seekeroftruth
05-12-2005, 09:17 AM
Hayrah.
In The Name of Allah, The Merciful, The Compassionate
The Way to make the heart present with Allah
As to the professor you told me about who is unable to find the state of presence, tell him not to look toward the past nor toward the future, to become the son of the moment, and to take death as the target before his eyes. Then he will find this state, God willing.
We said to one of our brothers: let him who wishes to be in a perpetual state of presence restrain his tongue. And we advise you: if you are in a state of perplexity (hayrah), do not hasten to cling to anything, either by writing or by anything else, lest you close the door of necessity with your own hand, because for you this state takes the place of the supreme Name (Al-Ismul Atham); but God is wiser.
The Moment of Intense Need (Al Faaqatu)
Sheikh Ibn 'Ata-Illah says in his Hikam: "The moment of intense need heralds feast days for one who aspires "; and again: “All difficulties, tribulations and states of poverty, lacking and need in this world are like a table cloth spread out to receive the Divine Gifts. If you want those gifts to come to you then you have to accept the state that you find yourself in and then you will receive them. This is why Allah says in one verse of the Qur’an ‘The gifts are only for the faqir’ (surah tawbah: 60)”; and again: "Distress is the key to spiritual gifts"; and again: "You will perhaps find a benefit in distress which you have not been able to find in fasting nor in prayer; therefore when it descends upon you, defend yourself no longer and do not be concerned with searching for some remedy, lest you drive away the good which comes toward you freely, and give up your will entirely to your Lord; then you will see marvels." Our Master used to say when someone was overcome with dismay: "Relax your mind and learn how to swim."
The thoughts that pass through the
heart from the Nafs & Shaytan
Do not give nourishment to all that arises in your heart, but throw it far away from you and do not be concerned with fostering it, forgetting your Lord the while, as most people do, thus going astray, wandering, losing their way in a mirage; if they understood, they would say: what an astonishing thing the heart, in one instant it gives birth to countless sons, some legitimate, others illegitimate and yet others whose nature one cannot discern ...How then could anyone who spends his time feeding all this offspring be available for his Lord? What a sorry creature this son of Adam, who effaces the Cosmos until not a trace of it remains and whom the Cosmos in its turn will obliterate until not a trace of him remains, save a faint odour which in a little while fades away altogether.
If you love your Lord, faqir, leave your self and your world and people, except the man whose state uplifts you and shows you God by his words. But beware, beware lest you allow yourself to be deceived by someone, for how many are they who appear to be preaching for God when in reality they are only preaching for their desires. The celebrated Saint, Sayyidi Abu sh-****a, (may God let us obtain profit through him) says in respect to this: "By God, we call 'My Master,' or 'Son of my Master,' only him who cuts off our fetters." The fact is not hidden from you, faqir, that what imprisons a man in this world, which is the world of corruption, and holds him fast, is nothing but illusion (al-wahm); but if a man gets rid of this illusion, he passes into the world of purity from which he came; and God brings every stranger back to his homeland.
Divine Gifts come through willingness
to accept Outward Loss & Lacking
Certainly all things are hidden in their opposites-gain in loss and gift in refusal, honour in humiliation, wealth in poverty, strength in weakness, abundance in restriction, rising up in falling down, life in death, victory in defeat, power in powerlessness and so on. Therefore, if a man wishes to find, let him be content to lose; if he wishes a gift, let him be content with refusal; he who desires honour must accept humiliation and he who desires wealth must be satisfies with poverty; let him who wishes to be strong be content to be weak; let him who wishes abundance be resigned to restriction; he who wishes to be raised up must allow himself to be cast down; he who desires life must accept death; he who wishes to conquer must be content to be conquered and he who desires power must be content with impotence .
Which is to say, let him who wishes to be free rejoice in servitude, as his Prophet, friend and Lord (God bless him and give him peace) rejoiced in it; let him choose it as the Prophet chose it and not be proud nor rebel against his condition, for the servant is the servant and the Lord is the Lord...
from the notes of Sheikh Aleey Abdul Qadir Ahmadi -group.
