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Hazrat
Sayed Ahmed Al Badwi :: Dhul-Nun al-Misri
:: Hasan As-Shadhilli
Dhul-Nun
al-Misri
Tomb of Dhul-Nun al-Misri (AD 796-859) in Cairo's
City of the dead. Dhul-Nun al-Misri was a famous Egyptian
Sufi (full name, Dhul-Nun Abu Faid Thawban ibn Ibrahim
al-Misri).
Life
Born in Akhmim in upper Egypt in AD 796, al-Misri is
considered among the most prominent figures of early
Sufism and holds a position in the Sufi chronicles as
high as Junayd (d.910) and Bayazid (d.874). He studied
under various teachers and travelled extensively in
Arabia and Syria. In 829 he was arrested on a charge
of heresy and sent to prison in Baghdad, but after examination
he was released on the caliph's orders to return to
Cairo, where he died in 859; his tombstone has been
preserved.
A
legendary alchemist and thaumaturage, he is supposed
to have known the secret of the Egyptian hieroglyphs.
His sayings and poems, which are extremely dense and
rich in mystical imagery, emphasize knowledge or gnosis
(marifah) more than fear (makhafah) or love (mahabbah),
the other two major paths of spiritual realization in
Sufism. None of his written works have survived, but
a vast collection of poems, sayings, and aphorisms attributed
to him continues to live on in oral tradition.
More
About Dhul-Nun
al-Misri
As-salato
as-salamo alaika Ya Rasulallah
Assalamu 'Alaykum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu
All Praise be to Allah who is the Lord of the Worlds,
and may Endless Blessings be showered upon His Most
Beloved, and Final Messenger of Islam,Hazrath Muhammad
Mustafa his Family,Companions the Noble order of Awliya
Allah and all the Righteous Servants of the Ahle Sunnat
Wal Jamaat.
ALLAHUMMA
SALLI ALA SAYYIDINA MUHAMMADINIS SAABIQI LILKHALQI NURUHU
WA RAHMATUL LIL AALIMEENA ZUHURUHU ADADA MAMADA MIN
KHALQIKA WAMAM BAQIYA WAMAN SAIDA MINHUM WAMAN SHAQIYA
SALAWAATAN TASTAGHRIQUL ADDA WATUHEETU BIL HADDI SALAATAN
LA GHAAYATA LAHA WALA MUNTAHA WALAN QADAAA'A SALAWAATAN
DAAA'IMATAN BIDAWAAMIKA WA ALAAA AALIHI WASAHBIHI WA
SALLIMA TASLEEMAM MISLA ZAALIKA.
YA GHAWTHU'L-A'ZAMU AGHITH-NI FI KULLI AHWALI WA'NSUR-NI
FI KULLI AMALI WA TAQALLAB-NI FI TARIQI-KA BI-HURMATI
JADDI-KA MUHAMMDIN WA BI-SHIFA'ATI-HI WA RUHI-HI WA
SIRRI-H
He was a famous Qalandar and dervish, And came from
Egypt, Sufis say that the Qalandar order and the Malamati
order comes from him, He was very eminent in his spiritual
statues and he walked on the path of affliction and
on blame (malamati). He spent most of his life travelling
and wandering in deserts
His interests in Sufism began when he had a remarkable
change when he saw a young Sufi who was hanging upside
down on a tree and was continuously saying to his Nafs
(Ego) 'Until you dont come to my side to pray to God
and worship Him, I will continue to punish you, until
you die'.
After seeing this Zul Nun began to cry, The dervish
asked him about the reason of his crying. He said: 'I
thought that you've killed some one, that's why you
are punishing yourself like that.' The young dervish
told him to go to a mountain where a Sufi is staying,
he should go and meet him Zul Nun went there and saw
that a dervish is sitting there and his one leg was
cut off and lying near him, Zun Nun asked him that how
did he lose his leg? The Sufi replied 'Once I was busy
worshiping God when suddenly i saw a beautiful woman
passing through, I felt attracted towards her and moved
towards her with bad intention while i was just about
to move i heard the Divine voice saying 'O shameless
After 30 years of worshipping Me, now you are going
to worship Satan',
After hearing that I cut off my leg as it was the first
that moved towards the woman', The dervish then told
Zun Nun about another dervish, who was living at the
top of that mountain, but beause it was impossible to
climb over the mountain to go to the top, the dervish
decided instead to tell Zul Nun about his story, He
said 'That dervish once sweared that he will never eat
anything from the hands of humans, so for many months
he didn't eat anything, later God sent some bees to
him, who regularly provided him with honey. He is living
by eating honey since then.
After seeing this all, Zul Nun retired from this world
and began his journey on the Sufi path.
He kept his statues hidden and it was only when he passed
away that people repented and knew who he really was,
It is known that when he died 70 people saw the holy
prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) who said that 'I
have come to meet Zhul Nun the friend of god', and on
his forehead when he died was written 'This is the beloved
of allah, who died in love of allah, slain by allah,
also on his funeral the birds were seen to shadow his
body with their wings.
After seeing this the egyptians repented and held remorse
for all the injustuce they had done to him, About his
famous life it is said that Zhul Nun and his disciples
were in a boat and were sailing down the River Nile
when a boat came towards them full of merry makers and
sinners, The disciples seeing this were disgusted and
outraged they asked Zhul Nun to implore god so that
their boat sinks, instead he prayed to god to give them
a good life in this world and the next the disciple
were astonished by his prayer but as soon as the boat
came near the merry makers saw Zhul Nun and became emotional
they broke their flutes and began to cry and repented.
To this Zhul Nun said 'that a good life in the next
world is the repentance in this world, now you and them
are all satisfyied with no harm to anyone'.
While traveling Zhul Nun met an old woman in the desert
he felt intrigued to ask her a question , so when the
woman came near he asked her from where have you come
from she replied 'From god' where are you going 'To
god', he then took out a peice of gold and offered it
to the woman who replied 'Oh Zhul Nun the notion you
have formed about me is from the feebleness of your
intelligence i work for god and accept nothing except
from god, I worship him alone and take from him alone'.
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The
Tomb of Abu Hasan As-Shadhilli (RA), Abu Hasan,
Egypt 140 km from Mirsa Alam, Red Sea.
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Imâm
Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn ‘Abdul Razzâq
al-Husayni al-Zabîdî, Abul Fayd and
is widely known as Murtadâ al-Zabîdi. [1145-1205
AH/ 1732-1790 CE] He was a Hanafî scholar, lexicographer,
linguist, a grandmaster in Hadîth, genealogy,
biographies and personal histories [Hadîth, ansâb,
rijâl]. He was a prolific writer. Apart from Arabic,
he was proficient in Turkish, Persian and a language
of Karaj.
Click here for more details :
http://www.marifah.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=96&Itemid=46
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