Meditation, the Spotlight on you

A`udhu billahi min ash-shaytaan ir-rajeem

Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem

Our constant request is to receive support at every moment from our Masters, seals of Messengers, and our Creator.  When we are not showing that we are in need then why support has to reach us.  God says in the holy Quran: “Ask from me, I’ll give you more”, “Be Thankful and I’ll give you more”.   The duty of the servant thus becomes to ask his Lord for support in everything and show humility by being thankful.  The more he is thankful the more support he receives.  Meditation/Muraqabah gives an individual the opportunity to isolate themselves from the outside noise of the world and start to look inward.  They begin to put the spotlight on their inner self.  This spotlight is not for anyone but for you to see all the unpleasant that exist within you.  It is a slow process where the major outer layers have to be exposed before you can bring out all the negativity in you.

We have to ask.  We have to show that desire within us that we are in need.  Our nature is not to do much until we are put through difficult circumstances that we begin to seek help from the divine.  It is also the waves of emotions the self experiences through everyday life which slowly begins to push it toward depression.   These become the causes and we seek an effect to overcome them.  This desire of needing help begins to appear in our heart.  When this desire is given a little attention it will move us to do things that we did not think we were capable of doing.  That becomes the initial step toward finding a spotlight.  A source of light that can heal us.  The healing we are truly in need of is for our inner self.  The self which is riddled with bad desires and covered with negative energy.  When we are affected by a physical illness, majority of time we have to take medication and send it inside our bodies.  That medicine travels throughout our body via the blood.  That blood is touching every segment of our body and the medicine is delivered to the part that requires healing.  The medicine has to go inside our body to cure the sickness.  Imagine how we have to cure a soul that is ailing.  The soul is created from light and a pure energy.  Everything negative covers the soul with darkness and everything positive nourishes its light.

The heart of a true master is the spotlight that can nourish our soul.  The Prophet Muhammad(s) said, 'whoever knows himself, will know his Lord.’  How can you know yourself?  When we want to see our physical self we look in the mirror.  We also need a mirror for our inner self.  The heart of our master is like a pure mirror reflecting the divine and heavenly lights.  Their good characteristics and behaviors will make you to differentiate between the bad that exists in you.  But you have to show that desire first.  You have to be in need and ask with humility.  Humbleness is to lower the self by showing you are in need of help.  Our Master Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Qabbani said recently ‘step on your ego.’  These are like bullet points we have to keep in front of us and constantly remind ourselves.  They are needed when your feet and hands are moving toward bad desires.  They are needed when the bad self is in your way stopping you from good actions.  When you lower yourself it takes away arrogance from the heart. 

 Meditation is important to reflect and seek the light of your master.  His light will begin to show the negative behaviors and characters we carry.  His light is not only to expose the bad self but also a source of healing.  The more you reflect the more light they will send for you to take away the darkness from your heart.

Health Conditions That Are Benefited By Meditation

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Drug Addiction

The Meditation technique has proven to be a successful coping strategy in helping to deal with drug addiction," a useful tool in psycho-neuro-immunology (PNI) by helping to control the immune system, and an effective manager of stress and pain.

Prolonging Life Expectancy

A strong link has also been established between the practice of Meditation and longevity. Only two factors have been scientifically determined to actually extend life: caloric restriction and lowering of the body's core temperature. Meditation has been shown to lower core body temperature.

 

Stress Control

Most of the people who get on meditation do so because of its beneficial effects on stress. Stress refers to any or all the various pressures experienced in life. These can stem from work, family, illness, or environment and can contribute to such conditions as anxiety, hypertension, and heart disease. How an individual sees things and how he or she handles them makes a big difference in terms of how much stress he or she experiences.

Research has shown that hormones and other biochemical compounds in the blood indicative of stress tend to decrease during Meditation practice. These changes also stabilize over time, so that a person is actually less stressed biochemically during daily activity.

This reduction of stress translates directly into a reduction of anxiety and tension. Literally dozens of studies have shown this.

Pain Management:

Chronic pain can systematically erode the quality of life. Although great strides are being made in traditional medicine to treat recurring pain, treatment is rarely as simple as prescribing medication or surgery.

Anxiety decreases the threshold for pain and pain causes anxiety. The result is a vicious cycle. Compared with people who feel relaxed, those under stress experience pain more intensely and become even more stressed, which aggravates their pain. Meditation breaks this cycle.
Childbirth preparation classes routinely teach pregnant women deep breathing exercises to minimize the pain and anxiety of labor. Few call it breath meditation, but that's what it is.
Meditative techniques are also a key element in the Arthritis self-help Course at Stanford University. More than 100,000 people with arthritis have taken the 12-hour course and learned meditation-style relaxation exercises as part of a comprehensive self-care program. Graduates report a 15 to 20 percent reduction in pain.

