Sufi Secret-Path
“Bismillahir Rahmannir Raheem””Al-Hamdu Lillaahi Rabbil ‘Aalameen was Salaatu was- Salaamu ‘Alaa Sayidinaa Muhammadin wa Aalihi wa Asabihi Ajma ‘een (tauheed- risalat- ahkirat and islam-iman-ihsan)
Sufi secret (Soul-ruh)2
Re-absorption traces the stages of the Sufi path.
1. Soul/nafs into spirit/ruh and spirit into Divine Presence/huzoori(contemplation).
2. Nafs(lower self) and ruh(higher self) fight for occupying heart(realities of the spiritual world and actual experience).
3. The breast(sadr) – The heart proper (qalb)– Inner heart (fu’ad)- The intellect (lubb)- Sir/mystery– Gnosis (ma‘rifah)
Nafs—place of entry for evil whispering (waswas) and afflictions like (ghill ), passions (shahawat), desires (muna), and wants (hajat) etc etc(empting desires and distracting thoughts) .
The heart proper (qalb)-faith ,submissiveness (khushu), piety (taqwa), love (muhabbah), contentment (rida), certainty(yaqın), fear (khawf ), hope (raja), patience (sabr), and satisfaction (qanaah) ,knowledge (‘ilm) ,certainty (yaqın) and intention (nıyah)
Inner heart (fu’ad)–seat of gnosis (ma‘rifah), passing thoughts (khawatir ), and vision (ruyah)
The intellect (lubb)— seat of the light of unification ,uniqueness ,perfect light ,greatest power
,maqam at latifah.
Word ruh is used with respect to quran e pak ,angel jibril(as), isa(as) and for Allah’s assistance and strengthening.
In hadith words are used nafs/soul and also good/bad soul
“Verily when al-Ruh (Soul) is taken, the eyesight follows it”( Sahih Muslim)
“Do you not see when one dies, his gaze becomes firmly fixed? That was due to the fact his eyesight follows his Nafs” (Muslim related).
“al-Arwah (Souls) are troops collected together, those who familiarized with one another would have affinity with one another, and those amongst them who opposed one another would be divergent” (Agreed upon).
Those souls which attain a special degree of power not only rule their own body but those of others also. According as the effects produced by these powerful souls are good or bad they are termed miracles or sorceries.
These souls differ from common folk in three ways: (1) what others only see in dreams they see in their waking moments. (2) While others’ wills only affect their own bodies, these, by will-power, can move bodies extraneous to themselves. (3) The knowledge which others acquire by laborious learning comes to them by intuition/ilham.
God and the soul are invisible, indivisible, unconfined by space and time, and outside the categories of quantity and quality; nor can the ideas of shape, colour, or size attach to them.
In the heart of the enlightened man there is a window opening on the realities of the spiritual world, so that he knows, not by hearsay or traditional belief, but by actual experience, what produces wretchedness or happiness in the soul
Sins/Ignorance is darkness of soul and Knowledge/love of god is the lightness of soul( ignorance of god or knowledge of god will abide with the soul)
“He who is blind in this life, will be blind in the next life, and astray from the path.”.(quran)
The angel of life blows the soul into the fetus when it is 120 days old, abortion on very strict medical grounds is permissible only before the fetus is 4 months old. Once life has been blown into the fetus it becomes a living creature and to terminate its life is murder.
The Nafs dies and is buried, while its soul soars up to the heavens.
During sleep ruh kept its connection with the body (even though ruh left the body).Same way ruh does keep its connection after death , but here the body and the conditions are different.
When I want to talk to Allah I say prayers and when I want that he talk to me I recite quran- Hazrath Ali(ra)
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