1.Then Jesus left the vicinity of Tyre and went through Sidon, down to the Sea of Galilee and into the region of the Decapolis. There some people brought to him a man who was deaf and could hardly talk, and they begged him to place his hand on the man.
After he took him aside, away from the crowd, Jesus put his fingers into the man's ears. Then he spit and touched the man's tongue. He looked up to heaven and with a deep sigh said: "Ephphatha!". At this, the man's ears were opened, his tongue was loosened and he began to speak plainly.
Jesus commanded them not to tell anyone. But the more he did so, the more they kept talking about it. People were overwhelmed with amazement. "He has done everything well," they said. "He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak."
- Gospel of Mark, 7
2.
One of the episode of Christ's life is preserved in the New Testament where he heals a deaf and almost mute person. The invocation that Christ invokes, interestingly is preserved in ancient Aramaic language even though the New Testament was written in Greek.
What Christ invoked in Aramaic is still invoked by the Sufis, specially Sufi Healers who heals in the footsteps of the message bearers of God. Ephphatha (ef'-a-tha, ef-a'-tha) is equivalent in arabic as Ya Fattah which essentially is an invocation of God by one of God's attribute, El-Fattah, the Opener. Fattah is pronounced with soft t). The interpreter of the bible generally translate it as "Be opened" (by the help of Heavenly Father).
Among the revealed Beautiful Names of God, Al-Fattah is one of them. It points to the Divine identity of The One Who opens what is closed. The One Who opens the door to success. The One by Whose guidance that which was closed is opened and the unclear is made clear. The One Who lifts veils and Who opens the heart. The One Who holds the keys to victory and success. The One Who reveals the solution to all problems.
Both Aramic and Arabic has the same Semitic root, thus the similar words share the same source. The word Fatah (written Phatha in New Testament) comes from the three word root f-t-h which has the following classical Arabic connotations:
. to open, unlock, unfold
. to reveal, inform, explain, make clear
. to grant, permit
. to make victorious
. to judge, decide
The Arabic word miftah, translated as key, meaning that which opens or unlocks, is also based on this same root.
3.
While living in Los Angeles, I was blessed to be in the company of a saintly sufi, may God bless her, from the lineage of Hazrat Inayat Khan. I will never forget her gift of two Blessed Name of God which she recommend to me (which she also received from her own teacher in the path) to invoke in the face of difficulty which were al-Fattah and al-Jami. The Opener and the Gatherer.
Not many days apart from when she advised me to recite these two names, I was confronting a situation where these two Names of God were invoked earnestly, Ya Fattha, Ya Jami (O the Opener, O the Gatherer) only to witness to my surprise how an apparently impossible passage was made open with ease. Since then I have used al-Fattah and al-Jami as two talismanic Name. All praise is due to Allah for all His generous gifts.
Just like Christ, particularly that of sufi healers, al-Fattah, holds great mystery through which Invisible Doors are Opened, Doors of cure are unlocked for difficulties and for physical diseases alike. The spirit of the word Fatah is embedded in the Name of the Opening chapter of the Quran, thus Sufis often time begin or end their supplication by the call, "Al-Fatiha!" to be followed by the recitation of the opening chapter of the Quran. The chapter according to Islamic tradition is also called ash-Shifaa or the Cure. This chapter by the name al-Fatiha is so powerful and filled with baraka that the Prophet said, "Whoever does not recite Fatiha in his prayer, that prayer is incomplete."
After he took him aside, away from the crowd, Jesus put his fingers into the man's ears. Then he spit and touched the man's tongue. He looked up to heaven and with a deep sigh said: "Ephphatha!". At this, the man's ears were opened, his tongue was loosened and he began to speak plainly.
Jesus commanded them not to tell anyone. But the more he did so, the more they kept talking about it. People were overwhelmed with amazement. "He has done everything well," they said. "He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak."
- Gospel of Mark, 7
2.
One of the episode of Christ's life is preserved in the New Testament where he heals a deaf and almost mute person. The invocation that Christ invokes, interestingly is preserved in ancient Aramaic language even though the New Testament was written in Greek.
