Ibrāhīm Niass (1900–1975)—also written Ibrahima Niasse in French, Ibrayima Ñas in Wolof, Shaykh al-'Islām al-Ḥājj Ibrāhīm ibn al-Ḥājj ʿAbd Allāh at-Tijānī al-Kawlakhī in Arabic, شيخ الإسلام الحاج إبراهيم إبن الحاج عبد الله التجاني الكولخي in Arabic alphabet — was a major leader of the Tijānī Sufi order of Islam in West Africa. His followers in the Senegambia region affectionately refer to him in Wolof as Baay, or "father." He is the founder of the Ibrāhīmiyyah branch of the Tijānī order, whose adherents designate themselves in Arabic as the people of the Faydah Tijāniyyah (Tijānī Flood) or in Wolof as Taalibé Baay (disciples of Baay). Outsiders often refer to his disciples as Ñaseen, which in Wolof means "of or pertaining to the Ñas family," although his disciples do not generally use this designation
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The Essence of the Sufi Way
by Shaykh Muhammad al-Hafiz al-Misri
The Prophet said: “The men of learning are heirs of the Prophets, and
the Prophets did not leave behind an inheritance of Dinars or Dirhams,
they left only knowledge. So whoever acquires knowledge, he acquires an
abundant share.”There is no doubt that part of the knowledge that the
Prophets passed on as inheritance is the knowledge of ridding the soul
or inner self of the layers of darkness, purifying it from the turbidity
of matter and guiding it to the spiritual world, to the abstractness of
the higher kingdom of God. The soul will then become pure so that no
matter can have an effect on it. Rather, its purity will refine the
thick-skinned ones; its flowing secret will revive the lifeless. It is
the Lord himself Who aids such a soul with His divine light;
illuminating its vision and powers so that it sees, hears, settles,
moves, knows, takes and gives under the divine guardianship of Allah the
Exalted. In this place of proximity, God chooses the soul, purifies it,
loves it and draws it ever closer to Him. And this is the station of
special love and sublime proximity!
Those who have inherited such knowledge are the doctors and healers
of souls or inner selves; God has taught them their diseases and the
remedies.
And it is one of the many graces of God to this Muhammadan community
that no time is deprived of them until the hereafter. The Prophet has
said, “Some of my followers will remain victorious (on the right path)
until God’s order (Last Day) comes to pass”.
All of us are commanded to purify, tame, and refine ourselves. God,
the Exalted said, “By the soul, and by what shaped it in a proportionate
way! He has inspired to it (the knowledge of) its wrong and its right.
Truly he succeeds who purifies it; and he fails who corrupts it”
(Qur’an, 91: 6-10).
The Prophet has also drawn our attention to the benefits of good
companionship and its favorable effect on self-purification. He told us
the story of the man who repented after killing a hundred persons and
consulted a man of learning who advised him to go to such and such land,
where there are people who worship God. This sage asked the criminal to
join them in the worship of God, and never return to his homeland
because it was an evil land. He started off his journey; and died half
way to his destination. A dispute arose between the angels of mercy and
the angels of torment: the angels of mercy said that he had come in
repentence turning his heart towards God; the angels of torment said
that he had never done a good deed. So the distance was measured, and
God made it so that he was found closer to the land of worshippers so
that the angels of mercy took him.
The Prophet also told us, “The case of a good companion and that of a
bad companion is like that of one who has musk and of one who blows a
furnace (an ironsmith). The owner of musk might give you some as a gift,
or you might buy some from him, or at least you might smell its
fragrance. In regards to the other, he might set your clothes afire, or
at best you catch a bad smell from him”.
There are various degrees of companionship; the highest of which is
the companionship of soul to soul. As they blend in the worlds of purity
and holiness, souls meet in their way to God, love each other for the
sake of God, by the spirit of God, and in the cause of God and His
obedience.
This is the spirit and essence of the Prophet’s Sunnah, this is the
pathway to God the Exalted, which all the rightly guided people of God
have walked along. It is the way that all the sages have embraced,
without exception, regardless of the differences in their pace: some of
them are fast, and others are slow; some are overwhelmed by the Beauty,
others by the Majesty, yet others by both. These are different states
that originate from the same source and drive: the journey to God and
fleeing to Him from everything else; the endeavor towards perfecting
servitude to His Majesty, and towards fulfillment of the divine rights
of His Lordship.
This is a summary of the essence of every Sufi order (tariqa)
in the path to God the Exalted, including the Tariqa Tijaniyya. And he
who does not adopt this approach with that objective in mind, his
affiliation to the Tariqa is invalid and in vain.
No one should deceive himself by allowing himself to indulge in the
darkness of disobedience, away from God and the righteous ones. He
should cure himself by accompanying the truthful and rightly guided men.
Among those, undoubtedly the most deserving of being followed are the
healers of souls, the chosen ones whom God, as a favor to humankind, has
qualified and bestowed with this kind of knowledge.
Those who do not believe in the saints of God (awliya’ Allah)
and in the special endowments and miracles that God has honored them
with, in both knowledge and deed, in life and death, should consult the
Qur’an, the books of authentic Hadith, and the various commentaries of
the scholars. There are numerous Hadith traditions and literature
confirming these things.
However, the words here are for the one whose heart God has opened to
know the truth, whom God has intended to emancipate from the prison of
matter by polishing the mirror of his heart and opening the closed eyes
of his soul. Such a person needs only to be truthful in following any of
those doctors that he may choose, as all the tariqas of the
people of God are guiding to His Majesty. A metaphor of this is that
whoever enters through one of the many doors of the holy mosque in
Makkah, he enters into the ‘Presence’ of His Majesty, God the Exalted.
The benefits of companionship with these doctors have been proven
time and time again. Many dissolute and self-indulgent individuals have
become calm and righteous, and many stray souls were brought back to the
light of righteousness. Both friends and foes have conceded to these
results.
The highly venerable masters in this Tariqa have stated that the
Tijani path has the highest standing amongst all, and every Sufi way of
spiritual training (tarbiya) is synthesized in it. It is well-known to those who know the ways of the people of God that some of them train by seclusion (khalwa), while others train without; some train through performance of litanies (dhikr)
in secret, while others train through loud performance, and some people
attain through recitation of prayers upon the Prophet. Likewise,
spiritual advancement can come through a glance, or zeal, or a Name, or
ecstatic attraction, and so forth.
Every dhikr or special technique that is known in other Sufi
paths has been perfected in this Tariqa. In it are gathered all the
good traits of other tariqas; and the Tijaniyya is unique in
what it contains of special endowments for its adherents. God has said,
“That is the bounty of God; which He gives unto whom He will. And God is
the possessor of infinite bounty” (Qur’an, 62:4).
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