Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

I consider the following a classic Sheikh Nazim sohbet, well worth reading .. even more well worth watching perhaps. (To hear and see the Sheikh, for me at least, makes the message so much easier to understand and drives it home so much deeper. Also literal transcriptions are often hard to understand as the Sheikh has a rather special English (for example his habit of using the present continuous e.g. "Is it paining?" rather than "Does it hurt?").
Please try either, or both.

Feedback in the form of comments, reactions and constructive criticism are most welcome.


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Slay Your Dragon and Become a Saint Like Saint George (Khidr )
Mawlana Shaykh Nazim Adil Al-Haqqani Sultanul Awliya Wednesday, Sep 02, 2009 Lefke CY
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Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem
Fatiha!
Destur ya rijaal Allah, meded!
Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar! Ya Malika ’l-mulk! Ya Dhul Jalaali wa’l-Ikraam!
Holy ones! Give us from your endless blessings, and O our Lord You created us to give what we are in need here and hereafter. You are so generous. No any limit for Your Generosity.
O our Lord Who created everything from pre-eternal to eternal! Your creation is running (on), O our Lord.
Forgive us. We are weak ones. We are in need every second and less of a second (for) Your support. You are giving life. If not we are dead bodies. O our Lord! You created us. For the honor of this holy month for the honor of the most beloved one, the most glorified one and for the honor of Your most majestic one’s honor, for that one, forgive us and give us strength to make us as You like.
Sometimes it is so easy and sometimes most difficult to do as You like. You can make it easy according to the intentions of Your servants. O our Lord! You are our Sultan. You are Subhaan! Give us from Your endless blessings, for the honor of most beloved one Sayyidina Muhammad (s).
We are asking for his honor - in spite of Wahabi people and Salafi people. You granted to that one that no one can grant what You granted Sayyidina Muhammad (s). In spite of Shaytaan, in spite of devils, Allah may make them under the seventh levels of dark worlds.
O our master, who is following the way, holy way, enlighted way, with true steps, O our master.
We are asking from your holy powers to make ourselves enough strong for following your ways, O beloved ones. Don't leave us to run on dark ways; on Sataanic ways. Whole Glory, whole Majesty, whole Dominions for You O our Lord!
And we are saying A`udhu billahi min as Shaytaani 'r-Rajeem, running to your from Shaytaan and its followers and we are asking from heavens, a spiritual heavenly sword, and we are saying Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem. Who coming under that spiritual sword never going to be down or to be worst one. Always who saying Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem he is up. Who not saying, all of them down. And we are saying to whole listeners, as-salaamu `alaykum.
I am a weak one. And my master, who has been permitted to make me to address whole nations through east and west, O my master! Don't leave me in the hands of Shaytaans and Shaytaanic powers. we must be powerful and we are asking power and we are enough powerful. Not Shaytaan and Shaytaanic groups, (they) are always weak and we are always powerful.
Istaghfirullah, asking forgiveness (sits).
O people! I am a weak one. I am a very weak servant. But when the honor of most honored in Divine Present, for the honor of Sayyidina Muhammad (s), whole salutes from heavens on him, we are enough powerful.
We are not weak ones. We are powerful one as well as most honored ones wings on ourselves here protected and sheltered and enjoyed and enlighted.
O people! ! Come and hear. I am weakest one but when from enlighted worlds through the master of this world, coming a Divinely Support, I may be most as powerful or strongest one on earth. but now I am nothing. I am not asking to make a show for myself. No. Whole show I can do for my master and he may do for Most Glorious One's show and Most Glorious One, he may do show for the Creator of whole creation, hahah.
I am only trying to make a show as an ant making a show, hehe. My ability or capacity less than that ant. But I am trying to make a show. I can't reach up, only I can reach to my master's ocean, to come a little bit closer and asking to show people about holy ones power and honor.
Particularly now you are, O people! In the holiest month, Ramadan. Blessed month. And through this blessed month I am trying to reach something from spirituality. Through spirituality I am asking to reach the level of holy ones, that holy ones they are blessed ones. Blessed ones and O people! If you are not going to reach blessings from heavens through your whole life, what is the benefit of your existence here? What does it mean? It means nothing nothing!
Why? Why you are not asking "Am I in existence to be nothing? To be like a dust?”
It is big blame, O people! if I am not asking that question, “For what I am in existence? What is the main aim of my being in existence? For what I have been granted eyes, ears, tongue, hands, feet and a perfect figure.”
Yes, man just created on a perfect figure. No any other created as a man. The creation of man it is perfect. SubhanAllah, the Glory to Allah!
What is bu bizi temsin (representative) eh I mean to say that word to you. Ahsani taqweem. cok guzel bir kalima var. ahsana taqweem that word that I am asking effendim, this building mutasawwar, designer. I am looking that word but all of you never giving your attention. Who designed ourselves? Who Designed? Who is designer of man, and our design is best design, yes? Ahsani taqweem. He, someone designing you through your mom's womb. Who is that one? Why giving two ears, two eyes, one head, two hands, two feet? O big ones! O who claiming that they areNumer One, Number One through nations!
SubhanAllah, Glory to Allah, that I am always thinking that there is “First Lady” but why there is not “First Gentleman”? What is the reason? Who can give the wisdom of that why they are saying First Lady? For example first lady of mamon, US, cumhuriye espide, ne diyordir. Why not saying for His Excellency Obama, “First Gentleman” but for his lady they are saying “First Lady"? Because man's understanding over the understanding of ladies and ladies they are always happy to be first ones, number one. But man never taking care for that.
Yes, both of them coming from the wombs of their moms. Do you think that angels writing on man only “man” and on girl writing “First Lady"? Written through the wombs of moms for their girl babies "Ladies"? No.
Why we are going that way I don't know. Yes, I know sometimes. Sometimes I don’t know. but it is an important point.
“Ya Shaykh come and say to us.”
“Yah. I am not claiming that I am a shaykh, no.”
I am zero shaykh. Ama, but no one accepting to be zero, everyone accepting to be something and everyone asking to try the top point of undurma, (fake) imitated gurursumuz, everyone asking to be something but everyone whom they are asking to be something their titles all of them it is imitated, not real. Real titles in Divinely Present.
But ladies they are happy to be something and according desires of ladies, theire men are asking also to show that "we are also Number One."

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

Toddling now, after my rebirth.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

There may be a few friends out there who still look in from time to time in the vain hope of hearing something new, half way sensible or even .. positive from me !
Well it's happened folks .. yep .. In the Pilsdon community (supposedly Christian based with an ecumenical outlook, according to their web site www.pilsdon.org.uk) I had a kind of re-birth experience, not that they intentionally do that sort of thing you understand .. it just happened really. Like a phoenix I have arisen from the ashes of my old life and it has gone deep. Two big things happened, One; the fifteen year test that I have had with Sheikh Nazim got resolved withoiut the use of my intellect and Two; the steel barrier that I have had on my heart since I was eleven years old ... just got melted away !
I believe that the melting was done in the furnace of Jesus's love, because there is nothing else there that could account for it.
More later .. except to say that a third important thing was revealed there too .. and that is that I am almost definitley bi-polar and I shall be leaving as much information and and as many sites as possible as soon as I have finished doing what I am doing reading up on it from an "alternative" point of view.

Struggle with Islamic faith and Sufism.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

Struggle with Islamic faith and sufism.
It’s not that there’s no God
It’s that there’s only God

12th March 2009. 07.45. Hrs. Abbotts Wootton Cottage. Dorset.

Yah ... mmm ... it’s about wether one believes in the Prophet or not .. I suppose some people .. earlier people .. the sahaba and so on for instance, came to belief in God through the Prophet Muhammad .. I don’t know how I came to belief in God or when the concept first would have entered my brain/psyche/heart .. but, presumably, at a very early age ... after 4 or 5 ? .. At school ? Don’t know .. my parents were certainly anti ... (shame).Anyway, all I can say is, despite the negative attitude at home, I believed in God .. and some of His message must have come through via the Christian thing, no matter how distorted, weak or vague ..Somehow, whatever happens, I always end up believing in God .. a living God .. not just a non-dual abstract concept or Absolute .. (which could or would leave me dangerously close to a “do what you like, it’s all one” attitude).No, He’s living and alive and an entity, despite being beyond anything one can imagine .. He also has qualities and names .. He is.. or has become in my mind and belief over the years, very much an Islamic God .. Allah.There’s a whole load of stuff I don’t like about Islam, though I’ll be the first to admit that that is probably mainly due to the dictates of my ego.Anyway .. the point is .. First it is about belief in God (“ash hadu an la ilaha ila’llah ...”).. then it is about belief in the Prophet Muhammad ... (“wa ashadu anna Muhammadan rasul’allah”) ...The second bit is where all the problem lies with real sufism and becoming Muslim .. and .. without going into all the stuff we don’t like .. and discussing the “whys and wherefores” .. really, the only thing to say is, either you believe in the Prophet (saws) or you don’t.If one tries to discuss everything all the way down the line ... about Islam .. what you like, what you don’t and why .. it’s never ending .. Either you accept and follow .. or you don’t ...Or else you accept and follow what you can ... which one could say is never fully satisfactory but, from a sufi (i.e. wise, loving and understanding) Islamic point of view .. better than nothing.So .. yes, I believe in God .. which, when analysed, becomes mainly, or very like, Allah .. and my learned understanding of our creation and the reasons for it 1): that “ Allah was a hidden secret and wanted to be known.” and 2): that He did not create man and djinn for anything but to worship Him .. comes from Islam.So my faith is mainly Islamic in nature and of course that message came from Prophet Muhammad.My difficulty is that my faith in Prophet Muhammad is not so strong .. my understanding or knowledge of him is not so intimate and my image of him is not so clear .. en fin .. my love of him is therefore not so great not only because he was not part of my culture and upbringing from an early age but because neither was Jesus .. i.e. I never had a strong image of or love of a prophet of God, inculcated or otherwise .. which I have observed in Catholics in general and Mediterranean people specifically as well as Arabs, and which, in the case of conversion from Christianity, it is easy to transfer to Muhammad, pbuh.Until a few years back I had the Sheikh to love and follow .. he was my living representative of the Prophet, an immensely powerful and magnetic figure .. We had fun with him as well as suffering terribly sometimes .. but something happened there .. which .. if I am going to publish this document on the web I do not really want to open up in public .. nor even to myself much, all over again ... I accept too that it all may have been “looking in the mirror” etc .. but anyway .. it started around women and carried on around general lack of clarity on many issues concerning his khalifa for America and properties and money .. and finally I just drifted away and lost the strong happy healthy living link with him and through him to the Prophet and Allah.I think it is a fact that my link to the Prophet was never that strong ..the Sheikh was the central figure in the whole journey (and rightly so if he was the living representative in whom one would have annihilation or fana before passing on to the same thing in the prophet saws) and even my image of Allah may have been more like Brahman or an unnameable absolute with some patriarchal Christian overtones, so .. now that my connection to the Sheikh is so debilitated as to be nearly non-existent (at least from my side and therefore non-usable or serviceable by me) it is really necessary to make that link to, or have more faith in .. the Prophet .. unless of course I could find another sufi sheikh .. which I find pretty unlikely .. apart from Sheikh Nazim’s true successor ..Sheikh Adnan who is already an extraordinary phenomenon and will be, I think, absolutely amazing when the Sheikh finally goes ... but who knows when that will be ?Also I expect a great deal of trouble around his passing from wild and unfounded claims from Sheikh Hisham and his numerous followers. So ...What I am trying to say is that I still have a link which seems real, alive and necessary, to Islam, but.. not a strong faith in or love for, the Prophet, which circumstance allows for too much questioning and prevarication when it comes to Islamic forms of worship and shariat and the Koran and ultimately the belief that Allah is the one true God .. (rather than another name for, and a particularly Arab version of, the one true God, whom all people worship, either outwardly or ultimately in their hearts wether they know it or not. )The one thing that I do find extraordinary about the Prophet and perhaps indicative of some of the things that are believed about him, is that apparently he had no shadow .. That is pretty far out and would suggest that he was “made of light” or so pure that he became light .. or something like that. It would also make it easier to believe that he was the best man that ever lived and that all creation was created for him, that he was created before Adam was in clay and that his message is the last and complete message from God to man.What I am trying to do is find a faith in the man that enables me to accept or swallow all of his message .. including all the parts connected with war and killing which are so distasteful in this day and age and have become the greatest bugbear in the public image of Islam and the Muslims due to the terrorist movements and the(resulting or convenient) American anti-propaganda program, perhaps intimately linked to and stoked by the Jewish lobby., and which find their source ultimately and mainly in a twisted and inflexible version of Islam known as Wahabism (from Ibn al Wahab) and warned of by the prophet saws.Yes, it’s very tough to be a muslim and one can’t be a real sufi without being one.The only way to be non-dualistic as a real muslim sufi is to completely abandon all questioning .. as was the case with abu Bakr and which is why he is held in such high esteem especially by Naqshbandi followers .. because it is not just a connection to the mystical understanding which Ali was so famous for and why all the other tariqats ultimately lead back to him .. but a connection to and unshakeable 100% faith in .. the nearest man to Allah ever to have lived .. (i.e. the Prophet saws) which obviously implies and includes all that Ali or anyone else could ever have in the way of mystical and esoteric knowledge and .. probably .. the right balance of that knowledge in proportion to worldly affairs and human life on earth which would include such high respect for the Divine Plan as never to use it unless completely and surely inspired by Allah to do so .. it coming through a completely egoless channel rather than from any human level ideas, and an adherence, as much as possible to every known practice and nuance of the prophet’s sunna or example in all things because, if he is who he is believed to be then everything he did must be the best possible example for man to follow.Therefore it has to be believed that this was the level and the situation for all that Muhammad did and said .. including obviously, all the stuff we don’t like or have been taught or persauded is wrong or definitely not P.C. !It means, as I say, that faith in the Prophet saws is paramount and from then on .. all Islamic duties and forms have to be accepted without question because although dualistic in nature they came from the only One True unitarian source Who created and brought into being all dualistic forms, especially man and all that is considered right and good and proper for his behaviour here on earth as exemplified by the Prophet saws in his sunnah and taught in his hadith and through the Koran ...i.e. it is all about faith !There is nothing else and no other way ... very difficult without a living example .. but that level known as “Ihsan” in Islam is what one is aiming for and necessary really .. especially for modern thinking people brought up in a democratic and liberal society, if one is to take on the whole thing.Ihsan was described in a famous hadith as worshipping .. “ Allah as though you see Him because, even if you do not see Him, He sees you.” !Now, on the other hand, I will tell this little story from my own experience.When I came to Sheikh Nazim at Christmas in 1984 in England I finally took his hand after about three days of being in his company and listening to his teachings, and seeing and feeling his way of being. We were in Redhill, which he was insisting on calling Greenhill .. and he gave a talk in which there was a hiatus when he paused for a moment and said,“New news, just coming from the Prophet. If you make two rakats a day and keep yourself clean, you will not go to the fire.” Then his head went over on one side and he looked into his beard a little and said,“If you don’t keep yourself clean I don’t know what may happen.”Well, in that talk I already had the feeling that he was talking directly to me and was rather embarassed in front of about 150 people who were there .. However, it is one of the qualities of enlightened people that many people hear and see specific & personal messages for themselves in their talks and actions .. so that may not be so significant, except that I had just taken his hand and often we have noted that his talks are as if inspired more by one person’s salient needs within the audience. He in fact says that his talks are drawn out of him by the needs of the audience and therefore greater “himma” in his audience will draw higher level or more powerful or deep talks.All I am really saying is, given that I am a very rebellious and contrary and difficult person, that particular talk and dispensation for the time we live in was highly significant and useful for me .. and still serves, or has served and could serve again, as the thread that keeps me connected and also of course, to me is living proof of the wisdom love and understanding of a real sufi sheikh and the path of sufism as opposed to fundamentalist square headed (perhaps Wahabi) attempts to deal with occidental interest and/or new followers of Islam and the prophetic message.However, one still realises that the real deal is unquestioning and unswerving obedience based on unshakeable faith in Allah and His Prophet.Just one more little story before I end and “publish & be damned” ..After the three days with the Sheikh going around London and visiting mureeds etc he was sitting in an armchair one day with me at his feet and said,“Now you may ask any question you like.”Well, I had been with a so called sufi group for two & a half years before leaving them and six months later finding Sheikh Nazim. They had a self-styled sheikh with a very dubious pedigree and very erratic behaviour of whom and of which Sheikh Nazim was well aware. Having seen some of the appalling things perpetrated by him using the justification of unquestioning obedience to the sheikh I said to Sheikh Nazim,“I would like to take your hand” (an outward ritual symbolising an inward pact of following and unquestioning obedience to the Sheikh) “ but I am concerned that you may tell me to do something by Haqiqat (the inward reality) that is against Shariat (the outward law).The Sheikh paused for a moment and then, running his fingers backwards and forwards on the arm of the chair said,“This is like a little mouse, who wants the cheese (running his fingers forward) but does not want to get shut in the cage (running his fingers back) but he wants the cheese (running his fingers forward) .. but (running his fingers back) ..."Although my mind was saying at this moment that he hadn’t really understood the basis for what I was concerned about, something more immediate and at a deeper level knew that I had accepted him as my Sheikh and, as it turns out, he probably foresaw the situation which I have been writing about in the above.

Editing the Sheikh's speech ?

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

Yeah, well, sent someone to look at this blog and really, I'm almost embarrassed that I did ..
Either someone should edit that stuff .. as Ibrahim Shukruli'llah used to do, (and very well, in the whole "Mercy Oceans" series) or maybe we shouldn't bandy it around ? It's hard enough for people that do know the Sheikh and his way of expressing himself to understand .. but .. really ..
Anyway .. it's all perfect I'm sure ...

What Maulana has been saying recently.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.


In The name of Allah, The All-Compassionate, All-Merciful, Audhu billahiminash shaytanirrajim, Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim, alhamdulillahi Rabbil alemiynSohbet of Naulana Sheikh Nazim Adil Al Haqqani Al KibrisiFebruary 27, 2009, FridayLefke, Northern Cyprus*See the video of this talk at http://www.motionbox.com/videos/309bd6bc1c12eac2beDastur ya RijalAllah, madad..As salaamu alaikum!Ashadu an la ilaha illAllah wahdahu la sharika lah, wa ashadu anna (Maulana stands up for the honor of Sayyidana Muhammad) Sayyidana Muhammadan abduhu wa habibuhu wa rasuluhu sallallahu ta'ala alaihi wa sallam.Audhu billahi minash shaitanir rajim, Bismillahir Rahmanir RahimDastur ya rijalAllah, madad, madad, madad.. Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim.You're looking that trees winter time looks like dry woods maybe three months or more, and when spring coming what coming through spring? we're looking and seeing anything, no; but trees they're knowing, they're waiting and expecting that blessings from Heavens to earth and that we're thinking trees just dry and finishing because no leaves on it, no flowers on it, no fruits on it but when the spring coming, which thing coming through spring? We're seeing nothing but those trees and flowers and plants, they're knowing: that is something from Heavens reaching to earth to give earth its ziynet ornament, coming. Looking, they're awakening or they're coming to a new life, a new birth wait for that and they're looking up to Heavens looking, they're understanding that coming to them a new life, a new dressing, a new pleasure, a new lights, they're understanding and they're showing what coming from Heavens. As much as you can put water under that trees, giving nothing: they're looking and waiting Heavenly breathing, a breath from Heavens that Heavenly breath giving light, giving life to them. O people, don't think that I'm knowing something; I'm knowing nothing, but when Heavenly blessings coming to Seal of Prophets then running to the hearts of his followers, awliyas, saints, then they're looking and sending Heavenly breathing and blessings through opened hearts and they're getting a new life through their hearts and those people they're whom their hearts never dying when peoples' hearts dying and getting to be dust, earth. Now we're trying to keep the holy way of the holy Prophet or holiest one or most glorious one or more honored one and most beloved one in Divinely presence. What that one whom created everything for his honor by The Creator, The Lord of Heavens and universes sending that Heavenly breathings through the hearts of those people whom their hearts always occupied by their Lord's zikr; their hearts always asking to be with their Creator Allah Almighty, coming and granted to such hearts to give life, new life for those people whom they're asking and believing in Heavens and asking to reach Heavens and asking to be in Divinely presence on Heavens that blessings it's only for those people. Now we're looking and seeing that whole manking living on earth through as their calendar 21st century but Allah knows the beginning of mankind's life on earth; now they're saying 21st century through their calendars. And we're reaching today through our Islamic calendar that based on a reality that is new month Rabiul awwal first spring that when whole dunya, whole world they were dried and they were like dead ones and Allah Almighty, His Will sending His last deputy?.. representative, Allah's representative Sayyidana Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam to reach the last period of mankind's life on earth to reach to them with His Divinely breathings to give to them a new life to grant to them from their Creator, The Lord of Heavens a Heavenly breathing that that Heavenly breathing giving mankind a new life as through spring time coming from Heavens what it is necessary for nature just Allah Almighty sending His last messenger Sayyidana Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, Huu, to give a new life to His servants that they're reaching last period of their life, period on earth to be prepared for reaching Divinely presence the day of Resurrection, just he had been sent and he did his best for mankind and he gave to everyone, giving to every level of people what they're in need to make them to be prepared to reach the day of the Resurrection through their Lord's Divinely presence; that was his mission. We're not saying as Christian world saying that Jesus Christ coming and giving his holy soul to be a sacrifice for man, no! it was not his mission: his mission, Jesus Christ's mission was only to give goodtidings for coming Prophet who was or who is the most glorious, most beloved, most honored one in His Lord's Divinely presence; Jesus Christ's mission was to give that goodtidings. And the seal of Prophets' mission that is Sayyidana Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam to prepare whole mankind to dress them Heavenly dressings for reaching their Lord's Divinely presence, that is.. muntaha the top point of missions through whole prophets, top mission was mission of the seal of Prophets most gloried one, most honored, most beloved one in Divinely presence which whole creation created for his honor. What was his honor? We're saying 'most honored', with which thing he had been honored? Because his honor, the seal of Prophets Sayyidana Muhammad's honor directly coming from his Lord, The Lord of Heavens, The Lord of universes, The Lord of from pre-eternal up to eternal Allah ALmighty's honor, that that was his honor, no one else reach that honor except him and just granted to other Prophets also from that mission from the Divinely Lights through that one's glorious teachings reaching to whole Prophets. And now we reached for that most glorious one's birth month birthday, birth month Rabiul awwal and such going to be now 15 century, 15 centuries, and that one who was born through unknown deserts, unknown areas he was born as an orphan from his father side and mother side unkonwn people's country or city or tribe. So thousands of kings, emperors just passed away and they were so proud ones, they did so many things but now their names remaining on unknown table of mankind's kings and emperors. But that one the seal of the Prophets that through unknown deserts born and that one if he hasn't donated or supported through Heavens, he was going to be such other people dying, passing away; no one knowing about him, but what happened? Now 15 century just passed from that glorious one's birth day, what do you think he's living or unknown person? He's living! He's not unknown person, he's well-known one through east and west from north to south ragmen in spite of whole nations, his flag is up! and his name toppest point through Heavens and his holy name well-known through east and west but some people accepting and glorifying him, obeying him and following his Heavenly Divine Laws. And a second party, group of nations, they're knowing but they're so kiskanc jealous ones they may be jealous, they may die on their jealousy but the honor of the seal of Prophets always shining like sun on the skies! Be proud, O muslims, don't think that technology giving honor to people, no! But Heavenly, Heavenly blessings giving to you honor, you must know! Who accepting Heavenly blessings, they are going to be accepted and honored servants in Divinely presence. And others that they're not accepting, they're following the way of satana, shaitan! shaitan never giving man honor but he's trying to make mankind like himself: shaitan! And now mostly people, they're getting so proud to be with shaitan! They left right way of that most beloved and glorified one's way who was calling people to Heavens to their Lord's Divinely presence but shaitan trying to make mankind like itself to be shaitans! And now you look everywhere 24 hours tv's showing people that peoples just becoming each one like one shaitan! And when mankind accepting to be shaitan, no peace here or no peace after death! O people, O people, be thankful to Allah Almighty and beware to be shaitan! Because mostly, 99 % people they're now shaitans, sadanas, never following the seal of Prophets! Therefore Allah Almighty The Creator leaving them to kill each other, to destroy each other, not to live in peace here or hereafter! May Allah forgive us! O people, ask forgiveness! ask forgiveness that we're trying to follow technology period and technology making people to be shaitans! May Allah forgive us, and send us from His Divinely presence that he was promised to the believers the seal of Prophets' nation at the end of the world, they should be among oppressors, tyrants and they're making people each one to be one shaitan.. O people, beware to be shaitan! If you're not taking care, you should be unhappy here and after death much more difficult, difficult punishments that hells! May Allah forgive us! O people, keep the way of the seal of the Prophets; and to keep his honor is to follow his blessed way. Hu Allah, Subhanak, Subhanak, Subhanak irhamna ibadak.. ya Rabbana! Send us someone that You promised to take our hands to You, to Your Divinely presence! Clean ones, clean ones and peaceful faces and hearts to say The Lord of the creation: "O My servant!" Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Subhan AllahAllah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Karim AllahAllah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Aziz AllahAllah Allah, Allah Allah, Allah Allah, Sultan Allah... rijaan nabi al karim, Ya Rabbi fi afwik bi rahmatika wa ibadikas salihin wa la taqilna min anfusina wa la illi shayatin ya Rabbena. Ya Rabbi irhamzulmana irhamwa'fana irhamna irhamna wa tub alayna wahdina wasqina wa aslih sha'nana wa sha'nal muslimin wansurna alal qawmil zalimin wansur sultanana wa sultanul muslimin sultanul insi wa jinn Sayyidana Mahdi aleyhis salaam rijai man anzalta aleyhis Suratal Fatiha..
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Only a fool.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

"Only a fool writes for anything other than money." according to Dr Johnson.
As some of you may have noticed, a few adverts have started appearing on my blog just recently.
I have been investigating Google's "Adsense." and its' possible applications to my blogging world. Consequently I have been trying a few experiments with blogs on other subjects to see how it works and may soon be leaving some links to them on here.
(When I remember how to do links!)

Getting Better.

Sunday 22nd February 2009.Bridgwater.
03.20.Hrs;

Another day yesterday doing nearly nothing but rest and sleep .. I do hope it’s all part of the change going on with the Holosync. I expect I have been overdoing it .. listening too often .. it is rather powerful .. but it is also kind of pleasant, or at least interesting, to have my “mind chatter” reduced.
It may or may not be to do with that, that I downloaded a thing on the planets .. “Celestia” which has enabled me to get some sort of understanding not only of the relation of the planets to one another vis a vis what I read about in astrology but also (for the first time) a clear idea and a self-invented mnemonic to help me remember, the order of them outwards from the sun. (“My Very Early Memories Just Sum Up Nothing Particular ... M,V,E,M,J,S,U,N,P, .... Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn,Uranus, Neptune, Pluto.) OKayee ...
It’s nothing .. but to me it’s something because I have always been going much too fast inside my head to ever be able to take in any “useful” information .. practical stuff .. like what day of the week it is.. or the date .. have generally passed me by .. any kind of timetable wether bus train underground .. maps generally etc etc etc have always been pretty difficult and confusing for me .. airplanes and tickets .. geography etc etc .. history .. en fin .. general knowledge .. practical everyday stuff.
High flying or high blown metaphysical stuff was always high on the agenda of interest/s .. and all kinds of mystical insights and experiences .. but nothing that helped me function in the world .. (only to be “not of it”)
Anyway .. another thing that just came home to me from a comment by a scientist on a program on the telly was E=MC squared (don’t know how to do that little two in the air thing on keyboard) .. the point is .. the realisation of just how enourmous the amount of energy is that is stored in the tiniest particle of matter, the relation of the amount of energy to the size .. and that that is what got released with the atom bomb and the immediate reminder of the saying in the Koran not to seperate what God has put together .. which may or may not refer to man and woman and divorce on one level but, like all things in spiritual texts and especially the Koran, it is open to many many levels of meaning.
Somehow one knows that it was a tremendous discovery but, at the same time, obviously , a terrible one because of its application to weaponry and war .. and that of course it may well be the very thing that causes the ultimate destruction of the human race as we know it.

Anyway, what I see from this is the amazingness of the physical world on a macro and on a micro level and, without going into discussions of Darwinian theory .. (which I tend to take with a large pinch of salt) ... the very satisfying feeling that this can’t have been an “accident” ...
That amount of energy to hold together the basic building blocks of the universe ? ! That elegant and constant, perfectly balanced and integrated interplay of gravitational forces in our planetary system, spinning away there for millenia just in our little bit of the universe ? !
And all of that is an “accident” ? ...
1) Yes I think it helps me to believe more in God (and God as Creator of course) which therefore gives meaning to life ...
2) I’m pretty sure I could give some attention to those facts because the Holosync has slowed down my off-the-wall psychological profile enough to have given me the mental and emotional space to concentrate on something outside myself and has lessened the enormous anxiety generated by the feelings of vulnerability and hopelessness and inferiority which then give rise to further panic about what to do to “save” myself and how to get out of the mess etc etc etc instead of just being where I am and appreciating how lucky I am and what a fortunate position I am in etc etc and then having time to look out at the world and the universe and say ... “Wow! .. What an amazing and far out place this is!” And, as a corrollary, “Could this ever really have happened by accident and doesn’t it look much more like a created thing by some force and intelligence so superior to our own that it could make you just fall down on your knees and worship .. ?” (remembering also the Koranic saying “I did not create men and djinn for anything but to worship Me.” seems to make perfect sense instead of just being some awful overwhelming injunction to a burdensome duty.)