What Christ invoked in Aramaic is still invoked by the Sufis, specially Sufi Healers who heals in the footsteps of the message bearers of God. Ephphatha (ef'-a-tha, ef-a'-tha) is equivalent in arabic as Ya Fattah which essentially is an invocation of God by one of God's attribute, El-Fattah, the Opener. Fattah is pronounced with soft t). The interpreter of the bible generally translate it as "Be opened" (by the help of Heavenly Father).
Among the revealed Beautiful Names of God, Al-Fattah is one of them. It points to the Divine identity of The One Who opens what is closed. The One Who opens the door to success. The One by Whose guidance that which was closed is opened and the unclear is made clear. The One Who lifts veils and Who opens the heart. The One Who holds the keys to victory and success. The One Who reveals the solution to all problems.
Both Aramic and Arabic has the same Semitic root, thus the similar words share the same source. The word Fatah (written Phatha in New Testament) comes from the three word root f-t-h which has the following classical Arabic connotations:
. to open, unlock, unfold
. to reveal, inform, explain, make clear
. to grant, permit
. to make victorious
. to judge, decide
The Arabic word miftah, translated as key, meaning that which opens or unlocks, is also based on this same root.
3.
While living in Los Angeles, I was blessed to be in the company of a saintly sufi, may God bless her, from the lineage of Hazrat Inayat Khan. I will never forget her gift of two Blessed Name of God which she recommend to me (which she also received from her own teacher in the path) to invoke in the face of difficulty which were al-Fattah and al-Jami. The Opener and the Gatherer.
Not many days apart from when she advised me to recite these two names, I was confronting a situation where these two Names of God were invoked earnestly, Ya Fattha, Ya Jami (O the Opener, O the Gatherer) only to witness to my surprise how an apparently impossible passage was made open with ease. Since then I have used al-Fattah and al-Jami as two talismanic Name. All praise is due to Allah for all His generous gifts.
Just like Christ, particularly that of sufi healers, al-Fattah, holds great mystery through which Invisible Doors are Opened, Doors of cure are unlocked for difficulties and for physical diseases alike. The spirit of the word Fatah is embedded in the Name of the Opening chapter of the Quran, thus Sufis often time begin or end their supplication by the call, "Al-Fatiha!" to be followed by the recitation of the opening chapter of the Quran. The chapter according to Islamic tradition is also called ash-Shifaa or the Cure. This chapter by the name al-Fatiha is so powerful and filled with baraka that the Prophet said, "Whoever does not recite Fatiha in his prayer, that prayer is incomplete."
4.
Nasrum mina Llahi,
wa Fathun Qarib.
Help is from God,
and Opening (is always) Near.
- The Quran 61:13
Inna Fatahna laka Fathan Mubina.
Truly We have opened out to you a manifest opening.
- The Quran 48:1
5.
In speaking about the Invocation or Commemoration of the Name of God, in the book Irfan (gnosis) Faqir Nur Muhammad writes with example from the healing of Christ:
6.
Captivates my soul and my heart
The beauty of the Name of God
Quenches my spiritual thirst
The Majesty of the Name of God.
If you seek intimacy (wisal) with the Real,
Be one of them who sit together in His Name
Look! Intimacy with God is
In the intimacy with the Name of God.
Between the Name and the Named
When there is no difference (farq nist)
Look you! Only in the self disclosure (tajalli) of the Names lies
The perfection (kamal) of the Name of God.
- From the Ghazals of Hazrat Muinuddin,
translated by Irshad Alam
# Related
. Spiritual Healing in Islamic Tradition
. Rumi and Spiritual Healing
. Fatiha | Opening
. Aramaic of Jesus
God the Most High shines towards a slave with the same name with which the slave remembers Him. The symptom of it is that the very name of God the Most High gets impressed with bright letters of nature inside the commemorator and at the time of absorption that commemorator sees it shining on the invisible sky like a brilliant star.
