Arif-Organs

“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 4

Three organs of spiritual communication: the heart (qalb), which knows God; the spirit (ruh), which loves Him; and the inmost ground of the soul (sirr), which contemplates Him.

The qalb- spiritual not physical, its nature is rather intellectual than emotional, but whereas the intellect cannot gain real knowledge of God,

is capable of knowing the essences of all things(by faith and knowledge) .

veiled/blackened by sin, tarnished by sensual impressions and images, pulled to and fro between reason and passion

The heart receives immediate knowledge of God; through another, it lets in the illusions of sense.

Nafs and soul fight it over control of heart. So Humans are animals without knowledge or above angels with out passion/desires/lust.

How shall a man know God? Not by the senses, for He is immaterial; nor by the intecllect, for He is unthinkable. Logic never gets beyond the finite; philosophy sees double; book-learning fosters self-conceit and obscures the idea of the Truth with clouds of empty words. This knowledge comes by illumination, revelation, inspiration.

“Look in your own heart,” says the Sufi, “for the kingdom of God is within you.” He who truly knows himself knows God, for the heart is a mirror in which every divine quality is reflected.

Eye of the heart =inward spiritual sense (cleanse your heart with sensual passions)

Only with help of god you will cleanse your heart.

sufi regards God as the real agent in every act, and therefore takes no credit for his good works nor desires to be recompensed for them.

Ordinary knowledge = ‘ilm and mystic knowledge = ma‘rifat or ‘irfan(depends entirely on the will and favour of God, who bestows it as a gift from Himself upon those whom He has created with the capacity for receiving it)

Those who seek God are of three kinds:

1.the worshippers to whom God makes Himself known by means of bounty, i.e. they worship Him in the hope of winning Paradise or some spiritual recompense such as dreams and miracles;

2.the philosophers and scholastic theologians, to whom God makes Himself known by means of glory, i.e. they can never find the glorious God whom they seek, wherefore they assert that His essence is unknowable, saying, “We know that we know Him not, and that is our knowledge”;

3.the gnostics, to whom God makes Himself known by means of ecstasy, i.e. they are possessed and controlled by a rapture that deprives them of the consciousness of individual existence.

The Sunnah makes no distinction between individuals, e.g. seekers of Paradise and seekers of God, but that in reality it contains exactly what each person requires. (by means of gnosis, which God communicates to the heart, or by means of guidance imparted by a spiritual director)

Religion addresses itself to the common herd of men who are veiled by their minds, by logic, tradition, and so on; whereas gnosis belongs to the elect, whose bodies and spirits are bathed in the eternal Light.

Religion sees things from the aspect of plurality, but gnosis regards the all-embracing Unity.

Although works of devotion are not incompatible with gnosis, no one who connects them in the slightest degree with himself is a gnostic.

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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