Abdul Qadir Gilani Ghous Ul Azam Dastagir

Abdul Qadir Gilani Peeran e Peer Ghous Ul Azam Dastageer (Persian: عبدالقادر گیلانی, Arabic: عبدالقادر الجیلانی) is called Mohi-ud-Din Abu Muhammad bin Muhammad by fans. Abu Saleh Abdul Qadir al-Gilani al-Hasani and al-Husseini, a Hanbali Sunni Muslim preacher, ascetic, mystic, jurist, and theologian, was known as the founder of the Sufi system of Sufism.

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He was born on the first day of Ramadan in Gilanaif, Iran, in 470 AD (March 23, 1078), and died in Baghdad on Monday, February 21, 1166 (11 Rabi al-Thani, 561 AD) ). He was a Persian Hanbali Sunni jurist and Sufi living in Baghdad. The Qadriyya method is named after him.

Name Peeran e Peer Dastageer 

Mohi-ud-Din describes his status as "the one who revives religion" in the eyes of many Sufis. Gilani (Arabic: جیلانی) refers to his birthplace, as Gilani. However, Gilani also took the title of Baghdadi, citing his residence and burial in Baghdad.

Family background

Gilani's father, Abu Saleh Musa, was of Syed Nasab lineage, traced to Hassan bin Ali, the grandson of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad. Abu Saleh was revered by his contemporaries as a guardian and was known as a friend of war (meaning "lover of knowledge" in Lori), who was originally his father's subcontinent. Gilani's mother was Umm al-Khair Fatima, who was a descendant of Mohammed Al-Jawad, Hasan's younger brother Hussein Ibn Ali.

Shajra e Nasab (Family Tree):
From Father’s side:

  • Hazrat Sheikh Syed Abdul Qadir Gilani (may Allah have mercy on him) (in Arabic Jilani).
  • Hazrat Syed Abu Saleh Al-Sayyid Musa (RA)
  • Hazrat Syed Abdullah Jelly (may Allah have mercy on him)
  • Hazrat Syed Shah Muhammad Yahya Zahid (may Allah have mercy on him)
  • Hazrat Syed Abu Muhammad, Abu Al-Qasim, Shams-ud-Din Muhammad Morris
  • Hazrat Syed Abu Muhammad, Sirajuddin, Dawood Amjad
  • Hazrat Syed Musa Sani (may Allah have mercy on him)
  • Hazrat Syed Abdullah Sani (may Allah have mercy on him)
  • Hazrat Syed Musa Jan (RA)
  • Hazrat Syed Abdullah Al-Muhaz (may Allah have mercy on him)
  • Hazrat Syed Hassan Masna (RA)
  • Hazrat Syed Imam Hassan Mujtaba (as)
  • Hazrat Ali (RA) Hazrat Bibi Syeda Fatima (RA)
  • Hazrat Muhammad Mustafa (peace be upon him)

From Mother’s side:

  • Hazrat Bibi Umm-ul-Khair Fatima, mother of Hazrat Sheikh Syed Abdul Qadir Gilani (Arabic Jilani).
  • Hazrat Syed Abdullah Al-Sami Izz Zahid, the father of Umm Al-Khair Fatima
  • Hazrat Syed Muhammad (RA)
  • Hazrat Syed Mahmood (RA)
  • Hazrat Syed Abul Tar Abdullah (RA)
  • Hazrat Syed Kamal-ud-Din Isa (as)
  • Hazrat Syed Abu Alauddin Muhammad Al-Jawad
  • Hazrat Syed Imam Ali Raza (as)
  • Hazrat Syed Imam Musa Kazim (as)
  • Hazrat Syed Imam Muhammad Jafar Sadiq (as)
  • Hazrat Syed Imam Muhammad Baqir (as)
  • Hazrat Syed Imam Zain-ul-Abidin (as)
  • Hazrat Syed Imam Hussain (as)
  • Hazrat Ali (RA) Hazrat Bibi Syeda Fatima (RA)
  • Hazrat Muhammad Mustafa (peace be upon him)
Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jilani (RA) is Najib Al-Tarfeen, which means Hassani and Hussaini Syed.

