DURING RABBIL THANI Shaikh Abdul Quader Jilani r.a. WAS BORN

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SHAIKH Abdul Qadir Gilani R.A.

Religion Islam

School Hanbali

Personal

Born1077 AD

Gilan, Iran

Died1166 ADBaghdad, Iraq

Senior posting

Title Sheikh, Ghaus-e-Azam

Religious career

Works Al-Ghunya li-talibi tariq al-haqq wa al-din, etc.

Al-Syed Muhiyudin Abu Muhammad Abdal Qadir al-Gilani al-Hasani wal-Hussaini ,[1][2] (Persian: ,Urdu: Abdolqder Gilni) (also spelled Abdulqadir Gaylani, Abdelkader, Abdul Qadir, Abdul Khadir - Jilani, Jeelani, Jilali, Gailani, Gillani, Gilani,Al Gilani) or simply known as Ghaus-e-Azam (470±561 AH) (1077±1166 AD) was a Persian[3] Hanbali preacher, Sufi sheikh and the figurehead of the Qadiri Sufi order. He was born on aWednesday the 10th Rabi at-Thani in 470 AH, 1077 AD,[4] in the Persian province of Gilan (Iran) south of the Caspian Sea.

Contents

y 1 Lineage and Biography o 1.1 Education o 1.2 Later life o 1.3 Death



y 2 Family y 3 Works y 4 Bibliography y 5 See also y 6 List of notable personalities

y 7 References y 8 External links

Lineage and Biography

Abdul-Qadir ibn Abi Salih Musa ibn Abdullah ibn Yahya ibn Muhammad ibn Abu MuhammadAbuBakr Dawud ibn Musa ibn Abdullah ibn Musa Jawni ibn Abdullah ibn Hassan al-Muthannaibn Hassan ibn Ali ibn Abi Talib , and this on his father side so you can see why they call him al-Hassani due to his tracing up to Muhammad's grandson Hassan ibn Ali. On his mother side, sheis the daughter of a saintly person Abdullah Sawmai who was a direct descendant of ImamHusain ibn Ali making the Shaykh also al-Husayni due to this.

Al-Gilani was born in 1078 AD (471 AH) in a small town of Iranian Gilan Province. Hisancestors were Syeds who settled in Gilan (arabacized to J ilan) hence the epiphet of al-

J ilani.[5][6]

³ S ayyid Abu Muhammad Abdul Qadir R.A was born in Naif in the District of Gilan in Persia (Iran) in the month of Ramadan....His father's name was Abu

S alih, a God-fearing man and a direct descendant of Hazrat Imam Hasan R.A.,the eldest son of Ali R.A, the Holy Prophet's ( S AW) first cousin, and of Fatima

R.A his beloved daughter. His mother was the daughter of a saintly person-Abdullah S awmai who was a direct descendant of Imam Husain A.S , the younger

son of Ali R.A and Fatima R.A. Thus S ayyid Abdul Qadir was both a Hasani and Hussaini

[7] ´

His complete name Al-S yed Muhiyudin Abu Muhammad Abdal Qadir al-Gaylani al-Hasani wal-

Hussaini,[1][2] Syed denoting his honorific title of descendancy from the Islamic prophetMuhammad,[8] Muhiyudin his title for being known popularly as "the reviver of religion" ,[9] AbuMuhammad his Kunya or nick name (meaning 'father of Muhammad'), al-Gaylani denoting theregion he hailed from[10][11] although however he also had the epiphet al-Baghdadi. [12][13][14] (denoting also the city of Baghdad where he was now residing in and therefore alsogeographically recognised through, eventually being buried there), and al-Hasani wal-Hussaini affirming his lineal descent from both Syed Imam Hasan and Imam Hussain, the grandsons of Muhammad.[1][15]

His father, Syed Abu Saleh Musa al-Hasani[16] was a direct descendant of the Syed ImamHasan.[15][17] He was an acknowledged saint of his day "..and was popularly known as J angiDost, because of his love for J ihad"

[18] J angi dost thereby being his sobriquet[5][19]





Later life

He was over fifty years old by the time he returned to Baghdad in 1127, and began to preach inpublic. He moved into the school belonging to his old teacher al-Mukharrimii; there he engagedhimself in teaching. Soon he became popular with his pupils. In the morning he taught hadith and

tafsir , and in the afternoon held discourse on science of the hearts and the virtues of the Qur'an.

