The Naqshbandi Way – A Guidebook for Spiritual Progress

THE NAQSHBANDI WAY – A GUIDEBOOK FOR SPIRITUAL PROGRESS

The Spiritual Exercises of the Naqshbandi Sufi Path

According to the Instructions of Sultan ul-Awliya Sheikh Abdullah ad-Daghistani

There are many veils between us and our heavenly positions. A Naqshbandi Master rends these veils in a descending fashion: starting with that closest to the Divine Presence and then successively downwards towards the level of the murid.

This process continues throughout the training of the murid, until there is but one veil restraining the murid’s vision from the contemplation of the Divine Reality.

In order to protect the murid, however, the Grandsheikh does not rend that veil, lest the murid’s ego allow him to indulge in something other than his Lord.

That lowest veil is the Veil of Humanity (Hijab ul-Bashariyya) and it is rent finally with the last breath before death, at which time the murid understands the wisdom in keeping him veiled, as his vision reaches, unobstructed and unflinching, to the highest Heaven.

This entire text is from ‘The Naqshbandi Way: A Guidebook for Spiritual Progress”. It is taken from a book originally produced in 1982. The original text translation from the arabic has been done by: Muhammad Suleiman. The commentary translation from arabic: Ibrahim Shukrullah

To make it ‘easier’ to read in an online environment the original book has been broken down its sections. This also makes it easier for the reader to bookmark sections and reference other parts of the book as they feel necessary.

• Preface and Commentaries by Sheikh Nazim al-Qubrusi
• The Naqshbandi Way – Section 1
• The Practices – Wazaif
• The First Kind
• The Awrad
• The Naqshbandi Way – The Second Part – For the people of determination
• Part Two – For those who have not yet attained the level of the people of determination
• Part Two – The Awrad
• The Third Group 
• The Fourth Group
• Glossary of Arabic Terms