Among the 11 Honoured Imams from the Prophet's Household
one Imam was Jabruti
another Imam was Ankabuti
and another Imam was Malakuti...
The 11 Imams & Their Categories
Only the initial few Imams were Jabruti, Malakuti or Ankabuti
but along with the arrival of the fourth Imam, all subsequent Imams became Nasuti.
For instance, Imam Jafir Sadiq was a Nasuti Imam.
This is why he possessed the knowledge of astrology, he invented this knowledge within this world.
Imam Naqi, Imam Musa Kazim and then Imam Hassan Askari - they are all Nasuti Imams.
They were divinely ordained and authorised
but since there were so many imams, it led to a spiritual issue.
What was that issue?
There was a woman who went to an Imam of the Household
and said, 'Master, please pray to God to give me a child'.
The Imam said, 'Okay, you shall have a daughter'.
She became happy but once she reached home, she thought, 'What will I do with a girl? I should have a boy'.
So she went to another Imam from the Household and said, 'Please pray that I have a son'.
He said, 'May God grant you a son'.
So when the child was born, it was a boy.
And she went running to the previous Imam who said it would be a girl and said, 'You told me I am not destined to have a boy but look, I have a son'.
'It is not a girl'.
Now that Imam then said, 'Who said the child is a boy? Look closely...
It is a girl'.
So when such incidents began to occur, the authority of rendering Zikr e Qalb was taken from the remaining nine imams
and given to Abdul Qadir Jilani, due to which Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani became Ghaus e Azam (Greatest Saint)
and this is why he holds the authority of 11 imams - the Shia brethren are not prepared to digest this.
This is when Ghaus e Azam's spiritual regime was held in high esteem.
God rendered such tremendous divine grace upon him that instead of the daily 360 divine theophanies, he would be showered with 500 theophanies every day.
And with every single theophany, there would be a voice, 'O Abdul Qadir, I have chosen you for myself',
'O Abdul Qadir, I have chosen you for myself'.
Whatever God would say to him would echo 500 times.
For instance, you must know Ghaus Pak declared, 'I have made God promise 70 times' -
It was actually just one time, it's not like God would make the same promise over and over again.
However, due to his spiritual station, whatever God says to him echoes several times.
So God's voice would echo along with the 500 divine theophanies.
Sometimes the voice would say: 'I have chosen you for myself'
Other times, it would say: 'The clothes that adorn you daily must cost 40,000 dinars'.
He would hear God's voice.
A kurta worth 40,000 dinars would be sent for him every single day.
He would wear one once and never wear it again.
He would then donate it to charity and give it to the needy.
People will object that he spent needlessly when in fact it was just the pretext to bless the poor.
40,000 dinars every day... and it's not like that's from today, it's from a thousand years ago.
If someone donates the £40,000 shirts they wear daily to people, how happy would it make them?
If someone gets to wear a shirt that costs £40,000 today...
I mean if someone gets to wear it, they would probably start flying...
They would definitely be on cloud nine.
The shirt will remain right here but the individual will be flying high in the sky.
So, there has been an abundance of Nasuti Imams.
The other individuals, such as Imam Ghazali - it is people who affixed 'Imam' to their names, they were not imams.
Ghazali was a righteous scholar.
He was not an imam, people made him one.