A path of peace and a bond of love

Sheikh Sidi Ahmed Tidjani teaches us that we are all loved by Allah. He distinguishes between two forms of love: the special or the individual (mahabba Khassa) and the universal (mahabba amma) the first one is granted to the prophets, the most credible among (sidiqun) and the poles (aqtab) followed by all the saints and their relatives. Then we find the highest among the exoteric namely, the people who are regarded as virtuous. finally the ordinary believers who are forgiven by Allah.
However Allah’s love is without bounds. Thus sheikh sidi Ahmed shows us that all created beings share Allah’s love in some mysterious ways.
All creatures are surrounded by this love, even those who cover reality (Kaffirun), in the presence of his divine words because he said ( I desired to be know so I created beings and made myself know to them, thus by me they come to know me) we should bear in mind that there is nothing that has been neglected in the light of this knowledge. Every single soul was created with perfect knowledge of Allah’s lordship, but the souls where later on affected by ignorance when they mixed whit the corpses.
As regards the hadith of the prophet, peace be upon him: -every thing has a heart- the sheikh says : «By (the heart) we mean the faculty that enables the creation to have knowledge of Allah. Association and ignorance are solely attributed to the soul and do not exist in the original state the Kaffirun are not excluded from the universal love of Allah but have no share in the special or individual love which entails an ennoblement and elevation. They are included in the all embracing nature of universal which will eventually return to the original state in the manner that we are not authorized to the divulge.»
The tijaniya taria teaches us that we can love Allah only if we love his creation without exception this is learnt by looking at the foqara live with each other in the zawiya we learn to love our closest brothers first when this is achieved the feeling extends to embrace the universe outside. Sidi Ahmed Tidjani teaches us that if we let Allah’s love function in our hearts we will god willing, wind up loving all mankind. It is only then that peace can descend upon our hearts. Thus only through tolerance and the respect of every created from can we be recipient of his mercy and his special love.

Cherif Brahim. K Tidjani
Président of colloquium