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HADRAT IMÂM-I RABBÂNÎ

We shall quote a few of the sayings that emanated from Imâm-i- Ahmad Rabbânî’s ‘qaddas-Allâhu ta’âlâ sirrah-ul’azîz’ blessed heart and were expressed through his blessed pen’s tongue:

  • Ghaws-ul-a’zam (Abd-ul-qâdîr Geylânî) ‘quddisa sirruh’ and the great Shaikhs of Qâdirî path ‘rahmatullâhi alaihim’ visited me. With the arrival of these great people, I found myself in the haloes of Qâdirî nisbat (path). I thought to myself, “I was educated by the superiors of Naqshbendî. How is it that the Qâdirî order seems to have had more effect on me?” As soon as this thought passed through my heart, hadrat Khwâja-i-jihân Bahâ-ad-dîn Bukhârî ‘quddisa sirruh’, accompanied by his disciples, honoured the place with his presence and sat against the Ghaws-us- saqaleyn. Addressing the other group, he said, “Ahmad is one of us. He attained perfection and maturity through our methods of education.” In the meantime, leaders of the orders Cheshtiyya and Kubrawiyya arrived, too. They poured their own nisbats into my heart. They gave me new ijâzats. I already was in possession of the nisbats of those superior people, and now they became firmer and brighter. If I wish, I can make my disciples reach perfection through all these paths.
  • One day I was pervaded with a feeling of seeing my deeds deficient. I was in a mood of utter penitence and contrition, when I heard a voice saying, “I have forgiven thee and those who invoke through thee, whether through another means or without any intermediary in between, till the end of the world,” as it had been expressed in the hadîth-i-sherîf, “If a person humiliates himself for the sake of Allâhu ta’âlâ, Allâhu ta’âlâ will exalt him.”
  • They have shown me all those men and women who have joined our order as well as those who will join us through means or directly till the end of the world. They have given me their names, family names, and countries. I could name them all one by one if I liked to. All these people have been forgiven for my sake.
  • I have been given the good news, “If you attend a person’s funeral he shall be forgiven.” I was also inspired, “If you ask for a dead person’s forgiveness, his torment shall be stopped once and for all.” At some other time I was inspired, “If a handful of soil from your grave is put on a grave, the person lying in this grave shall attain maghfirat-i-ilâhiyya (Allah’s forgiveness).” [This shows how great the person who lies in this grave (hadrat Imâm Rabbânî) must be].

Advice of Scholars - SADAQA-I FITR

All of the following information was translated originally from Durr-ul-mukhtâr, and from Ibni Âbidîn’s Radd-ul-mukhtâr, which is an explanation of the former:

By the first light of the morning of the first day of ’Iyd of Ramadân, to give the Fitra becomes wâjib for every free Muslim who has property or money as much as the amount of nisâb in addition to his indispensable possessions and debts. It does not become wâjib before or after that time. The property that is to be included in the calculation of nisâb for fitra and Qurbân does not necessarily have to be intended for trade, nor does one have to have had it for one year. The condition is that one should have property as much as the amount of nisâb by the time morning prayer becomes performable on the first day of ’Iyd.

Giving the fitra is not wâjib for a person who receives the amount of nisâb or who is born, or becomes a Muslim after that moment. It is necessary also for the safarî (traveller) to give the fitra. It is also permissible to give it during Ramadân-i-sherîf, before Ramadân, or after the ’Iyd. Furthermore, if a person died before giving the fitra, zakât, kaffârat or something he vowed, and if he did not will it in his last request that it must be given, it is permissible for one of his inheritors to give it to the poor out of his own property, [not necessarily out of the dead person’s property]. But the inheritor does not have to give it. If he willed that it must be given, it is necessary to give it out of a third of the property he has left behind. His will is not executed if he has not left property. There will be more blessings if the fitra is given before the ’Iyd prayer. It cannot be given before Ramadân in Shâfi’î Madhhab and before ’Iyd in the Madhâhib of Mâlikî and Hanbalî.