Shabbiriya
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The Shabbiri Naqeebi Order Shabbiri; Arabic: شببری نقیبی is a Sufi order within the mystic Sufi tradition of Islam. It began in Bawali, a small town near Gujar Khan, Punjab, Pakistan. The Shabbiri Naqeebi Order is known for its emphasis on love, tolerance, and openness.
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The Shabbiri Naqeebi Order is primarily followed in Pakistan , Europe and Indian subcontinent. It was the first of the four main Sufi orders (Chishti, Qadiriyya, Suhrawardiyya , Naqshbandi and Naqeebia ) to be established in this region. (Khwaja Sufi Shabbir Hussain shah, Zille bakhuda [1] introduced the Shabbiri Naqeebi Order in Bawali (Punjab) .
In the past years the order has spread outside Pakistan and Indian subcontinent. Shabbiri Naqeebi teachers have established centers in the United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, United States and European Countries
Guiding principles[edit]
The Shabbiri Naqeebi are perhaps best known for the welcome extended to seekers who belong to other religions. Shabbiri Naqeebi shrines in the World are open to all faiths and attract great crowds to their festivals.
The Shabbiri Naqeebi shaykhs have also stressed the importance of keeping a distance from worldly power. A ruler could be a patron or a disciple, but he or she was always to be treated as just another devotee. A Shabbiri Naqeebi teacher should not attend the court or be involved in matters of state.
Shabbiri Naqeebi believe that this insistence on otherworldliness differentiates them from Sufi orders that maintained close ties to rulers and courts, and deferred to aristocratic patrons.
Shabbiri Naqeebi practice is also notable for sama: evoking the divine presence Sufi's use to listening to Qawwali.The Shabbiri Naqeebi, as well as some other Sufi orders, believe that Qawwali can help devotees forget self in the love of Allah. However, the order also insists that followers observe the full range of Muslim obligations; it does not dismiss them as mere legalism, as some strands of Sufism have done.The Music usually heard at Shabbiri Naqeebi shrines and festivals is qawwali.
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Practices[edit]
The Shabbiri Naqeebi's follow following basic devotional practices (dhikr).
- Reciting the names of Allāh loudly, sitting in the prescribed posture at prescribed times (dhikr-i dzahir)
- Reciting the names of Allāh silently (dhikr-i khafī)
- Regulating the breath (pās-i anfās)
- Absorption in mystic contemplation (murā-ḳāba)
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