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EXPOSURE
OF
NAZIM
AL-
QUBRUSI

and guidance for the wanderers




by Abo Houdhayfah
(Ab Houdhayfah ^Aliyy Fichet ibn Rujjr ibn Maurice alUrdumniyy alFaransiyy, whose madhhab is
Shfi^iyy, tarqah is Rif^iyy and theology is Ash^ariyy and Mturdiyy)
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Allh said what means: And this is My straight path, so follow it, and do not follow
different paths, lest you should become divided, away from His path. This is what I
recommend to you, may be will you fear your Lord (alAn^m 6:153).

Our master Ibn ^Arabiyy (may Allh have mercy on him) mentions in his book Mishktu
lAnwr a hadth transmitted by atTirmidhiyy from Ab Hurayrah, in which the
Prophet (^alayhi ssaltu wassalm) said what means: Before the end of the world, some
men will appear, who will deceive people of this world with religion. For the eyes of men
they will put on skins of sheep to show gentleness. Their tongues will be sweeter than
honey but their hearts will be like those of wolves. Allh says: Are they deluded about
Me or are they provoking Me. I swear by Myself that I shall send against them a
punishment that will leave the most gentle of them bewildered.

In his book Adabu lMurd, our master ^AbdulQdir alJlniyy (rahimahu-llh) said:
If you know that the sheikh has made a mistake, let him know. If he corrects himself,
good, otherwise leave him and follow the Law.








TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION
1* Foreword
2* Who are Nazim and Hisham Kabbani?
3* The sources of information
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4* Imposture
5* The status of Nazim
6* The Naqshbandi chain revised by Nazimites
7* The double language on ^Aqdah and Shar^ah
8* Surfing on the Internet
9* A new Nazim in the making: Zainul Abedin Kazmi
10* Their evading ploys
ESOTERISM AND THE OCCULT
11* The btiniyy (or esoteric) system
Historical background
The Nazimite sect
12* Revealing Friends
Pythagoras, Neoplatonists, occultists and Sufi claimants: links
The case of Gurdjieff
Links with Perennialists in particular
Inayat Khan
The case of Stephen Turoff
RELIGION AS AN OUTER SHELL
13* Their problems with knowledge and ^ulam
Their debasement of formal knowledge
Their ignorance of spiritual knowledge
Dazzling as part of their strategy
14* Their treatment of Ab Hanfah (radiya-llhu ^anh)
PERSONALITY CULT
15* Their belief concerning his power
16* The alleged spiritual rank of al-Qubrusi
17* Their need to increase the prestige of Nazim
18* Their exaggeration concerning Sufism and the status of the sheikh
19* Their idea of sainthood or wilyah
THE MURDS
20* The licentious behaviour caused by their ideology
21* Slander and violence
Blatant lies
Physical pressure
TRIFLING WITH ARTICLES OF FAITH
22* About our master ^s (^alayhi ssalm)
23* About the Mehdi
24* Their attitude with non-Muslim Westerners and Muslims
In general
Their claim that actually, Muslims are idol worshippers
25* What do they call kfir or believer?
26* Their belief that all religions are right and lead to salvation
A useless exercise
27* Their trifling with Hell
28* They pray for dead kuffr
29* Their taste for predictions
30* Emotional manipulation and the alleged picture of the Prophet (^alayhi ssaltu
wassalm)
31* Their beliefs about the Prophet (Allhumma salli wasallim ^alayh)
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32* Their debasement of prophets (^alayhimu ssalm)
Their belief that prophets can be rebellious, idolaters and great sinners
Their belief that prophethood is by progress, not by divine election
33* Their debasement of angels
34* Their debasement of our master ^Umar (radiya-llhu ^anhu wajazhu khayr)
35* Their belief on death
36* The tales about the Preserved Tablet (allawhu lmahfz)
37* Their debasing Allhs promise of reward
VIOLATIONS OF TAWHD
38* Their lack of knowledge of Allhs attributes
39* Their bid^ahs concerning the reality of Allh
40* Their belief in creation by emanation or inbi^th
41* Their belief that Allh is in space
42* Their setting analogies and resemblance between man and Allh ta^l
Their belief that man is in the image of God
Their belief that God is like His creatures
43* Their belief in alHull or divine incarnation
44* Their belief in wahdatu lwujd or pantheism
Their endorsement of alHallj
The Islamic position concerning wahdatu lwujd
The Nazimite endorsement of pantheism
45* Their justification of what contradicts revelation
ODDNESS IN FIQH & OTHER PECULIARITIES
46* Their attitude towards Wahhabism
47* Their idea of responsibility
Women not responsible?
What about the innocent?
48* Music
49* Meat
50* Shaking womens hands
51* Other peculiar inventions or bid^ahs
Eight hours worshiping
Compulsory retreat
Strange ideas about sainthood
Visiting saints claimed to be wjib
Anger!
And he called Allh proud
Have they put marriage before tawhd?
Warning to angry women
Did he say dragons?
No surgery for the murds
Will everybody look like Nazim?

CONCLUSION
Glossary
Bibliography
Contact

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INTRODUCTION


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FOREWORD


The Prophet (peace be upon him) said what means: If one of you sees something bad, let
him change it with his hand; if he is not able to do that, then with his tongue; if he cannot
do that, then he should disapprove of it in his heart, and this is the very least for one who
has faith (transmitted by Muslim through Ab Sa^d alKhudriyy).



We aim at warning people against the reality of Nazims teaching and give some help to
those who wish to refute him. It is inevitable that many of his disciples will feel hurt
when they read this work. Our purpose is not to hurt them but to fight the deceitful evil of
this man and his lieutenants, such as Hisham Kabbani. It is a religious duty which we
carry out with determination. We cannot knowingly let them lead people astray and bring
shame upon the name of Sufism.

Disciples of Nazim! We call upon you to listen and enquire, if you do so, you are bound
to find confirmation for many of the points found in this work in sha-llh. Like so
many before you who had to open their eyes, bitterness and dejection will most likely fill
your hearts and you will find it very hard to trust any one for a long time; but you have
little choice. Your end, like ours, is close and you need to integrate or reintegrate
orthodoxy in order to save yourselves. Many are those who have left Nazim and in spite
of what you may feel know, many of you will be forced by your own consciousness or
simple disgust, to disown a people who have conned you into fake spirituality and false
Sufism.

Do not say to yourselves: How can I judge such a great saint when you see one of them
contravening the laws of Islam, they are not saints, they are not even scholars, you have
simply been manipulated into believing so by people who specialise in this kind of trade.

We do hope that this work will also reach people before they get emotionally entangled
in this group. They are most welcome to check our information and enquire; actually we
encourage them to do so.

To speak of sheikh Nazims followers and things related to him we use the word
Nazimite. We have had to restrict our report to some of the main points we found in
their documents. There is more information coming continuously. Hisham Kabbani is
publishing book after book. Some old ones have been revised, such as The secrets
behind the secrets behind the secrets under the title Mystical secrets of the last days.
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In our quotations we have tried to transcribe their words with exactitude, with the
grammatical and spelling mistakes, with some unpleasant habits we disapprove of, such
as writing (s) or (Sal) instead of praying on the Messenger of Allh (^alayhi ssaltu
wassalm). We want you to have a good idea of their style and manner, but mainly, we
want it to be authentic. The underlining or bold character of some parts is our doing, for
stressing purposes. We have also introduced comments in italics, between brackets, in a
number of quotes.

If you cannot find a Qurnic verse given as reference, look two or three verses later.
The numbers we use are those of the Cairo numeration, whereas those found in many
interpretations such as Yusuf Alys are taken from Flgels edition.

I apologise for my own mistakes and the poor quality of this work. The threats and
violence some Nazimites used against us, forced us to accelerate its publication, so that
no villain could imagine being able to prevent the truth from being published.

Sheikh Samr alQd published a short book in order to expose the same impostors,
under the title Kashfu Dallt Nzim alQubrusiyy. It was translated in English and is
now available to the public under the title The Irrefutable Proof that Nazim al-Qubrusi
Negates Islam and can be read or downloaded at http://www.aicp.org/. Their answer,
instead of bringing evidence, was to slander, spread rumours and false news on the
Internet with the purpose of discrediting him. The nature of their response to documented
accusations says a lot about the true nature of Nazim, Mr H. Kabbani and their other
assistants.


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WHO ARE
NAZIM AND HISHAM KABBANI?


Allhu ^azza wajall said what means: Those who conceal the proofs We have sent
down and the guidance, after We have made it clear for the people of the Book, - on them
shall be Allhs curse, and the curse of those who are entitled to curse (alBaqarah
2:159).


Let us start with an extract from Hisham Kabbanis book The Naqshbandi Sufi Way,
page 375 and 376. He describes his master Nazim in the following terms: He is a
miracle of Gods miracles, walking on earth and soaring in the heavens. He is a secret of
Gods Secrets, appearing in His Divinity and existing in His Existence. He is the owner
of the throne of guidance... Whoever has learned will know how to classify this
statement.

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Nazim is the disciple of a man called ^Abdullh Faiz ad-Daghestani, himself denounced
for his inventions. That person claimed to have left Daghestan when the Russian took
Sheikh Shmil (rahimahu-llh) as a prisoner. This is an interesting detail, for Sheikh Shmil
had made Arabic the official administrative language over all the area he controlled. It
would not have been possible without a good number of people mastering this language.
People of religion were of course the first ones to be expected to have such a knowledge.
AdDaghestani could not read or write and his Arabic was so poor that he needed an
interpreter, who was Nazim in some instances. The conclusion is that he was quite far
from being an Islamic scholar. The philosophical knowledge he seemed to have is a good
indicator that he did not inherit his doctrine from an Islamic source.

Nazim al-Qubrusi himself is a Turk from Cyprus who studied chemical engineering at the
university of Istanbul in the forties. This means he can read Latin alphabet and we know
also that he addresses his audience in English, Turkish or Arabic. He is reported to have
had some political ambition in his native island, but it has not worked very well and his
old age - he was born in 1922 seems to have destroyed any chance he ever had of
becoming for Northern Cyprus what archbishop Makarios was for the Greek side. This
failure is certainly one of the reasons of the hostility he sometimes expresses towards
Muslims, whom he calls then Eastern people.

When adDaghestani died al-Qubrusi assumed the leadership of the movement, against the
will of another disciple, Sheikh Hussayn of Syria, who eventually conceded for fear of a
disastrous split. He seems to have already established two successors, as he himself said
when questioned about it: There is Sheikh Adnan from Lebanon and Sheikh Hisham, my
son-in-law, the brother of Sheikh Adnan Kabbani. They are the successors (page 1 of the
booklet called The fruit of real belief and perfect practising is peace). Nazims rival,
does not seem to consider that this decision was part of their agreement when he accepted
to recognise the authority of al-Qubrusi.

Hisham Kabbani is becoming more and more important. He seems now to be the real
source of power within the movement. He has to crush the opposition of those who would
have liked to be linked directly to Nazim, as it happened in London in particular. Ex-
Nazimites talk of him as a very clever type of bully who will not have anybody standing
in his way. His personality is very different from his masters: he does not have his charm
and gentle manners. A good number of murids simply cannot get along with him. The
major difference between al-Qubrusi and his successor is that the latter writes. He has
published books which we quote in this work. Our sources indicated that he was the
source of much of the slander and libel thrown at opponents.

The strength of Nazims link with his followers seems to come mainly from the rumours
people spread around him, describing him as a leader of scholars and a saint of many
karmt
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. So far, everything that has been reported could be explained differently. We
were told, for instance, that he looks into the eyes of some people, and it is enough for
them to convert. He is said to show some knowledge of future events, something he
shares with mediums. Some people have had strong hallucinations or emotional reactions

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See glossary at the end, for the meaning of this word.
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in their first encounter with him; others appear completely immune to it. One of my
friends had such an experience and followed him for some time, nothing of the kind
happened to me when I shook his hand in Birmingham in Bowyers road Mosque.

Sheikh Nazim is not a horrible old man whose wickedness appears obvious to anyone
looking at him. He does not bully people into becoming his disciples, it would not
succeed very well and violence is rather used against disgruntled dissidents and
opponents. Al-Qubrusi looks like a sweet elder with a gentle face and a beard that
symbolises all the wisdom they believe him to have. He has good manners on the whole
and shows great patience in front of the enthusiasm and intrusiveness of his admirers. It
was reported to us that when he gets really angry with someone, he has the very useful
ability of switching immediately to a totally different mood to welcome other people.


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THE SOURCES OF INFORMATION


Allhu ^azza wajall said what means: ... Those whose weakness was taken advantage
of will say to those who thought themselves to be great: Had it not been for you, we
would certainly have been believers! The arrogant ones will say to those whose
weakness was exploited: Was it we who kept you back from the guidance after it
reached you? No, it was rather you who transgressed. Those whose weakness had been
taken advantage of will say to those who saw themselves as great: No! It was what you
plotted by day and night: behold! You constantly ordered us to be ungrateful to Allh and
to attribute equals to Him! They will declare their repentance when they see the
torment: We shall put yokes on the necks of the unbelievers. Will they not simply be
rewarded for what they used to do; (Saba 34:31 to 33).


Nazim al-Qubrusi did not write books himself. This fact is used by his followers to
protect him from blame. In order to deflect harm they even explain how such book was
actually written by a Jew who used to be a murd or by somebody else. The reality is that
the publications we quote from were used among them up to 1995 at least.

Everything we report has come to us through five channels:
1: Nazims followers and disciples, whom we call Nazimites,
2: People who have left the movement, sometimes called ex-Nazimites.
3: Direct or indirect reports from people who have met them or gone to their places and
meetings.
4: Publications commonly used by his followers, distributed by them inside or outside
their ranks. They have altered at least one
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and I have a feeling many of Nazims lectures
are being phased out, if only to reflect H. Kabbanis takeover

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This is The Secrets Behind the Secrets Behind The Secrets. I have not fully measured yet the full extent
of the new version: Mystical Secrets Of The Last Days.
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5: Tapes of some of his sessions, which we obtained mainly through a former disciple.
You will notice a difference between the quality of Nazims English in books and that of
the tapes. This is probably due to the corrections made by the disciples when they put his
teaching in writing. Nevertheless, what is heard on the tapes (I have tried to transcribe
them as faithfully as possible as the quality of the sound allowed me to) shows that his
English is good enough to understand what is going on around him and to know what is
in the publications of his followers.
Hisham Kabbani is doing his best to erase the many traces of Nazims blunders
(especially the dated predictions of the coming of the Mehdi). It was reported to me how
he confiscated Zero Thyra Quensels tapes and was forced to return them by the ladys
obstinate persistence.
6: Their sites on the Internet and their friends.
Ambiguity is raised to the level of an art in sects, especially in fake Sufi orders such as
Nazims, so we have tried to restrict ourselves to the clearest statements available. On the
other hand, when they feel safe, they do express their real ideas openly. One just needs to
wait and search.

Like any autonomous sect, which does not seriously seek justification outside their ranks,
Nazimites cannot be classified simply as Wahhabis, Ismailis or others. Their method and
doctrine can be directly related to a number of other movements or organisations like the
Masons, Jehovahs witnesses, Shiites, etc. They establish their own dogma, which they
adapt and transform according to circumstances. For example they had to justify the fact
that ad-Daghestani died without the Mehdi appearing as he had claimed he would. They
will have to perform the same readjustment when Nazim passes away, if the Mehdi does
not come before.

We have tried to organise a meeting in a neutral place with Nazim and his successor
Hisham Kabbani, so as to discuss the very serious matters you will find in this report. It
was to no avail, for they persistently evaded our attempts to reach them. Two letters and
several phone calls remained without concrete answers. They forbade their representative
in Birmingham at the time, Mr. Bashir (he has left them since), to intercede in our favour
for this encounter. Several visits paid to him did not change the situation. The physical
violence Nazimites started to use against us made it impossible to question him in one of
their places. I often speak about us because I could not have written this report and
refutation without the help of former Nazimites and the support of Rif^is and
Naqshbandis, particularly in Birmingham.

On Monday, March 10th 1997, Nazim came to Birmingham to the mosque in Bowyers
Road. He was supposed to arrive at half past six in the evening and we arrived after eight
oclock, hoping to be at long last able to ask him questions. We found that they were still
reading dhikr and he had not started his speech. After Mr. Mahmood H. Rashid had
finished singing his praise and the lecture had ended, we asked his followers whether we
would be allowed to ask him questions. We were told to write them and pass them on.
Nothing happened and one of his former disciples informed us they were starting the
rituals they usually performed before taking him away. Desperate to talk to him we even
queued among the people who wanted to shake his hand: that enabled me to ask him in
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Arabic whether he would be able to speak with us, explaining that the Ahlu sSunnah of
this area had questions to put to him. He did not even have time to answer me, for I was
pushed away very firmly.

When he started to leave, protected by a wall of bodies (as if Sunnis in this mosque ever
endangered him) I asked loudly if we would eventually be allowed to put questions to
him. One of their leaders then said clearly that everybody was going to have dinner and
after that questions would be answered. What actually happened was that they whisked
him away, not to be seen again. Then some of Birmingham Nazimites started to try and
provoke incidents. A young man came to me, asking angrily: What was the pushing
for? to which I answered that I did not push anyone, that it was not the way of the
Sunnis, if anybody was pushed it was me. I suppose he was told I had misbehaved. It
would not have been the first time they misinformed people to push them to violence.

The same evening we had another incident when one of them tried to hit a former
Nazimite who was attempting to talk with them. We were in a difficult position, torn
between the desire to stay and wait for Nazim (we did not know yet he was not coming
back), and the will to avoid any of the brutalities they are familiar with. To diffuse the
situation we started to have a mild dialogue with one of them who seemed to be able to
contain a bit the most excitable ones. In the end read Ftihah
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together and it was
confirmed that we would not see al-Qubrusi again, so we left.

Some brothers who stayed behind informed me later that they had managed eventually to
have some kind of conversation with a number of them. Let us pray it will have a positive
effect.

Recently I read on one of their sites this statement of Dr Gabriel Fouad Haddad
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: I
originally intended to visit them and debate them concerning the slanders and fabrications
that I found issuing from them. However, upon re-reading what they have said, and after
receiving some information about them from concerned brothers (are these the brotherly
brothers who beat me up for speaking out or those who threatened to spread by internal
organs on the pavement?), I decided that my complaint with the author of these slanders,
Samir al-Qadi, and his friends was beyond the benefit of a public debate. When you read
of his effort at refuting Sheikh Samr alQds evidence, you can understand why.


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IMPOSTURE


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AdDaghestani taught that anybody who read alFtihah would be saved from the punishment in the
Hereafter, Nazim said that even saying God is enough. The yound man seemed to have tried to save my
soul. I had been informed of that behaviour by former Nazimites but it took me some time to realise what
had happened.
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http://www.sunnah.org/fiqh/refuting_the_habashis.htm. If you have never heard about the Habashis,
they owe their nickname to their having Studied with Hfiz alhadth ^Abdullh alHarariyy, from Ethiopia
(Habashah). They are all Sunnis, mostly Shfi^is, Ash^aris and Mturdis in theology and Rif^is in
sufism.
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Sheikh ^Izzuddn alKhaznawiyy (rahimahu-llh) one of the greatest masters of the
Naqshbandi Sufi Order in our Islamic fourteenth century, said: Any tarqah (sufi order)
that contradicts Shar^ah is out of Islam and: A tarqah needs knowledge and action.


One of Nazims biggest impostures is his claim to be the head of the honourable
Naqshbandi order worldwide, something he inherited from his master ad-Daghestani. Al-
Qubrusi is called in an article by one of his disciples leader of the Naqshbandis, in the
Q-News magazine of February 1998, page 28
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. Like other pseudo Sufis who arrived in
the early English Muslim community, few questioned his status or had the ability to see
through appearances. Since then the situation has considerably changed, if only because
information did come from the Middle East and his home island. Real Turkish Sufis are
also spreading in Britain and they will not put up with Nazimites, in sha-llh.

This claim cannot be confirmed anywhere among the main branches of this order.
Actually, when I informed local Naqshbandis in Birmingham, England, they were
shocked and since then they have kept their distance from him. The sheikh of one of their
most popular branches, Zinda Pir Sahib from Gamkhol, Northern Pakistan, has even
declared him to be a kfir, something he is not known for doing frequently.

The Turkish masters of the Naqshbandi order have never recognised him either. Sheikh
Muhammad Zhid (rahimahu-llh) said that Nazims master, adDaghestani, was an ignorant
Shiite who claimed falsely to belong to the Naqshbandi order, a link we demonstrate later
on in this work. Sheikh ^Uthmn Sirjuddn (rahimahu-llh), one of the brightest masters of
this tarqah in our century, never acknowledged him either. Sheikh ^Abdullh alHarariyy
has also openly warned people of his evil ways on several occasions and keeps doing so.
Sheikh Muhammad alHmid
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condemned and refuted the main beliefs spread by Nazim
and his team.

Nazim would not feel very comfortable with the masters of the Naqshbandi order in
Turkey. The khalfah of Sheikh alKhaznawiyy said to Sheikh Jaml Halm (President of
the Association of Sufi Sheikhs in Lebanon): ...because our masters taught us that the
way to orientate hearts towards Allh ta^l is to perform the duties and avoid what is
harm ... because Sheikh ^Izzuddn alKhaznawiyy told us that tarqah is accomplished by
righteousness through Islamic Law. He used to tell us Flying in the air and walking on
the water are no signs of goodness. Righteousness through Allhs Law is the greatest
karmah. The sparrow in the sky flies and the devil travels from East to West, but only

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His photograph, along with the pompous title Khalifah of the Naqshbandi Sufis and some unacceptable
propaganda, is even to be found page 152 of a Religious Education textbook written by Ruqaiyyah Waris
Maqsood and used in English secondary schools: Examining Religions, Islam. The same author even
wrote page 61 of Islam, a dictionary: Shaikh (sha-ik) a Sufi ( see Sufism) master or teacher such as
Shaikh Nazim, the leader of the Naqshbandi Sufis
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Sheikh Muhammad alHmid was not only a major Hanafi scholar of the 14
th
century H. (XX century of
the Christian calendar), he was also one of the masters of the honourable Naqshbandi order who fought
against pseudosufis trying to destroy sufism from the inside.
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knowledge and action with correct knowledge will save in the Hereafter... Anyway, we
know it is not among real Sufis that al-Qubrusi finds company when he visits Istanbul.

Even in Daghestan, the country where his master originated, there is not recognition for
him in Sunni circles. The Mufti of this Caucasian land, master of the Naqshbandi Sufi
order, Sayyid Ahmad ibn Sulaymn Darwsh Hjjieff produced a fatw warning
Muslims against the impostor. The contents of one of his letter are as follow: In the
name of Allh the All-Merciful, the Merciful. Praise be to Allh. Now, warning against
people who have gone astray is a duty we have been ordered to perform. Especially those
who use the name of religion to disguise, in order to lead people astray when actually,
they are the enemies of religion and so far from it. Among those, we count Nazim al-
Qubrusi who has spread a lot of corruption over the earth and has distorted the name of
Islam among those who know little about Islam. He dresses like scholars to conceal what
he is to the people. This Nazim is the disciple of ^Abdullh (ad-Daghestani). You may
want to contact the Daghestan Moslem Spiritual Board yourself at this address:
Makhachkala 367015, Aziz Aliev Street 2, Daghestan, Russia.

In spite of world wide Naqshbandi rejection, Nazim al-Qubrusi is still introduced as
world leader of the Nakshabandi Sufi order to uninformed Christians looking for
Muslim representatives. You could still find an example of that in
http://www.gospelcom.net/apologeticsindex/an991028.html in Rab^u lAwwal 1424
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.
Enthousiastic followers, during his visit to Kataragama in Sri Lanka, said about him:
His Holiness Sheikh Nazim Adil Al-Haqqani, world leader of the Naqshbandhia
Order, is respected as a servant of Allah throughout the Islamic world. It is completely
untrue but which devoted Nazimite is going to question that? They hardly know the
names of real Sufis and they mainly hear about gurus like Gurdjieff, Inayat Khan and
others. They are isolated from real Sunnism and Sufism and see the world through the
eyes of their master.


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THE STATUS OF NAZIM


Allh said what means: ... The wrong-doers will be made to stand for their Lord,
throwing back the blame on one another ... (Saba 34:31).


People of authority among Nazimites play an enormous role in establishing al-Qubrusis
status in the followers minds. They show him as a man of extraordinary knowledge and
extremely high spiritual level, in permanent contact with the greatest souls, the holy
Prophet in particular (salla-llhu ^alayhi wasallam). To give an example of the kind of
attitude expected from disciples, here are Nazims master (ad-Daghestani) words: It is
not allowed for the murid to ask his shaykh any question, on anything he has ordered him
to do (AlWasiyyah page 9). That attitude is noticeable with many of them. When

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shown evidence which no Muslim could accept, they answer: We do not understand
these things now, but we will, when we reach a higher spiritual level. These ones are
already obedient and trusting enough to adopt the unacceptable and believe that their
error is spiritual enlightenment.

The vast majority of his followers appeared to us as ignorant of the basis of fiqh. They
are considerably impressed by his alleged power and the supernatural phenomena which
they may have witnessed, but most of the time have just heard of. In our discussions with
them we realised that they ignored an essential point: supernatural phenomena are not
evidence of anybodys sainthood. Kashf and ilhm
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, awake or in dreams, are not
accepted as proof in religious matters. We tried to convey that to them, with some
success.

From our discussions with his followers it appeared they had almost no sense of
perspective. They had no idea that pseudo Shdhilis and Tijnis, Ismailis and Bahais used
the same method. They had been induced into believing that Nazim is the greatest sheikh
in the universe. The conversations of a few were full of names of scholars alleged to have
supported al-Qubrusi and of known falsified books attributed to great Sufis. Their
understanding of reality had clearly been thwarted.

One can easily find samples of their literature on the Internet. At some stage you could
find in it a refutation written by Hisham Kabbani against alleged accusations, most of
them were so ridiculous that one wonders whether they did not make them up in order to
divert attention from the real issues. We also found in it a report of Nazims visit to the
pope, an opportunity they relish because he is seen and photographed in the company of
important people, thus reinforcing his prestige. The report presented the story as if every
person who found himself in the presence of al-Qubrusi was there for him, as though they
had come all the way to confide in him and take advice.

Murids and admirers are quite unaware of the real state of Nazims fame in the outside
world. Videos of him and the visits of some sheikhs surrounded by their followers have
definitely established his status in their minds. They do not realise he is just one among
many others of his kind. The feeling that the whole world is about to fall in the arms of
the sheikh was already prevalent at the time of ad-Daghestani. Muhammad Majdhb
reported in an article for the alAnwr newspaper that a disciple he met in the hospital
room of al-Qubrusis predecessor told him: Sheikh ^Abdullh is the miracle of his time,
millions of people know him and there is no limit to the number of his disciples. It was
untrue at the time and it has not changed much since.

And what does Nazim, the alleged worldwide leader of the Naqshbandi order, think of
Sufis; well, he said: Because the other 40 Tariqats use the Zikr of their tongues,
and only the Naqshbandi Order uses the hearts
9
.


8
See glossary.
9
http://www.the-heart.net/sohbet/cyprus2002/jun02/13jun.htm . They located it in Cyprus and dated : June
13, 2002. The speech was still on the site in Rab^u lAwwal 1424 (May 2003).
14
Although they boast very loudly to have the whole universe centred around them, they
often have to face the fact that numerous scholars and Sufis have denounced them. Then
the rhetoric changes and their isolation and rejection by the mainstream are used to justify
their position. They claimed in my presence that a true Sufi has to be excommunicated
many times: the more rejection, the more they feel how unique their master is. It reached
such a point in our discussions that they appeared to relish the idea of new fatwas against
their leader. This shows how well conditioned they had been and many readers will
recognise here a common phenomenon among sects.

Al-Qubrusi is reported to have told them that their first test would be their people trying
to take them away from him, which is part of their strategy of isolation and
reinforcement.

6
THE NAQSHBANDI CHAIN
REVISED BY NAZIMITES


At the very end of Mercy Oceans Hidden Treasures, one can find the so-called
Naqshbandi silsilah of which they claim Nazim is the fortieth sheikh. In the tenth
position, between Ysuf alHamadni and ^AbdulKhliq alGhijuwni, they put alKhidr
(^alayhi ssalm)! When we asked them about this ridiculous claim, we were answered:
Whats wrong with this? There are reasons behind this: the prestige they hope to gain
by this addition, but also, they claim that Nazim is the last of their imams before Mehdi,
the fortieth! Without this addition, al-Qubrusi would only be the thirty ninth and would
miss the highly symbolic number forty. One of our sources told us that actually they may
be thinking of changing again that chain, eliminating one of its members, so that Hisham
Kabbani would also claim to be the fortieth when his turn comes. We shall see whether
this happens or not. From what we heard, ad-Daghestani also claimed to be the fortieth. It
seems quite flexible.

This chain is also found at the end of The secrets behind the secrets behind the secrets
and confirmed by Hisham Kabbani in Mercy Oceans Secrets of the Heart. He wrote
10
:
...then Abu Bakr gave everything to Salman al-Farisi, Salman to Qasem, Qasem to
Jafar, Jafar to Tayfur (Bistami), Tayfur to Sayyidna Khidr... Eventually, you will find
a very detailed form of it, in a tree shape, in The Naqshbandi Sufi Way, by the same
author, and on many of their web sites.


7
THE DOUBLE LANGUAGE
ON ^AQDAH AND SHAR^AH



10
Page 22.
15
Allh subhnaH wata^l said what means: Hypocrites, men and women, belong
together, they order what is evil and forbid what is good... (atTawbah 9:67)


We should say triple or multiple language at the very least, to express the ability
leaders of this sect have to say one thing and then do or say the opposite. Let us take a
characteristic example; H. Kabbani declared
11
: Sufi people believe that God is One, and
everything else is His slave. Do not think that true Sufi people have different beliefs.
True Sufis know that the slave is the slave and that God is God ... Sufi people must keep
the shariah of the Prophet (s) they must keep all conditions and laws that God has
showed us; and they believe that God is merciful to everyone... Do not think that Sufi
people can accept the view that Sufism contradicts shariah? This was never the case, is
not, and can never be the case.