Esoterically the lights of the Names appear in the form of stars, that of the attributes like the full moon and that of the Essence appears in the form of the sun. So that when any name of God the Most High gets written in brilliant words inside the commemorator, the commemorator gets filled up with the light and electric power of that name and exercises his influence, in both the worlds through the light and power of that name.It can then be said that so and so is the operator of such and such a name or prayer. For example, when his holiness Jesus, salutations be on him, wanted to cure some leper or lunatic possessed by an evil spirit, he used to commemorate in his heart or concentrate on God the Most High's name Quddus (Holy) and he supplicated and attended God the Most High's attribute of Pure Holiness. At that moment, in accordance with the promise, "Remember Me and I'll Remember thee" God the Most High cast the light of His name holy and the light of attribute of holy on Jesus .. At moments he used to be filled up with the light of the name Holy, i.e. the holy ghost.
Since an evil spirit enters the leper and lunatic which distorts their exoteric and esoteric nature, the name Quddus (Perfectly Holy) is the opposite of all esoteric and exoteric evil - as the one is light and the other is darkness and the one is truth, the other is false. Therefore when full of the light of the holy ghost his holiness Jesus touched a leper or lunatic, the evil spirit used to fly from the leper and lunatic due to his power of the light of holiness. The darkness always flies from the light of truth, Says Allah: "The truth has come and the falsehood has vanished, verily falsehood is vanishable."
6.
Captivates my soul and my heart
The beauty of the Name of God
Quenches my spiritual thirst
The Majesty of the Name of God.
If you seek intimacy (wisal) with the Real,
Be one of them who sit together in His Name
Look! Intimacy with God is
In the intimacy with the Name of God.
Between the Name and the Named
When there is no difference (farq nist)
Look you! Only in the self disclosure (tajalli) of the Names lies
The perfection (kamal) of the Name of God.
- From the Ghazals of Hazrat Muinuddin,
translated by Irshad Alam
# Related
. Spiritual Healing in Islamic Tradition
. Rumi and Spiritual Healing
. Fatiha | Opening
. Aramaic of Jesus
22 comments:
Thank you so much for this gem dear brother Sadiq . It literally took my breath away.
May Allah swt shower His Blessings further on you.
Hind.
Alhamdulillah
got no words to express myself..after reading this post...its better for me to get to know these hidden secrets step by step.... As they say slow and steady wins the race...
I was a hidden treasure, and I desired to be known,
so I created the world.
HADÎTH
another great post, for thought and serenity.
Salam's to all
Today afternoon i was having a moment in which i was feeling why me ?
and i opened the Mathnawi to read
and this is the first couplet i read and i found my answer
Though Destiny a hundreds times waylays you,in the end it pitches a tent for you in heaven.It is God's kindness to terrify you in order to lead you to safety.
Mathnawi [ I, 1260-1 ] RUMI ( k.s )
wanted to share it with all so i posted it here ...Astagfirullah as this comment is not related to the post ...but i shared what i read..
I was given Ya Fatah yesterday, but I didn't know what it meant. Imagine my joy today at opening my dashboard and reading this. Joy to you!
Dear Sadiq,
Thank you so much for this post! Very beautiful!
All good wishes,
mo'in
THE HOLY QUR'AN and THE LAST DAY: The Last Judgment and the Lamb's Book
The end for Islam comes when their own book reaches the Truth of it's own words to the full: at their Fulfillment. Here at the End the Time has now come for the Holy Qur'an to be revealed in it's true nature; as the Sufis have always known in it's 7 levels of initiatory significance which are velied to the ordinary conditioned Muslim who memorizes words like a parrot which he has no real understanding of to the Elct; those Rightly Guided Sufis of the Path who have been killed and persecuted for centuries by the ignorant Mullahs and narrowminded Clerics of Islam; it's greatest foes.
It is those who parade around in their turbans and clerical robes that are the enemies of Muhammed and Allah; the hypocrites who hide behind their own hatred and envy of the Saints: the Sufis who are beloved by Allah for doing the Work Islam failed to even admit it was created to discover and then carry out as it's Mission: to convert India; not kill women and children while saying they serve the Merciful and Compassionate God of Muhammed!!!
