What is an Islamic scholar and what Fayz means?

An Islamic scholar is a Muslim who is learned in Islam, who performs namâz (five times daily), who avoids harâms, who does not let his wife and daughter(s) go out without properly covering themselves, and who avoids being in groups of men and women mixed together. Sit with âdâb in their presence, for plenty of benefits can be garnered from them. Try to take lessons, counsels, and fayz from them! When you take fayz from them, your heart will become enlightened with nûrs; you will cast lights around you. When you sit in their presence, do not talk much, and talk with circumspection when you do! Among them are sources and treasures of Islamic knowledge. Never hurt their hearts, but try to be blessed with their benedictions, and say, “Es-salâmu ’alaikum,” as you leave, and kindly ask them how they have been! When you see two people conversing with each other, do not interrupt them!An important note: A hadîth-i-sherîf reads as follows: “Human beings love their benefactors and those who do them favours. This love is innate in the human nature.” The more valuable and greater the favour granted the deeper will be the love felt. Therefore, everybody loves their parents, their teacher, their master, their government, their homeland, their Muslim brothers very much. A Muslim’s Murshid (Guide) teaches him his religious and worldly knowledge, his îmân, his Allah, his Prophet, his beautiful moral behaviour; therefore he loves his Murshid more than anybody else. This love is inborn. It is innate in the human nature. Anyone deprived of this love is not a real human being. He is like an animal. A person loved very much will never leave one’s heart and mind. His appearance will settle in one’s heart. This state of heart is called râbita.

If a Murshid’s or Walî’s râbita (love by heart) takes place in a person’s heart, the fayz that has arrived into that Murshid’s or Walî’s heart from his own Murshids will flow into that person’s heart, too.
Fayz is a nûr, a force that travels from heart to heart and makes a Muslim do things that please Allâhu ta’âlâ. Fayz originates from Rasûlullah’s blessed heart, travels through hearts of the Awliyâ. Hearts of the Awliyâ are like mirrors. Lights reflected by a mirror reach another mirror, which in turn reflects it onto another mirror. Likewise, fayz gushing out of Rasûlullah’s heart reach the hearts of the Awliyâ contemporary with us. [It is like mirrorring. Lights coming towards a mirror and objects placed against it are seen in the mirror. If another mirror is placed against it and a third mirror is placed against the second one, the same images will be seen in the third one as well. By the same token, the fayz and the nûrs called ma’rifat emanating from Rasûlullah’s blessed heart reach other hearts that are attached to that heart. Love is the tie that attaches hearts to one another. The Sahâba attained these nûrs owing to the deep affection that they felt for the Messenger of Allah. The stronger the affection felt, the more plentiful will be the fayz coming. What is meant by ‘affection’ here is to ‘believe and adapt oneself, one’s behaviour and habits to him’. The fayz that reached the Sahâba’s hearts also reached the hearts of younger generations living in the later centuries. It was thereby easy and sweet for them as well to obey Islam. They became a Walî each. As well, Walîs in graves in a distant country emanate fayz, which reaches their lovers’ hearts and fills them with nûr. The fayz gushing out from Rasûlullah’s blessed heart is attained also by the hearts of the lovers living in later centuries, and thence it reaches the hearts of he Awliyâ living in our time, so that we, too, attain it in the meantime.] Islamic and scientific knowledge is obtained by way of thinking, calculation and reasoning. The ’aql (mind, reason) exists in the human brain. On the other hand, the place of îmân, affection, ma’rifat and remembrance of something is the heart. The heart of a person who has attained fayz becomes a treasure of knowledge, ma’rifat, and karâmât. This person is now called a Walî or a Murshid. Attaining this fortune is conditional on having a creed agreeable with the creed held and taught by the scholars of Ahl as-sunnat, perfect obedience to Islam, and affection felt for a Murshid. Rizq that feeds the body and fayz that purifies the heart were predestined and doled out in the eternal past. However, to attain them we ought to follow the requirements of the ’Âdat-iilâhiyya, seek the causes for attaining them, and work hard. People who work compatibly with the conditions stipulated will certainly attain the blessing offered. Allâhu ta’âlâ may give this fortune to anyone He chooses without them working.

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