We love this text! How pleasant it would be from them, if they did not disprove their
sincerity through words and actions. Do we need to mention again the beliefs they spread
and their unlawful habits? Shall we remind ourselves about the lies they tell against Allh
jalla jalluH Himself? As for Shar^ah, they are very keen on denouncing people who do
not wear the turban (which is recommended, not obligatory), but on the other hand, and
so often, they cannot be bothered to write the full prayer on the Prophet (salla-llhu ^alayhi
wasallam). They put instead a few letters, when it is not a simple s, a custom started by
Wahhbis and classified as makrh. Now, what about avoiding what is harm too? If it is
forbidden for Nazim to let stranger women kiss directly his bare hand in spite of his old
age, what about Hisham Kabbani and other representatives ?

Their pretended endorsement of Shar^ah is sometimes done very seriously. You can
indeed find some of their texts which will convince any sincere person unaware of other
aspects of their teaching, that these people stick to the revealed Law with all the strength
one expects from true Sufis. For instance you can find a very interesting article by
^AbdulHakm Murd, called The Four Schools of Fiqh and the Need for Taqld in
number 5 of their magazine an-Naseeha (Ramadn 1415). But how could we forget all
their actions and words which go against the Sacred Law. For example, when Nazim was
a guest at the house of Mr. Ahmad Fakhr in Lebanon, in Ras an-Nab^, a lady called
Ruqayyah Faqh questioned him on rib. His answer was take it, and when she said
but the Qurn forbade it!, he added: Today this whole world has become filled with
rib. In this same house he was seen shaking hands with women, and they were kissing
his. This was during the lifetime of ad-Daghestani. Type Shaykh Nazim Haqqani in the
Internet search system and see if you cannot find more of that hypocrisy we discovered in
their Web site.

If spiritual leaders are not here to set an example, who will most Muslims learn it from?
If they do not teach the straight path by their manners and methods, who will? Hisham
Kabbani does not differ from his master at that level, whether it is for essential matters or
for details like the mirror calligraphies he uses in The Naqshbandi Sufi Way, without
respect for the order of revealed words; or the drawing in his book on angels.

11
In his Mercy Oceans Secrets of the Heart, page 15.
16

Page 43 of Mercy Oceans Secrets of the Heart, we were surprised to discover these
words: We spend a lot of time teaching from the sharia. What a pity we did not notice!
After reading so many of their books, listening to their tapes, discussed with their
followers, attended their conferences, we have not yet noticed that they even had the
basics in fiqh. Actually we have come to the conclusion that most of them hardly know
anything apart from what they received from tradition through their parents. Have they
been hiding it?

So many sects pretend to be Islamic, claim to stick to Qurn and Sunnah and to apply
Shar^ah better than everybody else. We do not judge them by their claims.

Ahmad arRif^iyy (rahimahu-llh) said
12
: The aim of the Sufis way is the aim of the
fuqahs
13
way, and the aim of the fuqahs way is the aim of the Sufis way. The
obstacles by which the fuqah are tested in their search are the obstacles by which Sufis
are tested in theirs. Tarqah is Shar^ah and Shar^ah is Tarqah, the difference between
them is a lexical one...

8
SURFING ON THE INTERNET


When I started surfing on the Internet some years ago I found obvious examples of their
double language. Their claims to a strict orthodoxy wass displayed, but at the same time
they could not help giving hints about their real nature. For instance, in one of them, in a
section called Muslim Scholars, I found in Rajab 1419 the following title: The
Endowment of Divine Grace and the Spread of Divine Mercy
14
, attributed to
^AbdulQdir alJlniyy (qaddasa-llhu sirrah). This is what they wrote: O ye people! When
you join spiritual study circles (halaqtu zikr) you mainly go there as spectators, not to
cure your illnesses. You refrain from hearkening to the advice of the gnostic shaikh, ...
Child, your progress has been curtailed by your ... Your current dependence on
created resources and your forgetting to trust the causal being Who created
everything... karmic habits ... how can you then reach the Causal Being Who created
everything?

Do they really expect knowledgeable people to believe our master ^AbdulQdir
alJlniyy would suddenly start speaking like a Hindu or Buddhist guru, referring
regularly to karma, that he would fall into such blatant kufr as calling Allh subhnaH
wata^l The Causal Being. Our master anNasafiyy (rahimahu-llh) said that whoever

12
Page 105 of his book alBurhnu lMuayyid.
13
I.e. scholars of the Law, Islamic jurists. The word is the plural form of faqh.
14
http://www.pearlpublishing.com/. They wrote: edited by Pearl Publishing House, 1990-1997. by Sidi
Shaykh Muhyiddeen Abdul Qadir Gilani. trans. by Shaykh Muhammad Al-Akili .
1990-1997 Pearl Publishing House. It is supposed to be a translation of the fifth chapter, named: The
Reason Behind Gods Love For His Servants. The self-proclaimed Islamic Supreme Council of America
(chaired by H. Kabbani, of course), still advertised it in Rab^u lAwwal 1424 (May 2003), in its
spirituality-sufism section, qadiriyah (see: http://www.islamicsupremecouncil.org/).
17
calls God cause goes out of Islam. Causes are part of creation, Allh is the One who
creates causes and effects. This is one more case of belief in creation by emanation which
we explained in chapter 34.

Again we find the word Gnostic used by them, a word so much loved by Western
esoteric orders, but worse, we also discovered the use of karmic. This refers directly to
the Hindu and Buddhist belief in karma. So they claim that ^AbdulQdir alJlniyy
(rahimahu-llh) thought that everything which happened to people was caused by
actions done in their present life or during previous incarnations. This defamation for
which they will have to give accounts on the Day of Judgement, along with all their other
lies, contradicts the proven integrity of this august master of Sufism. May Allh join us
with him in the hereafter and preserve us from them.

I have not been able to find again the same site and at the time my lack of experience
made me neglect taking down the full URL. I actually suspect they took away the text
which was too obvious a violation of Islamic orthodoxy. But they still advertise it on their
so-called Islamic Supreme Council of America pages and their friends put the next on the
World Wide Web for them.


9
A NEW NAZIM IN THE MAKING:
ZAINUL ABEDIN KAZMI


The method initiated by Abdullh adDaghestani and Nazim alQubrusi inspires others. A
man called Zainul Abedin Kazmi has been touring some parts of the United States,
claiming to be sent by Nazim, to be part of the so-called golden chain, talking smoothly
to people, sound more Sufi than Sufis themselves and making quite a following for
himself. Hisham Kabbani and his master are doing their best to stop him but of course it
is difficult to impair the progress of a person who is using the very recipe they have been
using over and over again.

A whole article can be found on this topic on Wahiduddins Web
15
. The impostors are
now victims of another impostor. What is said applies strikingly closely to what Abdullh
adDaghestani and Nazim alQubrusi did.

Wahiduddin wrote: He was very likable, loving and charismatic. I thoroughly
enjoyed his seated zikr. His ego seemed a bit large as he told about his healing
abilities and described the great "station" that he had achieved, but all humans do
have their own peculiarities

Both Nazim and his master adDaghestani never hesitated much to boast about their
experiences and powers. They wrote: When dawn arrived, the Sheikh woke him
to pray and Nazim affirms that never in his life did he feel a power like that which his

15
http://wahiduddin.net/sufi_mystic.htm . It was still there in Rab^u lAwwal 1424 (May 2003).
18
teacher transmitted during his prayer. Abd Allah ad-Daghestani gave him initiation
into the Naqshbandi order: "Oh my son, we have the power to make our disciple
reach his station in a second."
16
You can find more lies, ego display and alleged great
stations, as told by Nazim himself in: http://www.naqshbandi. org/chain/40.htm or
http://www.sufi.it/sufismo /shaykh.htm in Italian.

Wahiduddin wrote, He said that his master who had authorized his US tour is
Shaykh Nazim of the Naqshbandi Sufi order. He handed out photographs of
himself along with Shaykh Nazim, a page of prayers, a list of the Golden Chain of
the Naqshbandi Tariqat, some small prayer beads and other small gifts. He did not
ask for any money. He was kind courteous and seemed to be genuinely concerned
for everyone that he encountered.
The comments from the Naqshbandi Order seem harsh and unkind, almost
threatening, yet Zainul Abedin Kazmi is a gentle, kind person who seems to be
living an exemplary life, bringing the blessings and grace of Allah into the lives
of many people.

Unfortunately it did not bother Nazims disciples that the official Naqshbandi order of
Daghestan denounced him and thus disqualified all his claims to be part of their chain.
They found much comfort in the fact that Nazim appears like a gentle, kind person who
seems to be living an exemplary life, bringing the blessings and grace of Allah into the
lives of many people.

It is ironic to see people ignoring H. Kabbanis warnings and denunciations, writing:
I know very little of this man except that many people have reported to me that
he has had a profound effect on their lives---in a positive way. As I read the
response you sent, it made my heart sink. Here is a man who touches people's
hearts and souls and yet is not being supported by the Sufi order to which he
claims to be a part of. It feels a little like politics to me. I don't care what this
Sufi order says, if the man changes lives and brings people closer to God and asks
for no money, then what exactly is the problem?

Wahiduddin comments with great wisdom:
But alas, that is exactly the sort of blind follower attitude that allows the
formation of deceitful cults. The prevailing attitude seems to be: "so what if he is
lying or dishonest, as long as he makes me feel good".
Who would disagree with that? If Nazimites did really enquire about Nazim and
adDaghestanis credentials they would realise it is this very attitude which enabled these
impostors to form their own cult.


10
THEIR EVADING PLOYS


16
http://www.islamicsupremecouncil.org/country_reports/World_Tour_2001/Cyprus/msn-bio.htm
in Rab^u lAwwal 1424 (May 2003).
19

When faced with questions or accusations, the first aim of Nazimites is to protect their
sheikh. Al-Qubrusi is the base of the whole system, on him it stands and without him it
might crumble down. If he shook, their whole universe would quake, so anything
unfriendly is warded off by all possible means. For this reason, the transition to Hisham
Kabbani is being prepared long in advance.

The first reaction of Nazimites, when their sheikh stands accused, is often to deny
anything happened or was said. If they cannot do that they will point to other people as
guilty of the fault, claiming even that there are some very strange people around their
sheikh who are hypocrites working against him, or that those who wrote his words
misinterpreted them. Yet, the controversial books and tapes which shock Muslims have
not stopped being used and spread openly among them for years. Why did Nazim not do
anything against them, for it is established that he can read English
17
. It is his
responsibility to make sure that his followers do not go against Islam.

Another common argument used by them is that his opponents maliciously misinterpret
him, but that is not true. One may not say that something is black and then claim he
meant white. When al-Qubrusi states very clearly that no kfir, not even Ibls (la^anahu-
llh), will stay forever in Hell, or when he says that saints have divine attributes, there is
no way to explain that these statements do not contradict Islam blatantly, and
interpretation will not be accepted. Islam classifies statements or words in two categories.
They are either zhir - i.e. they can have several meanings, in which case the person
saying them is asked which one he intended, or they are sarh, i.e. they have only one
meaning, in this case the person is not asked what he meant. The things Nazim al-
Qubrusi is blamed for belong to the latter, and his knowledge of the English language
cuts for him any escape route his followers would like him to find.

We have come across many of these people and witnessed them using these tactics, not
maliciously most of the time, simply because they could not face the pain of seeing their
sheikh as he is. You will see them sometimes assailed by doubts when they remember the
things that hurt a Muslim conscience. The next moment they will rub off their memories
what disturbs them or invent silly excuses for it, as they often do when asked why al-
Qubrusi lets stranger women touch his hand.

When Nazimites realise they cannot deny something, that they cannot blame someone
else for it, that no far-fetched interpretation is acceptable and that they run out of silly
justifications, some start falsifying Islam, as we describe further on in this report. This is
what worries us most. In the end there is no way they can save the reputation of their
leader, except by going openly away from orthodoxy and inventing their own religion
which they will call Islam.



17
Nazim is Turkish, a language which has been written in the same alphabet as English since the first half
of the twentieth century (Christian era). He also speaks English, a language he would have learned in the
written form first, as taught to his generation.
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ESOTERISM AND THE OCCULT


Here we enter a spiritual jungle: the esoteric and occult modern world. It is very much
like a market where customers shop for their favourite brand of spirituality while gurus
compete with one another in order to recruit and sometimes make alliances so as to
survive or grow. All loose in this bazaar because it is a universe of delusions and
deceptions.

The products displayed on the stalls range from Western political esoteric organisations
and spiritual occult orders, to all kinds of brands with the name Sufi: some who have
abandoned any effort to conform to Islamic orthodoxy or have officially separated
themselves from Islam, inventing a so-called non-Islamic Sufism; others who still try
keep up appearances to different degrees, but keep links with their colleagues.

Let us know try and explain what happened and where adDaghestani, Nazim and H.
Kabbani stand.

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THE BTINIYY (OR ESOTERIC) SYSTEM


Allh said what means: As for those who divide their religion and break up into sects,
you have no part in them in the least: their affair is with Allh: He will in the end tell
them the truth of what they were doing (alAn^m 6:159).


Historical Background:


Btiniyy is a word used to describe sects or movements whose official doctrine is
different from what they really teach within their ranks. Ismailis of the Musta^li
18
branch
are typical of this kind of system. They work on a progressive initiation pattern: common
followers receive a teaching which is not so different from the mainstream they left that it
would be repugnant. As for those who want to progress in knowledge or hierarchy, the
real content will progressively be disclosed to them. In spite of the sophistication of the
organisation, secrets always leak out, and the modern era has seen the disclosure and
publication of many books which had been meant for an elite only.

When Islam expanded over the world, it did not find a planet empty of beliefs and
religious practices. When it replaced them, it left an important number of highly
intelligent people frustrated to see a religion their desires could not accept, destroy what

18
This sect founded the famous Fatimid dynasty in Egypt but is now to be found mainly in the state of
Gujarat, in northern India, where they are called Bhoras. The rest of their community is scattered in
different countries.
21
they had worked for and lived by. Islam could not be destroyed from the outside, so they
started to corrupt it from the inside. They had already done so with previous
communities, they only had to apply the same methods over again. Those beliefs could
roughly be described as Indo-European and Semitic
19
paganism, revamped by
Hellenistic
20
philosophers.

Many cases of tampering in sacred books and in forged hadth find their origin in
philosophical ideas, but some ideas were too shocking for people to accept. They had to
go underground in order to survive in Europe. This is the origin of esoteric Rosicrucian,
Masonic or Templar orders. These ideas penetrated the Islamic environment through the
translation of Greek and Hellenistic literature. Ismaili Shiites really elaborated their
doctrine when they seized power in Egypt and came under the influence of one of the
greatest centre of philosophy for centuries: Alexandria. Internal fights and the destruction
of their dynasty forced Ismailis to scatter, mainly towards the north and eastwards, where
they founded Shiite pseudo Sufi orders and hid until the British invasion.

The ability of those people to infiltrate a religious community and pretend to agree with
its ideals is a disturbing reality. It is put to their followers in an idealistic manner which
aims at silencing their conscience. The former Supreme Legate of the A.M.O.R.C.
Rosicrucian order, Raymond Bernard wrote: Far from taking the faithful person away
from his religion, Rosicrucian teaching often has the subsidiary consequence of making
him closer to it
21
. After entering unobtrusively, new converts are attracted by letting
them believe they will find the underlying meaning of their religion and plunge in its real
mystical depth.

When Imm alQushayriyy
22
(rahimahu-llh) wrote his Rislah, the infiltration of Hellenistic
philsosophies had started in the Sunni environment and his book was meant to denounce
those who had started to use the Sufism as a disguise to justify their erring ways. He set
the record straight and he was followed shortly by ^AbdulQdir alJlniyy
23
, Ahmad
arRif^iyy
24
and then the rest of the great masters (may Allh have mercy on them all) who
founded the Sufi orders. These organisations played a major role in protecting the Path
from corruption for a long time but the battle between truth and evil carried on. Esoteric
heresies are viruses which adapt all the time, looking for new carriers to spread the
disease, to they did manage to infect some branches of the venerable orders. The decline
of the Ottomans, the ever increasing interference of Western powers and eventually the
colonisation of Islamic lands, greatly favoured all types of pseudo Sufism.

19
Indo-European is used to describe the populations who colonised Europe and the Indian subcontinent,
thousands of years ago, and their descendants. Their common origin is to be found mainly in their
languages. Semitic is use to describe another family of languages , such as Hebrew and Arabic, and the
people who have been using them.
20
Hellenistic is used mainly to describe philosophies, cultures and societies which resulted from the
conquest of Alexander the Great, their basic feature being the use of Greek.
21
Translated from page 119 of Messages du Sanstum Cleste, published in 1980 by the Editions
Rosicruciennes.
22
Died in 465 H. (1072).
23
Born in 470, died in 561 (1077-1166).
24
Born in 500 or 512, died in 578 (1106 or 1118-1183).
22

Modern times have been very interesting for all direct inheritors of this tradition, as for
those who have been influenced by them. Contact was re-established with their European
brothers and cooperation could start again on a large scale. This is the context which
makes pseudo Sufi organisations so eager to go westward. They have many affinities
with esoteric orders here, which themselves have spread in our Islamic world. Modern
western minds are in general a very fertile ground for those orders. It is a revealing topic
which deserves much longer explanations, but we need to concentrate now on one of
them: the Nazimites.

The Nazimite sect:

Ismaili and Imami clergies are very experienced professionals whose methods of
dissimulation have been refined by centuries of practice. When one talks with common
followers of these sects, one realises that they have little idea of the horrific beliefs held
in stock.

Nazimites are far from having such a long experience. Their control over the system is
fairly weak, so there are many leaks from people who got access to their real doctrine
before their conditioning was completed, or were shocked to realise that few of their
many predictions ever came true. Hisham Kabbani and his collaborators would certainly
like to have a stronger hand over everything and they seem to be managing that more and
more. I have noticed since 1995 a more organised approach to propaganda, less blunders
and embarrassing disclosures by ill-disciplined followers.

Back in 1995 and the following years, we strongly suspected that things were hidden
from us because of the strange reactions and contradictions encountered among
Nazimites. Each time we thought we had discovered evidence of heresies in their books
we were told that such publication was not authorised any more, that another was about
to be revised, that the author was somebody who had left Nazim since, etc. They had a
very evasive strategy which delayed our gathering of information. They also constantly
dodged our attempts to have an encounter in a neutral place.

Our suspicions were confirmed eventually by an important murid of the inner circles who
decided to leave them and explicitly described a system in which very different things are
said to various audiences. The stories told to non Muslims are very different indeed from
those given to Muslims, and inside the organisation, the teaching imparted to established
members is shockingly at odds with what is granted to common followers. Even old
murids are different levels.

The first surprising piece of information we obtained was that the book called Haqiqat
ul-Haqqani which is filled with nonsense and outrageous statements about the alleged
spiritual states of Nazim, a publication which is officially disapproved of (they even
claimed to be suing people about it) was actually totally accepted by them. They believe
in all its contents but were terribly embarrassed that an opponent who got hold of it
23
spread it around in order to show outsiders the reality of the movement. What we found
in the rest of their literature confirmed that.

Nazim himself confirms their system of different levels of beliefs. An interviewer called
Z in the text, asked him: ... You said once that even Shaitan will go back to Allah
after a big, big period of cleaning. In the end everybody is with Allh, then they report
that al-Qubrusi answered: Everything. Now we are speaking on the first level of
beliefs and you are speaking to me about the top point of sufi-orders.
25


His successor, Muhammad Hisham Kabbani, known among them as Sheikh Hisham,
confirms this too when he writes
26
: God has cursed tyrants and unbelievers. Now we are
going to say something big--be careful
27
Mawlana asked: In what circumstances did
this curse that God has pronounced on tyrants and unbelievers come! It came through the
holy book, but on what tongue? Who brought the Holy Qurn? Who recited it? From
whom did the sahaba listen to it? From God? No, but from the Prophet (s). Therefore it is
according to that level, the level of the Prophet (s), that God is cursing tyrants and
unbelievers. Above that level, at the level of His Majesty and His presence, do you think,
Mawlana asks, that there is such a curse? It is impossible, because he has honoured
humankind--how could He be cursing them? ... What came on the tongue of a human
being, therefore, came for human beings...

When they think that a murid has been sufficiently entangled in their emotional ties, that
he has reached the level where the sheikh is not seen any more through Islam, but Islam
through the sheikh - remember here that most of them had very little previous knowledge,
if any in the case of converts - they start disclosing beliefs which this person would have
been unable to accept before. At that moment, it makes him feel special, as if he was
progressing spiritually. The final stage of conditioning is when the murid judges his or
her progress by the distance with official belief and law. The further they are, the higher
they think to have ascended. This delusion is reinforced among some by hallucinations,
self-hypnosis and unusual phenomena which they are unable to interpret correctly, such
as contacts with jinns who let them believe what is useful for them. The person who has
reached that stage has fallen in complete zandaqah, outside the fold of Islam. Reports we
have from former Nazimites show that there is quite a number of them.

Followers are encouraged to take part in the cover up. Hisham Kabbani wrote
28
: He
must not mention from the speeches of his shaikh what listeners cannot understand.
This might harm the shaikh in a way of which the disciple is unaware. Ali (^alayhi
ssalm) said in a tradition narrated in Bukhari, Speak to people at a level they can
understand, because you do not want them to deny God and His Prophet (salla-llhu

25
Page 5 of the book called: The fruit of real belief and perfect practising is peace, an interview with
Maulana Sheikh Nazim al Haqqani (Lefke, Cyprus, august 1988).
26
Page 37 of the Mercy Oceans Secrets of the Heart.
27
I.e.: not to be spread among common Muslims!
28
Pages 33 and 34 of The Naqshbandi Sufi Way, chapter entitled the conduct of the disciple with his
shaikh and: http://www.naqshbandi.org/topics/conduct.htm.
24
^alayhi wasallam). The last quote is correct, but it was not meant to hide secrets which
contradict Islam.

One of the official Nazimite web sites, http://www.naqshbandi.org/, which proudly
proclaims it was founded by Muhammad Hisham Kabbani, has a link with one of the
Gurdjieff sites: http://www.angelfire.com/ca3/gurdjieffsufi/. On the page Naming
names
29
they wrote: Gurdjieff spoke of an inner circle of humanity, a group of
conscious men who more or less ran things at the local level in each age. The idea was
not new, but the terms he used to describe it were. He explained to Ouspensky at one
point that humanity was divided into three concentric circles: the inner circle of
conscious men, the middle circle of men mediating between the two other circles and the
outer circle containing most of humanity. This is what is the esoteric (btiniyy) system,
put in a way that will be acceptable to many.

Mr H. Kabbani also gave away their liking of esoterism, magic and the occult when he
wrote
30
about the angels Hrt and Mrt (^alayhima ssalm): They taught human beings
all the esoteric arts and branches of the occult knowledge: astrology, alchemy,
numerology, the healing arts, and magic. They never give away their knowledge,
however, without a warning to the would-be-practitioner: if his or her heart is pure, he or
she is safe. If not, they are in danger of losing themselves among the lower beings of the
eart, the jinn Magic may be equally constructive and destructive when it comes to the
mind Actually the two angels were sent to teach deported Hebrews the difference
between miracles and magic, to prevent them from being led astray. There is no good
magic or witchcraft: it is a great sin in any case and whoever gets initiated by devils into
the worst kind is taken out of Islma by them.

Fake Sufi orders base their heresies on the claim that the Prophet (^alayhi ssaltu wassalm)
gave a secret, esoteric (btin) teaching to our masters Ab Bakr and ^Aliyy (radiya-llhu
^anhum) . They claim it to transcend the exoteric (zhir) teaching found in the holy
Shar^ah - actually its alleged contents contradicts it. Of course, every sect claims to be
the best or sole inheritor of this knowledge and they still have to agree on what it is
exactly. Heretics use that tale in order to justify their disregard for the revealed Law
which the Prophet (salla-llhu ^alayhi wasallam) and all the saints (awliy) strictly applied
to themselves.

12
REVEALING FRIENDS


Pythagoras, Neoplatonists, occultists and Sufi claimants: links

Pythagoras is the first famous Greek philosopher to have clearly organised his teaching
into esoteric (internal/secret) and exoteric (external/public) branches. Much later on, the
Neoplatonists made a synthesis of Plato, Pythagoras and other Greek philosophers

29
Found on Rab^u lAwwal 7
th
1424 (May 10
th
2003).
30
Pages 162 and 163 of H. Kabbanis Angels Unveiled: A Sufi Perspective.
25
teaching with Egyptian, Persian and Hindu traditions. This Neoplatonic ideology is still
the most influential among pseudo Sufis and the presence of its tenets is often what gives
them away. The rest of the time, their common vocabulary and persistent links are
enough to point to their real nature.

When they feels exposed Nazimis will throw labels such as masons at others but the
rest of the time, they do not make much of an effort to hide their links with western
esoteric groups, the latter being more than happy to add so-called Sufis to the list of
their friends: it reinforces their delusion to be within what they call: the Tradition.

An example of this cosy relation is illustrated in a dialogue between James Moore and
Jim Gomez
31
The dialogue is filled with famous names of the western esoteric/pseudo
Sufi society. They said:
And so I really put this question to you out of respect for your scholarship,
fastidiousness and so forth. Is it your position - and you have made these contacts
and have inquired - that the enneagram probably has its antecedents, peculiarly, in
the Sufi tradition? I ask again with some background. I knew very well Seyyed
Hossein Nasr, Annemarie Schimmel, these people. And I have also heard refrain
from Idris Shah, who I very much associate with the Naqshibandi Sufis. At the
same time, at this conference we have had people who say they see the sources of
Gurdjieff's teaching in the Christian Fathers, in the work of Mouravieff, for
example.

James Moore: Now, is it your position or is it not that the enneagram is
peculiarly owed to an Islamic-Sufi tradition?
Jim Gomez: Yes. But. I'll give that a 'but' because the way I am understanding it
at the moment is that it is Pythagorean in origin, and goes back to at least the
Pythagoreans.
Before Pythagoras, who was a very interesting figure, we have no real history
because Pythagoras was at the 'cusp' of our Western World and its history. Before
that, we have only mythology (note - as Guenon points out, even when we do
have more ancient records or annals, such as ancient astrological readings in
China, for example, which should be accepted as 'scientific', even then scientists
and historians still tend to refer to these periods as 'legendary' - for a more lucid
account of this idea, see R. Guenon, The Crisis of the Modern World, ch. 1)

the interesting idea that Laleh Bakhtiar has talked to me about, is how the Islamic
world 'incorporated' ideas from, say, the Platonic tradition.

31
http://users.moose.co.uk/userfiles/gomez/essay.html. Mysterious Coincidences: Gurdjieff, the
Enneagram and Tradition. A seminar presented by Jim Gomez at the Third All and Everything
International Humanities Conference UK . March, 1998 . note: all material copyright protected jim
gomez 2000. Transcription of talk with diagrams. The text was still available in Rab^u lAwwal 1424
(May 2003).

26

This image is a picture of another Sufi Shaykh - Shaykh Nazim ( Maulana Sheik
Nazim Al Haqqani Naqshibandiya). He is the 40th Master of the Kwajagan
(Masters of Wisdom) Golden Chain. And this is a picture of him when he was 40.
Now he is very old, he is 91 or 90 I believe.
Then these gentlemen put a photograph of Nazim, finely-worked as usual, all centred
around the eyes, the whole face doing its best to look both benevolent and profound. A
young man asked me recently how could such a kind and gentle looking old man be so
evil; I would say that in general, forgeries look better than the real thing. Some of the
people mentioned in this dialogue, such as Seyyed Hossein Nasr
32
, Gurdjieff and Ren
Guenon, have nurtured through their books a new generation of enthusiasts who were
bound to fall for pseudo Sufis such as al-Qubrusi.

The site where the dialogue above is to be found: http://users.moose.co.uk/
userfiles/gomez/first.html has a page of links which is very revealing in itself. Two of
these links will take you straight to official Nazimite sites: http://naqshbandi.org/ and
http://naqshbandi.net/haqqani/haqqani_english.html. The links page of the latter did not
work when I tried but the former: the self-proclaimed Naqshbandi Sufi Homepage
founded by Mr Hisham Kabbani, does have links sending straight to the so-called Sufi
Enneagram Website, the Beliefnet
33
, the Gurdjieff and Sufi Paths site and the
Gurdjieff International Review.

Tell me who your friends are and I shall tell you who you are. Compare the links of these
different sites:



http://naqshbandi.
org/links.htm
#Spiritual
http://users.moose.
co.uk/userfiles/
gomez/links.html
http://www.
sufienneagram.com/
http://www.angelfire.
com/ca3/gurdjieffsufi/
index.html

32
The Seyyid Hossein Nasr Foundation has a website with this revealing comment at the bottom of its first
page: The Seyyed Hossein Nasr Foundation propagates spiritually through perennial philosophy &
traditional teachings contained in the Quran. Studies on various facets of Islamic thought, art, civilization.
33
Where you can, among other things, learn about astrology and weight loss: http://beliefnet.com/.
27
The Spiritual
Traveler
Sufi Enneagram
Beliefnet.com -
Hosting faiths
and spiritual paths
from around the
world
Gurdjieff and
Sufism - what is
the connection?
Gurdjieff Group

Sufi Enneagram
Website
S.H. Nasr Foundation
Naqshbandi Sufi
Homepage
Haqqani Sufi Page
Kazi Publications
Gurdjieff Review
Fons Vitae Books
Robert Fripp -
Discipline
Trey Gunn Website
Real World Website
Elephant Talk
Newsletter
Guitar Craft
BOOKS ON SUFISM
Kazi Publications - Sufi
/ Islamic books online
SUFI WEBSITES
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Foundation Website
Naqshbandi Sufi
Homepage
Gurdjieff / Sufi website
ENNEAGRAM/
GURDJIEFF LINKS
Enneagram Monthly
Stopinder Journal
Mysterious
Coincidences : Gurdjieff
and Tradition
Jim Gomez / Portland
Circle

Naqshbandi home page
The Sufi Enneagram

http://www.
portlandcircle.com/
Portland Circle
Archives
JIM GOMEZ - DIARY
ARCHIVE

These links from the world of spiritual superficiality were still working in Rab^u
lAwwal 1424 (May 2003).

