the Astaghfar
should be recited. This is the degree where the
medicine is being prepared. This is not Tasawwuf.
The condition will not improve unless the medicine is
used. The second degree is Lata-if, where the person
starts using the medicine and the treatment has
started. Then come the Destinations, as if the patient
has used the medicine and gained the ability to walk
about and run around. Allah SWT has commanded
that the houses where Allah's Zikr is carried out must
be kept free from filthy and stinky things. There
should be nothing evil at that place. There should be
solitude, and the light should be put off. If there's light,
you can cover your head with a piece of cloth. Our
master the Holy ProphetSall-Allahu-alaih-Wasallam adopted
solitude in the cave of Hira. Detachment from the
world and engagement in worships is the practice
(Sunnah) of the ProphetsAlaih as-Salam.
The floor where Zikr is being done should be
considered sacred and kept clean. When Prophet
MosesAlaih as-Salam was conversing with Allah, it was
decreed: 'take off your shoes. This is a holy place.'
The water supply coming from outside, from a lake or
through pipes, is polluted by impurities. Block this
external supply, so that nothing from the outside world
enters into your Heart. That's we close our eyes, ears
and mouth, so that they stop letting in the impurities
from the external world. Now, bore a hole into your
Heart with Zikr-Allah. Install the pump of Allah's Zikr
on it. And fountains of Divine Lights will spring forth
Paranormal Vision
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Qalb-e-Saleem
Satan's name
Pl of Sufi and Arif
37
Ex nudity or obscenity
Memories of Him
Major (Retd) Ghulam Muhammad
Translated as the Throne. It's the higher Sky or Level where Allah
says He has settled.
47
The Jinn are a creation of Allah. They are created out of fire.
Pl of Zikr
63
(Praise be to Allah who blessed us with rewards and
guided us on Deen-e-Islam.)
I state before you that my Shaykh Hazrat Allah Yar
KhanRehmatullah Alaih visited Karachi in 1970. I was also
with him. Our stay had been arranged at a living
quarters that belonged to the Navy. In the evening,
Hazrat JeeRA was describing some aspects of Syed
Ahmed Rafai'sRA life. He said that Allah had blessed
Syed Ahmed RafaiRA with the power that when
delivered a sermon, everyone heard him equally loud
regardless of the distance between them and him.
Whenever anyone came to visit him and he did not
have anything to serve the guest, he would ask the
visitor: "ask me to pray for you, as I am on the
example of the Holy ProphetSall-Allahu-alaih-Wasallam at this
time".
When Syed Ahmed RafaiRehmatullah Alaih went for Hajj
and presented himself at the shrine of the Prophet SallAllahu-alaih-Wasallam
, he addressed the MessengerSAW and
said: "O Prophet of AllahSAW, I keep presenting myself
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It's a term of Sufis. It means casting down the Lights from one's
Destination upon the seeker or anyone else.
67 Inscriptions meant for healing an illness, repel the Jinn, or for
other purposes
66
Fana Baqa
Major (Retd) Ghulam Muhammad
Praise be to Allah who blessed us with rewards and
guided us towards Deen-e-Islam.
The Most Merciful [who is] above the Throne69
established. (20:5)
Indeed, your Lord is Allah , who created the heavens
and the earth in six days and then established Himself
above the Throne (10:3)
And it is He who created the heavens and the earth in
six days - and His Throne had been upon water.
(11:7)
The actual Arabic word is Arsh, which means a level beyond the
seven heavens
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We have read that
( The Most
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Merciful [who is] above the Throne established), and
that ( Allah SWT descends
Innovation in the matters of the Deen. Adopting a practice that
has no precedence considering it to be a part of the Deen.
71 Anyone who engages in Bidat
72 The sayings of the Holy Prophet SalAllahu alaih Wasallam
73 The actual Arabic word is Arsh, which means a level beyond the
seven heavens
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( Allah
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"O Prophet, indeed We have sent you as a witness
and a bringer of good tidings and a warner. And one
who invites to Allah , by His permission, and an
illuminating lamp." [33:45-46]
Because the Final ProphetSall-Allahu-alaih-Wasallam is an
illuminating lamp, people will continue drawing Faiz
from his Sacred Heart until the Judgment Day. FanaBaqa holds great importance among the Stations of
Salook. For conducting Fana-Baqa, the Shaykh
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Quranic Revelation
They have despaired of [reward in] the Hereafter just
as the disbelievers have despaired of [meeting] the
inhabitants of the graves [60:13].
