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From Adab al-Suhba:
Point 33: Be happy for your and don’t envy him when people follow him and get attached to him
It is a right one owes a brother to be happy when many people follow him and turn towards him to attach themselves to him; anyone who is not (happy about it) is suffering from the illness of envy (hasad).
(It is stated) in a hadith: «Envy consumes good deeds as a fire consumes wood.»
From the admonishments of my Master ´Ali Wafa (may Allah show him mercy): “Be careful not to envy anyone whom Allah has preferred over you, so that Allah may not transform you as He transformed Iblis from an angelic form to a satanic form because he envied Sayyidana Adam (peace be upon him).”
(It is narrated) in the episodes from the life of my Master Ahmad al-Badawi – may Allah give us the benefit of his blessings that the holder of the Iwan of Tanta named “The Moonfaced” was a great wali, but envy arose in him when my Master Ahmad al-Badawi came to Tanta, and people turned towards him and attached themselves to him, so his state was reversed and his fame vanished, and his position in Tanta today is where the dogs end up. The Friday speakers of Tanta came to his support and worked in his favor for some time. They built a great minaret at his zawiya. Then my Master ´Abd al-´Al (may Allah the Exalted show him mercy) came and kicked it with his foot, and from that time up to our time it has disappeared.
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From the tabaqat:
Yaqut al-`Arshi was the one who interceded for Sheikh Shams al-Din ibn al-Lubban (who disavowed Sheikh Ahmad al-Badawi, so that all his good deeds and rank were nullfied). Sheikh Shams al-Din had sought intersession from all the awlia, but Sheikh Ahmad al-Badawi did not accept it from anyone. Yaqut al-`Arshi then travelled from Alexandria to Tanta, and asked Sheikh Ahmad al-Badawi to change his opinion about Sheikh Shams al-Din, so that his rank may be returned to him, and Sheikh Ahmad al-Badawi complied to his request. – Later, Sheikh Yaqut al-`Arshi gave his daughter in marriage to Shams al-Din ibn al-Lubban, who made it his will , when he died, to be buried under her feet, out of respect for her father Sheikh Yaqut al-Arshi.
He was called al-`Arshi, because his heart was constantly under the Throne of Allah – only his body was on the earth.
It has also been said that it is because he heard the adhan from the Angels carrying the Throne of Allah.
He interceded even for the animals. Once, when he was sitting in the circle of the fuqara, a dove came and sat on his shoulder, and said some secret words in his ear. … (see TOPIC 1)
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Bottom lines
1 – Allah appointed ranks for the awlia
2 – the danger in evying them and thinking oneself better than them, nto acknowledging their ranks
3 – the compassion of Sayyiduna Yaqut al-Arshi, how , despite the fact that this man messed homself up, he did eveything to save him