The case of Gurdjieff:

In The Naqshbandi Sufi Way
34
, Hisham Kabbani related the visit of George Gurdjieff
35

to ad-Daghestani, writing: At the time of the dawn prayer, Shaykh Abd Allh called
Gurdjieff to come and pray with him... then he quoted the Russian teacher describing a
vision he claimed to have had: ...I found myself entering into your heart and becoming
part of you.... Eventually he wrote that ad-Daghestani concluded the meeting with these
words: This meeting of ours has been blessed. Keep it as a secret in your heart and do
not speak of it in this life. Abd an-Nur, for that is your name with us, you are free to stay
or go as your responsibilities allow. You are always welcome with us. You have attained
safety in the Divine Presence. May God bless you and strengthen you in your work.

Who is that Gurdjieff who was treated as a saintly Muslim by ad-Daghestani, making him
pray with him and asking Allh to help him in his work?

Gurdjieff is well known in some western esoteric circles. In a book called The dawn of
Magic
36
they report these words of his: My way is to develop the hidden potentialities
of man, a way that is against nature and against God. Where are the reliable Muslim

34
Pages 360 and 361.
35
George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff (18771949).
36
By Louis Powels and Jacques Bergier, 1964, page 147.
28
sources proving that this man ever became a Muslim? . The Gurdjieff International
Review quotes him saying: We can only strive to be able to be Christians.
37
.

Once again we see the collusion between western esoteric orders and pseudo Sufi orders.
On the World Wide Web Nazimites and their western counterparts are officially
connected. http://www.naqshbandi.org/, of Hisham Kabbani, is linked to two sites of
Gurdjieffs disciples: http://www.gurdjieff.org/ and http://www.angelfire.com/
ca3/gurdjieffsufi/ and another esoteric site: the Portland Practice Circle
38
has a link to
naqshbandi.org.

Links with Perennialists in particular:

Perennialism started as a major western philosophical movement with Ren Gunon in
the 1920s and developed with other philosophers after him, such as Frithjof Schuon,
Titus Burckhardt, Martin Lings and Seyyid Hossein Nasr. Their belief is that all religions
have the same core of ideas, that official dogmas and rituals are essential for common
people but that an elite can go beyond appearances and find the real meaning of
existence. They assert the validity of all religions which they see as different ways of
reaching the essence.

You will find in the speeches or writings of ^Abdullh adDaghestani, Nazim al-Qubrusi
and M. Hisham Kabbani the very same ideas and we quoted them abundantly in this
work. The whole ideology is a distortion of facts. Most traditional religions can be traced
back to the teaching of prophets and our master Muhammad (salla-llhu ^alayhi wasallam)
said what means: Prophets are brothers and their religion is one. This asserts that
revelation always revealed the same truth and that differences among present day
religions are due to progressive alterations of the original message, it does not say that
these systems still contain a door to salvation and real knowledge. The last Messenger
(salla-llhu ^alayhi wa^al lih wasallam) was sent to a world which had lost Islam altogether
and blocked all paths to leading to it.

There is not difference of opinion among Muslims, whether they are scholars or common
people, inside or outside Sufi orders, on the belief that since the Best of All Creatures
(salla-llhu ^alayhi wasallam) brought us back Islam, there is no salvation out of it that its
very core contradicts the essence of other religions.

Sufism is by its very nature the champion of Islamic orthodoxy and we shall not trust
modern time philosophers who officially embraced Islam, only to carry on with their
previous frame of mind. Perennialist writers like Ren Gunon, Frithjof Schuon and
Martin Lings only made a new attempt at revitalising inside the Muslim community the
tenets of Hellenistic philosophy, Neoplatonism in particular, which Imm alGhazliyy
dashed in his time. They were joined in their effort by the surviving inheritors of this

37
Copyright 1924 G. I. Gurdjieff. This webpage 2000 Gurdjieff Electronic Publishing. Revision: April
1, 2000. Copied on the 7
th
of Rab^u lAwwal 1424 (10
th
May 2003).
38
http://www.portlandcircle.com/diary%20archive/gomez_mar02.htm. All these links still worked on the
7
th
of Rab^u lAwwal 1424 (10
th
May 2003).
29
accursed tradition, such as Seyyid Hossein Nasr, adDaghestani, Nazim and H. Kabbani.
Pseudo Sufis see in the spread of western civilisation a real opportunity to recover from
the crushing defeat they suffered centuries ago: their old books and forgeries are
published on a grand scale in many languages and spread among a new generation of
Muslims who are easily deceived by their rhetoric.

It is no accident if Perennialism, other brands of Hellenistic philosophies and pseudo
Sufism spread among westerners as well as Muslims brought up in the West or educated
in the largely westernised universities of the Islamic world. They plot but Allh plans and
He is the best of planners.

The links of Nazimites with Perennalists is sometimes advertised. One of their Spanish
speaking sites: http://www.haqqani.arrakis.es/ advertised in its book section one of Ren
Gunons works in their language: El reino de la cantidad y los signos de los tiempos.

Inayat Khan:

In his interview with phenomeNEWS Hisham Kabbani said: Enlightened masters in all
countries are preparing their followers with limited power because there is not permission
to reveal and use miraculous power. Sufism from its beginning was supported by the
miraculous power of its saints but that miraculous power is not allowed to be used now.
Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan is not using it, but is using the ordinary way to teach. They
are not going into a higher level of consciousness because if they go to a higher level...
ohhh, that would bring confusion to this world, and there is no permission to use such
power until the proper time.
39


Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan was the son of Inayat Khan
40
who was one of the many gurus
from the Indian subcontinent who came to the West to find keen listeners, thirsty for an
oriental flavoured philosophy. His doctrine is a typical case of pseudo Sufism, the kind
which is much valued in Western esoteric and occult circles. He is one of the first to have
understood that modern times made it possible to preach openly what had before been
spread secretly, giving up any pretence to respect orthodoxy.

These are some of his statements:
There is One God, the Eternal, the Only Being; none exists save He. The god
of the Sufi is the God of every creed, and the God of all He sees his God in the
sun, in the fire, in the idol which diverse sects worship
There is One Holy Book, the sacred manuscript of nature, the only scripture
which can enlighten the readerThe Sufi has all ages respected all such books,
and has traced in the Vedanta, Zendavesta, Kabala, Bible, Quran, and all other
sacred scriptures, the same truth which he reads in the incorruptible manuscript of
nature, the only Holy Book

39
http://www.naqshbandi.net/haqqani/TODO/interview.html . The following article appeared in the
spiritual magazine phenomeNEWS: Interview with Shaikh Hicham Kabani. It was still on the site in
Rab^u lAwwal 1424 (May 2003).
40
1882-1927.
30
the Sufi concerns himself little with the name of the religion or the place of
worship.All places are sacred enough for his worship, and all religious convey to
him the religion of his soul. I saw Thee in the sacred Kaba and in the temple of
the idol also Thee I saw.
There is One Brotherhood, the human brotherhood which unites the
children of earth indiscriminately in the Fatherhood of God
41


Dr H.J. Witteveen
42
reported that Inayat Khan said: In this stage the Sufi hears
through the ears of God, sees through the eyes of God, works with the hands of
God; then his thought is the thought of God and his feeling is the feeling of God.
For him there is no longer that difference which a worshipper makes between
himself and God

We shall see later in this work how this doctrine, which is so similar to Nazim and H.
Kabbanis beliefs, is incompatible with Islam and at odds with the teaching of the great
masters of Sufism. The only serious difference between the Nazimite leadership and
Inayat Khan is that the former are still concerned with appearing orthodox to the Sunni
public.
Inayat Khan founded his personal pseudo Sufi order called the Sufi Order International.
His son Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan succeeded him (this is the person H. Kabbani refers to)
and the organisation is now in the hands of the founders grandson: Pir Zia Inayat Khan.

The link between them is so strong that on his first visit to the United States, Nazim
visited Pir Vilayat Khan at his New York spiritual centre. An event they publicise on
Naqshbandi.org, with a photograph to prove it
43
.

The case of Stephen Turoff:

There is a book read by some disciples of al-Qubrusi, called Wings of the messenger
(published in 1993), written by a dedicated follower, Zero Thyra Quensel
44
, who has been
quoted earlier. This work is about an open kfir called Stephen Turoff, who claims to be
possessed by the spirit of a dead man known as Dr. Abraham Joseph Kahn. The reason
why she wrote the book is given in page 7 where it is explained that Nazim allowed
people to go to that man. He does not simply give permission to go there, as she said:
Within days the news of the extraordinary healing of Sheik Nazims wife and many

41
From The Message Volumes of Hazrat Inayat Khan, VOLUME I: The Way of Illumination. Could still
be found in Rab^u lAwwal 1424 (May 2003) on this site: http://www.twinoakscenter.com/sufi/HIK_ten
sufithoughts.htm .
42
Universal Sufism, by Dr H.J. Witteveen, published by Element in 1997. Chapter 8 entitled mysticism:
Unity witht God, page 101. Dr Witteveen quoted from a book called: The Sufi Message of Inayat Khan,
XI, p 163.
43
http://www.naqshbandi.org/chain/40.htm in Rab^u lAwwal 1424 (May 2003).
44
In Rab^u lAwwal 1424 (May 2003), this lady seemed as linked as ever to Nazim alQubrusi. I found one
of her books advertised in http://www.familyhaven.com/bookstore/. The name is Natural Medecines, by
Thyra Zahra Zero Quensel(Illustrator), Sheikh Nazim al Haqqani an Naqshbandiyya (Editor), with this
comment: Shaykh Nazim describes traditional methods of natural healing in this work.
31
others had become the topic of the community ... Sheik Nazim actually started telling
us to go.

What kind of man is that person whom Nazim entrusts his murids with? Well, Ms.
Quensel reports in page 5 that he told her: You are the Creator! You are truly one with
God! The author carries on saying: This is hard to swallow, even for believers,
because it puts the whole responsibility on us. We are creating this. This is actually the
only thing that shocks her in his statement! I suppose she thinks she is a Muslim and
looks down to us as people of very poor spiritual understanding, hidden polytheists.

Page 9 of the same book she mentions Turoff saying: All of us are Creation and
Creator, which is a direct reference to wahdatu lwujd, an innovation to which we
dedicate chapter 38. The man has the same religion as Nazims, which is why al-Qubrusi
is so eager to help him preach to his grateful patients while he is operating on them. This
is confirmed by Thyra Quensel, in page 6, when she says: He opens the body with
various strange instruments, sometimes even with his bare fingers, operates within a
minute and closes the wound without a trace of blood. While doing this he gives
profound talks and Messages from the Most High.


RELIGION AS AN OUTER SHELL


Chapters in this part show the attitude which results from the Nazimite btiniyy system.
Most of the time it is not specific to them, it is a common phenomenon among esoteric
orders. Nazimites belong to a type of organisation which tries and give the appearance of
orthodoxy to some audiences.

13
THEIR PROBLEMS WITH KNOWLEDGE
AND ^ULAM


Allh subhnaH wata^l said what means: But most of them only follow their own
opinions. Opinion will be of no avail against truth. Indeed Allh is aware of what they
do (Ynus 10:36).


Their debasement of formal knowledge:

Imm alQushayriyy reported that when Ab Bakr azZhirbdiyy was asked about
knowledge (ma^rifah) he answered
45
: Ma^rifah is a noun and its meaning is to have

45
The Rislah of Imm alQushayriyy, chapter concerning the beliefs of Sufis and matters about the
fundamentals of religion.
32
such great a reverence in the heart, that it will prevent you from denying Allhs
attributes (ta^tl) or comparing Him with His creation (tashbh).

The aim of Nazim and his team is to debase orthodox scholars in the murids eyes and
introduce themselves as an alternative. Their purpose is to discourage followers from
learning Allhs religion and thus getting a knowledge that would shatter their inventions.

The best is to illustrate this point by a story found in their book called Mercy Oceans
Endless Horizons. They say in it:
When the Last Day is announced, Allh Almighty will call one religious scholar
forward and ask him: Are you a knowledgeable religious man He will answer:
As you know, oh my Lord. By virtue of what knowledge are you claiming to be
a learned person - what did you know in your life? Oh my Lord, I knew all of
the Qurn by heart. That is your knowledge? Yes. No, you are mistaken, for
the Qurn is My knowledge, not yours. So now, tell me, what else did you
know? I knew thousands of the Holy Traditions by heart. That is My Prophets
knowledge, not yours. Well I knew so many points of Divine Law and
jurisprudential verdicts. That is the knowledge of the Imams of those schools of
Law, not yours. I knew many tales from the lives of the great Sufis. That is
also not your knowledge, but theirs. When you quoted Abu Yazid or Salman or
Hasan al-Basri or Imam Ghazzali, it was their knowledge, not yours, of which you
spoke. But what about you, does any knowledge belong to you?

Thus does Allh Almighty strip him bare so he may see that actually, he had
gained no knowledge whatsoever during the course of his life. Then Allh ask
him: What kept you back so that now you have nothing to show? Those Imams
and Sufis are human beings, just as you are, they started out just as you did. Jut
they made real attempts to receive a portion of My Knowledge Oceans. They
asked Me and I gave them. If you would have but asked, I would have given you
too, but you didnt ask - you only read and memorized.

Therefore, according to the true Inheritors of the Prophet, only knowledge that
springs from the heart can really be called knowledge. Knowledge that is kept in
the mind will be lost with the demise of the mind; but knowledge that has been
absorbed by the heart, gnosis, will never be forgotten.

How very revealing is their use of the Greek philosophical word gnosis! It expresses
perfectly the concept developed in this text and shows again the real origin of their
beliefs. The problem is not so much that they believe there is a spiritual knowledge that
Allh grants to His saints through ilhm and kashf. It is that - just like their western
counterparts - they consider it to be the most reliable source of knowledge. They interpret
everything through their desires, delusions and hallucinations. With this belief, they
reverse the criteria set by Allh: instead of judging what comes into their hearts by
Qurn, Sunnah and ijm^, their so-called spiritual experiences is the base of their
understanding of wahi
46
.

46
Revelation.
33

The passage quoted debases scholars, making the ignorant believe that people who spend
years learning the sciences of religion are like big balloons full of air. They want us to
think that only sheikhs like their own have an inner spiritual knowledge received from
Allh. Will there not be among them some who will be struck by the fact that so many
sects pretending to be Islamic, so many religions, have the same claim. They too declare
they have spiritual knowledge, an infallible one, but they never manage to be one because
the reality of it is human desires, pride and ambition.

How are Nazimites going to refute Agha Khanis claims that their leader is the
manifestation of God on earth and that the Day of Judgement has already taken place,
freeing them from Shar^ah? This particular Ismaili sect also claims to have spiritual
knowledge taken directly from Allh, and that it is their own leader who is at the head of
all awliy
47
. The only way to answer is through revealed evidence, and if they accept
that against others, that cannot refuse it for themselves.

Their ignorance of spiritual knowledge:

A recording of Nazim dated from the 24th of April (probably 1987) seems to go in the
same direction as previously, he said: Therefore it is important for people to try to reach
through endless levels of people, and through endless understandings of people, to try to
give them something from that divinely knowledge. If you are giving, Allh give you
more. This is the supermarket version of esoterism.

Hisham Kabbani wrote
48
: This knowledge is restricted to saints. Alhamdilillh, you are
believing in awliya, and this is the best and most important belief. No it is not!
Sainthood is part of our beliefs, but our faith in one God only and His Messenger (salla-
llhu ^alayhi wasallam) is the foundation. We judge everything through the Qurn and
Sunnah given to us. We judge who is a waliyy
49
or an impostor through them. Saints
(awliy) judge whether their inspirations and experiences are from Allh or Shaytn
through the same revealed texts.

Spiritual knowledge (^irfn) is subjected to the criteria of the revealed text and is only
accepted as such if it is in total conformity with it, inwardly and outwardly (btinan wa
zhiran). The founder of the Shdhili Sufi order, Ab lHasan ashShdhiliyy (rahimahu-
llh) said
50
: If your kashf (spiritual unveiling) is in contradiction with the Book and the
Sunnah, stick to the Book and the Sunnah and leave the kashf. Say to yourself: Allh has
guaranteed my protection in the Book and the Sunnah, He did not guarantee it in kashf,
ilhm (inspiration) or contemplation, except when it has been tested by the Book and the
Sunnah...


47
See glossary.
48
Page 49 of his book Mercy Oceans Secrets of the Heart. I think he is quoting Nazim here.
49
Saint. See glossary.
50
In Hshiyatu tTa^arrufi birRislati lQushayriyyah
34
Allh said what means: Likewise we made for every messenger an enemy, devils from
men and jinns, inspiring each other with flowery discourses by way of deception...
51
.

Dazzling as part of their strategy:

If Nazimite leaders were unable to respond to their audience, they would not have
deceived half of the people who follow them. It was reported to us that they have an
answer to everything, an interpretation, an explanation or a comment for every word,
gesture or event. This convinces many that they possess a wide knowledge and they
easily impress people who have never seen a real scholar working.

You will not find in Nazim and his team that carefulness, rigour and discipline which is
so characteristic of scholars. You will not hear them recognise their ignorance, for it
would destroy the image they have been giving of all-knowing and all-understanding
masters. If they cannot find a proper answer they will let you believe that they keep silent
because you are not yet ready to receive what they could say, or they will look deeply
into your eyes and tell you to look for the answer in your heart.

If they show skill in convincing the inexperienced that they have an extraordinary
science, they could not deceive very long somebody who has learned in depth according
to traditional Sunni methods. They are very careful not to uncover any embarrassing
detail when they know such a person is present. Nazim particularly would find it very
difficult to fulfil the condition set by his successor Hisham
52
: The shaykh must be
deeply imbued with the knowledge of the religion, externally and spiritually, and: He
must be a scholar in all the obligations of the religion
53
.

In spite of their claims that so many scholars follow their sheikh, you will notice that the
overwhelming majority of their followers hardly have any culture or religious knowledge.
Many of them are youngsters who are totally dazzled by the impressive superficial
knowledge displayed by their leader. They have no means to judge how deep it really is.
The method is very common among pseudo Sufi orders as among western esoteric orders.
It is an old trick which proves to be very effective, based on the exploitation of peoples
gullibility and trustfulness.


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THEIR TREATMENT OF AB HANFAH (radiya-llhu ^anh)


The Messenger of Allh (salla-llhu ^alayhi wasallam) reported that His Lord said what
means: Whoever shows hostility to one of My saints, I declare war against him...
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.


51
Sura alAn^m 6:112.
52
Page 25 of The Naqshbandi Sufi Way.
53
page 27 of The Naqshbandi Sufi Way but also: http://www.naqshbandi.org/topics/qualific.htm.
54
Transmitted by alBukhriyy through Ab Hurayrah.
35

In one of his numerous spurious stories, Hisham Kabbani relates the following alleged
incident
55
: One day a Sufi joined a group of the scholar, Mawlana Zaynuddin at-Tibabi.
The Sufi was asked, Who do you love more, your shaykh or Imam Abu Hanifa? He
answered, For a long time, I followed the Way of Imam Abu Hanifa very carefully. Yet
for all those years the bad manners that were in my heart would not leave me. After I had
followed my shaykh for only a few days, all my bad manners disappeared. So how could
I love the Imam better than my shaykh even though I give Imam Abu Hanifa full
respect?

Is that full respect? We say: whoever finds it difficult to make his bad manners disappear
by following the way of Qurn and Sunnah as shown by any of the four Founders,
should look into himself for an explanation. As for that person, if he ever existed and said
those words: it demonstrated he still had not lost his bad manners and his spiritual
knowledge did not allow him to see the rank of those he followed.


PERSONALITY CULT


The devotion shown by common followers to Nazim cannot be based on his Sunni
credentials or his orthodox learned discourses. There is not much Islamic scholarly
knowledge in his lectures. Their enthusiasm and blind trust is based on a whole system,
which represents him as something he is not, and then an overwhelming presence of his
carefully made portraits, among other things.

We shall expose now some of the ploys they use to produce the mythical Nazim.
Whoever has experience or knowledge of methods used by sects to start a cult around
their leader, will recognise many of these.

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THEIR BELIEF CONCERNING HIS POWER


Allh said what means: When those who used to be followed disown those who followed
them, they will see the torment and all relations between them will be cut off.
(AlBaqarah 2:166).


In a booklet entitled About Our Master Sheikh Nazim Effendi by Hisham Kabbani,
which I found in 1992 in their centre of Sheffield, England, it is written on the first page:
Now most Eastern people are like Abu Jahl and his followers and all the western people

55
The Naqshbandi Sufi Way pages 210 and 211 and: http://www.naqshbandi.org/chain/20.htm. Strange,
spurious and unreliable stories are a trademark of fake Sufism, they are supported by the followers belief
in their leaders spiritual knowledge.
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now have this delicate veil...Maulana Sheikh is directing all his power there - zahiri
(external) power not mani (spiritual) power. If he directed internal power all of them
would be Muslim, but no permission...

Mr. Bashir, their former representative
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in Birmingham, denied that this brochure was
published with their permission. We know they accept all the beliefs which are in it and it
has that typical style of theirs.

They are so convinced that Nazim is a waliyy that they call him Sultnu lawliy
57
. So
whatever they say about saints is of paramount importance to understand their beliefs
concerning him. For instance they say: When Allah likes and trusts a servant He
gives him from His Divine Power. Once a wali was speaking in front of a crowd,
saying: If a Saint says to a mountain move it moves. Then the mountain behind him
actually began to move until the wali shouted: No! Stop! I was only giving an
example.
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How embarrassing!

Let us remember that the Holy Prophet himself (^alayhi ssaltu wassalm) did not always
obtain from Allh what he asked for. For instance he asked for the people of this
Community not to fall into intestinal wars but it was not given to him. Muslim
transmitted from Thawbn that the Messenger of God (salla-llhu ^alayhi wasallam) said
what means: I asked my Lord three things, He granted me two and refused me one.

In the book called Haqiqat ul-Haqqani, pages 15 to 16, it is said: Mowlana has been
given the power to be in every heart of every human being in this universe. He also has
the immense power of being able to make the Divine Light of Allah Almighty and all the
124,000 prophets to enter into the hearts and bodies of all humanity in just one moment.
In one moment Mowlana is able not only to make an unbeliever to believe but also to be
able to make him attain the rank of Siddiq (the rank of Siddiq) is the highest rank of
sainthood), and to make him to always be in the light of Allah Almighty...

Page 23 of the same book it is said: All the people of the Ummah now have been given
by Allah Almighty to Seyyidina Mahdi (Alai). All of them are also now under the
tutelage of Mowlana Sheykh Nazim. He is now teaching them and dressing them with
maqams (stations) so that when Seyyidina Mahdi (Alai) comes, they will have the
capacity to talk to Allah Almighty.

In the same book, pages 26 to 27 it is written: Shaykh Adnan relates this incident as
follows: We were in Mecca with Mowlana Sheykh Nazim making Tawaf. The sun was
out and there was no cloud in sight. Mowlana then prayed to Allah Almighty saying Oh!
Allah Almighty, I have come here as Your guest to please You. I would like it to rain so
that I can take some Barakah from the rain that comes down at the Kaaba. The clouds
built up and it began to rain. It rained so hard that Mecca began to look like a river.

56
I am not sure he ever was their official representative in Birmingham. He did act as Nazims khalfah at
the time.
57
I.e.: the sultan/leader of saints, according to them.
58
Page 53 of Mercy Oceans, book one'.
37

Nazim is not innocent of the myths concerning his alleged powers. He plays the part
himself, as convincingly as he can on certain occasions. Such was the case when he said:
From today up to end of the world, if (they are) making me to speak, I may speak on the
honour of mankind. My heart (is) full like (a) volcano to burn those tyrants, who take
honour of mankind, making them under their feet. I am making all of them under
my feet! I am nothing now- I am sleeping volcano- , but sometimes, when coming
under itBrrrrrrr!.Time should come that my volcano waking up to take them
awayand I am nothingFatihaOnly for you, o my LordI will destroy their
Kufr
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Actually he and his successor H. Kabbani are too busy getting photographed
with the Pope, the Sultan of Brunei, President Bush, etc. to be able to indulge in much
volcano activity.


We know through our discussions with Nazimites the paramount importance his alleged
powers have in their mythology. They are considered by them as evidence that he is a
saint, the highest of all. A typical reaction to doubt was reported by one of them: he
explained that while he was in terrible emotional suffering because of the conflict in his
heart between his love for al-Qubrusi and the evil he knows from him, he said in despair:
O Sheikh, if you are right, then appear to me now! fortunately for the young man, no
malicious passing shaytn answered his request, for he would have accepted this as proof
and submitted to his desires until his conscience awakened him again.

Ab Yazd alBistmiyy (rahimahu-llh) said
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: If you look at a man who performs (what
looks like) karmt, to the point that he flies in the air, do not be deceived by him. See
what he does when it comes to ordering what is good and forbidding what is bad, keeping
away from evil and applying Shar^ah.

Ahmad arRif^iyy (rahimahu-llh), founder of the Rif^iyy Sufi order said
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: O brother, I
fear for you the joy given by karmt and (the temptation) to show them. Saints hide their
karmt as women hide their periods.


16
THE ALLEGED SPIRITUAL RANK OF AL-QUBRUSI


Allh subhnaH wata^l said what means: No, the wrong-doers follow their desires,
being devoid of knowledge. But who will guide those whom Allh leaves astray? Nobody
will be able to help them (arRm 30:29).



59
http://www.the-heart.net/sohbet/cyprus2002/jun02/10jun.htm . Downloaded in Rab^u lAwwal 1424
(May 2003).
60
Reported page 15 of the Rislah of alQushayriyy.
61
Page 33 of his book alBurhnu lMuayyid.
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In the book Haqiqat ul-Haqqani, page 12, it is said: Mowlana Sheykh Nazim is the
Sultan ul Awliya of his age. Most people think that the rank of Qutub ul Ghauz is the
highest because they have no knowledge of the rank of Sultan ul Awliya. Mowlana
Sheykh Nazim was given the rank of Qutub ul Ghauz 30 years ago by his Grandsheykh.
When Grandsheykh Abdullah Al Faiz ad Daghistani (Qad) passed away from this earth,
Mowlana Sheykh Nazim became the Sultan ul Awliya and he granted the rank of
Qutub ul Ghauz to someone else. I call that outbidding: what will other sects do next,
invent a bigger title like Emr Saltni lAwliy?

Page 375 of The Naqshbandi Sufi Way, Hisham Kabbani describes him in these terms:
He is the unveiler of secrets, the keeper of light, the shaykh of shaykhs, the sultan of
ascetics, the sultan of the pious, the sultan of the people of the Truth. He is the chief
master without peer of the Divine Knowledge in the late 20th Century. He is the rain
from the ocean of knowledge of this Order, which is reviving spirits in all parts of this
world. He is the saint of the seven continents, his light having attracted disciples from all
quarters of the globe. He wears the cloak of the light of the Divine Presence. He is unique
in his time. He is the orchid planted in the earth of Divine love. He is the sun for all the
universes. He is known as the saint of the two wings: the external knowledge and the
internal knowledge. Not among Sufis, he is not.

Indeed, the way Nazim is described by his disciples bears many similarities with what
was done by his own master, adDaghestani and his followers. For example, in the
interview by Muhammad Majdhb of the AlAnwr newspaper, adDaghestani was
reported to have said: I was dead for seven days, when a bullet hit me in the back and
stayed in one side of my heart. 120,000 prophets carried me to Paradise, I visited
heaven and contemplated ^Azrl. Today, here, 24,000 people see me, apart from
you, in 24,000 different places, in different shapes. More or less the same is said
nowadays about his successor, with variations: jinns and saints are said to attend his
lessons in great numbers and they claim that he is seen in thousand of places at the same
time, that there are three places he does not leave in twenty four hours for one second: at
the black stone of the Ka^bah, in the assembly of the Prophet (salla-llhu ^alayhi wasallam)
in Mednah and the mountain of Qsiyn in Syria, where his sheikh was buried
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.

They said
63
: The Sultan ul Awliya of the time also has the tajalli and the power of
all the 124,000 prophets. Page 27 it is said: No one can ever imagine the spiritual
shape of Mowlana Sheikh Nazim, because all the heavens and the earth enter into
him. Page 41 they wrote: This is why Mowlana says: No one really knows me. All
they know about me are only aspects of me. I suppose they think that at his level he is
beyond modesty. The idea that Nazim is a microcosm of the whole universe is a typical
Masonic and Rosicrucian teaching.

They also wrote
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: Bayazid Bistami (Ral) lived a thousand years ago and the tajalli of
Mowlana Sheikh Nazim is stronger and more powerful and more precious as he now has

62
This is confirmed in the booklet called Our Master Sheikh Nazim Effendi.
63
Page 13 of the same booklet.
64
Page 33 of the same booklet.
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all the secrets of all the previous Grandsheikhs including that of Bayazid Bistami (Ral) in
his heart. He also possesses the secret of all the prophets and the secret of Holy Prophet
Muhammad (Sal) in his heart. He is therefore the most remarkable Saint in the Dwn of
the Saints of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (Sal). This means of course that Nazimites
who know that this book is in reality accepted by them and believes these words, believe
that Nazim is superior to Ab Bakr (radiya-llhu ^anh) , to the nine other best
Companions of the Messenger of Allh (^alayhi ssaltu wassalm) , to the rest of the
Sahbah, the Tbi^n and the next generation, all this in complete contradiction with
reliable hadths which establish their superiority until the Day of Judgement.

AlBazzr related through a reliable chain of transmission starting from Jbir ibn
^Abdillh (radiya-llhu ^anh) that the Messenger of Allh (salla-llhu ^alayhi wasallam) said
what means: Allh has chosen my Companions over all humankind and jinns, apart from
prophets and messengers.

AlBukhriyy related that the prophet (salla-llhu ^alayhi wasallam) said what means The
best generation is my generation, then the next one, then the next one, then the next one
....

I want to attract the readers attention to the fact that here, as usual, they have no
evidence for their beliefs. They are pure fabrication of their egos (anfus) or of previous
deviants.


17
THEIR NEED TO INCREASE THE PRESTIGE OF NAZIM


It is reported that our master ^Aliyy ibn Ab Tlib (karrama-llhu wajhah) said: Truth is
not known through men but men are known through truth.


Increasing Nazims prestige is done in various ways like telling stories about an
unbelievable number of great scholars recognising his alleged rank, making him meet
important or seemingly important people, who are kept unaware of the true nature of his
doctrine. Then there are tales invented about very famous characters or imaginary ones.

