Hazrat Muhammad Al- Masoom Sirhindia r.a.

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Muhammad al-Masum
May Allah Sanctify His Soul
In the Place of refuge my heart sought refuge,
shot with enmity's arrows.
O Mercy of God for His slaves, God placed His trust in you
among all inanimate forms.
O House of my Lord, O light of my heart, O coolness of my eyes,
O my heart within!
O true secret of the heart of existence, my sacred trust,
my purest love!
O Direction to which I turn from every quarter and valley,
From subsistence in the Real, then from on high,
from self-extinction, then from the depths!
O Kacba of Allah, O my life, O path of good fortune,
O my guidance!
God sheds His light on your court, and something of His light
appears in the heart.

Ibn `Arabi, al-Futuhat al-Makkiyyah.

He is The Rope of Allah (cUrwat-il-Wuthqa), the Pious Guide who combined in himself the sharaca and Reality (haqiqat) and he showed the difference between Ignorance and True Guidance. He was born in the year 1007 H. He was educated by his father from the special knowledge of saints. He sat on the Throne of Guidance in the Naqshbandi Way after the passing of his Shaykh, at the age of 26 years. He became famous everywhere. His name was known on every tongue, and kings acknowledged his greatness in his time. People were flocking to him from everywhere.

He was a saint from his childhood. He never accepted to nurse in Ramadan. He spoke on the Knowledge of Oneness at the age of three by saying, "I am the earth, I am the heavens, I am God... I am this, I am that." He memorized the Qur'an in three months at the age of six. He was trying through his heart to learn the true knowledge, Sharacat and aqaqat and he reached the high state of these knowledges. He was considered at the age of 17 years to be the greatest scholar of his time. He was very truthful in all his Legal decisions (fatawa). He accepted neither innovation nor licenses.

His father Sayiddina Ah mad al-Faruqi, testified when he was young that a very great power would appear in him. One time he said to his father Sayiddina Ahmad al-Faruqi, "I am seeing myself as a life that is moving in every atom of the atoms of these universes. And these universes are taking light from it as the earth takes light from the sun." His father said, "O my son, that means you are going to be the Qutb (Spiritual Pole) of your time. Remember that from me."

He said to him one time, "you have been molded from the residue of my residue, which was the the residue of the Prophet's clay ."

He said, "I have poured into my son Muhammad Masum everything that I have been given."

He said, "the Perfect Knower that is honored to exist in the State of the Complete Existence will witness and observe the Beauty of Allah in the mirror of this universe and he will see himself in everything. This universe will be him and he will be this universe. He will see himself moving in every individual of this universe, encompassing the Whole in the Part and the Part in the Whole."

From His Miracles
One time one of his deputies, Khwaja Muhammad as-Siddiq was travelling on top of a horse. His feet slipped from the horse and he was dangling from one stirrup. The horse was running so that he was expecting to die. He remembered at once to say, 'O my Shaykh support me.' As soon as he said 'O my Shaykh support me.' he saw his Shaykh appear, take the reins of the horse and stop it.

One of his followers said, "I fell into the sea and I didn't know how to swim. I called out his name and he came and took me out."

One time he was sitting with his followers in his khaniqah (spiritual center for retreat, prayers and meditation) and they began to see water pouring from his hands and his sleeves. They were surprised and they asked him, "What is this, O our Shaykh." He said, "just now one of my murids was on a ship, and that ship was in a storm and was sinking. He called me and I immediately reached my hand and saved that person from drowning." We recorded the time of that event and some months a merchant came among us. We asked him about that event and he said, 'Yes, at that time my Shaykh came and saved me.'"

It happened at that time that one magician used to build a fire, and he would enter it and it would not burn him. There arose a great confusion aomng the people and it made a great fitna (dissension). So the Shaykh made a very great fire in the city and he told the magician, "Enter my fire!" and the magician was afraid. Then he told one of his murids, "Enter my fire, and while you are walking into it say LA ILAHA ILLALLAH." That murid entered and it was cool and peace for him as it had been for Sayyidina Ibrahim [21:69] when he was thrown in the fire. When the magician saw this, he immediately converted and spoke the shahada: ash-hadu an la ilaha illa-l-Lah, wa ash-hadu anna Muhammadan rasalu-l-Lah.

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