It is now the Iblis who lives in the body of Osama bin Laden who is trapped in this last host at this Last day: unable to flee he now becomes desperate: trapped in the body of a dead man whose blood must be constantly cleanses because of the Filth he has taken into himself and defiled his own soul unto extinction.
Islam came as a stranger and will depart as one due to the hatred and ignorance and the idiocy of things like anit-sufic Wahhabism by which Al Qaeda cut off people's hands because they put ice cubes in their drinks for the reason that Muhammed had no ice: and to use ice is therfore unIslamic; this and other things like the misogyny of movements like the Taliban in their oppression of helpless women and children is now supported by the petrodollars of the Saudi royal family: blinkered bigots and hypocrites to the core; corrupt and blind leaders of the blind; as Shakyh Isham Kabbani knows but is too afraid to even say for fear he would be then killed by some misguided zealot.
Truly; the Smoke of the Masih ad-Dajjal has blinded those in the East and the West; both Christians and Muslims cannot see who Osama bin Laden really is.
The book of Muhammed is different than any other book because Muhammed is different than any other prophet: for he was sent by God as He once sent Moses; thus Muhammed came in His Servant's place: to pour out the Curse of Moses as His Envoy; and He gave Muhammed the status of the Witness of the Last Day by one act; for Muhammed's book was opened at his death; thus Muhammed wrote it as one who had passed away; translated.
It is for this reason that Muhammed claimed the impossible claim to have been a "prophet when Adam was still bryween 'water and clay'; but it referred to the fact that when God approached the Light He had made it was that "good part" that turned to face Him; it's Father: and then God knew it was good; for the Darkness was running from Him; and God divided this Light from that darkness instantly; but Moses was of those spirits who faced God from the Beginning: and Muhammed made this claim as of the Righteousness of Moses; but with no chance for falling: having to be Perfect among all men: as indeed he was.
It says in the Bible:
"...No one is righteous: no; not one..."
This was true until Lord Jesus; but also certainly Muhammed in the eyes of God; and his miracles were all secret; save the one by which the spider weaved a web across the mouth of the Cave; in seconds; yet of these hidden signs none could be known as this would have made the Messenger as the Envoy of Moses too visible as also having knowledge of the fall of Solomon and it's coming restoration in the Providence; both of Solomon and Ehpraim the 10 tribes who fell in his pattern as the Kingdom following it's fallen King.
But Muhammed knew Isa as he who stood in the position of Issac; even as for slaying him the Jews incurred the Wrath of God by which Muhammed was raised in the position of Ishmael after dying as the man known on earth as "Muhammed"; becoming "Abdullah": the Servant of God. As Moses said to Israel if they heeded not the words of the Messiah:
"I MYSELF shall require it of them".
Muhammed in this position stood then as the Eye or Apostle of God which did not have Mercy nor did it spare anyone who had departed from the Path; the Jews for having killed the Lamb ( as those who had "incurred His Wrath" mentioned in the Excordium ); and the Christians for having made an Idol of him. ( Which are those in Muhammed's eyes chastised for having "gone Astray" ).
Words are just words. They can heal or make miracles only if the human being uttering them is full of compassion and devotion to the Beloved. It is the human heart which is the magic key, not the words alone.
“You have seen Christ, you have seen Buddha; you have seen kundalini rising in your spine, the serpent uncoiling; you have seen great light, you have seen a lotus flowering inside your head, you have seen the heart chakra opening, and all that crap — beautiful sounding words, but only fools are deceived by them.
If fools disappear from the world, all esotericism will disappear.
There will be great poetry, but no esotericism about it.
There will be immense mystery, but no esotericism about it.”
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Dear Aliya,
I have been wanting to write to you for some time now; unfortunately I have not had access to the internet of late but hey! ~ herein lies a wee window of opportunity and so...
Whilst your contributions to this truly wondrous site are not (or so it would appear) met too favourably by some, I want you to know that I for one find them to be profoundly insightful and tremendously helpful.
Stay true sweet-heart to who you are / that which IS and please continue offering your luminous flowerings unto us all.
