Sufi Secret-Veils And Mankind
“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 secrets (veils and mankind) 1
Veils and mankind
“Allâh hath Seventy Thousand Veils of Light and Darkness: were He to withdraw their curtain, then would the splendours of His Aspect surely consume everyone who apprehended Him with his sight.” (Some read “seven hundred veils;” others, “seventy thousand.”)
Allâh is in, by, and for himself glorious. A veil is necessarily related to those from whom the glorious object is veiled.
mankind into four classes:
1.those veiled with veils of pure darkness; 2.those veiled with veils of mixed darkness and light; 3.those veiled with veils of pure light; 4. those who attain to the vision of the Unveiled.
Class I.–Those veiled with Veils of pure Darkness
1.Atheists(doesn’t believe in god and his messengers)
2.Naturist philosophers whose god is Nature,
3. Egotists whose god is Self. (because of sensual pleasure / status/glory /fame/name)
Answer –Spiritual heart is transdental and subtle.Nature is an, attribute which inheres in material substances, and is immanent in them, and is moreover a, dark one, for it has no knowledge, nor perception, nor self-consciousness, nor consciousness, nor light perceived through the medium of physical sight.They live the life of the beasts of the field. slavery to self-impulse and self-love. pleasure is their god. wealth is the instrument for the satisfaction of every lust (personal reputation)
Treatment— kalma +evil deeds must be displeasing and good deeds give pleasure+ performing good deeds.
Class II.–Those veiled with Veils of mixed Darkness and Light
Darkness has its origin in the 1.Senses 2.Imagination 3.false syllogisms of the Intelligence.
1…(people using senses)- have yearning for the knowledge of god ,believe their god is mightier
they must prefer to their dark selves, they make for themselves figures splendidly fashioned, and then take those images unto themselves as gods.
Answer —1.But the darkness of sense veils from them the knowledge that they must transcend the world of sense in this quest. 2.Senses are darkness in relation to the World Spiritual.
3.Such men are veiled by the light of Majesty and Beauty from the attributes of Allah and his light: they have affixed these attributes to sense-perceived bodies; which sense has blocked out the light of Allah.
2….(people using imagination)-no religious community or code ,believe that god is some beautiful object so that when they see a human being of exceptional beauty, or similarly a tree, or a horse, etc., they worship it and call it their god.
Answer –1.These are veiled by the light of Beauty mixed with the darkness of Sense(imagination). 2.The Beauty they worship is of Nature’s hand, and not of their own.
3.Are unable to get beyond the imagination. These have got beyond the senses, for they assert the existence of something behind the objects of sense. 4. so have worshipped a Being who actually sits on a throne.
But the highest in degree are those who denied to Allah corporality and all its accidentia, except one–direction, and that direction upwards; for (say they) that which is not referable to any direction, and cannot be characterized as either within or without the world, does not exist at all, since it cannot be imagined by the imagination.
3….(people with false syllogisms of the intelligence)– Our deity/god must be in His essence Light, glorious in His express image, majestic in Himself, terrible in His presence, intolerant of approach; and yet He must be likewise perceptible. For the imperceptible is meaningless in the opinion of these. Then because they find Fire thus characterized, they worship it and take it unto themselves as lord.
Answer –veiled by the light of Dominion and of Glory, which are, indeed, two of the Lights of Allah.
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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