ghawth al-a'dham and ibn taymiyyah

From Shaykh Gibril:

His S.ûfi Affiliation With the Qâdirî T.arîqa


According to the S.ûfî Ibn `Abd al-Hâdî in his Bad' al `Ilqa bi Labs al Khirqa, Ibn Taymiyya also declared himself a follower of several S.ûfî orders, among them the Qâdirî path of Shaykh `Abd al-Qâdir al-Gîlânî on whose book Futûh. al-Ghayb he wrote a hundred-page partial commentary covering only five of the seventy-eight sermons of the book. In al-Mas'alat al-Tabrîziyya Ibn Taymiyya declares: "Labistu al khirqa al-mubâraka li al Shaykh `Abd al-Qâdir wa baynî wa baynahu ithnân - I wore the blessed S.ûfî cloak of `Abd al-Qâdir, there being between him and me two shaykhs."

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I have heard a speech by Mufakkir-e-Islam Syed Abdul Qadir Jilani where he discussed this waqiya and mentions other things about ibn taymiyya's respect/relations for Huzoor Ghous Paak - some things that really surprised me. if it is online I will try to give the link, it is very imformative.