1 If you utter the words "Sai, Sai," always I will take you over Seven Seas.

Believe in these words you will be definitely benefitted. 2 I have nothing to do with pooja and paraphernalia. I will stay there wherever there is devotion. 3 One who is fortunate, one whose sins are destroyed, will become focussed in praying me and will know me. 4 I always desire your welfare. I am your servant. I will always be with you and answer when you call me. I always want your love only. 5 God does not like a bad person and bad person does not like God 6 I am always ready to give whatever you want .However before giving, I will see whether you are eligible to recieve it. 7 You remember me with faith and devotion you serve me selflessly. You will be

benefitted very much. 8 Those who are dependent upon me wholeheartedly, they will feel extreemely happy when they listen to my stories 9 I will give unlimited happiness and permanent satisfaction to those who sing my deeds(leelas). 10 If you move on step towards me, I will move ten steps towards you. 11 If you remember the name "Sai Sai" , you will be removed from the sins acquired from uttering bad words and listening to the bad words. 12 If you give me a dakshina of 1 rupee with love I will give 100 times and become free from your indebtedness. 13 Those who know that I am present in all living things, they are dear to me. Remove the differences. Then you can really worship me. 14 One's right behaviour protects him. Behave with honesty and morals. That will be God's protection for you. 15 When you get difficulties don't sit idle. Don't blame others. Pray God. Read Good books. 16 God saves those who have patience and faith. Those who have faith need one example, one way to walk, and one name to succeed.

17 If one abuses any one, he becomes one who abuses me. He becomes one who pierces my heart. 18 You have to serve Guru with love, Service without love is not service. You get Guru's blessings to the extent of your love. Guru does not accept service without love. 19 Selfishness enters in a service if there is no love. 20 Keep aside all Sahastras and follow Guru's word with devotion. 21 Disciple has to leave aside his own thinking, in Guru's service. 22 Guru stays beyond good and bad, Right and Wrong. 23 If there is love there is no ego. If there is ego there is no love. 24 Giving up one's ego completely to Guru is called "Sarvasya Sharanagathi" 25 You should do the service given to you. Do not entrust the same to others. 26 You should not ask anything from Guru. You should develop close relationship with Guru. Then Guru will give everything to you without even asking.

27 Those who serve Guru with Selfishness can not get even small amount of Guru's benovelence. 28 You cannot love Guru without realization. For those who have relationship with Guru for several lives, he will develop love towards Guru without realization, 29 Disciples should not tell his experiences to others without Guru's permission. 30 In Guru and disciple's relationship, disciple gets tough tests. He should not misunderstand.

the Tariqat
Naksibendi Nakibendi Naqshbandi 22 Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim

'Tariqatuna sohba wa khairu fi jami'at' - this way is based on association and goodness comes through association. Shah Naqshiband, QS

Muhammad Bahauddin Uwaysi al-Bukhari, known as Shah Naqshband, is the Imam of the Naqshbandi Tariqat without peer. He was born in 1317 in the village of Qasr al-Arifan, near Bukhara , Uzbekistan. After he mastered the shariah sciences at 18, Sheikh Baba Muhammad Sammasi, qs, was to be his first guide on the path, and more important was his relationship with Sammasi's principal khalifa or successor, Sheikh Amir Kulal from whom Shah Naqshband received his fundamental training on the path and whose company he kept for many years. From the spirituality of Abdul Khaliq Gujduwani, Shah Baha ud Din received in the method of silent dhikr. Although

he was a spiritual descendant of Abdul Khaliq, Sheikh Amir Kulal practised vocal dhikr, and after Shah Baha-ud-Din received instruction in silent dhikr, he would absent himself from Amir Kulal's circle of followers whenever they engaged in dhikr of the tongue. This separation of Baha-ud-din from Amir Kulal's circle may be thought of as marking the final crystallization of the Naqshbandiya, with silent dhikr, received from Abdul Khaliq and ultimately inherited from Abu Bakr, RA, established as normative for the order. Shah Naqshband said: "There are two methods of dhikr; one is silent and one is loud. I chose the silent one because it is stronger and therefore more preferable.

Shah Bahauddin Naqshband despite all his efforts failed to 'imprint' the dhikr of Allah on his heart. One day, when he was traveling in the desert, again worried about such thoughts, he met Al-Khizr who within seconds transported him to the spiritual presence of Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani, RA, who had passed away like 150 years. Shah Bahauddin (whose name was not yet known as Naqshband) said, "O one who holds hands in the universe, hold my hand so they will you holder of hanfs." [in bayat, one holds the hand of the Pir to receive Almighty Allah's blessing and when someone needed to be rescued, they held out their hand]. Shaikh Sayyiduna Abdul Qadir Jilani put his hand on Shah Bahauddin's heart and said, "O the holder of the adornment of the worlds, hold my adornment so that they can call you Naqshiband [the one who adorns]". And then Shah Kwaja Bahauddin recited the following poem, which is inscribed on both the tombs of Abdul Qadir Jilani and Bahauddin Naqshband (may Allah be well pleased with them):

"The King of this world and the hereafter is Shah Abdul Qadir The head of the children of Adam is Shah Abdul Qadir. Sun, moon, heavens, the throne and the pen, They all get their light from the heart of Abdul Qadir."

