"Surely, in the creation of the heavens and the earth are signs for those gifted with understanding hearts"
Qur'an 3:190
Naqshbandi Sufi Order
The Naqshbandi Sufi Way
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Shaykh Hisham Muhammad Kabbani is a scholar and Sufi shaykh from the Middle East. He graduated from the American University of Beirut in Chemistry. From there he went to Belgium, to continue his Medical Degree in Louvain. Then he received his Islamic Law Degree from Damascus. From his childhood, he accompanied Shaykh 'Abdullah ad-Daghestani and Shaykh Muhammad Nazim al-Haqqani, the grandshaikhs of the Most Distinguished Naqshbandi Order in this time. He travelled extensively throughout the Middle East, Europe, and the Far East in the company of his shaikh.
In 1991 he was ordered by his shaykh to move to America and to establish the foundation of the Naqshbandi Sufi Order there.
Since that time, he has opened thirteen Sufi centers in Canada and the United States. He has lectured in many universities, including the University of Chicago, Columbia University, Howard, Berkeley, McGill, Concordia, Dawson College, as well as in many spiritual and religious centers throughout North America, Europe, the Far East and the Middle East.
Shaykh Hisham Kabbani's mission in the Americas is to spread the Sufi teachings of the brotherhood of mankind and the Unity of belief in God that is present in all religions and spiritual paths. His efforts are directed at bringing the diverse spectrum of religions and spiritual paths into harmony and concord, in recognition of mankind's responsibility as caretaker of this fragile planet and of one another.
Shaykh Hisham, as a Sufi shaykh, has been given the authority and permission to guide his followers to the Love of God and to the stations to which they have been destined by their Creator. His arduous spiritual training of 40 years at the hands of his grandshaykh and his shaikh, has endowed him with the sublime qualities of wisdom, light, intellect, and compassion necessary for a true Master on the Path.
Shaykh Hisham's outreach mission in the Americas is his unique contribution to the Endeavor of Humankind in reaching for its highest destiny--nearness to God. His endeavors to bring unity of hearts in their movement towards the Divine Essence is what may be his greatest legacy to the West.
Shaykh Hisham Kabbani has been under the guidance of Shaykh Nazim for over forty years, knowing him since his childhood in Beirut where Shaykh Nazim often visited his family. In 1990 Shaykh Nazim appointed Shaykh Hisham Kabbani to initiate several Naqshbandi-Haqqani organizations and to oversee their activities around the world. At the direction of Shaykh Nazim, Shaykh Kabbani has since travel throughout the Middle East, North America, Europe, Asia, the Pacific Rim and South Africa, spreading awareness of classical Islamic teachings and principles. He has devoted his life to the promotion of the Sufi teachings of love, peace, acceptance and compassion and has a long background of opposing extremism in every form.
To hear Shaykh Hisham's talks, sohbets, lectures and public speeces: http://sufilive.com/
If your students do not know how to swim,
being still children, you give them a vessel
that they can ride on.
From the shore of darkness to the shore of safety.
From the shore of difficulties to the shore of peacefulness.
From the shore of hatred to the shore of love.
From the shore of anarchy to the shore of harmony.
From the shore of terrorism and violence
to the shore of peacefulness and satisfaction.
If you bring them there, it will be heaven,
a paradise for them.
And this is the responsibility of saints."
Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani
