tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9500025.post9070931187589546211..comments2010-08-22T14:54:17.630+06:00Sadiq Alamhttps://profiles.google.com/103566184867654183240noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9500025.post-36501312549327249912010-08-22T15:28:54.204+06:002010-08-22T15:28:54.204+06:00“Now I have known, O Lord,<br />What lies within my heart;<br />In secret, from the world apart<br />My tongue hath talked with my Adored.<br /><br />Though from my gaze profound<br />Deep awe hath hid Thy face<br />In wondrous and ecstatic Grace<br />I feel Thee touch my inmost ground”.<br /><br />Abu Ali al-Daqqaq wrote, “Servanthood is more perfect than worship (ibada). First comes worship, then servanthood, then total adoration (ubuda)”. Al-Qushayri commented on this, “Thus worship is for ordinary believers, servanthood for the elite,<br />and total adoration for the elite of the elite.” Al-Daqqaq also wrote, “Worship is for the one who has received true information about God. Servanthood is for the one who has seen the truth. Total adoration is for the one who has truth of being. Worship belongs to people engaged in the struggle against the lower self, servanthood belongs to the masters of endurance in that fight, while total adoration is in attribute of those who have reached the contemplation of God.”<br /><br />Glorified be He Who took His servant for a Journey….<br /><br />Get these three books. Al-Ghazali’s Invocations and Supplications (1), and Faith in Divine Unity and Trust in Divine Providence (2), and Ibn Ata’allah’s The Book of Illumination (3) (while reading this book I got illuminated). Read it in that order: 1, 2, 3. It is always the three.<br /><br />May Allah grant you all the Blessings of the Month of Ramadan that people have attributed to it in the past, are attributing to it in the present, and will be attribute to it in the future. May you be blessed in going out of your home and may you be blessed in coming in to your home. May you go out of your home with you joy and come back to your home in peace. May you sleep in peace and awake in joy. Yes, you can have it all! May it all be yours the good, the beautiful, the lovely! May it all be you yours!<br /><br /><br />Ya Haqq! Ya Adl! Ya Salam! Ya Wadud! Ya Wali!<br /><br />Ya Alam al Huda! Ya Sayfullah! Ya Misbah!<br />Ya Ta Ha! <br /><br />AV<br />Allah is My Verifier/My Witness!<br />Allah is My Sheikh! Allah is My Best Protecting Friend!<br /><br />AV is hanging on Quran 18:65<br />AV for AQM-Sufism/Against Sufism w/o AQM<br />Sufism w/o AQM = Suffocationism (Death/<br />Spiritual Death<br /><br /><br />1. The Holy Quran – Yusuf Ali<br />2. Essential Sufism – Fadiman and Frager<br />3. Sufi Book of Spiritual Ascent – Al-Qushayri<br />4. The Most Beautiful Names – Sheikh Tosun Bayrak <br />5. Ninety-Nine Names of Allah – Friedlander and Muzaffereddin<br />6. Adornment of Hearts – Sheikh Muzaffer Ozak<br />7. Way to the Quran – Murad<br />8. In the Early Hours – Murd<br />9. Inner Dimension of Islamic Worship – Translated by Holland<br />10. The Key to Salvation – Ibn Ata’Allah<br />11. Sufi Book of Spiritual Ascent – Al-Qushayri<br />12. Forty Hadith Qudsi – Ibrahim and Johnson-Davies<br />13. An-Nawawi’s Forty Hadith – Ibrahim and Johnson-Davies<br />14. An Introduction to the Sciences of Quran – Ahmad Von Denffer<br />15. Understanding The Quran – Ahmad H. Sakr<br />16. The Beginning of Guidance – Al-Ghazali<br />17. Contemplation: An Islamic Psychospiritual Study – Badri<br />18. The Invocation of God – Ib Qayyim al-Jawziyya –<br /> Translated by Fitzgerald and SlitineAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9500025.post-8113274364443035342010-08-22T14:59:31.588+06:002010-08-22T14:59:31.588+06:00“To the righteous soul will be said: O (thou) soul, in complete rest and satisfaction! Come back to thy Lord-well pleased (thyself), and well-pleasing unto Him! Enter thou, then, among my devotees! Yea, enter thou My Heaven! (89:27:30). <br /><br />“Allah well pleased with them, and they with Him.” (98:8).<br /><br />Do not despair of your Lord’s mercies.<br /><br />Then which of the favours of your Lord will ye deny? <br /><br />The Prophet said, “Die before you die” and “He who knows himself, knows his Lord”. Sheikh Tosun Bayrak al-Jerrahi wrote, “ No. Hell is here. Paradise is here. Everything is here”! Huston Smith wrote about Sufis, “The Sufis are the mystics of Islam. Every upright Muslim expects to see God after death, but the Sufis are the impatient ones. They want God now-moment by moment, day by day, in this very life. And they are willing to undergo the disciplines that make that possible.”