Sufism |
Post Reply | Page <1 678910 12> |
Author | |||||
senekerk
Senior Member Joined: 08 December 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 161 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||||
Assalaam alaikum Martin Lings allah yerhamu is a great author i highly recommend his book on the prophet, the reviews speak for themselves Thank you for the links I have the book by Martin Lings, almost have it finished. Also have a CD set of the 99 attributes of Allah which I listen to in the car. I find them comforting. Angel- Thank you so much for posting the articles about sufism. it is a lot more complicated than I would have thought. I will just stick with mediatation and comtemplation of Allah and his 99 atributes Edited by senekerk |
|||||
Kay
|
|||||
rami
Moderator Group Male Joined: 01 March 2000 Status: Offline Points: 2549 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||||
Bi ismillahir rahmanir raheem
Is this the CD set by Sh. Hamzah Yusuf and another shaykh,cant remember his name. You have probably recieved this advice already but i will say it just in case, you can do dhikr (remembrance in a chanting manner) by allah's 99 atributes. example would be repeating any of the names with "ya" in front of it, "ya allah, ya rahman, ya raheem, ya kareem, ya wali, ya hadi, ya qudus". Ya is similar in meaning to "oh" as in oh Allah except there is no questioning aspect to it but rather a requesting one, any combinatiosion is fine or you could just use one of the names. "Dhikr" is a major part of islam and is mentioned many itimes in the Quran, "O Believers, make abundant mention of ALLAH!" (33:41), "Lo! Worship guards one from lewdness and iniquity, but verily, remembrance of Allah is greater/more important." (29:45) "He is successful who purifies himself, and remembers the name of his Lord, and so prays." (87:14-15) "So establish prayer for My remembrance." (20:14) The Prophet said: "If your hearts were always in the state that they are in during dhikr, the angels would come to see you to the point that they would greet you in the middle of the road." Edited by rami |
|||||
Rasul Allah (sallah llahu alaihi wa sallam) said: "Whoever knows himself, knows his Lord" and whoever knows his Lord has been given His gnosis and nearness.
|
|||||
senekerk
Senior Member Joined: 08 December 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 161 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||||
Salaam This is a 4 disc set by Sister Aminah Assilmi, w/ Nazir Shaheen. I ordered it from the Islamicity bazar. |
|||||
Kay
|
|||||
Angel
Senior Member Joined: 03 July 2001 Status: Offline Points: 6641 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||||
just bumping it up for those who wished to have a look |
|||||
~ Our feet are earthbound, but our hearts and our minds have wings ~
|
|||||
poga
Senior Member Joined: 03 January 2007 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 322 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||||
SWEETSWORDS 65 [ Marrifatic Map ] 3 - 2 - 1 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 5 + 8 BISMILLAH By Poga Humayun Dundiwala Trust in ALLAH but tie the Camel Poga Say's in a foolington Maze Even BE IMAN believes ALLAH and MUHAMMAD in theirs gambling bet Awaluddin Marrifatullah Say's Aujubillahi Minash Qadianur Razim Mr Barzakh Fitrath Ullah : From nameless nowhere comes the nonsense From the nameless nowhere comes the dream From the nameless nowhere comes the nescience Mrs Be Aql Khan Usta : If Sufi is Islamic word then so is Shadu and Swami
Mr Barzakh Fitrath Ullah : The voice came from voiceless mouthless phone ref......................................................... ..
