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Perfection of the Holy Face:
The Book of Huwa Hu
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"Everything (that exists) will perish except His Holy Face." Holy Quran (28:88)
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 From Hellboy to
Hu-man
From the Teachings of Mawlana Shaykh Nazim Haqqani, His Deputy Mawlana Shaykh Hisham al-Qabbani
The Most Distinguished Naqshbandi Sufi Way takes its name from one of the biggest Sufi saints, our Master Muhammad Baha'uddin Shah Naqshband, who said "our way is association, and goodness is with the gathering." In the presence of an authorized Master, the hearts of seekers are slowly attuned to the Divine Presence. As much as the seeker can maintain the presence of their Master, whether physically or spiritually through meditation, that Master can effect a change in the condition of the seeker's heart. God says "I cannot be found in Heaven or on earth, but I can be found in the heart of a person who believes in Me." So the purpose of a spiritual guide is that they are able to change the condition of your heart so that it becomes a source of Divine blessings .
The heart of every person is like a treasure chest filled with precious jewels. We all have equal access to the treasure, but most people do not seek a means to open that chest. Every result requires a means - you need a way to achieve that result. Watch any movie about a lost treasure, and you will find the treasure hunters seeking something that others have heard about but have abandoned hope of finding. It is the same in Sufism. Many people have heard of these realities, but they don't seek them out. Then the treasure hunters seek out a means to find that treasure, and in every movie they find a treasure map. The map is symbolic of the lives of the Saints who have already walked the spiritual path and received their spiritual trusts. When we read about their lives and study their teachings, we are following a map towards a Heavenly treasure.
Therefore, the entire spiritual path is focused upon perfecting the light that is contained within the heart, and its foundation is the relationship between the student and a perfected spiritual guide who can mentor that student to perfection. This is a particularly important point in the era of the "self-help" mentality. They take that knowledge from the Sufis, because Sufism is an organic form of psychology. But when they brought this knowledge to the West they took out the concept of a perfected guide and called it "self-help", and Mawlana is teaching us that all of that is a false illusion with no spiritual fruits because it requires the individual to be truthful with him/herself, and the reality is that no one is truthful with themselves.
Generally, when someone is asked what their character defects are they say "well, I have a bit of a short temper sometimes, but other than that I'm a great person." No one will say, "I am a terrible person filled with bad characteristics" because the ego hides our defects so that we won't work on ourselves. The wisdom of following a spiritual guide is that they have walked the path and purified themselves of these defects. They know all of the defects, and they know how to treat those defects. Just like a doctor knows how to diagnose and treat a patient, a Sufi Master is able to diagnose and treat negative characteristics that you may not be aware of, but which are preventing you from reaching the Divine Presence.
When we enter Mawlana's presence for the first time,
we are like the character from the movie "Hellboy".
Hellboy was a huge red-coloured demon with two horns that he filed down so as to not look so grotesque, and we do exactly the same thing! As Hellboy tries to hide his horns, we try to hide our bad character from others. We perfume ourselves and beautify the outside to mask the fact that our inner core is rotten, but in reality, true and lasting beauty comes from connecting the soul to its Divine source. That is why Saints have a beautiful appearance and a beautiful and loving character. They have achieved a station of everlasting beauty by purifying their hearts from material desires.
"By the soul and the proportion and order given to it, and its inspiration as to its wrong and its right; Truly he succeeds who purifies it, and he fails that corrupts it." (91:7-10)
When we enter a Sufi order, however, we are not purified. We are filled with anger and bad character that is making us to be very fiery, like Hellboy. The goal of the Sufi path is to move from that negativity which is represented by Hellboy, towards the perfected image that the Divine created us in, which is represented by the Saints, because they are inheriting from the reality of the Prophet Adam (as) .......More of the Article Online
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His Crown is
Bismi Allah
Al-Rahman Al-Raheem
By
Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani
THE FURTHEST-TREE OF THE FURTHEST BOUNDARY
Sayedena Muhammad (pbuh) and Jibraeel traveled once more until they reached the absolute limit of the created intellect, named Sidratul al Muntaha: "The Furthest-Tree of the Furthest Boundary."
There they saw nothing which the tongue could describe. The effect of the sight they beheld on Muhammad (pbuh) is a secret which took place in his heart. A sound came to them from above which dissipated some of Muhammad's (pbuh) astonishment.
At that time he saw a large tree which does not resemble any of the trees of paradise, a tree without description, covering all the paradises, heavens, and universes.[ Tree of Certainty, Tree of Life ]
The trunk of the tree was a huge angel named Samrafeel. Sayedena Muhammad (pbuh) could see nothing else besides it. It grew from an infinite, unimaginable, indescribable ocean of musk.
The tree had an infinite number of branches, created from a heavenly element that has no name in a created language. The distance between one branch and another was five hundred thousand light-years.
On every branch there was an infinite number of leaves. If all the created universes were placed on a single one of these leaves they would disappear, like an atom disappears inside an ocean of water.
On every leaf sat a huge angel in a multi-coloured light. On his head was a crown of light and in his hand a staff of light. Written on their forehead was the inscription:
"We are the inhabitants of the Furthest-Tree." Their praise was: "Praise be to Allah Who has no end."
Their names are the Sarufiyyun, "The secret ones," because they are created from the absolute secret of their Rabb (Lord).
From the trunk of the tree four absolute springs issued, Whose Source was
Bismi Allah Al-Rahman Al-Raheem
From Meem of Bismi came MA- The first was a pure, transparent, crystal water;
From Ha of Allah came Halib- the second was a river of white milk;
From Meem of Rahman-the third was a river of pleasurable, untarnished wine that elevates without abasing;
From Meem of Raheem -the fourth was a river of pure honey mixed with gold.
All These rivers flowed into the Pond of Kawthar.
[ read article of Secrets of Meem]
Inside the trunk was the prayer-niche of Jibraeel, and his constant words of praise are: Allahu Akbar: Allah is Great! to which the reply always comes from above: Ana Akbar: I am Greater! Ana Akbar: I am Greater!
Jibraeel entered his prayer-niche and he called for the prayer. All the Sarufiyyun stood in rows and Muhammad (pbuh) led them in prayer. The prayer finished and all the Sarufiyyun were ordered to give their greetings to Muhammad (pbuh) one after the other. After this, a great angel came out from behind Jibraeel's prayer-niche and asked Muhammad (pbuh) to approach.
Muhammad (pbuh) and Jibraeel entered the trunk of the tree and reached in a glance the entire sight of creation.
On the top of the tree they saw Adam and Hawwa and Nuh, Ibraheem, Musa, Isa, and all the other prophets whom they had just visited.
With them they saw all their respective nations, sitting with them in spirit together with those of Muhammad's nation who had already left this world.
All were sitting there together, happy, basking in the love and beauty of their Rabb's (Lord's) mercy and praising Him.
That Furthest-Tree carries the knowledge of all of Allah's creation from the beginning of its sequence in time. Whatever is created is part of it and contained in it.
It was called the tree "of the furthermost boundary" because everything ends in it and after it begins a new life. Allah decorated it with the light of His own essence. It has three characteristics: a continuous shade of light extending over every creation, a continuous pleasure reaching everyone from the fruit of its branches, and a continuous fragrance from its flowers scenting with beauty the life of creation. More on Line ...
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