Sunday, May 22, 2016, Fenton , Michigan USA
That maqam was here from the first time in 1993 that Mawlana Shaykh Nazim came to open the place here and he said that he saw grandshaykh's [spirituality] there. So by making Ziyara you will inherit from that hadith's baraka, because that hadith is a general hadith for everyone:
مَنْ زَارَ قَبْرِي حَلَّتْ لَهُ شَفَاعَتِي
man zaara qabree wajabat lahu shafa`atee.
"Whoever visits my grave," meaning whoever visits me "I will for sure be obliged and I will request to make shafa`a for that person." (as-Suyuti and an-Nawawi with a weak chain from Sayyidina `AbdAllah ibn `Umar)
So this Maqam is under Mawlana Grandshaykh `AbdAllah’s name and under Mawlana's name. Mawlana spoke about this place before we got it. I found a book from Sri Lanka in which Mawlana gave a lecture in the 70's or 80s, I don't recall. In that lecture Mawlana said, “We are going to put a qiblah in the Midwest.”
When we got this place, I was asking the owner the address, and he said “It is 7007 [Denton Hill Road].” That was a real indication that this is a place insha-Allah for the best for Tariqah and the best for humanity.
So calling you here and bringing you here means that you are lovers to Allah, lovers of the Prophet (s), lovers to Awliyaullah and lovers to Mawlana Shaykh and your ziyarah is accepted.
Therefore anyone who comes here or who intended to come but was not able, still it is written for him as if he visited the Maqam of Grandshaykh and the Maqam of Mawlana Shaykh and both of them connect us to the Prophet (s) to be taking baraka from the hadith:
مَنْ زَارَ قَبْرِي حَلَّتْ لَهُ شَفَاعَتِي
man zaara qabree wajabat lahu shafa`atee.
So may Allah always keep us with Awliyaullah and with Grandshaykh and with Mawlana Shaykh Nazim and to always be in presence of the Prophet (s) interceding for us to take away all our sins, and bring us back as if we are newly born.
Bi-hurmatil-habeeb bi-hurmatil-fatiha.
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