SPECIAL ZIKRS? --- EXTRA AWRAD? --- ISM-AL-AZAM?

Question:

Salams Sidi. I don’t have time to make the Tarbiyah Zikr. What else can I do to achieve the Knowledge of Allah? I want some special Zikrs.

Answer:

Just your 5 Salahs, Wirds, Wazifah and Zikr-ul-Jumah.

Other than that, just make Salat-ul-Fatih in your free time.

The Journey to Allah in this Tariqah is one of the Heart, not lots of Zikr by your Tongue.

Was-Salam,

Fakhruddin al-Tijani

Question:

As-Salam Alaykum

Sidi, we are some brothers who took the Tariqah recently, and need some extra Ahzab and Zikrs from you?

Answer:

Wa Alaykum As-Salam dear brother,

About the Ahzab that you require Sidi. I have them. But before i arrange for sending them to you. Can I ask if you brothers have IJAZAH-IZN (Permission) to recite them? And from who?

These Prayers are great and cannot be recited without proper Ijazah from an authorized Muqaddam Mutlaq. Otherwise, a person will not get any benefit from it. It will be a waste of time to recite them.

Even with Ijazah, these Hizbs can have dangerous side effects, if not done under the supervision of a learned Tijani Muqaddam who has gone through Tarbiyah. It is not good to read them too much for Dunya things.

Like that, what we are worshipping is Dunya and not Allah.

The Muqaddam will give you Ijazah according to your readiness and spiritual state.

The Tijani Path is like not a path of too much reading. The greatest Zikr we can read are our Wirds and Wazifah. In Extra time, we do a lot of Salat-ul-Fatih.

It is simple yet more heavier than all Zikrs in Existence. It is like a Real Gold Coin that is light to carry but is more valuable than 100,000 normal stones.

Ghawth al-Azam Shaykh-al-Islam Ibrahim Niasse (RA) wrote that:

“They are lost who have not yet realized that the greatest Secrets of this Tariqah are in the daily Wird and Wazifah”!!!

Even the Awrad Tarbiyah that the Sahib-al-Faydah (RA) would give to his murids was simply the Salat-ul-Fatihrecited in certain times in certain numbers, in order to gain Closeness to Allah and Marifah Bi’Llah..

Such special Tarbiyah for those who wish to progress spiritually is narrated from our Master Sayyidna Shaykh Ahmad Tijani (RA) as well (contrary to some ignorant people who think that the Tarbiyah of Shaykh Ibrahim is an innovation in the Tariqah!).

In any case, if we are FIRM in our daily Fard Salat and in our Wirds, Wazifahs and Zikr-al-Jumahs, then it is good to start reciting some extra Hizbs gradually with the permission of your Muqaddam.

But the goal must be Praising Allah, which is the Reason for Our Existence, AL-HAMD.

If you do have proper permission from proper people, then I will not hesitate to send you the Prayers as I am in the service of all our brothers.

Was-Salam,

Servant of the Tijani Door,

Fakhruddin bin Ahmad al-Tijani

QUESTION:

Salams,

Yaa sayedi tell me about Ismul Azam. Ismul Azam in tariqa Tijaniya and other other tariqas

ANSWER:

Wa Alaykum As-Salam,

That is a very big request. To get there you have to first:

1-Practice Salah, Wird, Wazifah and Dhikr-ul-Jumah regularly without fail.

2-Do your Tarbiyah finish.

3-Be ready to sacrifice everything for Allah, Rasul and Shaykh al-Tijani, and not to focus on anyone but them.

Other than that, desiring to know it is a part of the Nafs's lust.

Was-Salam

fakhruddin al-Tijani