By Shaykh ‘Abd al-Hafiz al-Makki Translated by Ismaeel Nakhuda Translator’s foreword: Below is part of the second chapter of the incomplete yet ongoing translation of Shaykh ‘Abd al-Hafiz’s Mawqif A’immat al-Harakat al-Salafiyyah min al-Tasawwuf wa al-Sufiyyah. In this chapter, the author, a student and khalifah of Shaykh al-Hadith Mawlana Muhammad Zakariyya al-Kandhalawi, produces several excerpts from the writings of Imam Hafiz Ibn al-Qayyim that show the positive manner by which the shaykh regarded Sufism and the Sufis. The text is also preluded with three biographies — two of Hafiz Ibn al-Qayyim and one of Shaykh al-Islam Abu Isma‘il al-Hirawi. Imam Hafiz…