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 SUFI CORNER Culled from "The Hundred Steps" by Shaykh Abdalqadir al-Murabit (Kuala Lumpur:Madinah Press, 1998) 2. SHARI'AH 'There is no road to the realities except on the tongue of the Shari’ah.' said Shaykh al-Akbar. The Shari'ah of Islam is the confirmation that there is no divinity but Allah and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah. It is to pray five times daily the ritual prostrations. It is to fast the month of Ramadan. It is to pay the zakat tax of wealth. It is to take, if possible, the Hajj to the pure House of Allah and the plain of Arafat. It is based on these and confirms that the one following the Shari'ah has elected to live within the broad moral parameters set down in the Quranic commands and according to the guidance within the Sunnah, the life-pattern of Muhammad, blessing of Allah and peace be upon him. Having accepted the Shari'ah is the deep cognition that the human creature is limited, is in a body, and thus, like all bodi

Culled from "The Hundred Steps" by Shaykh Abdalqadir al-Murabit (Kuala Lumpur:Madinah Press, 1998) 1. TASAWWUF Sufism is the science of the journey to the King. Its preferred etymology is that it derives from suf, wool. Shaykh Hasan al-Basri said,'I saw forty of the people of Badr and they all wore wool.' This means that the sufi-tasawwafa-has put on the wool. This is distinct from those who confirm the way of Islam with the tongue and by book of learning. It is taking the ancient way, the primordial path of direct experience of the Real. Junayd said: ' The Sufi is like earth, filth is flung on it but roses grow from it.' He also said: 'The Sufi is like the earth which supports the innocent and the guilty, like the sky which shades everything, like the rain which washes everything'. The Sufi is universal. He has reduced and then eliminated the marks of selfhood and allow a clear view of the cosmic reality. He has rolled up the cosmos in its turn

ON THE 29TH REMEMBRANCE ANNIVERSARY OF BABA BULALA. "History has its truth, and so has legend...". "Legends are best left as legends and attempts to make them real are rarely successful" History was made in Makkah in 570AD when the legend of all time, the holy Prophet Muhammad (SAW) was born in the Holy city of Makkah. The same history was made in 632AD when the Prophet(SAW) died. To the Sufiyyun of the contemporary age, history is replete with the birth of the great legend, the succour of the age(Gawthul zaman), Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse in 1900 at Tayba-Niass. The same history was made when he passed on in London around 1975. In the same vein, history was made in 1919 when our own legend, our kinsman, the master of saints, Shaykh Jami'u Amao Bulala was born in Offa. This same history repeated itself when he died in Offa on 5th March, 1989. May Allah be pleased with his soul. Most legends were not recognised while being alive until they passed on. This is what