التصوف والطرق الصوفية في حمص ١١_a .. كتاب حمص

And five prominent figures - behind Sheikh Khaled, then after him, Sheikh Yahya Bulbul from Beit Darbas in Homs left behind and took over from Sheikh Qasim Al-Hulani.

Then after that, Sheikh Ahmed Mahrat came from the Levant, where he lived. In his hand is a Saadiyyah license from Sheikh Muhammad Taj al-Saadi, the sheikh of the Saadiyya carpet in Damascus, and in his hand is a letter, meaning a liberation, from the path of the aforementioned sheikh to the fathers of Sheikh Khaled al-Saadi, Building the Help, p. 34/. And (After 1286 AH, Sheikh Yusuf Salama, a resident of Homs, came from Jabba. He had previously left Homs, fleeing from the government with a case assigned to him, and he went to Jabba. He served under Hazrat al-Din for years. Then he came to Homs, holding a Saadia license from Sheikh Issa al-Ali. Al-Jabbawi, and he rode out in the car behind Sheikh Ahmed Mahrat, according to the system, and his son, Saadu Salama, succeeded him. After that, he went out in the Thursday procession. After the First World War. After the Second World War, he used to go out in a Thursday procession. The sheikhs from Sayyidah Al-Saadia:

1 - The family of Sheikh Saad al-Din al-Jabbawi.
2 - The family of Sheikh Saado Salama.
3 - The family of Sheikh Damis Al-Saadi, after they separated from Sheikh Saad Al-Din. And in the procession on Friday:

4 - Al-Sheikh Ahmed Mahrat (1).

The Saadian order also spread between the two wars in the countryside of Homs. Sheikh Othman al-Qa’i was a caliph in Jdeideh, Sheikh Faraj al-Abdullah in Dar al-K Birah, Sheikh Juma Juma in al-Qusayr, Sheikh Abu Saeed Bakkar in Kafr Aaya, and Sheikh Muhammad al-Talib in Deir. Baalba and these villages are all around Homs, and there were a number of sheikhs living in Homs, such as Sheikh Omar Al-Naasan, Sheikh Muhammad Al-Tayyara, Sheikh Muhammad Al-Dabdoub, Sheikh Khaled Al-Saqqa, and others.

3- The Naqshbandi method:

It is attributed to Muhammad Bahaa al-Din Naqshband / who was born in the month of Muharram in the year 717 AH = March 1317 AD in Qasr Al-Arifan / which is one of the villages of / Bukhara / a farsang from it / and the inscription / is the image of a stamp if it is printed on wax and the like, and the clause / meaning its binding and its survival Without erasing it, the word then refers to: the effect of remembrance on the heart and its impression on it, and its most prominent features:

I limit the dhikr in it to the hidden dhikr of the heart, as dhikr is a secret between the servant and his Lord. In all the paths, the elders order their disciples to dhikr with the tongue, that is, out loud, and then they move them after that to dhikr of the heart, that is, secretly. As for this method, its beginning is dhikr of the heart and its end is permanent presence with God Almighty. Complying with the words of their Sheikh Al-Naqshbandi (We included the ending at the beginning)

B - It required its sheikhs to be scholars - eminent scholars who combined knowledge and remembrance, and they would direct their disciples to scientific studies of the Qur’an, Sunnah, and jurisprudence. That is why it was called (the method of scholars), as for them, Sharia is above conditions, imports, and existents.

C - The sheikhs of this order do not order their disciples to enter seclusion and leave work (A), staying up late constantly, abandoning food, and neglecting the affairs of others, even the husband and children, as we saw in the Rifa’i order, and their motto is (being alone in seclusion), meaning that the one who knows them sees that he will eat and drink with you. He jokes with you, pledges allegiance to you, and partners with you, and his heart is attached to God, and he has no dark concerns.)

D - They do not allow distorting the word “God” in the dhikr. The one who introduced this method in the Levant was Khalid Abu al-Baha, Dia al-Din al-Dimashqi, who established the Naqshbandi Mujaddidi method. He was born in the year 1190 AH, = 1776 AD, in Qasaba Aqara Dagh (about five miles from Sulaymaniyah). He visited many countries, and made a Hajj in 1220 AH, = 1805 AD. He wrote many books in Arabic and Persian. Then he settled in Damascus, where he died in 1242 AH = 1826 AD and buried Al-Salihiyya.

As for the one who introduced the method to Homs, he was:

Sheikh Ahmed Al-Tawzaqli: We do not have anything to prove the year of his birth, but it is likely that it was in the last decade of the eighteenth century, because Sheikh Ahmed, after he had grown up and acquired some knowledge, went to Damascus and met Sheikh Khalid mentioned there and became his student and studied under him until he gathered The apparent and hidden sciences, and he gained the first place among the successors of Sheikh Khaled, who was relied upon for knowledge. Even if he completed the stages of the Naqshbandi order and became a successor to Sheikh Khaled, his teacher granted him general guidance and allowed him to return to Homs to be a headquarters for his guidance. So he lived (2) Homs in the Bab al-Turkman neighborhood, and established his zawiya in the Al-Omari Mosque - that is, the Palm Mosque - named after Omar. Nuts