Friday Sermon from the Prophet's Mosque in Madina on Al-Jum'ah 7 Dhul-Hijjah 1421 (March 2, 2001) All praise is due to Allaah the Most Beneficent, Most Merciful. I testify that there is no god worthy of worship save Allaah and I also testify that Muhammad saws is the messenger of Allaah. O you Muslims! Fear Allaah, for fear of Allaah is one�s provision for the next world and his treasure in this world. Hold fast unto your religion. Allaah has chosen Islaam as the religion for the inhabitants of the Earth and the Heavens and He has guided to it whomsoever He wishes among His slaves. Allaah has also made for those who follow this religion three ranks: Islaam, eeman, and ihsaan, which is the highest of the three ranks. Ihsaan is the best rank of Islaam, for one attains closeness to Allaah only through ihsaan. Ihsaan means doing good to oneself by worshipping Allaah with perfection and doing good to people. Allaah says,
"And who can be better in religion than one who submits his face (himself) to Allaah (i.e. follows Allaah�s religion of Islaamic monotheism); and he is a muhsin (a good doer)." (An-Nisaa 4:125). He also says, "And do good. Truly Allaah loves Al-Muhsinun (the good doers)." (Al-Baqarah 2:195). The Almighty has also promised a great reward for the good doers in this world and the next. He promises them protection and good things of this life when he says, "Truly Allaah is with those who fear Him (keep their duty unto Him), and those who are good-doers." (An-Nahl 16:128) Among the reward of good deeds is that it makes good-doers win Allaah�s love. Allaah says, "Verily, Allaah loves the good-doers." (Aal Imraan 3:134). Doing good also makes Allaah provide relief for the good-doer whenever he is in distress and makes Allaah save Him from his enemies. Allaah also blesses the good-doers with different kinds of blessings and lets them have a happy ending. He says regarding Yoosuf, "Verily, he who fears Allaah with obedience to Him and is patient, then surely, Allaah makes not the reward of the good-doers to be lost." (Yoosuf 12:90) Among the rewards of good deeds is that Allaah will impart knowledge into the heart of the good-doer, which will enable him to differentiate between lawful and unlawful things, and between truth and falsehood. Allaah says about Yoosuf, "And when he (Yoosuf) attained his full manhood, We gave him wisdom and knowledge. Thus We reward the doers of good." (Yoosuf 12:22). Allaah also rewards the good-doers by making later good doers join their predecessors, giving them of His bounties and completing His favour on them. He says, "And the foremost to embrace Islaam of the Muhajirun (those who migrated from Mecca to Medina) and the Ansar (the citizens of Medina who helped and gave help to the Muhajirun) and also those who follow them exactly (in faith), Allaah is Well-pleased with them as they are well-pleased with Him. He has prepared for them Gardens under which rivers flow (Paradise), to dwell therein forever. That is the supreme success." (At-Tawbah 9:100). Allaah also rewards good doers by praising them and making His slaves praise them as well. The Almighty says about prophet Nooh (Noah), "Salaam (peace) be upon Nooh (from Us) among the Alamin (mankind, jinn and all that exists)." He also says regarding prophet Ibraheem (Abraham), "Peace upon Ibraheem! Thus indeed do We reward the Muhsinun." And about prophets Musa and Harun, He says, "Peace be upon Musa and Harun. Verily, thus do We reward the good-doers." (As-Saafaat 37:119-120). Although the verses mentioned above speak about prophets, yet the rewards mentioned in it will be the same to be given to other good-doers. He also says, "For those who do good in this world there is good, and the home of the hereafter will be better. And excellent indeed will be the home (i.e. Paradise) of the Muttaqun (the pious)." (An-Nahl 16:30) About the reward of the good-doers in the hereafter, Allaah says, "For those who have done good is the best (reward i.e. Paradise) and even more (i.e. having the honour of glancing upon the countenance of Allaah). Neither darkness nor dust nor any humiliating disgrace shall cover their faces. They are the dwellers of Paradise, they will abide therein forever." (Yoonus 10:26) The word "more" means having the prestige of seeing the Countenance of Allaah as it has been successively related in hadeeths that the believers will see their Lord on the day of Judgement. As a matter of fact having the privilege of seeing the Gracious Countenance of Allaah on the last day is a suitable reward for Ihsaan (i.e. good deeds) because ihsaan means to worship Allaah in this world as if one sees Him. Glancing at His Gracious Countenance plainly on the Day of Judgement then becomes the greatest reward for good deeds. As regards the unbelievers, their eyes will be screened from seeing Allaah on that day, as their hearts were veiled from knowing Allaah and fearing Him in this world. Allaah says, "Nay! Surely they (the evil-doers) shall be veiled from seeing their Lord that day." (Al-Mutaffifeen 83:15) Fellow Muslims! What then is this ihsan (good deed) that attracts such a high position before Allaah and such a great reward? The answer was provided by the Messenger of Allaah saws when he said , "Al-Ihsaan is to worship Allaah as if you see Him. And even though you do not see Him, He sees you!" (Muslim). This hadeeth means that man should worship Allaah, mindful