<br /><br />“When Allah loves a servant He calls the archangel Gabriel and says, ‘I love this servant of Mine, love him also.’ Then Gabriel calls unto the heavens and says, “Oh all those who are in the heavens, Allah loves this servant, love him too.” So all that exist in the heavens love him. The the love of that servant is proposed to the creatures of the earth and they love him also.” <br /><br />“My servant comes close to me with his continuous devotion until I love him and when I love him I become his ears with which he hears and his eyes with which he sees and his tongue with which he speaks and his hands with he holds.”<br /><br />“I am as My servant thinks I am….”<br /><br />“One day I was behind the Prophet (may the blessings and peace be upon him) and he said to me: Young man, I shall teach you some words of advice: Be mindful of Allah, and Allah will protect you. …The pens have been lifted and the pages have dried”.<br /><br />A man said to the Prophet (may the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him): Counsel me. He said: “Do not become angry….”<br /><br /><br />“Now I have known, O Lord,<br />What lies within my heart;<br />In secret, from the world apart<br />My tongue hath talked with my Adored.<br /><br />Though from my gaze profound<br />Deep awe hath hid Thy face<br />In wondrous and ecstatic Grace<br />I feel Thee touch my inmost ground”.<br /><br />Abu Ali al-Daqqaq wrote, “Servanthood is more perfect than worship (ibada). First comes worship, then servanthood, then total adoration (ubuda)”. Al-Qushayri commented on this, “Thus worship is for ordinary believers, servanthood for the elite,<br />and total adoration for the elite of the elite.” Al-Daqqaq also wrote, “Worship is for the one who has received true information about God. Servanthood is for the one who has seen the truth. Total adoration is for the one who has truth of being. Worship belongs to people engaged in the struggle against the lower self, servanthood belongs to the masters of endurance in that fight, while total adoration is in attribute of those who have reached the contemplation of God.”<br /><br />Please see continuation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9500025.post-30109520550906145592010-08-22T14:59:09.335+06:002010-08-22T14:59:09.335+06:00“To the righteous soul will be said: O (thou) soul, in complete rest and satisfaction! Come back to thy Lord-well pleased (thyself), and well-pleasing unto Him! Enter thou, then, among my devotees! Yea, enter thou My Heaven! (89:27:30). <br /><br />“Allah well pleased with them, and they with Him.” (98:8).<br /><br />Do not despair of your Lord’s mercies.<br /><br />Then which of the favours of your Lord will ye deny? <br /><br />The Prophet said, “Die before you die” and “He who knows himself, knows his Lord”. Sheikh Tosun Bayrak al-Jerrahi wrote, “ No. Hell is here. Paradise is here. Everything is here”! Huston Smith wrote about Sufis, “The Sufis are the mystics of Islam. Every upright Muslim expects to see God after death, but the Sufis are the impatient ones. They want God now-moment by moment, day by day, in this very life. And they are willing to undergo the disciplines that make that possible.”<br /><br />“When Allah loves a servant He calls the archangel Gabriel and says, ‘I love this servant of Mine, love him also.’ Then Gabriel calls unto the heavens and says, “Oh all those who are in the heavens, Allah loves this servant, love him too.” So all that exist in the heavens love him. The the love of that servant is proposed to the creatures of the earth and they love him also.” <br /><br />“My servant comes close to me with his continuous devotion until I love him and when I love him I become his ears with which he hears and his eyes with which he sees and his tongue with which he speaks and his hands with he holds.”<br /><br />“I am as My servant thinks I am….”<br /><br />“One day I was behind the Prophet (may the blessings and peace be upon him) and he said to me: Young man, I shall teach you some words of advice: Be mindful of Allah, and Allah will protect you. …The pens have been lifted and the pages have dried”.