In one study overseen by  72 percent of the patients with chronic pain conditions achieved at least a 33 percent reduction after participating in an eight-week period of mindful meditation, while 61 -percent of the pain patients achieved at least a 50 percent reduction. Additionally, these people perceived their bodies as being 30 percent less problematic, suggesting an overall improvement in self-esteem and positive views regarding their bodies.

Meditation may not eliminate pain, but it helps people cope more effectively.

Cancer and Other Chronic Illness

Meditation and other approaches to deep relaxation help center people so they can figure out how they'd like to handle the illness and proceed with life. Dr. Ainslie Meares, an Australian psychiatrist who uses meditation with cancer patients, studied seventy-three patients who had attended at least twenty -sessions of intensive meditation, and wrote: "Nearly all such patients can expect significant reduction of anxiety and depression, together with much less discomfort and pain. There is reason to expect a 10 percent chance of quite remarkable slowing of the rate of growth of the tumor, and a 50 percent chance of greatly improved quality of life."

Heart disease.

Meditation is a key component of Ornish therapy, the only treatment scientifically proven to reverse heart disease.

High blood pressure.

As soon as Dr. Benson learned that Meditation reliably reduced blood pressure in meditators, he taught the relaxation response to 36 people with moderately elevated blood pressure. After several weeks of practice, their average blood pressure declined significantly, reducing their risk of stroke and heart attack.

Infertility

Couples dealing with infertility may become depressed, anxious and angry. To help them cope, Alice D. Domar, Ph.D., a psychologist at the Mind/Body Medical Institute, taught the relaxation response to one group of infertile couples. Compared with a similar group of infertile couples who did not learn deep relaxation, the meditators experienced less distress-and were more likely to get pregnant.

Psoriasis:

This disease causes scaly red patches on the skin. A pilot study at Dr. Kabat-Zinn's clinic suggests that compared with the skin patches of people with psoriasis who receive only standard medical therapy, the skin patches of those who also meditate clear up more quickly.

Respiratory crises

Asthma, emphysema and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) all restrict breathing and raise fears of suffocation, which in turn makes breathing even more difficult. Studies at clinic show that when people with these respiratory conditions learn breath meditation, they have fewer respiratory crises.

Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS), Tension Headaches

Meditation can ease physical complaints such as premenstrual syndrome (PMS), tension headaches and other common health problems.
Meditation gives people a psychological buffer so that life's hectic pace doesn't knock them out. Practicing meditation is like taking a vacation once or twice a day. When you nurture yourself, you accrue tremendous spin-off benefits.
For example, when you are under high stress, it can worsen symptoms of PMS because stress can cause the muscle tension associated with PMS complaints such as fatigue, soreness and aching. On the other hand, when you meditate regularly, you dramatically reduce your body's response to stress, and that can ease the discomfort associated with PMS. The results may not be apparent for several months. You will probably need to meditate regularly for several months before your body responds positively.

Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Ulcers, and Insomnia

Meditation can also improve irritable bowel syndrome, ulcers, and insomnia, among other stress-related conditions. Eighty percent of the people who use meditation to relieve insomnia are successful.
Meditation can help prevent or treat stress-related complaints such as anxiety, headaches and bone, muscle and joint problems. Meditation also provides an inner sense of clarity and calm, and that, in itself, may help ward off certain illnesses.

Fibromyalgia

According to one study, meditation may relieve the discomfort of fibromyalgia, a condition that causes fatigue and intensely painful "trigger points." When 77 men and women with fibromyalgia followed a ten-week stress-reduction program using meditation, all reported that their symptoms improved. And half described their improvements as "moderate to marked."

The Healing Power of Sufi Meditation

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" Everyone Should Read this book, Muhammad Nazim Adil Rajab 2010"

Foreword by Shaykh Muhammad Nazim Adil al Haqqani

Obedience and the 3 States of Matter (part 2)

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Obedience and the 3 States of Matter
From The Teachings of Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Qabbani

Are You Chasing After The Material World

Who's Riding Hu

Unfortunately, people today are no longer following Saints - they are only following their egos , Instead of riding your ego it is riding you. It is a strange phenomenon because in every aspect of our material lives we seek out experts. If we want to become a doctor, we go to medical school. If we want to become a lawyer we go to law school. In everything we do in life, we must learn from a teacher. You cannot open a practice without that stamp of approval on your wall that says you have been tested and verified as a real doctor by this school – it is not allowed. But you ask people today what school are you taking your spirituality from, they say “there is no need for that. I can read the Holy Books myself and come to my own conclusions.” For some reason, when it comes to spirituality many people reject the concept of learning from a master and follow their ego instead. But the Saints are teaching us that in dealing with life's difficulties and trials, it is important to constantly be guided and inspired by people more pious than ourselves.

