[1] Subject discussed (and reference).
[2] Translated, for the most part, from Ayyub Sabri Pasha's Turkish work Mir'at al-Haramain; 5 volumes, Matba'a-i Bahriye, Istanbul, 1301-1306 A.H.
[3] In the 18th article on page 82, it is clearly explained that a perfect guide is a wasîla.
[4] Nuhbat al-la’âlî, a very valuable Arabic annotation of this qasîda, was published in Istanbul in 1975.
[5] The îmân of a walî who has attained mukâshafa and mushâhada is not like that of a Wahhâbî who knows nothing of tasawwuf.
[6] Al-qawl al-fasl, a valuable Arabic annotation of Fiqh-i akbar, was published in Istanbul in 1975.
[7] See also the 18th article below.
[8] Written in Persian in India in 1346 (1928) and published in Pakistan. The author, Hakîm al-Ummat Khwâja Muhammad Hasan Jan Sâhib, was a descendant of al-Imâm ar-Rabbânî (rahimah-Allâhu ta’âlâ). Second edition was produced in Istanbul, in 1395 (1975). The book Tarîq annajât by the same author answers the bid’a groups. It is in Arabic andwas published with its Urdu translation in Pakistan in 1350 and reproduced by photo-offset in Istanbul in 1396 (1976 A.D.).
[9] Please see the 8th and 35th articles for further discussion.
[10] First published by Nukhbat al-Akhbâr press in Baghdad in 1306 A.H. Second edition was produced by photo-offset in Istanbul, 1395 (1975).
[11] Please see the 24th article for the details of this event.
[12] The Wahhâbite book, on page 109, writes, “Imâm Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Hanbal’s pedigree links on to that of Rasûlullâh’s at Nizar ibn Mu’âdh. He was the most superior scholar of his time in fiqh and hadîth. He was at a very high level in warâ’ and in following the Sunna. He was born in Baghdad in 164 and died there in 241 A.H.” It iswritten in Farîd ad-dîn al-Attâr’s (rahimah-Allâhu ta’âlâ) Persian Tadhkirat al-awliyâ’ that Ahmad ibn Hanbal attended the lectures of many mashayikhs, for example, Dhu ’n-Nûn al-Misrî’s and Bishr al- Hâfî’s (150-227). A crippled woman sent her son to Imâm Ahmad andasked him to pray for her. The Imâm performed an ablution (wudû’) and salât and prayed. The son found his mother welcoming him at the gate when he returned home. She recovered her health through the blessing of Imâm Ahmad’s prayer.
[13] Hadrat al-Imâm al-A’zam’s name was Nu’mân.
[14] It is also called the Ahrâriyya because ’Ubaid-Allâh al-Ahrârî (rahimah- Allâhu ta’âlâ), who passed away in Samarkand in 895 (mîlâdî 1490), disseminated the way of his master ’Alâ ad-dîn al-’Attâr.
[15] Published by the Harbiyye Mektebi Matbaası in Istanbul in 1341 (1923 A.D.)
[16] See below, the 24th article for a detailed explanation of this subject translated from the Arabic Al-minhat al-wahbiyya.