What hope can one associate with the people in the
graves? After passing away, they cannot act like living
people anymore. They are in Barzakh now, where the
spirit is active and the body is inactive. The spirit is
subtle, subtler than the angels, because it has been
created from the angle's breath, and the angels are
created from Light. Hearing, seeing and speaking are
among the characteristics of the spirit. The author of
Jam'e Asool al-Aulia writes that Ali Al-QarshiRehmatullah
Alaih
has said that he has seen four saints act like living
beings inside their graves. (1) Shaykh Abdul QadirRA
(2) Shaykh Ma'roof KarkhiRA (3) Shaykh Aqeel
ManijiRA (4) Shaykh Hayat bin QaisRA. Shaykh Abdul
Haq Muaddis DehlviRA has also mentioned them in his
Persian commentary on Mishkat "Al-Mauta wa-alQaboor".
Hazrat Shah Abdul Aziz Muhaddis Dehlvi says that
the way to seek (Allah's) help is that the needy person
asks Allah SWT to fulfill his need with reference to the
spirituality of someone who is dear to Him, someone
who is closer to Him and more elevated in that sense.
And the needy person says: "O man of God, O Friend
of Allah, please intercede for me and ask Allah SWT
to give me what I need, so that He may satisfy my
need." The person being asked is merely a Waseela
or interceder. Only the Almighty is the Giver and the
Authority. Tawassul is permissible through the
agreement of the Jurispruders. How, then, can
Tawassul become prohibited after death? Because,
the spirits of the Accomplished act after death just like
they act in this world. This subject has been
discussed in detail in Shrah Mishkat, and in Shrah
Sadoor by Allama SyutiRehmatullah Alaih88.
Friends of Allah
The righteous
87 The actual word is "Waseela", which comes from Tawassul.
88 Fatawa Azizi Vol 2, Page 108
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It's the title of Hazrat AliRazi Allah Anhu, from whom 3 of the 4
major Silsilas issue forth.
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Aalam-e-Khalq
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with the kind of needs that I dont feel like praying for
them. No one comes to take my life's earnings that
I've brought with me here. Then, every person's body
either emits Lights, or it emits blackness and
darkness. Hence, the pilgrims leave behind piles of
darkness. Because I've been disconnected from the
Place of Actions100, I cannot dispel this darkness by
doing Zikr like you, and it bothers me. I wait anxiously
for someone to come and do the Lata-if here, so that
that darkness may be cleaned. I wish I had a Jamaat
like your Shaykh, which would do the Lata-if on my
grave everyday and light up the environment".
Once I happened to pass by Peer Mahal, where my
convoy had halted. There was a beautiful house right
in front, from which an affluently dressed, cleanshaven person came out and invited us for tea. We
went to his house because he insisted. He told us that
he is a Peer by lineage and the town was named Peer
Mahal because of his ancestors. The photographs of
his father, grandfather and great grandfathers were
hanging on a wall. All of them were without beards.
He then told us that their followers numbered into
hundreds of thousands. I asked him spontaneously,
"do you conduct Lata-if?" "No," he said, "we conduct
Urs101". I could not control my laughter. Like other
Gaddi-Nasheens, he too had no clue about the Lataif. He thought it must be a type of Urs. Such people
have told their followers, "If you come empty handed,
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This world
Death anniversary
"Go forth, you and your brother, with My Signs, and
do not slacken in My remembrance." Allah has also
complained about his people at another place. He
says:
"Is it not time yet that the hearts of the faithful become
subdued with Allah's Zikr?" [al-Hadeed 16]
Allah the Exalted Rabb has said:
O
O
"Indeed We have sent you as a witness and a bringer
of good tidings and a warner. And one who invites to
Allah, by His permission, and an illuminating lamp."
