Baba Farid-ud-Din Ganj Shakar and His Teachings About Asceticism & Self-Sufficiency: A Research and Historical Study

حضرت بابا فرید الدین گنج شکر کی فقر واستغناء کے متعلق تعلیمات (ایک تحقیقی وتاریخی مطالعہ)

Abstract

The Islamic Sharia (Islamic Law) deals with the physical and visible aspect of life. Spiritualism is the inside of Sharia. The basis of spiritualism and the science of Sufism is the excellence of what Sharia achieves by accomplishing its commands and actions through extreme righteousness of intention and trueness of heart and soul. The otherworldly mindset is the real spirit of Islam. Islam is lifeless without otherworldly beliefs in the same way as our physical organism is a dead body without soul. The Sufi saints and the friends of Allah spread the teachings of Islam everywhere. The Sufi saints are always regardless and needless towards peoples’ wealth and properties for themselves because Sufism is that stage of Allah’s friendship where they do not feel any grievance or complaint against anybody. This treatise concentrates on otherworldly mindset and teachings and disregard for worldly interests of his eminence, head of saints, Shaykh-ul-Islam Baba Farid-ud-Din Ganj Shakar (Allah be pleased with him). It apprises you of the episodes of his life that vividly mirror his otherworldly pursuits, disregard for the worldly pursuits, asceticism, self-denial and austerity. We learn how Baba Farid-ud-Din Ganj Shakar remained needless of people and how perfectly he spent his life with excellent trust and faith in Almighty Allah.