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Project Overview:
The RUHANI (SPIRITUALISTS)
This document provides an overview of the Ruhani-Alevi tariqa, its background and core principals.
A very short summary would be that the Ruhani are a fusion of (very) heretical Sufism, and extreme
Salafism, with a strong emphasis on spirit worship.
The Ruhani are characterized by:
The founder of Ruhani-Alevi (or Ruhani for short) is Shaykh Muhammad Ramadani, a native of
Baghdad, Iraq. As a boy he was tutored in Quran, hadith, and usul-fiqh by his father Shaykh Ahmed
Ramadani, and was later initiated into the Alevi tariqah by his grandfather Shaykh Abu Ahmed
Ramadani. As a young adult he travelled to Cairo, where he obtained his ijaza degree at Al Azhar
University. Afterwards, through the grace of Allah, the way to Mecca was made clear, where he
settled for some time and studied with several prominent Salafi shayoukh, including Shaykh Bin
Baaz, Shaykh Abdullah ibn Jibreen, and Shaykh Abdulaziz al-Kimri. While performing itikaf in
Mecca, he received powerful visions of the end times, and alhamdullilah was given special knowledge
of ruhaniyya (esotericism), and instructions to prepare for the coming of the Mehdi. Although Shaykh
Ramadani received much baraka from the Meccan scholars, he was eventually asked to leave due to
2. CURRENT DEMOGRAPHICS
Over the last ten years, the primary Ruhani zawaiya (spiritual centers) have been established by the
Shaykhs closest mureeds in Somalia, Kenya, and Yemen. In 2007, the Shaykh received permission to
spread his teachings beyond the Dar ul-Islam, and tasked his chief mureeds with making daoua to
pious Muslims. The first zawiya in the lands of the kufar was established in Russia, and
Alhamdulillah the Shaykh has given permission for his mureeds to use the internet to share his
teachings with sincere seekers. The Shaykh does not differentiate between males and females for
bayah, as the Apostle of Allah (saw) received bayah from both men and women. Most mureeds are
Somali and Arab, but increasing numbers of American mujahideen have come to study with the
Shaykh.
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