Maulana Sheikh Nazim was questioned at an interview.

Q: People object on your hands being kissed

Maulana: I am not a sultan. Let them go and kiss their hands! These
people are envious, because they are not giving full respect to their
Lord. If they were, people would respect them. Maybe I am respected in
the Divine Presence and that is why people run up to me. I am not
begging people to come up to me and kiss my hands! They rush on me
from all over the world and I do not tell them to go away. Why should
I? Are my hands dirty? If they were I would prevent it. But the hands
of the people who oppose this are dirty with their dirty works. When
people come close to a blessed person they feel familiarity and want
to kiss and embrace. When a person wants to show their respect by
kissing the hand it is not prohibited in the Islamic Shariah. No one
can bring any evidence that Muhammad (sal) did not allow it.

Q: But not only men are kissing your hand but women too. Is that
allowed in Islam?

Maulana: Do they have evidence on that? If that was prohibited we
would not be allowed to approach our women. They have no fiqh –
Islamic Jurisprudence. (Holy Quran Sura 4-43 ayat, Sura 5-6 ayat). YOU
MAY TOUCH.

Q: for the mahram, or..?

Maulana: an Nisa (Sura –Women), is ALIF LAM a sign for all women, or
just for some? There is a secret reality there. You can touch a lady,
but if your ego awakes with a bad desire it is prohibited. A person
may touch his daughter or his mother and it is not prohibited. He may
touch his wife and it could be prohibited. Nothing awakes in a person
with his mahram. But if it is not a mahram it is dangerous. That is
why the Shariah prevents you to touch without a reason. Otherwise a
doctor couldn't touch the body of a woman. No one objects to the
millions of ladies who everyday go to the doctor and show everything.
It did not exist at the time of Prophet (sal). When they give birth
they show themselves completely! How can that be? Why do people not
complain about that? Instead they come to me, a person who is 80 years
old! The Shariah does give permission for the hands of Prophets and
their inheritors to be kissed. I do not tell the ladies to come and
kiss my hand. No! They come to give their respects. I cannot refuse
it, because I am calling Europeans, non-Muslims, into Islam. They are
still new and if I would prevent them from kissing my hand their
hearts would be broken. They would accuse Islam of not having
gentleness. We are not living in Saudi Arabia, Libya, Algeria, Turkey,
Iran or Pakistan! I am calling people here in Europe. This is why we
can use the methods, which the Prophet (sal) was using at the
beginning of Islam. People at that time were also not using scarves.
For the first 13 years in Mecca, they were mixing freely with men and
not wearing scarves. All that came in Medina. The people who are
accusing me of these points have no understanding of Islam. They are
scholars, but empty.

Q: According to the Hanafi school what are the rules of a woman
touching you without desires? Would you need an ablution?

Maulana: All the 4 schools of thought were going to agree on this
point, but then Imam Shafi prevented it. He wanted to close the door
of fitna, which arises by young people touching each other. Abu Hanafi
gave the permission under a condition: if your feeling do not change
and become Haram, it is all right. If they do, it is prohibited in the
school of Hanafi too. When feelings change, our body awakens and we
discharge, making our Wudu invalid.

Q: Why are people so attracted to you?

Maulana: They are spiritually attracted because their souls are
swimming in the same pool as my soul, in the ocean of mercy. Their
souls are familiar to me. I have been with them since the Day of
Promises, whether they are aware of it or not.