.... And really the point of all this is ...
1) That logically faith should help with depression and mental health but, if the depressive and hopeless mind patterns have kicked in since an early age .. it is often nearly impossible to “re-program” them just through faith and/or logical argument .. so therefore an outside agent or aid is needed.
However .. if .. like me .. the idea and the reality of drugs to simply dull the pain and take away the anxiety that way .. is pure anathema .. (and it is obvious that they dull the spiritual sense too) then something else, more subtle .. more intelligent .. more penetrating but less invasive is needed and .. I think that very thing is to be found in the use of binaural beats as demonstrated by the use of Holosync .. (do I make myself clear?)
My point is that;
1) I believe that Holosync is helping me with my psychological and emotional problems and;
2) That the help with and release from debilitating psychological and emotional patterns is allowing me to have a greater sense of meaning in life and faith in God, and not, as I have believed and tried to make work for years, that belief in God and faith would bring me relief from my psychological and emotional problems ... Sad but true.

Obviously I expect in general there would be a cross-over and cross fertilisation between the two .. but I have been in a spiritual group where all mention of depression and psychological difficulties has been frowned upon and those people precisely consider themselves to be the absolute top and cream of spirituality .. Well I think they better open their heads to some ideas and help from other places! Even the Prophet (peace be upon him) said “Look for knowledge as far as China.”

Another blog ...

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

I am coming back to life a bit now but, as I am still not fully returned to the Naqshbandi Tariqat, nor even sufism particularly, preffering to swim in the ocean of non-duality without preference for or adherence to one particular manifestation of it, I have therefore started another blog over at LiveJournal, where I hope I may meet some like-minded people for discussion and interchange.
The address is .. http://nowone.livejournal.com/

Nice one Maulana. (Get well soon.)

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.


Discourse of Maulana Shaykh Nazim Al Haqqani Ar Rabbani, Head of the most ditinguished Naqshbandi tariqa January 26, 2002 Meded, ya Sayidi, Destur. Audhu bi-llahi minashaitani rajim, Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim.'Tariqatuna sohba wa khairu fi jamiat', that is our GrandsheikhShahu-Naqshband's description for tariqat; he was the Imam of the most distinguished Naqshbandi order. Sohbet, association with Sheikh, is the engine for the mureed to make him move towards Allah Almighty's Divinely Presence. If you take the engines from an airplane, you can't use it; it is impossible for it to move; perhaps you may put in front of the plane an ox or a horse, and they may carry it on the runway, but the power of the horse or the ox is not enough to make the plane fly. It needs engines. And everything in existence is moving. We may say that we see so many things but they are not moving; but really everything through their atoms is moving through its place or in any direction. And movement is the characteristic of creatures; creatures can move and must move. You can't find anything in existence to be in the same position or movement for even the smallest unit of time that is passing. That is the characteristic of creatures. But movement isnot a Divine Attribute. He is Samad, Allahu Samad, only we can give some description to make it closer to our understanding, but beyond that you can't enter..There are two kinds of cane: one is the ordinary cane, the second is the sugar cane; one is empty; the second one is full so that you can't find in it any hole.. filling everything inside, so that you can't find an empty spot through the sugar cane. 'Samad' means the existence of someone that fills the whole universe or universes or the whole creation so that you can't find a smallest spot empty. There is no space without the existence of The Creator. Therefore movement can't be impossible. To where it should be? But we are moving in a space or atmosphere that is empty; we are not related. Therefore we may move in space because our existence never fills the space. But Samad means Who fills every existence, every space, every atmosphere. It is a Divinely Attribute that He is approving His Existence everywhere, in every direction, through every distance, so that no space, not even less than an atom, is empty from His Existence. We may move because we canfind space and distances and directions to move in, because our existence never fills except where we are standing. And when we are walking, where we were before, is going to be empty: therefore, we may move; and everything in existence through this atmosphere is moving. Movement is the attribute of creatures, and to be not moving is the Divinely Attribute. An ocean is not moving from its place, but everything in it is moving. You can't find through an ocean anything fixed,; everything in it is moving, only the ocean never moves: to where it should move? It can't move. But everything in it mustmove! nothing is fixed in it.. And the whole creation is moving through the oceans of Samadiya; it must move, and its movement and existence belong to the ocean. If there is no ocean, nothing lives in the ocean, and if the countless creatures through the ocean are not moving, they can't be in existence. Everything that is in existence must move. Can you find a fish to be in the sameposition from even one second to the other? Never! But the ocean is the ocean. And the whole creation is through Allah Almighty's endless power oceans. Allah Almighty is filling everything, but nothing is going to be with Him. Creatures are not with Him but Allah Almighty is with them. But they can't be with Him.We are asking to move, and our material being can't move through the spiritual world; we are in need of a spiritual engine to get up and enter the spiritual worlds. Yes, we have engines; through our creation we have been granted engines, but it is not enough that the engines are on the plane to make it to fly.. must come petrol in it, and then petrol makes the engine work; if not coming in it, it can't work. We are tariqat people; which means that we are asking to reach to our Heavenly positions. If you are asking to reach to your Heavenly station, you must put petrol, and then you may reach to your position or station through Heavens. Therefore we have association with the Sheikh, and Sheikh is asking and taking from the Prophet's spiritual power. That power is running through the Sheikh's heart and through his heart he may give that spiritual power to people, to make them move up; therefore it is a perfect description what Shah Naqshband said:'Tariqatuna as sohba': it means that our way is away towards Allah. We are asking to move to Allah, and everything that is asking to move is in need of a power for pulling or pushing it.And mureeds who are asking to reach their Heavenly stations or the Divinely Presence must take a power through their plane, and that power may take them to their real positions or Heavenly stations, or through the Divine Presence. You must use it! Therefore the sahaba/companions were those who were coming and going to be present with Rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam pace be upon him, who were attending the Prophet's association. Even one association with him was enough for them to take them from the lowest level to the highest.. That is the Prophet's power. If all nations, billions and billions of people would be with Rasulullah, he would be able to give everyone enough power to take them from the lowest level to the highest! '..wa khairu fi jamia'. Therefore Grandsheikh was always saying, 'Association is the power center that makes you move towards Heavens or the Divinely Presence'. Every day you can find another reality coming into appearance..Every day coming a new opening; it can't be the same like the day before! And it is not going to be same the nextday, tomorrow, as today: 'Kulli yaumin Huwa fi sha'an'; every day must be independent in its being, and there is no similarity among two days, not with the day before, not with the day after. Every day has a special being through its existence. Today you are someone that you were not yesterday, and your personality is again going to be different next day, tomorrow you are going tobe changed physically and spiritually.And physically the improvement is that whatever you do for your material being is bringing you to a limit for your physical being. That is improvement, bringing you to a limit. But what you are reaching spiritually is taking you from 'asfala safilin', the lowest level of today, to the highest level of today, and that is not same level the next coming day and it was not the same or asimilar level as yesterday. Therefore we need always a renewment, refreshment, re-acting and re-moving, day by day asking more to move towards the Divine Presence.If you are not doing anything, you have been carried, as a person that fainted. If they take a fainted person to Arafat, and he never feels or sees or does anything, what do you think about his Hajj? Okay or not? Okay! Therefore so many people, the majority of people, come here like fainted people, drunk people, coming not knowing, getting out not knowing, but their names are just recorded or registered that they were through this life on earth.. coming and going, but coming fainted and going fainted; coming and going knowing nothing.. It is approved that he has been through that life, but he was like a fainted or a drunken person. He never knew about this life and it's obligations, no- coming and going. Allah Almighty, and this is something you didn't hear before, will order to deal with these people with another treatment the Day of Resurrection or Judgment Day: They are going to be at least figures. But those, who were ready or present with AllahAlmighty (during their life), they are like sultans, and the others are their people. They are not going to be lost, because nothing is created batil, without wisdom.And we said now: If a person is going to Arafat and the whole day he was fainted, but he was carried and put on Arafat, and he was not with himself or herself up to sunset and then taken away but still this holy appearance and blessings that come on whole people is coming on him, cleaning him. But his rank is something else. Who is awakening and doing what is obligatory for him should be dealt with in another way. But those people who are never ready with themselves, never knowing where they are or were, who are only brought to Arafat and taken away, they reach to the blessings that come on everyone from mankind who is living, but they are reaching 1%, and some others take more, 1oo% or 9o%, or 5o%, or 1o%. For the other people it is written: Nothing they reached. Then they should be granted another blessing on them. We said as an example that people who go onMount Arafat and who are awakening reach treasures. Who can never take anything should be granted something else from Allah Almighty's charity and generosity. They should be granted because just they reached and they were through this life; Allah Almighty is sending them but they were fainted or drunk people, never knowing anything. And we are trying not to be 1oo% drunk people, not doing anything; at least something we must do through our whole life daily, so that we are going to be registered as: sometimes awakening, sometimes heedless.. You should be dealt with in such a way.. or: fully present, or: fully heedless, fully fainted, or: part-time heedless, part-time fainted- coming and going..They are going on Arafat, and we must ask from Allah Almighty to be awaken, and this honor no doubt is just dressed on who is opening his hands and asks. Those people who fainted, no, but he should be granted something else.This is also an answer for some Awliya who are sad about the majority of people, what should be their position in Divinely Presence. Therefore this is coming, that Allah Almighty is giving His Divinely Judgment through His Divinely Justice, and when He is giving His Judgment for all nations, all mankind, you cannot find anyone to say: 'Dhulimtu', 'I have been unlucky or I lost', and that Allah's Judgment is oppression. They can't say, because Adam alaihi salaam said: 'Rabbana dhalamna anfusina'. The first man and our father, the father of the Children of Adam, was saying: 'O our Lord, just we did unjust dealing, we dealt with You so badly. We did that bad dealing only for our ego's sake, and we are asking Your forgiveness.' He was not asking forgiveness only for himself and his wife, Hawa/Eve, our mother, but it was a general asking: 'O Allah, if You are giving Yourblessings, forgiveness, give it to me and ourselves as well as to our whole generation.' Therefore on the Day of Resurrection, Judgment Day, no one can stand up and say: 'I have been oppressed', no. That is adlu mutlak, perfect judgement, it isjust and people should be happy with Allah Almighty's Judgment. That happiness is going to be for them even if they may be thrown into the fire; that happiness will give them pleasure even they are in the fire. They are not angry about their Lord's Judgment for them. They should say: 'Your Judgment is 1oo% perfect, and more and more and more. We are happy with Your Judgment.' Thathappiness is coming through them, and even they are through fire, the fire can't touch them. They may be only in it but through their inside there is an opening to say that: 'Allah did His best, His most excellent, most perfect Judgment.' That refreshment makes the fire not to affect them even it is eating them. That is another ocean. May Allah forgive us.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

Looks like I took off my picture (avatar) and profile too .. quite right ...

New President New Era ?

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

It's taken me ages to get back in here after so long away .. did I delete all the posts back to here then ?
No matter. It's available again, as are all my others .. Ay, funny old world.

Real Submission.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

Thanks to Osmanli Traveller for this;


Sohbets

BismillahirRahmanirRahimSHEYKH ABDUL QADIR GEYLANI’S KINGLY LIFESTYLE
Tuesday 15 Jumad al-Ahir, 1427July 11, 2006
Sheykh Abdul-Kerim EffendiOsmanli Naks-i’bendi Hakkani Dergah, Siddiki Center, New York.
(After reading from the sohbet of Sheykh Mevlana Nazim, a murid asked:“Great saints like Abdul Qadir Geylani didn’t have so much. Then aftera certain point they were living like kings. What’s the secret behindthat?”)
BismillahirrahmanirrahimMedet Ya Seyyidi Ya Sultanul Awliya, Medet.
It was just said in the sohbet. The world is given in their hand andunder their authority. But they don’t have it for themselves. Theyhave it for others. He wasn’t sitting and eating like that too. He waseating only to show people that he was eating. But Allah is sayingthat those who reached to that station, their eating is counted asworship, their sleeping is counted as worship and their talking iscounted as worship. There was a Sheykh who was always giving advice tohis murids about these three things, saying, “Don’t do these threethings. Don’t eat too much, don’t sleep too much and don’t talk toomuch. One day some person came from somewhere and the murids heardthat this man is a Sheykh. In the dergah he was talking with them. Hewas talking non-stop. The murids were listening to him. When he wasgoing to sleep he wouldn’t get up. As soon as he gets up he startseating non-stop. The murids were thinking, “This man talks like aSheykh but our Sheykh taught us that a man shouldn’t drink too much,eat too much, sleep too much and talk too much. This one is a Sheykhand he is doing the opposite.” They went to their Sheykh and told himwhat happened. He said to them, “There must be something wrong. Butlet me just go and look at it.” That one was a hidden one. When theSheykh came to him he looked and said, “Don’t you know Allah says thatthose who reached to that station their eating is worship, theirsleeping is worship and their talking is worship?” He said, “Yes.Please, you must speak to every one of us from now on.”
There is a test that Allah puts people through with their lives.Today, everyone is playing games saying, “Ah, I am under the test.”There are a couple of questions, whether you give answer to them ornot, you pass. The (real) test is not like that. Allah put thosepeople through that test with their lives. If they passed that testthen everything was given to them because they were not for Dunya,they were for Akhirat. Everything was under their authority.
Abdul Qadir Geylani (qaddasallau sirruh) was living alone in themountain. He wasn’t running to find food or other things. He waskeeping himself busy with Allah. He wasn’t worrying and running to payrent or work saying, “I need this and I need that.” No. He said,“Allah is going to provide me with what I need. If it’s necessary forme then He is going to.” That was the submission that he had. He wasworshipping. And whenever it was necessary and he really needed to eatsomething, he would find some grass, which I remember from mychildhood that we were doing that on the mountain. We were findingsome kind of mountain grass [greens] that doesn’t need to be cookedand we were eating it. And it fills you up. What do you need? Thewater is there too. What else do you need? What is the need of man?Man has to know first what his need is. But today’s people’s need isnever ending. There is no end to their needs. They are pilingeverywhere and before you know it they are scared to use it too.
They were not like that. They were going through tests which Allah wasputting. He (Abdul Qadir Geylani Hazretleri) passed the test. He waseating grass, water and keeping himself busy with Allah only. Hewasn’t running around to teach people too. He didn’t care if he wasgoing to be a Sheykh or he was going to have these many peoplefollowing him. No. He was not running for that. So Allah was lookingat his sincerity. Then Allah inspired him, saying to him, “Go down toBaghdad and live like a king from now on. Eat like a king, live like aking and give the secrets to people.” He got the command. He didn’tworry to think, “How am I going to live like a king.” He said, “Allahis moving me.” While Allah was moving that one and when he wasentering to Baghdad, Allah was inspiring the richest man in Baghdadsaying, “Go to the entrance of the city and you are going to find Myservant coming. From now on you will be his servant. Serve him and youwill find safety in Dunya and Akhirat.” The man had faith. He had themoney too. He had the wealth. He built everything and he realized,“Oh, this is what I built it for. So I must go to see the owner who iscoming.” So he went, he saw Abdul Qadir Geylani (qs) coming and hesaid, “Please, come to be my guest. Allah is ordering me to serveyou.” He had a place like a palace. He (Abdul Qadir Hazratleri) didn’trun to build it. Allah built it for him through other people. And hewasn’t using it for himself. He was using it for other people again.
So alhamdulillah, it is easy for Allah. It is not easy for man. Whenhe gives a little bit he starts shaking, he starts worrying, he startscounting, he starts thinking and he starts planning. But Allah hasendless treasures. It (submission) is not by words. Sheykh says tothat one, “Give this to that poor one.” These days they don’t give itto the Sheykhs also. If Sheykh says, “Bring the treasure and put itthere”, what do people say? What are they going to say? “He is tryingto fool me. He is trying to steal from me.” Sheykh doesn’t need that.He is not for Dunya. He is in Dunya but he is not for Dunya. He is inDunya for people, for their safety. Nothing else. If it’s necessary totake things away from you then he has to take things away from youbecause of your love and attachment to that. So many people say, “I amso generous” but they are so much in love with those things. They makeshow that they are generous but they are not really. So Sheykh touchesfrom this angle, that angle, moves it a little bit. As soon as hetouches the button then `grrrr…’. Now he says, “Huh, that is in yourheart. Dunya is in your heart.” As long as dunya is in your heart nolove of Akhirat is going to open. Impossible. You are not going tosmell Paradise when the Dunya is in your heart. But when the Dunya isin your hand then yes. (Sheykh Efendi picks up a saucer with his indexfinger and thumb). This is how he was holding the Dunya. He had to,because he was living in Dunya.
What are today’s people living for? Leave the unbelievers. What arethe believers living for? Dunya. Millions, for Dunya. That’s why theyare not running to tariqats and to Sheykhs to give submission becausesubmission comes with everything that you have. Not only by wordsaying, “I am submitting myself to you.”
“Are you submitting?”
“Yes.”
Then Sheykh has the right to say to you, “Take out your clothes andput it there too.” Do you think that the one who has authority on yourspirit doesn’t have authority on your wealth and your health? He cantake it away from your hand so fast. And it is a blessing if theSheykh says to you, “Go bring me this, bring me that and give methat.” It’s a big blessing to you. But this mentality is gone today.People lost this faith. People lost faith these days. Murids lostfaith, people who call themselves murids, not murids-murids (realmurids). Murids will never lose faith, the ones who are murid. But theones who call themselves murids, some of them lost this faith. As soonas you touch they start bargaining with you. What is the bargain? Cana slave bargain with his owner? That is his owner. If the owner saysto his slave, “O my slave, what would you like to eat and drink?” Hesays, “As you like. Whatever you give to me.”
He asks, “What would you like to wear?”
“Whatever you give to me.”
“Where do you want to sleep?”
“Any place that you show to me.”
He tries him like this and then he says to him, “Because you have somuch submission like this I am giving you your freedom. You are not aslave anymore.” And he asks, “How come you are like that?” He says,“Because I know that I am a slave. And if I am a slave and I amaccepting it then how can I rise and say to you, `I want this and Iwant that?’ You are my owner. You know what my need is and you aregoing to give me that.” Hmm. Murids have no trust in their Sheykh.That is Ahir Zaman, the end of times. Trust? You don’t know whatSheykh has? You don’t know. He is not showing. If he says, “Don’tbreathe the air”, then breathe it. Go ahead. “Who cares?” he says tothem. “You are not in that book as murids anyway. Say anything youlike.” Huh, to be a murid, you need to have Adab, you need to havemanners. Everything starts opening to a man who has manners. The moreopens to him the more obedient he becomes to his Sheykh then. He cansee the paradises, he can enter and come back, but he will never leavehis Sheykh then because what he is looking for is not even inParadise. It is in his Sheykh’s hand and nobody else carries that.
So today Sufism, tariqat became people’s running to have someentertainment. Some are running to have some comfort. Some are alreadyfed up with the outside world and they are getting old. They cannot doanything. They are tired of sitting home and so they are running totariqat. This is the mentality of today’s tariqat. But did tariqatschange and did Sheykhs lose that power? No. They still have it. Butthis Dunya is garbage. So they are not looking for it. They arecircling around this world and they are just checking people. You maybe sitting next to him for twenty years and you may get nothing. He iscircling in the world, he is looking and he says, “This one has goodbehavior.” He gives it to that one and walks away. He never finishes.The more he gives the more comes. But can you give diamond to the handof an ignorant person? Can you take a diamond and throw it in front ofa pig? What is he going to do with it?
So first you have to know what the treasure is. You have to know whatyou are looking for. And to get that you have to know what you have tosacrifice. You have to sacrifice something. Everyone has to sacrificesomething. If you are not sacrificing it means that you are not reallyready and prepared to get what is there. You just want it for your ownego. You are never going to get that for your ego because then ego isgoing to cut your neck off. Sheytan is going to take that treasure,that secret and he is going to go away. And you will be in big troublethen. So yes, in tariqat sometimes Sheykhs show the people the mostluxurious life and sometimes they show them the worst lifestyle thatpeople are going through. You have to go through it to understand. Youmay be with the Sheykh one week and you will be living like a king andthe next week you will be living like a beggar in the street. Sheykhhas the right to tell you, “Let’s go, we are going outside now tostart begging from people.” Heh, what will you do then? If you have nosubmission, what are you going to do? You are going to say, “He is athief. Is he trying to teach me how to steal or to ask from people?”
So submission comes with everything you have. You no longer have yourown ideas of thinking and understanding. If you cannot think the waythat the Sheykh is directing you then it is forbidden for you to thinkand to try to analyze things by your own self because you are going tocome to the wrong understanding. Sheytan is going to be there. So yourSheykh is not there. Sheytan is going to be your Sheykh. And you arestill going to say, “He is my Sheykh.” But no. Sheytan is your Sheykh.Sheytan is giving you directions then.
Wa min Allahu taufiq.
This much is enough for you and for me inshaAllah.
El-Fatiha.

High Spiritual Rank of Abdl Qadr Jilani

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

Thanks to "az" for the following;


In the name of Allah the Most Compassionate the Most Merciful
Sheikh Junaid Al Baghdadi lived two hundred years before Sheikh Abdulqadir Jilani may Allah be well pleased with them, and foretold Jilani's coming in the following manner: while Sheikh Junaid al Baghdadi was in a state of spiritual ecstacy he stated: 'His foot is on my shoulders, his foot is on my shoulders.' After he had come out of this spiritual condition, his disciples questioned him concerning these words. He said, 'I have been informed that a great saint will be born towards the end of the fifth century. His name shall be Abdulqadir and his title will be Muhyiddin. He will be born in Jilan/Iran and he will reside in Baghdad. One day, on the command of Allah, he will say ‘My foot is on the shoulders of all the saints of Allah’. While in my spiritual condition, I saw his excellence and these words were uttered by me without my control.'
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Sheikh Bahauddin Naqshiband was ordered by his master to keep the remembrance of Allah/dhikr, but there was no way to 'imprint' the holy name 'Allah' in his heart, and he was really worried about it. One day Sheikh Naqshiband -whose name was not yet known as 'Naqshiband'- was traveling in the desert and he met Khidr alaihi salaam peace be upon him who within seconds transported him to the spiritual presence of Sheikh Abdulqadir Jilani. Sheikh Bahauddin said, 'O one who holds hands in the universe, hold my hand so they will be you holder..' -when taking initiation, one holds the hand of the master to receive Almighty Allah's blessing and when someone needs to be rescued, he/she holds out master's hand-. Sheikh Abdulqadir Jilani put his hand on Sheikh Bahauddin's heart and said, 'O the holder of the adornment of the worlds, hold my adornment so that they can call you Naqshiband (the one who adorns). And then Sheikh Bahauddin recited the following poem, which is inscribed on both the tombs of Abdulqadir Jilani and Shah Bahauddin Naqshband:
'The King of this world and the hereafter is Shah Abdulqadir
The head of the children of Adam is Shah Abdulqadir.
Sun, moon, heavens, the throne and the pen,
They all get their light from the heart of Abdulqadir."
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150 years after the death of Sheikh Abdulqadir Jilani people asked Shah Bahauddin Naqshiband may Allah be pleased with them, 'Sheikh Abdulqadir said, "My foot is on the shoulders of all the saints", what do you think about this?' Shah Naqshiband said 'May Sheikh Abdulqadir Jilani's foot be upon my eyes and my vision.'
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The scholar Abulasan Ali Nadwi wrote in his book Rijal al-Fikr waddawah, Abdulqadir Jilani, the ghawth/helper of the sufi orders, Sheikh Muhyedden Al Arabi, and all the masters of the Naqshibandi Golden Chain, opened the door of initiation as wide as possible, for every individual who has good and true belief to find something that will be of value to him spiritually, and for everyone to renew his initiation/bayah with Allah Almighty and Exalted. These sufi masters of the Naqshibandi Golden Chain and all sufi orders lifted their followers to a station of Truthfulness, to feel the responsibility of their initiation and to renew their faith.'

Firm Educational base in historical reality.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

Here is a url for an interesting article in support of the master/disciple relationship http://www.wie.org/j31/salas.asp which may help people to understand about the dissolution of the ego.If you click on the icon of the magazine you will get many articles with a similar slant on the theme.

Here is a talk from Sheikh Nazim about an educative base in historical reality.

We shall look from our headquarters, from spiritual world heavenly commanders, what they are sending to warn people in such a difficult daysDestur, ya Sayidi, Meded, ya Sultanu-l Awliya...Audhu...B.r.r., la haula...
Einer sollte sprechen, die anderen zuhoeren, und es koennen tausende sein, es macht nichts, aber wenn alle reden, und keiner mehr zuhoert, kommt nichts dabei heraus...
We shall look from our headquarters, from spiritual world heavenly commanders, what they are sending to warn people in such a difficult days that we are entering in it, and we are asking heavenly support, heavenly support is much better from whole material supports or technological supports. Every time mankind when they are trusting on their material powers or strength, trusting in what they have from weapons, that they are all belonging to our material being, they failed. When they are trusting in heavenly support, they never going to be failed. This is unchanged measure or balance, nizam. When mankind trusts in their material power or capacity, ability, they failed. But when they are feeling that they are weak and ask heavenly support they never failed. Therefore mankind must be directed to a save direction through their minds, they must use their minds on a safe direction. Or they should be failed. And how they are going to be able for a direction on safe way? Holy Quran that last message coming from Heavens to the last messenger for the last prophecy, the most honoured prophet in divine Presence Quran Kerim, Holy Book coming and you can find everything it, what is necessary for the safety of mankind here and hereafter.
And main teaching pillar through the holy Quran is to remind believers from beginning of mankind on earth bout their lives that we are saying now for that knowledge history. To remind them for the lives of mankind how they began and continue up to time of Seal of Prophets, bringing knowledge from past times, past nations, about their lives an about their dealing with their prophets, in another words, development, how happened up to time of Seal of Prophets. Then it is going to be a strong foundation for a nation that they have no knowledge kaumu-l jahiliya, people that were through the darkness of ignorance. This is teaching style, method, of holy Quran for mankind. Because if not knowing about past times, past nations, how they were, how was their dealing with their prophets, the messengers of Heavens and what happened to them, that must be known. Therefore it is first important point for education programs to put first the knowledge of past times that is history. You must know your history. About your nation and about for common nations, most important knowledge. Others if you are not teaching people, if not teaching youngsters, you can’t be able to teach them anything. They are going to be ignorant. Don’t think that if they learn physics, or chemistry or arithmetic or astronomy or so many knowledges, they are not… they haven’t any base to sit on. All of it is like something just hanged but can’t sit on a strong base. A person may know arithmetic or physics or chemistry or mathematics or medicine, but all of it is on air, no base to sit on. Therefore first point is to call people and to train them in a safe way.
If you are asking new building you must do and make a strong foundation. You are architect. You are going to build on sandy land? Sandy land you may put tent or such weak places, so simple, as people making now for some moving markets, fairs or flee markets. Every Saturday and Sunday in Europe flee markets. Flee markets only one or two days. People can’t be able to live in it whole year; but shops that building strongly, everything in it in safety, and who going on it also going to be in safety, they did strong buildings. Bazari. Now education system is like flee markets. No any strong base foundation, no. They are teaching architecture, law, medicine, engineering, this and that, but they are never using a strong foundation. Even the faculty of history they are also never using a strong foundation, it is only like a show. In most important point the time of tyrants, period of tyrants, that they are mainly supporters for their hegemony, they are using lies and cheating. They are teaching they say we are teaching history. Everything through story that they are mentioning, there is their system’s… they use it to show that past times worst and our time now best. Changing every reality into lies and using lies for cheating people. That is the time period of tyrants now. They are saying ‘National policy’ for their benefit. Everything changing and bringing, showing everything bad and every bad what they are doing, showing to people as best. Showing golden as no value, bringing tin with the colour of gold and saying this is the best. Throwing away diamonds and bringing plastic diamonds, if putting, people think: o, this is much better, because real diamond is natural, it has some signs that signing its originality. But when they are making from plastic you can’t find any sign, it is so false…Therefore they are trying to change valuable things from past time and to throw them away and bringing new ones that are only so quickly described with technology, no value. That is their states policy, to make for them a strong base to be in it and to continue on it.
And now whole world they do this only. They are not teaching real history, that holy Quran and holy Books all of them try to teach people what happened in past times for nations whom where living thousand years ago and they have been sent holy Books from Heavens and how they were dealing with their Prophets…I may ask a question: I learnt also through their schools and university. In their history books I never learnt about flood of Noah. You learnt through your schools books? Most important event of the past time! Sometimes people coming and going to Turkey to find the remaining parts of Arch of Noah. Why they are coming? Why not putting in history books? They write about Zeus, Greek mythology or Roman mythology or Assyrian or Egyptian mythology, they write as a knowledge, even writing about their Gods and wars among them! But I am wondering how people run through streets and say: We don’t like war, no war. Ya Hu, their schools teach as mythology that eve their gods fighting each other, how you are saying ‘no war’? If your gods going to fight each other, what happening? How they are running on streets and say ‘no war’? What happened to those people? Shaitan teaching them that gods may fight each other, killing each other I don’t know or sending them to exile? How happened? Now people ask ‘no war’, and Muslims.
O believers, just it is an order that Heavens stamping on it, sealing, and it is an command from Heavens for Muslims to fight! Battle, fighting. How you are running on streets and say ‘no war’? What happened? Which time you are looking people are not fighting? Always fighting running and you ask now to stop war? Oh, how happening? Everywhere battle, fighting going on. I mean to say that people…now those no mind people tyrants, writing through their books as a knowledge, historical knowledge for Greek civilization, old Greek, Old Roman civilization, and making as a knowledge about their gods, and they are putting also their statues and pictures on say: This is Zeus, that a another, that is another, and top Zeus. Zeus they are saying, Theos, Zeus coming from theos, the God. They are writing this but not one world you can find about Noah. It did not happen? If they are saying Yes, they must believe in holy books!
Therefore they are writing lies and changing everything in opposite, not from front but from back. And they are going ton fail. They failed, and they are going to be failed, all those people whom not knowing about their histories, never going to stand up on their feet, because their feet can’t carry their bodies, so weak. History giving power for nation to stand up on their feet.
And I am speaking through Holy Quran and its style of teaching. Beginning Holy Quran through the creation of Adam and then coming, coming, coming and explaining, bringing so many events what happened to the Children of Adam at is a real way of education but now they lost it and changed, because ..first pages in Holy Quran changing hidayet with dalalet- leaving real way that Allah Almighty
Sending to them realities and changing truth with lies and asking to make a trade, but never reaching a benefit, because they changed reality and asking to make on it benefit, but never happened. What Allah sending throwing away and bringing something form their devil, form their Shaitan and asking to make a trade, a profit. Never bringing. What they do now against the laws of Heavens they lost. No profit. Everywhere you can see that they failed, and now they run to a dangerous way that never happened before, the cost of this crises perhaps going to be billions of people, Now they are saying 2o people, 4o, 2oo people…not millions, but billons should be cost of their wrong way that they try to make as a profit for themselves and never going to reach a profit but it is going to be biggest lost for mankind through this most dangerous war. And nations day by day running on it, and reaching to them bottom of loosing and finishing.
May Allah forgive us. And blessings for new generation before going to be dirty ones. Whole dirtiness from earth must be taken away and should remain a clean land with clean people. We are asking forgiveness for the honour of most honoured prophet in His divine Presence S.Muhammad sws, Fatiha
© by Sheikh Nazim Al-Qubrusi Al-Haqqani
= Vielen Dank an Khairiyah Siegel. =

Latest news .. moving towards humanity/humaness (?)