In their book Haqiqat ul-Haqqani, page 39, it is said: Shaykh Adnan relates that once
when he was in Mecca making Tawaf with Mowlana Sheikh Nazim a person with a long
beard came up to Mowlana Sheikh Nazim, kissed his hand and continued to do Tawaf
with Mowlana. Mowlana then told those who were present with him on that occasion that
this person was khidr (Alai) and that he had come specially to kiss mowlanas hand and
to perform Tawaf with him. The question is: who invented this. Was it Adnan or Nazim,
or were they both deluded? The last hypothesis does not sound likely.

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In the next paragraph, one can read: Sheikh Adnan also relates that on another occasion
when he was performing Tawaf around the Kaaba with Mowlana Sheikh Nazim a very
old man came up to Mowlana, kissed him, spoke to him and performed Tawaf with
mowlana. Thereafter this old man disappeared without a trace. When mowlana was asked
as to who this old man was, he answered that this man was one of the sons of the Adam
before our Adam (Alai). This is quite interesting; because this incident cannot be
understood if one does not know Ismaili Shiite belief it refers to. Indeed, Ismailis teach
that there were several Adams, each ancestor of one humanity, and that we are the
descendants of the last one, in the ultimate cycle.

Hisham Kabbani who is taking over the group has now the same need. In his interview
with phenomeNEWS I found him altering his own name to try and link it to the Prophet
(salla-llhu ^alayhi wasallam). They said:
phenomeNEWS: What does your name mean?
Shaikh: Hachem
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means "From the descendants of the Prophet Muhammad and
his family."
66

Mr Kabbani cannot be so ignorant of Arabic that we would actually believe what he said.
His name is Hishm which has now the mening of generosity. It comes from the
Arabic custom of crumbling bread for their meal (from the verb hashama, to crumble, to
break into pieces). The person who did this would be the hshim and would give out
the food to fellow travelers. Gradually hshim became synonymous with generous.
Hishm (generosity) and Hshim/Hachem (generous) are drawn from the same root.
The great grandfather of Prophet Muhammad (salla-llhu ^alayhi wa^al lih
wasallam) was named Hshim, not Hishm and his descendants have neither been
called Hishm nor Hshim as a reference to their noble ancestor, even though some
had it as a first name like the rest of the population. Traditionally we call the desendants
of the Messenger of Allh (^alayhi ssaltu wassalm) Hshimis ( Hachmites in
French) or Muttalibis and the popular custom is to refer to them as the shuraf (among
Arabs) or the Sayyids (in the Indian subcontinent).

To sum it up, Mr Kabbanis name is Hishm, not Hachem and even Hachem does
not mean "From the descendants of the Prophet Muhammad and his family." As he puts
it.

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THEIR EXAGGERATION CONCERNING SUFISM
AND THE STATUS OF THE SHEIKH


Allh said what means: So if they believe as you believe, they are indeed on the right
path; but if they turn back, it is they who are in schism; but Allh will be enough for you
against them, and He is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing. (AlBaqarah 2:137).

65
Hachem is the French spelling for Arabic Hshim.
66
Interview with Shaikh Hisham Kabbani, an article appeared in the spiritual magazine phenomeNEWS
and still publicised in the Nazimite site http://www.naqshbandi.net/haqqani/TODO/ interview.html in
Rab^u lAwwal 1424 (May 2003).
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In their book AlWasiyyah, page 9, they report that adDaghestani said: The second
definition of the tarqah (i.e. Sufi path) is that the murid is prepared to receive the order
from his guide as the messenger is waiting for the coming of the revelation (wahi) from
Allh. This simple sentence which dares to compare the orders of the spiritual guide
with revelation, should frighten any sensible mind. Let us also remember these other
words, previously quoted: It is not allowed for the murid to ask the sheikh any question,
on anything he has ordered him to do, found in the same page of this book. We say: the
holy Prophet (^alayhi ssaltu wassalm) taught us what means: There is no obedience to a
creature, if it is disobedience to the Creator.

Some of their followers, when faced with the evidence against them, just sweep it aside
saying: What are they talking about, these are Sufi matters! This kind of statement
which was reported to us shows what a perverted idea of Sufism they are induced to
believe in, which they reinforce by reading books often as bad or worse as their own.

There is no way out of Shar^ah, at any level, especially not in Sufism, and definitely not
at the highest levels. The greater the Sufi, the more attached he or she will be to the
revealed Law, in every detail. This is actually the means by which we recognise true
Sufis and how they recognise each other. People failed that test for errors which were not
as important as letting strangers of the other sex touch them.

True Sufis will be most careful not to let their disciples give them too much importance.
There is a limit to devotion towards them, which they are first to stress. The perfect
example is the Prophet (salla-llhu ^alayhi wasallam) , he is the one to be imitated in
everything, to be defended in all circumstances, to be believed in all, not to be argued
against in any way. Sufi sheikhs are guides who help to reach the top of the mountain
where themselves are going. Their own hearts are cracking with the love for Allh and
his blessed Messenger (salla-llhu ^alayhi wasallam) . In no manner will you ever find them
exempting themselves from the Law which applies to all human beings and jinns.

When the rules are not observed many followers start accepting such outrageous
statements as: The Kbah often came and circumbulated around me an alleged saying
of Ahmad asSirhindiyy (rahimahu-llh) quoted by Hisham Kabbani
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. May Allh increase
the torment of those who dare tarnish the reputation of the Imams of this community.


19
THEIR IDEA OF SAINTHOOD OR WILYAH


Imam Junayd (rahimahu-llh)said:
A corrupt scholar is a great evil
but greater than that is a devout ignorant

67
Page 237 of The Naqshbandi Sufi Way.
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Both are in this universe a great calamity
for whoever follows them in his religion


By now the reader should have a clear picture of what Nazimites think a saint (waliyy) is.
In order to make it totally clear we will quote adDaghestani. Hisham Kabbani reports in
The Naqshbandi Sufi Way
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that he said: One day I was sitting amongst a large group
of people. We saw Shaykh Ismail approaching wearing a woollen cloak and on his feet
were new shoes. I said to myself, That shaykh Ismail is a real Sufi shaykh. I am going to
go to him and ask him a difficult question to see if he can answer it or not. I approached
and he saw me. As I drew near he said, O Abdur Rahman, God said in the Holy Quran to
avoid bad thoughts. Do not try to question me. That is not good behavior. I said in my
heart, What a miracle! that is a great miracle! How did he know my question and how
did he know my name? I must follow him and ask him more. I ran after him but I could
not find him.

One day I saw him in a village. He was standing and praying. His eyes were full of
tears. When he had finished, I ran towards him.It came to my heart to ask his forgiveness
for what I had done the last time. He looked at me and said, Recite for me the Quranic
verse, Without doubt, I am He that forgives again and again, to those who repent,
believe and do right - who, in fine, are ready to receive true guidance (20:82). Then he
left. I thought to myself, Surely he is one of the deputies of the spiritual pole. This is the
second time he has addressed the thoughts in my heart.

Later the same day, on my way home, I passed by that village again and I saw him
standing by a well with a cup in his hand. He wanted to drink from the well. While I was
watching him, the cup fell into the well. Then I saw him raise his hands and recite this
supplication, O God, I am thirsty for water and water is my only food. O God, You
know my heart and You know that I am thirsty. By God, not a second had passed before
the water in the well rose up until it reached the top. It flooded out of the well and with it
the cup. He took the cup and drank. Then he performed ablution and prayed four cycles
of prayer. He put sand in the cup, put some water in with the sand and stirred it with his
finger. He then sat and ate from the mixture. I came and said, O Shaykh Ismail, let me
eat with you. What are you eating, dirt? He replied, O Abdur Rahman, keep good
thoughts of God. He gave me the cup. I put it to my mouth. It was water and honey...

It is quite worrying to see that this is how they trust someone to be a saint. What will they
do when they will meet people clever enough to guess their thoughts or able of more
surprising phenomena? What will they do when alMashu dDajjl
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comes and performs
his wonders? They are not even equipped to distinguish between the friends of Satan and
the saints of Allh.

A person is not a saint because of karmt or so-called miracles, but saints do have
karmt. A waliyy is a person who is righteous in private as in public and does more than

68
Pages 289 and 290, and: http://www.naqshbandi.org/chain/32.htm.
69
The Antichrist.
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his or her duty. This is the basic criteria for recognition of sainthood. Yet, only Allh
knows all actions and intentions. Many a saint is unknown to us whereas some people
deemed to be awliy are mere sinners or worse.


THE MURDS


These are the fooled: most of these will get very little from Nazim but they are useful for
the maintenance of the group. Most will leave one day, as ignorant as they were when
they came in or more, bitter and dejected. To this day I find people who left about five
years ago but whose beliefs are still corrupted, such as believing angels can commit big
sins and be punished for them. The same followers are also manipulated to exert violence
against opponents.

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THE LICENTIOUS BEHAVIOUR CAUSED BY THEIR IDEOLOGY


The Messenger of God (salla-llhu ^alayhi wasallam) reported that Allh said what means:
... My servant has no better way of getting closer to me than performing the duties I
imposed on him ...
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.


Reports from Lebanon said that many of their followers there were known for not
performing salh. This was confirmed to us in the city of Birmingham by several reliable
sources who came in contact with them. When asked about it, Nazimites replied that they
did not need to pray since al-Qubrusi obtained forgiveness for them. In another instance,
one of them ate food, which was known by him to contain harm substances. These are
not isolated incidents. Many are famous for their lack of care towards Shar^ah. Several
witnesses reported the mixing of men and women in prayer
71
.

A former French Nazimite who is now safely in the fold of Sunnism reported that during
the Ramadn of 1987, in the former church of Coburg, near Peckham in London. Some
German followers were seen eating during fajr. Shocked by such an obvious violation
of Shar^ah, a Palestinian man expressed his outrage and there was an argument between
them. They decided to settle the matter by asking Nazim, who confirmed that it was hall
according to him. He added that it was possible to break the fast during ^asr if one felt
tired.

How on earth are Nazimites going to show respect and obedience to Sar^ah when a bad
example is regularly set by their leaders and that they even invent excuses for sins. They

70
Transmitted by alBukhriyy through Ab Hurayrah.
71
I.e. ladies praying in the midst of men.
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go as far as to attribute forged statements to great saints. Mustaf al^Allyl
72
claimed
that ^AbdulQdir alJlniyy (rahimahu-llh) said to his disciples: Change the direction of
Qiblah.


21
SLANDER AND VIOLENCE


Allhs Messenger (^alayhi ssaltu wassalm) said what means: The good Muslim is he
from whose tongue and hand other Muslims are safe...
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Blatant lies:

People who endeavour to expose Nazimite ideology and methods can expect to be
slandered at some stage, although what we have seen so far does not strike by its
intelligence or subtlety. Such was the case for Sheikh ^Abdullh alHarariyy who, because
of his efforts to inform Muslims, was abused in the lowest manner. A pamphlet was
distributed in Nazimite centres in which he was accused to be a Falasha Jew from
Ethiopia, of Masonic obedience
74
.

The scholar in question is actually of recognised Qurashi ascendance, from the ^Abdari
and Shaybi clans of the Prophets tribe (salla-llhu ^alayhi wasallam). When his ancestors
moved to Ethiopia, they were integrated among the citizens of the famous Islamic town
of Harar where anyone can go and ask Sunnis what is the status of their noble fellow
countryman. Hararis do not belong to the various ethnic groups around them, they have
an identity of their own and they are orthodox Muslims.

The disciples of this august scholar have been accused of calling a kfir whoever has not
done bay^ah to their sheikh, not to marry outside their ranks and to trade only among
themselves, among other slanders! By these standards, I should live in cave, not be
married and I would have starved to death long ago, my garden not being able to provide
for my family. Then there was a stern warning that if they did not stop, more of their
alleged evil deeds would be exposed. Scary! I took it upon myself to spread this pamphlet
among my friends and even to translate it in French
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. After so many years, the fun of
reading such an amateurish leaflet has won over the worry for my reputation.


72
The man used to be known among Lebanese Nazimites and their opponents, I do not know his present
status.
73
Transmitted by alBukhriyy and Muslim through ^Abdullh ibn ^Amr.
74
Whoever knows who the Falashas are will appreciate how ridiculous the idea of a Falasha mason is,
especially at the time of the last emperor of Ethiopia.
75
The pamphlet is still to be found on at least one of their sites, on the internet:
http://www.sunnah.org/fiqh/muslims_beware.htm.
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The author of these lines is still called a Jew and a Mason by them although I am not
aware of any Jew in my whole family
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. As far as I know my relatives and ancestors have
been Catholics for centuries. If I had Jewish origins, my reversion to Islam would be one
more demonstration of the strength of Islam.

To conclude about slander, I shall just mention some of the allegation made against me,
for the entertainment of the readers: it was said that I put posters where I work, telling
girls they are free to do whatever they want, I am also alleged to work for the C.I.A. and
to have a flying carpet (does one get air miles for that?)!

Allh jalla jalluH said what means: The servants of the Merciful God are those who
walk on earth with gentleness and when the ignorant address them they answer:
peace (sura alFurqn 25:63).

Physical pressure:

In spite of their many assurances that they are peaceful Sufis, they have already
committed several acts of violence in England. The first case I was informed of was that
of the father of a youngster in Woking, who was beaten up for saving his son from their
hands. I am sure it was not the first time and I am hopeful to discover evidence of more. I
suspected that I might soon become one of their victims and what happened next proved
me right.

On the night of the 6
th
of Dhu lQi^dah 1415, a group of them came to me and beat me up
at the parking entrance of the old Golden Hillock Mosque in Small Heath, Birmingham. I
was warned that if I did not stop this work I would meet a horrible end. Some Nazimites
were my guests at the time and they were warned by members of the gang not to talk to
me. A young man who left them was threatened too, then there were rumours that they
intended to give him the same treatment in the near future. The aim of this action was not
simply to frighten me into silence; it was also to stop the dialogue that was taking place
between us. The leaders of the movement had encouraged a deep hatred of me, declaring
me to be a covert Jew. They knew that it was bound to provoke this kind of reaction from
some of the excitable youngsters who followed them.

I do not want the reader to think that we cannot succeed in exposing Nazim and his
supporters. All the people who were my guests that night have left this impostor. Some of
those who took part in the beating came later on to apologise and most of those who used
to follow al-Qubrusi at the time have now forsaken him. Unfortunately, some just moved
to other pseudo Sufis. There is no strength against sin, except by Allhs protection, and
no power to obey Him, but with His help!

Since then, we have had another occasion to see how potentially dangerous their fanatical
devotion makes them, during the incident of the tenth of March which I related in chapter
3, the sources of information. What saved us from another attack was probably the great

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My family tree was traced back to the 15
th
Christian century and is mainly filled with Catholic Norman
farmers and carpenters, hardly a fertile ground for marriage with Jews.
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number of witnesses and the wisdom of those of them who could see how disastrous a
clash would be for their image. Ex-Nazimites have confirmed to me that they do resort to
covert or open threats when they fear exposure and that a number of them carry weapons.
We also know through one of their magazines that they train in martial arts. It is a pity
they use it against good people.

After all this, statements such as: For my part I ask Allah to accept my intention that I
sought to defend the reputation of Shaykh Nazim, and not to spread division and enmity
sound a bit hollow. They are to be found on the same web site which advertised the
aforementioned pamphlet
77
.



TRIFLING WITH ARTICLES OF FAITH



How else could I describe their attitude towards beliefs and orthodoxy: the following
texts show a general state of carelessness and faith corruption hidden under a heap of Sufi
sounding speeches and cheap spirituality.


22
ABOUT OUR MASTER ^S
(^alayhi ssalm)


In a conference given in Basel, Switzerland, they report that al-Qubrusi was asked: Will
Jesus come back? He answered: He will come soon. In a few years. The year 2000 will
not be completed. It is impossible for the year 2000 to be completed. He will be with us
before then. Then he was asked: Is he coming to stay?. He replied: He is coming to
stay for 40 years first. For 40 years he will stay with us... after 40 years, evil devils will
reappear little by little again. After 10 years it will have grown up, after those 10 years
Jesus Christ will die, just like His Lord will order Him to.
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23
ABOUT THE MEHDI


During a night of Ramadn 1406/1986 in Cambridge (England), Nazim said: .. so and so
many years ago we were on Arafat with Mehdi Alahi Salm. Sometimes this day of
Arafat is moved a day ahead or a day behind. Sometimes ... That year it was moved.

77
http://www.sunnah.org/fiqh/refuting_the_habashis.htm. It was still there in Rab u lAwwal 1424 (May
2003).
78
Extracted from The secrets behind the secrets behind the secrets, page 22 of the 1987 edition.
47
Mehdi was present and 12000 Rical
79
Allh (saints) too. We were all taking bayat from
Mehdi Alehi Salm ... With Mehdi Alehi Salm there are three kinds of bayat:
One kind was with him and with all Aulias. That has just happened, like it is declared in
the Hadith.
The second kind of bayat is through dreams. Some people take their bayat with Mehdi
Alehi Salm through their dreams, because they are not prepared to meet him now.
Thirdly it will be for common people when he has been ordered to appear.
...
He is going to appear after 101 hindrances ... 99 of the hindrances have passed away.
Now only two of them are remaining.
...
He was born between 1930 and 1940, so he is between 40 and 50 ... Then he was
ordered to be in the Empty Quarters. That is where Jemens and Hijas
80
joining place is
... Here there is a huge cave. Inside that cave there is the Dome of Happiness, which has
been built by angels. Mehdi Alehi Salm and his 99 Caliphs are there. They are waiting
and expecting the Holy Command of Allh Almighty to appear. And his appearance
should be soon, Inch a Allh ...
81
.

Whoever invented some of these details can definitely be said to have a vivid
imagination. Of course, as usual, not a shred of evidence is given. We are supposed to
believe all this because he says so.

In Haqiqat ul-Haqqani, page 25, it is said: The sword of Seyyidina Mahdi (Alai) will
take the heads of those who reject what Mowlana Sheikh Nazim will say in this
time.


24
THEIR ATTITUDE WITH NON-MUSLIM WESTERNERS
AND MUSLIMS


Allh said what means: O you who believe! Take not the Jews and the Christians as
your friends and protectors: they are only friends and protectors to each other. Whoever
among you turns towards them for friendship belongs to them. Indeed Allh will not
guide and unjust people (alMidah 5:51)


In general:

Nazim said: The Prophet says: Travel, you will find health and provision.
SubhanAllh, now American and European people are using this hadith saving money to

79
Rical, what is meant here is rijl (men in Arabic). The spelling is Turkish.
80
What is meant here is Yemen and Hijz. This speech was probably transcribed by Turks living in
Germany, for it is a mixture of Turkish, German and English spelling.
81
Pages 140 to 143 of the book The secrets behind the secrets behind the secrets, edited in 1987.
48
travel on holidays. They are keeping the order of the Prophet without knowing it. Anyone
keeping a hadith of the Prophet is hooked. He will be in the Divine Presence on the Last
Day, saying: Oh my Lord, these people followed me, travelling once a year. I ask
intercession for them. For the honour of the Prophet, his intercession is accepted.
82
.

These words imply that Americans and Europeans who travel around on holiday to places
where they intend to commit fornication and adultery, to show they bodies indecently, to
drink alcohol and consume unlawful drugs, that those people keep a hadth of the Prophet
(^alayhi ssaltu wassalm)? Or does he aim at the multitude of them who use travels to
realise transactions forbidden by Allh?
83
Once again, his eagerness to please Westerners
has pushed him to make shameful statements.

What Allh actually promised the kuffr is this: They are those whose works will be
deprived of reward in this life and in the hereafter, nor will there be anyone to support
them (Meaning of lu ^Imrn 3:24). As for the Prophets intercession (salla-llhu ^alayhi
wasallam), it is only for Muslims, as it is said in the hadth: My intercession on the Day of
Judgement is for those who commit big sins in my Community
84
. The term my
Community does not include Kuffr, as they would have us believe.

They said
85
: Because there are many people in Europe... because they are Mahdis
soldiers - many of them - and what Maulana sheykh said is that on Western hearts,
European hearts - there is a very delicate veil - if that veil is taken away all of them will
come to... (?). But on the hearts of Eastern people, especially Muslims, they dont have
such delicate veils - they are so stubborn - they dont believe - they think that their
knowledge is enough for them - they dont want, they are not humble to listen. How can
anyone not feel how degrading it is to grovel to blatantly?

Why do sects always show Muslims as the worst kind and are so fond of kuffr? Page
125 of Mercy Oceans Hidden Treasures, you will find the following chapter title: One
bud in each tree confirms the approach of spring: Westerners Being Granted faith as
Muslim Nations Abandon it
86
. What a terrible thing to say about our Community, as
imperfect as it may be!

In The secrets behind the secrets behind the secrets they report
87
a dialogue between a
person Z
88
and SN, which stands for Sheikh Nazim. They said:
SN: Armageddon, which is the name of the Biggest War, must be before Mehdi comes.
That will be a war between east and west.

82
Extracted from Mercy Oceans, book one, page 171.
83
Of course, we do not claim either that all Westerners are evil-doers who only use travelling to sin.
84
Translation from the narration of Ibn Mjah, through Jbir.
85
In the brochure called About our master sheykh Nazim Effendi, first page.
86
The Internet version of the book of the so-called naqshbandi.org has a very different table of contents,
compared with the book whose copy I have. Yet they show the same cover in the book section.
87
Page 35.
88
Zero Thyra Quensel, a Nazimite whose indiscriminate reporting of her masters saying sometimes caused
embarrassment to Hisham Kabbani and his team. The only difference between them is that she does not
calculate as much as they do and just reports what she witnesses.
49
Z: And this has nothing to do with Anti-Christ or Mehdi?
SN: This is before Mehdi comes and before Anti-Christ comes. This biggest war before
the Mehdi comes will be between east and west. And the west will win, not the east. It is
written. The west wins and the east vanishes.

This seems to be the very style of Nostradamus, which would confirm Nazims links with
western esoteric orders. It is also inspired from the Bible, something the al-Qubrusi
justified by this phrase: Everything is in the Qurn. No! The Book of Allh does not
include seducing lies.

In Mercy Oceans. The Teachings of Maulana Abdullh al-Faizi ad-Daghestani
89
they
report the following conversation between Nazim and his master:
Once, said Maulana, I was walking in the market place with our Grandshaykh, when
a Christian priest came to him, and kissed Grandshaykhs hand. Then, he gave salaams
and went on his way quickly.
Seeing my surprise, our Grandshaykh turned to me and said, There are others like him,
Nazim Effendi, who wait secretly for the Mahdi (peace be upon him) to come. They are
hidden. The time is not yet come for them to be known.

They said: Qurn says, Do not trust those who are not of your faith, character, or
way. Even if a man is a Muslim -if he does not think and feel like you, dont trust
him.
90


Their claim that actually, Muslims are idol worshippers:

Allh said what means: What! Do those who seek after evil ways think that We shall
treat them equally in life and death, with those who believe and do righteous deeds? How
badly they judge! (alJthiyah 45:21).

In The Naqshbandi Sufi Way
91
Hisham Kabbani relates some of the many forged
quotations he seems to have in store. He claims that Rbi^ah al^Adawiyyah said: If
your worship is to save yourself or to gain some reward for yourself, it is a hidden
polytheism, because you have associated something with God, either the reward, or the
punishment... I have often found this text reported by orientalists and fake Sufis, never
by Ahlu sSunnah. Accusing Muslims of association (shirk) is very reminiscent of
Wahhabi methods. They too love to throw that word at us, but neither do they really
know what it means. This is one of the areas where you realise that extremes always
have something in common: their hatred for the middle path followed by the
overwhelming majority.

Then Hisham Kabbani claims in the same page that Arsln adDimashqiyy said: O God,
Your religion is nothing but hidden polytheism and to disbelieve it is obligatory on
every true servant. The people of religion do not worship you, but they are only

89
Page 99.
90
Mercy Oceans: The Teachings of Maulana Abdullh al-Faizi ad-Daghestani, page 7.
91
Page 178.
50
worshipping to attain paradise or to escape from hell. They worship these two as idols,
and that is the worst idolatry. You have said, Whoever disbelieves in idols and believes
in God has grasped the Firm Handhold (2:256). To disbelieve in those idols and to
believe in You is obligatory on the people of Truth.

A few lines later he alleges that the founder of the Shdhiliyy order, Ab lHasan
(rahimahu-llh) said: The people of laws and external knowledge hold fast to their
deeds and on that basis they establish the concept of reward and punishment ... To the
People of the Way, this is the hidden polytheism, because one is associating something
with God..., and we say: shame on those who vilify the memory of the greatest Sufis!
Sufism is built on foundations without which it has no existence: perfect Islamic beliefs,
total adherence to Shar^ah and renouncing the world (zuhd).

In Rab^u lAwwal 1424
92
I went on one of their website: http://www.
naqshbandi.org/topics/onhidden.htm and found exactly the same type of discourse. They
even made Shh Naqshband (rahimahu-llh) quote alHallj as a reference, a man who
was condemned by Sufis for apostasy. May Allh grant us protection from those who try
and blemish the reputation of Naqshband in the name of Naqshband and the integrity of
Sufism through the appearance of Sufism.


25
WHAT DO THEY CALL KFIR OR BELIEVER?


Allh said what means: And those who believe in Allh and His Messengers - they are
the sincere, and their Lord takes them as witnesses: they shall have their reward and
their light. But those who reject
93
and deny our signs, they are the inhabitants of the
Fire (alHadd 57:15).


Page 14 of their book AlWasiyyah, ad-Daghestani is quoted as having said: Even if
one of us worshipped like men and jinns, he would not get anything from these positions
(maqmt) until he read sura alam nashrah with the intention of taking part in the
tajalls, this because of the divine greatness found in it. As usual, there is no evidence.
Actually he contradicted here what the Messenger of Allh (^alayhi ssaltu wassalm) said
about the man who swore to stick to obligations only, nothing more. He said: aflaha
rrajulu in sadaq, i.e. The man will succeed in the next life if what he says is true.
Whoever performs all the duties and avoids what is prohibited will enter Paradise, even
without nawfil
94
, that is Allhs promise. Nobody is allowed to make a recommended
action a condition to gain the position of believers.


92
May 5
th
2003.
93
I.e.: commit kufr.
94
Recommended ritual prayers.
51
In the same book, page 12, he said: If a kfir reads the first sura of the Qurn, even
once only in his life, he will not leave this world without obtaining part of that protection,
for Allh does not differentiate between kfir, great sinner (fsiq), believer (mumin)
or Muslim. Actually they are all equal. Those words contradict the yah where Allh
said what means: Are We going to treat Muslims like the guilty. How can you judge like
that! (sura alQalam 68:35-36). In his book Ruddu abtl, the contemporary Hanafi
scholar, sheikh Muhammad alHmid (rahimahu-llh) said in response to this heresy:
Will our master Muhammad (salla-llhu ^alayhi wasallam) be like Ab Jahl (may he
be cursed by Allh ta^l)? Allhumma no!

They report that Nazim said: Our Grandsheikh says whoever is never saying ALLAH
is a kafir, unbeliever. Anyone saying ALLAH, even in his own language, you must not
say to him kafir. ... Anyone saying God must be considered a believer. Even if a
person says, as we do in English, Oh my God, Allah is catching him. This is gigantic
good news. The Prophet, peace be upon him, says if a person says: Ya Rabb, Allah
says to him: I am here, oh my servant, what do you need? Allah is closer to you than
you to yourself.
95
.

Actually this is gigantic false news. They try to apply a hadth concerning Muslims, to
kuffr. This would make it contrary to what is revealed in the Holy Qurn where Allh
says what means: Believers are only those who believe both in Allh and His Messenger
and then do not doubt ...
96
and where He defines the kfir: And whoever does not
believe both in Allh and His messenger, for the kfirn we have prepared a fire
97
.

But he insists, saying: Our Grandsheikh says that whoever speaks the holy name of
Allh Almighty, he is accepted in the Divine Presence as a believer; and he told me a tale
on this point, that even if the child of a man, says the holy name, the father will take
benefit.

According to their beliefs, Ab Jahl, Ab Lahab and Pharaoh were believers, for they
all pronounced the name of God in Arabic or in another language.

You will notice here that sometimes they use the word kfir as opposed to official
Muslim. Some other times they use kfir for the one who (according to them) is not
open to the spiritual dimension, and mumin for those they believe to have some kind of
spirituality. They will not see this as a contradiction, for them these are just different
levels of understanding of the words. They also mention believer and Muslim as if
they were different states, a typical distinction among pseudo Sufis.


95
Mercy Oceans Book One, page 174.
96
Sura alHujurt 49:15.
97
Meaning of sura alFath 48:13.
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Nazim was heard saying
98
: But Prophet saying dont keep a friend unbeliever. Must be
your friend a believer. Then he says: May be believers from Christians better from
atheist people, may be from Jewish faith better than to be from mushrik. Then he says:
Therefore if you never finding from Muslim believer, ask Christian believer, Jewish
believer, but dont be with red devils. It appears from the rest of the tape that red
devils means communists. Afterwards he added: and even from Muslims if you are
not finding sincere ones, ask sincere believers from Christians, they should be more
useful for you, at least you may learn sincerity from a sincere Jewish person. But dont
believe to atheist people, to red devils....

We have quoted before two verses which define what is a mumin and a kfir. All people
who do not call themselves Muslims belong to the second kind. If anyone has a doubt
about the status of Christians and Jews after that, let them look in the fifth sura,
alMidah: 17,72 and 73, and alBaqarah 2:85 to 88. There Allh subhnaH wata^l
said what means: They have committed kufr those who said: God is the Messiah son of
Mary..., They have committed kufr those who say God is the third of a trinity ...,
and: ... it is rather Allh who has cursed them for their kufr....


26
THEIR BELIEF THAT ALL RELIGIONS ARE RIGHT
AND LEAD TO SALVATION


Allh jalla jalluH said what means: As for those who believe and Jews, Sabaeans,
Christians, Zoroastrians and Pagans, Allh will rule over their differences on the Day of
Judgement. Allh is a witness for everything (sura alHajj 22:17).


AlQd ^Iyd (rahimahu-llh) said in ashShif: Whoever does not consider as kuffr
all the groups which take another religion than Islam, who doubts about their state or
refuses to call them kuffr or believers, is a kfir himself.

Page 15 of Al-Wasiyyah, ad-Daghestani is reported to have said: The person who
reads this sura (i.e. alikhls) is bound to succeed in the hereafter by the tajall (unveiling)
of the two divine names alAhad and asSamad. To such an extent that even a kfir
who reads it must obtain part of that tajall.

