Conditions for the Validity of the Permission

1. Validity of the Authorization of the Muggadam: He who gives Permission must have the aptitude to be a Muggadam, and must have an Authorization from the Sheikh or someone who has a valid Authorization from the Sheikh directly or through a correct & valid chain of Authority.

2. Validity of the Permission: The Permission is valid if granted to a Muslim of valid belief, sane, percipient, and free from all other tariqas and Wirds, who accepted all the conditions, after they have been recited to him and he fully understood them.

On wanting to embrace the tariqa, it is preferable that a man or a woman requests permission of his/her parents to do so, if they are alive; and the wife requests permission of her husband. baca seterusnya...

Other Conditions & Confirmed Etiquettes

6. Sitting down for performance of the Wird: One should not perform the Wird while resting on his side or standing up. However, should there be any excuse, then one may perform the Wird even while walking, on the condition that he avoids stepping on filth as much as he can.

7. Facing the Qibla, except for a reason, such as on a travel, even for a short distance, during which facing of the Qibla is not possible, or when in a group of people, performing the Wazifa.

8. In secret: but one should hear himself and listen attentively to the words of dhikr. However, in a group one may perform aloud the Wazifa and Hailalah (of Friday evening). Women should not raise their voices.

9. Recall the meanings of dhikr as much as possible, with recitation and avoidance of incorrect pronunciation.

10. Call to mind the Guide (R.A.A) from the beginning of the dhikr to the end. However, more superior and better to this is calling to mind the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم , as if one is sitting politely and solemnly before him, getting aid and support from him صلى الله عليه وسلم - relative to one's a state and standing. If one is unable to keep this a state throughout the Wird, he may call him to mind at the start of the Wird, and then observes that from time to time as he proceeds. By doing so, one would distract imagination away from false & wrongful thoughts and help the mind to concentrate. It also helps taming the innerself to learn to behave politely with them as if it actually sits before them. baca seterusnya...

Conditions for the Validity of Wirds

1. Intent: It is the aim to perform the prescribed Wirds. So, one should aim to perform the morning Wird or the evening Wird, as the case may be. The commitment makes the Wirds require definite intent - similar to all vowed acts of worship - in order to differentiate them from other general acts of worship.

Intent has two parts: the first is the aim to do (perform), which is present within the intender; and the second is the aim that the deed is done in conformity with what is prescribed.

2. Water or dust (earth) purification as prescribed by Shari’a.

3. Cover the private parts, as defined by Shari'a for prayers, for both men and women.

4. Refrain from talking during the Wird. One may signal if necessary. If signal is not understood, then, a word or two may be said. The parents are exceptions to this condition: during the Wird, one must answer his father and mother; not doing so is a sign of disobedience. In addition, the wife must answer her father, mother, and husband as he has rights upon her.

Eating & drinking invalidate the Wird, no matter how few that might be.

5. Water ablution, and a clean place that accommodates six people, are conditions for reciting the Jouharah, even once! The Jouharah must not be recited on a back of an animal or on a ship. If one uses stones for cleaning private parts, performs dust ablution, or carries filth on his body or cloth that he is unable to remove, then he may read, instead of the Jouharah, twenty times of Salat El-Fatih in the Wazifa, as a substitute; and so does anyone who can not fulfill the conditions of Jouharah.

If one does not comply with one of these conditions, he must redo the Wird. baca seterusnya...

Conditions for Righteousness of behavior

1. Perform the five prescribed prayers in time, in congregation whenever possible, observing all their conditions, pillars, submissiveness, and full restfulness - for a duration equal to moderate repetition of glorification of Allah for three times - in bowing and in prostration. Moreover, read the Basmalah (Bismillah El-Rahman El-Raheem: By the name of Allah the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful) with El-Fatiha (chapter of the Opening) in secret, in prayers of secret recitation, and loud, in prayers of loud recitation, hence getting oneself out of the disagreement between the scholars in this matter. In addition, know and abide, consistently, by shari’a matters in general.

In congregational prayers, one should ensure that the imam performs the prayers properly, and is one of the righteous people of Sunnah, as the jurists dislike praying behind an innovator and a perverse.

2. Feel no security from Allah's plan: The believer should be afraid of his Lord, and should not feel secure; his heart cannot rest from fear of punishment of Allah. Allah the Exalted says, "Are they then secure from Allah's scheme? None deemeth himself secure from Allah's scheme save folk that perish” Surah 7, verse 99. And, He the Exalted says "And those who are fearful of their Lord's doom. Lo! The doom of their Lord is that which none can feel secure", chapter 70, verses 27-28. Faith has two wings: fear and hope. Thus, pure absolute hope, without fear, is security. And pure security from Allah's plan is a straight kufr (disbelief). On the other hand, pure absolute fear is despair; and despair, without hope is a straight Kufr. Allah the Exalted says, "And despair not from the spirit (mercy) of Allah. Lo! None despairs of spirit of Allah save disbelieving folk", chapter 12, verse 87.

3. Dutifulness to parents: Allah the Exalted says, “Thy Lord hath decreed, that ye worship none save him, and that ye show kindness to parents…” chapter 17, verse 23. Sidi Ahmed Tidjani said that this tariqa would not be easy to keep by anyone who is not dutiful & kind to his parents.

4. Give nobody Permission to the tariqa or a Wird without proper Authorization. It has been narrated of some Sheikhs, as saying that: pretending sheikhdom, untruthfully, is a sign of wretchedness; May Allah saves us all

5. Respect all those who are associated with the Sheikh (R.A.A.), especially those who are of high standing.

6. Avoid company of criticizers of the Sheikh (R.A.A.).

7. Do not desert people and sever the relationship with them without a legitimate reason, especially the brothers in the tariqa. The Sheikh (R.A.A) said, “Beware, and again beware that none of you neglect the rights of his brothers of what might create good heartedness or dispel suffering, or aid against distress".

8. Gather for performance of Wazifa, and Hailalah in Friday evenings, if there are brothers free from exempting factors.

If one does not comply with one of these conditions, he must immediately revert, and repent to Allah, so that his walk and endeavor towards the divine may continue.

Persistence on noncompliance with one of these conditions may lead to an act that will dissociate and cut one off the tariqa. baca seterusnya...