التصوف والطرق الصوفية في حمص ١٥_a .. كتاب حمص

Measure the deaths with their arrows, so what is my trick? Patience has been crushed by distance
Such as :

He grew up while breastfeeding
The Lord of the sweet source guided us
Did the person who threw planets at us die?
God took care of an order that was issued yesterday
I have another promise from you
His achievement almost precedes death

The frankincense of excellence and perfection has a cradle
I love that sweet and rose-filled spring
From guidance, happiness flourishes in its dawns
On the authority of Mr. Al-Bakri, he did not have a history
In the presence of the sword of God, there is no era above him
Yes, it is actually an ace of roses

Then he chronicles the death of his teacher by saying:

For those who were in the ten, he chose him as a historian with a good ending with him

Mr. Abdel Fattah Rawas Al-Qalaa has placed the ji in his book of poetry by Amin Al-Jundi - footnote (1) about this verse from page // 201 and mentioned in it (the date of his death 1233 AH), while the sentences’ calculation for the letters of the second part. Their total is / 1232 / and not / 0/1233 It seems that he quoted the date of death from Mikhail Boutros Mammari / in his book / Sheikh Amin Al-Jundi, the Poet, Al-Ham Al-Raqiq / without bothering to calculate it.

The second student in Homs was Darwish Al-Ikhwan, who succeeded Mr. Omar Al-Yafi on the carpet of the Khalwatiyya order. He is Darwish bin Abdullah bin Ahmed, as mentioned in the family record, p. 7, and his date of birth is not known. He married Nafus/bint Zaini, born in Homs.

He was followed by three sons and two daughters, one of whom was Nuzha, whom Sheikh Abu Al-Nasr bin Omar Al-Yafi married and gave birth to his son, Sheikh Abu Al-Saud. It seems that Mr. Omar Al-Yafi did not content himself with implanting the Khalwatiyya order in Homs, but he also planted a branch of his family in it through the marriage of his son, Abu Al-Nasr, to the daughter of Mr. Darwish Al-Ikhwan, his student and successor on the tariqa’s carpet.

We believe that the birth of Mr. Darwish Al-Ikhwan was in the last decade of the eighteenth century due to the birth of his eldest son, Ismail, in 1829 AD, as stated in the Al-Ikhwan family register. Given the arrival of Omar al-Yafi to Homs in 1805 AD, his death was chronicled by Mr. Muhammad Ajam in the following verses:

On Shawwal, Darwish passed away with love for the children of the Khalwati Path and the Brotherhood of Safa. They all mourned for the one who was pious, and the Giver of Gifts called him to the highest, most sacred place for this favored master. Relax his decree while the secret is filled with passion (1)

So his death was in Shawwal of the year 1308 AH = May 1890 AD, so he lived for about a hundred years and did not burden his followers with what they could not bear.

The poor of Khalutiya are distinguished in their remembrance and prayers by frequently asking for forgiveness, praising Him, and praying upon the Prophet, and they have formulas for that which we will repeat. As for the method of teaching them to remember, the best thing that distinguishes it is the repetition of the seven names in a specific pattern and at intermittent intervals, and the first seven names in the left ear, which is (There is no god but Allah) three times with the eyes closed. Then God is, True, Ever-Living, Ever-Living, and as for the seventh name in the right ear, which is (Qamar), and Sheikh Saad al-Din al-Jabbawi mentions about them: (They were the first to innovate dhikr in homes when washing the dead, and dhikr and chanting in his house until the ground, so they used to raise the sign, i.e. Knowledge is from the house of the sheikh, where they go out with it, with remembrance, chanting, and singing, to the house of the deceased, and then when they finish the burial, they also return, pointing to its place, with remembrance and chanting, and their pointing does not go out except for this purpose. Then the method faded away, and this innovation with it was destroyed by God... and the reason for his mother’s permissibility in this land. Not having a club or any corner of its own, Abu Al-Nasr Al-Yafi used to hold the dhikr in Bazarbashi Mosque after the afternoon prayer, every day and on Friday after the afternoon, in the presence of Khalid bin Al-Walid.