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

O.K. just a quickie to say all is O.K. Things seem to be somewhat under control and clearing themselves into some kind of pattern or order. There is still so much to assimilate after Bilquis's death. However there is a positive side to things in the form of a kind of re-birth. Once again I am pressed for time now as I am still subject to the rigours of internet shops for my use of the service. The story with internet at home has had all the usual Andalucian twists and turns and frustrations .. but I take it all as coming from the First Cause and that, perhaps the most obvious wisdom is that I am unable to lose myself in the easiest "get out" that exists .. though of course the nafs still searches and finds its excuses and escapes amongst food and music and books and mini projects within the game of survival in dunya.
Hey ho, life goes on .. time seems to be running very fast .. I see the hour glass of my life getting quite full in the bottom half and still no really serious application to the only thing that has any sense or meaning ... however .. I feel clearer and in some senses more able to get some sort of control and perhaps make some real decisions as to how I want to run things instead of always feeling like the victim of circumstances and my emotional reactions to them.
EFT has helped greatly with this but really I think the removal of Bilquis as my support in every way, has projected me forward into something resembling a normal human being.
Maybe I can write more fully about this at another time. Perhaps when I finally get internet in my own house again ? !
For now, salaams and Ramadan mubarak.

Recent news update. Plus Flickr link for photos.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

O.K. Well summer really is over now. I'm trying the experiment of living at the coast with all its inherent dangers especially that of relating to others through the bar scene when confronted with the option of returning to an empty house at night devoid of my beloved Bilquis. I'm there for access to the markets where I make my living and that scene too has many distractions away from the spiritual path. The Prophet PBUH said that Shaytan has two homes .. one is the lavatory and the other the market place ... oh dear!
Anyway I am starting something new and that is around the Country Farmers markets .. rather nice actually though it involves a fair amount of travelling. Today I was in Mollina near Antequera about 150 kms from my place and now another 150kms west in Orgiva where my home base has been for a few years. Friday I could be another 150 kms east in Cartama .. The idea is to get a large van and put a bed cooker and water in it and then I am free to move the night before and be there for the early morning. If this is lucrative enough I will then make forays into Morrocco for some things I want to bring back from there (painted furniture, mirrors lamps, bags and shoes etc ) and hopefully make some reports and photographs from there.
Up 'til now I perhaps haven't mentioned that I have many of my photos on www.flickr.com where if you go and sign up (free and takes three mins) you can put my name "Sufibridge" in the search engine and you should get my page.
I still have no internet at home .. and this place is closing now .. so I'll sign off until the next time .. soon insha'llah!

Spain,England,families and traditional values.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

Summer is drawing to a close now and, as I took a night off to recuperate from the general madness last night, I have found the time and the place to jot down three words. I am still waiting to recieve the ariel and the opportunity to try it out in my cortijo, so I am writing this from a place on the sea front calledd "The Sun Lounge." or "Salon de Sol." I normally go to a little place called the Hideaway which is run and mainly frequented by English people but Debbie who works there and has also lived in Lanjaron in the Alpujarras, told me about this place and the possibility to connect to the net here while sitting on the comfort of a large leather three piece suite and being served food and drink. (Can't be bad eh? Just a little compensation for all the hard work and stress on the stall I suppose.) Originally I came to Spain mainly to get away from England and all it represented to me of psychological and emotional pain connected with my very unhappy and insecure childhood.I found some balm for my soul in the Spanish countryside and amongst the Spanish people who still knew what family life and friendship are about.It seems that since Bilquis died I am finding some comfort and peace in being amongst English people again after all these years.
Nowadays Spain is in such a hurry to become truly democratic, modern, materially well off and supposedly "liberated" that it is beginning to suffer from all the sicknesses which the English know only too well and which are mainly the result of too much so called freedom which is in reality only an enslavement to the ego or "nafs" and all its desires.
Perhaps the pendulum is swinging the other way in England, or perhaps it is really what I observe as a phenomenon amongst the less well off and supposedly less "educated"(brainwashed?) people, the fact that they are not easily persauded that breaking all traditional moral rules is necessarily a good thing.
Last night the bar was full up with good straightforward working people from England who had gathered to watch England against Greece on the huge screen available in this place. I noticed over and over again such kindness and love and tolerance towards children from both fathers and mothers and a general feeling of happiness and welfare amongst the adults as well as the fact that the men tended to congregate with other men and the women with other women and the children.
Could it be that my beloved sane Spain will have to pass through all that modern madness generated by clever ideas of "freedom" from traditional values and that my sadly despised and forgotten England is swinging back to some kind of sanity?

A little general personal news.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

Hi everybody, I'm just leaving this message on here because there has been a bit of feedback recently and really I am generally a bit restricted in my access to the blog as I have moved into a great little cortijo above La Herradura where I work in the summer but, as yet have no internet connection. Also, after the death of my beloved wife Bilquis, which many of you will know about by now, I have simply been very busy trying to keep up with all the things that two people used to do.
Forgive me (Nis & co ) if I don't get back to you in a while .. it shouldn't take long, but this is Andalucia and things are not always too logical here. Basically I think I can get a wi fi connection for only 18€/mth but the owner of the net cafe has been away on honeymoon and was not around today .. it seems that if I purchase an arial from him I can get sorted and maybe share the cost (about 250€) with interested neighbours.
Thanks for the interest and the offers .. Salaams and good wishes to all .. Uthman.

Ingendering love for the Prophet saws.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

I actually come from a family of five generations of Anglican vicars on my father's side. My father left the church and wouldn't allow me anywhere near it as a child. As a young man very little religious teaching was given in school and consequently I had little connection with the prophet Isa (Jesus). I have noticed here in Spain the immense love and veneration which Spanish Muslims quickly assume for Prophet Muhammad saws when becoming Muslim,, and I believe this is partly due to already having been accustomed to loving Jesus (as) as this had been inculcated since early childhood. I therefore look out for anything which may help to generate that same love and veneration for him in me.
The following short article from Islamicity was helpful in this respect.

O Prophet of Allah, where shall I find the source of my adoration for you? I have memorized hundreds of your sayings since my youth, taught your seerah (example) to numerous students, grown a beard, used the miswaaq, sang and proudly taught others odes (qasidahs) in praise of you. But I did not find you in these rituals nor did any of these make me any more like you; rather they merely flung me into the fray of insignificant debates in the arena of so many of the sunnahless Muslims who see your sunnah only as an endless array of harsh laws and practices or as some justification for their cultural tendencies. O Allah, save me from being of those who consider the sunnah of Thy beloved as being expressed only through aimless imitations and who know Thy Prophet only as a conveyor of commands and warnings.
O Prophet of Allah, I did not truly find you in the books of fatawa (religious edicts), nor in grand seminars and conferences throughout the world, and certainly not in the harsh arguments between groups proclaiming mutually exclusive rights over you.
I found my source of adoration for you in the love and respect that the Almighty has proclaimed for you; in the honor that He bestowed upon you; in His confirmation of you as "the ultimate exemplar"; "seal of Prophets" and "mercy unto all existence". Allah has elevated the very memory of you and has made His boundless love accessible through obedience to you.
I catch but a dimension of you through the instances of compassion you extended to others; how you played with the poor orphaned boy when other children refused to play with him, how you prolonged your prostration out of consideration that your change in posture may inconvenience or hurt your beloved grandson who had climbed on your back; how you commanded your army away from the anthill in order not to disrupt the ants' activities; how you blessed with Paradise the sinful woman for saving the life of a cat by making the water of the well accessible with her shoes; how you intervened and prevented a man from abusing his wife by teaching him that "the best of men are those who treat their wives the best"; how you patched your clothes, mended your shoes and did your daily household chores; how you wrestled with your nephew and raced with your wife; how you joked with the kids and carried the baggage of the elderly; how you hosted the Christians of Najran in your mosque and stood up to honor the bier of a Jew.
O Prophet of Allah, why is it that so many of us who claim to be of you refuse to be like you. We sing for you and dress like you, but do not come near fulfilling the expression of love, care and beauty that generated from yourself. Why is it that we see in you that which suits our cultural, organizational and chauvinistic interests, yet ignore the essence of what is essential to your being. Others who are not of you proclaim the multi-dimensional and multi-faceted nature of your personality. "The personality of Muhammad is most difficult to get the whole truth of it. Only a glimpse of him I can catch. What dramatic succession of picturesque scenes? There is Muhammad the Prophet; there is Muhammad the General; Muhammad the King; Muhammad the Warrior; Muhammad the Businessman; Muhammad the Preacher; Muhammad the Philosopher; Muhammad the Statesman; Muhammad the Orator; Muhammad the Reformer; Muhammad the Refuge of Orphans; Muhammad the Protector of Slaves; Muhammad the Emancipator of Women; Muhammad the Judge; Muhammad the Saint.. In all these magnificent roles and in all these departments of human activities he is equally a hero." (Professor Ramakrishna Rao). O Prophet! Your life-example is an integrated biography, history and law; it is above all a model of excellence.
O Prophet of Allah, you have certainly been adored by many much more worthy than I. Yet, neither the inability to capture my appreciation of you with the eloquence of poets nor my weakness as a believer debars me from qualifying as one who adores you; for in the commemoration of your being do I find the dignity and honor of my existence.
Imam Sadullah Khan is Professor of Islamic Studies at California State University in Dominguez Hills.

Maulud Mubarak.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

Maulud Mubarak everybody! Here in Orgiva we've just had a wee drink in Sheikh Omar's beautiful tavern in the campo singing songs and making dhikr accompanied by "tambores". A lovely and elevating way to start the celebrations with some tea and dates and enchanting recitation from Moroccan Ahmad, our resident sayidd.

Alhamduli'llah wa shukruli'llah!

Welcome welcome ! All are welcome .. you may visit us any time .. the celebrations continue until next Sunday evening, Orgiva is the host venue this year for all mureeds from all over Spain (La Vera, Madrid, Ibiza etc) and anywhere else in the world!

Rumi.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

Thanks to "Warriorette" for putting the next four pics up on her Flickr page.

If the print is too small, just click on 'em.

Rumi 4 

Rumi 3 

Rumi 2 

Rumi 1 

Message from "az"

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

Our beloved Maulana Sheikh Nazim spoke about the total solar eclipse of 2006 March 29, & asked his followers to give charity/sadaqa in big amount -he was specific about the charity to be 'real big'- and also March 29 would be the last Wednesday of the month safer of the islamic lunar calendar. he warned us not to look at the sky -the dangers of looking at the sun during the solar eclipse could cause major eye damage and possible blindness! Eye damage can occur rapidly, without any pain, since there are no nerves in the eyes, or more surprisingly the loss of eye light or blindness could happen even after many years at an instant!
Maulana Sheikh Nazim asked his followers to say 'astaghfirullah/I ask Allah forgiveness' as much as possible.

Concentrate on aligning your will with Allah's here and now,and don't magnify little problems.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.


'Accord with My purposes this moment, and then rest assured that I will help you keep your future moments similarly aligned with My will'

The Seal of Prophets, Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alahi wa sallam peace be upon him, imparted this good advice to mankind 'If you awaken in the morning and find that you are lacking nothing in the way of material sustenance, and that you and your family are in good health, then don't burden yourself with worry'.
The Holy Prophet advises us not to make problems for ourselves. If there are immediate and pressing problems, that is another story but so many 'problems' in people's minds are not problems at all except in their minds. They are only 'projected problems' which may or may not ever materialize. This is the affliction of the twentieth century man: anxiety, or suffering inflicted upon oneself over the possibility of future suffering. As a result of this neurotic anxiety people may suffer intensely over a long period of time, although none of what they fear ever materializes This is the epitome of foolishness!
We are shouldering weekly, monthly and yearly burdens each day. Why carry such baggage when you may walk unburdened and find all that you need awaiting your arrival at each station of your journey? You only exist here and now! Tomorrow's 'you' is only a fantasy, as you can't even know if you'll live that long. By inventing so many problems for yourself you are only making yourself ill. Is this advice of the Prophet not enough evidence of his adherence to a way that leads man to felicity?
Allah Almighty doesn't want His servants to suffer needless self-inflicted misery, and He says: 'Oh My servants, don't load heavy burdens on yourselves by worrying about the future. Just bring yourselves in line with My will; accord with My purposes this moment, and then rest assured that I will help you keep your future moments similarly aligned with My will'.
Perhaps you may understand my point from the following example: When a new railway track is laid, before a locomotive and train are ever sent over it, a two-wheeled cart is first drawn over it to check whether the tracks have been laid straight. In the same way, if you can align your will to that of your Lord's even for one moment, without carrying a heavy burden, you may be sure that your way is right, and that, even should times get rough, and so many burdens be coupled to your locomotive, your track is straight and true and you will pass along it smoothly and safely. A solution to this moment's problem is the solution to next year's derailment.
When I am here in western countries I daily encounter people carrying the weight of anticipated problems, It is so difficult in the modern world to escape from having this perspective and to concentrate on the moment in order to put it right. With tens of thousands of problems in front of you all at once, how should a solution seem possible?
I often see people running into the mosque, saying the obligatory prayers quickly and running out. Sometimes I ask them 'What's the rush?' Then they nervously look at their watches and say 'We have tarried in the mosque too long already. We have so many things to do today!' I reply 'It is laudable to be industrious and to look after your affairs well, but who would look after your affairs were you to drop dead here and now?'
I am not encouraging people to spend their whole days in the mosque, but only trying to remind people who are not only running after their sustenance, but leaping, head over heels after ambitious all-encompassing undertakings that it is impossible to 'master the world', and destructive to devote so much energy to their attempt, and with so much abandon.. First of all, the world already has a Master, and addressing Him humbly and with presence of mind (not hurriedly) in your prayers is even more instrumental in attaining your sustenance than rushing through the city. Secondly, far from attending to your affairs more efficiently by running, you are only likely to have a heart attack and die young!
Don't live in a world of great big-time schemes, for such schemes will not save you from trouble, but entangle you in itself even further. Simplify your problems so that the solutions may be simple, also don't regard your problems with a magnifying glass so that they are out of perspective! That habit will destroy you physically and spiritually.

Tawhid, Junayd.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

The truest and highest stage of worship is to see God face to face, and to receive his guidance from his own mouth. Those who attain this highest stage, choose for themselves whatever God chooses for them. Their entire characters are transformed by God. They are God's friends; so they no longer discriminate between people, but regard all people as friends. Wherever they go, they go from God; wherever they arrive, they arrive at God. Whatever they do, they do for God; whatever service they perform, they perform it in God. The self has been truly annihilated.-Junayd, "Tawhid"

...Not like any other thing."

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

What a tiring and boring thing the rampaging mind is! .. sticking us in duality even as we try to explain the "highest spiritual realities" ... "Wa lam yaqun lahu qufuwan ahdad."

And He is not like any other thing.

Latest Sohbet from Maulana Sheikh Nazim.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

Here's the latest sohbet from Maulana Sheikh Nazim, sent by Khairya to Naqshbandi group "Sufi Village." (She keeps pretty close to the original language .. so bear with it !)

Maulana Scheikh Nazim's sohbet from 19.2.2006
”O our Lord- save our souls!“
Meded, ya Sultanu-l Anbiya, Meded, ya Sultanu-l Awliya, Meded, ya Rijalallah! Audhu bi-llahi mina shaitani rajim, Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim, La haula wa la quwatta illa bi-llahi-l ‘Aliyu-l ‘Adhim.
As-salamu alaikum!
It is a short association and we are trying to follow the ways of holy people. And who is living on earth- billions of people are living- they are two kinds of people: Holy ones and unholy ones. I was once passing through Switzerland on my way from London to Cyprus. There is a famous monastery St.Nicolaus (von der Flüe), always (when) I am passing, his spirituality was asking me to come closer and he was taking familiarity from my spirituality. I was passing and coming there, stopping and visiting the monastery and his tomb also. Once I was there, just I visited and (I was) coming out, a person (was) coming and he said that: “I am priest of this monastery” and I was addressing to him: “Your holiness.” He said to me: “I am not a holy one. If you are saying ‘holiness’, holiness inside, buried there, but I am ordinary priest, I am not holy one.” I said to him: “What about (the) Pope?” “He is not also a holy one; he is also a person that (is being) appointed by some group of religious people (that) we are saying ‘Cardinals’ (for them). (‘His) Holiness’ that is a grant and blessing from Heavens. Whom they are appointed by someones on earth, they are not holy ones. (‘His) Holiness’ is a rank that (is) granted from Heavens to the Lord of Heavens’ servants.” I said: “What you are speaking, it is true. When they are appointed by governments, they can’t be holy ones.” To be ‘(His) Holiness’ that is something belongs to Heavens; that is not a reward or such a thing that people may give to anyone. Yes, I may dress (something that looks) like (the) dress of Popes or Saints- their clothes is holy clothes, as we are looking- but inside, no. Don’t think (that) if a person (is) dressing what dresses (a) holy man, (he is) going to be (a) holy one, no! Clothes we are understanding, but not that person. We are speaking on that point that people must know (that) some of them are holy ones, and mostly they are ordinary people. For example: Can’t be a person King, (even) if he is going to dress (a) Kings dressing; (and) even (if he is) putting on his head a crown, he is not going to be a King, no. But now (this imagination is) through whole nations and people are not asking who is holy one or not. They are not understanding what is (the) mission of (the) holy ones. People now (are) going to be (all) on the same line that their mission (is) to work for Dunya. Who (is) working for Dunya, he is not a holy one, no. Who (is) working for his Lord, he is holy one. Holy one is a clean person, (there is) no dirtiness on them for Dunya, no, but who (is) working for Dunya, they are all of them just going to be dirty from Dunya. You may say: there is a pond; who is swimming in that pond, (in a) clean one, he is clean, but who (is) falling in(to) a dirty pond, he should be dirty. Dunya is dirty and we are not created for Dunya, no, we are created for the Lords servanthood. Who (is) choosing to be (the) servant of his Lord, his life is clean and he is reaching through his cleanliness his Lords divine Presence. (That is for the) clean ones. Who (is) choosing Dunya, all of them (are) just coming in(to) a dirty pond and they should be left through that dirty place. It is so clear, so clear! All Prophets that came, that have been sent- they are all of them chosen ones- they were saying (the) same thing. Don’t think (that) Adam a.s. was saying other words than what we say now. Don’t think (that) Noah a.s. was calling his people to another station. Don’t think (that) Abraham a.s. and his sons, grandsons and (the) lines of Prophets through (the) 12 tribes (of Israel)- thousands of Prophets-, don’t think (that) they were calling people to Dunya, no, but they were calling them to be for their Creator, the Lord of Heavens: “Come and be servants for your Lord Allah Almighty!” (And) Shaitan (is also) calling people: “No, you must try… you must run after Dunya and you must try to enjoy your physical being with so many things from Dunya!” Shaitans’ calling (is) that! (And) all Prophets just called. Now we are living in a time (where) there is a Muslim world (and) there is a Non-Muslim world; Non-Muslim world means: Christian world and then Jewish world- that they are also Book-given people (people of the book), all of them- and (then) there are so many millions or billions (of) people, (that) they are never taking care or (who are) never interesting in Holy Books and (in) following some ‘ways from old time(s)‘. And now the representatives of (the) Muslim world, the representatives of (the) Non-Muslim world, the representatives of (the) Christians, the representatives of (the) Jewish faith- all of them (are) never getting a power for defeating Satan from people. Satans power (is) coming over their powers! They are in such a way that their faith (is) not enough for defending Truth and the Lord of Heavens sent all Prophets and their real inheritors, (as) defenders of Truth. And Truth (is) coming from Heavens. Truth is not from earth; the Balance of Truth (is) coming from Heavens. Every balance that they are doing now- nations and their religious people-, their balance (is) from earth, (and) therefore they are not able to make (a) defence or to be defenders of Truth. They are following their egoistic interests; they are interesting only for Dunya and can’t be able to be defenders of Truth first of all that we must do our defence to make people to believe in (the) Lord of Heavens, their Creator. And secondly we must do our defence for defending that: “O people, take your true ways according (to the) Rules of Heavens that just had been sent through His chosen people, honoured people, that they are Prophets!” (But) we are not saying: “How we are going to be defenders of Truth?” (and) therefore Truth- now (among) perhaps 6 billion people- you can’t find even one million people to be real defenders for Truth. That means: all our destinations through wrong heads (in the hands of people) that are not knowing (anything about the) true destination of mankind; and we are accepting them and following them and (so) we are going to be defenders for Shaitan, defenders for shaitanic ideas. Now people (are) defenders of satanic ideas and works and activities, that what they are doing (is) carrying heavenly Cursing on earth! What do you think (about) now, today, through East and West, from North to South? You think heavenly Blessings (is) coming on earth or Cursing coming? Cursing (is) coming, because we are not defenders of Truth, (we are) not following (the) Prophets and their real inheritors. That is it, nothing else! People (are) running to do this, to do that, to stop this…(Then they are) stopping that and beginning another cursing there, coming another… Every day and night another kind of cursing (is) coming, unexpected…unexpected… until they are saying: “O our Lord, save ourselves!” If a ship (is) going to sink, (it is) giving (an) announcement: “SOS…SOS…SOS!“ (They are) calling. What does it mean SOS? “O people, we are going to die, save our souls!” Not your souls! (If they were) saying: “SOB, SOB, SOB“ it is better, because people can’t say, ordinary people can’t say ‘souls‘. (Therefore they) may say: “(SOB- Save our) bodies, without (the) souls.” Why not sending- they are sending that announcement through 4 directions- (and) calling: “O people, we are in a dangerous position. (The) ocean (is) going to swallow our ships and ourselves! Please, quickly reach to ourselves and save our bodies, not souls!” Why (they are) not saying (this)? These people, 21st century people, why (they are) not sending their announcement: “O our Lord, save our souls?” Why not saying? People (are) running through (the) streets, Muslim people, for a nonsense person drawing. That is (the) Islamic way? No! Why (they are) not going to (their) mosque and saying: “O our Lord, You said, You promised for Your beloved servant that You are going to be Guarantor for him! Please, send us armies from Heavens, as You did some time (ago as) we are believing. Send (them to) us to destroy their technology, their nuclear weapons, send (them to) us to destroy their whole nuclear bombs!” Why not saying? (Instead they are) on streets, burning cloth (flags)! That is Islam that saying our Prophet and our Holy Book? Written in such a way? Allah knows! Therefore I am saying that I heard a punishment is coming for the inhabitants of this world: One punishment for (the) Non-Muslims, seven punishments for (the) Muslims, because they lost their way! Keep yourself! Run and ask (for) holy ones! One holy one may shelter you, but 1ooo regiments cannot shelter you. That is the head of crises and that is its treatment. May Allah forgive me… Therefore ? coming, I am saying: “O our Lord, send us Your Sultan!” Sultan means who has heavenly Power! I was in Damascus at the end of the Second War- no one was born from you- and the French forces were bombarding from Mezza; it was a center of army, protected with everything. They were bombarding Damascus and we looked and saw that one shell (was) coming on S.Yahya, Yahyas tomb. Just appeared a hand, taking that shell and throwing (it) away. And I was also looking (and seeing that) in Homs, (a) famous place in Syria (already in the) time of (the) Christians and after (the) Christians (in the time of the) Muslims. They were bombarding from Kel’a, (a) sheltered place, and (the) army (was) there and (they were) bombarding. I was in S.Khalid ibn Walids mosque- (may) Allah bless him- (and there was) also coming a shell (and it was also) passing! And they were taking as their target to destroy that holy tomb of Prophets people, S.Khalid ibn Walid r.A. Only one piece (was) coming on (the) minaret and (it was) falling down. I was there. That shell (also) passed away! We have power! We are not weak people! Now- we are weak people, but (the) inheritors of (the) Prophets have such power! But people are not believing in holy ones. They are finished… Therefore every day one punishment on (the) Islamic world coming, coming, coming… May Allah forgive us and bless you for the honour of the most honoured one in His divine Presence S.Muhammad sws, Fatiha.

Rabita/Muraqaba .. connecting to and through, the Sheikh.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

Someone, a good friend,who is muslim and also a member of th Subud group, was asking me recently about taking a Sheikh as they are wanting to practice a "real" Islam and not a heavily Wahhabi influenced one.

Here is a wonderful talk (the best thing I have ever seen from Sheikh Efendi on the subject.) sent to me in an e.mail from "az"may Allah bless him eternally and bless and protect and raise our Sheikh's station for ever amin. (Fatiha):

Allah Almighty is ordering His servants to follow the steps of His friends, and to be with them. Therefore we should be like neighbors with blessed people with our physical body. Then we may be closer through our hearts.
If a pipe does not connect to a tap there will be no water from the tap; spring water may reach to you through pipes. You must have pipes so that the tap can give water. Likewise all the Prophets, and Sayyidina Muhammad alaihi salaam peace be upon them are carrying heavenly streams and mercy to our hearts. Therefore we must always keep connection to their holy and pure hearts in order to recieve wisdom from heavens; you may reach to them and drink from their grand mercy streams. Without the saints/awliya, it is not possible to reach to this. You simply cannot reach to it. Allah Almighty made the awliya to be His mercy springs. The one who reaches to them is going to be alive and be a real living person. Those who reaching to awliya, will reach to ever lasting life. How can we reach to Allah? This is so difficult. But to reach to His representative is to be with Allah.
If a person does not reach to the awliya, it is difficult to reach to blessings. There are common blessings which reach everyone, to even unbelievers.. if not, they wouldn’t exist. But if you want to get much closer, you need another kind of blessing. The person who is heedless looses his expensive life and wastes his precious time. As for an authorized person, it is not important for him outwardly, but in reality, he is always with his sheikh. He has a kind of telephone to his sheikh, to see what news he may benefit from. This has nothing to do with our own will, but it is the will of the sheikh who is taking from the presence of the Holy Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa sallam peace be upon him. The sheikh is always with the presence of the Prophet Muhammad whose reality is always with Allah.
The servant who is asking to reach to the Divine Presence of Allah Almighty, of the Prophet Muhammad and of the sheikh, must always keep his observation/muraqaba/attentive observation, or watchfulness, on the sheikh. You should always observe your sheikh, as he is always looking after you. He never leaves you. To observe means to know, that the sheikh is always with you, and that he is always watching you. The follower/murid is never alone.
Say 'Ya Allah', 'Don’t leave me alone with my ego'. When the murid is not with his sheikh, he will be with his ego, and with the satan, and the ego has millions of tricks to play on you. When the murid keeps observation of the sheikh --for one minute, a while, or as much as he can do-- the sheikh will be with him, and in every situation, he will support him. The observation brings the support/medad. If you are cutting off, then the sheikh’s support is cut off. The sheikh supports the one who is walking on the way to Allah.. as a car fills up its tank at a petrol station before moving on. A real authorized person, has such a station to make you to reach to Allah Almighty. He is also taking from the presence of his sheikh, who is taking from the presence of the holy Prophet Muhammad who receives from the presence of Allah Almighty. If you cut this connection off, you will be left alone, and be like a tape recorder with finished batteries. Instead if you have support through a cable, it will never cut off, or become less. Always it will continue and go on.
For how long do you want to stay with your ego? To observe the sheikh is one of the most important things, so that you can always be with the sheikh, and so that you may be able reach to the presence of the holy Prophet Muhammad. Then you will be able to observe the Prophet Muhammad, and you may see that the eye of the Prophet Muhammad is looking at you, and that you come to know the meaning of the Quranic verse which says that the holy Prophet is among you, he is not absent. If there is no observation/muraqaba, you will never see or feel anything.
Muraqaba makes the servant to hear things from the sheikh, and he will see and watch events and things also. Then you may see 'the reality of the sheikh' whose power is surrounding the whole world -if he is a true one. There are no borders.. No! Not if the responsibility has been given to him, officially, by the holy Prophet. His power is always present, in every place, on the land and in the Oceans. Wherever you go he is present.
When you have a good connection, at first you will hear -like a kind of divine telephone to the sheikh- and he will show you the way by what he tells you. After this, when the murid becomes higher in his maqam/station, he will begin 'to see' also the sheikh who is directing him with words. This is the highest level from the muraqaba of the murid, until the murid climbs up to the observation of the Holy Prophet Muhammad whom he will first hear until he gets higher and then he will see the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him.
Of this state, the greatest of the holy ones used to say 'If we are not looking at the holy Prophet Muhammad even for the blink of an eye, and if he is cut off from being directly in front of us, we would not count ourselves as being muslims anymore'. This is because if a man is with his ego he is not a believer -no iman/faith. Until he is with Allah Almighty, the holy Prophet Muhammad, and the other Prophets, he will be cut off, and there will be nothing else to serve accept his ego. He would have made himself to be a servant of his ego until they will say of him 'Did you see the one who made his own ego to be his God' the Holy Quran. This person will no longer separate what is allowed or forbidden. He will say 'I am free, and that which I want to do, I will do'.
Therefore, the observation of the sheikh by the murid, is the most important thing for his improvement on the way, and if not, his diesel or petrol will finish, and he will stand on the way without moving. When he insists that he doesn’t want to think about his sheikh, he will be left there.
These are some sensitive points which satan and his supporters have interfered with to cheat the ones who are on the way. They say that it is making partners with Allah -shirk- when one observes the sheikh. It cannot be and is not shirk or unbelief. It is only that these people have no understanding about how to obtain a ‘true state’. Muraqaba is for one on the way, and it is to be done always until he reaches to the Divine Presence. Then he will be from one of those who have reached, and there will be nothing left in him of the worries of the world or of the hereafter. He will be in permanency.
This is a very precise and heavy lecture, and no one else in this time from the authorized people may speak about this except our Grandsheikh’s representative. Tariqat/path is to have adab/good manners, and is for guiding people to the highest level of adab. Becoming a true murid means being an accepted one in the Prophet Muhammad’s sallallahu alaihi wa sallam peace be upon him presence, and in the Divine Presence. 'O Allah, give Your most beloved servant more majesty and honor'. Who does not make dhikr/zikr has no divine light, and the person who has no light is blind.. so the veils cannot be taken away.