Nazim said: We may be Muslims, Christians or Jews or Buddhists, but our souls are all
the same. They are all slaves of our Lord. Only here our titles are different. But you must
not be changed by your titles, you must remember your promise to your Lord: to service
Him, the Almighty. That is important
99
.

98
On tape numbered 18, 13
th
May, side A. One of the tapes I obtained from a French friend who used to be
one of Nazims disciples and eventually left him. He had quite a collection of their books and recorded
lectures.
99
Extracted from The secrets behind the secrets behind the secrets, page 90.
53

Nazim said to an interviewer: As much as the sons of Adam may come and go they are
only going to their Lord. Ultimately they will all reach their Lord, and though their ways
may be different, they will all meet in the Divine Presence
100
.

In the introduction of The secrets behind the secrets behind the secrets, Ms. Quensel
thanks the people who hosted al-Qubrusi with these words: The fact that you called our
Islamic Sufi Master to come and stay with your hinduistic community, shows that
spiritual people-of-the-heart are beyond the divisive barriers of religious
segregation. Al Hamdulillah!
101
.

In the same book
102
we find the following words of Nazim: Dalai Lama? Yes! Some
people asked him, Are you waiting to return to the Himalayas, to Tibet? and he said, I
am not waiting for anything. I am happy here. Everywhere I may be , I am happy.
Everywhere I go with my Lord is happiness for me... I am with Him now. So I am not
waiting to go back to the Himalayas. Then al-Qubrusi commented: That is the biggest
degree of servanthood of the Lord Almighty, to be with him. I dont mean as a person.
But I mean to say, to be with his will, and to try to be as He likes... (lecture given in the
Babaji-centre 17.7.85).

Page 138 of the same book, a transcription of a lecture given in Basel on 18.7.85, Nazim
was asked: Why were 6 million jews killed by the Nazis? 6 million jews in the second
world war! so he answered: This is meant as a trial for them from Allah almighty and
as something to give them spiritual improvement through that trial...

He said: A person may follow any religion. He is free to follow any religion. He is free
to follow any belief from east to west. He is free to follow the prophets, to follow the
saints, to follow the shaykhs, to follow babajis ... they are free, but the main purpose of
following must be to face towards heavens. In our times we call all the methods in the
religions showing the ways to heavens: the Sufi ways.
103
.

Page 99 of the same book, they wrote: the Shaykh continued: We must respect all men
in their religion, for no one can know what is the relationship between a man and his
Lord. Hisham Kabbani had his naqshbandi.org linked to the Gurdjieff International
Review site, which quoted Gurdjieff saying: Respect every religion.
104
.

For those who hope that things might get better when Nazim will disappear, let us
mention his successors words: Now, we are not against any kind of belief for all beliefs
will take you to your destination
105
.

100
From Mercy Oceans Pink Pearls, selected lectures of Sheikh Nazim Al-Qubrusi, chapter called
Coasts of truth, an interview, page 34.
101
Edited in 1987.
102
Page 76.
103
From The secrets behind the secrets behind the secrets, Basel, Switzerland, 15.7.85, page 2.
104
http://www.gurdjieff.org/. Copyright 1924 G. I. Gurdjieff. This webpage 2000 Gurdjieff Electronic
Publishing. Revision: April 1, 2000. Downloaded on the 7
th
of Rab^u lAwwal 1424 (10
th
May 2003).
105
Page 20 of Mercy Oceans Secrets of the heart.
54
Naqshbandi.org has a whole page entitled A Talk to the Gurdjieff Group. It is
written:
I am very happy that you came all the way here to see us. I heard many things
from my shaykh about your master, Gurdiief, the closeness he felt towards him
and how, after he died, John Bennett used to come frequently to see him.
Gurdjieff met Grandshaykh Abdullah Daghistani, at least, once. Some of John
Bennett's American followers met Shaykh Nazim.
In the path to God, we do not think that there are differences between brothers.
All masters are one in this universe. All of them are the same. If you met this or
that one, in our belief, it is the same; for all of them receive their power from One
who is the center of everything, whose name in Arabic is Allah, the God, our
Lord.
One day, Gurdjieff met our Master secretly. Our Grandshaykh wished nothing to
be known of that meeting and so it was not mentioned. All that was said in
Gurdjieff's books was that he met some saints in Damascus and Baghdad with no
mention of names. Still, he ordered John Bennett to meet with Grandshaykh
frequently and allowed him to mention these meetings in his books. That is why
John Bennett spoke about Grandshaykh. On the occasion of their secret meeting,
Grandshaykh gave permission to Gurdjieff to use the power of the Nine Points
with which some of you, I think, are familiar. However, he did not give Gurdjieff
permission to use all that power and so Gurdjieff did not pass the full measure of
that power on to his followers.
106



A useless exercise:

I find interesting to mention an attempt by Hisham Kabbani to prove the superiority of
Islam over the spirituality of all other religions in his book Mercy Oceans Secrets of
the Heart
107
. His argument is that there is no religion in which the spiritual leaders can
claim to come from a complete line of masters going back all the way to a prophet,
whereas Sufism has such lineage, so he said: And without such a claim you cannot go
anywhere. That is why you need a Sufi teacher to take you to your destination. A few
lines before he wrote: for all beliefs will take you to your destination.


106
http://www.naqshbandi.org/, H. Kabbanis official site. A Talk to the Gurdjieff Group, Excerpted
from the book Mercy Oceans Shore of Safety. Downloaded on the 7
th
of Rab^u lAwwal 1424 (10
th
May
2003).
107
Pages 20 and 21.
55
Mr. Kabbani, the reason why kuffr cannot get to Paradise is because of their kufr, not
because the chains of their masters are incomplete. As for your golden chain, it is quite
a strange one.


27
THEIR TRIFLING WITH HELL


Allh ^azza wajall said what means: Those who commit kufr and die as kuffr, those
ones will be cursed by Allh, by His angels and by all the people. They will stay in Hell
forever. Their suffering will not be diminished, nor will it be delayed for them
(alBaqarah 2:161-162).


They said: Buddhists, Christians, Catholics, Communists, Confucians, Brahmans,
Negroes: who created them? He created them, all of them, and each one says, We are
going on a way that leads to the Divine Presence. So many, many ways: you cannot
know...
Maulana? asked a disciple, What about the ways leading to Hell? Do they lead to
Allh also?
Yes replied the shaykh. The ways to Hell are going to Him, also, after Hell. Hell is
cleaning people, cleaning them from sins and bad characters, and then guiding them to
Allh. And some stay in Hell always?
Yes the Shaykh paused, and then continued, Iman is original, kufr is temporary. With
all the people, faith is the permanent condition. There may be one man to be endlessly in
Hell, if He so orders, but everyone is going to His Divine Presence. He is not going to
leave His servants to the hands of Satan, and Satan will not be the judge of His servants
either! Do you think that Satan will win? Satan will never win! Allh almighty is
victorious! His mercy is not leaving any to endless Hell.
108
.

They said: God has created us with love. He did not create us for hell fire. When we
who have children see them do something bad, we try to correct them. We do not burn
them up. We do not put them in hell. We try to correct them. We do not even beat them,
that is not allowed. We only try to correct them, and tell them: 'This is right'; 'This is
wrong'. God did not create human beings for punishment. Many people nowadays say
this, but it is not true. They are showing a cruel side of human nature which is evil and
springs from Satan. God is merciful, God is full of love, God is Light. With His mercy
and love He created us. Why are we not using that love and mercy which God has given
us, that love and mercy for which we were created? Why are we not using it to reach out
to others?
109



108
From Mercy Oceans: the teachings of Maulana Abdullh al-Faizi ad-Daghestani, page 78.
109
http://www.naqshbandi.org/, H. Kabbanis official site. A Talk to the Gurdjieff Group, Excerpted
from the book Mercy Oceans Shore of Safety. Downloaded on the 7
th
of Rab^u lAwwal 1424 (10
th
May
2003). The rest of the text shows that we here refers to all human beings, not just to virtuous Muslims.
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The most original of their inventions we could find is in the book Mercy Oceans
Hidden Treasures (1981), page 138. There it is reported that al-Qubrusi answered: ...
but from those dirty actions which have come out of the interaction of body and soul,
Allh will create shapes in the exact likeness of the sinners to represent them in Hell.
This likeness of effigy will be just as dirty as those actions were, and it will stay in Hell
until it is cleaned. In the face of this punishment, one will suffer intensely - his shame
will be so great, and at that time so difficult to bear, that he will wish for the Earth to
swallow him. Is this not comfortable? They have managed to get rid of the disturbing
thought of Hell. They have only kept shame. Seeing how well indeed some people live in
shame nowadays, it should not worry anybody believing in these inventions. This lie
probably accounts a lot for the licentious behaviour often witnessed among Nazimites.
Once again: is there a shred of evidence?

Nazim and his disciple H. Kabbani go to great extent to try and prove their point, but
very rarely with the revealed texts. They know this is their weak point. Instead they come
with all sorts of spurious stories, such as the marriage of Ftimah (radiya-llhu ^anh).
There they allege she obtained as a dowry that Jews, Christians, Muslims, Buddhists,
Hindus, everyone without discrimination, would enter Paradise with her
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.

We saw by the end of the chapter 6 that they believe Ibls himself will come out of Hell.
Some people also have been taught, probably at a different level, that Allhs threats of
the Fire is like that of a father saying to his son: Ill kill you to frighten him into
obedience, claiming that Arabs were a very coarse people unable to understand any other
language. These texts prove they are taught that Allh ta^l lied, that truth is for the so-
called elite, while the rest are given scary tales so as to control them.

In order to try and justify their position, we heard them mention the verses of the holy
Qurn where Allh speaks about Muslims at the time of Ms and ^s (^alayhima ssalm)
and the believers among the Sabaeans. We know that all those who followed previous
prophets were Muslims, Believers. We know also that after a while some started altering
revealed texts and committing association (shirk) or other kinds of apostasy. When our
master Muhammad (^alayhi ssaltu wassalm) came with his mission, there was no believer
left among men. They were all immersed in kufr and needed a new book.

Islam teaches that since Ab lQsims mission (salla-llhu ^alayhi wasallam), and unless a
person lives isolated from the knowledge that there is only one God and that Muhammad
is His Messenger, there is no way one can remain a kfir and be saved after death.
Whether that person is a Christian, a Jew or a member of another religion, does not affect
Allhs ruling against them. If they do not deny it and yet do not leave their religion, they
are still outside Islam. One may not claim to believe in Muhammads Rislah (^alayhi
ssaltu wassalm) and carry on practising kufr, for Allh clearly stated that He does not
forgive that one should associate anything or anybody to Him (anNis 4:116).

How dares Nazim claim that Allh would not be merciful or victorious if He sent some
creatures to Hell for an everlasting torment! How dare they question Gods justice! Such

110
Pages 59-60 of Mercy Oceans Secrets of the Heart.
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a statement is not only stupid; it is insulting towards the Creator. Even if He decided to
send everybody to the Fire forever, it would be His absolute right. This is a basic belief of
Ahlu sSunnah. All Sunnis know that whoever dies without accepting the two shahdahs
will be sent to Hell forever where he or she will never find any rest or respite. Whoever
does not reject what contradicts the beliefs implied by the two shahdah is called a kfir.
We have seen this definition earlier.

Remember the meaning of the verse quoted at the beginning of this chapter and that
Allh said also what means: Those who commit kufr, even though they would have all
which is on earth, or twice that, to buy themselves out of the suffering of the Day of
Judgement, it would not be accepted from them, and they will have a terrible torment
111
.

In our discussions with them, they used the verses where Allh declares He has honoured
the sons of dam
112
in complete contradiction with the rest of the Qurn and Sunnah,
an idea already found in one of Nazims quotations we gave before. This is confirmed by
adDaghestanis own words, pages 12 and 14 of Al-Wasiyyah, where he mentions this
yah to justify the belief that reading some parts of the holy Qurn is enough for a kfir
to be saved. How can they say that all human beings are concerned by the verse when
Allh calls kuffr the worst beings on earth, when the Prophet (salla-llhu ^alayhi wasallam)
said that what the beetle pushes with its head is better than kuffr or that if this duny was
at least worth the wing of a mosquito, He would not have given kuffr a gulp of water.
Allh has honoured the sons of dam (^alayhi ssalm) who have accepted the honour of
becoming believers. One may not interpret the Qurn in contradiction with itself.

They also try and use the verse where Allh said He sent Muhammad (salla-llhu ^alayhi
wasallam) as a mercy to mortals
113
. Sunnis accept this verse as all the other parts of
revelation, but it cannot be used to deny the promise our Lord made to send kuffr to
eternal torment in Hell. Non-believers cut themselves from the mercy of God. Nobody is
entitled to blame Allh for their choice when they still had time to make the right
decision.

The belief that Ibls will be saved in the end is one of those by which many fake Sufi
orders are to be recognised, they have even worse in store concerning this particular
topic. As usual they come up with books to try and prove their point. They attribute this
heinous belief to some famous sheikhs. The truth is that no true Sufi would go against
orthodoxy, and certainly not against such clear texts as the twenty second yah of sura
Ibrhm. There Ibls says to the damned blaming him for their torment, that he is not
any more able to help them out of Hell than they can help him.

Expressing the universal belief of Ahlu sSunnah concerning Hell, Imam Taqiyyuddn
asSubkiyy (may Allh have mercy on his soul) declared to be kufr the belief that kuffr would
come out of Hell or that the Fire would disappear, because of its contradicting thirty two

111
Sura alMidah 5:36.
112
Sura alIsr 17:70.
113
Sura alAmbiy 21:107.
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verses of the Holy Qurn and Unanimity (ijm^). Of course, to deny one of them would
be enough to be an apostate
114
.

In a discussion I personally had with their ex-representative in Birmingham, Mr. Bashir,
more than a month before Ramadn 1415, I discovered that belief of theirs. When I asked
him whether he believed that a kfir dying without pronouncing the two shahdahs would
stay in Hell forever, without any rest, he would not say yes. He claimed that it was not for
him to judge, that if Allh wanted to forgive such a non-believer, He would do so. Yes
indeed, if He wanted he would, but He has clearly promised He will not, so that it is a
main belief of Muslims. Not even the mention of Qurnic evidence would change his
mind. Reports we have about their disciples in Lebanon confirm this. Mustaf al^Allyl
preaches that Hell does not exist, that it is not real and that Allh simply frightens His
servants with it. One day, while he was sitting in the sun, he said: Ill sit in the sun until
I get used to the heat so as to enter Hell.


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THEY PRAY FOR DEAD KUFFR


There is no stopping them trying to please Westerners. Nazims disciple, Ms. Quensel,
published a book entitled Princess Dianas Death, by Sheikh Nazim al-Haqqani
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. She
advertised for her master and the new book in Q-News of February 1998. Page 29 of this
magazine she gave a few excerpts, in one of them al-Qubrusi said: Dont cry, ask for her
forgiveness. People should be asking the Allah the Almighty to forgive her, that would be
the right thing to do. But praise in this way... Instead of crying they should be saying:
Oh our Lord, give this weak servant Diana some of your endless oceans of mercy. She
was so weak and was cheated by devils. Oh, our Lord, give her mercy! That would be
good and Allh would accept it.

No, He would not!


29
THEIR TASTE FOR PREDICTIONS


Allh said what means: Say, no one in the heavens or on earth knows alGhayb, except
Allh (anNaml 27:65).



114
AsSubkiyy, a great defender of orthodoxy, is the great scholar who exposed Ibn Taymiyyah and
defeated his ideology until it was unearthed by Muhammad ibn ^AbdilWahhb, boosted by English and
then American intervention and spread with oil-dollars and violence.
115
Zero Productions, 1998.
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The Nazimite history of predictions is very similar to what has been taking place with
Jehovahs Witnesses. They discovered how many people were attracted by so-called
prophecies, but just like them, they had to bear the consequences of their predictions
failing. Giving far fetched interpretations of their statements after the deadlines was one
method used, another is to erase traces of these errors and, after a while, to deny them
altogether. We can see now the effort they have been making to control their urges to
prophesy; they are much more careful than they used to be. Jehovahs witnesses officially
renounced their old habit.

Discussing with Nazimites about the future, will convince you that many believe Nazim
knows all about it. They think he reads in the Preserved Tablet and that alGhayb is his
domain. This belief is supported by their literature. Allh says in the aforementioned
verse that this is impossible and this is what Sunnis stick to.

AdDaghestani was fairly well known for his many predictions. Muhammad Majdhb
reported in his interview for alAnwr newspaper that this charlatan told him he was
informed of the future. He noticed that the nurses of alAtibb hospital used to ask him
questions about their chances at marriage. In the room of adDaghestani, a disciple told
him: Sheikh ^Abdullh will not die until the Mehdi comes, rules seven years and then
dies.

The same Daghestani went one day to the house of a person called Muhammad Fakhr in
Ras anNab^, Lebanon. He said to him: I have come here to preserve you from the war
and make your hearts feel at rest. Two hours after his departure, a shell landed next to
their home, killing the lady of the house. Later he said: I have talked with her, for her to
come back to this world but she said: I longed to go to my Lord and I do not want to
return to earth.

This particular practice is known for its failures. We have seen that adDaghestani
predicted Mehdi would come before his death and Nazim himself made numerous
predictions, many of them centred on the appearance of the Mehdi. In 1988 they managed
so well to convince some people that the event would take place before 1990 that a lot of
their murids in Woking, England, actually sold their houses or dropped their studies,
ready to join the Mehdis armies. Their disappointment was such when it did not come
true that a lot left the sect. Each time something like this occurs, they claim the spiritual
leader was misunderstood.

Not having understood the lesson, and still very confident (as he is reported to always
appear), Nazim went for a visit to Glasgow and said to Mufti Muhammad Afdal that he
was very lucky to meet him because he was announcing him that Mehdi would appear
this same year 1990 to all the pilgrims doing hajj. This person went to perform
pilgrimage that very year and nothing happened, as usual. I am sure al-Qubrusi or H.
Kabbani would probably answer that the lack of spiritual insight of most people
prevented them from witnessing the event.

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Nazim has not changed much his habits in this field, actually it looks like one of his ploys
to try and get on the good side of people deemed important. See for example what is
reported on http://www.profumo.it/ , they wrote: A few weeks earlier in 1997 an
extraordinary spiritual meeting had taken place in London. Cheik Abdoulaye Dieye
Deymani, a spiritual heir of Cheik Ahmadou Bamba1 , had come to meet Sheikh Nazim.
Sheikh Nazim hugged him and said that he is one of the 99 Caliphs of Sayyidina
Mehdi and that the two Tariqats, the Naqshbandiyya and the Mouridiyya should join in
preparing for the coming of the Mehdi by bringing people back to the right path.
116
On
the other hand, he is reported to have said too: "Mahdi Alaihi as-Salam and his ninety-
nine Caliphs are there (in the Empty Quarter of Arabia). They are waiting and expecting
the Holy command of Allah Almighty to appear. And his appearance should be soon,
Inshallah."
117
So where does that leave Cheik Abdoulaye Dieye Deymani according to
them? In the desert of Arabia?

In The secrets behind the secrets behind the secrets, page 142, Nazim said: And 1988
will be the year when Israel is 40 years old. We do not think that they will be more than
40 years old. The Zionist State is now past fifty, I suppose they are going to say that 40
is only a symbolic number. We cannot wait to see the new version of this book: Mystical
Secrets of the Last Days, to check if any changes or additions have been made.

Mentioning a dream adDaghestani claimed to have, Nazim reported that his
grandshaykh said about the new generation of his time: The new generation,
they are all going to be with Mehdi (a.s.).
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Allh said what means: People question you about the (last) Hour. Say: The
knowledge of it belongs to Allh only. What do you know? May be the Hour is close
(alAhzb 33:63).

In M. Majdhbs interview, ad-Daghestani declared that the end of this world would
occur after 105 or 109 years. In Mercy Oceans Secrets of the Heart, page 23, Hisham
Kabbani wrote: According to Grandshaykh this world has not more than fifty years left.
After fifty years, something is going to happen the like of which you have never heard
about. Judgement Day is after these fifty years by another forty. All this is finished ninety
years from now. They are starting to be careful about predictions, so many of them
having never come true. Yet they still try to use that feeling of imminence to maintain
their followers under pressure, which is a classical strategy of many sects like Jehovahs
Witnesses. How dare they determine the date of this event when the holy Prophet himself
(salla-llhu ^alayhi wasallam) said on the same topic, to his questioner Jibrl (^alayhi ssalm),
what means: The person asked does not know anymore about it than the one asking, for
this knowledge belongs to Allh only. Whoever claims differently is a blatant impostor.

116
http://www.profumo.it/ospiti/zero/zero1.htm. They wrote: Healing Hearts , 16 High Street Butleigh
nBA6 8SU United Kingdom tel/fax: 01458 850989. Downloaded in Rab^u lAwwal 1424 (May 2003).
117
http://khidr.org/al-mahdi.htm. They wrote: The Coming of Mystery Imam al-Mahdi, A Turkish
Grandsheikh visits Kataragama each year to look for signs of the coming of a saviour. Kataragama is in
Sri Lanka. Downloaded in Rab^u lAwwal 1424 (May 2003).
118
http://www.the-heart.net/sohbet/cyprus2002/jun02/13jun.htm . They located it in Cyprus and dated :
June 13, 2002. The speech was still on the site in Rab^u lAwwal 1424 (May 2003).
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Yet, nothing stops them and we found again H. Kabbani declaring to an interviewer:
We hope that perhaps even by the year 2000, there will be no more
corruption in this world. It is going to finish.
119
The next excerpt from the
dialogue is comical, but I doubt they wil see it like that, they said:
Enlightened people will help usher in an Age of Enlightenment?
-Of course. There is coming true now, prophecies you may have read about in
books. There are major changes in teachings, in what is revealed now in books.
But we cannot say everything that will come. It must be kept secret.
All of this with a straight face, I am sure.



30
EMOTIONAL MANIPULATION
AND
THE ALLEGED PICTURE OF THE PROPHET
(^alayhi ssaltu wassalm)


The previous chapter is an obvious illustration of how they manage to keep their
followers in a high emotional state, with the aim of preventing them from using their
reason. Another ploy is that extraordinary image of Nazim which they build into their
imaginations. An image which is all the stronger as it seems to be limitless. Once
conditioned, many people are so trusting that they are ready to believe almost anything.
Regular emotional shocks will then be induced, which they will mistake for spiritual
experiences. Our reports also show what looks like a regular use of jinns.

Basically, the proof of Islam is discovered by reason through logic, for there is no part of
the revelation which cannot be justified logically. We mean here real logic, not simply
clever arguments or sophism. Although emotions play an essential part - for instance: no
one can be a Muslim without loving Allh more than anything else - it is reason which
proves Islam right. All other religions, whatever their claims to make use of it, fail at the
test of logic at some point, because what is made up by human beings is bound to be
imperfect. Sects will be recognised by their very strong use of emotions, even more than
mainstream religions: they cannot face a real test of honesty by reason. They need to
paralyse their followers reason through passion, until passion becomes fanaticism.
Fanaticism is not necessarily violent, although it has the potential to become so at any
moment. Victims of this conditioning become blind and deaf to anything that does not
come through the filter of their leadership. Anything they accept or reject will be done
according to instructions or induction.


119
http://www.naqshbandi.net/haqqani/TODO/interview.html . The following article appeared in the
spiritual magazine phenomeNEWS: Interview with Shaikh Hicham Kabani. It was still on the site in
Rab^u lAwwal 1424 (May 2003).

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A perfect example of how such manipulations easily work is the case of the so-called
picture of the Prophet Muhammad (^alayhi ssaltu wassalm). A picture appeared among
Nazimites, which is an alleged portrait of the Messenger of Allh (salla-llhu ^alayhi
wasallam) as a child, drawn by the monk Bahrah. It has was reproduced and spread among
some members. Scenes were witnessed of people becoming very emotional, crying and
kissing the picture, which would be very understandable if only it had any serious base.

How many among realised what a horrible hoax it was? Any reflecting and sound mind
will realise that if such a picture existed it would have been known. You cannot hide such
an enormous secret, not any more than you can dissimulate an elephant under a
handkerchief. Nevertheless, it is unlikely to stop the manipulators who made it, to invent
a silly justification. We expect them to say something like: Al-Khidr kept it in a secret
cave for centuries and has just come up with it for the future soldiers of the Mehdi.

The team around al-Qubrusi has built such an idealised image of him that it is very easy
for inexperienced people to fall for their ploys. For most followers, this is their first great
emotional experience. All their highest ideals are crystallised around Nazim. When he
arrives in a place, many people who have not seen him for some time simply cannot help
sobbing and crying, even in the middle of an international airport. There is most probably
no pretence in this: it is only the fruit of a very clever emotional manipulation.

Many murids are so convinced of the truthfulness and powers of their sheikh that they
have become a real danger for themselves and others. Some are reported, for instance, to
drive completely carelessly, because they are sure of the permanent presence and
protection of Nazim. In London, they were seen practising dhikr under no serious
supervision, and some of them got so carried away that they were banging their heads
against the walls.


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THEIR BELIEFS ABOUT THE PROPHET
(Allhumma salli wasallim ^alayh)


While praising the Messenger of Allh (salla-llhu ^alayhi wasallam) H. Kabbani wrote
120
:
He is the heart of the Divine Presence. He is the heart of the Unique Essence. This
quotation claims that Muhammad (^alayhi ssaltu wassalm) is part of God. No Muslim will
doubt that this belief takes out of Islam whomever adopts it. This is real and definite
shirk. It is strange that at the same time, their ignorance of basic Islamic tenets
concerning the nature of prophets makes them accept spurious stories which debase those
chosen men, as it is shown in the next chapter.

Other passages indicate that they believe Allh to be light in the literal sense of the world,
hence comparing Him with His creatures (tashbh), and Muhammad (salla-llhu ^alayhi

120
Page 54 of The Naqshbandi Sufi Way.
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wasallam) to have been made from that light. For instance Mr Hisham Kabbani relates
121

that Nazim said: God created the light of Muhammad (^alayhi ssaltu wassalm) from His
light. ... Then from that light, He created all creation. This is based on some known
forged tradition and is not to be mistaken with the belief held by some that Ab lQsim
(Allhumma salli ^alayhi wasallim) was the first creation, as light, for they do not believe that
light to be part of Allh.

In the same page, H. Kabbani wrote: He is the only one addressed by God... This
contradicts the Noble Book where Allh said what means: When Ms came to the
place appointed by Us, and his Lord spoke to him... (alA^rf 7:143).


32
THEIR DEBASEMENT OF PROPHETS
(^alayhimu ssalm)


The Prophet (salla-llhu ^alayhi wasallam)said what means: Whoever abuses the prophets
should be killed...
122
.

Their belief that prophets can be rebellious, idolaters and great sinners:

Nazim said: After the flood abated God ordered Noah to make forty clay jugs, and to
devote extra care and attention to making them perfectly. When Noah had finished
making them the Lord ordered him to smash them to bits. Noah obeyed, but he wasnt
happy with the order: it seemed wanton to him to destroy what he had spent so much
effort in making.
123
.

Nazim said: When Abraham was yet a seeker of the truth, at a stage of bewilderment
on his road to truth, he became enamoured of the sun, moon and stars, but, as each set
he said: My love is not for those that disappear
124
. Enamoured is defined as being
inflamed with love. In this context in clearly means that according to him Ibrhm
(^alayhi ssalm) mistook these creatures for his Lord, which is contrary to the basic Sunni
belief that prophets are unable to commit any kufr from their birth till their death.

121
Page 123 of The Naqshbandi Sufi Way.
122
Transmitted by atTabarniyy in alMu^jam asSaghr. A sentence which is applied where an Islamic state
has authority.
123
Ocean of Unity, page 33 to 34. The Spanish version was still available in Rab^u lAwwal 1424 (may
2003) on http://www.naqshbandi.net/haqqani/Lang/spanish/unity_oceans2.html, where it said: Despus
del Diluvio acaecido Dios le orden a No hacer cuarenta jarrones de arcilla, y poner empeo extra y
atencin para hacerlos perfectos. Cuando No haba terminado de hacerlos el Seor le orden romperlos en
pedazos. No obedeci, pero l no estaba feliz con la orden : pareca malicioso para l destruir lo que le
haba costado tanto esfuerzo en construir.
124
Ocean of Unity, page 30 to 31. In case the meaning would not be clear enough in English, this is what
the Spanish version says: Cuando Abraham era todava un buscador de la verdad en un nivel de
perplejidad de su camino, se volvi un enamorado del sol, la luna, las estrellas, pero en cada meditacin el
dijo : "Mi amor no es para aquellas cosas que desaparecen" still available in Rab^u lAwwal 1424 (may
2003) on http://www.naqshbandi.net/haqqani/Lang/spanish/unity_oceans2.html.
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They have again interpreted verses according to their desires, without the necessary
knowledge, ignoring the end of yah 78 (from sura alAn^m) which shows that this
prophet (^alayhi ssalm) was actually demonstrating to his people how wrong they were. He
showed them successively the stars, the moon and the sun, asking in a denying way:
hdh Rabb?! (i.e. is this thing my Lord!), and when they would disappear he would
say that he does not love what disappears. The fact that he was addressing his people is
confirmed by his saying at the end (what means): Oh my people! I am innocent of what
you associate to Allh! What is more, Allh said that He had guided Ibrhm (^alayhi
ssalm) beforehand: and We had given Ibrhm his guidance before and we knew
him
125
.

One would have thought that at least they would have had the decency to spare the Best
of All Creatures, the Seal of Prophethood, our beloved Master Muhammad (salla-llhu
^alayhi wa^al lih wasallam), but they did not! Among the numerous strange and spurious
stories to be found in their books, Hisham Kabbani wrote
126
that the Messenger of Allh
(^alayhi ssaltu wassalm) was taken after his birth by angels, to be washed in alKawthar,
and that while he was being washed he said: O my Lord, what about my nation? Arent
you going to wash my nation also in the water of this river? If not, I am not accepting to
be washed alone. This is properly unbelievable. How could he possibly talk to Allh in
this rebellious and insolent way! What Muslim on earth is going to believe that the
Prophet (salla-llhu ^alayhi wasallam) would have forgotten that whatever his Lord does is
fair, right, just and good!

