Shaikh Muḥammad al-Muḥammad al-Kasnazān after leaving the hospital, Virginia, USA, looking as if he is bidding farewell to his followers, lovers, and the world (early March 2020).
The Shaikh is a medium for good. The Shaikh enjoins good and forbids evil. The Shaikh directs you towards Allah, so he is a medium for good. You do not worship the Shaikh, I seek forgiveness from Allah. No! You worship Allah (exalted and high is He) with knowledge through the Shaikh’s words, through the Shaikh’s orders. The Shaikh enjoins good and forbids evil: good as described in the Book and the Sunna; good as described in Islamic texts. The Shaikh orders you to follow Ṭarīqa, Ṭarīqa that the Shaikhs have decreed. This way is not an innovation of Shaikh Muḥammad. This way is decreed from Allah (exalted and high is He), “Hold firmly to the rope of Allah all together and do not become divided” (Āl ʿImrān 103), “Indeed, those who pledge allegiance to you [O Muḥammad] are pledging allegiance to Allah. The hand of Allah is over their hands” (al-Fatḥ 48:10).
Shaikh Muḥammad al-Muḥammad al-Kasnazān (Sermon, 30 January 2013)
Shaikh Muḥammad al-Muḥammad al-Kasnazān in a dhikr circle, perhaps in the Baghdad takya (middle 1990s).
I have compiled in the following table major events in the life of Shaikh Muḥammad al-Muḥammad al-Kasnazān in chronological order.
Event | Date |
Born in the village of Karbchna in Sulaymāniyya | Friday 15 April 1938 |
His first marriage | Late 1957 |
Leaving Karbchna to live in the village of Būbān in the province of Penjwin | February 1959 |
Divorce from his first wife | 1961 |
Retiring from political and military involvement with the Kurdish revolution | 1966 |
His second marriage, to sayyida Kažāl | Early 1969 |
The birth of his first son, Nahro | 12 December 1969 |
Shaikh ʿAbd al-Karīm’s announcement that Shaikh Muḥammad al-Muḥammad was his General Deputy | January 1971 |
Settling in Kirkuk until moving to Baghdad in 1982 | 1971 |
Performing pilgrimage to Mecca | January 1973 |
Travelling to Cairo to enrol at al-Āzhar University | Late 1977 |
Assuming the Shaikhdom of Ṭarīqa | 4 February 1978 |
Performing ʿumrah | The first half of 1978 |
Starting his first seclusion in Karbchna | 26 July 1978 |
Increasing the number of perennial dhikrs to 100,000 | The second half of 1978 |
Starting his second seclusion in Karbchna | 15 July 1979 |
Starting his third seclusion in Karbchna | 4 July 1980 |
Completion of the construction of the main takya in Baghdad and moving to live there | 1982 |
Renovation of the shrines in Karbchna | Middle of 1982 |
Replacing the crown of the shrine of Shaikh ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Gaylānī | 1983 |
Publication of his first book Al-Anwār al-Raḥmāniyya fīl-Ṭarīqa al-ʿAliyya al-Qādiriyya al-Kasnazāniyya | The first half of 1988 |
Publication of the book Jilāʾ al-khāṭir | 1989 |
Publication of the book Al-Ṣalawāt al-Kasnazāniyya | 1990 |
Proposing the Muḥammadī calendar and starting its implementation | 19 September 1991 |
Sending the first caliph to India to preach | 1994 |
Proposing the Muḥammadī Shamsī calendar and starting its implementation | 2 May 1994 |
Adding al-Ṣalāt al-Waṣfiyya to the dhikrs of Ṭarīqa | July 1996 |
Publication of the book Al-Ṭarīqa al-ʿAliyya al-Qādiriyya al-Kasnazāniyya | 1998 |
Arrival in London, UK, for medical treatment | 26 April 2000 |
Migration from Baghdad to Sulaymāniyya | 21 December 2000 |
Travelling to the USA for medical treatment | 2003 |
Founding the Shaikh Muḥammad al-Kasnazān University College (al-Salām University College) | 2003 |
Travelling to the USA for medical treatment | 2004 |
Pulication of Mawsūʿat al-Kasnazān fīmā aṣṭalaḥa ʿalayhi ahlu al-taṣṣawuf wal-ʿirfān | 2005 |
Renovation of the shrine of Shaikh Ismāʿīl al-Wilyānī in ʿAqra and clothing it in a gold shroud | 9 May 2006 |
Being awarded the “Arab Historian Medal” and the “Arab History Certificate” by the Union of Arab Historians | May 2006 |
Migration from Sulaymāniyya to Amman, Jordan | 2 August 2007 |
Having a kidney transplant in the USA | 2010 |
Receiving the Ḥizb al-Wāw | 2013 |
Travelling to the USA for medical treatment | 2014 |
Adding this dhikr to the daily wirds: Astaghfiru Allah al‑ladhī Lā ilāha illā Huwa ar-Raḥmān ar-Raḥīm al-Ḥayyu al-Qayyūm al‑ladhī lā yamūt wa-atūbu ‘ilayhi Rabbī ighfir lī | March 2016 |
Being called Muḥammad al-Muḥammad by the Prophet (PBUH) | 18 May 2016 |
Being awarded the title of “caliph” by the Shaikhs of Ṭarīqa | 22 June 2016 |
Travelling to the USA for medical treatment | 22 July 2016 |
Adding one hundred repetitions of lā ilāha illā Allah to Wird al-ʿAṣr | 28 January 2018 |
Travelling to the USA for medical treatment | 24 June 2019 |
Departing this world to Allah’s mercy | 4 July 2020 |
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