Abdul Qadir Gilani
Sunni Muslim preacher, mystic and theologian (1078–1166) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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ʿAbd al-Qādir Gīlānī, (Persian: عبدالقادر گیلانی, formally Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Qādir ibn ʾAbī Sālih al-Gīlānī al-Ḥasanī (Arabic: عبدالقادر الجيلاني, (Turkish: Abdülkâdir Geylânî, (Kurdish: Evdilqadirê Geylanî, (Sorani Kurdish: عهبدوالقادری گهیلانی),[1] known as for short was a Hanbali Sunni Muslim preacher, orator, ascetic, mystic, sayyid, faqīh, and theologian.[1] He was known for being the eponymous founder of the Qadiriyya tariqa (Sufi order) of Sufism.[1]
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Early life
Born 29 Sha'ban 470 AH (around 1077) in the town of Na'if, district of Gilan-e Gharb, Gilan, Iran[2][nb 1] and died Monday, February 14, 1166 (11 Rabi' al-Thani 561 AH), in Baghdad,[3] (1077–1166 CE), was a Persian[2] Hanbali Sunni[4][5] jurist and sufi based in Baghdad. The Qadiriyya tariqa is named after him.[6] And say that he was born in Gilan Iraq, a historic village near the cities (Al-Mada'in) of 40 kilometers south of Baghdad, as evidenced by historical studies academic and adopted by the Gilan Family in Baghdad.[7]
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Name's origin
The name Muhiyudin describes him as a "reviver of religion".[8] Gilan (Arabic al-Jilani) refers to his place of birth, Gilan.[9][10] However, Gilani also carried the epithet Baghdadi.[11][12][13] referring to his residence and burial in Baghdad.
Paternal heritage
Gilani's father was from Sharif's Al-Hassani lineage.[14][15] He was respected as a sheikh by the people of his day, and was known as Jangi Dost "who loves God", thus "Jangidost" was his sobriquet.[16]
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Education
Gilani spent his early life in Gilan, the town of his birth. In 1095, at the age of eighteen years, he went to Baghdad. There, he pursued the study of Hanbali law [17] under Abu Saeed Mubarak Makhzoomi and ibn Aqil.[18] He was given lessons on Hadith by Abu Muhammad Ja'far al-Sarraj.[18] His Sufi spiritual instructor was Abu'l-Khair Hammad ibn Muslim al-Dabbas.[19] (A detailed description of his various teachers and subjects are included below). After completing his education, Gilani left Baghdad. He spent twenty-five years as a reclusive wanderer in the desert regions of Iraq.[20]
Education in Baghdad
At the age of 18, Gilani went to Baghdad to study the Hanbali school of fiqh.
Later life
In 1127, Gilani returned to Baghdad and began to preach to the public.[22] He joined the teaching staff of the school belonging to his own teacher, al-Mazkhzoomi, and was popular with students. In the morning he taught hadith and tafsir, and in the afternoon he held discourse on the science of the heart and the virtues of the Quran. He was said to have been a convincing preacher and converted numerous Jews and Christians. His strength came in the reconciling of the mystical nature of Sufism and strict nature of the Quran.[22]
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Death and burial
Gilani died in the evening of Tuesday, February 21, 1166 (11th Rabi' al-thani 561 AH) at the age of ninety one years according to the Islamic calendar.[3] His body was entombed in a shrine within his madrasa in Babul-Sheikh, Rusafa on the east bank of the Tigris in Baghdad, Iraq.[23][24][25] During the reign of the Safavid Shah Ismail I, Gilani's shrine was destroyed.[26] However, in 1535, the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent had a turba (dome) built over the shrine, which exists to this day.[27]
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Birthday & Death Anniversary celebration
1 Ramadan is celebrated as the birthday of Abdul Qadir Gilani while the death anniversary is on 11 Rabi us Thani though some scholars and traditions say 29 Shaban and 17 Rabi us Sani as birth and death day respectively. The later is called in the Subcontinent as Giyarwee Shareef or Honoured Day of 11th.[28]
Books
- Kitab Sirr al-Asrar wa Mazhar al-Anwar[29] (The Book of the Secret of Secrets and the Manifestation of Light)
Related pages
- Jilala
- Moinuddin Chishti
Bibliography
- al-Jilani, ʻAbd al-Qadir (1992). Utterances of Shaikh Abd Al-Qadir Al-Jilani: Malfuzat.
- Fifteen letters, khamsata ashara maktūban / Shaikh Abd Al-Qādir Al-Jīlānī. Translated from Persian to Arabic by Alī usāmu ́D-Dīn Al-Muttaqī. Translated from Arabic into English by Muhtar Holland.
- Kamsata ašara maktūban. First edition. ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn, ʿAlī B., ʿAbd al-Malik al- Muttaqī al-Hindī (about 1480–1567) and Muhtar Holland (1935–). Al-Baz publications, Hollywood, Florida. (1997) ISBN 978-1-882216-16-1.
- Jalā Al-Khawātir: a collection of forty-five discourses of Shaikh Abd Al-Qādir Al-Jīlānī, the removal of cares. Chapter 23, pg 308. Jalā al-Khawātir, Holland, Muhtar (1935–) (translator). Al-Baz publications, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. (1997) ISBN 978-1-882216-13-0.
- Qadri, Muhammad Riyaz (2000). The Sultan of the Saints: Mystical Life and Teaching of Shaikh Syed Abdul Qadir Jilani.
- al-Jilani, ʻAbd al-Qadir (1998). The Sublime Revelation (al-Fath Ar-rabbani): A Collection of Sixty-two Discourses. Al-Baz Publishing Incorporated.
- Al-Ghunya li-talibi tariq al-haqq wa al-din, (Sufficient provision for seekers of the path of truth and religion), Parts one and two in Arabic. Al-Qadir, Abd, Al-Gaylani. Dar Al-Hurya, Baghdad, Iraq, (1988).
- Al-Ghunya li-talibi tariq al-haqq wa al-din, (Sufficient provision for seekers of the path of truth and religion.) in Arabic. Introduced by Al-Kilani, Majid Irsan. Dar Al-Khair, Damascus, Bairut, (2005).
- Yarshater, Ehsan (1997). Encyclopedia Iranica: Fascicle. Mazda Publishers. ISBN 978-1-56859-050-9.
- Geography of the Baz Ahhab second reading in the biography of Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jilani, and the birthplace of his birth according to the methodology of scientific research (MA in Islamic History from Baghdad University in 2001) of Iraqi researcher Jamal al-Din Faleh Kilani, review and submission of the historian Emad Abdulsalam Rauf،Publishe Dar Baz Publishing, United States of America, 2016, translated by Sayed Wahid Al-Qadri Aref.
Notes
- There is uncertainty as to the year of his birth; some sources say 1077, others 1078،He was born in Jilan Iraq, a historic village near Mada'in, 40 kilometers south of Baghdad, as evidenced by historical and academic studies adopted by the Kailan family in Baghdad .'Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani at the Encyclopædia Britannica
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