In The Name of Allah, The Merciful, The Compassionate
The Way to make the heart present with Allah
As to the professor you told me about who is unable to find the state of presence, tell him not to look toward the past nor toward the future, to become the son of the moment, and to take death as the target before his eyes. Then he will find this state, God willing.
We said to one of our brothers: let him who wishes to be in a perpetual state of presence restrain his tongue. And we advise you: if you are in a state of perplexity (hayrah), do not hasten to cling to anything, either by writing or by anything else, lest you close the door of necessity with your own hand, because for you this state takes the place of the supreme Name (Al-Ismul Atham); but God is wiser.
The Moment of Intense Need (Al Faaqatu)
Sheikh Ibn 'Ata-Illah says in his Hikam: "The moment of intense need heralds feast days for one who aspires "; and again: “All difficulties, tribulations and states of poverty, lacking and need in this world are like a table cloth spread out to receive the Divine Gifts. If you want those gifts to come to you then you have to accept the state that you find yourself in and then you will receive them. This is why Allah says in one verse of the Qur’an ‘The gifts are only for the faqir’ (surah tawbah: 60)”; and again: "Distress is the key to spiritual gifts"; and again: "You will perhaps find a benefit in distress which you have not been able to find in fasting nor in prayer; therefore when it descends upon you, defend yourself no longer and do not be concerned with searching for some remedy, lest you drive away the good which comes toward you freely, and give up your will entirely to your Lord; then you will see marvels." Our Master used to say when someone was overcome with dismay: "Relax your mind and learn how to swim."
The thoughts that pass through the
heart from the Nafs & Shaytan
Do not give nourishment to all that arises in your heart, but throw it far away from you and do not be concerned with fostering it, forgetting your Lord the while, as most people do, thus going astray, wandering, losing their way in a mirage; if they understood, they would say: what an astonishing thing the heart, in one instant it gives birth to countless sons, some legitimate, others illegitimate and yet others whose nature one cannot discern ...How then could anyone who spends his time feeding all this offspring be available for his Lord? What a sorry creature this son of Adam, who effaces the Cosmos until not a trace of it remains and whom the Cosmos in its turn will obliterate until not a trace of him remains, save a faint odour which in a little while fades away altogether.
If you love your Lord, faqir, leave your self and your world and people, except the man whose state uplifts you and shows you God by his words. But beware, beware lest you allow yourself to be deceived by someone, for how many are they who appear to be preaching for God when in reality they are only preaching for their desires. The celebrated Saint, Sayyidi Abu sh-****a, (may God let us obtain profit through him) says in respect to this: "By God, we call 'My Master,' or 'Son of my Master,' only him who cuts off our fetters." The fact is not hidden from you, faqir, that what imprisons a man in this world, which is the world of corruption, and holds him fast, is nothing but illusion (al-wahm); but if a man gets rid of this illusion, he passes into the world of purity from which he came; and God brings every stranger back to his homeland.
Divine Gifts come through willingness
to accept Outward Loss & Lacking
Certainly all things are hidden in their opposites-gain in loss and gift in refusal, honour in humiliation, wealth in poverty, strength in weakness, abundance in restriction, rising up in falling down, life in death, victory in defeat, power in powerlessness and so on. Therefore, if a man wishes to find, let him be content to lose; if he wishes a gift, let him be content with refusal; he who desires honour must accept humiliation and he who desires wealth must be satisfies with poverty; let him who wishes to be strong be content to be weak; let him who wishes abundance be resigned to restriction; he who wishes to be raised up must allow himself to be cast down; he who desires life must accept death; he who wishes to conquer must be content to be conquered and he who desires power must be content with impotence .
Which is to say, let him who wishes to be free rejoice in servitude, as his Prophet, friend and Lord (God bless him and give him peace) rejoiced in it; let him choose it as the Prophet chose it and not be proud nor rebel against his condition, for the servant is the servant and the Lord is the Lord...
from the notes of Sheikh Aleey Abdul Qadir Ahmadi -group.