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“I was a hidden
treasure and I wanted to be known so I created creation.”
Hold to a true
shaykh. Strength will
come. Your strength is his
gathering you closer. Soul of the soul
of the soul, Moment to moment, Hope to draw
breath from that one. No matter how
long you’ve been apart… That presence has
no separation in it. Do you want to
understand more about this friendship? Read the surah called ‘Daybreak’. Rumi |
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If your students do not know how to swim, Being still children, You give them a vessel that they can ride
on From the shore of darkness to the shore
of safety, From the shore of difficulties to the shore
of peacefulness, From the shore of hatred to the shore of
love, From the shore of anarchy to the shore of
harmony, From the shore of terrorism and violence
to the shore to peacefulness and satisfaction. If you bring them there, It will be a heaven, A paradise for them, And this is the responsibility of saints. Shaykh
Muhammad Hisham Kabbani How
saints carry the burdens of mankind: The story of Sayyidina Biyazid al-Bistami Sayyidina Bayazid al-Bistami (Q) used to
worship and worship and worship and worship, asking in all his
prayers that Allah open for him that beautiful Divine Presence. And after progressing for many years, he
heard a voice in his heart that said, “Ya Aba Yazid, what do you want?” He said, “Ya
Rabbi, I want to come to You.” Allah (swt)
said, “Ya Bayazid, there
is a correct way to come to Me.” “Ya Rabbi, what
is that way?” Allah (swt)
said, “You have to be a garbage dump for My servants.” What does that really mean? Being a garbage dump means that you have
to carry the burdens of Allah’s servants in order to come to
Him. You cannot come with your ego to
Him. In order to step on your ego
and come to Allah, be a garbage dump.
So what did Aba Yazid
do to become a
rubbish dump? How do you do that? You have to leave anger, be patient, you
have to be of service to humanity, regardless of what they do
to you . Biyazid was thinking and
thinking and thinking, “How am I going to be of service to people?” To become a rubbish dump means everyone
has to speak badly of you, but you still carry
their burdens. Everyone has to say, “This one is bad.” And you instead have to be saying, “Ya Rabbi, forgive them, Ya
Rabbi, forgive them.” How many times did the neighbor of
Prophet (s) dump his rubbish at the door of Prophet (s)? For 7 years. The Prophet (s) did not
tell anyone – he took the garbage and quietly threw it away. So to become a dump means you have to
forgive everyone. |
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or Sufi Orders Mevlevi Order, founded by Jallalludin Rumi founded by Maulana Bahauddin Naqshband ·
Sufism's
Many Paths: Dr. Alan Godlas,
University of Georgia To make people love you is easy. Be a sincere person, and everyone loves
you. You are happy when they say, “Masha`Allah, you are a lion.” But, if they say to you, “You are a
donkey,” you will get angry! Both of them are animals – a
donkey and a lion. But being a lion
makes the ego happy. Being a donkey makes the ego
angry. Just as you are made happy by
something being said of you that really does not have value, the love of people is something
good that makes you happy – but compared to the love of Allah,
that love of people has no value. Sayyidina Bayazid had created some problem in the city – we will
not go into that story now, but as a result they
ordered him killed by stoning. He was given the power to destroy but instead he forgave
everyone. They stoned him continuously,
children and adults, until he fainted.
And as he was being stoned, he was
saying, “Ya Rabbi forgive them. Ya Rabbi forgive
them. Ya Rabbi forgive
them.” Who can do
that now? They thought he was dead, so they threw him into the rubbish
dump. Seven days he stayed there unconscious. When he woke up he said, “Ya Rabbi, I wish that they had thrown stones until I died, and You
brought me back to life, and I could be stoned to death again, my Lord, for Your love. “Make my body as big as hell so that no one can go to hell
except me. And let everyone else go to That is the
saints’ approach to the Divine Presence, among them Sayyidina Bayazid al-Bistami. From Keys to the Divine Kingdom by Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani |
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