HAFIZ IBN RAJAB AL-HANBALI AND SUFISM (PART TWO)

Translated by Ismaeel Nakhuda

Translator’s foreword: Below is the second part (read part one) of the fifth chapter of the incomplete yet ongoing translation of Shaykh ‘Abd al-Hafiz’s Mawqif A’immat al-Harakat al-Salafiyyah min al-Tasawwuf wa al-Sufiyyah.

HAFIZ IBN RAJAB AL-HANBALI AND SUFISM (PART ONE)

Translated by Ismaeel Nakhuda

Translator’s foreword: Below is the first part of the fifth chapter of the incomplete yet ongoing translation of Shaykh ‘Abd al-Hafiz’s Mawqif A’immat al-Harakat al-Salafiyyah min al-Tasawwuf wa al-Sufiyyah.

The Reality of Tasawwuf (Part One)

An original Deoband.org article
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.