Pondok Pesantren At-Taufiqy

Pekalongan is one of the cities of Central Java or also known as "City of students" "Kota Santri". One of the Cities that consist of many Pondok Pesantren, producing religious students and the batik printing.

One of the Pesantren we managed to visit during our last Wali Songo tour was the Pondok Pesantren At Taufiqy. We are fortunate to have the chance to meet the Principal Kiyai Taufik. He is the murid of Mawlana Shaykh Nazim Adil Haqqani. There were more than hundred students in this pondok studying in the tradtional islam methodology from different sciences such as Quran, Hadith, Arabic, Nahu, tassawuf, tauhid and many more.

We slept in the pondok for 1 day and the feeling was amazing. The atmosphere of the surrounding was indeed tranquility.After the prayer subuh, the students read their wirid with such smoothing intensity as the vibration of the rememberance make us focus upon Our Lord Himself. When the sun begin to rise, its a routine for the students to Ziyarah the maqam in the pondok. There is Shaykh Abdullah al Khan maqam. He wrote the manaqib of Shah Naqshband q.s. (Check out next posting on this Sufi Scholars)

While we were doing the ziyarah, the students were also doing the same routine like us. Then we had Mawlid Simtur Duror performed by the students. It was one of the spiritual experience we ever have in our life. There was a question and answer session between the students, Shaykh Zakaria Bahgarib and Kiyai Taufik. When the session end, we proceed with the breakfast, we had the local food, it was spicy, nice and delicious. It was around 10am when left the pondok heading towards Demak for our next Ziyarah destination.

pic: Khalid Ajmain

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