<br /><br />A man said to the Prophet (may the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him): Counsel me. He said: “Do not become angry….”<br /><br /><br />“Now I have known, O Lord,<br />What lies within my heart;<br />In secret, from the world apart<br />My tongue hath talked with my Adored.<br /><br />Though from my gaze profound<br />Deep awe hath hid Thy face<br />In wondrous and ecstatic Grace<br />I feel Thee touch my inmost ground”.<br /><br />Abu Ali al-Daqqaq wrote, “Servanthood is more perfect than worship (ibada). First comes worship, then servanthood, then total adoration (ubuda)”. Al-Qushayri commented on this, “Thus worship is for ordinary believers, servanthood for the elite,<br />and total adoration for the elite of the elite.” Al-Daqqaq also wrote, “Worship is for the one who has received true information about God. Servanthood is for the one who has seen the truth. Total adoration is for the one who has truth of being. Worship belongs to people engaged in the struggle against the lower self, servanthood belongs to the masters of endurance in that fight, while total adoration is in attribute of those who have reached the contemplation of God.”<br /><br />Please see continuation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9500025.post-21110312065389770102010-08-22T14:56:54.434+06:002010-08-22T14:56:54.434+06:00nj,<br /><br />I will share this with you. You came to mind after I had posted my last comments during the first week of August on this site. I wish you Ramadan Kareem too.<br /><br />The thought that occurred to me was to pray 36 rakats prayers for you in the month<br />Ramadan (12 rakats in the first ten days of Ramadan, 12 rakats in the middle of the month, and 12 rakats in the last ten days). I have already prayed the 12 rakats for you<br />and will be praying the remaining 24 rakats as specified.<br /><br />It brought me tremendous feeling of joy which I can not put in words when I read your comments, “He did it. I am well-pleased. The journey has moved to a new level”. I am extremely happy for you that you are doing well. The best is yet to come! Remember the three Cs. Wise people make commitment but the fools keep wandering. When you make commitment and surrender with pure heart, sincere heart, sound heart to the One, you find peace. Shaykh al-Jilani wrote, “I arrived at the union with God by....letting my breast be at peace”. Committers and Submitters have peace. Peace with self and others is essential to the progress on the path so is making commitment to the authentic sufi path. However, self-defense is allowed. Peace at any cost is injustice so just war is better than unjust peace. <br /><br />If Allah wills it, a day will come in your life when you will be able to relate at different levels to the verses, hadiths, quotes, and the poem cited so keep your mind on these. When you reach it, you will just know. When you are in the valley, meditate on (93:3),<br />93:5), and (65:3). Know that these are the stepping stones to (89:27:30) and (98:8).<br /><br />Please see continuation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9500025.post-56449767744698405572010-08-22T05:23:57.137+06:002010-08-22T05:23:57.137+06:00Someone has said that the Sufi is the “son (daughter) of the moment”, but I say true Sufi creates moments. The cited hadiths cofirm it.<br /><br />“When Allah loves a servant He calls the archangel Gabriel and says, ‘I love this servant of Mine, love him also.’ Then Gabriel calls unto the heavens and says, “Oh all those who are in the heavens, Allah loves this servant, love him too.” So all that exist in the heavens love him. The the love of that servant is proposed to the creatures of the earth and they love him also.” <br /><br />“My servant comes close to me with his continuous devotion until I love him and when I love him I become his ears with which he hears and his eyes with which he sees and his tongue with which he speaks and his hands with he holds.”<br /><br />“I am as My servant thinks I am….”<br /><br />“One day I was behind the Prophet (may the blessings and peace be upon him) and he said to me: Young man, I shall teach you some words of advice: Be mindful of Allah, and Allah will protect you. …The pens have been lifted and the pages have dried”.<br /><br />A man said to the Prophet (may the blessings and peace of Allah be upon him): Counsel me. He said: “Do not become angry….”Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9500025.post-78877757633729423992010-08-22T05:22:58.829+06:002010-08-22T05:22:58.829+06:00If Allah wills it, a day will come in your life when you will be able to relate at different levels to the verses, hadiths, quotes, and the poem cited. When you reach it, you will just know.<br /><br />“To the righteous soul will be said: O (thou) soul, in complete rest and satisfaction! Come back to thy Lord-well pleased (thyself), and well-pleasing unto Him! Enter thou, then, among my devotees! Yea, enter thou My Heaven! (89:27:30). <br /><br />“Allah well pleased with them, and they with Him.” (98:8).<br /><br />Do not despair of your Lord’s mercies.<br /><br />Then which of the favours of your Lord will ye deny? <br /><br />You can achieve the states of 89:27:30 and 98:8 (yes, some call it by different names)<br />here and now. The Prophet said, “Die before you die” and “He who knows himself, knows his Lord”. Sheikh Tosun Bayrak al-Jerrahi wrote, “ No. Hell is here. Paradise is here. Everything is here”! Huston Smith wrote about Sufis, “The Sufis are the mystics of Islam. Every upright Muslim expects to see God after death, but the Sufis are the impatient ones. They want God now-moment by moment, day by day, in this very life. And they are willing to undergo the disciplines that make that possible.”<br /><br />Please see next post.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9500025.post-51671527558443085172010-08-19T10:30:07.362+06:002010-08-19T10:30:07.362+06:00AV!<br /><br />Ramadan Kareem.<br /><br />You once gave me strength reminding me of these verses. <br />&quot;Thy Guardian-Lord hath not forsaken thee nor is He displeased (93:3). And soon will thy Guardian-Lord give thee (that wherewith) thou shalt be well-pleased (93:5). And He provides for him from sources he never could imagine. And if anyone puts his trust in Allah, sufficient is (Allah) for him (65:3).&quot;<br /><br />He did it. I am well-pleased. The journey has moved to a new level.<br /><br />SubhanAllah!<br /><br />njAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9500025.post-75797832833224826002010-08-16T11:45:07.229+06:002010-08-16T11:45:07.229+06:00ALLAH, on this day, place me among those who seek forgiveness. Place me among Your righteous and obedient servants, and place me among Your close friends, by Your kindness, O the most Merciful.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9500025.post-16809803408125118352010-08-15T01:58:56.623+06:002010-08-15T01:58:56.623+06:00Querido Sadik,<br />muchas gracias por compartir tantos conocimientos desde el Corazón.<br />Tu blog tiene una gran belleza, profundidad y devoción.<br />Verdaderamente son pensamientos inspiradores y creativos.<br />Me alegro mucho de haberte encontrado en el camino.<br /><br />Namasté<br />Puri Fresneda ( España )Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9500025.post-52195317262134001802010-08-14T05:48:42.199+06:002010-08-14T05:48:42.199+06:00Dear Sadiq,<br /><br />Thank you very much for this post.<br /><br />Kindest wishes,<br /><br />mo&#39;inMo'inhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04506336625946603133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9500025.post-53142701367682736542010-08-13T08:17:24.720+06:002010-08-13T08:17:24.720+06:00Wish you all a happy Ramadan !Muralikrishnanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12079739768780640955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9500025.post-82936834141685022622010-08-12T20:27:59.795+06:002010-08-12T20:27:59.795+06:00Ramadam KareemGabriellenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9500025.post-39224664852871948872010-08-12T16:46:35.160+06:002010-08-12T16:46:35.160+06:00Ramadan Mubarak brothers and sisterskathleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07714341798663532193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9500025.post-64825415255303705142010-08-12T08:24:04.587+06:002010-08-12T08:24:04.587+06:00Ramadan Kareem to All!!!<br /><br />VimeshVimeshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17381599344034897264noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9500025.post-50639108522643649432010-08-11T21:51:49.564+06:002010-08-11T21:51:49.564+06:00Ramadan Kareem!<br /><br />May we all have a blessed month of fasting and spiritual cleansing.<br /><br />wassalam,<br /><br />njAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com