Arif-Contemplation

“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 3

“There are really two kinds of contemplation-perfect faith and rapturous love(knowledge of faith with love)

When the lover turns his eye away from created things, he will inevitably see the Creator with his heart. (Close bodily eyes to lusts and spiritual eyes to created things)

He who is most sincere in self-mortification is most firmly grounded in contemplation. (contemplation of the Self-subsistence)

 A certain Sufi said, ‘I made the pilgrimage and saw the Ka‘ba, but not the Lord of the Ka‘ba.’ This is the perception of one who is veiled.

Then he said, ‘I made the pilgrimage again, and I saw both the Ka‘ba and the Lord of the Ka‘ba.’ This is contemplation of the Self-subsistence through which everything subsists, i.e. he saw the Ka‘ba subsisting through the Lord of the Ka‘ba.

Then he said, ‘I made the pilgrimage a third time, and I saw the Lord of the Ka‘ba, but not the Ka‘ba.’ This is the ‘station’ of waqfat (passing-away in the essence).

The whole of Sufism rests on the belief that when the individual self is lost, the Universal Self is found, or, in religious language, that ecstasy affords the only means by which the soul can directly communicate and become united with God.

The term fana includes different stages, aspects, and meanings. These may be summarised as follows:

1. A moral transformation of the soul through the extinction of all its passions and desires.

2. A mental abstraction or passing-away of the mind from all objects of perception, thoughts, actions, and feelings through its concentration upon the thought of God. Here the thought of God signifies contemplation of the divine attributes.

3. The cessation of all conscious thought. The highest stage of fana is reached when even the consciousness of having attained fana disappears. This is what the Sufis call ‘the passing-away of passing-away’ (fana al-fana). The mystic is now rapt in contemplation of the divine essence.

The final stage of fana, the complete passing-away from self, forms the prelude to baqa, ‘continuance’ or ‘abiding’ in God

“It comes to a man through vision of the majesty of God and through revelation of the divine omnipotence to his heart.”

God has inspired every created thing to praise Him in its own language, so that all the sounds in the universe form, as it were, one vast choral hymn by which He glorifies Himself. Consequently those whose hearts He has opened and endowed with spiritual perception hear His voice everywhere, and ecstasy overcomes them as they listen to the rhythmic chant of the muezzin, or the street cry of the saqqa shouldering his waterskin, or, perchance, to the noise of wind or the bleating of a sheep or the piping of a bird.

Music awakens in the soul a memory of celestial harmonies heard in a state of pre-existence, before the soul was separated from God.

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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