He busied himself for forty years in the service of Islam from 521 to 561 AH. During this periodhundreds of thousands of people converted to Islam because of him and organized several teamsto go abroad for dawah purposes.

He was also the teacher of Ibn Qudamah whom he also designated as a Caliph of his Qadri order (amongst others). Ibn Qudamah also later fought as a general in Sultan Saladin Ayyubi's armyand conquered Jerusalem from the Christian dominance. His work and jurisprudent worksinfluenced Ibn Taymiyyah who referred to both Ibn Qudamah and Shaikh Al-Gilani as hisShaikhs with full honorifics.

Death

The sheikh died on Saturday night 1166 (8th Rabi' al-Awwal 561AH) [25] at the age of ninety oneyears (by the Islamic calendar ), and was entombed in a shrine within his Madrassa inBaghdad.[26][27][28] His Shrine and Mosque are in what used to be the school he preached in,located in Babul-Sheikh, Resafa (East bank of the Tigris) in Baghdad, Iraq. Worldwide theQadiriyyah celebrate Ghawth al-a'tham day on Wednesday closest to his birthday not his death-date for respect and elevation of their Shaykh which is 10th of Rabi at-Thani in the islamiccalendar [25]

Al-Gilani succeeded the spiritual chain of Junayd Baghdadi. His contribution to thought in theMuslim world earned him the title Muhiyuddin (lit. "The reviver of the faith"), as he along withhis students and associates laid the groundwork for the society which later produced stalwartslike Nur ad-Din and Saladin. His Sufi order named after him is generally thought to be one of themost popular Sufi orders of the Islamic world.[29]



Family

The Shaikh had four virtuous wives and forty-nine children, twenty-seven sons and twenty-twodaughters.[citation needed ] The most famous of his sons are Shaikh Abdul-Wahab, Sheikh Abdul-Razzaq, Shaikh Abdul-Aziz, Shaikh Isa, Shaikh Musa, Sheikh Yahya, Sheikh Abdullah, SheikhMuhammed and Sheikh Ibrahim. His sons and grandsons reached the Indian sub-continent throughout the years preaching Islam in his method (Arabic=Tareqa, ). As they have reachedthe Western part of the Arab world of North Africa and Morocco, and parts of the Horn of Africa (Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Somalia (a country that predominantly professes to the Qadiriyyah order only in the Sufi sect though small patches of Ahmed ibn Idris' order is found) ). In Somalia theorder is subdivided to Zaylaiyyah order and Uwaisiyyah order.

Among the Sufis, who came to India from Baghdad, and who belonged to the family of ShaykhAbd-ul-Qadir Jilani Hz. Shah Badr Dewan whose real name was Hasan, and whose honorifictitle was Badr-ud-Din, is one of the top most Sufis. He stayed near Batala, and laid thefoundation of Masania, a kind of inn in his times, but later populated by his children, grandchildren and great grand children, became a village of its own culture. The progeny of Baba ShahBadr Dewan is one of the biggest Syed Families, whose origin goes straight to Shaykh SyedAbd-ul-Qadir Jilani

Works

Some of Jilani's more well known works include:



y Al-Ghunya li-talibi tariq al-haqq wa al-din (Sufficient Provision for Seekers of the Pathof Truth and Religion)

y Al-Fath ar-Rabbani (The Sublime Revelation)available for download (urdu) y Malfuzat (Utterances) y Futuh al-Ghaib (Revelations of the Unseen) available for download (urdu) (English) y Jala' al-Khatir (The Removal of Care) y Bahajja-Tul Asrar (Ground Secerets)

Bibliography

y Utterances of Shaikh Abd al-Qadir al-Jln (Malfzt) / transl. from the Arabic byMuhtar Holland Malfzt

Author: Muhtar Holland (1935-) Year: 1994, Publisher: Kuala Lumpur : S. Abdul Majeed & Co,ISBN 1-88221-603-2

y Fifteen letters, khamsata ashara maktban / Shaikh Abd Al-Qdir Al-Jln ; translatedfrom the Persian into Arabic by Al usmu D-Dn Al-Muttaq ; and from Arabic intoEnglish by Muhtar Holland, Kamsata aara maktban

Author: Al al-Dn Al b. Abd al-Malik al- Muttaq al-Hind (ca1480-1567); Muhtar Holland (1935-) Year: c1997 Edition: 1st ed Publisher: Hollywood, Fla : Al-Baz Pub ISBN 1-88221-616-4

y The removal of cares = Jal Al-Khawtir : a collection of forty-five discoures / ShaikhAbd Al-Qdir Al-Jln ; transl. from the Arabic by Muhtar Holland

Jal al-Khawtir Author: Muhtar Holland (1935-) Year: c1997 Publisher: Ft. Lauderdale, Fla :Al-Baz Pub Extent: xxiii, 308 p Size: 22 cm ISBN 1-88221-613-X

y The Sultan of the saints : mystical life and teachings of Shaikh Syed Abdul Qadir Jilani /Muhammad Riaz Qadiri

Author: Muhammad Riyaz Qadiri Year: 2000, Publisher: Gujranwala : Abbasi Publications,Size: 22 cm, ISBN 969-851016-8

y The sublime revelation = al-Fath ar-Rabbn : a collection of sixty-two discourses / Abdal-Qdir al- Jln ; transl. from the Arabic by Muhtar Holland, al-Fath al-Rabbn

Year: 1998 Edition: 2nd ed, Publisher: Ft. Lauderdale : Al-Baz Publishing, ISBN 1-88221-602-4

y Al-Ghunya li-talibi tariq al-haqq wa al-din (Sufficient Provision for Seekers of the Pathof Truth and Religion) ,(Arabic),PartI,II,Abd Al-Qadir Al-Gaylani,Pub.Dar Al-Hurya,Baghdad, Iraq, 1988.

y Al-Ghunya li-talibi tariq al-haqq wa al-din (Sufficient Provision for Seekers of the Pathof Truth and Religion)



(Arabic), Introduced by Dr. Majid Irsan Al-Kilani, Pub. Dar Al-Khair, Damascus-Bairut, 2005.

y Encyclopaedia Iranica

See also

y Qadiriyyah y Ali Hujwiri y Sufi Barkat Ali y List of Sufism related topics y List of famous Sufis y Sufism y Sayyid y Khwaja Maudood Chishti y Khwaja Wali Kirani

List of notable personalities

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y Mohammad Ali Mojtahedi Gilani, founder of Sharif University of Technology y Ardeshir Mohassess, cartoonisty Ebrahim Heshmat, Governor of Lahijan in Soviet Republic of Gilan y Mirza Kuchek Khan, Founder of Constitutionalist movement of Gilan y Arsen Minasian y Hazin Lahiji, poet y Hengameh, singer y Mohammad Taghi Bahjat Foumani, Twelver Shi'a Marja y Al-Jilani y Mahmoud Behzad y Majid Samii, brain surgeon in Germany y Pejman Nouri, football player y Mohammad Moin, prominent Iranian scholar of Persian literature and Iranologyy Sirous Ghayeghran, Former Captain of Iranian national Football teamy Ghafour Jahani, Footballer

y Hushang Ebtehaj, contemporary poety Mardavij, former king of Irany Shams Langeroodi, contemporary poety Fazlollah Reza, 2nd Head of Sharif University of Technology y Ahmad (HajAgha) Koutchesfahani, founder of Iranian Telephone Company of Rashty Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani, Prime Minister of Pakistan. His forefathers migrated from the

province of Gilan.y Hazrat Pir Sayyid Abdul Qadir Gilani, Prominent Islamic Scholar In The U.K



y Hazrat Syed Qalandar Ilm Ali Shah Jilani, Sufi Saint[citation needed ] Article deleted.

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External links

y all about the lineage, life, works and progeny of Shaykh Abd-ul-Qadir Jilani y English translations for some of the works of Abdul Qadir Jilani y International Qadiri Order y Website regarding Sarwari Qadri Order (Hazrat Sultan Bahu R.A) y Website regarding Shaykh Abdul-Qadri al-Gilani and his descendants. y A complete website regarding Ghaus ul Azam and Gilani Syeds. y Website dedicated to the Lovers & Followers of the Great Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jilani y Articles on mysticism of Ibn Arabi from Ibn Arabi Societyy Website dedicated to Shaikh Muhyi'din 'Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani from www.al-baz.comy A Site of Web Links About Ghouse Azam Dastagir rz. y Ghauth ul Azam y Website of prominent Qadri Shaykh Hazrat Abu Anees Muhammad Barkat Ali (QSA) y [2][3][4] Excerpts/Books by Abdul Qadir Jilani y A web site links related to Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jilani y Pious of Sheikh Abdul Qadir Al-Gilani

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DURING RABBIL THANI Shaikh Abdul Quader Jilani r.a. WAS BORN