“O ye who believe, fear God

and keep the company with those who are truthful.” (9:119)

3 States of Matter and the Shams al-Tabriz
“Obey God, obey the Prophet (s) and obey those in authority.” (4:59)

These three levels of obedience are also symbolic of the 3 states of matter: solid, liquid and gas.

 

The Divine is like the gaseous state: we can't see it, we can't taste it and we can't smell it. In our physical, solid form it is impossible for us to interact with gas, and that is why God is saying “obey Prophet (s)”.

 

Prophet (s) is symbolic of the liquid state which, like the gaseous state, is impossible to follow because it has no form. Obedience to Prophet (s) is like trying to hold liquid in our hand. Since we are solid we must find those with form to guide us. It means we must seek out a spiritual guide that we can learn from, one who is inheriting from the spirituality of the Prophet (s).

 

We are Solid Ignorance, We are in need of Solid Faith / Qutub

 

These are the Saints who are dressed with the perfection of Prophet (s) because they are reflecting his light. Therefore, when we look to them we see the reality of Prophet (s), just as the essence of liquid remains in its solid form. Through the Saints we begin to be dressed with the attributes of servant hood that Prophet (s) exemplified, and through servant hood we may enter the Divine Presence. To be a servant means to be nothing, to be gaseous.

 

When we are trying to enter as something and someone it means that we are still in a solid state, but you can’t have form in Divine Presence.

To be in the presence of God, Almighty and Exalted, you must lose your form like binary code.

 

Binary code is made-up of a series of 1’s and 0’s.

1 means you are “on” and symbolizes your form.

0 means you are off; you are in non-manifest-existence; you are in a gaseous state. You must annihilate and efface your physicality if you are to reach the presence of the 1, which is the oneness of the Divine. It means you must become like a gaseous state, like a 0, complete effacement in the Divine reality.

For matter to change states there must be a catalyst which creates a change within that existing state. For example, for a solid to become liquid requires tremendous heat.

 

In Sufism that catalyst is the spiritual Mentor, the Shams al-Tabriz.

According to a verbal tradition, once while Rumi was reading next to a large stack of some books, Shams Tabriz, passing by, asked Rumi, "What are you doing?" Rumi scoffingly replied, "Something you cannot understand." On hearing this, Shams threw the stack of books into a nearby pool of water. Rumi hastily took the books out of the water, but to his surprise they were all dry. Rumi then asked Shams, "What is this?" To which Shams replied, "Mowlana, this is what you cannot understand."

 

Shams al-Tabriz was the name of Jalaludin Rumi's (q) teacher and his name refers to the highest point of energy. “Shams” means sun in Arabic, referring to the fact that the heart of Shams al-Tabriz was like the sun - lit with the light of guidance. Tab-Riz means Highest point of Heat.

 

When Mawlana Rumi met Shams he was very firm and very scholarly. It means he was in a solid state, and he needed Shams al-Tabriz to melt him into a liquid state because to understand the knowledge of Saints requires a transformation. We cannot understand with book knowledge only. Like the letter of the law without knowing the Spirit of the Law – it is like trying to fit a square-block through a round hole.

 

REALITIES of Saints

 

There is an important hadith of Prophet (S):

Allah’s Messenger (S) said, “When Allah (SWT) created the Earth it began to oscillate, so He created the Mountains, ordered them onto it, and it became steady. The angels marveled at the strength of the Mountains and asked their Lord whether there was anything in His creation stronger than the Mountains, to which he replied that Iron was stronger. They asked if anything in His creation was stronger than Iron, and He replied that Fire was. They asked if anything in His creation was stronger than Fire, and He replied that Water was. They asked if anything in His creation was stronger than Water, and He replied that Wind was.” {States of Matter Solid Liquid Gas}

As an aside, this Hadith specifies the stages of personal progress and spiritual achievement.

78:7 And the mountains as pegs

The Mountains refer to the Awliya, the Saints of God, who through great firmness of faith reach a station that corresponds with that which stabilizes the Earth, i.e. they balance the universe with their positive light and energy. The Mountain is unshakeable, solid and stable, and perfectly describes the rank of the Friends of God and of Prophet (S).

Through their further development and evolution, and the application of spiritual power, Awliya then become Iron – absolutely firm and unbreakable. Iron not from the Earth but Heavenly sent.

