How Did Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani Revive Islam?
A new Sufi Order was introduced by Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani (RA).
When the Greatest Helper, Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani was engaged in worship and spiritual austerities in the jungle
And he spent 40 years in the jungles.
A period of 40 years!
He did not want to return from the jungle.
He wanted to spend his entire life in the jungle.
One day, he had some things in his hands that he was holding as he was walking, but those things kept falling out of his hands.
So when he bent down to pick them up he saw that there was a half-dead man lying on the ground.
The man called out and said,
‘O Abdul Qadir! I am Islam, the religion of your Prophet. Give me support and help me so I can stand on my feet again’.
The half-dead man lying on the ground said,
‘I am Islam, the religion of your Prophet. I am on the brink of death. Give me support’.
What I am telling you is very authentic.
So Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani extended his hand and helped him stand up again.
When he did this, a sound began to echo through the jungle, ‘Mohiuddin! Mohiuddin! Mohiuddin!’
It means the one who revives the religion.
The title of Mohiuddin was granted to Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani by God.
What does it mean?
The one who revives the religion.
So how did he revive the religion?
This was the time when the religion of Islam was completely void of spiritual knowledge.
Only the verbal recitation of the Motto of Faith and physical performance of Salat was left in Islam.
There were no more true devout believers - those who have faith in their hearts.
So what does it mean to revive the religion?
It means to revive the hearts.
When he revived the hearts of people,
he inserted divine energy into them and made them Enlightened Hearts.
When they became true devout believers that is when the religion was revived.
What is a religion?
A group of devout believers.
If there are no devout believers in the society, the religion is terminated.
If people start becoming true devout believers once again, the religion would be revived.
Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani worked really hard
but the trouble was that he was originally from Iran and he settled in Iraq in his childhood,
so his mother tongue was not Arabic.
His mother tongue was Persian.
Now, when God appointed him on duty, he would stay silent.
One day, Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) came to him and said,
‘Abdul Qadir Jilani, you should speak so that God’s creation can obtain blessings and benevolence from you. You must speak’.
And Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani replied, ‘But I am not an Arab and the people of Iraq are Arab. How can I speak to them in Arabic?’
Prophet Mohammad said, ‘Open your mouth’.
He opened his mouth and Prophet Mohammad inserted his tongue in his mouth 9 times.
And then Moula Ali came.
He also said, ‘Son, open your mouth’.
He inserted his tongue in Abdul Qadir Jilani’s mouth 8 times.
Abdul Qadir Jilani asked Moula Ali, ‘Why did the Prophet do this nine times and you did it eight times?’
He replied, ‘I did it out of respect of the Prophet’.
So this is how Abdul Qadir Jilani obtained the power to speak from Prophet Mohammad.
And then when he began to speak, he did not stop.
Crowds of 70,000 people would come to listen to him.
When he would come and sit and simply say ‘Subhaan Allah’
at least 4-5 people would die from the intensity of divine energy in his words.
If someone would sneeze and Abdul Qadir Jilani would say ‘God bless you’,
they would literally die from the intensity of divine energy in his words.
Now let’s talk about something a little more serious.
When God appointed Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani,
at that time the Aima Ikram in the Prophet’s Household who had been granted the Personal Name of God,
all of their power was taken and transferred to Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani because they had passed away.
It was transferred to Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani.
Our Shiite brethren are always running after the Prophet’s Household and the Aima Ikram
but all of the spiritual benevolence of the Aima Ikram was granted to Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani by God himself.
But they blaspheme Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani.
There are some sects within the Shiite denomination who do believe in Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani
a few, not all of them.
A few believe in him.
Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani was Najeeb ul Tarfain (Noble on both sides).
What is Najeeb ul Tarfain?
It means one whose father has come from the bloodline of either Imam Hassan or Imam Hussain
and whose mother is also the same.
The parents of Abdul Qadir Jilani were from the bloodline of Imam Hassan and Imam Hussain.
This is why he was noble on both sides.
The family tree of Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani
like the family tree of the Naqshbandi Sufi Order traces its roots back to Abu Bakr Siddiq
and the Chishtis date back to Moula Ali,
similarly the family tree of Abdul Qadir Jilani dates back directly to Prophet Mohammad.
Therefore, due to the association with Prophet Mohammad, the Qadri Sufi Order is considered the best among all Sufi Orders.
Why is it the best?
Because the family tree of the Qadri Sufi Order dates back to Prophet Mohammad.
The Qadri Order also became popular in India, and of course in Pakistan, the people of Iraq also followed it.
But then a time came when this knowledge started to become invalid.
As long as they had divine energy in their hearts, the Sufi Orders were valid
and when sainthood was terminated in any of the Sufi Orders then that Order was destroyed.
Then, there were many Orders in which no one was granted sainthood by God
but since that Order was already established, people would assign themselves as the Guide in that Order.
Despite the lack of spiritual power, knowledge and benevolence,
generation after generation people were appointing themselves as Guides.
Only the name of the Order was what remained, there was no spiritual benevolence to be earned.
So in this era, whether it is the Naqshbandi Order, Chishti Order, Qadri Order, they are all devoid of spiritual benevolence.
That’s the case today.
However, as long as they had the spiritual benevolence and knowledge
and they had a spiritual connection with the spiritual dignitaries who founded these Orders,
these Orders were connecting people to God.
Since none of this has remained in the Orders, it is all about the rituals.
If you do not have permission for the Activation of the Heart, if you just shake your head and do loud chanting,
it is not going to benefit you.
Furthermore, your heart cannot be activated if you do not have a Spiritual Master.
So, Faisal, all of these Sufi Orders you mentioned - Naqshbandi, Chishti, Soharwardi, Qadri
they were all correct. They were not denominations.
However, in this day and age, none of these Sufi Orders can render spiritual benevolence.
The key of the Personal Name of God which was granted to the Aima Ikram in the Prophet’s Household
and the Aima Ikram were all appointed as Ghaus (saints),
and all of their sainthood was combined and transferred to Abdul Qadir Jilani.
In the same manner, Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani has now transferred the key to God’s Personal Name
to His Divine Eminence Imam Mehdi Gohar Shahi.
Since HDE Gohar Shahi has been appointed as Imam Mehdi by God, the key to God’s Personal Name is now with Imam Mehdi.
Imam Mehdi already had the Fayli Personal Name of God.
Now, the key which Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani gave to Imam Mehdi,
that key was used to grant God’s Personal Name to the Muslims.
Whereas, the Fayli Personal Name of God that HDE Gohar Shahi already possessed,
through that key the people of other religions like our Sikh, Hindu, Christian and Jewish brothers,
they were enlightened with that Personal Name of God by His Divine Eminence Gohar Shahi.