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Shaykh Zulfiqar Ahmad (Db) (also known as Peer Zulfiqar Ahmad) is a Shaykh (mentor) of Tasawwuf (Islamic Spiritualism). Formally granted authorization (ijazah) in the Naqshbandi spiritual path (tariqah), by Murshid-e-Alam (Chief Mentor) Shaykh Ghulam Habib Naqshbandi (Rah), he retired from his position as an electrical engineer at the age of forty, to devote himself entirely to religious work. He regularly[vague] travels to more than thirty countries. Thousands[vague] of religious scholars and students of Islamic learning are among his students (murids). Shaykh Zulfiqar Ahmad regularly[vague] delivers lectures in both English and Urdu across the world. He has written dozens[vague] of books, many[vague] of which have been translated into several[vague] languages. A testament to his deep love for Allah, his uncompromising dedication to sunnah of the blessed Prophet, and his firm adherence to Islamic Law (shariah) is that thousands of religious scholars and students of Islamic learning are among his students (murids). Shaykh Zulfiqar Ahmad’s spiritual chain traces back through a series of authentic teachers all the way to the Holy Prophet. Below is the Honorable chain silsila. The Chain of the Honorable Mashaikh Naqshband (may the mercy of Allah be upon them)

Below is the silsilah of the tariqah Naqshbandi Mujaddidi for Shaykh Zulfiqar Ahmad (db)

[ Excerpted from the Shajarah Tayyibah ] The mercy for the worlds Rasulullah [Holy City of Madinah Munawwarah]. Sayyedina Hadrat Abu Bakr Siddiq (radiallahu anhu) [Holy City of Madinah Munawwarah]. Hadrat Salman Farsi (radiallahu anhu) [Madain]. Hadrat Qasim bin Muhammad bin Abi Bakr (rahmatullahi alaihi) [Holy City of Madinah Munawwarah]. Hadrat Imam Jafar Sadiq (rahmatullahi alaihi) [Holy City of Madinah Munawwarah]. Hadrat Khuwaja Bayazeed Bustami (rahmatullahi alaihi) [Bastam]. Hadrat Khuwaja Abul Hasan Kharkani (rahmatullahi alaihi) [Kharkhan]. Hadrat Khuwaja Abul Qasim Gorgani (rahmatullahi alaihi) [Jarjan]. Hadrat Khuwaja Abu Ali Farmadi (rahmatullahi alaihi) [Mashad]. Hadrat Khuwaja Yusuf Hamdani (rahmatullahi alaihi) [Turkistan]. Hadrat Khuwaja Abdul Khaliq Gajadwani (rahmatullahi alaihi) [Bukhara]. Hadrat Khuwaja Muhammad Arif Riogri (rahmatullahi alaihi) [Tajikistan]. Hadrat Khuwaja Mehmood Injir Faghnavi (rahmatullahi alaihi) [Bukhara]. Hadrat Khuwaja Azizane Ali Raamitni (rahmatullahi alaihi) [Bukhara]. Hadrat Khuwaja Muhammad Baba Samasi (rahmatullahi alaihi) [Bukhara]. Hadrat Khuwaja Sayyed Amir Kalal (rahmatullahi alaihi) [Bukhara]. Hadrat Khuwaja Bahauddin Naqshband Bukhari (rahmatullahi alaihi) [Bukhara]. Hadrat Khuwaja Ala’uddin Attar (rahmatullahi alaihi) [Hassar]. Hadrat Khuwaja Yaqoob Charkhi (rahmatullahi alaihi) [Dushanbe]. Hadrat Khuwaja Ubaidullah Ahrar (rahmatullahi alaihi) [Samarqand]. Hadrat Khuwaja Maulana Muhammad Zahid (rahmatullahi alaihi) [Hassar]. Hadrat Khuwaja Darvish Muhammad (rahmatullahi alaihi) [Sher Sabz]. Hadrat Khuwaja Muhammad Amkangi (rahmatullahi alaihi) [Bukhara]. Hadrat Khuwaja Muhammad Baqibillah (rahmatullahi alaihi) [Delhi] Hadrat Khuwaja Mujaddid Alf-Thani (rahmatullahi alaihi) [Sirhind Sharif]. Hadrat Khuwaja Muhammad Masoom (rahmatullahi alaihi) [Sirhind Sharif]. Hadrat Khuwaja Saifuddin (rahmatullahi alaihi) [Sirhind Sharif]. Hadrat Khuwaja Hafiz Muhammad Muhsin (rahmatullahi alaihi) [Delhi]. Hadrat Khuwaja Sayed Nur Muhammad Badaiooni (rahmatullahi alaihi) [Delhi]. Hadrat Mirza Mazhar Janejana (rahmatullahi alaihi) [Delhi]. Hadrat Shah Ghulam Ali Mujaddidi (rahmatullahi alaihi) [Delhi]. Hadrat Khuwaja Shah Abu Sa’eed (rahmatullahi alaihi) [Delhi]. Hadrat Khuwaja Shah Ahmed Sa’eed Dehlvi (rahmatullahi alaihi) [Holy City of Madinah Munawwarah]. Hadrat Haji Dost Muhammad Kandhari (rahmatullahi alaihi) [Musazai Sharif]. Hadrat Khuwaja Muhammad Usman Damani (rahmatullahi alaihi) [Musazai Sharif]. Hadrat Khuwaja Sirajuddin (rahmatullahi alaihi) [Musazai Sharif]. Hadrat Khuwaja Muhammad Fazal Ali Qureshi (rahmatullahi alaihi) [Miskeenpur Sharif]. Hadrat Khuwaja Muhammad Abdul Malik Siddiqui (rahmatullahi alaihi) [Khanewal]. Murshid-e-Alam Hadrat Khuwaja Ghulam Habib (rahmatullahi alaihi) [Chakwal]. Hadrat Maulana Hafiz Zulfiqar Ahmad Naqshbandi Mujaddidi (damat barakatuhu) [Jhang Sharif]. Website -http://tasawwuf.org Some writings of shaikh d.b- Urdu. 1. http://tasawwuf.org/qalb-e-saleem/ 2. http://tasawwuf.org/maut-ki-tayyari-2/ 3. http://tasawwuf.org/duaein-qubool-na-honay-key-wajohaat/ English. 1. http://tasawwuf.org/writings/sermons/purification_of_the_soul.pdf 2. http://tasawwuf.org/writings/sermons/fear_of_allah.pdf 3. http://tasawwuf.org/writings/sermons/journey_hereafter.pdf What Is Tasawwuf ?