Shah Naqshband said: "...One day a surprising state came upon me. I heard the Divine Voice saying, 'Ask whatever you like from Us.' So I said, with humility, 'O Allah, grant me one drop of Your Oceans of Mercy and Blessings.' The answer came, 'You are asking from Our Great Generosity for only one drop?' This was like a tremendous slap on my face and the sting of it lasted on my cheek for days.' Then one day I said, 'O Allah grant me from Your Oceans of Mercy and Blessings the Power to carry it.' At that moment a vision was opened to me wherein I was seated on a throne and that throne was over an ocean of mercy. And a voice said to me, 'This ocean of mercy is for you. Give it to My servants.' "

When Shah Naqshband was asked, What are the requirements of one who follows your way?, he said, To follow the sunnah of the Prophet sallallahu alaihi wa sallam peace be upon him. Our way is a rare one. It keeps the Unbreakable Bond, and it asks nothing else of its followers but to take hold of the Pure Sunnah of the Prophet and follow the way of the Sahaba (Companions of the Prophet in their ijtihad, struggle in the way of God.'

People asked Sultan Kwaja Sayyedna Shah Bahauddin Naqshband, "Ghausul Azam Sheikh Abdul Qadir said, 'My foot

is on the shoulders of all the saints', what do you think about this?"; Shah Naqsband said, "May Shaykh Abdul Qadir Jilani's foot be upon my eyes and my vision."

He said of the Naqshbandi Tariqa: "The Naqshbandi School is the easiest and simplest way for the student to understand tawhid. It urges its followers to seek a state of complete worship of Allah both publicly and privately by keeping the complete code of conduct of the Prophetic Sunnah. It encourages people to keep to the strictest modes of worship and to abandon exemptions. It is also free from all innovations and deviations. It does not demand of its followers perpetual hunger or wakefulness. That is how the Naqshbandiyya has managed to remain free from the excesses of the ignorant and the charlatans. In sum we say that our way is the mother of all tariqats and the guardian of all spiritual trusts. It is the safest, wisest, and clearest way. It is the purest drinking-station, the most distilled essence. The Naqshbandiyya is innocent from any attack because it keeps the sunnah of the beloved Prophet."

"I was receiving secrets from every side, especially from Uwais al-Qarani, who greatly influenced me to depart from all worldly matters and to attach myself exclusively to spiritual matters. I did this by firmly keeping the sharaca and the orders of the Prophet, until I began spreading the Unseen Knowledge and the Granted Secrets from the Unique Oneness that no one before had ever shared."

"We have carried in this Way humiliation, and in return Allah has blessed us with His Honor."

"The seeker in this way must be busy in rejecting evil whisperings and the ego's insinuations. He might reject them before they reach him; or he might reject them after they reach him but before they control him. Another seeker, however, might not reject them until after they reach him and control him. He cannot get any fruit, because at that time it is impossible to take the whisperings out of the heart."

"If a murid, a shaikh or anyone speaks about a state that he has not attained, Allah will forbid him to reach that state."

"The mirror of every shaikh has two directions. But our mirror has six directions."

"It is necessary for the follower, if he is confused about something his shaikh has said or done and is unable to understand his reasons, to be patient and carry it, and not to become suspicious. If he is a beginner, he might ask; but if he is a murid, he has no reason to ask and should remain patient with what he doesn't yet understand."

"Intention, niyyah, is very important, because it consists of three letters: Nun, which represents nurullah, the Light of God; ya, which represents yadullah, the hand of God; and ha, which represents hidayatullah, the Guidance of Allah.

The niyyah is the Breeze of the Soul."

"The shaikh must know the state of his murid in three categories: in the past; in the present and in the future in order for him to raise him up."

"One of the most important doors to the Presence of Allah is to eat with Awareness. The food gives the body strength, and to eat with consciousness gives the body purity."

Shah Naqshband added three more principles to Sheikh Abdul Khaliq Gajadwani's Naqshbandi Rules: Awareness of Time, Awareness of Numbers, Awareness of the Heart.

He said: "You have to evaluate how you spend every moment: with Presence or in Negligence."

"Observance of the numbers in dhikr is the first step in the state of acquiring ilmu ladun, Heavenly Knowledge."

"Whoever is initiated by us and follows us and loves us, whether he is near or far, wherever he is, even if he is in the East and we are in the West, we nourish from the stream of love and give him light in his daily life."

Shah Baha-ud-Din Naqshband passed away in his native village in 1389, and his tomb is since a principal place of visitation and attraction in Bukhara.

Among many of Shah Naqshband's precious works are most notably Awrad an Naqshbandiyyah, the Devotions of

Shah Naqshband, and Tanbih al-Ghafilin.

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