of his closeness to Him and his standing before Him just as if he is seeing Him plainly. This state brings about God-consciousness and love of Allaah and purifies ones acts of worship. Anas bin Malik narrated that a man said, "O Messenger of Allaah! Tell me a short word." The Prophet saws replied, "Pray as if you are in your farewell prayer, for if you do not see Allaah, He sees you." And the meaning of the phrase "if you do not see Him, He sees you" is that if one cannot worship Allaah as if one sees Him, he should then worship Him with the conviction that Allaah does see him and that none of his affairs is concealed from Allaah. Haarithah related that the Prophet saws told him, "O Haarithah! How did you enter into your morning?" He said, "I replied, �I entered into the morning as a true believer.�" He said, "The Prophet saws then told me, �Watch what you say, for every word has a reality.�" He said, "I then said, �O Messenger of Allaah, I keep myself away from the (leisures of this) world, spend my nights in prayer and fast during my days. I am now as if I am looking at the throne of my Lord appearing. I am also as if I am looking at the inhabitants of Paradise as they visit one another. And it seems as if I am looking at the dwellers of hell as they howl therein!" The Prophet saws then said, "You have indeed seen (what you claimed to have seen). Therefore continue on your state of Ibaadah, O slave whom Allaah has illuminated his heart with faith!" Al-Ihsaan is to observe prayer in the best form, moving closer to Allaah and beseeching Him secretly during the night when people are asleep. So also is doing good to people. Allaah says, "Verily, they were before this good doers. They used to sleep but little by night (invoking their Lord and praying with fear and hope). And in the hours before dawn they were (found) asking (Allaah) for forgiveness. And in their properties there was the right of the beggar (who asked) and the poor (who do not ask others)." (Adh-Dhaariyaat 51:17-19) Al-Ihsaan also means striving against one�s soul, struggle against Satan, hypocrites and unbelievers. Allaah says, "And many a Prophet fought (in Allaah�s cause) and along with him (fought) large bands of religious learned men. But they never lost heart for that which did befall them in Allaah�s way, nor did they weaken nor degrade themselves. And Allaah loves the patient ones. And they said nothing but, �Our Lord! Forgive us our sins and our transgressions (in keeping our duties to you). Establish our feet firmly and give us victory over the disbelieving folk! So Allaah gave them the reward of this world, and the excellent reward of the hereafter. And Allaah loves the good-doers." (Aal-Imraan 3:146-148). It is also an aspect of Ihsan to spend in the way of Allaah whether one is rich or poor, to suppress ones anger and forgive the ignorant ones when they misbehave. Allaah says, "Those who spend (in Allaah�s cause) in prosperity and in adversity, who repress anger and who pardon men; verily, Allaah loves the good-doers." (Aal-Imraan 3:134). It is a part of Ihsaan to surrender to the truth, to love it and to listen to the revealed book of Allaah with sound and healthy minds and attentive ears. Allaah says, "And when they listen to what has been sent down to the Messenger, you see their eyes overflowing with tears because of the truth they have recognised. They say, "Our Lord! We believe; so write us among the witnesses. And why should we not believe in Allaah and in that which has come to us of the truth (Islaamic monotheism)? And we wish that our Lord will admit us (in Paradise on the Day of Resurrection along with the righteous people (Prophet Muhammad saws and his companions). So because of what they said, Allaah rewarded them with gardens under which rivers flow (in Paradise), they will abide therein forever. Such is the reward of the good-doers." (Al-Maa�idah 5:83-85) Fellow Muslims! Fear Allaah as He should be feared and race towards His pleasure. Know that His pleasure can never be attained except by carrying out his commandments and abstaining from what He prohibits, for this is really the worship, for which He created the man and jinn. Allaah has also bestowed his favour on you by explaining to you preferable periods in which one should increase his act of worship so as to get great rewards. Among these periods are the first ten days of Dhul-Hijjah. Standing at Arafah also falls within these days, and it is on this great day that Allaah forgives great sins. The Prophet saws said, "There is no day in which Allaah redeems as many souls from hell as the day of Arafah. Allaah comes near and boasts with His servants in front of the angels. He then says, "What do these people want?" (Muslim). Abo Qataadah ra also narrated that the Messenger of Allaah saws was asked about fasting on the day of Arafah, and he replied, "It removes the sins of the previous year and the current year." (Muslim). Strive therefore to do as many good deeds in this day as possible. Remember Allaah much and keep yourslef away from the prohibited things. Allaah says, "And march forth in the way (which leads) to forgiveness from your Lord and Paradise as wide as are the Heavens and the Earth, prepared for the pious. Those who spend (in Allaah�s cause) in prosperity and in adversity, who repress anger and who pardon men; verily, Allaah loves the good-doers." (Aal-Imraan 3:133:134).