Spiritual Lineage, Shajra Mubarak

  • Prophet Muhammad (SW)
  • The Caliph Ali ibn Abi Talib
  • Hazrat Imam Hassan(AS)
  • Hazrat Imam Hussain (AS)
  • Imam Zain-ul-Abideen
  • Imam Muhammad Baqir
  • Imam Jafar Sadiq
  • Imam Musa Kazim
  • Imam Ali Moosa Raza
  • Sheikh Ma’ruf Karkhi
  • Sheikh Sari Saqati
  • Sheikh Junayd al-Baghdadi
  • Sheikh Abu Bakr Shibli Hadi
  • Sheikh Abdul Aziz al-Tam?m?
  • Sheikh Abu al-Fadl Abu al-Wahid al-Tamm
  • Sheikh Abu al-Farah Tartusi
  • Sheikh Syed Ibrahim Abu al-Hasan Ali Hakari
  • Sheikh Abu Sa’id al-Mubarak Mukharrami
  • Sheikh Syed Abdul Qadir Jilani
  • Radi Allahu Anhum

Education

Gilani spent his early life in the province of his birth. He moved to Baghdad in 1095 at the age of eighteen. There he studied Hanbali law with Abu Sa'id Mubarak Makhzumi and Ibn Aqeel. He studied hadith from Abu Muhammad Ja'far al-Siraj. His Sufi spiritual teacher was Abu al-Khair Hammad bin Muslim al-Dabbas. (Details of their various teachers and subjects are given below). After completing his education, Gilani left Baghdad. He spent 25 years wandering in the deserts of Iraq.

Law school

Al-Jilani belonged to the Shafi'i and Hanbali sects. He equated Shafi'i jurisprudence with the Hanbali school of religion and issued fatwas according to both at the same time. That is why Nawawi praised him in his book Bustan al-Arfeen (Garden of Spiritual Masters) and said: And the Sheikh of the Hanbalis. "

The Qadriyya Method of Sufism (Sufi Rule)

He founded the Qadiriyya sect, which has many branches, spread to different parts of the world, and is also found in Britain, Africa, Turkey, Indonesia, Afghanistan, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, the Balkans, Russia, and Palestine. Are, China, and East and West Africa.

After the Mongol conquest of Baghdad in 1258, Qadri developed and remained an influential Sunni institution. After the fall of the Abbasid Caliphate, Gilani's fiction was further expanded by a text entitled The Happiness of Secrets in Abdul Qadir's Mysterious Deeds (Bahjat al-Asrar fi Manaqib Abdul Qadir) attributed to Noor al-Qadir. - Din Ali al-Shatanofi, who portrayed Gilani as the ultimate source of divine grace and helped Qadri's rule spread beyond the Baghdad area.

The established Sufi sheikhs often adopted the Qadri tradition without abandoning the leadership of their local communities. Soon after the Ottoman Empire conquered Baghdad in 1534, Suleiman I ordered the construction of a dome over the tomb of Abdul Qadir Gilani and the establishment of Qadri as one of his key allies in Iraq.

Later life

In 1127, Gilani returned to Baghdad and began preaching to the people. He joined the teaching staff of his own teacher Al-Makhzoumi's school and was popular among the students. And the virtues of the Qur'an. He was able to reconcile the mystical nature of Sufism with the serious requirements of Islamic law.

Death and burial Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jilani Mazar(shrine)

Sheikh Abdul Qadir Gilani Mosque Baghdad 1925
Gilani died on February 21, 1166 (11 Rabi al-Thani, 561 AH) at the age of 87. His body was buried in a shrine inside his school in Bab al-Sheikh Rusafa, on the eastern bank of the Djala river in the Iraqi city of Baghdad.

Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jilani shrine was destroyed during the reign of Safavid Shah Ismail I. However, in 1535, the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Great built a dome on the temple, which still exists.

Birthday and death anniversary celebrations

1 Ramadan is celebrated as Gilani’s birthday, and his anniversary is the 11th of Rabi al-Thani, although some scholars believe that 29 Sha'ban and 17 Rabi al-Thani are the dates of his birth and death. In the Indian subcontinent, his wedding, or the day of his death, is called the Eleventh Sharif, or the Day of Honor.


Al-Madad Ya Ghous Ul Azam Dastagir!