True humility.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

The Sheikh has said,"In order to be with everything, one must become nothing. Like the drop which falls in the ocean .. then, where is the drop and where is the ocean.?"
He has also said,"When one great sufi asked Allah how he may be with Him, he recieved the reply "Step on your ego and come."
As the Sheikh has also said, "So simple, ... but so difficult!"

The Violet. A symbol of humility. 

Being.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

Friday 10th March. 2006. Yawm al Jumaa.
17.16.Hrs. Orgiva.

It’s a long time since I’ve just sat and written in a Word Document. Written, one might say, for myself, or to myself perhaps for my own benefit (although at another stage or time, what I write here, could be beneficial to others) “ojala” que fuese asi.

It’s about what one’s looking for, as usual, or as always, and, as always, the core mystic works have the answer/s. It really doesn’t seem to matter wether one calls it “The Vacio” (or The Void) or Brahman, or God or Allah .. or The Essence .. nomenclature is not important at this stage .. all that is important is not even “finding” it .. for there is no place or space where what I am looking for exists, it is not in space to be found nor in time either .. beyond all dualities and concepts one can only either “be” it/It .. or not, as sura 112 says “He is not like any other thing.” It is something to be lived and experienced not something to be talked about .. and yet it is an object of desire, (which desire perhaps blocks the very obtaining of it.) To know Him is to be Him ..(or It) .. He is one’s true self .. so one has to get rid of, or put aside the false self or ego in order to find Him or It.

As Nisargadatta, so perspicaciously says;


There is no such state as seeing the real. Who is to see what? You can only be the real, which you are, anyhow. The problem is not mental. Abandon false ideas, that is all. There is no need of true ideas. There aren't any.

(italics mine)

That text at last! (Wonderful translation.)

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

The Secret of the Golden Flower - The Chinese Classic book of Life Lu Yan


The Celestial Mind .

Naturalness is called the Way. The Way has no name or form; it is just the essence, just the primal spirit. Essence and life are invisible, so they are associated with sky and light. Since ancient times, those who realized spiritual immortality all communicated their teaching verbally, transmitting it from individual to individual.
In obedience to a directive, I am acting as a guide to liberation. Herein we will bring light to the source message of the golden flower of absolute unity. The absolute unity refers to what cannot be surpassed. There are very many alchemical teachings, but all of them make temporary use of effort to arrive at effortlessness; they are not teachings of total transcendence and direct penetration. The doctrine transmitted here brings up working with essence and does not fall into a secondary method. That is the best thing about it.
The golden flower is light. What color is light? It is symbolized by the golden flower, which in Chinese characters also conceals the words one light within. This is absolutely unified real energy of celestial immortals.
The whole work of turning the light around uses the method of reversal. The beauties of the highest heavens and the marvels of the sublimest realms are all within the heart; this is where the perfectly open and aware spirit concentrates. Confucians call it the open center, Buddhists call it the pedestal of awareness, Taoists call it the ancestral earth, the mysterious pass, the primal opening.
The celestial mind is like a house; the light is the master of the house. Therefore, once you turn the light around, the energies throughout the body all rise. Just turn the light around; this is the unexcelled sublime truth.
The light is easily stirred and hard to stabilize. When you have turned it around for a long time, the light crystallizes. This is the natural spiritual body, and it steadies the spirit. This is what the Mind Seal Scripture refers to as "silently paying court" and "soaring upward."
The transmutations of spiritual illumination are all guided by mind.
The Original Spirit and the Conscious Spirit
From the point of view of the universe, people are like mayflies; but from the point of view of the Way, even the universe is as an evanescent reflection. Only the true essence of the original spirit transcends the primal organization and is above it.
Vitality and energy degenerate along with the universe, but the original spirit is still there; this is the infinite. The production of the universe all derives from this. If learners can just preserve the original spirit, they live transcendentally outside of yin and yang. They are not within the three realms.
This is possible only by seeing essence. This is what is called the original face. What is most wondrous is when the light has crystallized in a spiritual body, gradually becoming consciously effective, and is on the verge of moving into action. This is the secret that has not been transmitted in a thousand ages.
Turning the Light Around and keeping to the Center
Turning the light around is not turning around the light of one body, but turning around the very energy of Creation. It is not stopping random imagination only temporarily; it is truly emptying routine compulsion for all time. Usually people wind up pursuing objects and come at age in conformity with life, never once looking back. Just observe deeply, and when your breath grows quiet you then become accurately aware. This is application of the method of reversal.
The light is neither inside nor outside the self. Mountains, rivers, sun, moon, and the whole earth are this light, so it is not only in the self. All the operations of intelligence, knowledge, and wisdom are also this light, so it is not outside the self. The light of heaven and earth fills the universe; the light of one individual also naturally extends through the heavens and covers the earth. Therefore, once you turn the light around, everything in the world is turned around.
The light rays are concentrated upward into the eyes; this is the great key of the human body. You should reflect on this. If you do not sit quietly each day, this light flows and whirls, stopping who knows where. If you can sit quietly for a while, all time-ten thousand ages, a thousand lifetimes-is penetrated from this. All phenomena revert to stillness. Truly inconceivable is this sublime truth.
Nevertheless, the actual practice goes from shallow to deep, from crude to fine. Throughout, it is best to be consistent. The practice is one from beginning to end, but its quality during the process can be known only by oneself. One winds up at the point where "heaven is open, earth is broad, and all things are just as they are."
What has been communicated through successive sages is not beyond reversed gazing. Confucians call it " reaching toward knowledge." Buddhists call it "observing mind." Taoists call it "inner observation."
The essential teaching is summarized above; as for the rest, matters of entering and exiting stillness, the prelude and the aftermath, one should use the book Small Stopping and Seeing as a touchstone.
The words focus on the center are most sublime. The center is omnipresent; the whole universe is within it. This indicates the mechanism of Creation; you focus on this to enter the gate, that is all. To focus means to focus on this as a hint, not to become rigidly fixated. The meaning of the word focus has life to it; it is very subtle.
The terms stopping and seeing basically cannot be separated. They mean concentration and insight. Hereafter, whenever thoughts arise, you don't need to sit still as before, but you should investigate this thought: where is it? Where does this come from? Where does it disappear? Push this inquiry on and on over and over until you realize it cannot be grasped; then you will see where the thought arises. You don't need to seek out the point of arising any more. "Having looked for my mind, I realize it cannot be grasped."
This is correct seeing; whatever is contrary to this is false seeing. Once you reach this ungraspability, then as before you continuously practice stopping and continue it by seeing; practice seeing and continue it by stopping. This is the twin cultivation of stopping and seeing. This is turning the light around.
The turning around is stopping, the light is seeing. Stopping without seeing is call turning around without light; seeing without stopping is called having light without turning it around. Remember this.
- Taken from "Secret of the Golden Flower" Translated by Thomas Cleary(1991)

Uthman "Avatar" (Me.)

Uthman. (Me.)
Originally uploaded by Sufibridge.

Well I finally got something on there! What a saga it's been trying to just get my photo on the profile! (URL not found from Flickr .. too big, re-sizing .. this that and the other .. ) I suppose everyone goes through these things .. in fact I know they do from experience writing and reading on Blog Ladder ..but ... it still frustrates me and makes me feel so foolish!

Now I've got to find that long url (or whatever it is that's made it happen) that's sent my info and links to the foot of the page .. Oh Lor'!

Sometimes I wonder if it's all worth it .. and on that subject I have found some very interesting stuff on the Haqiqat side of our work which I'll try to post and make some sense of this afternoon perhaps. (If I can find time between the shopping and cooking and other pending chores!)

Niyat

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.


Our Grandsheikh Shah Bahauddin Naqshband may Allah sanctify his soul & bless his secret said:

'Intention, ‘Niyat’, is very important. It consists of three letters: ‘Nun’, which represents the ‘Nur Allah’, the Light of God; ‘Ya’, which represents the ‘Yad Allah’, the Hand of God; and ‘Ha’, which represents ‘Hidayatullah’, the guidance of Allah. Niyat is the breeze of the soul, coming from the unseen world, not from the material.'

Abdl Haadi "transported". 

Abdl Rahim. 

Those hands. 

After the meal in the dining room. 

This gentleman from Cairo , who calls himself Hallellulya , is a travelling dervish who loves to teach people correct pronunciation of Koran. He is doing some classes in the Fonda and only asks that people take their commitment seriously and if he is provided with a room and food .. alhamduli'llah!
Hallelulya!

The musician and the dervish Koran teacher meet. 

What to listen to.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

Listen to your heart and not your ego. Your ego prompts you to boast of vain assertions to obtain the glory of this world. Turn away from vanity and seek Him in the recesses of your heart and soul.-Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jillani, "Fayuz E Yazdani"

Sufi musicians.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

Some pics from yesterday.

The ney player is Hamza from Granada and the cello player is Salma from Alicante. He has been Muslim several years and has been connected to the Murabitun group of Sheikh abdl Qadr Dallas and is going to visit Sheikh Nazim Adil next month in Cyprus. She is a new Muslim, only a few months in Islam and quite a rarity as a Spanish convert in the area where she lives.

First tuning up and a bit of practice.

Then a little discussion and planning.

Then concentration and (hopefully) inspiration.

The children were determined to get a look in too.

Finally the work pays off and we're ready for their first performance together.

After the dhikr at the Fonda, preparations are made.

First that ever important tune up.

Then Hamza makes an introduction in which he mentions meeting someone in Paris connected with whirling and ney playing, who (while not consciously being a murid) gets orders from Sheikh Nazim in his dreams , one of them being that he would meet a Spanish person with such and such a name and that he should help them because they wanted to become Muslim. Sure enough a little later he met the said person and helped him to become Muslim.

It seems like there might be a problem with the slippery floor and the spike of the cello,but it's soon solved ith the help of a cushion .. and we're off!

Inspiration seem to be "on tap" and was soon flowing ....

as was concentration

There were solos from both instruments,

and the harmony and balance of the two was appreciated by all.


Alhamduli'llah for the beauty and cultural diversity of Islamic culture.

The veil of "self".

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

Between me and You, there is only me. Take away the me, so only You remain. Al-Hallaj, may Allah sanctify his soul & bless his secret

Love for the Beloved.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

As a man in the arms of his beloved is not aware of what is without and what is within, so a person in union with the Self is not aware of what is without and what is within, for in that unitive state all desires find their perfect fulfillment. There is no other desire that needs to be fulfilled, and one goes beyond sorrow.-Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

Heart Medicine.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet
Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.




HEART Medicine

Each and very human being has two hearts.
One is a physical lump of flesh the size of a fist and the other is the spiritual heart of immeasurable size and depth, more immense than the universe!
If you are asking about aches in the physical heart, the remembrance of Allah is one good medicine, as it imparts unto our bodies strength and regularity and helps the bodily systems that effect the heart to maintain better equilibrium.
If your question pertains to the spiritual heart the heart that encompasses the whole universe, the remembrance of Allah is the medicine and nourishment of that heart as well. But to even become aware of the existence and functions of that heart certain teachings must be absorbed and certain practices maintained, for these teaching and practices are what can make our remembrance effective.
There are five stations of the spiritual heart.
These stations are virtually unattainable to people because they never place a guard at the first station, and thus Satan is free to enter it at will and to make his mischievous, evil proclamations. When we let him enter he immediately starts to discourage us from our spiritual endeavours by announcing that in reality there is no “train,” no “spiritual station,” no ”destination.” He claims, indeed, that even this first station is no station at all but only a place where we are wasting our time waiting to go somewhere when in fact there is nowhere to go. By making such false proclamations he hopes to influence us to abandon the hope of attaining spiritual enlightenment - to leave even that first station and occupy ourselves as his servants in his realm. If we heed his tricky words and abandon our journey he will keep us in constant misery and distress like prisoners in a very tiny cell.
But if you post a guard at the first station of your heart to prevent Satan and his soldiers from entering, you will be safe from the invasion of bad thoughts and evil intentions that would pull you down into endless trouble.
Who is that guard? That guard is “dhikr,” the remembrance of Allah. Who remembers his Lord has a Divine Light in his heart that prevents Satan and his soldiers form entering. Therefore the more you are able to remember and to meditate, keeping a close observer’s eye on your heart, the more successful you will be in keeping out your mortal enemy.
What is it that keeps us from meditation and self observation? When we dwell on the desires of our lower selves we become preoccupied and distracted from our vigilance. Thus with our own desires Satan accomplishes his break in , ..
But how can we escape from the preoccupation with our ego’s desire when those desires are such an intrinsic part of our being?
You must know that the ego’s desires are of two kinds legitimate and illegitimate. The physical being is attracted to food drink and sexual life You cannot prevent yourself from desiring those things as long as you are alive, for we are human beings and not angels.
We must understand that Allah Almighty grants us from all of those things that we desire only as much as is good for us, - just as much as will make us better able to concentrate on our “guard duty”.
The best guard is neither the starving man nor the overfed glutton, for the starving man will leave his post in search of food, and the overfed glutton will fall asleep at his post. Thus if a person does not permit himself even the legitimate fulfilment of physical need especially sex , the lower self will rebel violently and attack him with a gigantic and frenzied explosion which forces him to fulfil his needs immediately, regardless of whether that fulfilment is legitimate or not. ….
For this reason our Grandsheikh orders every murid to grant their ego its legitimate rights and to listen to some of its demand; - that they eat and drink of good wholesome and tasteful permitted food and marry in accordance with Divine injunction.
If you deny yourselves these permitted pleasures you are inviting “heart disease,” and you will suffer from many blows, sometimes to the heart, to the head to the stomach or the sexual organs, etc. –
------- and you must have a guide to teach you how to prevent such an onslaught. A person in distress from heartache must seek a Guide with the same urgency that a heart attack victim calls for a doctor.
( part of a talk by Sheikh Nazim from Mercy Ocean’s - Divine Sources)
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The source of all help.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

Behold! We have given you a clear victory that you may be absolved of the sins of your past and those yet to follow and that the Lord may perfect His favor to you and guide you and assist you with His invincible helping hand. It is but He who fills the hearts of the believers with peace and reassurance and adds strength to their conviction. Allah's are the legions of the heavens and the earth. He alone is the Knowing, Wise.-Qur'an, Al-Fath, Surah 48:1-4

Light of reason, Light of God.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

The light of God is an ornament of wisdom.That is the meaning of "light upon light."The light of reason draws toward the earth.The light of God carries you aloft.Things of reason are of the lower world.The light of God is an ocean,reason merely a dewdrop.
- Rumi, "Mathnawi"

Sustenance.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

Do not seek sustenance from people. God is the real Provider. If He wills a certain person to be the means of your livelihood, do not consider that person to be in control of your destiny. Have faith and be certain in the knowledge that your daily bread does not depend upon any mortal, but upon God who created all.
-Al-Hajwiri, "The Kashf al-Mahjub"

Calamity and guidance in surat Tabaghun.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

I was reading the sura "Tabaghun" often translated as "Mutual Loss and Gain." yesterday. Yusuf Ali says it is one of the eight short Medinan suras. The following ayat stood out in the light of recent events in my life.

064.011 YUSUFALI: No kind of calamity can occur, except by the leave of Allah: and if any one believes in Allah, (Allah) guides his heart (aright): for Allah knows all things.
PICKTHAL: No calamity befalleth save by Allah's leave. And whosoever believeth in Allah, He guideth his heart. And Allah is Knower of all things.
SHAKIR: No affliction comes about but by Allah's permission; and whoever believes in Allah, He guides aright his heart; and Allah is Cognizant of all things.

Some recent news. (A question is raised about Tablighi Jamaat.)

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

Today I recieved the following e.mail from an old and very dear friend of mine in Sheffield. Bilquis and I grew very fond of him and his Italian wife and family when we lived in Sheffield for a while a few years back.
I'm including it here (I hope he won't mind.) as it caused me to write him a newsy e.mail which covers recent events and puts any of my readers who are interested, "in the picture" so to speak.

Dear Uthman,
Recently I have spent time just trying to put myself in your place all I can imagine is confusion and desperation but looking at your Sufistuff Blog I see a reassuring calmness in your thoughts. I have struggled to put the right words down since I first saw your email and still feel incapable. Every word seems inappropriate and clumsy. I read your writings and think of you each day. At a time when I feel I should be giving support to you, I am the one taking from you. I dreamt of you recently, smiling. The warmth of that smile stayed with me through the day.I pray that smile stays with you.
Love and Salaams Ahmed.

Here's my reply.

"Some recent news."

Salaamu alaykum,
How are you ? How are things ? Everything O.K. with the family ? I assume so and hope so.
Thanks so much for your e.mail. Very sweet, very kind, very thoughtful. I think I'm still too close to it all to be able to say anything. At the moment I am here in my house again in Orgiva and very pleased to be back after a time in Catalunya . I have a young fella called Abdl Ali with me for a few days which is from Allah's generosity and kindness to me.It has helped greatly in facing what I was dreading,all the memories connected with this place and the surroundings and the people to face on my own.
Shortly after Bilquis's death I went to visit Mariam who is the widow of Ashraf who also died of cancer of the lung last year.She had sent me many messages of support and encouragement during the last phase of Bilquis's illness, as apparently in her turn, Bilquis had done for her.We were able to share and compare experiences and I realised that though mine was terrible, here was someone else who had had it even harder.I had had the support of family and friends and the doctors and nurses of the hospitals. She had managed her story with her husband almost completely alone and with three small children to look after. She now weighs 43 kilos and ended up in hospital after Ashraf died.(Interestingly enough she is Italian too btw.)
When I arrived in Catalunya Abdl Ali came out to meet me to guide me to her place which is in a country village. He was there for a couple of days with his wife Summaya and his son Amaan.

The next day was my birthday and we celebrated it with a picnic near the beach with the four children followed by games and flying a kite amongst the dunes.
I stayed a couple of days with them and then went to Abdl Salaam's house which is on the coast in Calonge.He is the guy I started markets with and Bilquis had worked various times in his shop in Lanjaron.When we came back to Spain the intention was to go into business with him but a bypass entrance was put right through the site of the shop and we went to run the "Fonda" Naqshbandi centre in Orgiva instead. (We are planning and He is planning and He is the best of planners.)
I was looking for opportunities to start a new life in Catalunya and put all the memories behind me,but, though there are many opportunities and possibilities for me there, it is not really my place.Andalucia and especially the Alpujarras seems to have so much barakah which is palpably missing in Pais Vasco and Catalunya.
Summaya now wants to go to see Sheikh in Cyprus with Mariam and her children at easter time, it seems that she and abdl Ali have split up though still living in the same house, which I find very sad.They were in Tablighi Jamaat together and have a lot of knowledge and discipline but somehow I miss the lightness and humour which happens around Naqshbandi tariqat.Perhaps Summaya also experiences something like that.
I have heard that Sheikh sometimes mentions Tablighi Jamat in the same context as the Wahabis.I'm not sure why but I think they are denying the necessity for a sheikh, though they often cite and praise sufis in their Bayans or lectures and have a goodly section about dhikr in their "big blue book" which a tablighi muslim in Hove gave me years ago when I first became Naqshbandi.
If you know anything specific on the subject I'd be very interested to know.
The last couple of days we have been to lunch on Sunday and supper last night at my freind Ahmad's house who lives just down the track from me.His step son and two step daughters just happen to be the nephew and nieces of abdl Ali and they were over the moon to see him. He is quite gifted artistically and they had a wonderful time ordering pictures from him for their drawing books, and playing games in the garden.
I finally bought a digital camera while I was in Barcelona, a Canon Power Shot S2 IS. I'm pretty pleased with it and hopefully some pics will start to appear on my blog (and/or "Flickr") quite soon. About four years ago Sheikh suggested that I travel between Spain and Marrocco and England and Damascus writing down what I see and taking photos ,it's taken me until now to get the money together for a suitable lap top and camera (I bought an Acer Aspire 3500 after this summer's work) .. now I'll see wether I'm still supposed to do this or not. I need to go and see the Sheikh and really would like to go before Easter when I may have a few days work with the silver stall.
Apparently Sheikh has some land and wants to build rammed earth houses on it. Years ago when I lived in Cyprus with Bilquis he suggested that I build a house like his with no cement and no metal in it, now apparently he wants no electricity either.
There is a slight possibility I might end up doing that for a while. Who knows, Hu knows.Sulayman from the west of Spain has been to advise a bit on the project and apparently in March a guy is going to start who already knows how to build these dwellings. Could be fun, at least I could write down what I see an take photographs!
Perhaps that'll do for now, stay in touch please and, if you see Ahmad Hisham send him my love and tell him it's now time to stop playing about and put his talents where his heart knows he should.(Literally give him that message if you can.) It's too close to the end to keep sulking like that, silly billy!
All my love and best wishes to you and all yours,
Salaams, love peace and faith power,
Uthman.

Breakfast the day we left. (As the Prophet pbuh said, "In the beginnings are the endings." Abdl Ali was the first person I met in Catalunya, and the one I left with.)

The day we left it was his son's birthday and he opened his presents just before we set off.

Faith and perseverance.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

Persevere, have faith in His benevolence.Through afflictions God only tests your faith;He is completely aware of your condition.Have patience and wait for the divine decree.Do not become like the foolish laborer who is removed from the king's palace for demanding his wages ahead of time. - Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jillani, "Fayuz E Yazdani"

Worldly Love, Divine Love.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

O All-Knowing, you opened my heart to the way of supplication. Yearning for Your love is glorious and grand; lust for other love is disgraceful and corrupt. Your divine court is the infinite plane. I leave behind the throne of honor, for the real throne of honor is Your way.-Rumi, "Mathnawi"

Fifty moral characteristics and habits of Rasulallah saws.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

