Our Guide
All sufi paths have a guide. The guide is just that - a guide. He guides his students from the beginning through the stations of spiritual ascension to levels of completeness. He is always working hard to direct the spiritual progression of his students, taking great care to be certain that each has the greatest opportunity to reach their goal. The goal, in the case of one on a sufi path, is to the uncovering of the true Reality of God that exists inside the heart of each human being. The guide acts not as a middle-man between his students and God, but as a way-shower, ever pointing the way on the path. The true guide has nothing from himself and takes nothing for himself. He knows and lives the Reality that everything is from God and all things are returning to God. The true guide is the guide leading to the complete unity with God.
Our guide is Sidi Muhammad al-Jamal ash-Shadhuli.
He is a simple man from the Holy Land who has spent much of his life helping
people to find the real truth of what lies inside them. For some he just
a bearded man from a far away place. For others he is like a beacon in whose
light the reflection of Truth can be seen. And for some, he carries Divine
Presence Itself. That's not to say that he is God - not at all. He is a man,
and makes no claims to be other than a poor slave who is ever in need of
His Lord. Whichever the case, he comes
to the United States each year to
share his message with all those who wish to taste from it.
The message, however, is not his and this path is not his path. This path, the Shadhuliyya Sufi Path, is taken directly from the teachings of all the Prophets and Messengers that God has sent to the earth. It is said that God has sent some 124,000 Prophets, some of which are known such as Abraham, Jesus, Moses and Muhammad. It is a