Tasawwuf is a branch of Islamic knowledge which focuses on the spiritual development of the Muslim. Allah sent His final messenger, Prophet Muhammad, as a source of knowledge for the entire ummah. He was the fountain of Quran, Hadith, tafsir, rhetoric, fiqh, and so on. After the Prophet, the scholars of this ummah carried and propagated each of these branches of knowledge. Because no one person can attain the perfection of the Prophet, who single handedly assumed all of these roles, various branches of the Islamic sciences developed. For example, Imam Abu Hanifah preserved the science of fiqh and after him thousands of scholars continued in his footsteps. Hence these scholars preserved the fiqh of the Prophet. Similarly Imam Bukhari and the other famous scholars of Hadith, preserved the words of the Prophet. The scholars of tajweed preserved the recitation of the Prophet. And, the scholars of Arabic grammar preserved the language of the Prophet.

Along these lines, the Prophet was the model of spirituality for the world. His God-consciousness, deep spirituality, acts of worship, and love for Allah were preserved and propagated by an Islamic science called Tasawwuf. The aim of the scholars of this science was purification of the heart, and development of consciousness of Allah through submission to the shariah and sunnah.

How is Tasawwuf Related to Sufism?

Studying the life of the Prophet, the scholars who propagated the science of tasawwuf understood that a requisite for approaching Allah was abandonment of the common pursuits of the world. They often wore wool because of its simplicity and low cost. In Arabic the word for wool is suf and thus, those who wore it became known as the Sufis. Another possible derivation of the word comes from the root word safa, which means “to clean.” Because the scholars of tasawwuf focused on cleansing the heart, they later became known as the Sufis.