tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11167814.post4429929248126896863..comments2023-10-16T05:38:22.472-04:00Comments on Sufi Amanesis: Free Downloadable Qur'an With AudioAnab Whitehousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09349433166342161304noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11167814.post-70331709971497155192014-12-23T01:40:50.495-05:002014-12-23T01:40:50.495-05:00Downloadable Qur'an With Audio is so amazing. ...Downloadable Qur'an With Audio is so amazing. great sharing!<br /><a href="http://downloadsoftwaresonlinefree.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">pc software torrents</a>marysummerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13501546242993166696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11167814.post-10402422550829620062010-05-19T15:04:13.096-04:002010-05-19T15:04:13.096-04:00Dear Faisal,
Wa 'alaykum as-Salaam!
Hazrat S...Dear Faisal,<br /><br />Wa 'alaykum as-Salaam!<br /><br />Hazrat Shabistari (may Allah be pleased with him) once wrote: <br /><br />Dream not of lights,<br />of marvels or miracles.<br />For your miracles are contained <br />in worshiping the Truth;<br />All else is pride, conceit,<br />And illusion of existence.<br /><br />The foregoing resonates with <br />Hazrat Ra'bia (may Allah be pleased with her) saying that <br />one's existence (that is, awareness of oneself as <br />something independent of, or apart from God) 'is a sin with which none other can compare'. <br /><br />Sometimes, spiritual experiences can feed such a sin because they take us away from the Truth. Sobriety, on the other hand, is bowing down, with understanding, to the presence of Truth ... including the identity of the One doing sajda. <br /><br />A friend of my shaykh -- the person who taught my shaykh Persian when the latter was younger -- once said words to the effect that spiritually speaking, we are all like infants at the Ocean's edge who spend our time playing with colored, sparkling stones while the immensity of the <br />Ocean is near at hand ... untouched. <br /><br />Shabistari's poem, my shaykh's friend's words, and your comment also resonate with the saying of <br />Hazrat Abu Bakr Siddique (may Allah be pleased with him) that realization of our inability to know Divinity is itself a kind of wisdom.<br /><br />I also remember my shaykh saying that there are some awliya of Allah who have never had one spiritual experience and that the rich spiritual condition of these individuals is hidden from people -- including the person himself or herself. Spiritual experiences may serve as way stations along the path -- when they are properly understood -- but the purpose of the path -- indeed, the nature of shari'ah itself -- is to realize the Truth as it is manifested through the locus of essential being known as fitra.<br /><br />AnabAnab Whitehousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09349433166342161304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11167814.post-437058121655784622010-05-19T13:48:30.940-04:002010-05-19T13:48:30.940-04:00walaik...Sir
Just read your blue introduction reg...walaik...Sir<br /><br />Just read your blue introduction regarding Sufism in:<br /><br />http://sufi-mysticism.org/sufi.htm<br /><br />...and I felt an uncomfortable yet liberating sense / feel that I have merely scratched the surface of the path even though I celebrate 20 years on the path this fall...Do I aspire / intend for the beautiful lake (SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCES) or the terrifyingly deep ocean (TRUTH)? <br /><br />May Allah guide us all TO THE STRAIGHT PATH...Ameen. Suma Ameen. Faisal<br /><br />ps - Good to read that you were able to make Fatiha at Mevlana's Maqaam....Indeed a spiritual hospital for the broken-hearted based on my personal experience...Faisal Sheikhnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11167814.post-69396636340338634562010-05-17T22:22:44.805-04:002010-05-17T22:22:44.805-04:00Wa 'alaykum as-Salaam Faisal,
Let us hope, Go...Wa 'alaykum as-Salaam Faisal,<br /><br />Let us hope, God willing, that some people take advantage of the offer. <br /><br />I remember my visit to Konya ... it was back in 1975. I had the great good fortune to be there with my shaykh. <br /><br />At that time, the shrine was closed to the public. However, the people who were our hosts (we were the guests of the government) opened up the shrine and let us pay our respects which, among other things, involved saying fatiha for Hazrat Rumi.<br /><br />AnabAnab Whitehousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09349433166342161304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11167814.post-39876028180253375102010-05-17T09:07:23.676-04:002010-05-17T09:07:23.676-04:00Bless You and Queen Bilquees for all your endeavor...Bless You and Queen Bilquees for all your endeavors!Ma-sha-allah! Just what the doctor ordered! BTW my Mom and Dad made a secret pilgrimage to Konya last week...They had left me with the impression that they were just going to Bodrum...Obviously Mevlana had other plans! salaamFaisal Sheikhnoreply@blogger.com