Fifty of the moral characteristics and habits of Hadrat Muhammad (Sallallahu Ta’ala ‘alayhi wa Sallam) have been listed below:1- The knowledge, religiosity, culture, understanding, wisdom, certainty, intelligence, generosity, modesty, mildness, compassion, patience, zeal, patriotism, loyalty, trust, bravery, majesty, eloquence, courage, beauty, fear of Allah, chastity, kindness, pity, shame, and piety of Muhammad (Sallallahu Ta’ala ‘alayhi wa Sallam) were much greater than that found in other prophets. He used to pardon both his friends and enemies who hurt him. He would never scold them. In the battle of Uhud, he prayed for those disbelievers who caused his blessed cheek to bleed and broke his blessed teeth, saying: "O! My Allah! Forgive them for they are ignorant."2- He was very compassionate. He used to water animals by holding up a bucket of water; he used to wait until they had enough. He used to wipe the face and eyes of the horse he rode.3- Whenever he was called, he used to respond by saying "lebbeik" (sir!). He never used to stretch his legs among others. He used to sit on his knees. When he saw somebody walking while he was riding on an animal, he used to give him a ride.4- He never considered himself superior to any one. While traveling they wanted to cook some lamb. One of them offered to sacrifice a sheep. Another one offered to skin it. And one of them offered to cook it. Rasulullah (‘Sall Allahu alaihi wa Aalihi wa Sallim) said he would gather some firewood. They told him: "O Rasulullah! Please, be seated. We shall do that." He responded to them by saying: "Yes! I know you are ready to do everything. But I do not like sitting separated from those working. Allahu ta’ala does not like the one sitting apart from his friends." He stood up and went off to gather firewood.5- When he went to his Companions (radi-Allahu ta’ala anhum ejmaeen) he never used to sit in the front line. He used to sit wherever he saw an empty seat. While he was out walking with a cane in his hand, those who saw him stood up. He said to them: "Do not stand up for me as you do for others to show respect. I’m a man like you. I eat food like everybody else. I sit down when I get tired."6- Mostly, he used to sit on his knees. He was also seen sitting down with his knees up while embracing them with his arms. He never used to distinguish himself from his servants when getting food, clothes or something else. He used to help his servants with their work. He was never seen swearing at or beating on anybody. Anas bin Malik, who continuously served him, said: "I was in the service of Rasulullah for ten years. He served me more than I served him. He has never been angry with me. He never treated me harshly."7- He used to repair the rips in his own clothes, milk his own sheep and feed his own animals. He used to take home the things that he bought from the bazar by himself. During journeys, he used to feed his animals and sometimes he used to groom them, too. Sometimes, these things used to be done by him only; at other times he used to help his servants with these chores.8- When he was called by someone else’s servant, in accordance with the customs of Medina, he used to walk with that servant hand in hand.9- He used to visit patients and attended their funerals. To make them happy, he also used to visit the patients who were disbelievers and hypocrites.10- After he had conducted the morning prayer in the mosque, facing his Sahabas, he used to say: "Is there any brother who is sick? If so, let’s pay him a visit." Then, he used to ask: "Did anybody die? If so, let’s go to help them." Then, he used to say: "Did any of you have a dream? Let’s listen to him and interpret it." If somebody died, he used to help wash and shroud the corpse, conduct the funeral prayer and go to the cemetery.11- Whomever of his Sahabas he did not see for three days, he used to ask about. If that person went out on a journey he used to pray for him, or if he were in town he used to visit him.12- He always initiated greeting the man he met on his way.13- He used to ride on camels, mules, donkeys, and sometimes he used to make someone sit behind him.14- He used to serve his visitors and his Companions and declared: "The dearest one in a society is the one who always serves others."15- Nobody saw him laughing loudly. He used to smile slightly. Sometimes his blessed front teeth were seen while he was laughing.16- He was always seen worried and thoughtful. He used to talk very little. He used to begin a speech by smiling.17- He never used to say anything useless or unnecessary. In case of necessity, he used to speak briefly and clearly. Sometimes, he used to repeat his word three times so as to be understood very well.18- He used to joke with foreigners, the people he knew previously, children, old women and the women who were "mahrem" (those he could never marry). But, no situation ever caused him to forget Allahu ta’ala, even for a moment.19- Nobody was able to look at his face directly because of his majesty. If someone looked at his blessed face, they would begin to sweat. In reaction, he used to say: "Do not straighten yourself! I am not a king. I am not cruel. I am the son of a woman who ate dried meat." Then having lost his fear, the man would explain his problem.20- He had no guards or janitors. Everybody could easily come to him and reveal their problems.21- He was a very bashful person. He used to feel embarrassed looking into the face of a person he was talking to.22- He never exposed someone’s fault to his face. He never complained about or backbit anybody. Whenever he did not like somebody’s words or behavior he used to say: "I wonder why some people behave like that."23- Even though he was the beloved, the messenger and the favorite of Allahu ta’ala, he would say: "Among you I am the person who has understood Allahu ta’ala the best and fear Him the most. If you had seen what I saw, you would laugh less and cry more." Whenever he saw a cloud in the sky, he would say: "O! My Allah! Do not kill us with your wrath; do not destroy us with your torment; grant us good health." While he was beginning his prayers, a kind of sound, like the sighing of a child would be heard from his chest. This also happened while he was reading the Qur’an al-karim.24- His heart was amazingly powerful and brave. In the Hunain War, most of the Muslim soldiers had gone to seize the war booty. Consequently, he was left with only a few soldiers. At that moment, the disbelievers attacked suddenly. Rasulullah (Sall Allahu alaihi wa Aalihi wa Sallim) resisted and routed them. This happened several times. He never retreated.25- In the third chapter, at the end of the second section of the Mawahib-i Ladunniyya, it was stated that Abdullah Ibni ‘Umar said that he had never seen a more powerful wrestler than Fakhri Kainat. Ibni Ishaq stated that a shepherd among the disbelievers called Rugane was a great wrestler. He came across with Rasulullah at the outskirts of the city. "O Rugane Why don’t you become Muslim?" Rasulullah declared. Rugane asked him if there was any proof to show his being a Prophet. Rasulullah declared, "We will wrestle. If you are beaten, will you have iman?" He said, "Yes, I will have iman." At the very beginning, Rugane was beaten, he was perplexed. He said, "This should not be the case, let us try it once again." Thus, he was beaten three times. At the beginning of the third chapter of Shawahid-un Nubuwwa, it was stated: "I had no intention to have iman. I never thought that I would be beaten." He said, "Now, I am perplexed to learn that you are more powerful than me and I respect this very much." He gifted half of his herd to Rasulullah and he left. While Rasulallah was going with the flock towards Mecca, Rugane ran after him and said,- "O Muhammad! If the people of Mecca asked you where you found this herd, how would you answer?"- "I would say that Rugane gave them as a gift," he said.- "If they asked you why he gave them as gift?"- "I would say, I wrestled with him. I had beaten him. He appreciated my strength and he gave it as a gift."- "Please don’t say that. My fame and honor will disappear. You had better say, My words pleased him and he gave them as a gift."- "I promised my Rabb not to say any lie," he said.- "Then I will take the heard back," he said.- "It is up to you! One thousand herds could be sacrificed for the sake of my Rabb."Rugane fell in love with Rasulallah’s iman and honesty. He immediately became a Muslim by saying Kalima-i Shahadat.There was another wrestler called Aswad-il Jumahi. When he stood on the skin of an ox, ten strong men could not move the skin after pulling it from different directions, and the skin would tear into pieces but he would remain standing. He also said he would have iman if Rasulullah beats him. He was beaten but did not have iman.26- He was very generous. He gave away hundreds of camels, sheep, and he never left anything for himself. Innumerable hardhearted disbelievers were converted to Islam after seeing his generosity.27- When someone wanted something from him, he never said, "I do not have it." He would give it, if he had it. If not, he remained silent.28- Even though Allahu ta’ala had declared to him: "I shall give you whatever you want," he never wanted worldly fortune. Never did he eat bread made of sifted wheat flour. He always ate bread made of unsifted barley flour. He never ate enough food to be full. He ate bread without anything, or with dates, fruit, vinegar, soup, or bread dipped into olive oil. He also ate chicken, rabbit, camel, gazelle, fish, dried salted meat and cheese. He liked the leg side of meat. He bit into the meat while holding it with his hands. [It is permissible to eat meat with a knife.] He usually ate dates and drank milk. His family spent times at home without cooking any food or baking any bread for two or three months. During this time they would only eat dates. It was also witnessed that he would eat nothing for two or three days. When he died, it was found out that his iron armored jacket had been pawned to a Jew for 30 (thirty) kilos of wheat.29- Nobody ever heard from him the words: "I do not like this food." He ate the food he liked and did not eat the food he did not like.30- He ate once a day, either in the morning or in the evening. When he came home, he used to ask: "Is there anything to eat?" If there were nothing, he fasted. He ate his meals on the floor without a table, table cloth, tray or anything like them. While eating he sat on his knees, without leaning on anything. He began eating after reciting. ‘Basmala’ (in the name of Allah). He ate with his right hand.31- Sometimes, he put aside enough dates and barley for his nine wives and few servants to last them for a year. He also gave alms to the poor from these dates and barley.32- Among foods, he liked mutton, broth, pumpkins, sweet things, honey, dates, milk, cream, melons, grapes and cucumbers. He also liked cold water.33- He used to drink water slowly, starting with Allah’s name (Basmala), stopping with three pauses in between, and in the end he used to say "Alhamdulillah" (all praise to Allah) and then pray.34- As the other Prophets did, he never accepted any goods of zakat (charity) or any alms, but he accepted presents. He usually gave something in return for the presents.35- He wore everything that was divinely sanctioned. He covered himself with seamless garments made of thick material similar to a wrapper (ihram). He wrapped himself with a large cloth and also wore a shirt and robe. These were woven from cotton, wool and animal hair. He usually wore white garments, but sometimes green ones. He rarely wore things that had been sewn. On Fridays, on religious holidays (Iyd), in the time of war, and when foreign missions came, he wore precious shirts and robes. The color of his garments was mostly white. His clothes were long enough to cover his blessed wrists and shanks.In his book entitled Shamail-i Sharifa, Imam-i Tirmuzi (rahima-hullahu ta’ala) says: "Rasulullah liked to wear a Qamis, that is, a kind of shirt. The sleeves of his shirts were long enough to cover his wrists. There were no buttons on the collars or on the wristbands of his shirts. His shoes were made of animal skins and they had one leather collar and two qoobals on them. A "qoobal" is a strap sewn on the leather collar and on the front tip of the shoe from both ends. It passes between two toes. Local customs are followed in wearing clothes and shoes. Deviating from local customs causes notoriety. It is necessary to avoid notoriety. When he entered Mecca, he was wearing a black turban on his head."36- He usually wrapped his head with a black muslin, but mostly with a white one, and allowed its one end to come one span down his back. His turban was neither long nor short. Its length was nearly three meters. He used to wrap his turban without a skullcap. Sometimes he wore a white skullcap without a turban.37- Having adapted himself to the customs in Arabia, he allowed his hair to grow half way down his ears, but he did not let it grow any longer. He rubbed a kind of oil on his hair. Even while traveling, he carried a bottle of oil for that purpose. When he rubbed oil on his hair, he used to put on the muslin first, and then wear his head-covering over it. Sometimes when his hair was long, he plaited it, letting the plaits dangle from the sides. On the day he conquered Mecca, he had two braids of hair.38- He used to rub musk or other perfumes on his face, head and hands, and was often scented with aloe wood and the spirits of camphor.39- His bed was made of leather and full of date filler. Once, he was given a bed that was full of wool, he did not accept it and said: "O! Aisha! I swear by Allah that if I wanted, Allahu ta’ala would make gold and silver piles available for me in every place." He Sometimes slept on a mat, on wood, in a bed, on felt woven from wool, or out on the dry soil. 40- He never used to let his beard grow longer than a handful. He used to cut the hair longer than a handful with scissors. [It is sunnat to let the beard grow as long as a handful. It is wajib for a Muslim to grow a beard when he is living in a place where they customarily have beards. Cutting the hair longer than a handful is sunnat (a custom of the Prophet). Keeping the beard shorter than a handful is bidat. If the beard is shorter than a handful, then, it is wajib to lengthen it as long as a handful. It is makruh to shave. But if you have an excuse, shaving is not makruh.]41- He used to tinge his eyes with stibium three times every night.42- He used to have a comb, mirror, a box for stibium, miswak (natural toothbrush), scissors, sewing needle and thread in his house. He used to take them with him when traveling.43- He preferred beginning from the right side and using his right hand. He only used his left hand to wash after a stool.44- As far as possible, he did his jobs using odd numbers.45- After the night prayer, he slept until midnight, then, he worshipped until the morning prayer. He would sleep on his right side and put his right hand under his right cheek and then recite some chapters of the Qur’an before falling asleep.46- He assumed "tefe’ul." In other words, he considered a good omen whatever he saw first or suddenly. Nothing was unlucky for him.47- When he was sorrowful he would grasp his beard and think upon the matter.48- When he had trouble, he preferred performing salat at once. The enjoyment and pleasure of prayer caused him to lose any sense of sorrow.49- He never listened to a person backbiting, that is, the one speaking slanderously about an absent person.50- While he was walking along the street, if he felt it necessary to look around, he would turn his whole body and not just his head.
WARNING: All of the above-mentioned things done by the Prophet of Allahu ta’ala (Sall Allahu alaihi wa Aalihi wa Sallim) have been classified into three groups by Islamic scholars (rahima humullahu ta’ala). The first group contains the things that are necessary for every Muslim to do. These are called "sunnat." The things that were peculiar to the Prophet only (Sallallahu Ta’ala ‘alayhi wa Sallam) make up the second group. Others are not permitted to do these. These are called Hasais. The third group consists of those things which depend on customs. Every Muslim must do these by adapting himself to the customs of the place he is living in. If a Muslim does not follow these customs, fitna (discord and trouble) may possibly arise. Awakening fitna is haram (prohibited).

Deliverance from hardship. Sheikh abdl Qadir Jilani.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

Have faith in God the Omnipotent,the Eternal, the First and the Last,who grants life and determines death.He bestows bounty,and only He can restore crushed hopes.Have faith, do not lose hope, wait patiently.He indeed will create a wayto deliver you from your hardships.-Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jillani, "Fayuz E Yazdani"

Love of the Prophet SAWS.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.


Introduction to "Love of the Prophet and its Signs"Shaykh Fadl Elahi© 1997, Invitation to Islam

One of the joys that Allaah, the Most High, grants His servant is to love His beloved Noble Prophet, sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam, and how can it be otherwise, when to love the Prophet, sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam, is one of the conditions of faith?
Imaam al-Bukhaaree related from Aboo Hurayrah, radiyallaahu `anhu, that the Messenger of Allaah, sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam, said: By Him in Whose Hands my soul lies, none of you will truly believe until I am more beloved to him than his father and son. [1/58]
Imaam Muslim related from Anas, radiyallaahu `anhu, that he said: The Messenger of Allaah, sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam, said: None of you will truly believe until I am more beloved to him than his family, wealth and all the people. [67]
In the same way that love of the Prophet, sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam, is a reason for attaining the good of this world and the Hereafter, then loving him is also a reason for achieving the sweetness of eemaan.
Al-Bukhaaree and Muslim both related from Anas, radiyallaahu `anhu, that the Prophet, sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam, said: Whoever possesses the following three qualities will taste the sweetness (delight) of eemaan: One to whom Allaah and His Messenger, sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam, become dearer than anything else; Whoever loves his brother solely for Allaah's sake; and whoever hates to revert to disbelief just as he hates to be thrown into the Fire. [al-Bukhaaree 1/60, Muslim 166, and the wording is from al-Bukhaaree]
The meaning of "sweetness of eemaan", as the scholars, rahimahumallaah, have stated is: Deriving pleasure from obedience, to endure hardship in religion and preferring this over worldly things. [See Sharh un-Nawawee (2/13) and Fath ul-Baaree (1/16)]
Loving the Prophet, sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam, will also be a means of taking one to the place of felicity.
It has been related by al-Bukhaaree and Muslim from `Abdullaah bin Mas`ood, radiyallaahu `anhu, that he said: A man came to the Messenger of Allaah, sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam, and said: O Messenger of Allaah! What do you say of a man who loves a people and never joins them? The Messenger of Allaah, sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam, said: The person will be with those whom he loves. [Agreed upon. al-Bukhaaree 10/557, Muslim 3/2034, and the wording is from al-Bukhaaree]
His statement, sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam, The person will be with those whom he loves, means in Paradise. [See `Umdat ul-Qaari' 22/197]
We all claim that we love the Noble Prophet, sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam, and that he, sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam, is more beloved to us than our fathers, sons and all the people. However, are we really truthful in this claim? Does our claim have any value in the Sight of Allaah?
The scholars, rahimahumallaah, have mentioned signs and criterion by which the love of the Prophet, sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam, can be judged i.e. whether it is in a person's heart or not. Some of the most apparent signs are the following:
1) Concern for seeing and keeping company with him, sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam. Thus, the loss of these two concerns would be worse than the loss of anything in the world.
2) Total willingness to sacrifice oneself and one's wealth for him.
3) Following his orders and leaving what he prohibited.
4) To make his Sunnah victorious and to protect the Sharee`ah.
If one finds these signs in himself, then he should praise Allaah, the Most Mighty and the Most Majestic, that he possesses in his heart the true love for the Beloved, the Noble [Prophet], may the blessings of the Lord and His peace be upon him. He should ask Allaah for steadfastness upon this.
Whoever lacks some or all of these signs, should hold himself to account before he is held to account, on a Day which will turn the hair of children gray (i.e. the Day of Resurrection). Nothing will be hidden from Allaah, the Most High, and he (the slave) will not consider or attempt to deceive Allaah, the Most High, and the Believers; because one who attempts to deceive Allaah, the Most High, will only deceive himself as Allaah says:
They (think to) deceive Allaah and those who believe, while they only deceive themselves, and perceive (it) not. [Soorah al-Baqarah, 9]
I will speak, with success granted by Allaah, the Most High, summarizing these signs, drawing on accounts of the love of the Companions for al-Habeeb, al-Kareem, al-Mustafaa, sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam, mentioning also our condition upon it, in the hope that Allaah, the Most Mighty and the Most Majestic, will improve our affairs and guide us to the path of righteousness.

Paradise Gardens.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

The Prophet said, "When you pass by the Gardens of Paradise rejoice."When his companions asked the location of those gardens, he replied, "They are the circles of dhikr."-The Prophet Muhammad (SAW), as reported by Anas bin Malik

Some insights into the spiritual ranks of Maulana Sheikh Nazim.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

I found this today on Naqshbandi Sufi Villagehttp://groups.google.com/group/naqshbandinaqshbandi@googlegroups.com

HAQIQAT UL HAQQANI

THE QUALITY OF AULIYA

From "Nur Mir"

Moulana Sheik Nazim is of the highest quality of Auliya so that the one who sits with Moulana Sheikh Nazim feels that he himself is in the rank of a very great Saint (Wali). This feeling is not from himself but from the light and spiritual power of Moulana Sheikh Nazim. He has been given power from Allah Almighty so that anyone who sits with him feels that he is so very near to Allah Almighty and to the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) and that he is always going to be close to them. This is because the spiritual power of Moulana Sheikh Nazim immediately enters into one who sits with him which makes him to be always with Allah Almighty, the Prophets and the Saints.
When a person takes Bayyat from Moulana the spiritual power of Moulana Sheikh Nazim is always with that person immaterial of how far away in distance he is from the physical presence of Moulana. Moulana will be with him through every moment until that person reaches the grave. Until the day of judgement Moulana will be with that person. Even until he reaches in front of Allah Almighty will Moulana be with him. When Allah Almighty questions this person Moulana shall answer all questions instead of him. In this time it is not possible to find this kind of Auliya like Moulana Sheikh Nazim.
Moulana says that this quality of Auliya is hidden and all of them are presently with Sahib us Zaman Seyyidina Mahdi (alai). The Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) has now during our time left between the East and the West in all of this earth only Moulana Sheikh Nazim who is the only one able to give this type of knowledge and wisdom to the hearts of the people.
THE CONCEPT OF SULTAN UL AULIYA
Moulana Sheikh Nazim is the Sultan ul Auliya of this age. Most people think that the rank of Qutub ul Gauz is the highest because they have no knowledge of the rank of Sultan ul Auliya. Moulana Sheikh Nazim was given the rank of Qutub ul Gauz 30 years ago by his Grandsheik. When Grandsheik Abdullah Al Faiz ad Dhagistani (qas) passed away from this earth, Moulana Sheikh Nazim became the Sultan ul Auliya and he then granted the rank of Qutub ul Gauz to someone else.
In actual fact the rank of Qutub ul Gauz in comparison to the rank of Sultan ul Auliya is very low. The station of Qutub ul Gauz entails the function of arranging the needs of the physical bodies of the people. For example to have their food and to have the mercies of Allah Almighty come to them. The Sultan ul Auliya however deals with the hearts, the soul and the spirit of humanity. He is the one who makes them always to be with Allah Almighty in the place where the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) made Sajda on the night of Mihraj.
The Sultan ul Auliya is the Khaliphatullah of the time and he represents the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) while the other Saints represent one of the other 124,000 prophets. As all the other Prophets are also represented by the Seal of Prophets Seyyidina Muhammad (peace be upon him), the Sultan ul Auliya of the time also has the Tajjalli and the power of all the 124,000 Prophets.
The representative of Allah Almighty during one particular age is only one and in this time and age Moulana Sheikh Nazim is this representative, and he is the Sultan ul Auliya and Khaliphatullah of this time.
As the Khaliphatullah or the representative of Allah Almighty in our time it is Moulana Sheikh Nazim who is inside the ka'abatullah. The ka'abatullah is also known as the Baithullah or the house of Allah. Allah Almighty is everywhere but especially in the Baithullah as He has Himself called it the house of Allah. For it to be called the house of the Lord, the Lord of the house must be in it. The Lord of the house is represented by His Khalifa who in this time is Moulana Sheikh Nazim.
The rank Sultan ul Auliya in Tariqat means the rank of the Saint who possesses the secret of the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him). This secret was put in the heart of the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) by Allah Almighty. Thereafter the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) transmitted this secret to the heart of Abu Bakr Siddique (Ral). Thereafter this secret has been transmitted right down to our times through the Golden Chain of Spiritual Transmission of the Naqshbandi Tariqat (Silsila).
There have not been many who have held the rank of Sultan ul Auliya from the time of the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him). >From the time of the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) till now there are only forty of these representatives. This secret was passed down from the heart of Abu Bakr as Siddique (Ral) to Salman al Farsy and then from Siddique to Siddique, and now during our time Moulana Sheikh Nazim is the possessor of this secret.
In the spiritual chain of Moulana Sheikh Nazim all of them preceding him were the Sultan ul Auliya of their times-for example Salman al Farsy, Yusuf al Hamadani, Abdul Khaliq al Ghudjdawani, Shah Naqshaband, Moulana Abdullah Dhagistani etc. Apart from the Saints in this chain of spiritual transmission only Moulana Abdul Qadir Jeelani (qas) was of this rank.
This Divine secret of Allah Almighty which was given to the heart of the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) and transmitted from heart to heart from one Siddique to another is the Divine Secret and Divine Breath which Allah Almighty blew into Adam (alai).
THE RANK OF SULTAN UL AULIYA
Everything that you know of is under the spiritual control of the Sultan ul Auliya. He is the one who is in charge of all mankind in this universe. He is also in charge of all the world of Jinn's and Angels as the Sultan of Mankind is also in charge of all the Jinn and of all Malaika (Angels). This Maqam (station) of Sultan ul Auliya is a Maqam related to the hearts. Not even a thought can be comprehended of the greatness of this Maqam. This Maqam in this time is related to Moulana Sheik Nazim.
Moulana has been given the power to be in every heart of every human being in this universe. He also has the immense power of being able to make the Divine Light of Allah Almighty and all the 124,000 Prophets to enter into the hearts and bodies of all humanity in just one moment.
In one moment Moulana is able not only to make an unbeliever to believe but also to be able to make him attain the rank of Siddique (the rank of Siddique is the highest rank of Sainthood), and to make him to always be a light of Allah Almighty to sit in front of Allah Almighty and to make him see and talk with the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and to comprehend the Holy Prophet's spiritual rank. Moulana Sheikh Nazim has the power to make the unbeliever be like him in rank and position.
In the case of all the Prophets they received their secret from the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). In the same manner all Auliya during this time receive their secrets form the Khaliphatullah of this time. As Moulana Sheikh Nazim is the Khaliphatullah of this time, it is he who gives all ranks and all stations to the Auliya. No one can become a Wali or Qutub unless Moulana Sheikh Nazim gives this rank to him. Moulana is the representative of Allah Almighty who possesses this power.
Everything in this Universe has been created for the honour and for the sake of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). Everything that has been created in this Universe is created from the Light of the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him). Everything that we see in the first instance is the Light of Allah Almighty. Due to this reason we say "La ilaha illallah". Then thereafter Allah Almighty reduced these lights to the Light of the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) so that there would be an intermediate stage between all that we see and Allah Almighty. This is why we also say "Muhammad ur Rasulullah" in the kalima.
During every age there is a Saint responsible for all these lights. In our time this responsibility is given to Moulana Sheikh Nazim as he is now the representative of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and also of all the 124,000 prophets. When Grandsheik Abdullah Dhagistani (qas) left this world this secret was given to Moulana Sheikh Nazim in Tave Muqallam in a very big ceremony, and from this time onwards he became responsible for all of creation - the Humans, Jinn's, Angels, animals, trees, Earths, stars and everything that is created from the Light of the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him).
Grandsheik Abdullah Dhagistani (qas) ordered Moulana Sheik Nazim to do about 10 to 12 seclusions (Khalwats) in a lot of places. When Moulana completed these seclusions, his physical body became annihilated and his body became a divine body which is related to Allah Almighty. It was only after this that this responsibility and secret was given to Moulana, as this is never given except under these circumstances.
THE DIVINE LIGHT OF ALLAH ALMIGHTY
Anybody who takes Bayyat from Moulana Sheikh Nazim, specially those from western countries will not leave this world except as Walis. Regarding this Moulana says "I have been ordered by Allah Almighty and by the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) to gather all the lights that are now coming from Western and European countries and to return them to their origin. Any European or Westerner or anyone else making Bayyat will not leave this Dunya except as an Auliya and he shall reach to the highest stations which Allah Almighty offers to beloved servants."
Moulana also said "the light of one who makes Bayyat with me, specially those who are entering Islam now and who come to me, shall be so bright and powerful that even the sun shall appear dark besides their light. I shall make their light brighter and more powerful than the light of the sun. They shall shine in every place, all over the universes and all over the paradises".
When Moulana Sheikh Nazim begins a lecture he does not only speak to those who are in front of him. Thousands of Auliya and millions of Jinn's also listen to this same lecture of Moulana. Regarding this Moulana says "I am not only speaking to you. Perhaps you are only ten, or fifteen or a thousand, but hundreds of thousands of Auliya are here with me now, and millions of Jinn's are now sitting with you and are listening to me. In my lectures I give three stations - one for you, one for the Auliya and one for the Jinn's. In any place I sit and in every lecture that I open, the spirit of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and the Divine Light and Essence of Allah Almighty is always with me and never leaves me". This is the power and rank of Moulana Sheikh Nazim.
Moulana Abdullah Dhagistani (qas) once said that he had dressed Moulana Sheikh Nazim with the Ninety Nine Beautiful Names of Allah Almighty including also the Ismul Aalam, the Greatest Name of Allah Almighty. Therefore do not look at Moulana Sheikh Nazim as Moulana Sheikh Nazim, but look at him as a Tajjalli or Light of Sayedena Muhammad (s)
Grandsheik Abdullah Dhagistani (qas) also said "It is not good to say that he is Allah as the followers of Jesus Christ say about Jesus. Instead you should say that "he is a Tajjalli or Light of Sayedena Muhammad (s) ." When he speaks, don't listen to him as from Moulana Sheikh Nazim, but listen to him as if RasulAllah is speaking to you, " yes, He is the one who speaks to you".
When the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) went on Mihraj he reached a certain point with Angel Gibreel (alai) when the Angel said to the Prophet (peace be upon him) "Only you can enter beyond this point. If I move further I will be destroyed and there shall thereafter be no existence for me". The Prophet said "yes, I will enter" and he went beyond this point to the utmost limits. When he did this his personality was destroyed and he became a Light of Allah Almighty. By becoming this Light he reached to Allah Almighty.
This is also the same for every Sheik of the Naqshbandi Tariqat as they are dressed with the Divine Secret and the Divine Breath of Allah Almighty. Their bodies too have been destroyed and they have taken off their human personality. They too became a Light of Allah Almighty as it happened to the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) as they continued on their journey and reached to the very Throne of Allah Almighty. Moulana Sheikh Nazim is now dressed with these lights and therefore we should look at him as a Tajjalli of RasulAllah {s}.
Regarding this Grandsheik Moulana Abdullah Dhagistani (qas) said "I have ordered Moulana Sheikh Nazim into seclusion and made him reach this rank. He now has a face towards the creatures and a face towards Allah Almighty." Therefore he is with Allah Almighty all the time and with the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) all the time. They speak to him and he speaks to them at every moment so that he can translate to the People around him all that they are in need of from Allah Almighty and the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him).
Moulana Sheikh Nazim does not need to have recourse to books in answering any question that his followers or visitors put to him. He knows exactly what they need to know from Allah Almighty and the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and he answers them immediately. He knows for what reason these people have come to him and for what reason they have visited him and he talks to each of them according to their capacity.
If their capacity is high then Moulana talks to them from the light of Allah Almighty. If their capacity is less than this he talks to them from the station of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and if their capacity is even less than this, he talks to them from the station of Mahdi (alai) or from the station of the Auliya. Whatever station that their capacity requires Moulana is able to talk from all these stations.
Grandsheik Moulana Abdullah Dhagistani (qas) also said that Moulana Sheikh Nazim will be the channel through which the secret of the Quran will enter into the heart of Seyyidina Mahdi (alai).
Grandsheik Moulana Abdullah Dhagistani (qas) has already dressed Moulana Sheikh Nazim in all these ranks. When Moulana Sheikh Nazim speaks he is not as if he is a man who looks at a map and describes some town or country. On the other hand Moulana is in all the ranks that are related to the secret of the Quran. When he describes this he does so with personal experience.
Not only does Moulana describe these ranks to his followers or visitors but also dresses them in these ranks so that they will not leave this world until they are dressed with these lights and all of them become Auliya. They shall not even be ordinary Walis. They shall be in a Maqam like that of Seyyidina Mahdi (alai).
THE TEACHER, THE MASTER AND THE INTERMEDIARY
Moulana Sheikh Nazim's power is not given to him only for himself but for everyone who is related to him on the Day of Promises. All the people of the Umma now have been given by Allah Almighty to Seyyidina Mahdi (alai). All of them are also now under the tutelage of Moulana Sheikh Nazim. He is now teaching them and dressing them with Maqams (stations) so that when Seyyidina Mahdi (alai) comes, they will have the capacity to talk to Allah Almighty. At this time like Seyyidina Moosa (alai) the people will be able to talk to Allah Almighty. They shall also be able to talk to the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and to the 124,000 Prophets.
Allah Almighty has made Moulana Sheikh Nazim to be the teacher and the Master of these people and of the Auliya of this time so that they will all have the capacity to reach to these ranks during the time of Seyyidina Mahdi (alai) and be able to sit in the lectures of Seyyidina Mahdi (alai).
If there wasn't Moulana Sheikh Nazim between us and Seyyidina Mahdi (alai), or between us and the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), or between us and Allah Almighty, no one would be able to reach to the Divine Knowledge's or to connect up with the station of the Auliya or with the station of Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) or with the station of Allah Almighty. This is because Moulana Sheikh Nazim is the intermediary between us and these stations.
Grandsheik Moulana Abdullah Dhagistani (qas) has said that it is now the duty of Moulana Sheik Nazim to collect and gather every human being who had been given to him on the Day of Promises.
Every human being is a light from the Light of Allah Almighty and from the Light of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). The Khaliphatullah of this time, Moulana Sheikh Nazim is representing Allah Almighty and the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). Therefore all humanity are also from the light of this Khaliphatullah. In our time this Saint is Moulana Sheikh Nazim. It is because of this reason that Moulana Sheikh Nazim was told on the Day of Promises by Allah Almighty and the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) that these millions of people will be under his vision and that Moulana should look after them because their light is from the light of Moulana Sheikh Nazim.
This is why people find themselves attracted to Moulana Sheikh Nazim. The light of Moulana is attracting their light like a drop of water falling from the clouds is drawn to fall into the ocean. This is why when we enter and sit at a lecture of Moulana Sheikh Nazim we feel like that drop of water merging into the ocean and forget Dunya and the life of this world.
THE CONQUEROR OF THE HEARTS
Moulana Sheikh Nazim (qas) will be the one who will be in charge of the hearts of people during the time of Seyyidina Mahdi (alai). He will be the Spiritual Master and the Spiritual Father of all the people living in this time. The sword of Seyyidina Mahdi (alai) will take away the heads of all those who reject what Moulana Sheikh Nazim will say in that time.
Moulana Sheikh Nazim (qas) has said that anyone who has made Bayyat with him and who is his mureed or follower and believes in him would be under his vision. They would always be kept safe in this world. Even if an atom bomb was to explode near him he would be protected and kept safe. A wind would be sent from paradise to this person so that he would be able to breathe the air from it and not from the nuclear waste in the atmosphere.
Allah Almighty and the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) have given to Moulana all the people of this time and during the time of Seyyidina Mahdi (alai). All of them are under his vision and control. Moulana Sheikh Nazim does not even need to look at them from the station of Divine Vision as all of them are as if they are in his hand.
Moulana looks at them as if they are on the palm of his hand. He looks at them at every moment and he knows what they do at each moment. If bad situation is to come to a mureed of his, Moulana has the power to change it. Moulana's purpose is to make this mureed to reach to Rizwanullah. Anything that obstructs the path of this mureed in reaching to this station of Rizwanullah would be taken away by Moulana Sheikh Nazim. He will clear all obstacles. If something bad is about to happen to a mureed of Moulana Sheikh Nazim, he would make a dua to Allah Almighty on behalf of this mureed and take this away from the mureed. In this manner Moulana Sheikh Nazim can enter into and change destiny (qasaullah) and the course of nature.
An example of this once happened at Mecca and Sheik Adnan relates this incident as follows: "We were in Mecca with Moulana Sheikh Nazim making Tawaf. The sun was out and there was not a cloud in sight. Moulana then prayed to Allah Almighty saying "Oh! Allah Almighty, I have come here as Your guest to please You. I would like it to rain so that I can take some Baraka from the rain that comes down at the Ka'aba. The clouds built up and it began to rain. It rained so hard that all Mecca began to look like a river.
THE LOVE FOUNTAIN OF THE HEARTS
Today the hearts of the Europeans and the Westerners are attracted to the Naqshbandi Tariqat more than the Arabs and those from other countries. This is because their hearts are wide and open not narrow and closed. During the time of Seyyidina Mahdi (alai), Moulana Sheikh Nazim will be in charge of the hearts of all the people. Seyyidina Mahdi (alai) would be in charge of establishing the Sharia while Moulana Sheikh Nazim will be the love fountain and love centre for the people. He shall be entrusted with the opening out of the hearts of the people.
Every Auliya in this time sees Moulana Sheikh Nazim as a Light of Allah Almighty. No one can even imagine the spiritual shape of Moulana Sheikh Nazim, because all the heavens and the earth enter into him. The physical shape of the one who has the Divine secret of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) must also closely resemble the physical shape of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). As Moulana Sheikh Nazim has this secret, his physical shape closely resembles that of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him).
All those who come to visit Moulana Sheikh Nazim and sit with him will also gradually have their physical features slowly transformed. This is because they are not seated with an ordinary person. They are seated with an extraordinary power which is Moulana Sheikh Nazim. The more that a person sits with Moulana Sheikh Nazim, the more will his love increase and the higher will be his ranks and every Auliya in this time will have the shape of Moulana Sheikh Nazim.
THE MIRACLE OF MIRACLES
Moulana Sheikh Nazim is one of the most remarkable Saints of all time. This type of Sainthood is not generally known by the people. All that they know is that somehow their hearts are attracted to him. People don't even know why their hearts are attracted to Moulana in this manner. This is because he is one of the biggest Saints of all time.
Moulana does not generally perform miracles in the nature of flying in the air or walking on water as he says that even Shaitan has the power to perform these types of miracles. His miracles are however, of a different type. His miracles are to be found in the day to day life of his mureeds (followers). For example he is with every one of his mureeds at every given moment and all the time.
If at any time a mureed calls for him saying "Madad Ya Seyyidi" Moulana immediately sends a divine look to his heart and then the heart of this mureed is lit up with a Divine Light. This Light is sent by Moulana from his heart to the heart of this mureed. This mureed shall then be in a good situation and the bad thing that was to have happened to him would have been taken away from him.
Another of the miracles of Moulana Sheikh Nazim is the miracle in the grave. When the Angels appear in the mureeds grave to question him, Moulana Sheikh Nazim will immediately be there and say to the Angels "Don't question my follower, question me instead of him and I will answer on his behalf. "The Angels shall not be able to bear the Light of Moulana Sheikh Nazim and due to this they shall be forced to go away.
During the time of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) the Light of his heart came onto the hearts of the Sahabas around him. This is also so with Moulana Sheikh Nazim. The same Light as in the case of the Sahabas shall come from the heart of Moulana to the hearts of his followers. For as long as a person sits with Moulana Sheikh Nazim this very same light shall at every moment come onto the heart of this person. This is the case for every follower, guest or visitor of Moulana Sheikh Nazim.
A person if even for only once visits Moulana Sheikh Nazim he shall not leave this life except as a believer. This is because, Allah Almighty shall ask this person "did you in this life of yours see any Sheiks?" He will then answer "Yes, I have seen Moulana Sheikh Nazim." Then it will be said to him "Let Moulana Sheikh Nazim come" This is the miracle of Moulana Sheikh Nazim.
Still another miracle is that when on the Day of Judgement Allah Almighty asks as to what a person (a person who had taken Bayyat from Moulana Sheikh Nazim, believed in him and visited him) did during his lifetime, Moulana Sheikh Nazim shall act as this person's lawyer and defender.
Moulana will not allow any of his mureeds to enter hell. He will not even let them to enter the Paradises that are known to the people. No , Moulana Sheikh Nazim will make them enter the Paradise that is related to Allah Almighty. The ordinary Paradises vanish into nothing when compared with the lights of this Paradise which is the Paradise that is related to Allah Almighty. Moulana Sheikh Nazim shall make all his followers to enter into this Paradise.
THE POSSESSOR OF THE PRESERVED TABLETS
Grandsheik Moulana Abdullah Dhagistani (qas) said that the preserved tablet in each time and age is the Saint (Wali) that represents the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and Allah Almighty. In this time Moulana Sheikh Nazim is the Saint who represents Allah Almighty and the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) therefore the Preserved Tablet in this time is Moulana Sheikh Nazim. All Auliya see him now in this rank. The knowledge that comes in from the Preserved Tablet is really from the light of the palm of the Saint who represents Allah Almighty and the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) in this age. In this time age, this great Saint is Moulana Sheikh Nazim (qas).
Every time that Moulana Sheikh Nazim gives a lecture, he looks into the Preserved Tablet. Moulana generally has a habit of looking slightly upwards before commencing a lecture and then he continues delivering his lecture. This is because he reads what he is going to say from the Preserved Tablet. Moulana once said "when I pray, I look to see what is written in the Preserved Tablet for me to recite in Salat ul Luhr and also for every prayer I do the same to find out what I should recite during that prayer from the Holy Quran. I don't walk from this place to that except by looking and reading the Preserved Tablet. "Moulana is the one who is in this time giving what Allah Almighty wants to give to any Saint and to all the people according to what is written for them in the Preserved Tablet. He is writing it to them bringing this knowledge both from Allah Almighty and the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him).
Moulana gives an answer to any question that is asked from him from the Preserved Tablet. Moulana says that there are many Preserved Tablets. There is a Preserved Tablet for the people, a Preserved Tablet for the Ulema, and there is a Preserved Tablet for the Auliya. Then there is a Preserved Tablet for the Khaliphatullah and a Preserved Tablet for the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). Moulana says that he can talk from all the preserved Tablets because he is in all these ranks. This is because Grandsheik Moulana Abdullah Dhagistani (qas) gave to Moulana Sheikh Nazim the secret of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him).
Moulana Sheikh Nazim is the representative of Allah Almighty and he possesses the Divine Secret of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). He is also now the representative of Allah Almighty because of which he is present in every cell of the Universe. How can it be otherwise because he is representing Allah Almighty in this Universe. Therefore he has to be in every place, in every star and in every part and portion of the Universe. This is why he is in every cell of the Universe.
Moulana Sheikh Nazim can also be present in his shape and body in several places at the same time. Bayazid Bistami (Ral) (one of the Great Grandsheik's of the Naqshbandi Tariqat) once multiplied himself and took on 24,000 bodies and prayed prayers at 24,000 different places. The people of all these towns and countries bore witness that they prayed with Bayazid Bistami (Ral) on that Friday.
Where Moulana Sheikh Nazim is concerned he is able to multiply himself and take on between 70,000 and 700,000 such bodies and to appear in as many places at the same time. Bayazid Bistami (Ral) lived a thousand years ago and the Tajjalli of Moulana Sheikh Nazim is stronger and more powerful and more precious as he now has the secrets of all the previous Grandsheik's including that of Bayazid Bistami (Ral) in his heart. He also possesses the secrets of all the prophets and the secret of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) in his heart. He is therefore the most remarkable Saint in the Divan of the Saints of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him).
Moulana Sheikh Nazim is not only in our earth but he is also in a lot of other places which are not related to our earth. He is present in all these other places and he is also present with us at the same time. For example, there is a mountain called the "Mountain of Qaf". This mountain is not related to this Earth. There are many Auliya of high rank and station in this mountain. Moulana is the Imam of them all. He leads the prayer on this mountain on every Friday at Jummah.
Whenever Moulana Sheikh Nazim delivers a lecture to his followers or to his visitors he also is with the Auliya on this "Mountain of Qaf" making this very same lecture. This lecture is not only for those people who are listening to him at that moment but also to all those who have been related on the Day of Promises to Moulana Sheikh Nazim by having it written for them that they should listen to this lecture.
When Moulana Sheikh Nazim lectures to somebody, this lecture is not meant for that somebody only, but for all the people throughout the East and throughout the West. His lectures are for all the Auliya and for the hearts of all the people in all the Universes in our time. This is because all of them need the secret of Quran to reach to the time of Seyyidina Mahdi (alai) who is going to be here soon.
NO QUESTIONING IN THE GRAVE
As for anyone who is related to Moulana Sheikh Nazim as a mureed the Angel of Death, Israel (alai) will have nothing to do with him. The soul of this mureed at the time of his death will be taken by Moulana Sheikh Nazim. He shall look at the mureed and immediately the soul of that mureed will leave his body. There is nothing for either the Angel of Death or for the Angels of the Grave to do with the mureeds of Moulana Sheikh Nazim. This is because it has been so ordered and it is by the Divine Power of Allah Almighty which has been given to him that Moulana Sheikh Nazim is so empowered. This is specially for Moulana Sheikh Nazim.
GRANTS GIVEN TO MOULANA SHEIKH NAZIM
Moulana Sheikh Nazim has been given the grant that when in a lecture he speaks of the ranks of the Prophets or the Auliya all the people who sit with him at this lecture will also be dressed in these same ranks as these Prophets and Auliya that Moulana Sheikh Nazim speaks of. It is for this reason that Moulana often talks in his lectures of Prophets and Auliya so that he is able to dress these ranks to all those who sit and listen to his lectures.
Moulana Sheikh Nazim also speaks about bad deeds when he addresses people in his lectures. The one who listens to this lecture shall not be asked of any bad deed or sin that Moulana happens to mention in the course of this lecture. He does not mention these bad deeds to stop the mureeds from doing them, but in order to take away his bad deeds or sins. He then puts his mureed in his Mercy Oceans then he throws them into the Mercy Oceans of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and finally into the Mercy Oceans of Allah Almighty.
All the bad deeds and sins concerning which Moulana speaks during the course of his lectures to the mureed will not be asked about from the mureed on the Day of Judgement. This is because Moulana Sheikh Nazim immediately makes a Shafa'ah and asks forgiveness from Allah Almighty regarding the sins and bad deeds that he has mentioned in his lecture. It is for this reason that you see Moulana Sheikh Nazim referring to so many sins and bad deeds during the course of a lecture so that he would be able to put his mureeds into his Mercy Oceans.
Do not look at Moulana Sheikh Nazim as you see him, as a body with his bodily functions of eating, drinking and sitting with you. Instead look at his other face, the face that is related to Allah Almighty and to the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). This other face of Moulana Sheikh Nazim is the Spiritual and Divine Power that is controlling all the Universes which include all the worlds of humanity, all the worlds of Jinn and all the worlds of Angels. All of them have been given to Moulana and he shall return all of them to the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and to Allah Almighty as they were given to him. He shall return all of them cleansed, without sins or bad deeds.
Moulana is not going to say by way of excuse that this particular person or that, was taken away from him by Shaitan. No, he is not going to say that. He is going to return all of them pure as they were given to him. Regarding this Moulana says "I have been dressed by Divine Power so that I will be able to return everyone to the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and to Allah Almighty as they gave them to me. I shall return them without sins and without bad deeds. I shall also dress them in all ranks, highly positioned ranks, ranks that are dressed by the Auliya and give them to Allah Almighty". This is a grant and a miracle of Moulana Sheikh Nazim.
Grandsheik Moulana Abdullah Dhagistani (qas) said that even Seyyidina Mahdi (alai) is a follower and a student of Moulana Sheik Nazim because without the channel of Moulana Sheikh Nazim the secret of the Quran which has been passed down from the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) to Abu Bakr as Siddique (Ral), and from him right down the Golden chain of Succession of the Naqshbandi Tariqat to Moulana Sheikh Nazim, cannot enter into the heart of Seyyidina Mahdi (alai). Moulana Sheikh Nazim is going to teach Seyyidina Mahdi (alai) the knowledge of the Secret of the Quran. In this respect Seyyidina Mahdi (alai) is student of Moulana Sheikh Nazim. Moulana Sheikh Nazim is the key of the Secret of the Quran and he is the one who is going to plant this secret in the hearts of people.
ENDLESS HORIZONS
For many years Moulana Sheikh Nazim has been planting this Secret which is the Secret of the Quran in the hearts of all those who have left this Dunya and are now in Barzakh. Presently, Moulana Sheikh Nazim is planting this Secret in the hearts of the living people. To do this Moulana Sheikh Nazim goes out of his body every night. All the bodies which has a soul in them gather in front of Moulana and he plants the Secret of the Quran in them. This is one of Moulana's duties till the coming of Seyyidina Mahdi (alai).
After the coming of Seyyidina Mahdi (alai) and in the days of Seyyidina Mahdi (alai) he will give the knowledge of the Secret of the Quran to selected people while he will let everyone else to know certain aspects of the Secret of the Quran. Moulana will give power also to some of his followers and certain people with him.
If one knows the Secret of the Quran and someone was to ask him about the sun, for example, he would be able to command the sun "come here" and the reality of the Sun shall come to him and he would be able to explain it to all the people who are sitting with him. If he wanted to explain to them about the moon, all he would have to do is to ask the moon to come to him and he would be able to explain to them about the moon which will appear in front of him by the Divine Power of Moulana Sheikh Nazim.
Sheik Adnan relates that once when he was in Mecca making Tawaf with Moulana Sheikh Nazim a person with a long beard came up to Moulana Sheikh Nazim, kissed his hand and continued to do Tawaf with Moulana. Moulana Sheikh Nazim then told those who were present with him on that occasion that this person was Khidr (alai) and that he had come specially to kiss Moulana's hand and to perform Tawaf with him.
Sheik Adnan also relates that on another occasion when he was performing Tawaf around the Ka'aba with Moulana Sheikh Nazim a very old man came up to Moulana, kissed him, spoke to him and performed Tawaf with Moulana. Thereafter this old man disappeared without a trace. When Moulana was asked as to who this old man was, he answered that this man was one of the sons of the Adam before our Adam (alai).
There have been 124,000 Adams in all, with their sons of which our Adam (alai) was the last. This was one of the sons of the Adam before our Adam and he had come to kiss Moulana's hand and to perform Tawaf with Moulana because he had had this promise on the Day of promises and that it was written in the Divine Tablet. Moulana as the Khaliphatullah of this time and as the representative of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) during this time is not only for us but also for all the Adams and their sons who came before us. He is the communicator who connects them with the world of Allah Almighty and the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him).
Moulana Sheikh Nazim says that in comparison with the number of People in the other worlds, the people of this world are nothing. There are so many of them, Moulana says, that compared to the Sohbet (association) that he makes with the people in these other worlds and other Universes, the people in this Earth are so few.
Everyday the one who sits with Moulana constantly improves. He feels that his knowledge increases daily. This gets better and better until he reaches a stage where he will have nothing to do with himself. Instead of himself he will see Moulana Sheikh Nazim. When this happens Moulana immediately takes them and puts them in the cave with Seyyidina Mahdi (alai) as they are so powerful it is not possible for the other people of the Earth to bear them.
All that has been written here about Moulana Sheikh Nazim is very little in comparison to what he really is because the contents above are only a small part of the knowledge's available about him. Apart from this fact there is also the reason that it is not possible for the human mind to grasp and comprehend the reality of the rank of the Sultan ul Auliya. Moulana Sheikh Nazim is the possessor of this rank in our age. This is why Moulana says, "No one really knows me. All that they know about me are only some aspects of me".
May Allah Almighty Bless Moulana Sheik Nazim!

