The Murid Perseveres in Obedience to His Shaykh
بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Imam Mahmud ibn ‘Ali al-Qashani ( q.s. ) wrote, in Miswbah al-Hidayah wa Miftah al-Kifayah , “The Lamp of Right Guidance & the Key to What is Sufficient,” that the murid should have the fixed decision to persevere in the obedience towards his shaykh . We should know that the door of Divine Mercy will only open because of our constancy in obedience and service. Either we give our life at his doorstep or we will reach our goal. A sign hereof is that we do not turn away, when our shaykh says no to us and when he keeps us at a distance, because a shaykh often tests us when he scans our spiritual states. Shaykh Abu ‘Utsman Sa’di ibn Isma’il al-Hiri ( q.s. ) had been of prime importance in the Sufism of Khurasan. He came to Nishapur, obeying his shaykh , Sayyid Nur al-Haq Wa’ ad-Din Ni’matullah Shah al-Kirmani ( q.s. ). Sayyid Shah al-Karmani ( q.s. ) was a murid of Shaykh Abu Turab Muhammad ibn...