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29th Qutb His Holiness Hussein Ali Shah Isfahani
The Mystic
unified with Divine Unity and The Divine Jurist, His Holiness Hussein
Ali Shah Isfahani. His noble name Mohammad Hussein, the perfect Sheikh
of his time, and in the external sciences as well as his levels of
interior rank, there was no one equal to him. In dervishhood and
annihilation in divine unity and veracity and sincerity and abstinence
was unique and matchless. In paramount dominance of devotees and
attraction of seekers was peerless, in reality was similar to Khajeh
Abdulla Ansari. His birthplace was the small town of Khonsar in Isfahan
and his grandfather Sheikh Zain-ul-Din had extensive knowledge on
rational and traditional sciences and was a virtuous devotee and
congregational prayer leader.
His Excellency,
at the time of his adolescence with the inheritance from his ancestors
was engaged in the education of external sciences and virtues and after
completing rational and traditional sciences set foot in the realm of
search and started release of the self from transient ties and
endeavored in the search for truth. Travelled in Iran and to Saudi
Arabia and met and associated with many mystics and learned of his time
and couldn't find his goal in no place, till finally reached the
presence of those nearest to God Seyed Masoum Ali Shah and Nour Ali Shah
and Faiz Ali Shah. On the order of Seyed Masoum Ali Shah, obtained zekr
and repented by the hands of His Holiness Nour Ali Shah and in
dervishhood and divine annihilation reached an elevated rank by the
teaching of His Holiness Nour Ali Shah. For many years like a shadow was
in the services of his spiritual guide, till he reached the apex of
perfection; and on behalf of His Excellency Nour Ali Shah the First
acquired permission to guide and lead worshippers and returned to his
home land. Likewise before continued to preach and teach and being
congregational payer leader and also to initiate and guide the seekers
to the highway of truth; and set forth the external and internal
guidance path for the people. And in the observance of both aspects was
so precise that not only the fanatics were unaware of his interior
secrets nor the inwardly from the superficial would figure him out and
encountered him as fanatic. He would not allow superficial dervishes who
were the cause of disgrace to Gnosticism to come near and in gatherings
and sermons used to express the truth in such a way that the outwardly
superficial persons would not understand him and those inwardly
possessing wisdom from his statements benefit and profit. Till the year
1212 (Lunar-Hijri) in Zahab -a small town in Kordestan- in the presence
of a group of fughara and dervishes, His Holiness Nour Ali Shah
appointed him as his successor and after that, on behalf of the pole of
the time and the center of Gnosticism, His Holiness Reza Ali Shah was
appointed as his vicegerent and successor. Then he returned to his
native hometown. For some times stopped in Iran and via Fars departed on
a journey to Hajj and the sacred House of God. During the journey in
every country and region, guided many seekers and those inclined, to the
direct way of Tarigha.
After the return
from the pilgrimage of Hajj to Isfahan, the envy of the jealous and the
hostility of the bad-natured pseudo-jurist in regards to His Holiness
manifested and they engaged in persecution and vexing, till the unjust
governor was provoked and tempted and mislead. They insulted him very
much and finally issued a decree for killing His Holiness and bound his
legs in chains of cruelty and oppression. The King of Iran Fat’h-Ali
Shah due to the complaint of his enemies, summoned His Holiness to
Teheran and His Holiness after a lot of hardship during the journey from
the unjust and cruel reached Teheran. Fat’h-Ali Shah after meeting His
Holiness understood that the complaint from the slanderous was actually
based on self-motivated grudge and spite. Thus showed kindness and
affection towards His Holiness and granted permission to His Holiness to
return back to his hometown. His Holiness entered Isfahan with full
respect and honor and as before took the responsibility to guide the
worshippers, till in the year 1233 (Lunar-Hijri) cut his ties from his
apparent hometown and birth place and departed to Kerbala and lived
close to the Holy Shrines. After some times, summoned number of those
authorized in Tarighe and in the presence of them, appointed His
Holiness Majzoub Ali Shah as his vicegerent and successor and handed the
affairs and responsibility of the fughara over to him; and on the night
of Wednesday the 11th of Muharram in the year 1234 (Lunar-Hijri),
during recital of the evening prayers, said yes to the summons of God
and his holy spirit flew to his beloved. As his birth date has not been
recorded, his respectable age is not known, but the period he was on the
throne of guidance was for 22 years.
Well known
contemporaries of His Holiness from Mystics and authorized Sheikhs:
1.
Agha Ali Ashraf
Akbar Shirazi
2.
Moullana Loftali
Khaki Khorasani
3.
Hajj Mirza
Abolqasem famed as Sukoot
4.
Moullana
Mohammad Ismaiel Azqandi
5.
Hajj Ali Gilani
famed as Bidandaan
6.
Sheikh Khalid
Kord Naqshbandi
7.
Safi-ul-din
famed as Safi al ghadr Naqshbandi
From
Jurisprudents and scholars
1.
Seyed Jaffer bin
abi Is'haq famed as Kashfi
2.
Sheikh Hassan
Bin Sheikh Jaffer famed as Kashef ul Qetaa
3.
Moullana Ahmad
Naraghi
4.
Seyed Mohsen Bin
Seyed Hussain Baghdadi famed as Moqadas Kazemi
5.
Hajj Mohammad
Mehdi Allameh Naraghi
6.
Abu Ali Mohammad
Tabari the writer of Montahi al Maghal
7.
Mirza Abolqasem
bin Hussain Gilani famed as Mirzaye Ghomi
8.
Sheikh Ahmad
Ehsavi
From Poets and
Wisemen
1.
Fat’halikhan
Saba Kashani
2.
Mirza Morteza
Mahjoob Torshizi
3.
Seyed Hussain
Majmar Isfahani titled as Mojhtahed al Shoara
4.
Mirza Abdul
Wahab Neshat Isfahani
From Sultans and
Governors
In Iran Fat’h
Ali Shah Qajar.
In Ottoman
(Turkey) Sultan Mostafa Rabe' and Sultan Mahmood the 2nd.
Of His
Statements:
One
day, a person in his presence complained about a dervish stating that a
certain dervish is performing an affair that is not deserving of
dervishes. Said: A person who does a shameful act and admits to his sin is thousand times better than the unfortunate who is dressed in the clothes of hypocrisy and deceit, and clad in ruse, and adorns himself in ornaments of dissension, and shows himself to be virtuous and pious. He is like Iblis in disguise who keeps away the servants of God from the way of guidance. And also said: Seekers of the right way are like Ahmar matches, but is more unobtainable than that, "A very few of my servants are grateful" (Surah Saba, verse 13). It is now quite long time that seekers are associated with me and declare to seek. Maybe more than hundred thousand persons came forth in my presence and among them, I did not see more than five persons who merely sought the nearness to the exalted God and there was no other objective besides the truth for them.
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