Sultan al Awliya and Prophet Muhammad.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.



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THE PURPOSE OF CREATION
and
THE OCEANS OF BEAUTY

Allah Almighty has said through His Holy Words:
I was a Hidden Treasure and I loved Myself to be known so I created this whole creation that it may know Me.

Pay heed to these words for although this is a brief statement, through it the Creator explains much about Himself, His Creation and the purpose of life. He says that He was, is and always will be a Hidden Treasure, a treasure without limits, and that He willed a creation into being, worthy of receiving endless grants of His Knowledge. Such a Lord may grant endlessly, but even such munificence does not mean that His creatures have encompassed any part of His Reality. We are fortunate to pertain to such a Creator and to glorify One whose Majesty is eternal and limitless, whose grants, described to us in their differing aspects, as Power, Beauty, Mercy, Wisdom, Knowledge and Penetrating Will, are constantly renewed so that our souls imbide ever fresh and invigorating refreshment.
Man was created in the heavenly realm, and then he and his wife were sent to live on earth. Allah Almighty sent man into his abode of temporality, but He sent paradise with him. Who was paradise for Adam? – Eve. If the Lord had not sent our mother Eve with out father Adam, he would have exploded like a bomb, but he was able to console himself and find happiness, even in his abode of suffering, with his wife.
When Adam came to this earth, his Lord sent the knowledge of the Heavenly Realm with him – the very memory of it as a reality. Adam was empowered to establish a spiritual transmission to his descendents, but it soon became necessary to endow another man with a direct glimpse of that reality, so Seth was chosen as a recipient of prophetic revelation, and his spiritual power became a tributary to the original stream established by Adam. But, in fact, Seth received doubly, as what he inherited from Adam was then also his, as well as what he received directly. Then came Enoch (Idries), and in succeeding generations one-hundred and twenty four thousand Prophets were granted direct revelation streams to feed into the, by then huge river of Divine Light coming to them from earlier Prophets.
Some people may ask why Allah Almighty sent so many Prophets. Our Lord sent them because He loves to grant His servants gifts from His Divine Knowledge, Beauty, Mercy, Wisdom, Power and Penetrating Will endlessly, as He said, He wants and loved to make Himself known.
And even though the succession of prophet hood has spiraled to a climax, first with the advent of Jesus Christ, and then with the mission of the Seal of Prophets, Muhammed, (Peace be upon them all), whose duty it was to establish Divine Light throughout the world in a unified, universal way not possible in the earlier stages of the development of mankind, don’t think that access to Divine Knowledge is cut off. Never! The Prophets of God have always been the leaders of spiritually illuminated people on earth, those who have been given the task of guiding initiates and mankind at large. Every one of them brought spiritual energy to this world, energy which did not leave this realm when they did, but remained as a beacon of light through the obscurity of this life. This light is not, as it were, unembodied, but incorporated in at least one spiritual heir in every period of human history.
If a person seeks truth, Allah will lead him to such a beacon, to a meeting with an inheritor of a Prophet, whose particular guidance qualities suit his potentialities. These Inheritors are connected spiritually with the Prophet whom they represent, and, consequently, when you meet them and are prepared to receive the transmission, you may receive a “photocopy” in your spiritual body and establish direct contact with that Prophet – you will be invited to his assembly.
Once Moses was in Mount Sinai conversing with his Lord, and addressed Him, saying “Oh my Lord, have any of your servants been honoured with such intimate discourse as I have?” The Lord replied: Oh Moses, have a look around you”. Moses looked around and saw the whole valley filled with Moses, all with long beards and staffs, looking at him as he looked back at them in amazement. Then the Lord addressed him: “Oh Moses, this is only a selection: there are more, but I only show you this small group to give you an idea of what power I have sent through you to the world.” He is Almighty Allah, certainly it is no great thing for Him to grant those who sincerely want to be like Moses, and follow in his footsteps, a spiritual power that emanates from Allah but to them through Moses.
During the Night Journey of the Prophet Muhammed and his ascension to the seven heavens, the Angel Gabriel accompanied him part of the way, though the seven heavens, but at a certain point stayed back in awe of the radiance of the Divine Countenance, fearing to approach further lest he burn. The Holy Prophet then ventured on alone and was shown by his Lord a huge gathering of people, also identical to himself, and the Lord told him: “These are the Saints of your Nation and My servants:
“And no one knows the armies
of the Lord except Him”.
“Whose steps in your footsteps will partake
of your honour and light.”

Therefore, a Grandsheikh sitting with his murids must be a means for those murids to attain light from the Prophet whom that Grandsheikh represents. It is impossible for a Grandsheikh to leave even the weakest of his murids without a share of that power, so that he should attain to the same degree and honour as his Grandsheikh.
We have waded into an ocean of deep and secret knowledge, and as it is secret we are being signaled back to shore by the “lifeguard” lest we all drown.

The End

Death,Bilquis,Cancer and alternative housing.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

Pandora left a comment for me which caused me to go and look at her forum again after a few months (there was a time when I had a bit of a lively discussion with someone over there about the twin towers, but that's another story).
I started to leave her a mail and then realised ( as is so often the way) that it had helped put a few things into perspective and could be of interest generally. I therefore decided to post it here, and here it is in it's entirety;


Subject:
My wife Bilquis and death. Cancer and alternative housing.

Hi Pandy!Long time eh ? Life's been pretty intense for me lately. I'm afraid I have to give you the sad news that my beloved wife Bilquis who has had cancer the last three years went into rapid decline in September and died this year on Sunday January the eighth. It was a fairly horrendous experience and that is why there is more stuff than usual on my blog about death and the after life. I'm glad you found some of it useful. I know you had that thing with all those people connected to you passing on and even felt it had something to do with you (which I'm sure you now realise it didn't ). Death is the one thing we can all be sure will happen to us and yet most people don't want to look at it. We live in a society wich adulates youth and despises old age. It seems destiny, karma,life - call it what you will ... from my point of view obviouisly, God, has put a lot of contact with death into your life and, as so often, what at first seems harsh and difficult turns out to be a gift. Death puts our lives into perspective and pushes us to look for answers to questions about wether life has any meaning. Maybe you are finding some of those answers now. For me life is meaningless without some form of spirituality and belief in an after life puts a whole different perspective on our short time here. My brother was killed in a car accident when he was 21 and I was 19, my mum went from cancer at age 54. I believe her illness was sparked by the shock of my brother's death. My dad died at a fairly normal age of angina. Did I ever tell you about The New Medicine of Dr Hamer? If you put that in the search engine you can find some very interesting stuff, including fairly good proof that cancer is a big business and "the powers that be" do not want people to get cures as they make so much money from it.(eght sessions of chemio treatment cost 24,000 pounds !) It is the next biggest business after the petro chemical industry. Dr Hamer found a cure and they shut him up (literally, in prison) several times .. and he's back there now. There are other instances too, such as Rene Caisse and her medicine "Essiac", and Dr Antonio Bru, both of which can be found on the net. I believe Bilquis is in a better place now and that her horrible suffering was a purification for her so that she can go back to God clean and with no more suffering in the after life where I am sure she is enjoying the fruits of all her compassion, generosity and kindness to so many people (especially myself to whom she dedicated fifteen years of her life) while she was alive.She was much loved by many many people from all walks of life and right across the spiritual spectrum. My Sheikh, Sheikh Nazim , says that one of the biggest unknown causes of cancer is living in buildings made of re-inforced concrete. (I think it has a lot to do with the magnetic and electrical fields caused by the metal cage we all tend to live in) and I am getting very interested in alternative housing such as Straw Bale, Rammed earth, Mud Brick and Wooden houses. Sheikh Nazim has a project to build such houses in Cyprus and I am thinking of getting involved, which would be a contribution to the war against cancer and a kind of homage to Bilquis.

To know one's self.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

The state of identity is inherent in reality and never fades. But identity is neither the transient personality (vyakti), nor the karma-bound individuality (vyakta). It is what remains when all self-identification is given up as false - pure consciousness, the sense of being all there is, or could be. Consciousness is pure in the beginning and pure in the end; in between it gets contaminated by imagination which is at the root of creation. At all times consciousness remains the same. To know it as it is, is realization and timeless peace.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Compare this with the quote from Ibn Arabi below, and then think of the meaning of the hadith "To know oneself is to know one's Lord."

Al Haq.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

Indeed the whole world is imagination.Only He is the real in Reality.Whoever understands this knows the secrets of the spiritual path. - Ibn 'Arabi, "Masters of the Path"

Taffakur. (Reflection).

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

I have been looking at "Journeywoman", a blog by Katherine Randall (who I discovered lives near me in the Alpujarras) .. here and her pieces on Taffakur inspired me to write the following.

"No act of worship is as meritorious as reflection. So reflect on the God's bounties and the works of His Power, but do not try to reflect on His Essence, for you will never be able to do that." Hadith.

The essence is not something that one can think upon.It is precisely that which requires no thinking or non-thought.Perhaps the continual process of taffakur ..leads eventually to the constant awareness or remembrance of Allah to such an extent that one realises that there is nothing but Allah
and eventually to live that reality in the sense of complete dissolution in Him, including all thought and action and in fact consciousness. This would be (one assumes) like living in the heart of awareness as described by the Ashtavakra Gita and all the masters of non duality in the Advaita Vedanta tradition.When eventually the small self or ego or nafs is not in control cheating us with its illusion of separate existence, and one becomes "dissolved" in consciousness of Allah (Allah Himself ?) like the drop which falls into the ocean.Then, where is the drop and where is the ocean ?

Oh for that glorious state! I would say, Oh to achieve that glorious state, but despite all our hard work and reflection, it must be a state which is a gift from Allah.He and He alone is our goal ... but only He can lift the veil and surely we must be extremely pure and sincere and give our hearts totally 1000% before there is any chance of that!
Still, we can hope and try, struggle, fail and return .. because, in the end ... what else is there?

Oh Allah, my petition is, that You help me to drop all my petty goals and desires and cravings connected to this dunya and make my heart and body and soul only for You.

Help me to realise that I will never solve anything through my own petty worldly goals and help me to do the job I was created for,to worship You.
Help me to leave the foolish and low distractions of my ego and the fear that keeps me running from pillar to post looking for peace and security and pleasure apart from You.Make me realise and remember that,in reality all fear is fear of You ..and may I have taqwa sufficiently to keep within the confines and the safety of the shariat and follow the sunna of Your blessed and beloved Prophet Muhammad Habibu'llah saws.

I know that there is nothing better than this for any human being but I am weak. Give me strength and love and sincerity and protect me from my four enemies, Nafs,Dunya,Hawa and Shaytan.

May I and all my brothers and sisters in Naqshbandi tariqat reach the goal while still in this life ... to die before we die,and may You bring all Muslims and all the sons and daughters of Adam back to You with the least suffering possible. Amin. (Fatiha)

Oh Allah protect us and keep us in these hard and difficult times and especially in the terrible times ahead for the sake of Your beloved prophet Muhammad saws and for the sake of all the saints of Naqshbandi tariqat and especially Abu Bakr and Shah Naqshband and Sheikh Abdullah ad Daghestani and our living representative, Sheikh Nazim Adil al Qubrusi al Haqqani.

Amin, Fatiha.

Real Self and body at death.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

It [dying] needn't be so [painful and ugly]. It may be beautiful and peaceful. Once you know that death happens to the body and not to you, you just watch your body falling off like a discarded garment. Once you know that the body alone dies and not the continuity of memory and the sense of "I am" reflected in it, you are afraid no longer.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Real Self ,false self.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

In the secret cave of the heart, two are seatedBy life's fountain. The separate egoDrinks of the sweet and bitter stuff,Liking the sweet, disliking the bitter,While the supreme Self drinks sweet and bitterNeither liking this nor disliking that.The ego gropes in darkness, while the SelfLives in light. So declare the illumined sagesAnd the householders who worshipThe sacred fire in the name of the Lord.-Katha Upanishad

Knowledge.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

Sheikh Nazim says that Muhammad pbuh always asked to be increased in knowledge, and that we should do the same.He says that for every knower there is one who knows more.There are endless oceans of knowledge and endless horizons.There is knowledge which is for Allah alone and then there is knowledge for His Prophets, but not for others, and there is knowledge for His saints and then there is knowledge for ordinary people.

Here is a quote on the subject.

"God is knowledge; he is knowing; and he is being known. Since God has knowledge of his own essence, and since God is one, it follows that the essence of God is knowledge. And knowledge means that he knows himself, and is known by himself.-Ibn Sina, "al-Risalat al-Arshiya

Is that knowledge of the essence (which it is prohibited to think about in Islam) the heart of awareness of the Advaita Vedanta tradition? Sat Chit Ananda.Is that essence not our real selves and therefore the meaning of the hadith "Know yourself and you will know your Lord."? Is this not the reason why it is said God created man in His own image? Is this not the secret which Allah put in man .. what He blew into Adam from His Ruh when He created him and what distinguishes us from the animals and the rest of Creation?
Atman and is Brahman and Brahman is Atman ..is that not just another way of saying the same thing which was discovered by the ancients in India?

Be still and know God.

If only we could ..leap that existential barrier, as the Zen masters have been pushing students to do for generations.

But ... somewhere Nisargadatta says ... the only barrier to your self-realisation is ... sin.

Mmmm hmmm ....

Alone with the alone .. or just alone.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

At the end of the day it's facing being alone that it's all about.I was with Bilquis almost 24 hrs a day seven days a week 52 weeks a year .. for fifteen years. We did everything together apart from go to the loo and shower.
There were short periods when she would visit her family here in the north and I would stay in Orgiva. For a while there was the internet and endless investigations of unity and enlightenment .. especially all the stuff on Buddhism whichI got into in an attempt to bridge the gap between us when she more or less definitively returned to her beloved Tibetan Buddhism after the suicide of Manolo her beloved ex-husband.
Then that well ran dry and I would sink into a kind of torpor which could last all day and night .. just waiting for her to come back .. like a lost sad dog pining for its master.
And now she's gone.I am having a bit the same experience I had when my brother died years ago (he was twenty one, I nineteen) in a car accident. I just skated over the surface of life endlessly doing stuff very fast, until finally I just collapsed in a heap and entered a depressive phase which included a time at a day hospital in Canterbury.
I seem to maybe be in the skating phase again.There have been endless mobile messages to the friend in Gerona who's husband died of cancer last year.I am hoping to see her when I visit the region soon. I am hoping to soothe and smooth some of the ruffled waters of my emotions and understand more what is happning to me through interaction with her.Maybe it will work to some extent.
I am trying to stand back and observe myself .. be a witness to this storm inside... but there is tendency to escape into doing stuff, and then, if not into writing and communicating .. The hard part is simply to stop and be alone with oneself.The hardest to just stop and BE. To be with oneself still implies duality .. still being in consciousness .. just to Be means sitting in the seat of awareness.
Really that is the only answer to this situation and all situations ..it is also really (according to Sheikh Nazim..and all masters in their way) the purpose of all worship and spiritual practices.Just to Be .. just Being .. means being with Allah .. means exisiting in Unity Oceans ..
Oh to dissolve right now this petty,separating, cross eyed, double visioned ego!

Here's that piece fromNisargadatta again.

