Tariqa Ahmadiyya Muhammadiyya Ibrahimiyya Tijaniyya

Tariqa Ahmadiyya Muhammadiyya Ibrahimiyya Hanifiyya Tijaniyya He also said (Shaykh Ahmad Tijani)
"We have a degree in the sight of Allah, which reaches such a height in the presence of Allah, that I am forbidden to divulge its definition to you. If I were to express it, the masters of truth and gnostic wisdom would be unanimous in declaring me guilty of unbelief (kufr), to say nothing of other people. It is not the degree that I have mentioned to you. No indeed, it is beyond that!"

He also said(may Allah be pleased with him), when speaking to his companions: "You should know that Allah's bountiful grace has no limit, and that bountiful grace is in the hand of Allah, who gives it to whom He will. Let me also tell you that my station in the presence of Allah in the Hereafter will not be attained by any of the saints, and not one of them will come close to it, whether his importance be great or small. Of all the saints, from the time of the Companions until the blowing of the trumpet there is not one who will attain to our station, and not one of them will come close to it. I did not tell you that until I heard it for certain from the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace).

As for the relationship of the degrees of the people of this Spiritual Path with the degree of the people of the other Spiritual Paths, it is like that, to the point where it reaches a limit that I am forbidden to mention and divulge." He also said (may Allah be pleased with him): If the greatest Qutbs came to know what Allah has prepared for the people of this Spiritual path, they would weep and they would cry: 'Our Lord! You have given us nothing!' " "If this is the case of the Qutbs in relation to them, what do you think of those below them, including the champions of truth, the gnostic sages, and the saints? If this is the condition of those just mentioned, what do you think of the people of their Spiritual Paths, who have not attained to their degree?" He referred to what we have mentioned in his saying: "We have a degree in the sight of Allah....," to the point where he said "The peculiarity of that degree is this: If someone is not on his guard against changing the heart of our companions, with no respect for our companions, Allah will banish him from his nearness, and He will deprive him of what He has bestowed upon him." He also referred to it in his saying(May Allah be pleased with him) :

" Not one of the men of distinction will have all of his companions enter the Garden without reckoning and without chastisement, whatever sins and acts of disobedience they may have committed, not one of them except me alone." Beyond that, it is not permissible to mention what he told me about them, and which the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) guaranteed. It will not be seen and known except in the Hereafter........ As for why this Spiritual Path of ours is called "Muhammadiyya" despite the fact that all the Spiritual Paths of Allah's people are alike in that respect, there are many reasons for it : 1.All the bountiful favors bestowed upon all the saints flow from one source, that being his (the Prophet Muhammad's) essential nature (Allah bless him and give him peace), just as all the bountiful favors bestowed upon all the Prophets flow from only one source, that being his essential nature.

Our Spiritual Path is called "Muhammadiyya" because of this complete connection. Our Shaykh said: "The bountiful favors that flow from the essential nature of the Chieftan of Existence, the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace), are received by the essential nature of the Prophets (peace be upon them) and everything that flows and emanates from the essential natures of the Prophets is received by my essential nature, from which it is distributed to all creatures, from the origin of the world until the blowing of the Trumpet. Once you have understood this, the reason for calling it "Muhammadiyya" will not be concealed from you. 2.(Because of his position of Khatm Awliya) Our Shaykh receives his peculiar support from the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) and not one of the Prophets is aware of the bounty that is peculiar to him, because he has received a special temperament (mashrab) from him (Allah bless him and give him peace). 3. It is his (the Prophet Muhammad's) Spiritual Path for a special reason, because he (Allah bless him and give him peace) stated that explicitly to our Shaykh(may Allah be well pleased with him), dispelling all doubts by telling him: "Your fuqara are my fuqara, and your disciples are my disciples," and by telling him: "Whenever you authorize someone (the wird), and he gives it to others, it is as if they have received directly from you, by word of mouth, and I am a guarantor for them."...... The Prophet also said to one the Shaykhs companions (Sayid Muhammad Ghali who is buried right across from Umm Mumineen Khadija in Mecca) : "You are the son of the beloved friend, and you have entered the Spiritual Path of the greatest deputy (khalifa) and the most renowned inheritor, the most virtuous Tijani!" This is sufficient good news for the people of his Spiritual Path, for it is more important that this world and all of its goods, and than the Garden of Paradise, its palaces and the rest of its delights, and there is no goal beyond it beyond it except beholding the countenance of our Noble Master. 4. The fact that its people have a special characteristic by which they are distinguished from others, and by which they make it known that he (the Prophet) is their guarantor and in charge of their affairs. Imprinted between the eyes of each of them is the stamp: "The Prophet Muhammad, the Messenger of Allah (an Nabiyyu Muhammadun Rasulu'llah)". Imprinted over his heart, close to his back is : "Muhammad, the son of Abdullah (Muhammad ibnu Abdullah) On his head there is a crown of light, bearing the inscription: "The Tijani Spiritual Path, the origin of which is the Muhammadan Reality (at Tariqatu Tijaniyya manshu u ha'l Haqiqatu'l Muhammadiyya)" This is how they will be distinguished on the Day of Reckoning