Upon waking, Imam Busiri discovered the cloak of RasoolAllah on his side and realised that he was cured of his paralysis. Furthermore, the Messenger ran his blessed hand over the left side of Imam Busiri’s body. Out of happiness, RasoolAllah began swaying left and right whilst listening, and then threw his cloak (Burdah) over Imam Busiri out of joy. He was visited by RasoolAllah in his dream, and the Prophet ordered him to recite the Burdah, to which he obliged and began reciting. After compiling the verses, each ending with the letter م for Muhammad, he fell asleep reciting it. He wrote 10 chapters with varying topics being discussed, ranging from love of RasoolAllah, to the night journey and ascension. This saddened the Imam, naturally, and he began to write a poem (Qasidah) as a means of attaining peace and tranquillity. His sons and wife would spend day and night caring for him, unfortunately, they grew impatient and left the great Imam on his own. Because of this, he had to be under constant care from his family. Imam al Busiri was famous for his poetry, and was known for his praise poetry in particular.Ī time came when he was ill due to a stroke which had caused paralysis in the left side of his body. He was the mureed of Sayyiduna Abbas al Mursi, who was the mureed of Qutb ul Aqtaab, Shaykh Abul Hassan al Shadhili. (Tanwir ul-Aynain Fi Ithbat Raf ul-Yadain (pg.49-51).The Qasidah Burdah, the poem of the mantle, is a poem written by the great Shaykh, Imam Sharaf Uddin al Busiri al Shadhili. So think and be just and do not be from those people who have doubts and we seek refuge in Allah from being amongst those who have bigotry. Then how well does the following verse fit such people, “How shall I fear those whom you associate and yet you do not fear that you have associated partners with Allah for which Allah has not revealed any evidence, so which of the two are upon the truth, if only but you knew.” He goes onto say further, “So we find from this hadeeth that if a person comes to know the evidences from the Book and the Sunnah and he still adheres to the statement of a specific Imam and begins to figurative explain these evidences, then such a person has traits of Christianity in him and there is the danger that he may have taken some aspects of Shirk in him.Īnd there is extreme amazement on such a nation, who instead of fearing such taqlid they declare those who abandon this taqlid to be great oppressors. So if he does not leave the statement of his Imam in such a situation then he has with him Shirk Fir-Risalah (Association partners in the Messengership of the Prophet.).” then the Shaikh goes onto mention the hadith of Adiyy bin Hatim in Jame at-Tirmidhi in regards to the verse of Allaah, “They have taken their monks and rabbis Lords besides Allaah.” (Soorah at- Taubah). He further said, “And I am amazed when I see a person has the ability to return to a clear and conclusive hadith of the Messenger of Allaah (Saalalahu Alayhee Was-Sallam) which opposes the statement of his Imam and yet they still hold doing taqlid permissible and I wonder how is this permissible. (Tanwir ul-Aynain Fi Ithbat Raf ul-Yadain (pg.44-45) However they should have weighed and presented the statements of their Imams to these narrations and texts and if they (the statements) coincided with the text they should have accepted them or otherwise rejected them. They (the Shi’ahs) started to find texts to back up the statements of their Imams and these people (ie the muqallidin) have also adopted this way and begun to figurative explain well known narrations that opposed the statements of their Imams. And this is that non-curable illness which destroyed the shi’ahs and these people (ie the muqallidin) have also reached the realms of destruction but the only difference is that the shi’ahs have reached a greater level of destruction. People have exaggerated a lot in the taqlid of one particular individual and have made rigid bigotry obligatory upon themselves to the extent that they have prohibited an individual from performing ijtihad and from doing taqlid of other Imams. Shaikh, the Imaam al-Allamah Muhammad Isma’il said,Ĭhapter Exaggeration in Taqlid and Ta’assub (bigotry). Tabi’een & Those After Them Until ġ0 Books Ahlul Bidah Wished That Were Never Written! Tanwir ul-Aynain Fi Ithbat Raf ul-Yadain Of Allamah Shah Muhammad Isma’il (1246H) Bigoted Staunch Taqlid and Blind Following of the Imams Over Authentic Texts Compiled and Translated Abu Hibban & Abu Khuzaimah Ansaari.Tazkiyyah (Purification of the Heart & Soul).