Watch yourself closely and you will see that whatever be the content of consciousness, the witnessing of it does not depend on the content. Awareness is itself and does not change with the event. The event may be pleasant or unpleasant, minor or important, awareness is the same. Take note of the peculiar nature of pure awareness, its natural self-identity, without the least trace of self-consciousness, and go to the root of it and you will soon realize that awareness is your true nature, and nothing you may be aware of, you can call your own. When the content is viewed without likes and dislikes, the consciousness of it is awareness. But still there is a difference between awareness as reflected in consciousness and pure awareness beyond consciousness. Reflected awareness, the sense "I am aware" is the witness, while pure awareness is the essence of reality. Reflection of the sun in a drop of water is a reflection of the sun, no doubt, but not the sun itself. Between awareness reflected in consciousness as the witness and pure awareness there is a gap, which the mind cannot cross.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Another thought for the day.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

Last night my teacher taught me the lesson of Poverty:Having nothing and wanting nothing.Rumi (May Allah Bless him)

Thought for the day.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

Observe how the life of this world deceives those around you. It lures them into the traps of vanity, wealth, and fame, and exalts them above others. This splendor blinds them, and they are lost forever in illusion. But then in one instant, life deals the blow of death, and all is gone, and with the Beguiler it stands laughing at their sad end. So overcome your egos that you may be saved from the snares that devoured kings and paupers alike.-Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jillani, "Fayuz E Yazdani"

Tawakkul.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

At the end of the day,my big lesson in all this is that I must try not to rely on anything but Allah through His Prophet's example saws and through the spiritual connection to our Sheikh and from our Sheikh to him saws.

What can I say ? Bilquis was everything to me, and now she has gone there is a huge hole which somehow I must fill.I hope I shall fill it with consciousness of and reliance on Allah and not just my re-invented ego in Bilquis's image.

I so often used to say "Ay Dios!Bilquis." and she used to say, "Yo no soy Dios Uthman." ("I am not God Uthman.")...but in a way, she was to me .. and perhaps that is one reason why He took her away from me.
So often the things which seem like the most painful and difficult in life, are in fact blessings in disguise.I reminds me of when the Prophet (PBUH) was going along the lines of prisoners chained up after a battle and he started laughing. They thought he was being cruel, but in fact he was laughing from happiness to see how Allah had actually used the situation to bring them from jahillya (ignorance) to the Truth and belief in God.
I now have to face a lot of pain and loneliness,maybe fear and insecurity, with scant resources and no family and no intimate close friends .... but who will there be to turn to except the Sheikh and Allah and His Prophet saws ?
So often our conscience knows what we should do .. but we get used to turning a deaf ear and wasting time playing at pass-times and nonsense while the hour glass of our lives is fast running out.
I remember reading in Fath al Rabbani (Openings from the Lord), a collection of sohbets from Abdl Qadr al Gilani, how he said to his audience, "You say la ilaha ila 'llah,(there is no God but Allah) but you are liars! You make everything but Allah your God."

May Allah help me and guide me to real faith in and reliance on Him alone, through the example of His beloved Prophet Habib'allah and the spiritual connection with our Sheikh, Sheikh Nazim Adil al Qubrusi al Haqqani an'Naqshbandi. Amin. Fatiha.

Assimilating as the storm dies down.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

Thanks to all those kind people who left their comments.(In this moment there are too many to answer one by one.) Each one of us believes and prays, worships or meditates in his or her own way. I believe all those ways are valid and reach to the Source Of All.The more sincere and the more concentrated the closer and deeper.Often pain and suffering deepens our need and our desire for meaning in life. Loss of a loved one makes us look deeper and harder for something permanent.
In these last few days I have had much support from all kinds of people but perhaps I have felt it most from those close to me physically and who are believers.
Bilquis's mother, Dolores, is a wonderful old lady of eighty five with such a faith and such an indomitable spirit. She is so kind and hard working and loved by all.Through her and her sister Carmen I have recieved much love and understanding and a great deal of support from their prayers.
Also, the day before Bilquis's death I had spoken to Abdl Ahad, one of Sheikh Nazim's Spanish murids who lives in Orgiva...and informed him that Bilquis might go that very day. Without telling me anything, he jumped on a bus and came the 1000 kms up to San Sebastian to accompany me in the hospital room on Bilquis's last and most terrible night.
In an almost Godless crematorium (which they now call Tanatorio here after some Greek god I think) he read sura Ya Sin for Bilquis standing firm and strong by her coffin as it waited to be consumed in the flames.(some of you may know that it is completely against the Muslim religion to burn the dead.... but also that it is nearly impossible to get a proper burial now .. with or without much pushing and hasssling and all the papers and connections and family ties in place.) He had slipped a "tawiz" or protection into the coffin when we saw her before in the hospital, he told me afterwards.A phone call from Hamida of Orgiva advised me to pray that the flames did not touch her .. as they had had to do recently for her husband's own brother.
In the afternoon there was a Christian funeral in the local Parochial Church of Zarauz.

Almost a week later the storm, internally and externally, begins to die down. Yesterday was a beautiful day both externally, with a blue sky and sun shining on the green hills and fields of the Pais Vasco,an internally where I felt such peace and protection as I was taken around in the car of Bilquis's "consuegro" (that is her son's father in-law).
Once again a person of quiet and deep faith who shines with goodness and kindness. I went to help him as an interpreter in a problem with a van that had been repaired by his local garage and then left without payment. It was an Irish person it turns out (as I discovered from papers inside the van) who it seems had had a pub in England and run through the profits leaving many debts.I assume he was on the run when his van broke down in "Azpeitia" and so the story goes.When I was asked to get involved in what was, after all, a fairly hopeless case, I had the feeling that this was not the real reason why I was going out on this somewhat strange journey .. but that there was some other wisdom in it.
Recently in the midst of all my recent troubles, the car had broken down and,being the head gasket on an old and English car, it was not worth repairing.Here I am 1000 kms from home with no car and little money wondering how to resolve the problem with two or three alternatives at my disposal.My preferred on was to buy another car and send the old one to the scrap heap... but I was finding it very difficult to encounter something suited to my needs and pocket ... The standard of living is much higher up here and there just isn't the second hand market for cars like that of Andalucia.
My assignment was in the reliable friendly local garage of a good believing man who loves cars and tinkering and helping others."Torribio" is his name and when I saw a little Ford Fiesta diesel on the forecourt, God Bless him, he became involved in the project to buy it as if I were his own son or younger brother.
All of my difficulties were soon resolved as we test drove it and decided to come back in the afternoon after an invitation to a copious lunch at his family home in nearby Elgoibar.My insurance company was helpful, the two secretaries at the garge bent over backwards to help ..Torribio drove me back to Zarauz for money and relevant papers and soon I was the proud owner of the little car.The boss of the garage adjusted the lights, changed the oil, charged up the battery, replaced a brake light bulb. topped up the windscreen washers and insists I go back on Monday to change the timing belt.
Apparently the little car had only come in two days before and had not been prepared for sale yet.It's nine years old, has a 1.8 diesel engine, five doors, being a little hatch back just big enough to fit my stall in,and marks 92000 kms on the clock.(the owner correctly informed me that that could be 192000, as the clock only goes to 100 ooo.) Whatever .. I'm completely chuffed with it .. and am sure it was "written" for me ..I felt the hand of God in the whole thing .. a small gift as if from my Sheikh .. it all happened as if by magic ... I felt no real part in it .. it was as if it was being done for me.
So now I have transport again with which to start my new life.

The whole thing of Bilquis is so all-embracing in it's effect on all parts and levels of my life that it is too difficult to say anything yet. It will take time to assimilate it and thenmore time to express what I have assimilated. For the moment the process is going on and I prefer to keep quiet about it. I will only say that there is one strange phenomenon, and that is a feeling of "re-birth" which is assailing me.
There was a strange symbolical event which involved a double "13", on the first day of Ramadan this year. I knew that those two thirteens were for me and Bilquis and have been wondering if my turn would be soon after hers, as often happens especially with older couples ho have spent whole life times together. One goes, and soon after, the other... but in this case maybe Bilquis's thirteen was physical death and rebirth in the after-life and mine a personality death and rebirth into a new way of living. We'll see.
I have been in contact with a person who is also a follower of Sheikh Nazim and who's husband died last year of cancer. Bilquis had been in regular contact with her, helping and supporting by phone during her trials and we sent a little charity last Christmas when it all intensified.
Her experiences have been similar to mine and she has been a great support, espcially in the last two or three weeks when I felt I was nearly going mad with it all.
Apparently she has had a similar "re-birth" exprience as one suddenly has to adjust to a new situation in which it is necessary to develop all kinds of coping skills which were perhaps originally dealt with by the former partner.
I may go to see Abdl Salaam who lives near her in Catalunya and pay some visits to discuss and interchange experiences and ideas which could be very helpful and therapeutic.I have a desire to get right away from all the places where I have been with Bilquis for a while.Orgiva, Zarauz, even Cyprus, are so laden with memories..perhaps there is a new life for me in a part of Spain I do not know.For the moment abdl Salaam is alone in his house as his children have retiurned to their mother in Orgiva, so maybe the company would be good for him and we have worked together in the markets before..in fact I started out helping him and taking one meter on the end of his lengthy stall years ago in the "Marcha Verde" in Granada.
My prayer time program is calling the adhan for fajr now, so I must leave this for a while... but for sure I'll be back with further developments.
Thanks again to all and for kind comments.

I would like to leave a quote from Nisargadatta of the Advaita Vedanta tradition which somehow satisfies my overactive mind by its perspicacious analysis of how to access that true mystical Reality which really we are all seeking and Bilquis is either enjoying or much closer to right now I'm sure.

"Watch yourself closely and you will see that whatever be the content of consciousness, the witnessing of it does not depend on the content. Awareness is itself and does not change with the event. The event may be pleasant or unpleasant, minor or important, awareness is the same. Take note of the peculiar nature of pure awareness, its natural self-identity, without the least trace of self-consciousness, and go to the root of it and you will soon realize that awareness is your true nature, and nothing you may be aware of, you can call your own. When the content is viewed without likes and dislikes, the consciousness of it is awareness. But still there is a difference between awareness as reflected in consciousness and pure awareness beyond consciousness. Reflected awareness, the sense "I am aware" is the witness, while pure awareness is the essence of reality. Reflection of the sun in a drop of water is a reflection of the sun, no doubt, but not the sun itself. Between awareness reflected in consciousness as the witness and pure awareness there is a gap, which the mind cannot cross."
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

It's sometimes difficult to stop with Nisargadatta .. the danger being, a bit like with Ibn Arabi, that the descriptions are so clear and incisive that one can fall into the trap of thinking that one has made the material one's own, merely by having read and understood it. However I will add a few more quotes that have been useful and soothing to me in the past few days.

"You can do nothing. What time has brought about, time will take away. This is the end of yoga, to realize independence. All that happens, happens in and to the mind, not to the source of the "I am".
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

All you have to do is to understand that you love the self and the self loves you, and that the sense "I am" is the link between you both, a token of identity in spite of apparent diversity. Look at the "I am" as a sign of love between the inner and the outer, the real and the appearance. Just like in a dream all is different, except the sense of "I", which enables you to say "I dreamt", so does the sense of "I am" enable you to say "I am my real Self again. I do nothing, nor is anything done to me. I am what I am and nothing can affect me. I appear to depend on everything, but in fact all depends on me."
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Karma, or destiny, is an expression of a beneficial law: the universal trend towards balance, harmony and unity. At every moment, whatever happens now, is for the best. It may appear painful and ugly, a suffering bitter and meaningless, yet considering the past and the future it is for the best, as the only way out of a disastrous situation.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

To act from desire and fear is bondage, to act from love is freedom.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

To know that the known cannot be me nor mine, is liberation. Freedom from self-identification with a set of memories and habits, the state of wonder at the infinite reaches of the being, its inexhaustible creativity and total transcendence, the absolute fearlessness born from the realization of the illusoriness and transiency of every mode of consciousness - flow from a deep and inexhaustible source. To know the source as source and appearance as appearance, and oneself as the source only is self-realization. "
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Bilquis has gone.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

After an apalling nightmare night of pain and struggle Bilquis went this morning around eleven o-clock. Please pray for her and her journey in the after-life.
It's much too close at hand for me to make any comments now.Maybe later when the shock and horror of it all has died down.
At least she is now in peace at last and we hope and believe that all the pain and suffering was a purification and a preparation for her so that she can go home to her immmortal resting place pure and full of light and ready to meet her Lord with no further pain or trouble.

Very squeezing tests.(Dios aprieta pero no ahoga.#)

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

First of all, thanks to Anna and Kit and Nis for support and comments.
I hardly know where to begin with the awful saga of my life that is unfolding right now.
The market was pretty much a disaster even though I did everything humanly possible to make it work.Without going into details,they moved the site this year and it was very uncommercial.Meanwhile Bilquis got a lot sicker and I had to come home and leave the attempt to earn money half way through. So far I made a tenth of what we would normally expect and about a quarter or less of what I hoped to get in this year's conditions.
She is now frighteningly thin,weighing less than forty kilos ... the change was such a shock when I got back. I didn't expect to see her looking like an eighty year old with a skeletal face and large staring eyes.My heart is breaking.
At the moment she has terrible symptoms of diarreah though for the moment it seems the vomiting she had has stopped. It may be the result of the morphine patches which they gave her after having given an injection into the hip joints to try to stop the pain of the bursitis.The oncologist today said that it could be the radio treatment too.
Perhaps tomorrow she will go into hospital again in order to get on a drip that she has needed for about three days, but, due to burocracy, has been unable to get either at home or in hospital.
The whole situation is so excruciating ... When I was in Granada I could hardly sleep at night and was taking homoeopathy to try to get myself a bit stronger and calmer to deal with the situation.Perhaps I overdid it, I don't know.Anyway I stopped the homoeopathy and tried some natural remedies with Valerian and Passionflower and Tila ..and also Californian poppy. None of them really worked and the chemical one called Dormidina (which was actually an anti hystamenico) just left my mouth dry after giving about three hour's sleep.)
The gradual build up of sleeplessness and the endless messages and calls about Bilquis's progress and state became a kind of nightmare drama.The woman where I stayed is an old friend of Bilquis's and there was some pretty strange stuff going off in her relationship as a forty eight year old Spanish woman with a thirty three year old Morroccan guy, who is into all sorts of strange deals and atmospheres.
I found it awful and the lady in question who is depressive and under pressure found my emotional state and negativity over Bilquis too much to bear.I had to pack up and go to sleep on the floor of the sitting room in my son's flat. Very kind of him,but I was somewhat concerned about his work hours and especially his nightly exoduses.
This afternoon I have been able to get a little sleep on the sofa and feel slightly more 'normal'.
On the last night in Granada I had no sleep at all and my fear and insecurity and negative thought patterns, which all ended in disaster,became so intense that I felt as if the forces of evil had got to me and I was unable to get the taxi and train which I was supposed to take.
I was just a mess of tears and emotions with no one to talk to or help.My son had arrived at six in the morning and gone to bed.
I phoned some old Muslim contacts and then Clara, who is a friend from the markets who was going to look after my stall.She came round to Hashim's (my son's place) after going by the market where very little was happening.
I was in such a state that, despite the fact that we both know I have a big work ahead of me to develop independence and strength to confront life .. she decided to say yes to my petition for help and brought me up to Zarauz here in the Pais Basquo,driving 1000 kilometeres in eleven hours and maintaining a very useful and interesting conversation on the way.
I am 52 and she 33. I could be her father biologically speaking, but here I was listening to much of her advice like a little boy.

It is so hard to believe that Bilquis will get better now ... there is always a slim ray of hope. As I am writing this she gets up to get a book ( I don't know what possesed her) and takes a fall "Bonk!" on the wooden parquet floor.

What is God doing to us ? I am not a good Muslim ..I am not a good anything ..I have done loads of things wrong in my life .. I find it easiest and most intellectually/morally/ spiritually satisfying to believe that this is a punishment on me for all the bad stuff I have done. However, as I have said before, it is much harder to apply that to Bilquis who has always been such a good and kind person to everyone, and everyone loves her.
She has said that maybe it is a purification ... I do believe that some things which may look awful and even cruel could be a Mercy viewed in the light of eternal life.Perhaps it is better to suffer here in temporal existence than there in eternal existence. I am even beginning to wonder if cancer (which is now the plague of our times acording to statistics gleaned from the internet where it is said that one in two men die of cancer and one in three women!) is not somehow a blessing for those that are taken away by it,having been cleaned of their sins and bad actions in preparation for the next life and meeting their Lord and ... avoiding confrontation with the terrible events which it seems are just around the corner in the shape of the nuclear Third World War, or Armageddon.

I wish I could be good and alleviate some suffering that way .. I wish I was a good enough and strong enough Naqshbandi sufi Muslim to be in that Third World War under Divine protection.I wish I could alleviate Bilquis's pain ..but .. no matter what we do .. it seems to be Allah's Plan for her to be suffering this way ...
Strangely, each time she has managed to get an appointment with the naturopath ( who it seems cured at least one woman with terminal cancer of the pancreas) the other medicine has made her so sick she could not go.
For now she may go into hospital to get the saline drip and probably there they will try to finish off the five remaining sessions of radio treatment which remain from the twenty five prescribed.

I just hope they don't kill her in the attempt.

Please pray for her or send energy in your way.It would be a good idea if everyone especially tried to do that at about the same time of day to join and increase the effects .. say between ten and ten thirty in the evening European time.

# "God squeezes but He doesn't suffocate." (Old Spanish saying.)

On a more positive note, one wonderful thing that came out of the whol thing in Granada, was the support of friends. Especially one particular little gem which came in th shap of my friend Bill Ducket. He has stall with Indian artefacts and antiques and is quite an extraordinary eccentric character. His continual support and steadiness, advice and generosity have been a bastion and island of calm to me throughout the
personal drama which played itself out down there.

I discovered at the same time his interest in Buddhism and especially a particular Japanese strand which his cousin (who he hadn't seen in twenty years and then just appeared in his life with this connection last year) introduced him to.

It's main mantra is "Nam Miyoho Renge Kyo." and I have been finding it very useful .. At the begining to pull me out of the energy hole I found myself in, in the first house where the atmosphere was so dark I could hardly pray .. and then later for trying to be strong and decisive so as not to be a burden on my friends.

It is said it connects one to the essential energy of the universe and I like not knowing what it means, as it was working that way, just on faith and not on intellectual interpretation and ideas.

One of the most horrible things that is happening to me at the moment is that I never have a normal or comfortable bed of my own to sleep in.I am continually going from one place to another in this wierd story .. here in Zarauz sleeping on the sofa and being woken at all hours to accompany Bilquis to the loo.Tomorrow, once again the oncologico ..sleeping in a chair ..
Sleep deprevation is used as a torture and sometimes it feels like that ... a torture ..I can only believe that it is at the level of my wrong doing ..

Why does everything that we try to do for Bilquis come out back to front ? Punishment enough it is for me to watch her poor little body being whacked by radio treatment .. but what about her ? Why why why is god doing this to her ?
She is so strong and valiant, poor little thing ..she has never been much good at standing physical pain.

One thing I can say is ,perhaps ... she has been caused to say that she needs me ...something that in other circumstances would never have escaped her lips. I have been caused to realise just how much I love her and say it sincerely .. something which perhaps I have been blocked from finding inside myself ever since my parents split up 41 years ago.

My lap top continues to be a pain in the butt as far as the keyboard is concerned ..my mobile (which I bought for being down in Granada) is also horribly complicated and unresponsive ..As luck would have it, it was bought on the thirteenth, as was the lap top.

Up until now, a strange symbolic happening which ocurred on the first day of Ramadan this year,when, after a day reading the eulogies on the site dedicate to Nicholas Battye after his death,I went to the supermarket and my change came to 13€ and 13 cents, has meant Bilquis's death and, somehow mine too. Now perhaps it is beginning to mean the death of her ego and the death of mine, in certain ways.

To see another point of view..more dispassionate and less emotional than my ,supposedly,sufi one ..try this site which will indicate the ,perhaps more objective or scientific view of the interconnectedness of all things and the immediate efffect of our actions thoughts and feelings etc.

http://www.sgi.org/english/Buddhism/nmrk.htm

What Meikl said.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

Hi Grego,thought I`d lost you for ever! It`s nice to know you`re here as well. Shame about BL. I don`t understand why you got kicked. Maybe it`ll happen to me.
PeaceAnthropophobe

A reply from Anna ...

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

A reply from Annabanana of Blog Ladder.


grego,
jenny just told be that you have been blocked from BL, and i'm just appalled. ramandu's right, it's just stupid that political ranting or personal whining are somehow supposed to be more interesting or valid than a soul's quest. i said as much on the ladder, but now i notice that the announcement that religious content will be filtered is gone completely. at first i thought that this meant GB had had a change of heart, finally, but, when i asked jenny if she knew anything about it, she said you had been given the boot, which, i guess, doesn't bode well as far as GB's enlightenment is concerned.how very sad.i think he is making a terrible error in judgement.

Reply to Anna.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

Anna from B.L. wrote to me .. so I put my reply to her here for her and others to read. I hope it doesn't work out wrong (being Tuesday today!)


Hi Anna,
How nice to hear from you! You were especially one person I didn't want to lose contact with. Somehow perhaps you were the one who came closest to understanding me on B.L. and, as I think I said before I liked your sense of humour and light touch. I've really been going through it as you know .. but something got up G.B.'s nose and, well, we'll leave it at that.
For the moment I am in Granada putting my silver stall up .. but, without transport! as my head gasket went on the car .. I am managing to keep it together so far and Bilquis seems to be maintaining her position if not actually moving forward a little bit.
I am bit like a little kid or a teenager facing his first real job or something .. I've always had my psychological and emotional problems and she has been my complete support and protection until this year ... Now I have to do it alone or go under (economically at least, if not in other ways too and my only possibility would be state help in England .. where Bilquis couldn't possibly be moved to right now ..)
I'm writing from an internet place beneath the flat where I am staying (very convenient). It's good to be back in Andalucia I am much more at home here.. the Pais Basco is so, well .. German(?) .. you know, efficient but a bit soulless.
So-o-o that'll do for now. My head's reeling from trying to deal with it all and I have been so frightened that I haven't been sleeping properly at all. Maybe I shouldn't have taken the Lycopodium (which I am nearly certain is my constitutional remedy) as I have probably been in crisis. ..
I am going to try to put some time in on LiveJournal (as Sufibridge) but that won't be while I'm working here .. maybe when I get back to the north.
Came down by night sleeper and Talgo .. a good experience and very cheap (73 € return!)
It might be interesting to mention me on B.L. .. (Anthropophobe has contacted me very kindly too) .. and see what G.B.'s reaction is. Up to you how you handle that one!
Hope to be in contact through LiveJournal/Sufistuff/Flickr/.. maybe 43 Things ..

Thanks again Anna .. Maybe not strictly correct Islamically speaking, but your friendship has been a great support to me... and I hope you are going to hear more positive reports about my little struggle from now on. (Meine kleine kampf ?)
Actually I met a lot of German's through Sheikh Nazim's group and was always pleasantly surprised to find what very deep and lovely people they are after one has got through the first cool aloofness. I am very very fond of some of them.. the above remarks are just a "tipico topico" view of them .. and really .. I suppose the same goes for the Vascos too ...
Good and bad in everything no ? ... There's only One Who is beyond all that duality ..I liked your stuff about the candy store .. perhaps I am more inside it now (or aware that I am .. or allowing myself to be .. whatever)
Love and peace, salaams,
Grego, aka Sufibridge aka Uthman.

Another good friend's reply from B.L.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

Just for interest (for some of you perhaps) there is a kind and supportive reply from Jenny on "Personal Stuff". (See list of blogs in my profile.)

Ramandu's Reply.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

Here's the kind and thoughtful e.mail which I recieved from Rmandu today.

Hello Grego. How nice to hear from you. I am very sorry to hear what GB has done to you on blog ladder. It makes me want to leave the ladder, after all, I am free to go where I want. But like you, I enjoy the people at blog ladder and would miss you guys' writings and feedback. I have always enjoyed your post because they are honest and illustrate what it is that we all, as human beings, (human beings are more spectacular creatures than anyone give us credit for) should be doing, seeking truth and journeying spiritually. It frustrates me to no end that political ranting is perfectly acceptable while sharing one's religious beliefs, the cornerstone of one's being, is censored and ridiculed. I am a strong believer in freedom. I as an American, continually question whether our freedoms are truly real or mere illusionary in this country. It has taken me a while to swing away from my pessimism and back towards the light. I think we live in a time in which the individual has a lot of power. Blogging is a source of that power. You would be surprised maybe, at how many people you touch with your blog. If GB is going to be a nazi in this age of information exchange and freedom then to hell with him. Your better off elsewhere. It is strange, in a delightful way, how the people in blog world influence me. I have about 7 people scattered all over the world on four continents, who I have never met face to face and yet their words guide me and challenge me. You are one of them. How great it would be to all get together in a Spanish café and spend an afternoon chatting. So anyway Grego, I will miss you on blog ladder, but your probably better off with out GB, start a new forum, take the power back. I would be honored if you read my blogger blog. I will look for you there, and I will read yours as well. I wish you all the best with your wife and your walk in the lord. Sincerely, Matt aka Ramandu

My Demise on www.blogladder.com

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

I was thinking ...of writing something in here about my demise on Blog Ladder .. it is not so much what happened as the way it was done that has upset me .. and the loss of contact with several good friends.
However I found the e.mail of one member on one of my posts on one of my other blogs. Ramandu as he is known on B.L. Matt as he is known on his Blog. Adventscribing is the name of his blogs.

He's a very good writer and sensitive and a believer so I wrote him an e.mail. Perhaps it is just easiest to post that e.mail where I more or less expressed what I feel about all this.

I also thought it would be amusing and interesting if anyone who feels anything about this should sign up to B.L. and (perhaps after a post or two) start asking what happened to Grego .. saying how much they miss him and his stimulating interesting posts etc .. www.blogladder.com
Can anyone be bothered? .. If you can I would appreciate it .. a small campaign for justice and clarity and transparency over a cyber issue .. stuff like this .. trust between human beings on the web is pretty important to me .. maybe I'm just a naive fool ?
The administrator "Greedy Bull" can also be e.mailed here ..contact@blogladder.com so any hassling or agitation can go straight to him if you like .. or if he just starts wiping everyone's stuff of in his megalomaniac way.

Anyway , here's the text of that e.mail;


Hi, It is Ramandu isn't it ? Browsing around my old blogs for some new outlet for my stuff ..and saw a comment from you.
I've written an e.mail to Debbie .. I don't know wether she will say anything on my behalf. The latest is G.B. has blocked me from even entering B.L. now .. (I just get a blankpage html thing in the address bar)
I'm not so bothered about coming back .. in that G.B. can do what he likes in the end .. but I think his behaviour was shockingly unreasonable.
No explanations .. no willingness to draw some guidelines for members and users of the site .. like some mad fascist dictatorship. I think members should know of his tactics ..every time I wrote a comment or a suggestion, he just wiped them off .. crazy stuff! Do people really want to be on a forum like that?
Funny that his entry in Yahoo says "a clean member controlled style" .. it would be good to point that out.
What do you think of his autocratic style ?
Was I really spamming anyway ? Others don't seem to think so. You and Anna and Anthopophobe all seemed to think I had something to contribute .. as did Nisanthrope ..that I was not like the bible bashing fundamentalist Christians etc etc ..
I would like to be so independent and strong as to just walk away from it .. but I must say I am hurt.
It seems to me to be just youth .. but another voice says it is to do with belief directly .. I have been quite surprised to see how many people don't really believe in anything beyond what their five senses tell them .. and will not rise above that more than to the realms of the intellect at best.
There was almost a general consensus of opinion that anything spiritual or religious should be kept quiet as if even talking about it was socially unacceptable .. There was a time when belief in God came before all else and informed everything, including politics and political debate.
Nowadays everyone wants to seperate everything into spiritual and secular .. as if there is a world where God has no place .. "God is dead" is indeed the general tenor of our society these days and I think that is directly related to the way the world is going .. i.e. rushing to the edge of the abyss which may well end in a horrible nuclear war (Armageddon).
I for one think it is very important to think about and do something about these things and draw people's attention to them.Burying one's head in the sand or looking the other way won't help much to solve the problems of human life on earth will it ?
Can we really stand by and watch while everyone just talks about holidays and books and music and food and filling in quizzes?
My point is that in a balanced blog community there must be room for every type of voice ..If G.B. wants a totally secular site .. where no spiritual view or discussion is allowed , he should say so from the outset.
I am not so upset at leaving (or rather being pushed out of ) B.L per se .. but I am upset by having my interaction with kind and sensitive and thoughtful people like yourself and Anna and Debbe and Anthropophobe and Nis .. cut off.
You already know about my blog .. at http://www.sufistuff.blogspot.com/ maybe you can get Anna's e.mail for me discreetly? .. I should like to say farewell to her after all her kindness and attention ..
If I can find another forum where we can meet I'll let you know .. what a drag that G.B.makes such a damn good little site and then behaves like a ten year old jerk in the playground!
Say something on my behalf if you like. You're much more clever and subtle verbally than I am.
Maybe just ask what happened to me ?

Hoping you care a bit about this piece of apparent injustice and that you are writing and contributing to (not only in a literary way .. but in revenue for G.B via his advertising which needs traffic) a site whose administrator behaves in this autocratic dictatorial fashion, something which is seen by the outside world as becoming the hallmark of American life since the rise of that other G.B.

Forgive me banging on but I have been well hurt by this .. my only consolation being that God loves me enough to cut me off from time wasting and too much connection with unbelievers, so that I actually and sincerely turn back to Him and make Him my only real goal and Friend.

Your brother in belief,
Uthman Gregory Collins, (aka Grego).

The last little party's over.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

For lack of any clear criteria about what the administrator considers allowable or not on his site. I've had to leave Blog Ladder. I now know what it feels like to live under a dictatorship.
What a horrible experience.

However, I'm sure that the original author of the act was only One, and that there must be a wisdom and a justice in it.

Perhaps He loves me enough to stop me spending too much time with unbelievers .. something not exactly recommended by the Prophet saws !

It seems that too much talk about Reality or God upsets sleeping people
who want to stay in their dream world. For them this world is a kind of paradise, but, as the Prophet pbuh said, This world is a prison for believers.

