Bayt

What is Bay'at?

In terms of Tasawwuf the act of assigning a person who is Sahih ul Aqeedah, knowledgeable, practising Muslim and spiritual personality as the guide or instructor to achieve spiritual progress and nearness of Allah عزوجل, is known as Bay'at.

Bayat is just a recommended act (mustahab) and is not mandatory. But as it has been regular tradition that all the pious predecessors (Akabireen) have been taking bayat, it is very much beneficial to give bayat to a personality who has above mentioned virtues in him.

Mufti Mohammad Akmal Sahab knows the value of his precious time and its proper usage. That is the reason, he is always busy in the great profitable projects for Ummah. His way of expression and method of teaching is so simple with full information, that whoever listens to his speech or reads books his acquires the knowledge and understands at once.

Bayat to a person who is not having true beliefs, commit sins in front of people or ignorant is not permissible. In the case someone has given bayat to such kind of person, it must be broken.

Who can opt for it?

An Adult doesn’t require permission of anyone for bayah. Therefore neither there is a need for children to take permission of their parents nor for the wife to get permission of her husband. Similarly it is also not necessary for the children to choose same Shaykh or Silsilah which their parents had chosen.

Bayat can be taken hand in hand in a physical meeting or through letter, email, message or phone call as our beloved Prophet ﷺ took bayat from the companions in the physical meetings as well as sent letters for the Bayat Al Islam i.e. oath of allegiance with Islam and it is not proven that all of them (to whom the letters were written) came to give bayat hand in hand to the Prophet ﷺ. Similarly Beloved Prophet ﷺ also took bayat from the women keeping them in occultation which proves that it is not necessary for the disciple in front of Shaykh at the time of Bayat.