[33:45-46]
The five qualities of the Holy ProphetSall-Allahu-alaihWasallam
have been mentioned herea witness, a
bringer of good tidings, a warner, one who invites to
Allah, and an illuminating lamp. Being a witness
means that the ProphetS-A-W will be the witness for the
Ummah on the Judgment Day. In this regard, a long
Hadees narrated by Hazrat Abu Saeed KhadriRazi Allah
Anhu
has been reported in the Sahi Bukhari, Nasai,
Tirmzi, etc. According to the excerpts from this
Hadees, when Hazrat NoohAS will present himself
before Allah on the Day of Judgment, he will be asked
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So remain on the right course as you have been
commanded, [you] and those who are in your
company after having repented,, and do not digress in
the least. Indeed, He Sees what you do. [11:112]
Indeed, those who have said, "Our Lord is Allah" and
then remained on the right coursethe angels will
descend upon them. [41:30]
Do not (even) cast your eyes toward that by which We
have given for enjoyment to [certain] categories of the
disbelievers, and do not grieve over them. [15:88]
And if only the people of the cities had believed and
feared Allah, We would have opened upon them
blessings from the heaven and the earth. [7:96]
How can anyone embrace enlightened moderation
after reading these Verses? In moderation, one has to
follow the West, and not the Prophet and his
Companions. One is supposed to imitate the western
attire. One should offer his Namaz if one feels like it,
and skip it if one does not. One should fast if one
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Translation of an Ayat
Name of a dessert
Allah's ProphetSall-Allahu-Alaih-Wasallam once saw the Angel
of Death by the bedside of an Ansari Companion, and
asked him to be gentle with his Companion. The
Angel of Death replied, "Please be at ease. I deal
gently with every believer". He further said, "I see five
times in a day each and every person living in the
cities, villages, forests, mountains or along the rivers.
So, I know all their whole lineage directly". He then
said, "O MuhammadS-A-W, all of this happens because
Allah has so Decreed. Otherwise, I dont have the
power to collect the soul of even a mosquito, unless
Allah's Decree arrives about it".
In the Revered Quran, the creation of mankind has
been attributed to dust. In reality, the human being is
comprised of ten elements, out of which five are from
the Realm of the Creation, and five are from the
Realm of Command. The five elements from the
World of the Creation are fire, water, earth, air, and
Hazrat AliRAA said that it's such a sin that has been
committed by none except for one nation. He said
everyone present there knew what Allah, the Most
High, had done to that nation. He opined that the man
be burnt in fire. The other respected Companions also
concurred and Hazrat Abu Bakr SiddiqueRAA issued
the verdict to burn that man by fire. Allah's Prophet S-AW
has said that when you see someone doing the
unnatural act like the nation of Lut, kill both the active
and the passive partners participating in the act.
Allah's ProphetS-A-W attended an Ansari Companion's
funeral. The grave was still being prepared, so he sat
down and the Companions quietly sat around him. He
lifted his blessed head and said that when a believer's
time of death arrives, angels with fair, shining faces
descend from the heaven. They carry the burial cloth
and the scent from the Haven, and they sit beside the
person who is about to die. Then, the angel of death
IzraeelAlaih as-Salam arrives and addresses his spirit, 'O
content spirit, come out for the Forgiveness and the
Pleasure of your Rubb112'. At that moment, his spirit
leaves his body as smoothly as water flows out from a
water-pouch when its mouth is untied. The angel of
death holds his spirit in his hands and gives it to the
other angels, who then ascend with that spirit.
Whenever they pass by a group of angels, the latter
ask, 'whose blessed spirit is this?' The carrying angels
mention the best of the names with which that person
An Arabic word that has meaning similar to the Caretaker or the
Guardian
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And say, "Praise to Allah , who has not taken a son
and has had no partner in [His] dominion and has no
[need of a] protector out of weakness; and glorify Him
with [great] glorification." [17:111]
After some time had passed, the ProphetS-A-W again
went in that direction and found that person in good
circumstances. The ProphetS-A-W expressed his
pleasure. That person told him that he had been
reciting daily the words that the ProphetSall-Allahu-AlaihWasallam
had taught him.
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Accomplished
Prayer
WASALLAM
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Praise and glory be to Allah SWT who rewarded us
with bounties and blessed us with Deen-e-Islam. And
He created our Father AdamAlaih Assalam with His
Powerful Hand. He breathed His special spirit into him
and made the angels carry him on their shoulders to
the Paradise. And He made AdamAlaih Assalam His
caliph on earth. He said:
Involuntarily, I Cried
Major (Retd) Ghulam Muhammad