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To protect me in my misfortune
Remain as the jewel-ornament on the crown of my head,
the mandala of great bliss,
Arousing all my mindfulness and awareness, I pray.”

In Islamic mysticism this relationship of the devotee and the Murshid has been
valued in profusity. The verses of the Holy Quran are the inkling towards this

“O ye who believe! Do your duty to Allah, seek the means of approach unto
Him?”

The fragrant words of the beloved of Allah (PBUH) reflected the same spirit

“Whoever sees the face of a knower of Allah, sees me (PBUH)”

and

“Whosoever sees me (PBUH), has seen Reality”.

The prophets and murshid are like the rosary beads of Allah and in the opinion
of many mystics murshid is like the noor (light) which sparks out of the noor
(light) of the beloved of Allah (PBUH) “The lights of prophecy issued from his
light and his light appeared from the light of Mystery. Among the lights, there
is none more luminous, more manifest or more uncreate – than – uncreatedness
than the light of the Master of Generosity” (Mansur Al Hallaj – R.A.). To hold up
the hands of a Murshid is to complete the half path of one’s destination.

To accompany Dervishes is stressed so as to revive the inner heart beat into the
rhythm of Allah.

Hazrat Ali Hujveri (R.A.) gave reference of Hazrat Abu Al Hasan (R.A.) to describe

“Join the company of Dervishes because it is their company that is the will of
Allah”.

He (R.A.) also mentioned Hazrat Abu Usman (R.A.) who said in this connexion
“The person who joins the rich and abandons the company of Dervishes, his
heart is made deaden by Allah”.

One moment in the company of Murshid is the moment of worship. His one
gracious look is the sword against the evil plights in the form of Devil. It is full
of message of love, success and ascendance. As a poet wrote

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