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Abosait, When Allah said 'KUN' - 'FAYAKUN! - In other words everything were created with His Command Kun! Every single atom was created by Him. Everything belongs to Him. Every corner, every part of space is filled with His presence. Whether it is inside, or outside, we are swimming in His Essence. Like the fish swimming in the water, it is covered by God's Rahmah/Mercy without the fish knowing it. Can the fish escape from the water without dying? Can it? This is why we need to increase our ability to 'see' things not only with our physical eyes but also with our 'spiritual eye'. If you cannot understand from where your Ruh comes from, to whom it belongs to, and what is its function in your body, it is such a sad thing. It is as if you are living like a zombie. I know that there are some so-called Sufi Master who were errant and bring bad names to Sufism but of course there are True Ones, Dedicated Servants of Allah whose niyah or intention is - ILAHI ANTA MAKSUDI WAREDHAKA MATLUBI, A'THINI MAHABBATAK WAMA'RIFATAKA. Imam Ghazali, Ibn Khaldun, Ibn Sinna, Abdul Qadir Jailani to name a few were great sufis. Either you deny this fact or you do not know that they were. Edited by Nur_Ilahi - 20 April 2009 at 7:03am |
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The
Human Soul
Adapted from Rawdzatu at Talibin Imam Ghaz�l� Shaykh Tosun Bayrak Allah
Most High says in the Holy Qur�an (15:26-29) that when He created man
from black mud and fashioned him into the beautiful shape of a human
being, and made him complete, HE BREATHED INTO MAN HIS SOUL FROM HIS OWN
SOUL. That
is what makes us His best creation, a whole universe, a microcosm
containing all of creation, almost a divinity, BUT MORTAL, although we are
blessed with something within us which is immortal, eternal. But can we
identify the "soul"? Can we touch it, see it, feel it? Where is
it within us? What does it do to us? We
find an excuse for claiming not to understand the soul. We are told by
Allah Most High Himself, addressing His most loved creation, our Master,
(saws), that if they (we) ask him about the soul to tell us that "the
soul is under the command of our Lord and of its knowledge we are given
but little�" (17:85) But
our soul is our only connection with our Lord, which came from Him and
which will return to Him. And we are told, "He who knows himself (his
soul) knows his Lord." So we must seek. We must understand even if
"we are given of this knowledge but little." Did
our Creator make our father Adam (a.s.) out of a "sounding clay of
black mud" like a jug, and then pour his soul into that clay? Was
Adam (a.s.) a container and the soul what he contained? That analogy does
not work, because the flesh is created and the divine soul is not.
Besides, the sons and the daughters of Adam (a.s.) are made from nutfa,
the human embryonic cell in our mothers� belly which grows, changes
shape, ages, shrivels and disintegrates! Also, we are told that the Divine
Spirit in each of us is a "Whole" indivisible. How can it be
chopped into pieces, with a small portion placed into each human being? The
ones who know say that the existence of the soul in a created being
necessitates the existence of a capacity, a receptivity in that being.
Without this "receptivity" to accept the soul, we could not have
it. The soul is a light. And the receptivity, the ability to be lighted,
enlightened with the human soul, is likened to a wick in an oil lamp. The
oil lamp is the body, a manifestation of the Divine Attributes ya Khaliq,
ya Bari, ya Musawwir: the Creator, the Maker, the Shaper. The oil is life,
a gift and manifestation of the Divine Attribute ya Hayy, the Ever-living.
In the whole of creation,the wick is a unique gift, given only to the
human being: Aql, intelligence, a manifestation of the Divine Attributes
of ya Nur, the Light, and ya Alim, the Knower. To
light this lamp of the human being, the wick must have the capacity to
absorb the oil of the experiences and the mysteries of life. Human
intelligence must absorb knowledge. Otherwise, it ca not catch fire. When
Allah Most High says Nafahtu, "I blow into him", it is as if His
ever-existing Nur, the Divine Light, touches the receptive human
intelligence, and lights the light of the human soul. Intelligence which
does not understand, which does not know, does not have the capacity to
receive the eternal soul. That is why our master, the Beloved of Allah
(saws) says, "He who does not have intelligence does not have faith
or religion." The
soul is not contained within us like water in a cup, or like knowledge
which enters our memory or mind. It is more like sunlight reflected on a
window at sunset, or an image reflected in a mirror. But if the mirror is
dirty, nothing will show in it. How
does the soul�s light manifest itself in us? It is that which makes us
see, hear, and smell, but not the usual way we sense things. The
enlightenment of the soul should make us see true reality, even make us
see our Lord, in the way of Hd. Ali (r.a.) who said, "I do not
worship a God whom I do not see." And indeed he worshiped him
intensely. Or like Hd. Omar (r.a.) who saw, from Medina, the Muslim armies
in danger of being surrounded all the way in Persia and shouted "Pull
back to the mountain!" and was heard. Or like the blessed companions
of the Prophet (saws) who used to hear rocks and plants saluting the
Beloved of Allah (saws). And like the Messenger of Allah himself (saws),
who smelled the perfume of Hd. Uways al Karani (r.a.) long after he had
returned home and said, "I smell the presence of a friend." And
who furthermore looked into the eyes of Hd. Aisha (r.a.), who had seen
Uways, and saw him in her eyes. If
we have a soul, we should be able to know ourselves, and in this knowledge
know our Lord. As
in the analogy of the oil lamp, when the oil of life is used up, the light
of the soul goes out. When the soul leaves the body, where does it go? It
returns to where it always was. Heraclitus,
an ambassador from Byzantium, asked the Messenger of Allah (saws),
"Where is your paradise, your hell, if not in the world or in the
skies?" The Beloved of Allah (saws) responded, "Fe Subhan Allah!
Mercy! Where is the day when the night comes?" http://www.crescentlife.com/spirituality/human_soul.htm Edited by Nur_Ilahi - 20 April 2009 at 7:13am |
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abosait
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Noor, plese read for yourelf two of the Verses under reference and the translation of their meanings as understood by the Sahaba and passed on to us through scholars.
وَإِذْ قَالَ رَبُّكَ لِلْمَلاَئِكَةِ إِنِّي خَالِقٌ بَشَرًا مِّن صَلْصَالٍ مِّنْ حَمَإٍ مَّسْنُونٍ (15:28)
فَإِذَا سَوَّيْتُهُ وَنَفَخْتُ فِيهِ مِن رُّوحِي فَقَعُواْ لَهُ سَاجِدِينَ (15:29)
(28. And (remember) when your Lord said to the angels: "I am going to create a man (Adam) from dried (sounding) clay of altered mud. '')
(29. "So, when I have fashioned him completely and breathed into him (Adam) of My spirit (the soul which I created for him,) then fall down, prostrating yourselves before him.'')
God's "breathing of His spirit" into man is obviously a metaphor for His endowing him with life and consciousness: that is, with a soul..
4. When the soul returns, the dead person is able to hear the retreating footsteps of the men who came to bury him. This is an exception to the general rule in the Qur'aan that the dead cannot hear the living. 6. The torture of the grave is for the soul, but if Allah Wills, it can also be felt by the body. The human body has to decay and decompose into the ground, but as the punishment of the grave is for the soul, it can continue until the Last Day. |
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Allah made the Souls of the people and has preserved them to be introduced into the fetuses at the appropriate time. After the fetus has completed 120 days in the mother's womb, the angels introduce its soul into the foetus and it is then not permissible to abort it, no matter what the deformity, unless continuation of the pregnancy would put the mother�s life in danger.
We have already discussed about the deviant belief of the Sufis and I have explained to you what the Qur'an and Sunnah teach us about Soul. Please visit pages #1 to #11 of the following link:
Edited by abosait - 20 April 2009 at 6:07pm |
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Yes, and who has
this limited knowledge? It is the special people who had won the jihadatunnafs.
The jihad of the Nafs. It is not us nor any layman who had litle knowledge of
Allah. People like the Nabiyullah and waliyullah. My teacher had said, the
position of a True Murshid (Shaikh) and The Prophets is like the middle and the forefinger. So Very
close.
The description
of Ruh/Nafs that you stated is true and correct. However what is the real
function of this Naf/Ruh that Allah had lent to us?
Be careful
Abosait. The article that I posted is not a fabrication of the writer's mind.
But written by none other than one of our beloved scholars of Islam
Imam-alGhazali. I even highligted it in blue bold.
