ad-dabbagh

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Ibriz of Ad-Dabbagh Salam aleykum In the English translation of “Al-Ibriz” with name “Pure Gold from the words of Sayidi Abd al-‘Aziz al-Dabbagh” written by Dabbagh's student Al-Lamati and translated by O’Kane and Radke, we have p 517, n°434: “Next, I said to the Shaykh -God be pleased with him-: ‘The scholars of external religious learning among the specialists in hadiths, and others as well, disagree about whether the Prophet –God’s blessings and peace be upon him- knew the five things mentioned in God the Sublime’s words: “Verily, God has knowledge of the Hour, He sends down the rain and He knows what’s inside wombs. No soul knows what it will earn tomorrow and no soul knows what land it will die in. But God is all-knowing and informed.” (31/34)’ He replied- God be pleased with him and with our lords the religious scholars: ‘How could the matter of the five things be unknown to him-God’s blessing and peace be upon him-since none of the people with the power of free disposal (tasarruf) among his noble community would be able to exercise that power without knowledge of these five?” P 159 of English translation: “Another of these is that one night I brought together two of my wives in a single accommodation for the night, with the excuse that one of them was hindered from spending the night in her house. Each of them bedded down for the night in her own separate bedding, and I bedded down for the night by myself in my own separate bedding. And a fourth bed in the room remained unoccupied by anyone during the night. Then my carnal soul called me to have intercourse with one of the two wives, and I had intercourse with her, thinking that the other was asleep. When I’d slept a little, I arose and had intercourse with the other one, thinking that the first one was now asleep. Afterwards when I went to visit the Shaykh - and this I did quite frequently despite the great distance- one day he began to joke with me and at a certain moment he said: “What do you (religious scholars) say about bringing together two wives in one residence and having intercourse with both of them?” I understood he was referring to what I’d done. I asked: “Oh Sayyidi, how did you known about this?” He replied: “Who do you think was sleeping in the fourth bed?” P 161, it is written: “Another one is that I was to marry a woman from the Zirara tribe and I didn’t know what she was like. The Shaykh described her to me in a way I (later) found to be true. He told me things about her that only God could know. Then when I’d decided on the wedding night (dukhul), he said to me: “On the wedding night I’ll be with you.” I asked him: “How will I know this, oh Sayyidi?” He replied: “I’ll give you a sign.” When I met my wife and had spoken a few words to her, suddenly her nose began to bleed. I asked her: “What happened to you?” She replied: “You stuck me in the nose.” I said nothing further since I knew our lord, the Imam, had done this. Later when I visited him and mentioned the matter to him, he said: “Yes. And if she hadn’t shed that blood from her nose, she’d have fallen ill. This is because she came from a distant place and it was a cold day. The blood in her had thickened.”.” So I have three questions: 1) Do Sufis believe that Awliya possess the five keys of Ghqyb, meqning they know whatever will hqppen to them tomorrow 2) Are Sufi Shaykh wathcing their students' activity with their wives? 3) Is it correct for a Sufi Shaykh to describe a women and come on the night of wedding?