{"id":5865,"date":"2014-07-14T14:35:29","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T12:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.muftizubair.co.za\/site\/?page_id=5865"},"modified":"2014-08-09T07:32:04","modified_gmt":"2014-08-09T05:32:04","slug":"who-is-an-authentic-shaikh-spiritual-mentor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.muftizubair.co.za\/site\/?page_id=5865","title":{"rendered":"Who is an Authentic Shaikh (Spiritual Mentor)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An accomplished spiritual mentor (Shaikh Kaamil) possesses the under-mentioned qualities. He is able to guide the seeker (Saalik\/ Mureed) towards spiritual progress through removal of evils habits and qualities and developing good character and noble conduct.<\/p>\n<p>1. He possesses necessary religious knowledge acquired from authentic sources.<\/p>\n<p>2. His beliefs, habits, and practices are in accordance with the Shariah.<\/p>\n<p>3. He does not harbour greed for worldly wealth.<\/p>\n<p>4. He has himself spent time with an authentic\u00a0<em>Shaikh<\/em> (Suhbah), and has been ordained by him to guide others (Ijazah\/Khilafah).<\/p>\n<p>5. The renowned scholars and <em>M<\/em><em>a<\/em><em>shaaikh<\/em>\u00a0of the time hold good opinion about him.<\/p>\n<p>6. His followers are mostly from among the people who have good understanding of Deen.<\/p>\n<p>7. Most of his followers follow the Shariah and are not materially minded..<\/p>\n<p>8. He sincerely tries to educate and reform his followers. If he sees anything wrong in them, he corrects it.<\/p>\n<p>9. In his company one can feel a decrease in the love of this world and an increase in the love for Allah.<\/p>\n<p>10. He himself is regularly on Zikr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An accomplished spiritual mentor (Shaikh Kaamil) possesses the under-mentioned qualities. He is able to guide the seeker (Saalik\/ Mureed) towards[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-5865","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.muftizubair.co.za\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5865"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.muftizubair.co.za\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.muftizubair.co.za\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.muftizubair.co.za\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.muftizubair.co.za\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5865"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.muftizubair.co.za\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5993,"href":"http:\/\/www.muftizubair.co.za\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5865\/revisions\/5993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.muftizubair.co.za\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}