It seems that the seven names that the Khalwats used to use during indoctrination are the same ones that the sheikhs of the Ahmadiyya order used to mention. Here, the similarity in the two methods made Sheikh Hamid Al-Tayara, after the death of Darwish Al-Ikhwan, add the name Al-Khalwatiyya - to Al-Ahmadiyya - so the order became known in their era as Al-Ahmadiyah Al-Khalwatiyya, and with this new name, Sheikh Hamid Al-Tayyara authorized the aforementioned Malawi sheikh, and others permitted others.

In the fifties of this century, the Ahmadiyya Khaluti order had the following branches in Homs: the Al-Tayyara family branch in Bab Hud, the Al-Aswad branch in Bab Hud, the Abdul-Moneim family branch also in Bab Hud, the Shallar family in Bab Al-Duraib, and the Hajj Yunus family branch.

7 - The Mawlawi method:

It is attributed to the saint, Jalal al-Din al-Rumi, 1207/2273 AD. He was born in Balkh, one of the villages in what is now Afghanistan, and he died in Konya and was buried there. A Persian poet and mystic who studied under his father, Baha al-Din, the successor of Sheikh Najm al-Din Kubri, the founder of the Kubrawiyya order. He traveled to Baghdad, Mecca, Damascus, and Mayya, and finally landed in Konya, where he met Shams al-Din al-Tabrizi. He wrote “Al-Masnavi,” a collection containing sixty thousand lines of poetry in the Persian language. It is considered the most important collection of Persian Sufi poetry, and what is notable in its style is:

1 - He united the followers of his doctrine with simple and appropriate clothing, and he dressed them in the long kalah or sika, which is a long, khaki-colored fez.

2 - He appointed leaders for his followers with high ranks at their head. M (1) / Al-Dada / who is the sheikh of the corner in the town and receives his instructions from the main center in Konya / and is appointed from it. After World War I, and the arrival of Kemal Ataturk to power, he abolished all the Sufi groups, so the center moved from Konya to Aleppo. Al-Shalabi, the head of the Konya center, is a descendant of a family. / Al-Shalbian / who used to appoint the sheikhs of the hospice
Mevlevi times in the days of the Ottoman Empire.

3 - Place the seat of the ranks in the middle of the dhikr circle on a special large rug for the lowest-ranking person to sit on, then on top of it another rug that is more luxurious than the first and smaller, on which the highest-ranking person sits, then a third rug that is more luxurious than before and smaller for the Dada to sit on.

4- He made the movement of the male killers like a solemn religious dance.

E - Enter the flute, tanbour, and drum, playing the most wonderful international classical tunes. Mawlawi Khanh is the composer of Nagham Al-Saba, which is considered one of the masterpieces of world classical music, which is music that is limited to playing and is not accompanied by singing.

6 - He built in every city in Turkey / Dar / Al-Mawla Khana, a shelter and sleeping area for the tourist men. If someone wanted to follow the Tariqa, he asked the Sheikh to do so, and he told him to (continue), meaning he was allowed to follow the dhikr circles that were held on Monday nights and Friday nights from Every week, during this time, the prefect searches for the behavior and reputation of the candidate in his neighborhood and among his friends and acquaintances. If he is certain of the soundness of his reputation, character, and behavior, the sheikh announces his acceptance and asks him to bring the special cloak and robe for the Mawlawiyya. Then the sheikh of the order appoints a date to celebrate this, and the shawish and dervishes are informed of this date, where the nominated sheikh imitates the kula and announces his acceptance as a dervish (1). The tariqa, and after a few days, the dervish sat on a dervish tablecloth, called the summit - food and salt of the tariqa, so that he would become acquainted with the dervishes, and become a brother in the tariqa and saltiness.

However, when “Dada” dies in Homs, for example, the following things happen: The eldest son of the deceased “Dada” or his heir goes to Al-Shalabi’s residence center after obtaining a guardianship document certified by the mufti, the head of supervision, the chiefs, and the dervishes, and then “Al-Shalabi’s” agent takes note of his arrival. He informs Al-Shalabi of this, and after three days, Al-Shalabi meets him and assigns him to serve in the kitchen for a period ranging between nine days and nine months in an austere state. When permission for the interview comes, he is sent to the bathroom and a special bakja is sent to him, while Al-Shalabi invites the dervishes to the square of the Mawlawiyya, while the Dada is... The curtain/turban was prepared by order of