An original Deoband.org article
By Shaykh al-Hadith Mawlana Zakariyya Kandhlawi
Translated by Ismaeel Nakhuda
By Shaykh al-Hadith Mawlana Zakariyya Kandhlawi
Translated by Ismaeel Nakhuda
An Excerpt from Shari’ah wa Tariqah ka Talazum[1]
TRANSLATOR’S FOREWORD
Questions surrounding the reality of Tasawwuf are plentiful. In this excellent treatise, one of the greatest Sufi shaykhs and hadith masters of the last century, Shaykh al-Hadith Mawlana Muhammad Zakariyya Kandhalwi, writes at length how authentic Tasawwuf is firmly rooted in the fundamentals of Islam, sitting between two extremes — the way of those who reject it on the one hand and the way of those who practise it independent of Shari’ah on the other.