CHAPTER 8: NAZIM AL-QUBRUSI'S EIGHTH STATEMENT













             



            CHAPTER 8: NAZIM AL-QUBRUSI'S EIGHTH STATEMENT
            "Looking to another's unlawful nakedness (^awrah) is something 
            good--even obligatory on some."




            Knowledgeable and lay people alike know that lowering one's gaze 
            from the ^awrah (unlawful nakedness) is obligatory. No two Muslims 
            differ about that. Lowering one's gaze from the ^awrah is a matter 
            Allah praised in the Qur'an, and the one who implements it is 
            praised. Allahsaid:

            (An-Nur, 30) 
            which means: [O Muhammad, order the believers to lower their gaze.] 
            The Messenger of Allah warned us against the dangers of gazing at 
            the unlawful nakedness when he said, as related by al-Bukhariyy:
             
            which means: <<Most of the eyes look the forbidden look. The 
            adultery of the eye is the forbidden look.>> Although less dangerous 
            than adultery, the Prophet likened gazing at the unlawful nakedness 
            to adultery--to alert us to keep away from it and to be warned 
            against it. 
            The Prophet warned us from such matters, yet I found in the 
            directives of Sheikh Qubrusi what urgesone to gaze at the unlawful 
            nakedness and the claim that doing so is something good--even 
            something obligatory--for some people.  
            In his book, MercyOceans, page 20, he says:
                "For every action, you may find three ways, or positions. These 
                are called wajib, sunnah, and haram. We will illustrate these 
                terms with some examples:
                The top class of people are the Awliya, the Saints. They have, 
                in their eyes, a divine light, a divine power, that burns away 
                badness in those people upon whom they look. Because of this 
                divine quality, they may look everywhere, at men or at women. It 
                has been ordered for them to look. There is no prohibition for 
                them. Therefore, their looking is 'wajib.'
            Isay: These words conflict with the religious texts, some of which 
            we have mentioned earlier. The one who holds such a conviction is 
            not far from rendering it lawful for himself to kiss, hug and 
            copulate with women--claiming to purify them by that--since he 
            believes himself to be the Sultan of the Waliyys and his followers 
            believe he is loaded with 'Divine Power.'
            One cannot help but notice that Sheikh Qubrusi and his followers do 
            not shy from shaking hands with women and touching their skin 
            openly. I have witnessed this personally and have been told the same 
            by many others. Yet, the story of al-FadlIbnul-^Abbas, the cousin of 
            the Prophet, who was among the best of the Companions, is well known 
            to the one who reads the books of hadith or to the one who only 
            studied the book of al-Bukhariyy. One day, al-Fadl was gazing for a 
            long time at the face of a beautiful woman when she came to ask the 
            Prophet a religious question. Although the face of the woman is not 
            an unlawful nakedness, the Prophet diverted al-Fadl's gaze by 
            turning his cousin's face away from her. 
            The difference is great between the route of the beloved Prophet, 
            Muhammad, sallallahu ^alayhi wa sallam, and the route Sheikh Qubrusi 
            calls for--guised in the name of Islam, or Sufism, or the 
            Naqshabandi Order, (Tariqah). Among Qubrusi's astonishing statements 
            is one he said in the same book, MercyOceans, page 20. He said, 
            "Originally, no action was prohibited. Prohibition came only after 
            that action started leading away from Allah Almighty." 
            Isay: According to this statement it is permissible for any one to 
            do whatever he wants and claim that this does not take him away from 
            Allah. Hence, no objection to him is due, and he is not accountable. 
            This tallies with the rules of the school of open permissibilities, 
            as in communism, but definitely not with the rules of Islam.




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