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“Allah eliminates what He wills or confirms, and with Him is the Mother of
the Book.” (Holy Quran, The Thunder 13:39)
And is called qada’an mubram, which means Fixed Destiny. Saints never
interfere in that Fixed Destiny, which is in the Hand of the Creator. “Allah gave
the authority to change the Fixed Destiny only to the Nine Saints who are at
the highest level in the Divine Presence by permission from the Prophet who
is first to take that power from Allah.
They control the Nine Points of human consciousness related to the different
stages of the Ascent of an Individual on his path to the Divine Presence. Allah
gave these Nine Saints, whose number has not changed from the time of the
Prophet until today, the power to use Sultan adh-dhikr, the Greatest
Remembrance.
“Everyone knows that Dhikr is primarily the repetition of la ilaha illallah, and
that is what is practiced by all tariqats, including the Naqshbandiyya. But the
Sultan adh-dhikr is a completely different type of Dhikr.
Allah said, “Inna nahnu nazzalna-dh-dhikra wa inna lahu la-hafidhun [15:9],
“We have revealed the Dhikr, and we are the One to protect that Dhikr in
you.”
The Dhikr mentioned here is the Holy Qur’an. The Dhikr of these nine saints,
besides la ilaha illallah, is the Secret of the Holy Qur’an. They recite the
Qur’an, not as we recite it reading from beginning to end, but they recite it
with all its secrets and inner realities. Because Allah said,
6:59 – “Wala ratbin wala yabisin illa fee kitabin mubeenin.
“Nor is there anything fresh or dry but is inscribed in a clear
Record.”
None of God’s creations in all the created universes has not been mentioned
already, with all its secrets, in the Clear Book, the Qur’an.
“The saint reciting the Qur’an in Sultan adh-Dhikr is therefore reciting it with
all the secrets of every creation, from beginning to end. Allah gave every letter
of the Qur’an, according to the Nine Highest Masters of the Naqshbandi Order
[this was the first time the Shaykh ever mentioned this secret], twelve
thousand knowledge’s.
The Qur’an contains around 600,000 letters, so for every letter, these saints
are able to take 12,000 knowledge’s!
“Each of these nine saints differs from the other in his level as well. We may
see that one of them, for example, was able to recite the Holy Qur’an by the
power of Sultan adh-Dhikr, which is to grasp 12,000 meanings on every letter,
only once in his life.
Another was able to recite it three times in his life.
The third was able to do it nine times in his life.
Another was able to recite it 99 times in his life.
“This secret differed from one saint to another.
Shah Mawlana Naqshband (q) was able to do it 999 times in his life.
Our Master Ahmad al-Faruqi was able to recite it 9,999 times in his life.
Shaykh Sharafuddin was able to recite it 19,999 times.“
Here Shaykh `Abdullah stopped. Shaykh Nazim said,
“In every breath Grandshaykh `Abdullah Daghestani was exhaling with
Sultan adh-Dhikr and inhaling with Sultan adh-Dhikr.
He used to complete the secret of Qur’an twice in every breath.”
Mawlana Shaykh Nazim Inheritor of This Trust
Grandshaykh Abdullah
ad-Daghestani at over age 85.