In the Eternal Trueness & Boundlessness of Love,
Cailean
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Dear Aliya;
What is esoteric is covered; I have uncovered every mystery; but it is for the edification of mankind at the end which is of the Work; however badly I may write it.
I was given the Seal in part because I saw the Work of Khidr Rumi seen in the Sun of Fatimah at Portugal in 1917; the Sun of Faith is itself the Sun of Tabriz.
What happened to the 3 City's of Faith 50 years later can be known if one studies the events in 1967 at the City of St. Francis.
Inshallah;
christopher
http://SearchWarp.com/swa548585-Darkness-And-Light-The-Caliphate-Of-Barack-Obama-And-The-Judas-Of-Islam.htm
Beautiful! Ya Fatah! Ya Jami!
Dear Cailean Benjamin, Thank you.
When truth seekers resonate with each other in deep and sincere devotion to the Beloved, an energy field is created around them and others are attracted in. Mere words and mind exercises cannot create this energy field. You are right – only the inner flowering of the being and its released fragrance can become a catalyst for inner transformation of other seekers, too.
We are all here to learn through the experience called life. The Divine has given us the task to ripen with experience, we will come back home only after having experienced. If we return after just having heard what other say, it will not bring us contentment and self realization.
“My heart is on fire, Shefta,
Perhaps this is what they call love.
I search for my maker;
I want to meet the one from whom I came.
I search for my source,
As hidden there
Is my final destiny.
I search for the ultimate,
For when that is found
No other search remains.” – Daya
Dear Christopherwitt,
“The mystery never ends, it cannot end. That´s why it is called a mystery, it cannot be known ever. It will never become knowledge, that´s why it is called a mystery; something in it is eternally elusive. And that´s the whole joy of life. The great splendor of life is that it keeps you eternally engaged, searching, exploring. Life is exploration, life is adventure.” - Osho
Aliya,
Your beloved is not my beloved. I cannot seem to figure out as to where stand. Have you decided what do you want to be?
AMJ
Dear Sister Hind,
Its always a precious blessing to have your presence here. So happy to hear that that this poor's post touched your heart.
May Allah, Glory be to Him bless you and your loved ones.
Dear Vimesh,
Though Destiny a hundreds times waylays you,in the end it pitches a tent for you in heaven.It is God's kindness to terrify you in order to lead you to safety. So true!
Dear Danching Heart,
This is such a beautiful Sign that you were given the Name today and you were among us. Blessings be upon your path, may the baraka behind the Name never leave you.
Dear Mo'in,
You are always welcome dear one.
Dear Christopherwitt,
I would be cautious before using the term Anti-Christ / Dajjal and ascribing it to someone without having any authority and firm knowlege. Indeed God disapproves claims based on conjecture. May God forgive us and elevate you to a higher station. Peace and blessings to you.
Dear Aliya,
Just as if we wish to travel to our friends house, we take the car, but when we reach our friends door, we leave the car and go inside and greet and be greeted and enjoy the company; same is the Divine Name. They are instrument, carrier of specific conscious awareness of the Divine, they carry us to Friend's Door, then we leave the Name and enter.
Without car or without foot or without wheelchair in that matter of parable, we progress very little, same applies to any instrument which are there for our progress in the path.
Its not one should be after words, words are like cars, like transport. They are discarded when we reach Home, they are no longer needed when one learn to Enter the Presence, wordless silent.
Blessings to you and I echo my friend Cailean's comment for you, your contribution is always welcome, you are a honorable guest among these seekers with many different model of cards and many different speed of travel. Be at peace!
Dear Cailean,
Blessings to you. May your heart and being be blessed with pure peace which flows ceaselessly, always.
Dear Muttering Madzub,
I love your Internet Nick!
Dear Anonymous,
Pls don't be rude to any guests. Pls Dont say "Your beloved is not my beloved", "or Your God is not my God" without knowing truly who the other beholds in their heart in what Name. Indeed the faithful ones are one family.
Peace and blessings!
La haola wa la quwwata illa billah
there is no power and transformation except by Allah.
