HAZRAT SULTAN BAHU'S SPIRITUAL TARIQA.

HAZRAT SULTAN BAHU'S SPIRITUAL TARIQA.

The Tariqa of the Saint is Sarwari Qadiri. He records in his book `Ainul Faqr' that there are two categories of Qadiri mureeds. One is referred to as `Qadiri Zahidi' and the other as Sarwari-Qadiri. The first way of the Zahidi Qadiri is that the Sheikh places the seeker into established practices and techniques of spiritual exercises and strivings. The seeker is ordered to devote much time to mystic struggles including to spend a certain period of time in seclusion to attain to mystic communion and mystic union. Then according to the seekers labors and efforts and the seekers own ethereal capacity, he reaches his spiritual goal and metaphysical purpose. This journey takes some aspirants ten years to complete. Some complete it in twelve years and others up to fourty years before they are introduced in the court of Hazrat Sheikh Sayyid Abdul Qadir Gilani (RA) by their Sheikh (Murshid). It is from this court then that the Saint of Gilani (RA) presents the seeker into the exalted and sublime court of his Holiness, the Prophet of Islam (Sall Allahu ‘alaihi wa sallim).

The second category is referred to as Sarwari-Qadiri. In this Tariqa the Sheikh guides and presents the seeker directly into the sublime and celestial court of his holiness the Prophet of Islam (Sall Allahu ‘alaihi wa sallim) without having to undergo undue spiritual hardships and strivings. The seeker is nourished by the Prophetic light in that he receives directly from his Holiness his bounty, favour and beneficence. After receiving guidance, direction and religious instructions from this exalted court, he is then handed and advanced to the Saint of Jilan, Sheikh Abdul Qadir-al- Jilan (RA) for further polish. Hazrat Sultan Bahu (RA) own testimony to this effect is found in many of his writings where he records his esoteric initiation at the hands of His Holiness, Prophet Muhammed (Sall Allahu ‘alaihi wa sallim) himself and his own life is full of such wonders where he elevates many a seeker in one instant to the court of Allah and the Prophet (Sall Allahu ‘alaihi wa sallim). The wonder and excellence of his bounty is that it manifests itself in the form of a spiritual perfection of the highest order. He makes the seeker attain to his goal in a very short time without having to undergo the burden of difficult spiritual strivings.
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