The next stage is Fire, wherein the Saint’s essence burns and is ignited with the flame of Divine Power from the Presence of God, a state that may melt even Iron. Afterwards, the Saint’s being and container becomes Water, a fluid mountain which responds automatically and instantaneously to the will of the Divine, and which may douse even Fire.

This corresponds to a state wherein one is completely melted and annihilated in Bahr ul-Qudra, the Ocean of Power wherein all creation swims.

Lastly, Awliya may reach the station of Wind, pure Prophetic Essence, subtle, ethereal, completely without mass – pure Divine Will.

 

55-29 In Every Moment in (new) Splendor doth He (shine)!
 

 
The Shams al-Tabriz exists in every time, symbolizing the Saints who can melt our ego through the power of their heart.

 

They can melt us into a liquid state because they have the ability to intensify energy. In Classical Islam there are many examples of how the Grandshaykhs would melt ice or heat water just from their body heat. For example, during his seclusions Grandshaykh Abdullah al-Fa’iz ad-Daghestani used to use his spiritual power to melt a bucket of snow so that he could make ablution. This shows us that Saints are able to create a tremendous amount of spiritual heat, and through that secret they are also melting their followers to take them towards liquid and gaseous states.

The Saints teach us how to become servants, and that process begins to melt the ego. In that process of melting we scream and struggle because our ego, our identity and who we think we are, begins to burn in that fire. It wants us to escape the fire. It doesn’t accept to be nothing and to be burned away, but spiritual Masters are teaching us to jump into the fire like the story of Prophet Abraham (as) who jumped into the fire of Nimrod.

We said, "O Fire! be thou cool, and a means of safety for Abraham!"

(The Prophets 21:69)
 

All of the Prophets have something to teach us. The story of Prophet Abraham (as) is teaching us that when you are lost in that love, throw yourself into the fire. Fear of that fire symbolizes fear of faith, but it is all an illusion. That fear is making us run away from faith and from spiritual practices. It makes you think that if you become spiritual you are going to be burned, but the reality is the opposite. When you move towards faith, what appeared to you as a fire is actually cool and peaceful once you are inside it. The Divine is showing you that instead of running away, you should move into the fire. That fire will burn our bad character, but once the bad character goes that fire becomes a fire of love and it is all-consuming.

Then when the Saints have melted us, we enter a liquid state and we become like water. Water symbolizes submission Having a flowing quality without harshness or abrupt breaks.

 

Whether you are poured into a bottle or into a cup, it no longer matters. How do we reach to that liquid state? Submit! Submit to everything by seeing every event in your life as coming directly from God, because every event and every test in our life is like a fire. Every time your boss yells at you, it represents that fire. The question is, do you fight fire with fire?

 

 

Or do you throw water on the fire? It means, do you show no ego by saying “thank you”? Answer back with love, not anger, and throw water on the fire. The more we can put down our ego and respond with love, means the faster Saints can melt us into that liquid state. That is why, in the meditation you may feel your entire body heating up.

 

Saints are releasing that energy and literally melting you into that liquid state. That liquid state occurs through love, as only love can melt the heart.
 

When you are in a liquid state, it means you are submitting your will to the Divine will. Once you are in that state you will be quickly ascending because you are no longer fighting the Divine will. But in your physical form, the ego is struggle against Heavenly orders, making it incredibly difficult to accomplish one command from the Divine. If you are told to pray, your ego makes you to skip it. If you are supposed to meditate, your ego tells you to watch television instead, and this becomes the biggest delay to our progress. But as we move into a liquid state under the training of our spiritual Mentor, the process begins to speed up because the ego is submitting.

Water flows in whatever direction the earth takes it. It doesn’t decide where it wants to go. The student in that liquid state must be the same, flowing in whatever direction the Divine is sending them. In that state of submission and obedience to the Divine will, Saints are able to quickly take us to the Divine Presence because to move from liquid to a gaseous state is faster.

 

The most difficult part is to melt the physicality because it burns the ego, but once we are in submission the Saints can increase their energy and boil us into that gaseous state very quickly. Only in that gaseous state can we understand and truly experience Divine Love. We must be careful, however, because without spiritual practices we will not be able to withstand the heat. Those practices and disciplines are not empty or without purpose. They provide protection for us in our ascension to the Divine Presence, and it is extremely important that we do them.
 