There are endless permutations of worldy fruits and delights from the lowest to the highest. The highest and the more natural indicating and more easily reminding of something greater and something beyond.

How anyone can live in a world completely devoid of meaning or context other than the indulgence of the five senses and the intellect I don't know.

The so-called democratic and scientific world view that has been foisted upon people convincing them of the reality of a two dimensional world in which they are all nothing more than cardboard cut outs, is very frightening indeed.

The fact that there is no link made between the terrible state of the modern world and lack of belief in a Creator or any Divinely inspired morality or meaning is a terrible and frightening prospect for the health of the world population in this and future generations, if indeed there are many more with what seems to be cooking at a global level.

Absence from oneself.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

Sometimes, when I am in squeezy moments, like the present one ..I'll take one of Sheikh's books and open it at random for some appropriate advice.
For lack of any 3D books of Sheikh's on this journey, I just went to the lap top for a PDF version of On the Bridge to Eternity. which I had donloaded from Warriorette's site.

This is what I came up with .. it goes straight to the core of why I'm being pushed off B.L. I think .. (best thing spiritually, tough on the ego ..oh well) ...That's the place where I am absent from my real self and just play endlessly in my false self .. when it should be the other way around.


Grandsheikh once spoke to me about Jafar as -Sadiq r.a. from the Golden Chain of the Naqshibandi
Silsilla. He was a descendant of the Prophet. When he was worhipping, he was absent from himself, going
into the Divine Presence. The value of worship is in that Presence. As much as you are with yourself, you
are far away from real worship; you are a servant to youself. Being absent from yourself means coming to
Unity, ‘Tawhid’. When you are present in the Divine Presence, all powers are present with you. There is
no heedlessness, you don’t forget anything. When you are with your ego, you may forget something in
the prayer. The purpose of all worship is only to make you absent from yourself and present in the Divine
Presence. As much as you are with yourself, there is no real unity.

Censorship problems over at B.L. once again.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

O.K. .. so th Sheikh is really clipping my wings now .. I'm sure it must be for my own good .. but I must say .. it hurts ...

I know I should have followed my own advice from Islamic wisdom about not being bitten at the same hole twice.

G.B. has started his imperious censorship thing over at B.L.again .. he just can't seem to stand it when I put stuff on from Sheikh Nazim ..or maybe it's my personal outpourings at a very difficult and sensitive time in my life ..

I suppose he wants to keep it light and look the other way .. it's not such an appropriate place for me .. just a shame that I had made some friends there .. and that all my posts are on his site and I don't suppose there is much of a way to retrieve them ..

There's deep wisdom in this for sure .. and a lot of self confronting as well as discipline and changes to be made ..

Seems I'm having all exits blocked now .. but One !

That's cool, I'll try ..

Maybe my desire to write can be harnessed more specifically in the cause of Sufi Islam ? (Along with some photos, as the Sheikh suggested) but the travel will have to wait until Bilquis is better .. insha'llah.

What I miss is the creative friction caused by being up against non Muslims and even non-believers, let alone non-sufis ..

I'm not very inspired by clubs where everyone agrees and pats each other on the back. There doesn't seem to be much growth in that.

But perhaps the next steps are in a different dimension .. without so many words ! Aaaargh!

This living world.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

I know I haven't written in here for ages. The thing with Bilquis's cancer has kept me so busy and stressed up I haven't even been able to think straight.
Somehow things are settling down now and I have more of a handle on this strange new reality which at first seemed so unreal.(It's something that always happens to someone else isn't it?)

Anyway, I'm not going headfirst into any comments or conclusions or sufi points of view about the whole thing at this stage. In fact I'm just letting it lie for a while until the storm has really died down and I am able to be more objective.

However I did like this little interchange from B.L. where Anna has been encouraging me to try to write a book about sufism that would help bring understanding to the non-sufi world... (I wish!) she got the idea from a similar one about Zen done by a cook ... ;


feeling judged or patronised by your toys? by annabanana / The Misadventures of Bug Girl
4 Dec 2005, 10:31am
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4 Dec 2005, 3:07pm
I rather like the idea, even though perhaps the commercialisation and advertising is a bit more cynical than what I'm thinking of. A couple of things. The sufis say that all things are in fact living. They say that everything has its "dhikr" (remembrance, worship) of Allah .. but has no choice in the matter (unlike humans). To this effect the Prophet once held up a handfull of stones to the companions and they actually heard their dhikr (or glorification).Sometimes when I have had the chance to live a quiet contemplative life somewhere I have had a kind of relationship with my simple belongings, like the pots and pans in the kitchen. They become old and trusty friends.When I was little my teddy bear Bruno was very real and very alive to me. (Think of Winnie the Pooh.)I don't think it is such a bad thing to encourage kids to become aware of this dimension of life. (Though I suppose one has to be careful that they don't get thought of as wierd by their mates in school.)Our Sheikh tells us that once he was walking with his Sheikh in Damascus when he kicked a stone from the middle of the path to the edge (it being said to be the first or lowest level of good actions to remove obstacles from the path). His Sheikh asked him sharply what he was doing. When he explained he told him "With your hand, not your foot!".Respect, love, interaction. I was reminded of these things by the apparently wierd child's gift.
by Grego
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4 Dec 2005, 7:06pm
grego, if my post reminded you of respect, love and interaction, your comment to it reminded me of a story in Tomato Teachings and Radish Blessings (that book i keep yammering on to you about).i think i'll type it out for you.but before i do, let me just say that i think i know what you mean. as a child i had a special blanket (creatively named "blankie") that was definitely male, and definitely magically protective. i took whatever happened to it (like laundering) very personally. i still have it in fact, and use it as a shawl in bed on chilly nights (i have a near pathological distaste for cold shoulders). anyway, i have long suspected that i'm really some sort of animist at heart, and that things are constantly singing to us, or, not to us, but just singing, their natures eternally.and here's the story from the book. are you ready? it's a nice one, i think.The Sincerity of Battered Teapots.by Edward Espe Brown (head cook at a Zen centre, just so you know)In the late 60's, when I was working so very hard and struggling to learn how to cook and how to direct the operations of a kitchen, the battered teapots were one of the things that kept me going. Dented and tarnished they sat on a shelf in the kitchen, ready to be used when called upon. My tired, despairing eyes would wander around the kitchen at all the jars and bowls, pots and utensils which were so much a part of my busy life and finally come to rest on those teapots. How did they do it?Once they had been new, bright, perfect, a softly lustrous golden tone. Made of polished metal, probably aluminum, they were pleasingly round and plump, with a long perky spout and a graceful curving metal handle wrapped with bamboo stripping.The teapots were used several times a day to serve hot water and tea. To see them filled and waiting was a cheery sight, not just because of the hot refreshing liquid stored inside, but because their shape greeted the eye with an easy-going ampleness. Nothing pretentious, sleek, or stylish distinguished these teapots, which were always ready and always willing.Zen offers a simple dictum for how to care for things, how to respect them: Carry one thing with two hands, rather than two things with one hand. The teapots rarely received this respect. Especially once they were empty, people would grab two handles in one hand and two handles in the other, and the teapots would clang their way back to the kitchen.To practice respect or to care for something or someone intimately takes time, and even spiritually minded zen students are as much in a hurry as the next person. Instead of dashing to work or school, the zen student races for time off, a nap, or a hot bath. Teapots become an obstacle between here and rest, so grabbing two pots in each hand seems like a great time-saver.After a while the teapots reflected the way they had been treaded. Gazing at the teapots on the shelf, I would feel a certain comraderie: I too am like that -- dented, discoloured, drained. Yet, as I looked I would sense something else: quiet dignity... tremendous forgiveness... the willingness to go on. "Sweethearts," I would think, "if you can do it, I can too." Inspiration comes from the strangest places.Please do not suppose that I am condoning abuse. It is just that we all get beaten down by life -- with disappointments and frustrations, annoyances and fatigue. And somehow we find the strength to continue. And sometimes the courage to change.Recently my sweetheart Patti asked me if I knew what sincere meant. She had been working endless hours on a figure sculpture, which was the be cast in bronze eventually."No," I replied, "tell me about the meaning of sincere." Her explanation was that the s-i-n was like sans in French, meaning "without," and that the c-e-r-e meant "wax." To be sincere is to be without wax, the wax which can be used to cover up all the dents and blemishes, the chips and cracks, all those places we think we need to hide.To be sincere is to be of a piece -- with the imperfections showing. The lines and grooves are part of the beauty. The faults and shortcomings are part of the sincerity. When it comes to cooking, I put my faith in sincere, honest effort. I am less interested in showy, dramatic results intended to impress and astound than in day in and say out cooking. According to an old Chinese saying, "The uses of cleverness are soon exhausted, while the apparently simple is infinitely interesting."To be committed to covering up faults is to be continuously anxious that we could be unmasked or seen through. When the imperfections are pointed out, we can become angry or quite discouraged. Yet although we are "up-set," this removal of wax can also be a relief. Then we don't have to put all that effort into covering up anymore. The secret is out.In one zen story the student asks the teacher, "How can I attain liberation?" and the teacher responds, "Who is binding you?" The student is said to have had an awakening.I find that story revealing. I notice how I bind myself at times with demands for perfection and mastery. I tell myself endlessly, "Watch what you say. Watch what you do," until a kind of paralysis sets in. I withhold love and respect from someone who is dented and tarnished, and even find fault with his efforts to wax things over.Then I look at the teapots. And I am released.
by annabanana

Slight respite ..chance to think.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

Now there is a slight relief from the immediate danger to Bilquis's life in her struggle against cancer, I have been able to think a little bit once again.

This morning I wrote this for Blog Ladder, where I had been very upset by the administrator's recent and unexpected "filtering of religious content" policy.

Censorship and belief ... Cause and manifestation.

While fearing reprisals from "the editor", as a faithful believer in Unity and The One .. I will try to just recognise that, should there be apparent unwarranted excision of my words the Real Author of the act is also One, despite the fact that some people think they can make things happen (apparently without it having first been willed by a The First Cause .. something which I would dispute, given a fair chance).
Having said that, (and may those who understand it, understand, and those who do not, at least try to) ... I will just say that, looking around at Blog Ladder entries I am both stimulated and tired by what I see. I can easily accept that this is completely personal .. I claim no objective view, but I do want to understand it.
Why should things seem so attractive and so tiring at the same time ? I suppose I only have one answer and that is my longing for the Truth with a capital T. Am I allowed to say this and can I ever make myself understood ?
I do believe in Oneness .. in fact in One or The One .. and that all comes from there .. One source of all acts, one source of all objects and events .. from that source come all manifestations. It is our souls that love that source and our minds and egos that love and get involved in the manifestations wether they be people, nature, holidays, food, films, photography or philosophy or politics.
When I come to Blog Ladder I meet again all my old friends (and some new ones too) I am so happy to be here and interested to see the latest twists and turns of fate in the lives of each individual, their personal struggles, triumphs and concerns.I laugh and smile along with them .. I cry with them and am outraged with them .. am concerned about the way the world is going and what we can do about it, along with them. Sometimes I enjoy the quizzes and questions .. and then comes the tiredness.Why ?
It's too much "Dunya" .. too much of this world and it's manifestations.. I want some spiritual food and drink .. I want to be able to mention The One .. The Source .. and yet, it seems, that is not welcome here .. why is that ? Is not the very reason of our existence the most burning and important question ?Does it take death and war and disaster to make people look at the "big questions" ? Are people really happy just to live in this world without questioning it's inception and the miracle of at least one's own human life ?
Doesn't matter ... except that I like to think and write about these things and I think I belong on Blog Ladder with my friends.Aren't I a part of this little cyber community, despite the fact that I love spirituality and sufism and God ?
Please G.B. welcome me back and promise that you won't wipe off stuff of mine without some prior consultation.Just a thought .. when you got involved in computers and IT were you satisfied just to use it, or did you want to know about the nuts and bolts of how it all works ? (I am trying to draw an analogy between the digital virtual world and human existence).
That'll do for now, I have to accompany my wife to the hospital in an ambulance.I hope you don't wipe this off G.B. Give a chance to open discussion. Try not to be like that other G.B. playing God with peoples lives and religious beliefs.
Trying to trust you .. Grego.

Oh dear ... I'm tired.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

I'd like to rant and rave and cry and complain,but then ..perhaps that would not be "sufi stuff" (?) so I won't. May Allah and His Prophet and Sheikh Nazim help me and forgive me.

Hospital update.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

O.K. .. I've got a short opportunity to write something, so I will. At the moment I am staying at the "oncologico" with Bilquis .. they say it is one of the best cancer hospitals in Europe. Things look a bit rough to be honest and I am wondering how I am going to re-invent my life to cope with the situation. At the moment they're doing all sorts of tests on her including to see if the pains are anything to do with bone cancer.
Today she is a bit down and I have to fight the tendency to go up and down with her moods. Yesterday she was bright and happy and full of hope. There is some hope .. especially in this moment from the possibility of the medicine of Antonio Bru ... as well as the possibility that the "Renoven" (ex-BioBac) will help.
The truth is it has been left very late and the gaenacologists don't want to operate.
I'm not going to go into any more details right now.

I am at the house of an old friend of Bilquis's ; Blanca, who lives right near the hospital and looking at the possibilities of doing some English teaching work. Funds are running low and all that we made in the summer, that would normally have lasted a year, well, half of it has gone in two months.

What can I say ? Life goes on, what is past is past .. and that is all there is to it.
Two details. One, there was a possibility of an internet connection in the hospital .. they had very kindly provided a computer and a connection for the use of patients and visitors.. but, a) the keyboard did not work (even though I straightened all the bent pins in the plug with my penknife and put it in the right place .. at three o-clock this morning when I couldn't sleep and discovered all this) and b) the connection didn't seem to be working either. I don't know if I can find anyone who is interested to solve these problems amongst the already busy staff here .. I might mention to someone in the appropriate moment... at least I can put a paper in the suggestions box which sits there very empty. For the moment I may have some access from here at Blanca's place .. which I shall probably visit with the intention of walking her dog with her as a way to get a break from the hospital and get some fresh air and exercise.
And.. two, what an extraordinary relief and a pleasure it is to use a normal keyboard and not those horrible flat lap top keys .. so easy ! (I'm not totally inept at typing after all!)

Trying to orientate myself.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

Monday November 7th. 2005. Zarautz.

14.30.Hrs.

....... Luego voy a intentar hacer un sumario de lo que pasa .. a ver adonde estoy y que pasa. Pero, ahora tengo que comer ... cuanto tension en este casa !

How do I say this today ? Especially as I am writing to myself virtually again. Or at least to Jenny perhaps and maybe an occasional abu Qassim .. and few more ..however it doesn’t seem that appropriate for Sufistuff (where perhaps I have a few more readers) except that, the sum of it all is that all that matters is my relationship with Allah and the everlasting question of prayer and it’s efficacy or it’s reason/point ...

In theory it is really, at it’s best the continual submission to and recognition of Allah’s Greatness and total Authority in all affairs and destinies and outcomes .. It should be a sincere glorification of Him Almighty .. but .. as most everyone experiences to some degree .. it is much harder to continue when things are going badly or disagreeably than when they are going well. Maybe this applies especially in Islam where there is actually something that one has to do. i.e. practices which require adherence to a timetable, washing, reciting, bowing and prostrating etc.

My experience is that it is much easier to make dua .. to ask or make petitionary prayer in times of difficulty, but much harder to make the obligatory rakats or cycles of prayer due to Allah under Islamic shariat practices.
Maybe this is especially true for westerners to whom the arabic language is foreign and therefore much harder to be sincere in.

In theory, or in reality, everything comes down to this .. if one is really believing in the Prophet saws, then there should be no question about practices no matter what the circumstances .. however they can still be an irritance and a nuisance and almost counter-productive in that sense to individuals with very wild egos like mine, even though they have been trying for over twenty years to train and dominate the damn thing !

And there it is. This wierd lonely feeling, being muslim amongst all these non muslims .. like on B.L. trying to be a believer while being surrounded by non-believers. The not being able to even sleep in the same bed as my own wife let alone have any sort of physical relationship .. and then, in these circumstances see what one turns to for support or comfort when even internet freinds have been cut off.

Some sort of self reliance must appear in order for one not to go crazy. Knowing that one has an erratic and insecure source of income at the best of times, and now even that has been further destabilised.

Trying to rely on God .. tawwakul .. or reliance on Allah ..

Feeling like a hypocrite bcause it seems that I am doing the prayers for myself ..as a kind of insurance policy rather than a sincere act of worship and respect .. some fear and a vague notion of protection .. An observed worsening of events close to oneself when the prayer is neglected ..the incredibly unlikely misunderstandings caused within four small walls of a house or flat and some lessening of that when prayers are attended to.

Women ! Spanish women !

Hoh! It is all very well for the secretary of the doctor in Madrid to tell me about being positive and loving .. just as Itziar would too while we waltzed down the path to Bilquis’s near death with her hazy view of the New Medicine, including the “information” eagerly fastened onto by Bilquis, that the smell of putrifaction coming from her was because of making scar tissue .. ! Huh !

No .. this time I want facts .. I want information, not positive thinking and affection while the cancer wreaks havoc inside her.

Not that I am that impressed by the official medicine available ..but at least it is not afraid to publish facts about how it supposedly works .. even if the truth is that it doesn’t really work.

With Bio Bac or “Renoven” there is a covering up and non publishing of findings which is strange, if not to say suspicious.

One wonders why .. a) It could be because they don’t want “competitors” to find out .. so as to spoil their commerce .. or b) because really there are no facts to publish and the whole thing’s a scam or semi charlatan set up... or maybe c) something to do with not letting “the authorities” know anything .. or being seen to be curing cancer when “the other side” wants to eliminate them.

Who knows the truth ? I am fairly sure that cancer is big big business and there is much truth in the fact of covering up findings about any sort of cure which escapes from “their” hands .. or is cheap enough or effective enough to damage their very lucrative business. Who are “they” ..? I don’t really know .. but there are some very interesting facts about Bush and the people in his government and their positions on and shares in a big pharmaceutical company responsible for making the only known medicine against the supposed bird flu “pandemic”... and so it goes on.

I don’t really think Bio Bac or Renoven is a scam .. but I do want facts .. I want to know how it works .. on what scientific basis ..

The secretary tells me that hopefully I can have a phone call with the doctor at about ten tomorrow morning and it will be interesting to hear what he has to say.

All I know is there is some stuff around living enzymes .. something about the discovery of cells that multiply despite not having DNA ... and the use of mad cow disease as an example of something which it seems Bilquis cannot remember clearly .. and I’m supposed to be positive and loving with that as a basis ! Meanwhile we, as one of one thousand patients, spend 240 € a month on the medicine and a one hour consultancy costs 90 € !

I am led to believe that it normally takes at least one to one and a half months for the medicine to take effect and I don’t really know how long Bilquis is given by the official medicine before her cancer becomes mortal. i.e. I don’t even know if the time window is long enough for the medicine to start taking effect.

Reading this page last night, while being very informative, did not make me feel much better when I realised that Bilquis is on a level three and that her radio treatment is palliative .. i.e. to help with the pain rather than being curative.

Meanwhile, I’m not working, I have no friends or immediate family and I never go out anywhere .. no wonder I feel a little bit strange !

The only reality, the only relationship.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

Real Faith ?

Our hearts, when the light of faith enters into them, are going to be wider, wider, wider. Even if you put all the oceans into them, they may hold them. But our present faith is taqlid/imitation, while the other kind of faith is real. That is imitation, like a figure without a soul; thus, that real faith has not yet entered into our hearts. When it enters, the whole world is going to be changed, our view is going to be changed.. understand? Totally changed; everything is going to be changed. When real faith comes into our hearts and lights them, it will be as if a person has been blind but when his eyes are opened, he sees something other than what saw before. Therefore, don’t suppose that now we are in real faith.. no! not yet.
Grandsheikh was in the first world war from the beginning up to the end. He made jihad, the lesser jihad and the greater jihad; he completed them both. He said to me, 'O Nazim Efendi, if I were to tell you about all that the people and I suffered during the first war, in which I saw so many terrible events and sufferings, this whole place would be filled with books, you could write so many books about it. But everything passes. The events of yesterday are buried, finished; today new ones will come, new ones. If they are going to stay with you, all of them not passing, no one could bear this life’s heavy burdens. That has passed away. This is our Lord’s will.
'In our division there was an Armenian (Christian) sergeant. He asked one of the soldiers, while I was looking on, “What is your name?”
“My name is Ali.”
“Yes, You are Muslim?”
“Alhamdulillah, I am Muslim.”

“But if you say you are Muslim, I can also say that I am Muslim. What I believe is enough to say that I am Muslim. I also believe in one God Almighty and the angels and the holy books and the prophets and the Last Day and Qadar/the Divine Decree,” that Armenian sergeant said. “I say what you say. But is that enough to be a Muslim?”
“No.”
“Then what is the sign? If it is only saying as you say, I do that, also. If you are talking about namaz, prayers, I do them, also” (They lived as neighbors in Muslim towns and villages).
Then Grandsheikh said, “Look, you are asking for a sign. I am saying to you that it is not enough only to say with your tongue, “I am a believer, I am a Muslim”. You may even recite the Holy Qur’an. But the sign of a Muslim and a real believer is that he has a light from his Lord Almighty. When he looks down, he can see up to the end of this world; when he looks up he can see to the end of the universe. If he looks at he East he can see up to the end of the farthest East, if he looks at the West, he sees up to the end of the Western regions. If he looks toward the Qiblah/focus of attention, he sees the Kaaba” Then that sergeant fell upon the hands of Grandsheikh and kissed them.
Grandsheikh said that the real sign of belief is that a person has the light of faith in his heart, which comes from Allah Almighty. Nothing can keep back that light. Understand? What can keep back Nurullah, Allah Almighty’s Light? Distance never prevents that person from seeing; darkness never hides anything in itself. Therefore, when real faith comes into our hearts, they are going to be lighted. Everything in the universe is going to be in front of us; nothing may be hidden from us. That is the degree of real faith.
We are now within limits, and our sight is as if we are within four walls. But when Allah Almighty dresses one of His servants in Noor/Divine Light, there shall be no hindrance to his sight and his vision. Distances, walls, buildings, mountains etc. none of these shall obstruct the vision of this servant. Nothing shall prevent him from looking and seeing. He will be able to look in any direction and every direction. He shall be able to see without distraction up to the end of that direction.
Distance shall not effect his vision. Neither will darkness in the night be a veil over his sight. Night shall appear as day to him. This is because he is dressed in this Noor. Every cell of his body is also Noor and like the shining of the sun he shall be inside and outside of everything. Such a person shall be in the Divine Presence.
If Allah Almighty questions such a servant it shall be in the form of speaking to him, only in order to honor him. When Allah Almighty speaks to and addresses such a servant more and more honor comes to that person. This is only for honoring as His servant has done his best for Allah Almighty and has reached already to perfection. This is why he shall not be questioned. He has realised and reached to what Allah Almighty has asked of him, and to what Allah Almighty has appointed for him.
If a person does his best in trying to fulfil the purpose of his Lord, he must somehow reach to that station. When a servant of Allah Almighty reaches to such a station it shall never be lost to him; it shall be forever. When the real Power of Iman/faith enters his heart he shall change from being a worldly being into a heavenly being and his relationship to his heavenly stations shall be for always and ever.
In unity he shall have no more troubles, no more problems, no more sadness and no more hopelessness. He shall be granted by Allah Almighty to be able to say 'BE' and it shall become. When he reaches to that station he shall have no more egoistic desires.. finished! No more shall he belong to dunya/world nor shall he even belong to himself. He shall belong to Allah Almighty and Allah Almighty shall accept him. To live for Allah Almighty is the highest horizon of servanthood. We have been asked to move towards this horizon. This is our target.
When a person belongs to Allah Almighty he leaves everything and says ‘Oh my Lord I have now turned my face to You’. Do we really mean it when we say this or do we say this only with our tongues? Allah Almighty is asking us to say it and mean it. To say 'Oh my Lord, I belong to you and I am leaving out every other relationship in this life of mine. I am asking for a relationship with You in Your Heavens'. Then we shall be given this relationship with heavens.

(From az at Yahoo Groups Maulana40)

God-Given characteristics.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

Surprising true Story....

There was once a man who was an enemy to Islam. He had three famous questions that no person could answer. No Islamic scholar in Baghdad could answer his three questions...thus he made fun of Islam in public. He constantly ridiculed Islam and the Muslims.
One day a small boy, who`s age was 10, came along and heard the man yelling and screaming at Muslims in the street. He was challenging people openly to answer the three questions. The boy stood quietly and watched. He then decided that he would challenge the man. He walked up and told the man,
"I will accept your challenge". The man laughed at the boy and ridiculed the Muslims even more by saying, "A ten year old boy challenges me. Is this all you people have to offer!" But the boy patiently reiterated his stance. He would challenge the man, and with Allah`s help and guidance, he would put this to an end. The man finally accepted. The entire city gathered around a small "hill" where open addresses were usually made. The man climbed to the top, and in a loud voice asked his first question. "What is your God doing right now?" The small boy thought for a little while and then told the man to climb down the hill and to allow him to go up in order to address the question. The man says "What? You want me to come down?" The boy says, "Yes. I need to reply, right?" The man made his way down and the small boy, age 10, with his little feet made his way up. This small child`s reply was "Oh Allah Almighty! You be my witness in front of all these people. You have just willed that a Kafir be brought down to a low level, and that a Muslim be brought to a high level!" The crowd cheered and screamed "Takbir"...."Allah-hu-akbar!!!" The man was humiliated, but he boldly asked his Second question...
"What existed before your God"?The small child thought and thought. Then he asked the man to count backwards. "Count from 10 backwards." The man counted..."10, 9 ,8 , 7 , 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1,0" The boy asked, "What comes before 0 ?" The man: "I don`t know...nothing." The boy: "Exactly. Nothing was before Allah, for He is eternal and absolute." The crowd cheered again...."Takbir!"...."Allah-hu-akbar!!!!" The man, now completely frustrated, asked his final question.
"In which direction is your Allah facing?" The boy thought and thought. He then asked for a candle. A candle was brought to him. The blessed child handed it to the man and asked him to light it. The man did so and remarked, "What is this supposed to prove?" The young boy asked, "In which direction is light from the candle going?" The man responded, "It is going in all directions." The boy: "You have answered your own question. Allah`s light (noor) goes in all directions. He is everywhere. There is no where that He cannot be found. "The crowd cheered again...."Takbir!"...."Allah-hu-akbar!!!" The man was so impressed and so moved by the boy`s knowledge and spirituality, that he embraced Islam and became a student of the young boy. So ended the debate. Who was the young boy? The young boy was one of our leaders and one of the greatest scholars, Imam Abu Hanîfa (May Allah bless him).

(Taken from a post on MSN Groups The Haba'ib )

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Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

Perhaps I better open up a personal stuff blog ... I'm up here with Bilquis .. lying in bed all day ..pale and thin .. not moving in case the haemorage starts again .. waiting for radio therapy to try to cauterize the wound ...

All that is on top and how I shall cope with life and earn a living without her ...

Is it sufi stuff ? Comments would be appreciated as I can't bring myself to write on B.L.any more .. so don't have any of my customary feed back.

In a way I am being forced back on my faith / spiritual connection .. but it seems so wierd not having other human beings (good friends perhaps of the same culture) to share with ...

The sensation of aloneness is what stands out .. and somehow I am going to have make myself very strong .. something which, up 'til now, I have never been.

Recent dhikr movie and free internet phone calls.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

Anyone wants to see some familiar faces from tariqat, here's the latest video from St Anne's of a dhikr. (How many people can you name ?)
It was nice to see Sheikh Omar and Abdl Ahad from Spain at 41 minutes and 43 seconds into the movie. (you can move the slider along on Real Player)

Also my old mate Abu Qassim Spiker introduced me to "Skype" this evening .. I made my first free call to him and the quality was pretty good even with the tiny built in mike on my lappie. Good eh?

Letting go of the last attachments.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

Thanks Blogger .. up to our old tricks are we ? .. my carefully crafted post just lost in one go .. I'd forgetten how horribly frustrating all this can be ..

I really shan't be bothering much soon with all this ..the pain of being crushed in the crusher is just too much to make it worthwhile ..

Better to let go of my internet presence as it is already letting go of me !

Suing Bush for $ 7 bn.

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

Some people may be interested in this http://www.2012.com.au/Site.A.html ..look under "Updates Nesara" in the left hand column.

Bird Flu Scam

Bismi'llah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim...for the sake of Prophet Muhammad saws and Sheikh Nazim may Allah protect his secret.

This would have gone on B.L. today .. I suppose it is sufistuff in the sense that sufism (i.e. real Islam) offers the only realistic alternative to that disgusting and evil system that G.B and his mates are running .. or fronting for others hidden behind the political mask.I've only just realised that Greedy Bull who is the administrator of Blog Ladder and Dubya have the same initials .. is that a "coincidence" then ?

'Bilderbergers and Rumsfeld Profit from Avian Flu Scam'
'"This hoax is then used to justify the immediate purchase of 80 million doses of Tamiflu, a worthless drug that in no way shape or form treats the avian flu, but only decreases the amount of days one is sick and can actually contribute to the virus having more lethal mutations," Mercola continues. "So the U.S. placed an order for 20 million doses of this worthless drug at a price of $100 per dose. That comes to a staggering $2 billion.US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, former chairman of Gilead, the manufacturer of Tamiflu, will also make big profits, since he is a major shareholder. Better yet, Bilderberger spokesman Etienne F. Davignon (Vice-Chairman, Suez-Tractebel) and Reagan-Bush Cabal insider former Secretary of State George P. Shultz, PhD (Distinguished Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University) are also on the board of directors of Gilead.'