Shaikr

I’ve had my fair share of being in a Sufi order which was very beneficial to me in the first few years. It took me a long time, 11 years to be exact, to notice strange things happening among the various sects of this certain Sufi order. I’m never one to follow blindly, alhamdulillah, especially if I notice that the guide is a liar and a slanderer. So I kept moving from one sect to another, all within the same Sufi order, to seek the truth. Something was wrong in almost all of these groups. It’s not in the dhikr, due to the fact the dhikr is fantastic and most of the verses are from the Qur’an anyway. It’s definitely in the reliance of the guides (in the plural form due to the existence of different sects—each claiming that they’re on the true path and that the others are deluded) to seek for ‘instruction’ from the unseen world. These so-called ‘enlightened’ guides heavily rely on those ‘instructions’ without any question or doubt whatsoever. What Shaykh Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi mentioned in his Futuhah al-Makkiyyah answered most of my questions.

Of all beings in the natural world, the jinn are the most ignorant of God. They report to their sitting companion the occurrence of events and what is happening in the cosmos, because they acquire that through listening to the Higher Plenum by stealth. Then their [human] companion supposes that God has honored him. He should be careful about what he thinks! This is why you will never see any of those who sit with the jinn having actualized any knowledge of God whatsoever. The most that can happen is that the man who is provided for by the spirits of the jinn is given knowledge of the characteristics of plants, stones, names and letters. This is the science of simid’. Hence, this person will acquire from the jinn nothing but a knowledge that is blamed by the tongues of the revealed religions. So, if someone claims to be their companion-and if he speaks the truth in his claim-ask him a question concerning his knowledge of the divine things. You will find that he has no tasting in that whatsoever.

Of course, if I were to present what Shaykh Ibn ‘Arabi said to these people, they would brush it off and exclaim that their knowledge is much higher than Shaykh Ibn ‘Arabi, or something of the sort. Too bad most of the students are sincere and have no clue what is going on. Insha’Allah these so-called guides will answer to God for all the lies and slanders they’ve specifically created about me and all the lies they’ve created to ensure that they have a steady amount of students rallying behind them.

To a certain guide, I say this, please stop shaming Shaykh Ahmad Al-Buni by misspelling the names of certain Jinns he mentioned in his book Shams al-Ma’arif al-Kubra. Before you try to dupe other students, at least open his book and extract the proper names because certainly the ‘instruction’ you receive from the unseen world have been giving you the wrong names.

May God protect us from such liars and cleanse the name of Sufism which is purity and total experiential knowledge of Him.