But he carries on with more, saying: God showed him there and then how much they
(i.e. Muslims) were going to sin when they would come to this world. The Prophet (s)
said, O my Lord, what have you done? God said, Never mind: light will never
disappear from their hearts.

Hisham Kabbani translated
127
a passage from Ibn ^Arabiyys Fussu lHikam in the
following terms: Moses (^alayhi ssalm) was tested by many ordeals (20:40) the first of
which was the murder of the Egyptian (28:15), an act which he committed by divine
impulsion and with the approbation of God deep inside him... For all prophets are
interiorly preserved from sin without their being conscious of it... Is that text not a bit
contradictory? It asserts the impeccability of prophets while accusing one of a crime. The
killing of the Egyptian cannot be called a murder, death was not the purpose of our
master Ms (^alayhi ssalm). Even if it had been, the kfir was fighting a Hebrew and the
prophet came to rescue the latter.

AlKalbdhiyy wrote is his famous Ta^arruf on the doctrine of Sufis that it varies on
the question of faults attributed to prophets between those who believe that they cannot
commit any sin at all and those who only accept minor sins. Where does that leave the

125
Meaning of alAmbiy 21:51.
126
In his book Mercy Oceans Secrets of the Heart, pages 25 to 26.
127
In The Naqshbandi Sufi Way, page 122.
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idolatry, murder and rebellious behaviour Nazim and H. Kabbani attributed to these
chosen and impeccable beings?

Their belief that prophethood is by progress, not by divine election:

^Abdullh adDaghestani, Nazims sheikh, is reported to have said
128
: The one who will
succeed in this time, obtaining a success that the ancient ones could not get through
retreats, spiritual exercises and the small and great jihad. The one who will reach a high
degree and great rank, which was not attained by the prophets and the Sahbah.
The one who will obtain positions not won by the noble Prophet (salla-llhu ^alayhi
wasallam), nor by his inheritor Ab Bakr asSiddq. The one who will succeed in all
these ways, will be from the people of this time.
129
Nazim, because of the difficult
position this declaration of his sheikh put him in, had to make a long explanation, pages
14 and 15 of The Naqshbandi Way, a Guidebook for spiritual Progress, to try and avoid
the accusation of putting people above the level of the Prophet (^alayhi ssaltu wassalm)
and Ab Bakr, among others. Yet how sincere is this plea? One doubts it when one
reads the outrageous statements contained in Haqiqat ul-Haqqani. It looks like one more
case where they make incompatible statements to different publics.

It seems actually that it is their very beliefs about prophethood which are wrong. They
seem to have the idea developed by some philosophers that all spiritual stations can be
reached through progress, even that of prophets. The following excerpt does appear to
say just that, when adDaghestani declared: No prophet obtained the position of
prophethood, nor any saint the position of sainthood, nor any believer the position of
real belief, except during the time between the subh prayer and the sun rising, and by
these practices
130
. The Sunni faith is that prophets do not obtain prophethood. Allh
does not grant them nubuwwah because of their merits: they are meant from all eternity
to be prophets, and because of this divine election, they have the highest spiritual ranks
and the most beautiful characters.


33
THEIR DEBASEMENT OF ANGELS

Hisham Kabbani wrote a book called: Angels Unveiled: A Sufi Perspective . The first
thing which will shock the Muslim reader is the number of illustrations with drawings of
oriental dressed alleged angels, whose faces are veiled. I counted 36 such pictures on
pages 1, 2, 14, 20, 26, 28, 32, 37, 38, 44, 48, 56, 62, 68, 76, 115, 116, 122, 126, 142, 148,
158, 164, 168, 176, 182, 187, 188, 192, 196, 202, 206, 214, 220, 223 and 224. Most of
these are just repeated images. What a strange thing to do for, especially for a book
dealing with such a high theological topic. Angels are represented there in shape which
could live if they were real, which makes it harm in three of the four orthodox schools

128
In their book AlWasiyyah, page 6.
129
The same kind of statement is to be found page 13 of this book.
130
Translated from page 23 of alWasiyyah.
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and makrh in the fourth one. Putting a veil on their faces does not solve anything, but
this is not the main problem we found in this paperback.

As usual Mr H. Kabbani comes up with spurious stories whose outrageous contents he
tries to justify in the name of Sufism. In some cases these are famous unreliable accounts
whose very nature is enough to discard them. For the author, the border between angelic
and human natures is not very clear, he speaks of a so-called angelic nature of men,
something which is much more reminiscent of judeo-christian theology than of Islam. For
him too, angels can sin, another judeo-christian feature.

H. Kabbani wrote
131
: To show the angels the exalted ranks of human beings, God asked
who among them would go to the earth and live as mortal beings in order to experience
the reality of the human condition directly. Two angels stepped forward Harut and
Marut
132
God sent them down in to a city of believers one was to act as a judge,
while the other was to be a scholar. They lived, ate and drank as mortal people during the
day In that town lived a beautiful woman by the name of Zahra, or some say Anahid.
She realized that Harut and Marut were not normal human beings, but rather angels who
possessed a great secret. She resolved to obtain it no matter what it cost her Under the
influence of wine and music their heads became light and they forgot that they were
angels. They fell in love with Zahra This forged story contradicts completely Sunni
orthodoxy: angels are not sexed, they neither eat nor drink and they are totally unable to
sin, it is as Allh said in verse sura 66:6 whose meaning is: they do not disobey the
orders they receive from Allh and they do what they are commanded. Whoever
opposes the Qurn commits kufr.

H. Kabbani wrote
133
: When Adam died, the angels came down and buried him
themselves, showing his children the manner of this ritual and teaching it to them for the
first time. After that, the sun and the moon were eclipsed for seven days and seven
nights.

34
THEIR DEBASEMENT OF OUR MASTER ^UMAR
(radiya-llhu ^anhu wajazhu khayr)


The Prophet (salla-llhu ^alayhi wasallam) said what means: Do not abuse my Companions.
For even if one of you spent as much gold as the size of mount Uhud, it would not be
worth what one of them would put in two joint hands, not even a small half of that
134
,
and: ... and whoever abuses my Companions should be whipped
135
.



131
Pages 160 and 161.
132
Here he translated verse 102 of the second sura, alBaqarah.
133
Page 41 of his Angels Unveiled: A Sufi Perspective.
134
Transmitted by alBukhriyy through Ab Sa^d alKhudriyy.
135
Transmitted by atTabarniyy in alMu^jam asSaghr.
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In Mercy Oceans Hidden Treasures
136
one can read the following words reported from
Nazim: Regarding Omar, our Grandsheikh furthermore said, that because he was
sometimes openly stating his desires despite their being contrary to the Prophets,
that he never attained the secret knowledge which Abu Bakr and Ali attained. I suspect
the actual reason for this unacceptable statement is to reinforce the murids submission,
making them fear that they might not attain the highest level if they do not comply totally
with their masters wishes.

In Mercy Oceans Secrets of the Heart, Muhammad H. Kabbani tells one more
spurious story
137
, where our master ^Umar (radiya-llhu ^anh) is shown as impatient,
insolent and actually stupid! Unrepentant he repeats that in pages 12 and 13 of The
Naqshbandi Sufi Way, showing him as spiritually retarded! May Allh preserve us!

Allhs Messenger (^alayhi ssaltu wassalm) said what means: If there was a prophet after
me it would be ^Umar ibn alKhattb
138
. Would this be said about somebody with a weak
spiritual understanding?


35
THEIR BELIEF ON DEATH


Allh subhnaH wata^l said what means: What do those who invent lies about Allh
think on the Day of Judgement?... (Ynus 10:60).


Page 11 of Haqiqat ul-Haqqani, it is said: When Allh Almighty questions this person
Mowlana shall answer all questions instead of him.

Page 35 of the same book, it is said: As for anyone who is related to Mowlana Sheikh
Nazim as a mureed the Angel of Death, Israel (Alai) will have nothing to do with him.
The soul of this mureed at the time of his death will be taken by Mowlana Sheikh Nazim.
He shall look at the mureed and immediately the soul of that mureed will leave his body.
Of course, the angel of death is not Israel, it is ^Azrl (^alayhi ssalm), but this is not
the outrageous point in this short statement.

Page 29 of the same book, it is said: Another of the miracles of Mowlana Sheikh Nazim
is the miracle in the grave. When Angels appear in the mureeds grave to question him,
Mowlana Sheikh Nazim will immediately be there and say to the angels Dont question
my follower, question me instead of him and I will answer on his behalf. The angels
shall not be able to bear the Light of Mowlana Sheikh Nazim and due to this they shall be
forced to go away. No comment.


136
1981, page 45.
137
Pages 52 to 56.
138
Transmitted by atTirmidhiyy, Ahmad, Ibn Hibbn, atTabarniyy and alHkim.
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36
THE TALES ABOUT THE PRESERVED TABLET
(ALLAWHU LMAHFZ)


The Prophet (salla-llhu ^alayhi wasallam) said what means: A servant does not have faith
until he believes that Allh has predestined all, what is bad as well as what is good, until
he knows that what happens to him was not meant for somebody else and that what
happens to others was not meant for him.
139
.


Hisham Kabbani wrote about adDaghestani
140
: He became so famous at the age of seven
that if anyone in his village wanted to marry, they would first go to him and ask if the
marriage was destined to succeed. More than that, they would ask if the marriage was
according to the Will of God as mentioned in the Preserved Tablets. This excerpt is of
the same kind as the following one, taken from the book they disowned, although they
regularly confirm its contents in the rest of their literature and conferences.

In Haqiqat ul-Haqqani
141
it is said: Every time that Mowlana Sheikh Nazim gives a
lecture, he looks into the Preserved Tablet. Mowlana generally has the habit of looking
slightly upwards before commencing a lecture and then he continues delivering his
lecture. This is because he reads what he is going to say from the Preserved Tablet.
Mowlana once said When I pray, I look to see what is written in the Preserved Tablet for
me to recite in Salat ul Luhr
142
and also for every prayer I do the same to find out what I
should recite during that prayer from the Holy Quran. I dont walk from this place to that
except by looking and reading the Preserved Tablet.

These two quotations show how those people can betray themselves. Had they thought,
they would have realised that whatever one does, it is written in the Preserved Tablet. So
looking into it in order to know what to do is useless. Nothing happens that is not written
in alLawhu lMahfz.

Several decades ago, when Nazim met Sheikh ^Abdullh alHarariyy, acting as an
interpreter for adDaghestani, he translated from the latter a strange story about
Muhyiddn Ibn al^Arabiyy (rahimahu-llh). He said that while Ibn al^Arabiyy was in jail,
imprisoned by a Persian king, locked behind seven doors, he was presented with a female
servant, 17 or 18 years old. He claimed that the Prophet (^alayhi ssaltu wassalm) came to
him spiritually and said: Your time in jail has ended so think of what the consequences
will be for the truth. According to him, Ibn al^Arabiyy would have then looked into the
Preserved Tablet and seen that the servant was his wife. When Sheikh ^Abdullh
alHarariyy heard this disgusting story he said: Sheikh Muhyiddn was too great to have

139
Transmitted by atTirmidhiyy.
140
Page 350 of The Naqshbandi Sufi Way.
141
Page 31.
142
I believe this to be a simple typing mistake here, they probably meant zuhr.
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sexual intercourse without legal marriage. But adDaghestani replied unrepentant: For
those people, the marriage of the Throne is enough.


37
THEIR DEBASING ALLHS PROMISE OF
REWARD


Nazim said: To look for some reward for worshipping is like idol worship
143
.

He said too: It is required that we must worship Allah without asking reward in this life
or the next. This action by a servant is kept among Allah Almightys treasures. Why do
so many hadiths mention a reward for the servant who does that Sunnah? This is because
our Prophet (peace be upon him) was ordered to address men according to their various
levels and capacities for understanding. In general, nafs wouldnt do anything without the
promise of a reward, like the children who must be promised sweets in order to do their
chores promptly. So, as some men are interested in women, gardens, and palaces Allh
almighty has promised them these things as a reward for good actions.
144
.

That implies that Allh ta^l and His Messenger (salla-llhu ^alayhi wasallam) lied to the
common people in order to attract them to Islam. It is blasphemous, an insult to our
intelligence and is a denial of the du^s taught by the prophet (^alayhi ssaltu wassalm), in
which he asked for the rewards of the hereafter.


VIOLATIONS OF TAWHD


Allh jalla jalluH said what means: ... they have taken the demons in preference to
Allh, as their protectors, and think that they have received guidance. (AlA^rf 7:30).


Allh said what means: And Christians said: we are the children of God and His
beloved ones, say: so why will He torment you for your sins, no indeed, you are only
mortals created by Him... If this is how guilty their words made them in spite of the fact
that they did not actually believe God gave birth to them and Allh knows what they
meant, how guilty are Nazim, H. Kabbani, their likes and those who support them, for
trifling with the chore of Islam?

38
THEIR LACK OF KNOWLEDGE

143
Mercy Oceans, Book One, page 15 and on http://www.naqshbandi.org/suhba/looknota.htm in Rab^u
lAwwal 1424 (May 2003) at least.
144
From the book: Mercy Oceans, the teachings of Maulana Abdullah al-Faizi ad-Daghestani, page 122 to
123.
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OF ALLHS ATTRIBUTES


There is little we know about Allh ta^l. What we do know came to us through the holy
Qurn and reliable hadth. Revelation mentions a number of divine attributes which
must be known by a person in order to reach the state of Muslim or Mumin. Whoever
contradicts what has been revealed about our Lord, of these characteristics, actually
worships the fruit of his desires and imagination. That keeps him outside Islam.

A divine attribute is simply a characteristic of the reality of Allh, such as His being All
Knowing, All Powerful, unlike any creatures, etc. There is no limit to His attributes, just
as there is no limit to His names, for they refer to these attributes.

An attribute does not have an existence of its own. It is not some kind of energy, force or
tool which Allh uses when He wants to. An attribute is only what Allh has always
characterised Himself with, as alBayhaqiyy (rahimahu-llh) explained: it is neither God,
nor something else than Him. For example, if you say that a person is generous,
generosity is an attribute of that individual, it is a quality, not something in its own right.

A belief has been known to spread among some sects, which comes straight from
Hellenistic philosophers influenced by Hinduism, stating that somehow there are
different levels of the reality of God: they see His attributes as belonging to the outside
circles of it and then they speak of the essence of God, as that which they deem to be
immutable and non-ending. The inventors of this idea have been applying to Allh the
created work of their imagination and hence compared Him with His creatures.

Now read the following words falsely attributed by H. Kabbani to Muhammad Khwaja
alAmkanaki and see if you cannot find some similarities with the belief I have just
mentioned: The demand of this Way is to direct yourself to the state of erasure and
annihilation, which is the first state of bewilderment. This will lead you to the state of
receiving the pure light of the Essence. In that state there will be no other element
existing except that Pure Essence. Even the Names and the Attributes cannot exist in that
state of the Pure Essence. The one who can reach the state of the Pure Essence is higher
than the one who is in the state of the Names and the Attributes
145
. The very idea that
there are different degrees of Allhs reality is in itself tashbh, i.e. a comparison of God
with His creatures. These are the Sephirot of Kabbalah or the spheres of philosophers,
what has this got to do with Islam and Sufism?


39
THEIR BID^AHS CONCERNING
THE REALITY OF ALLH



145
Page 227 of The Naqshabandi Sufi Way.
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Allh said what means: Do you see the person who takes as his god his own desire...
(alFurqn 25:43).


The following five chapters all detail the different aspects of their beliefs concerning
Allh and His creation. To sum them up: the teaching found in their books shows they
believe that the only reality is God, that creation happened by emanation (inbi^th), that
this emanation is still part of Him, that it is Him beyond appearances and that all will
reintegrate in what they call His essence. They believe that by finding ones essence,
ones finds God in oneself and that the presence of God is more strongly manifest in some
individuals like prophets and saints. They think human attributes are an imperfect
manifestation of the divine attributes and that when a person reaches sainthood, these
attributes become divine again.

The earliest evidence of this belief is to be found in Hinduism, from which it moved
gradually into late Greek (Hellenistic) philosophy, then in Ismaili Shiism, Masonic or
Rosicrucian orders, etc and pseudo Sufism. If the religion chosen by Allh for His
creatures was such, He would have sent us to these people so as to learn from them, not
to fight them. There is no trace of such a doctrine in the Holy Qurn, in reliable hadth,
nor in the teachings of real Sufis.

Those beliefs we expose are unequally shared by Nazimites. One must not forget that
they are imparted gradually to murds.


40
THEIR BELIEF IN CREATION
BY EMANATION (INBI^TH)


Allh said what means: He does not beget, nor is He begotten
(alIkhls 112:3)


The first evidence I found of that teaching was from H. Kabbani, relating one of
adDaghestanis so-called spiritual experiences
146
and quoting from him these words: I
was enjoying that passing so much because I was going back to my origin, which made
me comprehend the secret of the Qurnic verse, to God we belong and to Him is our
return (2:156). No orthodox Sufi would give such an interpretation for this yah.
Allh is not our origin, we do not come from Him, He created us and this revealed text
simply means, to Him we will give accounts.

Page 363 of the same book, I found adDaghestani quoted again, saying: Because that
Divine Essence is the source of all created being... This kind of idea produced in a

146
Pages 357 and 358 of The Naqshbandi Sufi Way.
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number of religions the belief that Allh gives birth to children, that is to say, takes out of
Himself beings which they claim to be divine in some cases, human in others
147
.


41
THEIR BELIEF
THAT ALLH IS IN SPACE


The Prophet (^alayhi ssaltu wassalm) said in a du^ what means: ... and You are
azZhir, so there is nothing above You, and You are alBtin, so there is nothing under
You... (transmitted by Muslim).


AlBayhaqiyy (rahimahu-llh) in alAsm wasSift explained about the above-
mentioned hadth that it is one of the evidences that Allh has nothing to do with space.
AlKhatb alBaghddiyy reported that ^Aliyy ibn Ab Tlib (karrama-llhu wajhah) said:
Allh uses the Throne to show His power, not as a place for Himself.

In The secrets behind the secrets behind the secrets, Nazim says in page 66: He who is
in space is ruling the earth. It is not those on earth who are ruling space. As for the
scholar and Sufi master ^AbdulGhaniyy anNbulusiyy (rahimahu-llh), he explained:
Whoever believes that Allh fills the heavens and the earth and that He is a body sitting
on the Throne, He is a kfir, even though he claims to be a Muslim.

They said: And so, when Moses, Peace be upon him, found himself being overcome by
sleep and realized that he was totally unable to resist it, he looked up to heaven -toward
the Divine Throne, towards his Lord - and...
148
.

In Haqiqat ul-Haqqani, page 13, it is said: Allah Almighty is everywhere but
specially in the Baitullah as He has himself called it the house of Allah. For it to be
called the house of the Lord, the Lord must be in it. The phrase: Allah is
everywhere, is a most unfortunate expression which has no root in Islam. It was
introduced by philosophers and has since become the favourite expression of a lot of
people. In fact, if one uses it, one should always add by His knowledge or by His
power for instance, lest people should believe that Allh is everywhere by His reality
(dht), a typical philosophical idea. As for Baytu-llh, it means the House honoured by
Allh.

In the glossary of Mercy Oceans Hidden Treasure
149
, in the paragraph where they claim
to explain alMi^rj, they wrote: After reaching the top of the Seven Heavens he was
taken to the utmost limit of Gabriels domain, then continued to the Divine Presence
where he came within two bow-lengths of the Majestical and Most Exalted Creator

147
One could also mention the common belief in so-called half gods such as Hercules and others.
148
From page 36 of Mercy Oceans: Endless Horizons.
149
Page 247.
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of the Heavens and the Earth. This obviously refers to sura anNajm 58:8-9 where he saw
Jibrl (^alayhi ssalm) in his real form and saw Allh ta^l who is nowhere by His reality,
with his heart. The sura tells about both events, but the verses they refer to concern the
Prophet (salla-llhu ^alayhi wasallam) coming very close to Jibrl (peace be upon him), not to
Allh - subhna-llhi ^amm yasifn! Imam Muslim related that our Mother ^ishah
(radiya-llhu ^anh) said about these two yahs: It was only Jibrl coming to him, and he
came this time in his original shape with which he covered the whole horizon.

In case someone would still doubt that this is their official position, here is what H.
Kabbani says while talking about the Mi^rj
150
: He ascended higher and higher, until he
heard the scratching of the Pen writing out Gods decree. He approached the Divine
Presence, closer, closer...

What are all their words worth against Wahhabis? When they have the same belief which
is the very chore and essence of Wahhabism! Let us remember ^Aliyys statement
(karrama-llhu wajhah): Allh existed eternally and there was no space, and now He exists
as He was, without a place (related by Ab Mansr alBaghddiyy), and ^Aliyy
Zaynul^bidns words (rahimahu-llh): O Allh You are too great to be in a place! (In
his letter: asSahfatu sSajjdiyyah).

The famous Hanafi ^lim, Imam Ab Ja^far atTahwiyy (rahimahu-llh) said: Allh is
too great to be concerned by limits, extremities, corners, organs or instruments. He is not
concerned by the six directions like all creatures. But most importantly, let us not forget
what Allh ta^l Himself taught us when He said in sura ashShr that nothing is like
unto Him (laysa kamithliH shay ). It is this verse and others, by which Muslims
understand all difficult (mutashbihah) verses which Wahhabis use to attribute a body
and location in space to our Lord.

We have been assured by several ex-Nazimites that Nazim also claims the universe to be
eternal, without beginning. Another case of kufr supported by Ibn Taymiyyah, and before
him, by philosophers.

Neither in Sufi circles, nor outside them, is it accepted that ones soul can come in
contact with Allh. Many among the ignorant are convinced that they can meet Allh
face to face, although God has no face
151
. In Paradise believers will see our Lord who is
nowhere. We do not question Him on that but trust it completely to happen.

AlQushayriyy reported that Imm Ab Bakr Muhammad ibn alHasan ibn Frak
(rahimahu-llhu ta^l) said: I heard Muhammad ibn alMahbb, the servant of Ab
^Uthmn alMaghribiyy saying: Ab ^Uthmn alMaghribiyy told me one day: O

150
Page 58 of The Naqshbandi Sufi Way.
151
The word wajh whose basic meaning is face has many other meanings. The Salaf, as the Khalaf,
explained the different use of it in the holy Qurn, when it refers to Allh. This is a major source of
contention between Wahhbis and Ahlu sSunnah.
74
Muhammad! If someone asked you: where is the one you worship
152
? what would you
answer?. He replied: I would say: As He has always been. So (Ab ^Uthmn
alMaghribiyy) added, if they said: Where has He always been?, what would you say
then?, he answered: I would say: As He is now, that is to say that He is as He was
when there was no space and He is now as He was, so he was pleased with my
answer, removed his shirt and gave it to me.
153
This is how real Sufis speak and they
speak as they believe.



42
THEIR SETTING ANALOGIES AND RESEMBLANCE
BETWEEN MAN AND ALLH TA^L


Allh said what means: and there is none like Him (alIkhls).


Their belief that man is in the image of God:


When Junayd (radiya-llhu ^anh) was asked about tawhd he said it is to reject the belief
He might have opponents, equals or anything comparable, without making analogies,
looking for modalities, visualising (taswr: picturing) or believing in similarities
154


Nazim said: But most people dont even know about these Mercy, Beauty, Wisdom and
Power Oceans, as these Oceans are well hidden inside their own beings. And the Sons of
Adam have Will Oceans also, and whoever discovers those Oceans says to a thing
be, and it is.
155
.

He said too: What is the great secret within man that he must discover to attain this
rank? It is to understand that you are a manifestation of one of our Lords endless
Divine Attributes. Each person manifests a distinct attribute, no matter how many
billions of people appear and disappear from this earth, each one manifests a unique
aspect of the Divine Reality. Each Divine Attribute is distinct, and when fully unveiled,
equally divine.
156
Allh has no aspects.


152
The question Ayna ma^bduk ? uses the word ayn which means where but is also used to
enquire about the status of something, so the learned Muslim would mean what is
the status of the one you worship, in your belief, where as the anthropomorphist would understand it as a
question about location.
153
The Rislah of Imm alQushayriyy, chapter concerning the beliefs of Sufis and matters about the
fundamentals of religion.
154
The Rislah of Imm alQushayriyy, chapter concerning the beliefs of Sufis and matters about the
fundamentals of religion.
155
Mercy Oceans: Endless Horizons page 3.
156
From Mercy Oceans Rising Sun, page 21.
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He said: Our Grandsheykh was speaking about Awliya: Who are saints? They have
attributes of Allah almighty
157
.

He said: First the sheikh will try the mureed for his trustworthiness, then the prophet
will try his Ummah, and then Allah will try His servants. If the sheykh is finding him
trustworthy, he gives him from his treasures. If the Prophet finds him trustworthy, he
gives him from his treasures. If Allah finds him trustworthy, He gives him from His
divine Attribute and Powers, so that if that servant says for something to be, it is
158
.

He said: We have respect for everyone, because every person is the representative of his
Lords Divine Name which is private (to him) ... (when) we view all people (in this way),
we shall take wisdom from everyone, in order to find a way to Divine Knowledge. This is
important. In this verse, Allah almighty is speaking to all people; O People! (Each of)
you must look at everyone as being magnificent in himself. You must see your Lords
glory in everyone.
159
.

In Haqiqat ul-Haqqani
160
it is said: Grandsheikh Abdullah Daghistani (Qad) ordered
Mowlana Sheikh Nazim to do about 10 to 12 seclusions (Khalwats) in a lot of places.
When Mowlana completed these seclusions, his physical body became annihilated and
his body became a divine body which is related to Allah Almighty. Any clever pagan
could have written this.

Page 19 of the same book, it is said: Mowlana Abdulla Daghistani (Qad) once said that
he had dressed Mowlana Sheikh Nazim with the Ninety Nine Beautiful Names of
Allah Almighty, including also the Ismul Alam, the Greatest Name of Allah
Almighty. Here there is a typing mistake, they probably meant A^zam instead of
a^lam. It does not change the fact that according to them he is dressed with the name
Allh. Since they have publicly disowned this book, let us see if the evidence that
follows confirms our accusation as well as what we gave before.

Nazims successor, Hisham Kabbani, joined his master when he wrote: God is going to
dress his saints, and to dress the Prophet (s) from His attributes and from His lights
in order to take everyone from miseries and sins to the highest levels in the hereafter
161
.
The same author falsely attributes similar words to Ysuf alHamadniyy
162
.

Page 98 of The Naqshbandi Sufi Way, H. Kabbani claims that Bayzid said: I divorced
the lowerworld three times in order that I would not have to return to it and I moved to
my Lord alone... This opened to me a vision that I was no longer in existence and I
vanished completely from myself into Him. He brought up all that I had divorced before
in front of me, dressed me with light and with His attributes. Page 271 of the same

157
From Mercy Oceans, page 53.
158
From Mercy Oceans book one, page 53.
159
Extracted from The Qurn for the twentieth century man, probably page 37 (the number is not very
clear on my photocopy).
160
Page 17.
161
Page 23 of Mercy Oceans Secrets of the Heart.
162
Page 116 of The Naqshbandi Sufi Way.
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book, he claims that ^Abdullh adDihlawiyy said: The Divine Mind is the mind which
knows its way to its goal without a mediator...

I expected them to try and justify this belief by using the hadth in which it is said that
Allh created dam (^alayhi ssalm) according to his image; that is to say: according to the
image God always knew of the first man, even before his creation. Allh has no image
that anything could resemble, human or not. Indeed Mr H. Kabbani could not resist the
temptation, so he wrote in one of his many stories:
'We angels have been created out of divine light, and we have been greatly
honored! Yet we both admire and pity you, human beings, because you have been
created in God's image. Haven't you heard the saying of the Prophet: 'God created
Adam after his likeness'? We understand this to mean that human beings have
been elevated to a rank where He honored them by allowing them to reflect
His image. This honor has raised human beings to a very high level. That is why
God said in the Holy Koran: 'Verily We have honored human beings, and We
have carried them over the earth and over the sea' (17:70). These two bodies,
earth and the ocean, here represent the external knowledge and the internal."
163

This belief is of pagan philosophical origin, accepted by Jews and introduced by them in
their book of Genesis, then taken on by Christians when they developed the concept of
trinity. Notice the capital H used for His. I have seen others translating this hadth,
using also a capital H for His, trying to induce in the inexperienced reader the belief
that Allh has an image manifested by man.

They were also heard interpreting a famous hadth reported by alBukhriyy in this way:
... and the servant does not stop coming closer to me through nawfil until I love him,
and when I love him, I become his hearing through which he hears, his sight through
which he sees, his hand with which he touches, his foot with which he walks... This
simply means that the saint described here performs all his actions in conformity with
Allhs commandments, acting in complete harmony with Qurn and Sunnah and with
his real nature (fitrah).

AlKalbdhiyy
164
said: Sufis state together that He is not a body, a ghost, an image
(srah), etc.

One must not be misled by the fact that we use words and expressions, both for creatures
and for the Creator. Our languages are unable to produce words which would speak
perfectly of the divine reality. The words Allh chooses to speak about Himself, such as
His names, have to be detached from meanings related to the created world. We know for
example that Allh sees everything, but his sight has nothing to do with ours, it has none
of its limitations. He sees without any organ or instruments.

Their belief that God is like His creatures:

163
From the book Angels Unveiled , M. H. Kabbani. This particular excerpt was downloaded from
www.naqshbandi.org/library/angels/angels1 in the Rab^u lAwwal 1424 (May 2003).
164
In his reference book: atTa^arruf liMadhhabi Ahli tTasawwuf, in the chapter concerning the Sufi
position on Tawhd.
77

...Laysa kamithliH shay...
which means: ...Nothing is like unto Him...
(ashShr 42:11)

They said: Maulana continued, there is a hadith saying that there is a Paradise where
there is no garden, no palaces; only Allahs face smiling on the inhabitants. He who asks
not for Paradise but only to look on Allahs Divine Face, will be always in that endless
beauty, in the Divine Presence. He who looks upon the face of the Lord will forget all
else. Clear?
165
.

