Pir Nureddin Jerrahi, may Allah be pleased with him, instructed his murids not to drink water after evening so they would be able to have spiritual dreams. The lessons of the shaikh are given to the dervish according to his dreams. Through these dream interpretations the shaikh knows what lessons to give or to change the Name the dervish might be practicing.
If one drinks an entire bottle of medicine without the prescription of the doctor he will not get better and may even die. The repetition of the Names is the medicine and the shaikh is the doctor. The acuteness of the illness is important, the medicine and the doctor are important, the time that one takes the medicine and the time between taking the medicine are important, and the amount of medicine prescribed is important. The doctor has wisdom of medicine while only Allah has the power to heal.
Yunus Musuli owned a small jewelry shop in the Istanbul bazaar. One day, Pir Nureddin Jerrahi, founder of the Jerrahi Order of Halveti dervishes, walked by the shop and saw the jeweler. He thought the man had an inner light and asked his khalifa whether this man should be taken as a dervish. His khalifa knew the man and said yes.
Pir Nureddin went into the shop. He was eating a peach as he looked around. He repeated a few words, breathed on the peach pit, and it grew and changed into a large, faultless emerald. He asked the jeweler its value. The man was astonished at its size and beauty. "I do not have enough money or property to purchase such a jewel, but I would give all that I have for it," he said.
Pir Nureddin breathed on the emerald and it changed back into the peach pit. "Is this what you would give everything for?" he asked. The jeweler was astonished at what he had witnessed and became a dervish of Pir Nureddin.
Pir Nureddin said that to make things into gold you must first make your breath gold. The way to do this is to be on the Right Path and study dhikrullah with a shaikh.
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