"The Mahdi is the caliph appointed by Allah. May Allah hasten his emergence! May Allah answer us! You shall see the reality of khilafa (successor-ship) with him. When Allah has dressed him and given him permission to man-ifest his khilafa truly, you shall see what happens. He is the manifestation of the verse and He has subjected to you what is in the skies and what is on earth entirely from Him (Jathiya 45:13). That is ?a?ib al-zaman (the spiritual leader of end times). He makes himself and the common people equal. It is not mere elevation and making the lowest higher. Rather with a single look he will make the servant reach his level. The common public will have wilaya ?ughra (minor sainthood) and the elite will have wilaya kubra (major sainthood). To all of them, what is on the Preserved Tablet will be unveiled and visible. They will have a folding of distance from east to west and they will have the power to appear in many places. They will have with them 'Be!-and it is.'"

Mawlana Shaykh Nazim al-Haqqani (Suhba II.31)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Although there are no longer prophets upon the earth, the Most Merciful Lord did not leave His servants without inspired teachers and guides. One such teacher is the late Shaykh Nazim al-Haqqani. A descendant not only of the holy Prophet Muhammad y but also of the great Sufi masters, Abdul Qadir al-Gilani and Jalaluddin Rumi, Shaykh Nazim was gifted from earliest childhood with an extraordinarily spiritual personality. For more than seventy years Shaykh Nazim traveled the world in God's Way, spreading love, light and peace to the powerful and the meek, to celebrities and common folk alike. His teachings provide seekers a path through the spiritual secrets that give profound meaning to our existence and a holy connection to the Divine.