They said: Our Grandshaykh says, If a man is not aware that Allahs eyes are with him
everywhere, all time, that man is not a mumin (believer), You must imagine in your
heart, that Allahs eyes are with you.
166


They said: We believe there is a face of Allah Almighty, says our Grandshaykh, but
a description of His Face is not imagination. You may imagine one face, and he, another,
and so on. If yours is right, what about ours? We cannot describe all the attributes of
Allah Almighty, we just know that He has them..
167
. This is one of the rare times when
Nazim tries and avoid anthropomorphism, but he had to use the word face, even though
it is quite unable to express the various meanings covered by wajh says in the Qurn.
When we translate religious Arabic in any language, we insure the words can express the
meanings contained in the original text. When talking about Allh, it is an essential rule
which makes sure people will not be lead to believe God has a body.

In Haqiqat ul-Haqqani, page 15, it is said: This Divine secret of Allah Almighty which
was given to the heart of the Holy Prophet (Sal) and transmitted from heart to heart from
one Siddiq to another is the Divine secret and Divine Breath which Allah Almighty blew
into Adam (Alai).
168
H. Kabbani reports that Nazim said
169
: In the Judgement Day. God
is going to read Surat al-Anam by Himself--at that time, all human beings, even saints,
and even the Prophet (s), are going to fall unconscious from the sweetness of hearing
Gods voice.

Subhna-llhi ^amm yasifn! Allh has no voice! Not any more than a breath! His
kalm is not made of sounds, letters, it is not a language, otherwise it would be created.
Whoever has created characteristics is a creature. Imam Ab Hanfah (radiya-llhu ^anh)
said: We talk with organs, from points in the mouth and with letters, but Allh ta^l
speaks without any organ or letter.


165
From Mercy Oceans: The Teachings of Maulana Abdullah al-Faizi ad-Daghestani, page 123.
166
From Mercy Oceans: The Teachings of Maulana Abdullh al-Faizi ad-Daghestani, page 7.
167
From Mercy Oceans: The Teachings of Maulana Abdullh al-Faizi ad-Daghestani, page 11.
168
You might notice here again their use of Sal or Alai instead of the prayer which is sunnah. This
bid^ah is widely encouraged by Wahhabis and so-called modernists who have not time for that. Maybe do
they find that word processing on a computer , copying and pasting, makes it too hard and that it was really
easy for our predecessors who wrote each du^ with their own hands.
169
In his book Mercy Oceans Secrets of the Heart, page 38.
78
Page 16 of the same book, it is said: In a moment Mowlana is able not only to make an
unbeliever to believe but also ... to make him always be in the light of Allah Almighty to
sit in front of Allah Almighty... Here, as in most instances, where the words or the
contexts are very ambiguous, one wonders whether they speak of the light created by
Allh, or whether they believe that Allh is light. They would then wrongly interpret the
divine name Nr. It was clearly explained by scholars like alBayhaqiyy as The One
who guides human beings and jinns. An aforementioned text showed that they do
believe Allh to be literally light.

Some of them actually believe that Allh takes shapes to come into this world. An
example of that was given by Mustaf al^Allyli in Lebanon: he said that once God took
the shape of a man dressed with torn clothes and something dirty coming out of his nose
over his mouth, that He went there to Ms (^alayhi ssalm) who rejected him. Then he
carried on saying that when this prophet asked to see his Lord, he was told: I came to
you and you rejected me. This could also have been classified in the next chapter,
concerning the idea of incarnation (hull) and as often it is the distortion of the meaning
of some hadths.

Page 400 of The Naqshbandi Sufi Way, H. Kabbani wrote that Nazim said, describing a
so-called spiritual experience: God, Almighty and Exalted, descended on His Throne
and judged people.

All those unacceptable expressions are those which caused the rejection of Wahhabism
by the Muslim Community. The source of their problem is that basically, and contrary to
what they claim on some occasions, they do believe it possible to imagine Allh.
Otherwise, why would Nazim say: A seeker should be someone who has left himself
and connected his heart with the Divine Presence. He stands in His Presence performing
his obligations while visualizing the Divine with his heart.
170
.
If Nazim and his team had anything to do with Sufism, they would stick with their hearts
and their tongues, in private as in front of any public, to the attitude expressed by Ab
^Aliyy arRdhbriyy: Tawhd is righteousness of the heart, by staying away from denial
of any divine attribute and rejecting any comparison. In short, tawhd is (to believe) that
Allh subhnaH is different from anything your delusions may picture/visualise because
He ta^l said (what means): Nothing is like unto Him and He is the One who hears
everything, the One who see everything
171
.


43
THEIR BELIEF IN HULL
OR DIVINE INCARNATION



170
Found on http://www.naqshbandi.org/chain/40.htm on the 9th of Rab^u lAwwal 1424. Or page 404 of
The Naqshbandi Sufi Way, part II, chapter 40, by M. H. Kabbani (1995).
171
The Rislah of Imm alQushayriyy, chapter concerning the beliefs of Sufis and matters about the
fundamentals of religion.
79
Nazim said: Therefore, you must respect everyone in existence, as, in reality, that
respect is the respect for your Lord within him
172
. Clearly they do not apply that
principle to Muslims who expose or oppose them; otherwise they would not be using
threats and violence.

He said: Originally all worshipping is only to make you absent from yourself and
present in the Divine Presence. As much as you are with yourself, no real unity.
173
. The
idea of being with God, one with Him, to really become part of Him, is one of the ideas
which took people away from the path of ^s (^alayhi ssalm).

Some of Nazims followers who are enthusiastic readers of forged book attributed to
Muhyiddn ibn al^Arabiyy and badly translated, should meditate over these words of the
great saint in his book AlFutht alMakkiyyah, in the chapter of the secrets: Whoever
believes in hull is mistaken and nobody proclaims it possible to be united to Allh,
without being an apostate. The text is related by ^AbdulWahhb ashSha^rniyy in his
book AlYawqt walJawhir f ^Awqidi lakbir, from an authentic version of Ibn
al^Arabiyys work which he found at the house of Sheikh Ab Thir alMaghribiyy, in
Makkah.

Nazim said: Do you think that, when Allah ordered the angels to prostrate before Adam,
he was ordering them to prostrate to (any) other than Himself ? So all the angels, seeing
the Divine Appearance in Adam, prostrated (themselves).
174
.

In al-Wasiyyah, adDaghestani said: The one who will receive those keys is the one
who will look after the good manners according to their importance and the awrd, who
will do the dhikr once every twenty four hours. He will win the position of Ab Yazd
alBistmiyy who said: I am the Truth too. Allh forbid! Never did alBistmiyy say
that in this way! What is known among Sunnis is that, seized by ecstasy while reading the
Qurn, this saint carried on repeating the passage where Allh states His own divinity.
Since then this incident has been used by fake Sufis to try and justify their belief in divine
incarnation, although nothing in the teaching of this master allows them to do so.


44
THEIR BELIEF IN WAHDATU LWUJD


Allh said what means: and they claim that His servants are part of Him, indeed man is
an avowed ingrate (azZukhruf 43:15).


Their endorsement of alHallj:


172
From Mercy Oceans Rising Sun, page 21.
173
Mercy Oceans, book one, page 204.
174
From The Qurn for the twentieth century man, page 37 seemingly.
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Mr. Bashir of Birmingham confirmed that they considered alHallj a saint. AlHallj was
a disciple of Junayd (qaddasa-llhu sirrah), one of the greatest Sufi masters. Unfortunately
his attitude pushed him to misinterpret his experiences and he claimed to be God, saying:
I am alHaqq. Junayd (rahimahu-llh) then told him: You have opened in Islam a gap
which only your head will fill. Nine years later alHallj was executed for apostasy, as
predicted by his sheikh, in spite of the support he had in some high-ranking political
circles. Fake Sufis have since revered this apostate and look for tortuous or imaginary
explanations for the fact that his own guide rejected him. Sufis were part of the panel
who imposed capital punishment on him and Ahmad asSirhindiyy explained in detail the
tragic error that man.

Ahmad arRif^iyy (radiya-llhu ^anh) said about AlHallj: If had been truthful, he
would not have said I am the Truth (alHaqq).

The Islamic position concerning wahdatu lwujd:

In conversations with Nazimites it appeared that they consider wahdatu lwujd
175
as part
of the Sufi belief. We tried to convey to them that there is no difference whatsoever
between Sufi and Sunni belief, that Sufism only exists in total conformity with Sunnism
and that wahdatu lwujd has pagan Hindu and philosophical origins which contradict
Qurn, Sunnah and ijm^.
Sheikh Muhammad alHmid (May Allh have mercy on his soul) wrote a whole chapter
entitled: Refutation of those who profess wahdatu lwujd, which he explains as
believing that this universe, with its animated and non-animated beings, is divine
altogether, and that God is its soul (rh). This is absolutely kufr, for it is an incarnation
(hull) which believers reject and declare kufr. As for the poetry and prose which I found
about incarnation, there is plenty of it. There is a sentence attributed to the author of
alInsnu lKmil which says that Christians did kufr only because they reduced the
extent of divinity to Christ and his mother (peace be upon them), and that it is because of
this restriction that they committed kufr, and that they left the Unitarian movement which
believes that divinity extends to everything. This statement, whatever interpretation I
could give to it, was undoubtedly forged against him. What pseudo Sufis say about
Christians implies that they went out of Islam when they started adopting the theology of
Paul of Tarsus instead of Neoplatonic philosophy: that does not make sense.

There is no difference on this point among Sunnis. The belief which Allh ordered
Muhammad (^alayhi ssaltu wassalm) to spread all over the world came to correct all
existing religions. It is because philosophers and Hindus saw danger in it for their ideas
that they fought Islam, both from the outside and the inside. Let us mention a typical
fatw on this topic, given by one of the greatest scholars: In the book ^Uqdu lAls
bimanqibi lImmi lrifi lHabb Ahmadu bnu Hasan al^Atts, you will find that
Sheikh Zayn Dahln, mufti of the Shfi^i masters in Makkah said: Sheikh Ahmad
arRamliyy was questioned about the person who professes wahdatu lwujd, so he
declared that this apostate should be killed and his body thrown to the dogs, for this belief

175
Translated as oneness of being, unity of existence, etc. Sometimes it is pantheism, other times it is
monism, plus a few other variations.
81
does not allow any safe interpretation, and its kufr is worse than the kufr of Jews and
Christians (this sentence is applied in countries where Islamic Law rules). It is reported
that when Sheikh ibn Hajar learned about this fatw, he was very pleased.

The Nazimite endorsement of pantheism:

Page 132 of The Naqshbandi Sufi Way, Hisham Kabbani started a subchapter on dhikr
and wrote: The seeker who has denied all that exists in this world with the words la
ilaha, affirms with the words ill-Allh that all that exists has been annihilated in the
Divine Presence. This interpretation is very frequent among pseudo Sufis but it is in no
way justified by the text or tradition. The phrase l ilha illa-llh (there is no god but
Allh), must never be interrupted purposely after the word ilha
176
because on their
own, the first two words mean that there is no god, which is a statement contradicting
Islam, taking into kufr whoever says it on purpose, while knowing their meaning. Those
two words do not mean that creatures do not exist, they only say, when joined with the
rest of the sentence, that divinity belongs to Allh only.

Page 227 of the same book, Hisham claims that Muhammad Khwaja alAmkanaki said
about the seeker: He must be free of any doubt regarding the manifestation of the One
who is always Present, and must know that nothing exists except God, Almighty and
Exalted.

This is one more point Nazim and his team have with their fellow western esoteric orders.
Ralph M. Lewis, ex-imperator of the A.M.O.R.C. Rosicrucian order, one of the most
important organisations of this kind in the world, said: The true mystical person,
consequently, is categorically pantheistic. This is to say that for him, God is in all, is
everywhere
177
. This man also said: Since the Divine Spirit is eternal, whatever is part
of His nature, or the substances which have their source in Him, physical reality for
instance, are also eternal
178
.

Hisham Kabbani claims that ^Ubaydullh al'Ahrr explained yah 29 of the 55th sura by
saying, among other things
179
: the second meaning of the verse is that the spiritual
traveller finds in himself, in every moment and in every minuscule particle of time, a
trace of the Unique Essence of God, which cannot be found outside the state of
annihilation in the vision of the One. From one fractional moment to another, he will
visualize the parts of the states of the Unique Essence and understand the
connectedness of everything in the Divine Unity... This shows the experiences of these
people do not come from God: they are deceived by the same demons they think they
control. Such words seem to have been literally traced from some western esoteric books,
such as the Rosicrucians'.


176
Meaning god, in the nasb case.
177
I translated the excerpt from Le Sanctuaire Intrieur, edited in French in 1980, by Editions
Rosicruciennes.
178
Page 32 of the same book.
179
Page 207 of The Naqshbandi Sufi Way.
82
In the same book
180
, Mr Kabbani claims that Sheikh Muhammad Bahuddn Shh
Naqshband (rahimahu-llh) said: Did you not hear what Hallaj said? I rejected the
religion of God, and rejection is obligatory on me even though that is hideous to
Muslims. ... What is important is real faith, and real faith for the People of the Truth is
to make the heart deny anything and everything other than God. That is what made Hallaj
say, I denied your religion and denial is obligatory on me, although that is hideous to the
Muslims. His heart wanted nothing except God.
Hallaj, of course, was not denying his faith in Islam, but was emphasizing the
attachment of his heart to God alone...

The truth is alHallj went hastily into what he was not ready for and came back deluded
about reality. Sheikh Ahmad asSirhindiyy (rahimahu-llh) demonstrated very clearly his
tragic error. Those whose heart love God only follow the path He has made for them:
they listen to the guide who takes them into the tarqah, firmly imbedded in Shar^ah.
This quotation, falsely attributed to Shh Naqshband, shows to what length pseudo Sufis
will go in order to justify their rejection or neglect of Islamic Law. Allh ta^l and His
Messenger (salla-llhu ^alayhi wasallam) taught us that the more one loves God, the more one
sticks to His Shar^ah. As for these people, they tell us that those who love the Lord
most, disobey Him most.

The world has two kinds of people bearing the name of Sufis: some follow Shar^ah in all
circumstances and never contradict it, in appearance or otherwise. Others claim to have
gone beyond it and left it. There is a third category of hypocrites who claim to follow
orthodoxy but actually work to destroy it. Make your choice, for this life is the time of
choice! By Allh! The closer a person gets to spiritual heights, the more attached they get
to Islam and its laws. Islam is the path which matches exactly the original nature of man
(fitrah) so whoever purifies himself from the deceptions of this world and the sins they
generate, will find his joy and contentment in Law.


45
THEIR JUSTIFICATION
OF WHAT CONTRADICTS REVELATION


Ahmad and atTirmidhiyy in his Jmi^ transmitted through Ibn ^Abbs that the Prophet
(salla-llhu ^alayhi wasallam) said what means: Fear to talk about me, except what you
(really) know, for whoever lies about me intentionally, let him take his place in the Fire,
and whoever talks about the Qurn without knowledge, let him take his place in the
Fire (atTirmidhiyy classified this tradition as hasan).


Hisham Kabbani wrote
181
: Grandsheikh said, I am speaking from that Ocean of
Knowledge that is going to be opened when the Mehdi (s) is coming. The extent of the

180
Page 177.
181
Page 24 of Mercy Oceans Secrets of the Heart.
83
knowledge that I am opening up is like light that would be coming through the hole of a
needle. If Mawlana is speaking as if from the hole of a needle, then what is going to
come is something concerning which you are going to be mad. This is the explanation
of Sayyidna Abu Hurayrahs affirmation in hadith: Here he mentions the hadth we
explain in the next paragraph, and carries on saying: What Grandsheikh says is of the
second knowledge--something extraordinary which is going to be spread in Mehdis (s)
time. This kind of discourse is meant to prepare murds to the outrageous statements
they are bound to encounter if they stay with them.

The hadth he mentions was transmitted by alBukhriyy in the chapter concerning
knowledge in which Ab Hurayrah (radiya-llhu ^anh) is reported to have said: I have
learned from the Messenger of Allh (salla-llhu ^alayhi wasallam) two kinds of things, one
that I spread, and another one, if I spread it (openly), this throat of mine would be slit.
The blessed companion referred here to the hadths which condemned all those who
rebelled against our master ^Aliyy. Some of them having many supporters and agents,
spreading them indiscriminately could have led to assassination at the hands of the guilty
party. This is the explanation given by the famous commentators of alBukhriyys Sahh,
al^Asqalniyy and alQastalniyy, may Allh have mercy on them.

Pseudo Sufis such as Nazim and H. Kabbani want to see in this tradition evidence that the
Holy Prophet (^alayhi ssaltu wassalm) gave a secret (btin) teaching to some of his
sahbah, which would be so different from the official (zhir) doctrine, that if revealed to
the common and scholars, it would lead to official excommunication and execution. This
is the traditional argument of fake Sufi orders. It has been used to try and justify very
different doctrines which often contradict and exclude each other.

The theme of a secret spiritual teaching given out to some sahbah only is extremely
dangerous. How shall we know who has this alleged knowledge? If it is said: We know
because it has been conveyed to us through an uninterrupted line of sheikhs going back to
the Prophet himself, we shall answer: You are not the only ones to have this claim, yet
the others disagree with you on points which they consider to be part of that teaching.
The only way to check whether you are the true inheritors of the Messenger of Allh
(salla-llhu ^alayhi wasallam) is by judging it through what is known from the Qurn and
Sunnah.

If it is said: We know we are the true inheritors of the secret spiritual teaching because
of the very high spirituality we experienced through the teaching of our masters, we
shall answer: We hear Jews, Christians, Buddhists and Hindus relating the same type of
experience. So do sects which have left Islam like Agha Khanis, Bahais and Qadyanis.
Yet we know that only Muslims will be saved, and from seventy three sects evolved from
our Community, only one will find salvation.

They are very insistent about this tradition which they exploit out of context. Inside one
of H. Kabbanis long and dubious quotations from Sufis, you will find the meaning of the
same hadth. It is said
182
: This is the meaning of the tradition of the Prophet (salla-llhu

182
In The Naqshbandi Sufi Way, page 237.
84
^alayhi wasallam), in Bukhari, narrated by Abu Hurayra (ra), The prophet (salla-llhu ^alayhi
wasallam) poured into my heart two kinds of knowledge, one of which I have revealed and
another which if I were to reveal they would cut my throat . When they do not mention
the text itself, what they say alludes to it, as these words of ad-Daghestani
183
: If I speak
what has been put into my heart of Divine Knowledge, even saints will cut my throat.
How deceitful these people are!

They also use the story of the encounter between Ms and alKhidr (^alayhima ssalm) to
justify their sheikhs violations of Shar^ah, such as his letting stranger women kiss his
bare hand or shake it. They say that, just as alKhidr did things which violated the law of
Ms, but is still considered to be at least a saint, so do awliy act in ways which are
bound to be condemned by the Law of Muhammad (salla-llhu ^alayhi wasallam) , but which
can be understood by their very high spiritual level, where they have knowledge of the
hidden truths. The truth is clearly this: the higher the spiritual level, the stricter the
adherence to Shar^ah. Kashf or ilhm are not accepted as religious evidence by true
Sufis. One judges the value of ones experiences by their conformity to revelation.

Remember this major point: if the pseudo Sufis interpretation was correct, it could lead
anywhere. Because anyone could then come up with strange beliefs and practices and
claim that they are part of the secret heritage of the Prophet (salla-llhu ^alayhi wasallam),
which is exactly what Nazimites and their peers do.


ODDNESS IN FIQH & OTHER PECULARITIES


Their followers would not put up with what we mention underneath, if they were taught
any real Sufism and they would have been exposed much earlier if they were not so
careful to adapt to their audience.


46
THEIR ATTITUDE TOWARDS WAHHABISM


Nazimites pose as strong opponents of Wahhabism. They are quite proud of the
discussions and debates they claim to have regularly with those dangerous people. They
often introduce themselves as the best champions of Sufism against Wahhabi doctrine.
Hisham Kabbani even wrote several books more or else directed against them. Attacking
a fellow heretical movement will not be enough to prove themselves right, not any more
than the vigorous attacks of Wahhabis against Shiites justify their own bid^ahs. It is just a
ploy to attract sympathy by fighting a known evil.


183
Reported page 350 of the same book.
85
In England, the self-proclaimed Salafis and Nazimites seem to find useful to publicise
their dispute as much as possible. H. Kabbani who is at the head of the campaign does
hope to be seen as the champion of Sunnism whereas Wahhabi writers pretend to believe
that Nazimites are real Naqshbandis, blaming this noble order for all the inventions of the
impostors. One side is as dishonest as the other, and they both hope to find more gullible
followers through the argument.

Wahhabism is a ferocious and primitive doctrine which owes its name to a person called
Muhammad ibn ^AbdilWahhb. He revived and made worse the ideas of a man who
lived centuries before him: Ibn Taymiyyah, and of some of his disciples like Ibn
alQayyim. Their nickname Wahhabi sounding so sectarian, they hide nowadays mainly
under the names of Salafis or Ahl-e-Hadith and receive huge financial help from
Saudi Arabia and some other quarters. We do not intend to expose their ideas here for it
has already been very well done by more knowledgeable than myself.

What is really surprising is that Hisham Kabbani has come up with a strange theory
according to which Ibn Taymiyyah, Ibn alQayyim and ibn ^AbdilWahhb never
promoted the famous ideas of the wahhabi doctrine. He claims that they were not
declared enemies of Sufism; Ibn Taymiyyah is even alleged to have become a member of
the Qdiri tarqah. He says that they did not deny tawassul (using the intercession or
prophets or saints) and did not condemn the commemoration of the Prophets birth (salla-
llhu ^alayhi wasallam). These are only some of his points.

Unfortunately it is very hard to believe, although we wish it were true. Wahhabis are
bound to be the first ones to find this strange. Sunnis are likely to be more than hesitant
about those so-called revelations. There is much evidence from reliable witnesses at the
time, from people who knew or met them and from books they propagated, that those
men sadly did believe in what they were blamed for. They did their best to convince
others, with all the dramatic consequences it has had on the unity of the Ummah and the
safety of its members. Sunni scholars who did not excommunicate these heretics are
those who were not informed of all their publications and fatwas and did not find
evidence available to them.

We found this new theory in a book written by Hisham Kabbani, with the title:
Innovation and True Belief: the Celebration of Mawlid... and in pages of the magazine
an-Naseeha
184
, of the same author. The chances of their references being authentic are
very little. Somebody would have come up with them earlier if they were reliable.


47
THEIR IDEA OF RESPONSIBILITY


Allh ta^l said what means: Say: You will not be questioned about our sins, nor
shall we be questioned about what you do (Saba 34:25).

184
Number 5, Ramadan 1415.
86


Women not responsible?

Nazim said: Now in our time, women are making themselves up, going out in the
streets, everywhere. Even they are following the funeral procession to the cemetery,
wearing their ornaments. Our Grandsheikh says: Allah is not going to ask them
anything about their doings. He is going to ask their husbands, fathers and brothers.
185
.

Further down, in the same page of this book he said: This is clear. The responsibility
for women is on men. Our Prophet says: All of you are shepherds with the
responsibility for their flocks.. What an inventive interpretation!

It was also reported by youngsters arguing with followers of Nazim al-Qubrusi that the
latter had heard him justify his letting female disciples kiss his naked hand by the
argument that it wasnt his responsibility to prevent them from doing so, that it was their
husbands responsibility. As for the Messenger of Allh (salla-llhu ^alayhi wasallam), he
said what means: It is better for one of you to be pierced with an iron needle than to
touch a woman he has no right on. This hadth was transmitted by atTabariyy and is
supported by a multitude of similar traditions forbidding any direct contact such as skin
against skin, between stranger (ajnabiyy) men and women.

Dr Gabriel Fouad Haddad did try to prove Nazim innocent of this nonsense. When he
says: Prayers are not obligatory on the wives; do not pray, Mr Haddad writes:
First of All, the Shaykh was talking to new Muslims at a specific time and place
to a particular situation and certainn people, all who are none Arabic speakers.
They have never prayed or made a single Sajda for Allah for the first 13 years
in Mecca. Salat was not even prescribed. And even after the Salat was prescribed,
when the Prophet(s) used to send messangers to other communities, he used to tell
them to use step by step approach as mentioned in the Sahih
What Shaykh Nazim was saying five Sajda a day to start, he did not say in all
his book
"Prayers are not obligatory on the wives; Do not pray." As you have mis-quoted.
By the way, an average student of Shaykh Nazim al-Haqqani prays an average of
70 Rak`a a day nafl, voluntarily prayers.
If someone already prays 5 times a day and you tell them 5 sajda is enough, we all
agree that this is Haram and Kufr, but for someone who never prayed or never
made a Sajda in his entire life, 5 sajda with Wudu to start this is a giant step in
the right direction on the straight path.
However, let us all remember that there is something essential before Salat, and
before any other form of `ibada, and that is the foundation for everything. This is
the Niyat- the intention- The purity of intention is required before our salat or

185
Mercy Oceans, Book One, page 52.
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Zakat or Siyam or any other deed, the niya is what determines if the action is
accepted or not. (hadith innama al `amalu bil niyat- Deeds are by intentions)
186

The refutation carries on like this. Does that solve the problem of women told not to
pray? What on earth is this 5 sajda business? Which prayer is made of 5 sajda? What
do 70 Raka a day have to do with Nazims obvious belief that women are not
responsible beings? This text is worse than what it tries to defend and has very little to
do with fiqh.

What about the innocent?

In a conference given in Basel, Switzerland, on 18.7.85, Nazim said: Dont ever think
that anything comes without a reason. No! There must be a reason. The army destroyed
everything of King Feisal in Iraq in just one night. Some of the people even got tied
behind cars and were dragged along the streets. And other people were looking. All those
who said that it was alright, must be killed, or their children must be killed, or anyone
of their relatives must be killed. For the cause of one man a billion people can be
killed
187
.

They actually believe that one can be punished for somebody elses sins. The last extract
is worrying: it gives a frightening idea of what they could do one day if they were given
power. In sharp contrast with this, let us remember what the angels said to Ibrhm on
their way to destroy the city of Lt (^alayhima ssalm). They said what means: We have
been sent against a criminal people to throw on them stones of clay, marked by our Lord
for those who have exaggerated, and we have taken out of it the believers that were
there (adhDhriyt 51:32-35).


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MUSIC


AlBukhriyy transmitted from Ab Mlik alAsh^ariyy that he heard the Prophet (salla-
llhu ^alayhi wasallam) say what means: There will be people from my Community who
will consider lawful fornication, men wearing silk, taking intoxicating substances and
using musical instruments.


This hadth is a general statement against musical instruments of which only daff -
tambourine), one kind of tabl (the round drum with straight walls, which is a simple
extension of the daff) and human voice have been exempted.

After learning how shaking hands or having them kissed by women is such a common
public practice among their leaders, I discovered through a report on the British Channel

186
Still to be found on http://naqshbandi.org/topics/refute/aicp/aicp10.htm in Rab^u lAwwal 1424 (May
2003).
187
The secrets behind the secrets behind the secrets page 137.
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4 in 1996 that they used a type of old oriental guitar or lute (I am not an expert so I have
difficulties making the distinction) for some dhikr sessions. I was looking for some
written evidence that would prove they allow the use of prohibited musical instruments.
This came when the book of Hisham Kabbani, The Naqshbandi Sufi Way was passed
on to me.

Page 251 of this book, Kabbani wrote about Muhammad Sayfuddn: One day he heard
from his neighbor's house the sound of the ney (bamboo flute). He was so enchanted by
the sound of it that he fainted. When he came to he said, "Do you think that I am empty
of compassion and emotion? No, those who listen to the ney and feel no compassion and
emotion are empty. There is no way a real Sufi would allow himself to get pleasure from
a sin. Once more we have a strange story the author comes up with, to support their own
devious practices.

Compare their text with the tradition of the Messenger of Allh (^alayhi ssaltu wassalm),
when he said what means: I did not forbid to weep per se, but I forbade two foolish and
sinfully shameless voices: one, the voice singing with musical instruments and the flutes
of shaytn; the other...
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.

Later on, page 296 of the same book, H. Kabbani confirms their attraction for this
unlawful pleasure by attributing to Khas Muhammad Shirwani these words: What
causes the heart to feel happiness and peace when it hears a beautiful sound? It is a
consequence of Allah's having spoken to the spirits when they were atoms in His
Presence and having asked them, 'Am I not Your Lord?' The sweetness of His Speech
became imprinted on them. Thus in this world, whenever the heart hears anything of
Dhikr or music, it experiences happiness and peace, because these are a reflection of that
sweetness
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.

For this we advise: learn to receive happiness and peace through lawful means and for
elevated purposes. One does not come close to Allh by disobeying Him, and certainly
not by falsifying His Law. Let the inexperienced reader know that the use of prohibited
musical instruments is one of the signs by which the seeker recognises pseudo Sufis.


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MEAT


In Mercy Oceans. The Teachings of Maulana Abdullah al-Faizi ad-Daghestani a murid
asked
190
: When we are eating meat, how can we know if it is Halal? Nazim answered
this: ...If you are in doubt as to whether meat (assuming that it isnt pork) is halal or not,
you may say , three times, shahada, and, seventy times, astaghfirullah. Then, as you

188
Transmitted by alHkim in alMustadrak, vol 4, and classified as hasan.
189
http://www.naqshbandi.org/chain/33.htm, at least until Rab^u lAwwal 1424 (May 2003).
190
Pages 98 and 99.
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eat, you say, Bismillah Allah almighty will make that food clean for you, in the time it
takes for you to raise it from your plate and put it in your mouth!


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SHAKING WOMENS HANDS

AlBukhriyy transmitted that our mother ^ishah (radiya-llhu ^anh) said: ... and the
hand of the Messenger of Allh (salla-llhu ^alayhi wasallam) never touched the hand of a
woman who was not his, and the Prophet (^alayhi ssaltu wassalm) said what means: I
do not shake hands with women
191
.

Nazims shaking womens hands and letting them kiss his has continuously been
reported to me by Nazimites or former nazimtes, up to this year 1424. It has been a cause
of embarrassment for some of them while others have come with silly excuses which
showed they had been taught very little fiqh, if any. As usual they also bring in the so-
called spiritual knowledge of the Sufi master which they claim allows Nazim to know the
Shar^ah and even obscure fatwas.

One of the very recent past leaders of the Shdhili Tarqah in Morocco, sheikh
^Abdul^Azz alGummriyy
192
(rahimahu-llh), wrote forty eight pages to denounce people
who dared to allow shaking the hand of stranger
193
(ajnabiyyt) women, under the title:
Vehement Refutation Against Those Who Permit Shaking The Hands Of Women
194
, at
the request of sheikh Muhammad ibn alFtimiyy ibn alHjj asSalamiyy.