The sufi is universal. He has reduced and then eliminated the marks of selfhood to allow a clear view of the cosmic reality. He has rolled up the cosmos in its turn and obliterated it. He has gone beyond. The sufi has said "Allah" � until he has understood.
Shaykh Muhammad ibn al-Habib, the first shaykh of Shaykh Abdalqadir, says with reference to Ihsan in the long supplication which forms part of his wird, one of the central practices of the path we follow:
This brings the matter right back to home to us sitting here in this zawiyya which is a place dedicated to making Ihsan a reality in the lives of those who use it. What is being talked about is not some theoretical construct but rather what is possible for us as human beings; what direction we are going to take in our own lives. The shaykh speaks here about the presence of unseen worlds and he also speaks about forgetfulness and defects, and this brings us immediately face to face with two very different paths we might follow in our lives. The word for human being in Arabic is insan. One meaning of this word is the pupil of the eye; another possibility is that it comes from the word which means to forget. So the word itself contains the two directions which a human being can take. One possibility is that we become completely engrossed in this world, forgetting that it is merely part of a much longer journey which started before we were born and will continue beyond our death. The other possibility open to us is that, like the pupil of the eye, we become a lens, except that whereas the pupil stands as the interface between the outer world of forms and the inner world of sense perception, the human being as a whole stands potentially as the conscious interface between this material world and the unseen world of spiritual realities. So how does it come about that we hold this exalted position in the scheme of things? There are three sayings attributed to the Prophet Muhammad, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, which together make up a complete description of the true nature of existence and of our place as human beings in it and which take us to the very root of our humanness and put us beyond all the evolutionary or historical definitions with which we have been so profoundly indoctrinated. The first is: "Allah was and there was nothing with Him � and He is as He was." The second is Allah's words on the tongue of His Messenger: "I was a hidden treasure and I desired to be known. So I created the creation in order to be known." And the third is Allah's words conveyed by the Prophet: "The whole universe cannot contain Me but the heart of My believing servant contains Me." "Allah was and there was nothing with Him�" The current climate of opinion has turned the existence of God into a matter of philosophical speculation with the result that for most people, including many who consider themselves believers, the existence of God has been turned into a speculative hypothesis. How far we have come from the Truth! The existence of Allah is the most absolute certainty. Not, it is true, the distant, capricious, potentate God of misinterpreted scripture but Reality itself, that Oneness on Whom everything is totally and continually dependant for its being, but Who is Himself beyond need of anything � Oneness, not in the arithmetical sense of being the first of two or three but rather that absolute singularity the physicists talk of which does not permit the independent existence of anything else along side it. Everything else comes into existence and goes out of it again, begins and ends, is born and dies. Allah is before and after. There is no beginning to His firstness, no end to His lastness. Nothing is like Him or can be compared with Him nor is it possible to have any conception of what He is like. "And He is as He was." If this is the case how come we are sitting here now living on this planet which is part of the solar system in one of countless galaxies in a universe which seems to go on for ever? The answer to this question is that the absolute, majestic and overwhelming transcendence of the first tradition is conditioned by the second: "I was a hidden treasure and I desired to be known. So I created the creation in order to be known." It was the desire for self-knowledge expressed in the depths of the Essence of the Divine Being that caused the process of creation and led to the unfolding of the many layers of existence and all the forms contained in them including ourselves and the universe we inhabit. And there is another tradition about the actual moment of creation which says that when Allah decreed that the creation should come into existence out of non-existence He grasped a handful of His light and said to it, "Be Muhammad!" And then from that light He created everything else in existence. Now we have to be careful when we hear this that we do not dismiss it by considering it to be merely a figure of speech or a poetic metaphor. It is literally what happened. Shaykh Muhammad ibn al-Habib says in his Diwan at the beginning of the qasida entitled The Qualities of Muhammad:
From him all things were clothed in their origination in being,
