C- The Obedience of the Guide:

The follower should be a student to a perfect tutor applying his instructions sincerely with morality. This course is easier and narrower to attain the end which is called “The Invocation Relationship” which is the continuation of the internal relationship with Allah, praise be to Him. So, whoever has a tutor, this relation takes place through the tutor’s heart.

How it happens? The heart of the follower is joined metaphorically with his guide’s heart to which is already Luminous, shining with God’s light, the essence of lights, which always springs in our prophet’s heart, may God have mercy and bless upon him, as electricity spreads in all directions, as a river which streams flow towards tens of the fields to irrigate thousands of trees. Through the same procedure the abundance, pure and fresh water spread among the lovers to water their hearts with this tremendous bless to produce its pure light. The perfect guide gains his share of this bliss and spreads it among his Mureedens.

The sophistic poet Mawlawie sent a poem to his guide Sheikh Othman Naqshbandi supplied and saturated them all by the springs, while my land suffers thirst, my fruits suffers dryness. This is unfair, please, I plead you to canal the springs one after another and irrigate my farm”. It’s obvious that relation here is all figurative conceived by the foresight.

When the tie is so firm and the Mureed confirms it, then he’ll receive light and bless which will be reflected on his hidden senses – Lataef – which in turn, will be purified on after the other to treat the faults and defects gradually such as the envy, the conceit, the long hope, and the strife for the sake of money, besides the other wicked psychological diseases. So, when the follower’s innerself is purified and Allah’s light eighteens the Lataef which begin immediately the invocation, at that stage the Mureed perceives the presence and the watching situation which is the ultimate hope. After this, level Mureede’s heart and innerself become comforted, then comes ‘the self’ level the heading towards the perishable level leading towards the immortality.

It’s already mentioned through this research that the follower begins the internal invocation till his heart becomes invocative, then the follower proceeds invoking one hidden sense to another accompanied and guided by his guide.

How this Happen?

The guide moves heartily foreword towards one of his follower’s Lataef – hidden sense – and ties it with his, which is surely invocative and Luminous and is automatically reflected on the follower’s Latefa – hidden sense, which inturn becomes luminous and invocative as well. After a while the follower regains his normal conditions, so the guide will move to another Latefa – secret sense – settle for a while and so on. If the Mureed is eager enough, quickly he reaches the end and all his – secret senses – Lataef become purified, and he will exceed all the ranks reaching the perishable stage then the immortality. At this rank he dispenses his guide and becomes proportionally is exclusively to Allah. So, Allah elevates his steps as he, praise be to Him, wants to raise his rank. There is no scopes for the external concrete knowledge; thus, the scientist (Legislator) materialistic seeks knowledge to intensify his studies, also the rich seeks more fortune to be rich. The same is the infinite kindness of Allah. Only our prophet Mohammad, May God have mercy and bless upon him, is the perfect one who reached the top of humanity, then followed by the other prophets, then the companions – Awleyaa.

It’s acknowledge in sophism that the follower who is betowed the immortal degree after perishing is considered a perfect man. It’s equal to the doctorate in our concept. He becomes a guide in his career. Here I should attract the reader’s attention to the following serious issues:

The Master may permits his Mureed to join him with the ties before he himself reaching the immortality after perishing, which is a great sinful mistake for it may drop him in suspect of his belief, and the guide is the responsible one, then it may drop the follower in wicked suggestions and other dilemmas. The guidance is a procedure and the permission of the ties with the follower is another different procedure. The guidance means: Demanding the beneficent and prohibiting the disapproved and he wicked is the duty of all Muslims, the Legislation guidance is the duty of the Legislators.

With respect to this course the Master should be true with his Mureedens saying “I am advising guiding you how to repent, but I’m not a perfect guides, so it’s prohibited for you to join me with the ties” or he has to say what, Amir Kulal, Sheikh Naqshband’s Master said “my knowledge scopes stops here, so you have to search for another Master to continue instructing you”. It doesn’t mean that the leader should join the Mureed in one setting (Time-place). The perfect tutor can direct his Mureed foma in his heart, but the closeness situation is better, as we said before “Getting closer from the meek and honest ones causes pleasure and triumph”. The meek guide is beloved by Allah and being close to him, causes pleasure for the two lives. The Mureed has to ask for assistance from his tutor. Sheikh Abdullah Dahlawie said “Although the vocal invocation doesn’t achieve the follower’s aim if not transmitted to the internal invocation and becomes a power and firm morality, this mere vocal invocation is beneficial, since the memory has got a spiritual figurative step, if accomplished according to the mentioned conditions”. Then he added “The Mureed has to invoke Allah continuous and humbly submitting towards the believer’s hearts”. This case is called “The solitude during the unveiling stage - Al Khalwa Fee Al Jalua”. Means: He is with Alhak, the Lord, even though he is with the creatures. This assets the saying that the sophistic exists physically with people not spiritually. Solitude during the unveiling stage is one of the follower’s traits and stages in the Naqshbandia course. The heart diseases are the malice wicked traits such as the envy, the rancon – the secret haterd – etc. The real Muslim is the one whose heart is purified of these diseases and defects. Actually, it is a hard task; otherwise, the human’s troubles could have been treated easily. When the follower has a Master, the guide takes the responsibility and let his Mureed get ride of such diseases. If the follower applied the good behavior during the invocation and stuck to invoke “La Ilaha Illa Allah” then the treatment would become easier. When he says “La Ilah” he dispels the envy imaginatively. He has nothing in the heart, except Allah. Here he feels the cleanliness of his heart. This is the case with respect to every vise.