The First Kind

These are the basics of those Adab which are considered necessary, and if the Murid does not bind himself to it, then his Guide will be embarrassed to have to accept such a deficient gift from his Murid.

This Adab must be performed once in every twentyfour hours.

Everything which the Prophet (Peace be upon Him!) brought was founded on this Adab and it is the way that the slave reaches the key to being very close to Allah (Who is Powerful and Sublime!).

It was also by means of it that the Prophets, Messenger Prophets and Saints reached their Creator (Whose condition is Sublime and Exalted). And it is also by means of it that we reach to Allah (Who is without fault and is Self-Exalting) and take all the Stations of the most distinguished Tariqah.

The Masters of the Most Distinguished Naqshbandi Order say that whoever claims that he is affiliated with one of the forty orders or to the Most Distinguished Naqshbandi Order, but nevertheless has not entered Khalwah even once in his life, then such a person should be ashamed of connecting himself with the People of the Path.

But Maulana, our great guide, says: Whichever of the People of the Last Time wishes to attain a high rank and an exalted stage, and to get what a Murid normally gets only by means of Khalwah and spiritual exercises, then he must continuously perform this Adab and also the Waza’if.

With this Adab we have set the foundation for the higher Stations, and now we are ready to build on this foundation.

First of all, we shall start with the Waza’if for the People of Determination from among the Ummah of Muhammad (Peace be upon him!). The Murid ought to know that if he fails to attain an exalted Station and high Grade in this world because of his lack of effort, then he shall not be separated from this world but that the Sheikhs make him reach it, and reveal for him his Station at the time of the seventh to last breath during the agonies of death.

You should also know that nothing Haram should intervene between the Adab and other spiritual practices. If anyone performs these Adab and then performs an action which is forbidden, then that person will be like a person who builds the foundation of his house on the side of a cliff, and his house then collapses down the cliff.