So what has, through the aeons of expansion, turned into innumerable galaxies made up of stars and planets, a few of which are visible to us when we look up into the breathtaking beauty of the sky at night, was all present in a latent form in this literally fistful sized ball of light. Because of the inconceivable degree of chance necessary to bring about the conditions which made our emergence as sentient human beings on this planet a possibility, the scientists have developed a theory they call the anthropic principle. They say that if we make the simple assumption that human beings exist, all the principle qualities of the universe, all the natural laws, even all the physical constants, can be derived from this assumption. In other words what they are saying is that the whole universe exists only in order to give human beings somewhere to live, so that they, in turn, will be able to describe the universe. How little they understand! In the 13th Century Shaykh Muhyi'd-din ibn al-'Arabi, whose family came from Murcia and who lived down the road in Seville, enunciated clearly what was in any case common knowledge among the Muslims: "In the universe it was man who was intended." This was, of course, because they knew that the first impulse of creation took the form of the Muhammadan Light: in other words they understood that the whole purpose of existence was the coming into being of the perfect human form which became physically manifest in the succession of incorruptible Messengers and Prophets of Allah, may the peace of Allah be upon all of them, who reached their apogee and fulfilment with the advent of the Prophet Muhammad, may Allah bless him and grant him peace. That was the mirror in which the "Hidden Treasure" became known by revealing Himself to Himself in all His Majesty and Beauty. Now we are approaching the subject matter of this talk: the gnostic knowledge of mankind; what Shaykh |
|||||
Nur_Ilahi
Senior Member Joined: 19 January 2008 Status: Offline Points: 1031 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||||
Assalamualaikum, I am a new comer here and I would like to add some comments about sufism. As we know Rasulullah started preaching Islam in Mecca for 13 years. The ayahs or sentences that came down in Mecca were mostly on aqidah or faith. Once their faith were strong and they started to emigrate to Medinah and started a Muslim society, then Allah brought down ayahs that stress more on the shariah. Once their aqidah or faith were strong, whatever laws or command that Allah introduced were accepted with open hands. I had been reading about tasawwuf for the past 20 years and had been searching for a Sufi teacher. Only recently had I met with one and the zikir and meditation seems simple but it in reality it is so very difficult. It is an internal war against our own nafs (lust/desire/passion/ego) It is a silent zikir (saying Allah in the heart.) I found that this 'amal is the best of all the ibadah that I had learnt my entire life. (by the way I am nearing 50). And I thank Allah for giving me this knowledge. Indeed Sufism is the essence of Islamic teaching. The meaning of tasawwuf is - Note: Tasawwuf, Tazk�yah al Nafs, Tasf�yyah al Qalb, Irf�n, Sufism, Isl�mic Mysticism, Esoteric or Inner Dimension of Isl�m, Purification of the Heart/Self/Soul and more recently Isl�mic or Sufic Psychology are used inter-changeably. Tasawwuf is an acronym made up of the four consonant letters: t, s, w, and f. http://www.crescentlife.com/spirituality/sufism.htm As to the initiator of this question, I recommend that you stick to this practise because you will feel the calmness of the soul. If possible cry as much as you can when you meditate. The tears are for washing the sins of our souls. The only advise I would like to give you is that do not wait too long to say the shahadah. You may never know when you will die. Please do not die before you accept Allah as your True Salvation. Salam. |
|||||
Ilahi Anta Maksudi, Wa Redhaka Mathlubi - Oh Allah, You are my destination, Your Pleasure is my Intention.
|
|||||
poga
Senior Member Joined: 03 January 2007 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 322 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||||
ASSALAMUALAIKUM firstly i congratulate you for right decision to accept ISLAM now you know the concept of one creator and his system of prophet hood and you also know prophet hood is ended with MUHAMMAD Sallel La Hu Alahi Wa Sallim Because you now believe this firmly than you also know QUARAN and HADIS are complete Because prophet hood has ended QUARAN and HADIS must provide answer to the end time now this Sufi swines says they only know something what if they do not give no one can get therefore QURAN and HADIS is not enough we also need Sufi and this is against ISLAM and as for theirs TSWF T for TOILET S for sh1t W for waste F for filth
|
|||||
Angel
Senior Member Joined: 03 July 2001 Status: Offline Points: 6641 |
Post Options
Thanks(0)
|
||||
Please learn more about sufism. Have you read all of this thread?
I don't think this is acceptable here. |
|||||
~ Our feet are earthbound, but our hearts and our minds have wings ~
|
|||||
Post Reply | Page <1 678910 12> |
Tweet
|
Forum Jump | Forum Permissions You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot create polls in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum |