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6/26/2025, 3:37:59 AM
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>>24496581
Your attempts at defamation are based on nothing more than feminine gossip. This is the reasoning of shudras.
To move beyond such baseless slander, let us turn from profane speculation to the testimony of those who actually knew the Sheikh. Here is a text from the journal *Al-Muslim* (Rabi' Al-Awwal 1391/1961), written by the Shadhili and Azhari Sheikh Mohammed Zaki Al-Din, which clarifies how the Egyptian Sufis regarded him:
(Note that the article is not entirely correct, for example Guénon (PBUH) before coming to Egypt had been a Sufi for more than 20 years and the article only reflects the impression that Guénon (PBUH) left on his environment)
> **The Sufi, the Herald (*dā’iyyah*) [of Tasawwuf and Islam]: René [Guénon] – ‘Abd Al-Wāhid Yahyā**
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> During the month of Rabi' Al-Awwal, in a time not so distant from our own, occurred the passing of the scholar (*‘ālim*), the philosopher, the Sufi, the Muslim René Guénon—who was later known by the name of Sheikh ‘Abd Al-Wāhid Yahyā, may the Mercy of Allah be upon him.
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> He was a learned man, a philosopher, and a Christian, famous in his country (France), a teacher (*ustadh*), an academic (*jāmi’iy*), and an authority (*kābir*) who sought the Truth until he came to Egypt, entered into contact with Al-Azhar, grew to love Islam, and became a Muslim. He deepened his research, became a *mutaṣawwif*, practiced asceticism (*zuhd*) and renunciation (*taqashshuf*), and committed himself to the initiatic path (*sulūk*) by taking the pact with the late Sheikh Mohammed Elish.
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> He was dazzled by the light of Tasawwuf and Islam, and dedicated himself to its study, its service, and the call to it (*al-da’wah ilayhi*), to the point that he founded a 'school of thought' (*madrasah fikriyyah*). Its French and Swiss students have not ceased to follow in his footsteps, benefiting from his method (*yata’thirūn manhaji-hi*), calling others to Allah and to Islam as their sheikh had called them. They serve pure Islamic Tasawwuf (*naqī*) through study and practice, imitating in this their immense teacher (*ustādhu-hum al-‘adhīm*), and more than one among them has a fraternal link (*ṣilah karīmah*) with the Ashīrah [Mohammediyyah].
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> Sheikh Abd Al-Wāhid left his university post in France to establish himself in Cairo, abandoning the European suit to don the robes of the Shuyūkh of Al-Azhar. He thus gave up the emoluments of his former profession and began to earn his living through his writings.
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> And how many letters he drafted, how many articles he published in French and other journals, all in service to Islam and its Tasawwuf
>>24496581
Your attempts at defamation are based on nothing more than feminine gossip. This is the reasoning of shudras.
To move beyond such baseless slander, let us turn from profane speculation to the testimony of those who actually knew the Sheikh. Here is a text from the journal *Al-Muslim* (Rabi' Al-Awwal 1391/1961), written by the Shadhili and Azhari Sheikh Mohammed Zaki Al-Din, which clarifies how the Egyptian Sufis regarded him:
(Note that the article is not entirely correct, for example Guénon (PBUH) before coming to Egypt had been a Sufi for more than 20 years and the article only reflects the impression that Guénon (PBUH) left on his environment)
> **The Sufi, the Herald (*dā’iyyah*) [of Tasawwuf and Islam]: René [Guénon] – ‘Abd Al-Wāhid Yahyā**
>
> During the month of Rabi' Al-Awwal, in a time not so distant from our own, occurred the passing of the scholar (*‘ālim*), the philosopher, the Sufi, the Muslim René Guénon—who was later known by the name of Sheikh ‘Abd Al-Wāhid Yahyā, may the Mercy of Allah be upon him.
>
> He was a learned man, a philosopher, and a Christian, famous in his country (France), a teacher (*ustadh*), an academic (*jāmi’iy*), and an authority (*kābir*) who sought the Truth until he came to Egypt, entered into contact with Al-Azhar, grew to love Islam, and became a Muslim. He deepened his research, became a *mutaṣawwif*, practiced asceticism (*zuhd*) and renunciation (*taqashshuf*), and committed himself to the initiatic path (*sulūk*) by taking the pact with the late Sheikh Mohammed Elish.
>
> He was dazzled by the light of Tasawwuf and Islam, and dedicated himself to its study, its service, and the call to it (*al-da’wah ilayhi*), to the point that he founded a 'school of thought' (*madrasah fikriyyah*). Its French and Swiss students have not ceased to follow in his footsteps, benefiting from his method (*yata’thirūn manhaji-hi*), calling others to Allah and to Islam as their sheikh had called them. They serve pure Islamic Tasawwuf (*naqī*) through study and practice, imitating in this their immense teacher (*ustādhu-hum al-‘adhīm*), and more than one among them has a fraternal link (*ṣilah karīmah*) with the Ashīrah [Mohammediyyah].
>
> Sheikh Abd Al-Wāhid left his university post in France to establish himself in Cairo, abandoning the European suit to don the robes of the Shuyūkh of Al-Azhar. He thus gave up the emoluments of his former profession and began to earn his living through his writings.
>
> And how many letters he drafted, how many articles he published in French and other journals, all in service to Islam and its Tasawwuf
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