“Just as Allah’s manifestation of “Just as Allah’s manifestation of Himself led to His bringing out the presence of Our Master Muhammad (SAWS), the Khalifa of Muhammad needed to appear as another reality, so that the Muhammadi reality in turn could be fully manifest. Thus the reality of Our Master, the Hidden Pole, the Well-Known Muhammadi Seal appeared, and it is through him that the saints from the beginning of time until his manifestation spoke.
He is Our Master Ahmad and he is the saint of Allah (TWT), though what he had came from the Chosen Prophet (SAWS), who gave him all his attributes, until the only difference between them was these two words: attribution and extension.
All of Ahmad Tijani’s attributes were extended to him from the Chosen Prophet (SAWS); when Our Master Muhammad (SAWS) manifested himself in the reality of our Shaykh, he extended to him all his attributes except prophecy, just as Allah had extended to the Chosen Prophet (SAWS) all His attributes except divinity.
In this way, the Prophet (SAWS) is not a god, and Shaykh Tijani (RA) is not a prophet, but the Chosen Prophet (SAWS) extended to him everything except prophecy and placed it in his (RA) reality.
For this reason, he is called the Well-Known Muhammadi Seal and the Hidden Pole: his true station is hidden from all people.”
—Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse (ra), The Khartoum Speech
[Interpreted from the Arabic by Sidi “Adnan” Adrian Wood-Smith] led to His bringing out the presence of Our Master Muhammad (SAWS), the Khalifa of Muhammad needed to appear as another reality, so that the Muhammadi reality in turn could be fully manifest. Thus the reality of Our Master, the Hidden Pole, the Well-Known Muhammadi Seal appeared, and it is through him that the saints from the beginning of time until his manifestation spoke.He is Our Master Ahmad and he is the saint of Allah (TWT), though what he had came from the Chosen Prophet (SAWS), who gave him all his attributes, until the only difference between them was these two words: attribution and extension.
All of Ahmad Tijani’s attributes were extended to him from the Chosen Prophet (SAWS); when Our Master Muhammad (SAWS) manifested himself in the reality of our Shaykh, he extended to him all his attributes except prophecy, just as Allah had extended to the Chosen Prophet (SAWS) all His attributes except divinity.
In this way, the Prophet (SAWS) is not a god, and Shaykh Tijani (RA) is not a prophet, but the Chosen Prophet (SAWS) extended to him everything except prophecy and placed it in his (RA) reality.
For this reason, he is called the Well-Known Muhammadi Seal and the Hidden Pole: his true station is hidden from all people.”
