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Who are the Awlia-Allah ( The Saints ) 

"the journey of the saints."

Qutbul Aqtaab,Syedus Saadaat,Sheikhul_Mashaikh, Ghous Samadaani,  Mahboob Subhaani, Sulatanul_Aulia, Abu Muhammad, Al-Syed Sheikh Mohayyuddin Abdul Qadir   Al-Gillani ,  Radhi_Allahu Anhu   

 said:  

Become virtually non-existant ( i.e extinct) to all created beings by Allah's leave.  Become completely free from  your passionate desire [hawa] by His command as in the holy Quraan:  "In Allah put your trust if you are true believers" (5:23 ), and give up  your own will with total submission to  His action (Jalla-Jalaalahu ) .Then you will be  fit to receive the knowledge of Allah (Subhanahu Wa-Ta'ala)

What signifies your 'being extinct' to Allah's creatures is your isolation and detachment from them, and loss of interest in things at their disposal.

Extinction to your passionate desire is marked by giving up the habit of striving to acquire worldly means in order to procure benefit and cause harm to others. You make no movement on your own behalf, do nothing to or for yourself on purpose, take no action to defend or help yourself, but entrust all that to Allah (Subhanahu Wa-Ta'ala), because He was in charge of it in the first place, and He will take care of it to the end, just as it was entrusted to Him when you were hidden inside the womb, and when you were a suckling baby in your mother's arms. 

Your extinction to self-will [irada] through the action of Allah (Subhanahu Wa-Ta'ala) is indicated by your never formulating any personal goal, your lack of selfish interest, and the fact that you no longer feel any want or craving, for besides the will of Allah (Subhanahu Wa-Ta'ala) you wish for nothing else. Instead, the action of Allah is at work in you, so that while   you are experiencing Allah's (Subhanahu Wa-Ta'ala) will and action your limbs become relaxed, your mind becomes calm and your feelings widen, your face begins to glow and your inner being thrives. In contact with the Creator, you feel no need of things.

The hand of Power will turn you every way about, and the tongue of Eternity will summon you. The Lord of the universe will teach you, and clothe you in beams of His own light and special jewels and ornaments, and install you among those self-righteous  and the ones who had attained  knowledge of Ma'refat (recognition of the Lord of the Universe.

This will leave you permanently remorseful, incapable of holding any carnal appetite or will, you will become like a cracked vessel that cannot retain either liquid or dregs. You will be separated from ordinary human standards of behavior, for your inner being will not accept anything other than the will of Allah (Subhanahu Wa-Ta'ala)

At this stage you may be credited with working miracles and super- natural phenomena, for such manifestations will bear the outward appearance of emanating from you, though in reality they are the work of Allah (Subhanahu Wa-Ta'ala) and His will.

Now you will be admitted to the company of those whose hearts have been shattered, their human will-power broken and their natural appetites eliminated, and who have then been re-endowed-but with a Will Sublime (pertaining to the Lord). As the Holy Prophet (Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wasallam) said:   "Three things belonging to this world of yours have been made dear to me: perfume, women, and as cool refreshment for my eyes, the [Islamic] prayer." Of course, to confirm the point we have already indicated, these things were added unto him anew-after they had left him and become unreal to him.

Allah (Subhanahu Wa-Ta'ala) has said: "I am with those who are broken- hearted on My account." So Allah (Subhanahu Wa-Ta'ala) will not be with you until you totally disown your desire and your will. When these are broken, and you contain nothing stable or useful, Allah will create you afresh and install in you a new power of will for you to exercise. If any element of self creeps into this newly created will, however, the Lord (Subhanahu Wa-Ta'ala) will smash it again. You will always be left broken- hearted, because He will repeat this process until the book of destiny ends with reunion [liqa]. This is the meaning of: "I am with those who are broken-hearted on My account." When we speak of an element of self creeping in, we mean that you become sure and self-confident in relation to the new will. 

In a Sacred Tradition (badith qudsi) related by the blessed Prophet (Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wasallam), Allah (Subhanahu Wa-Ta'ala) says: 

"My servant constantly approaches Me through supererogatory acts of worship until I love him, and when I love him, I become his ears with which he hears, his eyes with which he sees, his hands with which he holds, and his legs with which he walks." In another version, the wording is: "So through Me he hears, through Me he sees, and through Me he understands."

This comes about in the state of annihilation (al-fana) and no other. When you become extinct in relation to yourself and to all creatures, the whole creation being good and evil, as you likewise are good and evil, you neither hope for any good nor fear any evil there from. Only Allah (Subhanahu Wa-Ta'ala)  remains, Alone as He ever was. Good and evil are part of Allah's plan, so He will keep you safe from the evil, and will immerse you in the oceans of His good. You will become the receptacle of all that is good, a stronghold for every blessing, happiness and joy, a beacon of security and peace.

Annihilation is therefore the aim and object, the final destination of the journey of the saints. This was the direction sought by all previous saints and Abdaal: to become extinct to their own will, and let the will of the Almighty and Glorious Truth take its place, as a permanent transformation, lasting until death. That is why they came to be called Abdaal ( 'substitutes') (Radhi-Allahu Anhum)

For these masters, it is sinful to associate the will of the divine Truth with their own will, through absent-mindedness, forgetfulness, onset of rapture, or moment of alarm, so Allah (Subhanahu Wa-Ta'ala) mercifully jolts them with a reminder to be vigilant. They then pull themselves together, and ask forgiveness of their Lord, for none but the angels are innocent of self-will. Such innocence has been granted to the angels, while the Prophets are immune to passionate desire. As for the rest of creation, whether human beings or jinn, they are all held morally accountable and enjoy no immunity .Of course, some of the saints are preserved from passionate desire, and the Abdaal from self-will. But in neither case is the immunity complete, since they may be prone to these two weaknesses at times, until Allah (Subhanahu Wa-Ta'ala) overtakes them with His mercy and brings them to their senses. 

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