ABDULQÂDÎR-I-GEILÂNÎ ‘rahmatullâh ta’âlâ ’alaih’
Muhyiddîn Abû Muhammad bin Abû Sâlih bin Mûsâ Jengî Dost Abdulqâdîr-i-Geilânî ‘rahmatullâh ta’âlâ ’alaih’ (471 [1078], Geilan, Iran - 561 [1166], Baghdâd, Iraq) a great Walî and a great expert in Tasawwuf, a mujtahid in the Islamic branches of knowledge termed Fiqh and Hadîth. Through a paternal chain of ancestry, he was related to the Messenger of Allah ‘sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa sallam’ both through hadrat Hasan ‘radiy-Allâhu ’anh’ and through Huseyn ‘radiy- Allâhu ’anh’, the two blessed grandsons of the Messenger of Allah ‘sall-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’alaihi wa sallam’. His blessed mother, Fâtima binti Abû Abdullah, was again one of the granddaughters of hadrat Huseyn ‘radiy-Allâhu ta’âlâ ’anh’, Rasûlullah’s younger grandson.
HOLD FAST TO THE SUNNA AND TO REFRAIN FROM BID’A
Muhammad Ma’sûm al-Fârûqî, in the 17th letter of the third volume of his Maktûbât,wrote,
“The essence of our way is to hold fast to the Sunna and to refrain from bid’a. [In other words, it is to hold fast to the fards and sunnas and to avoid the things that have been concocted in the name of ’ibâdât afterwards.]”