Dear Sadiq,
I agree with you that words can be transport means to bring us closer to our beloved - provided we realize that:
“The intelligent man´s way is the way of the heart, because the heart is not interested in words; it is interested only in the juice that comes in the containers of the words. It does not collect containers,
it simply drinks the juice and throws away the container.
The mind does just the opposite: it throws away the juice and collects the containers. Containers look beautiful, and a great collection of containers makes a man a great intellectual giant… Ordinarily we think intellectuals are intelligent people. That is not true. Intellectuals live only dead words. Intelligence cannot do that. Intelligence drops the word, that is the corpse, and just takes the living vibe in it.” – Osho
Dear AMJ,
The Beloved is and no thing else is, no body else is. People’s minds and their interpretations of the ultimate reality differ. Hellas, the Ultimate Truth cannot be known by the mind, the only way is to transcend the mind and all your projections as to who you are, the position and stand you take, the wealth and prestige you think are your own, all your identifications have to be dropped.
The Straight Path
Dear All;
For me the Veil of Mystery was that which hid the 7 fold Mystery of God; and this Mystery which hid the True Mystery is Isis; who Robert Graves calls "the White Goddess"; and she is "Death-in-Life"; the Tomb of every Hope.
Eternal Mystery for some is wonderful; for it denotes eternal infancy; which means the child never become the Child; just it's shadow.
The figure of Wisdom is always portrayed as a Woman because this figure alone knows that Union with God occurs in the Act; men do not know this; women intuitively do.
The Sufis and I share something; because what I know of the Holy Spirit as the Lover came to me with my soul; my essential self; as of the heart's desire; thus did I die in the arms of the Shepherd and rose as the Rose; even as the lost sheep of Israel; even Solomon himself.
Who walks the Path of the Just in my book is translated from the flesh as no longer of it; such is the Straight Path itself that I write of as the Word of Isa; the Word of Allah to the Just.
Inshallah;
Peace be unto thee;
The Mercy of the Lion
The Straight Path: by the Mercy of Allah
Dear Sadiq Alam;
The Masih ad-Dajjal is he of whom Muhammed my messenger said would have the name "Kafir" written on his forehead: so plainly that even those illiterate of Arabic would still be able to see it: and Osama bin Laden is he on whose forehead is written this name; who can see it are the True Ummah: the Believers; who are my sheep; those who cannot see this name on Osama bin Laden's forehead are Unbelievers; and not of my sheep: for they are the goats.
Who are they of the True Ummah? Those written of in the book I unsealed: the book of Iliyun; the Peacemakers are the Children of the Most High: El Elion Himself.
Who are they? They who will die for Peace: but will not kill for it. Mansur was one whose death by those ignorant brought down the Mongols upon Islam and almost destroyed it.
Who am I? The dabat al-Ard; the shadow of Solomon; who rose from the dead; the lost sheep of Israel who They raised up because those of Islam did not believe the Sign of the Last Day which to the West is the Antichrist: and to the East is the Masih ad-Dajjal: Osama bin Laden; the Antichrist; the Judas of Islam.
I am but an ant; the fallen one whose number is 666 can be found at I Kings; 10:14; Solomon.
To destroy an ant: give it wings; I am Icarus; as he called Solomon was my former self; as one who sold himself for what actually was already his; had I but known it at the time.
This is indeed the Last Day; even as my Messenger Muhammed said the Ad-Dajjal would "promise men Paradise: but deliver them into Hell"; as Osama bin Laden; the Old Man of the Mountain himself: a devil with the Devil in him; the fatted calf who dies at the return of the Prodigal Son; whose shadow speaks from the dust of the earth as the shadow of the Ant; the Dabbat al-Ard; the beast from the earth.
But the name I was raised in is Jedidiah; my new self; as Solomon was my former self: my shadow; the fallen one; even Apollo, the one I must claim as the last of the gods; to my undying shame.
Yet I was found as Ephraim; the Kingdom that was lost; and is now found; whose angels come forth to destroy out of it all things that offend: as my Father dispatches Osama bin Laden: the fatted calf; a devil with the Devil in him.
The Wrath of the Lamb; the Word of Isa; the Word of Allah
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