Sheikh ^Abdul^Azz alGummriyy wrote: Know, august brother, that shaking the hand
of a stranger woman is harm, no Muslim may commit it. It is an abhorrent sin in our
Shar^ah and it is bad for a believer to commit it. To say otherwise is repugnant and a
fallacy
195


Ibn Hajar alMakkiyy, in his book azZawjir ^an Iqtirfi lKabir counted the touching
of stranger women among the great sins. This is what is correct and the ruling which one
has the duty to apply as far as shaking the hand of a stranger woman is concerned, or
touching her otherwise.
As for a person who would not count the preliminaries of fornication among great sins,
he would be in grave error. He would contradict the reliable texts on this topic, such as
the hadth of Ma^qil ibn Yassr (radiya-llhu ta^l ^anh) who quoted the Prophet (peace
be upon him) saying (what means): It would be better for one of you to stab himself

191
Transmitted also by Ahmad, anNasiyy, Ibn Mjah and atTirmidhiyy and classified as sahh.
192
This is sheikh ^Abdul^Azz ibn Muhammad ibn asSidq alGhummriyy, of the town of Tangiers in
northern Morocco, undisputed scholar in the science of hadth.
193
Stranger (ajnabiyy) refers in fiqh to any person of the other gender one could marry with if there is no
legal impediment at the time. The opposite of a stranger is a mahram, i.e. a person you may not marry with
under any circumstance.
194
In Arabic: Shaddu lWatati ^Al Man Ajza Musfahata lMarah, completed in Muharram 1407 and
printed in Tangiers.
195
Pages 2 and 3.
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with an iron needle rather than touch a woman he is not allowed (to lay his hand on), as
reported by atTabarniyy in his great Mu^jam and alBayhaqiyy in ashShu^ab.
196


Muhammad ibn Nasr asSamarqandiyy (who is one of the imams of tafsr) gave a good
explanation in his book attanbh of Allhs words: wal taqrabu lfawhisha m zahara
minh wam batan
197
, saying: i.e. great sins and this is fornication (zin) and what is
hidden is kissing and touching. All of it is zin, as in the tradition which says that hands
commit zin and eyes commit sin
198


Because of that you will not find any scholar within the schools (madhhib) whose
methods are applied in Islamic land, who would allow touching a stranger woman or
laying ones hands directly on any part of her body, even without lust.
199


Sheikh ^Abdul^Azz alGummriyy gave abundant evidence from hadth in his work and
made it clear that the prohibition was not a ruling applied only to the Prophet (salla-llhu
^alayhi wasallam), but a general rule for all and that touching did mean shaking hands,
among others.

Some Nazimites have come up with a fatwa allowing very old men unable of lust to have
such contacts with stranger women. Let them check; in sha-llh they will find out that
Nazim has been doing this from the very beginning of his religious carreer. Are they now
going to look for a fatwa allowing men in their fifties to indulge in this custom? The next
thing would be to use hadth texts and give them meanings not to be found there. Who is
going to do this one? After all, it has been done before. Followers of Nazim, save
yourselves and return to Qurn and Sunnah.


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OTHER PECULIAR INVENTIONS
OR BID^AHS


Allh said what means: ... and conjecture avails nothing against truth
(anNajm 53:28)

Eight hours worshiping:

In alWasiyyah
200
ad-Daghestani is reported to have said: On this basis Allh ^azza
wajall divided the day in three parts: Eight hours for worship, eight to earn a living and
eight to sleep. Whoever is not satisfied with this division and does not apply it, is
concerned by the hadth which says: whoever goes astray, goes astray forever. So they

196
Pages 8 and 9.
197
Meaning : Do not come close to obscene acts, neither what is apparent, nor what is hidden .
198
Page 9.
199
Page 24.
200
Page 19.
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condemn our brothers who spend much more than eight hours a day working, although
they manage to perform their religious obligations. What is more, they expect everyone
to spend eight actual hours worshipping. Instead of inventing new duties, why not
concentrate on the real obligations of religion?

Compulsory retreat:

In the same book
201
this impostor said: The masters of the Most High Naqshbandi order
say that those who claim to belong to one of the forty sufi orders, or to the Most High
Naqshbandi Order, but have never gone through a retreat, not even once, let them fear to
claim to belong to the sufi orders.

Strange ideas about sainthood:

Nazim said: For every saint on the steps of the Prophet, it is wajib, mandatory to
travel.
202
.

Visiting saints claimed to be wjib:

H. Kabbani claims
203
that ^Aluddn ^Attr said: To visit saints is a Sunnah Wajiba,
a duty on every seeker, at least every day, or every other day, while keeping the limits
and respect between you and your Shaykh. If the distance is great between you and your
Shaykh, visit him at least every one or two months. Don't rely only on your connection
with their heart, lest you become disconnected.

Anger!

Nazim said: If a person dies angry, he will go to Hell
204
. We know what they think of
Hell anyway.

And he called Allh proud:

He said too: If a man is clean in his heart, he is not proud. No one can be proud except
the Lord Almighty. He is Al Mutakabbir.
205
. He does not seem to understand that pride
is a shortcoming. You cannot possibly translate mutakabbir by proud when it refers to
Allh. This name actually means: the One who is too great to have any attribute of the
creatures or to resemble them. Nevertheless this is one of the many instances which
shows their outrageous carelessness, something completely at odds with the attitude of
traditional scholars and Sufis.


201
Page 18 of alWasiyyah.
202
Mercy Oceans, book one, page 170.
203
Page 192 of The Naqshbandi Sufi Way or on http://www.naqshbandi.org/chain/18.htm, at least until
Rab^u lAwwal 1424 (May 2003).
204
Mercy Oceans, book one, page 198.
205
Mercy Oceans, book one, page 185.
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Have they put marriage before tawhd?

Al-Qubrusi also said: In Islam marriage is one of the holiest actions. In reality it is the
first order from Allah almighty to Mankind
206
.

Warning to angry women:

He said: However, continues our Grandshaykh, if a woman receives her husband with
an angry face, Allah will order his angels to shut Paradise, and will order Hell to burn
hotter for her. Because of her anger, all the abundance of this life and the next are made
haram for her. She must quickly turn and make repentance, before it is written in Allahs
book!
207
.

Did he say dragons?

Nazim seems to have a particular belief in dragons inherited from his master, ad-
Daghestani. He alludes to it from time to time. Talking about atheists, he said: they are
like that dragon living in Yemen
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.

No surgery for the murds:

Nazim is known for strongly disapproving of any surgical operation. It is mentioned by
his disciple Zero Thyro Quensel in her book Wings of the Messenger and was
confirmed to us. Nevertheless, it seems that on this he disagreed with his master ad-
Daghestani, for Muhammad Majdhb reported in his interview that he claimed to have
undergone four operations, some of them directed by Doctor Mahmd Kabbani, possibly
a relative of the Kabbanis declared to be the successors of al-Qubrusi.

Will everybody look like Nazim?

In Haqiqat ul-Haqqani
209
it is said: The physical shape of the one who has the Divine
secret of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (Sal) must also closely resemble the physical
shape of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (Sal). As Mowlana Shaykh Nazim has this secret,
his physical shape closely resembles that of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (Sal). This is
an obvious lie. Anyone who can read the descriptions of the body and face of our beloved
master Muhammad (^alayhi ssaltu wassalm) will see the big differences in shape, colour
and beauty. And according to this invention of theirs, a lot of great saints would not be
awliy any more, including ^Aliyy ibn Ab Tlib (karrama-llhu wajhah).

The next paragraph, page 28 of the same book, contains these words: All those who
come to visit Mowlana Shaykh Nazim and sit with him will also gradually have their
physical features slowly transformed. This is because they are not seated with an ordinary

206
Mercy Oceans,book one, page 233.
207
Mercy Oceans: the teachings of Maulana Abdullh al-Faizi ad-Daghestani, page 27.
208
Heard on tape number 18, side A, 13 May.
209
Page 27.
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person. They are seated with an extraordinary power which is Mowlana Shaykh Nazim,
the more will his love increase and the higher will be his ranks and every Awliya in this
time will have the shape of Mowlana Sheykh Nazim. I have personally seen pictures of
Nazim with Hisham Kabbani and another man whom I suppose to be Adnan: it is pretty
obvious that they do their best to make this ridiculous claim true. As for other disciples
whom I have seen, they still have a long way to go. In any case plastic surgery seems the
only real possibility of this happening.


CONCLUSION


The Prophet (salla-llhu ^alayhi wasallam) said what means: Whoever does not want my
Sunnah is not one of mine (transmitted by Ibn Sa^d in his Tabaqt).


We have established that ^Abdullh Faizi ad-Daghestani, Adil Nazim al-Qubrusi and
Hisham Kabbani are impostors posing as Sufis, usurping titles which are not theirs,
teaching a doctrine whose source is the same as that of Masons and Rosicrucians. We
have demonstrated how dangerous their true religion is for the salvation of those who
follow them. We do declare that whoever checks thoroughly our information will find
many faces to them and will be amazed at their blatant hypocrisy, in sha-llh.

Now we call upon all, scholars and common Muslims, to spread among people the truth
about those impostors, to warn their brothers and sisters against their danger and
deceitfulness. They must not be helped, abetted or their actions condoned. No member of
Muhammads Ummah (salla-llhu ^alayhi wasallam) should shelter them, offer them
mimbars to speak from, mosques to propagate in, Islamic centres to corrupt, columns in
newspapers or magazines. The Messenger of Allh (^alayhi ssaltu wassalm) said what
means: Allh has cursed whoever gives shelter to an author of bad innovations
(transmitted by Muslim).


Allh ta^l said what means: And that this is My straight way: follow it and do not
follow the other paths. They will scatter you about from His path: thus He commands
you, and may be will you be righteous (alAn^m 6:153).









GLOSSARY
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Words and expressions explained in this glossary often have more meanings than those
we gave. We restricted ourselves to what is useful for the understanding of this work.

Ab lQsim: one of the names of the Prophet (salla-llhu ^alayhi wasallam) of the
type called kunyah. Its meaning is father of Qsim.
Ahl-e-hadith: from the Arabic ahlu lhadth (the people of hadths, i.e. those who
claim to follow strictly the sayings of the Prophet (salla-llhu ^alayhi wasallam), name
some Wahhabis chose for themselves in the Indian subcontinent.
^lim: scholar, plural: ^ulam.
Anfus: see nafs.
^Aqdah: Belief. Perfect Islamic belief is one of the pillars of Sufism.
Attribute: see sifah.
Awliy: plural of waliyy, see this word.
Awrd: plural of wird, see this word.
Btiniyy: esoteric, i.e. meant to be understood or used by the initiated only. Refers
mostly to spiritual matters.
Bay^ah (spelt bayat in some of their texts): oath of allegiance done to the head of all
Muslims, the Khalfah, or at a lesser degree to ones spiritual guide.
Bid^ah: innovation or invention, described in hadth as being either good or bad, but
often bad.
Dwn: a list, among other meanings.
Dht: the reality of something, what a thing is. We speak for instance of dhtu-llh: the
reality of Allh, not the essence and never a so-called nature of God.
Dhikr: remembrance of Allh, consisting generally in repeated religious phrases or His
names, for meditation.
Du^: Prayer which is not necessarily ritualised and consists simply in addressing Allh
ta^l.
Duny: name given to the universe below the heavens, in which we live.
Esoteric: see btiniyy.
Essence: the permanent, as contrasted with the accidental elements of a being. This is
how many fake Sufis and philosophers understand the dht of Allh.
Exoteric: what can be shown or taught to the general public according to some, as
opposed to esoteric.
Faqh: a scholar whose expertise is in fiqh, Islamic Law (plural: fuqah).
Fiqh: knowledge and understanding of the Islamic Law. Our master Ab Hanfah
(radiya-llhu ^anh) said: Fiqh is the knowledge of oneself, ones rights and ones
duties.
Fuqah: plural of faqh, see this word.
Ghayb (al-): the unknown, among other things: events of the future which Allh has not
unveiled to anyone, such as the time of the Day of Judgement and the events preceding it
like the coming of the Mahdiyy.
Gnosis: it is alleged to be the esoteric knowledge of spiritual truths. This word, along
with its adjective gnostic, is very important in Rosicrucian or Masonic spiritual
teaching.
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Gnostic: which belongs to gnosis or is related to it.
AlHaqq: One of the perfect names of God, meaning: the One who truly exists, whose
existence is confirmed.
Hasan: term used in hadth science, meaning good or reliable, of a lesser degree than
sahh.
Hellenistic: what relates to Greek history, culture and ideas after Alexander the Great. A
great number of philosophical ideas were developed at the time, in urban centres such as
Alexandria. They were syncretisms of Greek, Hindu or Egyptian ideas.
Heresy: a bad religious innovation or bad bid^ah.
Heretic: someone who accepts a heresy as his own.
Hull: incarnation. For instance: the soul incarnates in the body, i.e. it goes into it, in
order to be born as a full human being. Many religions believe in the incarnation of God
or so-called gods into creatures.
ilhm: spiritual inspiration, whose value is to be judged by its conformity with the
revealed texts.
mn: faith. Whoever has mn is called a mumin .
Inbi^th: emanation, that is to say: coming out from a source. A number of sects or
religions believe the world to have been originated from God, to have come out of His
very reality.
^Irfn: often used in the meaning of spiritual knowledge, not acquired through the
normal channels of experience and learning. Fake Sufis use it in the meaning of gnosis
(see that word).
Ismailis: from Arabic Ism^liyy , related to an extreme Shiite sect, famous for its
esoterism.
Kfir: non-Muslim (plural: kuffr, etc.).
Kfirn or kfirn: plurals of kfir, see this word.
Kalm: word or speech. When referring to Allhs attribute, we translate it by speech,
trying to avoid people thinking Allh speaks a language. Not to be mistaken with
qalam, see this word.
Karma: The Websters dictionary gave this definition: the force generated by a persons
actions held in Hinduism and Buddhism to perpetuate transmigration and in its ethical
consequences to determine his destiny in the next existence. This is directly related to
their belief in reincarnation or metempsychosis.
Karmic: belonging to the idea of karma, or related to it.
Kashf: unveiling of hidden truths, like future events. This is also to be judged by its
conformity to the revealed texts.
Kawthar (al-): name of one of the rivers of Paradise and title of a sura.
Khalwat: from the Arabic khalwah, used in these texts to mean a spiritual retreat, or
isolation from the world.
Khulaf: plural or khalfah. Here used as a title for those appointed as representatives of
the head of a Sufi order.
Kuffr: another plural form of kfir, see this word.
Kufr: the state of being a kfir, or doing an action which takes out of Islam a person
committing it. A person who has fallen into kufr can still do more kufr.
Lawhu lMahfz (al-): the Preserved Tablet, that is to say the book in which everything
that is or happens is written down by the qalam, or pen.
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Makrh: advised not to do. If you do something makrh, there is no sin on you, but if
you do not for Allhs sake, you are entitled to reward.
Maqmt: spiritual stations, that is the different stages of the spiritual progression of an
individual.
Mason or Freemason: somebody belonging to a secret fraternal society dispensing
gradually an esoteric teaching. There are many types and orders of Freemasons, under
various titles. Some organisations we call Masonic because they share with them
essential beliefs and practices and spring from the same historical source, even though
their styles might seem quite different.
Masonic: related to Masons.
Maulana or Mowlana: from Arabic Mawlana, which means our master: a title often
used for spiritual guides, among others.
Mubtadi^: innovator, or in its most common meaning: heretic.
Mumin: believer, a title that is only used for Muslims in its true meaning.
Mureed: see murid.
Murid: from Arabic murid, member of a Sufi order, aspiring to reach the high levels of
spirituality granted to Allhs beloved.
Muslim: submitted to God. Basically that means a person who professes that God is the
only god and that Muhammad (^alayhi ssaltu wassalm) is His Messenger, with all the
implications.
Mutashbihah: obscure. Adjective used to describe Qurnic verses or hadths whose
difficult text can lead the ignorant and the careless to dangerous interpretations.
Nafs: (plural: anfus or nufs) ego, personality.
Naqshbandi: related to or member of the Sufi order founded by Shah Naqshband
(rahimahu-llh). The deserved prestige of this name has lead many impostors to adorn
themselves with it in order to obtain respectability.
Nawfil: plural of nfilah, i.e. a recommended action.
Nubuwwah: prophethood.
Orientalists: western scholars whose field of expertise is in Eastern civilisations, history,
literature and religions. Orientalism is too often turned against Islam. It was initiated after
the failure of the crusades in order to obtain as precise knowledge as possible about Islam
and Muslims. It was also conceived as an ideological weapon meant to sap the
ideological strength and unity of this Community, with a claim to scientific objectivity.
Pantheism: see wahdatu lwujd.
Philosophical: related to philosophy.
Philosophy: from the Greek love of wisdom. In Islamic context it refers mainly to
heretical movements born out of the influence of Greek Hellenistic thinking on
intellectuals of Islamic background.
Preserved Tablet (the -): see alLawhu lMahfz.
Qalam: the pen, that by which Allh had all written on alLawhu lMahfz.
Rib: usury, or loan granted on the condition that an interest of some kind will be paid.
There are other meanings to this word.
Rislah: state and mission of a rasl (Messenger) of Allh.
Rosicrucian: related to or member of an organisation devoted to esoteric teaching,
claiming to aim at psychic and spiritual enlightenment. The name appeared in the 17th
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century. They are related to Freemasons, although most of them do not show great
interest in political involvement.
Rh: soul or spirit. There is very little we know about that.
Sahbah: Companions of the Prophet Muhammad (salla-llhu ^alayhi wasallam) that is
to say Muslims who met the Messenger of Allh (^alayhi ssaltu wassalm) and died
with their Islamic faith.
Sahh: true or reliable. Adjective used to describe a reliable report of what the Prophet
(salla-llhu ^alayhi wasallam) said or did, or collections of such reports.
Salafi: from Arabic salafiyy i.e. related to the first generations after the Messenger of
God (^alayhi ssaltu wassalm), called salaf. Name chosen for themselves by some
Wahhabis to illustrate their claim to follow those generations.
Salh: ritualised prayer performed a set number of time every day.
Sarh: clear, not ambiguous. Adjective used to describe words or expressions which have
only one accepted meaning, as opposed to the zhir ones.
Shdhiliyy: related to or member of the Sufi order founded by Ab l-Hasan
ashShdhiliyy (qaddasa-llhu sirrah). There are some excommunicated branches of this
Tarqah in the Middle East, the Maghreb and France, among others.
Shahdah: testimony (of faith), in this meaning the word refers to the utterance of: I
profess that there is no god but Allh and I profess that Muhammad is the Messenger of
Allh. It is often called ashShahdatn (the two testimonies of faith).
Shar^ah: the Islamic Law.
Shaytn: plural of shaytn, see this word.
Shaykh, sheykh or sheikh: old man. From that basic meaning many others sprang. It is
used for religious teachers and spiritual leaders as a mark of respect.
Shaytn: term used to mention the kuffr among men and jinns, but mainly used against
unbelievers from the jinns.
Sheikh or sheykh: see shaykh.
Sifah: attribute, or characteristic. That is what a being is characterised by or characterises
itself by (plural: sift).
Sift: see sifah.
Silsilah: chain. Word used to describe the chain of spiritual masters in a Sufi tarqah,
starting from the Prophet (salla-llhu ^alayhi wasallam), all the way down to the present
head of an order. Sometimes called golden chain in Britain.
Stranger (ajnabiyy): Any person of the other sex who you can legally be married with
is called stranger. He or she must not be touched directly, indirectly with lust or stayed
alone with, without a third party able to see, whose presence would make two people of
opposite sex ashamed to commit indecent acts.
Subhna-llhi ^amm yasifn: Allh is too glorious to be as they describe Him.
Qurnic expression.
Sufi: from Arabic sfiyy. Related to or member of an order (tarqah) or movement
dedicated to help people reach sainthood (wilyah) through strict adherence to perfect
belief (^Aqdah), Islamic Law (Shar^ah) and renouncement of worldly desires (zuhd).
Sufi is also used to speak of a master of Sufism, as compared with a murid who aspires
to that state.
Sufism: methods or practices used by Sufis, based on Qurn and Sunnah.
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Sunnah: originally means a rule, a custom, used now for all that is reported about the
Prophet (^alayhi ssaltu wassalm) and his blessed Companions (radiya-llhu ^anhum).
The word is also often used as a name for a recommended action, as opposed to an
obligatory one.
Tbi^iyyn or Tbi^n: generation of Muslims which came after the Sahbah.
Taqld: following the opinions of those who are competent to give religious opinion, to
perform ijtihd, that is to say the mujtahids. The opposite of taqld is for one to assume
one is able to make ones own deductions from the revealed texts, before reaching the
appropriate level of knowledge. Opposition to taqld generally comes from groups or
sects opposed to orthodoxy, or from westernised circles.
Tarqah: (plural: turuq) originally means way, path, is now often used to speak of Sufi
organisations or orders.
Tashbh: comparison. The word is used in theology to speak of a particular case of kufr
which consists in making a comparison between Allh and His creatures, which violates
the explanations given in revelation.
Trinity: thlth in Arabic, a theory concerning the reality of God, conceptualised by
some Hellenistic philosophers such as Philo of Alexandria and later by Christianity in the
fourth century of their era. There is hardly any branch of Christianity which does not
accept this tenet. Basically it says that God, although one, is also three: the father, the son
(Jesus according to them) and the Holy Spirit or Holy Ghost.
^Ulam: plural of ^lim, see this word.
Ummah: nation or community. Every prophet had a nation or community who followed
him, so the followers of a prophet are his Ummah.
Wahdatu lWujd: unity of existence/oneness of being. Religious theory also called
pantheism, represented in Hinduism, which sees all existence as part of God. Some go
more subtlely about it, denying any existence that is not Allh.
Wahhabi: from Arabic wahhbiyy, related to or member of the heretical movement
revived by Muhammad ibn ^AbdilWahhb.
Wahi: revelation of Allh to the Prophet (salla-llhu ^alayhi wasallam).
Waliyy (plural: awliy): from the original meaning of somebody close, it developed
other meanings such as saint.
Wilyah: sainthood, among other meanings. Its basic conditions are: being a Muslim,
carrying all ones duties, avoiding all sins and performing recommended actions.
Wird: habit, used for dhikr and du^ read daily.
Zhir: used in a technical sense to speak of words or expressions which can bear several
meanings, as opposed to sarh ones. The word itself has other meanings.
Zandaqah: a state of complete heresy where a person is seen as clearly out of Islam.
Zuhd: renouncing worldly desires, i.e. to control ones desires or lust very strictly, not to
indulge in many pleasures such as sleeping long, eating or drinking much, having many
sexual intercourses, etc.


BIBLIOGRAPHY


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Apart from excerpts from the Holy Qurn and the major collections of hadth, our
quotations or references can be found mainly in:

AL^AQDATU LHAQQAH, by Sheikh Ahmad ^Abdullh arRif^iyy, ^lamu
lMaktab, Beyrouth.
AL^AQDATU TTAHWIYYAH, Ab Ja^far atTahwiyy (rahimahu-llh).
ALASMU WASSIFT, by alBayhaqiyy (rahimahu-llh).
ALFARQU BAYNA LFIRAQ, by Ab Mansr alBaghddiyy (rahimahu-llh).
ARRISLATU LQUSHAYRIYYAH F ^ILMI TTASAWWUF of imam Abu lQsim
^AbdulKarm ibn Hawzin alQushayriyy, published by Dru lKitbi l^Arabiyy in
Beyrouth, Lebanon.
ASHSHIF, by alQd ^Iyd (rahimahu-llh).
MISHKTU LANWR , by Muhyiddn ibn al^Arabiyy (qaddasa-llhu sirrah).
RUDDU ABTL, BY the contemporary Hanafi scholar, Sheikh Muhammad alHmid
(rahimahu-llh).
VEHEMENT REFUTATION AGAINST THOSE WHO PERMIT SHAKING THE
HANDS OF WOMEN (Shaddu lWatati ^Al Man Ajza Musfahata lMarah),
completed in Muharram 1407 and printed in Tangiers.


Other titles:

Many Nazimite titles have imprecise or strange details but are definitely circulated
among them.

ABOUT OUR MASTER SHEIKH NAZIM EFFENDI, by Sheikh Hisham, Trust of Islam
Publications, Yorkshire, England. I found a copy of this on the shelves of their centre in
Sheffield, in August 1992.
ALWASIYYAH, in Arabic (the title is actually: Wasiyyat Murshidi zZaman waghawthu
lAnm...), a transcription of adDaghestanis teachings by his disciples.
ANGELS UNVEILED: A SUFI PERSPECTIVE, by Muhammad Hisham Kabbani,
KAZI Publications, Inc. 1995.
AN-NASEEHAH, number 5, Ramadan 1415/January 1995, Newsletter of the Haqqani
Islamic Trust for New Muslims, U.S.A.
EXAMINING RELIGIONS, ISLAM, New Edition 1995, by Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood,
Heinemann Educational Publishers.
HAQIQAT UL-HAQQANI, written, compiled and edited by Naqshbandi Mureeds of Sri
Lanka, P.O. Box 61. Colombo, Sri Lanka.
INNOVATION AND TRUE BELIEF: THE CELEBRATION OF MAWLID by Hisham
M. Kabbani, 1994.
ISLAM, A DICTIONNARY, by Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood, Stanley Thornes
(Publishers) Ltd, 1996
LE SANCTUAIRE INTERIEUR, by Ralph M. Lewis, published in 1980 by Editions
Rosicruciennes, Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, France.
MERCY OCEANS, BOOK ONE, transcription of Nazims lectures. I am not sure about
the title, for I was given a photocophy including the front and back cover, the front being
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hardly readable. It might be written on it something like The Teachings of ... Abdullh
ad-Daghestani..
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MERCY OCEANS, ENDLESS HORIZONS, transcription of Nazims words, 1981.
MERCY OCEANS, HIDDEN TREASURES, transcription of Nazims lectures, 1980-
1981. Haqqani Publications, 1987
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.
MERCY OCEANS: THE TEACHINGS OF MAULANA ABDULLH AL-FAIZI AD-
DAGHESTANI by Shaykh Nazim Qibrisi.
MERCY OCEANS PINK PEARLS, SELECTED LECTURES OF SHEIKH NAZIM
AL-QUBRUSI
MERCY OCEANS RISING SUN, Sheikh Nazim al-Qubrusi, transcription of Nazims
words
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.
MERCY OCEANS SECRETS OF THE HEART by Hisham Kabbani, 1991-1992
213
.
MESSAGES DU SANCTUM CELESTE, by Raymond Bernard, published in 1980 by
Editions Rosicruciennes, Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, France.
MYSTICAL SECRETS OF THE LAST DAYS
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By Nazim al-Qubrusi. The revised
version of The secrets behind the secrets behind the secrets. I could only find the first
pages of this book as an advertisement on http://islamicbookstore.com/.
OCEANS OF UNITY, Sheikh Nazim al-Qubrusi.
Q-NEWS MAGAZINE of February 1998, England.
THE DAWN OF MAGIC by Louis Powels and Jacques Bergier, 1964.
THE ENDOWMENT OF DIVINE GRACE & THE SPREAD OF DIVINE MERCY Al
Fathu Rabbni wal Faidhu Rahmni by Sidi Shaykh Muhyiddeen Abdul Qadir Gilani.
Trans. by Shaykh Muhammad Al-Akili. 1990-1997 Pearl Publishing House
-THE FRUIT OF REAL BELIEF AND PERFECT PRACTISING IS PEACE, AN
INTERVIEW WITH MAULANA SHAYKH NAZIM AL-HAQQANI, Lefke, Cyprus,
August 1988.
THE NAQSHBANDI SUFI WAY..., by Hisham Kabbani, 1995, published and
distributed by KAZI Publications, Inc. 3023 W. Belmont Avenue. Chicago IL 60618.
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THE NAQSHBANDI WAY, A GUIDEBOOK FOR SPIRITUAL PROGRESS,
according to the Instructions of Sultan Ul-Awliya Sheikh Abdullh Ad-Daghistani,
transcription of Nazims words.

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Still advertised on the in Rab^u lAwwal 1424 (May 2003) In the so-called Naqshbandi Books section
of http://www.naqshbandi.org/, the site proudly proclaiming it was founded by H. Kabbani, but I still
cannot read the smaller print under the general title. The cover is olive green.
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Still advertised in Rab^u lAwwal 1424 (May 2003) In the so-called Naqshbandi Books section of
http://www.naqshbandi.org/ and they say: available on the Internet!.
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Still advertised in Rab^u lAwwal 1424 (May 2003) In the so-called Naqshbandi Books section of
http://www.naqshbandi.org/.
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Still advertised in Rab^u lAwwal 1424 (May 2003)) In the so-called Naqshbandi Books section of
http://www.naqshbandi.org/.
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Advertised in Rab^u lAwwal 1424 (May 2003) on http://islamicbookstore.com/b2956.html with this
revealing comment: Learn about the Sufi Way, which is the origin of the Gurdjieff work and the
Enneagram. In these lectures to residents of a Hindu community in Switzerland, the Shaykh unveils the
mystical secrets of the Last Days. Otherwise, I also found it advertised on
http://shop.store.yahoo.com/islamicshoppingnetwork/55-0879.html and http://www.naqshbandi.org/
library/list.htm
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Still advertised in Rab^u lAwwal 1424 (May 2003). In the so-called Naqshbandi Books section of
http://www.naqshbandi.org/.
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THE QURN FOR THE TWENTIETH CENTURY MAN.
THE SECRETS BEHIND THE SECRETS BEHIND THE SECRETS........ REVEALED
BY SHEIKH NAZIM AL-HAQQANI, DURU Offset -Print, Berlin, Germany, 1987,
transcription of Nazims lectures or interviews.
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WINGS OF THE MESSENGER, Dr Abraham Joseph Kahn / Zero Thyra Quensel, 1993.


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The Spanish version of this book: Los Misterios detras de los Misterios detrs de los Misterios was
still advertised in Rab^u lAwwal 1424 (May 2003) on their sites: http://www.haqqani.arrakis.es/
direcciones/libros-cd.htm and shop.store.yahoo.com/islamicshoppingnetwork/ spirsuf.html.