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Once Shaykh Nazim was visiting Lebanon...

for a period of two months during the hajj season.

The governor of the city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Ashar ad-Daya, was head of the official convoy to the hajj. He invited Shaykh Nazim to go with him on the Pilgrimage.

The Shaykh said...

“I cannot go with you, but, Insha-Allah, I will meet you there.”

The governor insisted, “If you are going, please go with me. Don’t go with anyone else.” Shaykh Nazim replied, “I don’t yet know, if I will go or not.”

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After the season of hajj finished...

and the governor had returned...

he rushed to the house where Shaykh Nazim was staying. In front of 100 people, while we were watching, he said, “O Shaykh Nazim, why did you go with someone else, why didn’t you come with me?”

We said, “The Shaykh did not go on hajj. For two months he has been here with us, traveling around Lebanon.”

He said, “No! He was on hajj! I have witnesses! One day, I was making the ritual circumambulation of the Ka’aba, and Shaykh Nazim came to me and said, ‘O Ashar, are you here?’ I said, ‘Yes, my Shaykh.’ Then he made  circumambulation with me.

We spent the night together in our hotel in Makkah. He spent the day with us on Arafat, in our tent. He spent the night with me in Mina, and he stayed with us in Mina for three days. Then he told me, ‘I have to go to Madinah to visit the Prophet.'”

As he told this story...

we were carefully observing Shaykh Nazim, as we knew that he had never left our presence in Lebanon.

We saw that unique, hidden smile, as if he meant to say, “That is the power that Allah grants to his saints. When they are on His Way, when they reach His Divine Love and His Divine Presence, Allah will grant them everything.”

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When he saw that, the governor said...

“O my Shaykh, what is this miraculous ability that you showed us? It is incredible. That is something I never saw in all my life... I am a politician, and I rely on my mind and my logic. Yet I must say, that you are not an ordinary person, you have superhuman powers. It must be something that Allah Himself has dressed you with!”

He kissed the hand of the Shaykh, and asked him for initiation in the Naqshbandi Order.

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Whenever Shaykh Nazim would visit Lebanon...

that governor and the prime minister of Lebanon would sit in the Shaykh’s association.

Up until today, their families and many of the Lebanese people are his followers.


~bron~