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"Whoever knows the true self, knows God."
The Holy Prophet Muhammad
Maktab Tarighat Oveyssi Shahmaghsoudi traces its roots through a lineage of successive Sufi Masters extending back to the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), Amir-al Mo'menin Ali (the first Imam of the Shi'a) and Oveys Gharani (also written as Uways al-Qarani)
Hazrat Oveys Gharani, who lived in Yemen at the time of the Holy Prophet of Islam, had received the teachings of Islam inwardly through his heart, and lived by the principles taught by him although he had never physically met the Holy Prophet.
At times the Prophet would say of him, "I feel the breath of the Merciful, coming to me from Yemen."
Shortly before the Holy Prophet Mohammad (pbuh) passed from this life, he directed Hazrat Ali and Omar (second Caliph) to take his Cloak as the symbol of guidance and reality of religion to Hazrat Oveys. The Prophet had told them: "After me, you shall find a man called Oveys with such and such description. Give him this cloak as a trust and ask him to intercede for my people." The he said: "Tell my people to follow the way of Oveys."
In so doing, the Prophet confirmed the method of heart to heart communication through which Hazrat Oveys had received the essence of Islam.
The holy cloak and the divine knowledge are known to have been passed for generations by this method from Hazrat Oveys Gharani to his successor and other enlightened Sufi Masters, called the Pirs, thereafter.
The present Master of M.T.O. , Molana Salaheddin Ali Nader Angha, known as Hazrat Pir, was officially appointed as the forty-second Sufi Master in the unbroken chain of transmission on September 4, 1970, when the Holy Cloak of guidance was bestowed upon him by Hazrat Shah Maghsoud Sadegh Angha (Professor Angha), his great master and beloved father.
Hazrat Shah Maghsoud in Hamaseh Hayat (Epic of Life) states:
"The Cloak of Oveyssi Faghr* we hold, and we announce,
The Faghr status we manifest is that utter richness"
*Faghr - poverty: reaching a state of abundant knowledge.
Hazrat Pir's spiritual journey began in his childhood, under the tutelage of his grandfather Hazrat Mir Ghotbeddin Mohammad Angha, who was the 40th Sufi Master of the Oveyssi School. His training continued under the guidance of his father, Molana Shah Maghsoud Sadegh Angha.
Hazrat Pir, like all the great Sufi Masters of MTO, teaches the true principles of Islamic Sufism and presents them into scientific language. Under his direct supervision, the MTO centers across the world, present the Sufi teachings to guide each person to know and achieve tranquility through self cognition and also discovering and developing their individual abilities.
The teachings and practices are based on self cognition which leads to cognition of God. This helps to separate the true teachings of the Prophets from illusions, superstitions and ridiculous stories, and reveals the reality of religion.
Hazrat Shah Maghsoud in Hamaseh Hayat (Epic of Life) also states:
"We are determined in opening the door of knowledge to humanity
Reveal to them the will of Sufism,
and expose the misconceptions
Make knowledge the guiding lantern of people’s path
and cognition, the light of the aware hearts of the created
So they do not take ignorance as religion
nor appearances as knowledge, and guesses as method.
That they turn to the real Islam,
and do not tread anywhere other than the path of Truth (God)"
Sufism, as taught in M.T.O. School of Islamic Sufism, is a method and a way that shows human beings how to discover the eternity that lies within them, not bound to custom, tradition, race, personal or social ideologies, so that they may know the truth of their being, and thus live in harmony and peace with themselves and with others.
People are free to attend M.T.O. classes regardless of their ethnic backgrounds to know about the reality of religion. Over 500000 students attend M.T.O. centers located throughout North America, Europe, Australia, Africa and Asia.
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The Holy Prophet Mohammad (PBH) Amir-al-Mo'menin Ali (PBH) 1- Hazrat Oveys Qarani* 2- Hazrat Salman Farsi 3- Hazrat Habib-ibn Salim Ra'i 4- Hazrat Soltan Ebrahim Adham 5- Hazrat Abu Ali Shaqiq al-Balkhi 6- Hazrat Sheikh Abu Torab Nakhshabi 7- Hazrat Sheikh Abi Amr al-Istakhri 8- Hazrat Abu Ja'far Hazza 9- Hazrat Sheikh Kabir Abu Abdollah Mohammad-ibn Khafif Shirazi 10- Hazrat Sheikh Hossein Akkar 11- Hazrat Sheikh Morshed Abu-Isshaq Shahriar Kazerouni 12- Hazrat Khatib Abolfath Abdolkarim 13- Hazrat Ali-ibn Hassan Basri 14- Hazrat Serajeddin Abolfath Mahmoud-ibn Mahmoudi Sabouni Beyzavi 15- Hazrat Sheikh Abu Abdollah Rouzbehan Baghli Shirazi 16- Hazrat Sheikh Najmeddin Tamat-al Kobra Khivaghi 17- Hazrat Sheikh Ali Lala Ghaznavi 18- Hazrat Sheikh Ahmad Zaker Jowzeghani 19- Hazrat Noureddin Abdolrahman Esfarayeni 20- Hazrat Sheikh Alaoddowleh Semnani 21- Hazrat Mahmoud Mazdaghani 22- Hazrat Amir Seyyed Ali Hamedani 23- Hazrat Sheikh Ahmad Khatlani 24- Hazrat Seyyed Mohammad abdollah Ghatifi al-Hasavi Nourbakhsh 25- Hazrat Shah Ghassem Feyzbakhsh 26- Hazrat Hossein Abarghoui Janbakhsh 27- Hazrat Darvish Malek Ali Joveyni 28- Hazrat Darvish Ali Sodeyri 29- Hazrat Darvish Kamaleddin Sodeyri 30- Hazrat Darvish Mohammad Mozaheb Karandehi (Pir Palandouz) 31- Hazrat Mir Mohammad Mo'men Sodeyri Sabzevari 32- Hazrat Mir Mohammad Taghi Shahi Mashhadi 33- Hazrat Mir Mozaffar Ali 34- Hazrat Mir Mohammad Ali 35- Hazrat Seyyed Shamseddin Mohammad 36- Hazrat Seyyed Abdolvahab Naini 37- Hazrat Haj Mohammad Hassan Kouzekanani 38- Hazrat Agha Abdolghader Jahromi 39-Hazrat Jalaleddin Ali Mir Abolfazl Angha 40-Hazrat Mir Ghotbeddin Mohammad Angha 41-Hazrat Shah Maghsoud Sadegh Angha 42-Hazrat Salaheddin Ali Nader Shah Angha The conventional Arabic transliteration is Uways al-Qarani
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