Burhaniyya

The Burhani - Tariqa (Arabic الطريقة البرهانية الدسوقية الشاذلية at- Tariqa al - burhāniyya ad disūqiyya ash- schādhuliyya, DMG al - Tariqa al - burhāniyya al - disūqiyya al - šāḏuliyya ) is an Islamic Sufi order ( tariqa ) Sayyid Ibrahim al - Quraschi ad Disuqi, the fourth of the great Sufischeichs and religious founder.

Etymological origin

The name of the Tariqa has the following meaning:

Sayyid Ibrahim belongs to the last group of the as- Sab ʿ a al - Mathani, the seven Superiors. Sayyid Ibrahim was the fourth in the group of Poles who had the task to teach people the right spiritual path to Allah in accordance with the Qur'an and the Sunnah to go.

History

The Burhani - tariqa spread for the first time in the life of Sheikh Muhammad Uthman Abd al - Burhani († 1983). Before that, she usually consisted of only a small circle of dervishes and the Sheikh of the Tariqa who passed on his knowledge to the respective successor.

Under Sheikh Muhammad Uthman took the Tariqa in Sudan and Egypt, many supporters - in the 1970s, the estimates were in Egypt alone in the hundreds of thousands. Sheikh Muhammad Uthman, who was nicknamed Sayyid Fakhr ad -Din died 5 April 1983 and is buried in Khartoum ( Sudan). His grave is now a much-visited pilgrimage ( Ziyarah ).

Under the leadership of his son, Sheikh Ibrahim Muhammad Uthman († 2003), the Tariqa has widespread also in non- Arab countries, primarily in Europe and the USA.

The Order, which is under the present leadership of Sheikh Muhammad Sheikh Ibrahim Sheikh Muhammad Uthman, which in turn is the son of Sheikh Ibrahim, today has a large number of members. Throughout the world there are hundreds of Burhani communities.

The seat of the European center of the Order 's house Schnede in the Lüneburg Heath.