THE SEAL OF MUHAMMADAN SAINTHOOD SEYYIDINA SHAYKH AHMAD TIJANI (RA). Part V: THE ARRIVAL OF THE TARIQA Finally he left for the Maghreb, went through cities and stopped in towns. After that, he went to live alone on retreat in the Algerian desert (departure from Tlemcen in 1196) in the villages of Chellala (from 1196 to 1199) and Boussemghoune (from 1199 to 1213). It was in the village of Boussemghoune that Seyyidina Ahmed Tijani (May God be satisfied with him) obtained “the great spiritual opening” (Fath El Akbar). In fact,when he was 46 years old (1196) during his spiritual retirement, in broad daylight, the Prophet (Peace andblessings be upon him) in a state of waking, came up to him and told him: “From now onwards, I am your initiator and your guide; nobody else will pretend to be your initiator; consequently, you must give up everything you have got from previous spiritual ways, nobody will reproach you anything, for I would be your intermediary next to ALLAH and I will help you.” Therefore he became the trustee of the Prophet’s himself spiritual way which contains all the other spiritual paths. This Tariqa he received is called the Ahmedian, Muhammadian, Ibrahimiya, Hanifiya (and Tidjaniya) Tariqa which contains so many God’s blessings never included in any other ways, the same way as Muhammad’s community has had graces never obtained,by any other community. The virtues of the Prophet’s way (and of his Khalife Sidi Ahmed Tijani) are uncountable. Therefore the Prophet (Peace and blessings be upon him) taught Seyyidina Sheikh his wird (religious prayers one must repeat daily) and dictated him the conditions of this spiritual way. He personally gave him among other pieces of advice: “Keep on following this Tariqa without retiring from this world neither ceasing your relationship with other human beings until you attain the spiritual station to which you are promised, keeping your state, without any discomfort neither difficulties nor excessive religious practices, stop calling on any saint from now on.” He received a direct initiation from the Prophet (Peace and blessings be upon him) who ordered and allowed him to call people to this spiritual way. Then came an expansion-period that lasted 13 years in this area; people came from several countries to profit from his Baraka and shared what the Prophet (Peace and blessings be upon him) trusted him with. To be continued Insha Allah...
Posted on: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 09:43:14 +0000
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