In your
desperation to win this debate, you would resort to anything to prove you are
right. Even to the extent of belittling our Islamic scholars? We are not here to win or lose a debate Abosait but to exchange or explore the
ilm of Allah. Remember Allah says in the Quran - 18 - 109. Say (O Muhammad to
mankind). "If the sea were ink for (writing) the Words of my Lord, surely, the
sea would be exhausted before the Words of my Lord would be finished, even if we
brought (another sea) like it for its aid." Possibly you need to clean the 'dirty mirror' that is in you so that you
heart will be softened and cleaned. My previous ustadz said - The zikr to soften the heart is reciting -
Ya Latheef many times.
If you are honest
Abosait, why not you link the website so that we could verify the authenticity
of the writer. You seems to prefer to believe an anti-Sufi websites than our own
Great Islamic Scholar like Imam Ghazali or Abdul Qadir
Jailani? Edited by Nur_Ilahi - 21 April 2009 at 6:28am |
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The Shaikh is given a high rank in Sufism, perhaps higher than that of the pope in Catholicism.
Stop worrying about the author.
You are not answerable for other's deeds.
So worry about your own Aakhirah.
I agree that no human is infallible except Rasoolullah Sallallahu Alahi wasallam, but Other great personalities will have so much of good deeds to their account that a few slips here and there will not add much loss to the weight of their a'amaal.
Stop slandering/weighing the A'amaal of the elders and worry about your own aakhirah because none will bear the burden of another.
Al-Bukhari recorded that `Abdullah bin Mas`ud said: The Prophet entered Makkah (at the Con- quest), and around the House (the Ka`bah) were three hundred and sixty idols. He started to strike them with a stick in his hand, saying,
[جَآءَ الْحَقُّ وَزَهَقَ الْبَـطِلُ إِنَّ الْبَـطِلَ كَانَ زَهُوقًا]
(Truth has come and falsehood has vanished. Surely falsehood is ever bound to vanish.) [17:81]
[جَآءَ الْحَقُّ وَمَا يُبْدِىءُ الْبَـطِلُ وَمَا يُعِيدُ]
(Truth has come, and falsehood can neither create anything nor resurrect (anything).) [34:49] |
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The Shaikh is given a high rank in Sufism, perhaps higher than that of the pope in Catholicism. Of course! Definitely! Even you and I have a better position than the Pope because you know why? Because we believe in Allah Subhanahuwataala and we believe that Muhammad is the last Messenger. By the way, what makes you think that the Pope has got a higher position than us Abosait? Stop worrying about the author. - At least I am not afraid to quote my sources. Why do you? Unless you have something to hide? You are not answerable for other's deeds. So worry about your own Aakhirah. -
Tasawwuf teaches us a high level of Love towards The Creator and all of Creation. The dua' from our True Murshid will have an effect on us in the hereafter. So are our dua' if it is Ikhlas.
I agree that no human is infallible except Rasoolullah Sallallahu Alahi wasallam, but Other great personalities will have so much of good deeds to their account that a few slips here and there will not add much loss to the weight of their a'amaal.
You are saying that our great Scholars like Imam Ghazali who wrote the Great Ihya Ulumuddin, Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jailani - the leader of all Sufis made a slip by following Sufism?
Stop slandering/weighing the A'amaal of the elders and worry about your own aakhirah because none will bear the burden of another.
I am not worrying about the 'amal of the elders, I am following the 'amal of the Learned Elders in this case the Great Sufis for the benefit of my own akhirah. Because if you know yourself you know Allah.
There is an analogy of the Sufis - If a King wants to give anything that he owns to you, what will you choose? Some people would want the palace, some would want the money, some would want the land, but a smart person would choose The King.
That is what Tasawwuf is all about. Desiring/yearning for none other than Allah Subhanahuwataala.
Salam
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But Islam teaches us to seek the countenance of Allah.
Al-Baqara [2:272]
2:272 It is not required of thee (O Messenger., to set them on the right path, but Allah sets on the right path whom He pleaseth. Whatever of good ye give benefits your own souls, and ye shall only do so seeking the "Face" of Allah. Whatever good ye give, shall be rendered back to you, and ye shall not Be dealt with unjustly.
30:38 So give what is due to kindred, the needy, and the wayfarer. That is best for those who seek the Countenance, of Allah, and it is they who will prosper.
30:39 That which ye lay out for increase through the property of (other) people, will have no increase with Allah. but that which ye lay out for charity, seeking the Countenance of Allah, (will increase): it is these who will get a recompense multiplied. |
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