History Of Sheikh Ahmad Tijani Part 6
NB: QOUTBANIYA EL 'OUDHMA ACCESSION TO THE SUPREME RANK OF SEAL OF SAINTHOOD! Phase 2
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
اللهم صل على سيدنا محمد الفاتح لما أغلق والخاتم لما سبق ناصر الحق بالحق والهادي إلى صراطك المستقيم وعلى آله حق قدره ومقداره العظيم
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The station of Supreme Pole is unique to each era and has different degrees: all those who have attained it are not equal. The highest level is the seal of degrees (Khatm al Maqamat) that ALLAH grants solely to His chosen one among the Muhammadian Pole.
Several Supreme Poles have attained the seal of degrees of the Supreme Qutbaniya during and for their time, but only one of them attained this degree for all times and this is the Great seal of Muhammadian Sainthood.
The holder of this unique station could only appear in Fes because it is in this holy city that the continuous emanations of his essence that had been sensed and encountered by Sheikh ibn ‘Arabi el Hatimi (may ALLAH be pleased with him), were to be found. In particular, he declared: “The seal of Muhammadian sainthood belongs to an occidental man of noble origin.
He is present at this time, I met him in Fes in the year 595 of the hegira.” I noticed that the sign characterizing him was hidden from his servants by ALLAH.”
Following this, Sheikh ibn ‘Arabi (may ALLAH be pleased with him) wrote a book on the subject of the exceptional characteristics of the Seal of Muhammadian Sainthood entitled « 'Anqaou Maghreb fi khatmi Aouliya wa Chams el Maghreb » specifying his Kuniya (nickname) was Aboul Abbas. This kuniya is used by Arab writers and poets preceding the name “Ahmed”.
He also explained that the Seal of Muhammadian Sainthood would be tested by a great number of his detractors just as was the well beloved Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) was tested by the hypocrites.
Obviously, Seyyidina (may ALLAH sanctify his precious secret) achieved two unique stations in the spiritual hierarchy of the saints in this city: that of the Khatmiya (The Seal of the Saints which closes/seals definitively the degrees of sainthood) and that of Katmiya which he attained on the 18th day of the month of Safar in the same year. He is the spiritual intermediary between the prophets and the awliya.
Here is an explanation of Sidi ‘Arbi ibn Saih (may ALLAH be pleased with him) who was one of the great scholars and renowned knower of the Tidjaniya tariqa.
« As for the Khatmiya: this is a station above all other stations of sainthood. There is no other station of sainthood above this. The holder of this station is the irrigator of all the saints (awliya) and each and every one of them draws only from his ocean and obtains lights only from his source.
So he is the one who irrigates all the saints and this even before, as well as after, his relative existence was extracted from his real existence, in the same way that all the prophets are irrigated by the Master of Existence even though their relative existence preceded his.
This is because the irrigation comes from his reality as he (peace and blessings be upon him) has said: « I was already a Prophet when Adam was between water and clay”, that is to say that he was already a Prophet working in the spirit world, aware of his prophetic mission.
Thus, the spirits of the prophets were irrigated in that world by his perfect and sanctified Ahmediyan Reality when they themselves were not conscious of their prophecy and were unable to act. He was certainly already prophet in the knowledge of ALLAH.
The same applies to /goes for the Muhammadian heir of perfect inheritance. He was already a wali working in the spirit world and aware of his station of sainthood, whereas the other awliya only became aware of their sainthood after having attained it in this world, having obtained their body and their relative existence, henceforth characterized through him.
رضي الله عنه وأرضاه ونفعنا ببركاته
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