To enter into a gaseous state means that you have reached annihilation and completely effaced yourself in the light of your Mentor, in the light of the Prophet (s) and in the light of the Divine Presence. In that state of non-Manifestation the soul has the most power. It becomes free to travel and move anywhere at the speed of light, because gas is the most diffuse of all the states of matter. In the solid form, the physicality puts roots into the soul. The liquid and gaseous states, however, symbolize the increasing control of the soul over the physicality and its ability to move independently of the physical form. This is one of the secrets of the Shams al-Tabriz, which is currently manifesting through the Saints of the Most Distinguished Naqshbandi Order.

Fatiha.

Obedience and the 3 States of Matter (part 1)

  

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Obedience and the 3 States of Matter
From The Teachings of Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Qabbani

3 Levels of Obedience:

The Divine asks us to

“...enter houses through their proper doors” (2:189).

 

 

For every door there is a key, and the key for unlocking the door to the heart is through obedience to the Divine will.

“Obey God, obey the Prophet (s) and obey those charged

with authority over you.” (4:59)

We are asking, and always Mawlana Shaykh is teaching us, to be under the shade of these three trees of authority. They are like mighty oaks which protect us from the storms and floods of this life. In times of natural disasters, when floods and tsunamis are washing everything away, what remains are the trees. And you see many times on the news that people who are able to reach and hold on to the trunk of a tree are able to survive the flood. Mawlana is teaching us that if we hold to these three mighty trees we will quickly reach to our Lord’s satisfaction.

As Prophet Jesus [as] taught in the Lord’s prayer,

“Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.”

 

For the gnostic and the knower of these Heavenly realities, this supplication encompasses the entire spiritual path, which is to surrender our will back to God. This comes through obedience to the Divine, and obedience opens servant hood, because a servant must obey their Master. But what is standing in our way is our ego. Therefore, tariqat/Sufism  teaches that the highest level to achieve is not a PhD or a lawyer or an engineer. The highest level is to become a servant. It is most difficult on the ego and it is most pleasing in Divine Presence. God is saying, “I gave you free will. Now give it back to me,” and that is the test of our life, to give back our free will out of love for the Creator.

 

This concept, “obedience to God's will”, is the religion that all Prophets brought to humanity. That is why all Prophets were saying, “Samina wa atana” (2:285), which means “we hear and we obey”.

 

Who do we obey?
“Obey God, obey the Prophet (s) and obey those charged with authority over you.” (4:59)
 

These three levels of obedience teach us a great deal about the Sufi path because God’s first command is to obey Him, and Sufism comes and teaches us to step back and humble ourselves and realize that we can never truly obey God. That is why Sufism is a way of humbleness. It comes against pride and it comes against arrogance by pointing out to us that we are in need of support, and by teaching us that there is an etiquette in how we approach the Divine Presence.

 

We must “...enter houses through their proper doors” (2:189). Don’t think that you can obey God’s command so easily. That was a station for the Prophets, not for us. They were hearing and speaking with the Divine, and we are not hearing and speaking with the Divine. But the ego is so quick to say, “I don’t need to listen to anyone. I don’t need anyone else’s advice. I can connect directly to God.”
God knows that we are a weak creation, constantly sinning and making mistakes. If we had to obey Him directly all of us would be in grave danger because we are not obeying. Therefore, we must show some humbleness in our approach. We are not Prophets, and we do not take our orders directly from the Divine, therefore we must seek to obey those who do.
 

“O ye who believe! Do your duty to God,

seek the means of approach unto Him” (5:35).

Don't approach God directly saying “I am who I am!” Don’t overstep your authority and ask to connect directly to God. That is ok in the beginning, but not when you are seeking to advance. Satan also wanted a direct connection and he was very advanced! He didn’t accept Adam’s authority and so he refused to bow, and for that he was thrown out of Paradise even though for 70,000 years he was in complete worship of the Divine.

 

The Divine is teaching you that there is an etiquette involved in dealing with the King. You can’t just walk up and start speaking. There is a particular way to approach the thrown. You must keep your eyes down. You may have to drop to your knees, and if the King appoints someone to represent him and vests authority in that person, you can’t say, “No, I don’t accept.” If that is the protocol for Kings in this world, what about the owner of the throne in Paradise?
So Mawlana is saying, “lower yourself. Don’t place yourself on the level of Prophets. That is very dangerous.” Then God gives us another way by asking us to obey the Messenger (s), and He also says,

“He who obeys the Messenger obeys Me.” (4:80).
 

God is saying “look to the Messenger (s). I have sent him to you to teach you how to obey Me.” Prophet (s) is in complete submission to the Divine – he has no will of his own.

 

Therefore, he acts as a mirror reflecting the Divine Presence towards creation. However, Prophet (s) is not with us, so how can we imitate his perfection? By obeying those charged with authority over us. That means spiritual and temporal authority. You must obey the police, the Mayor, the Governor, the Prime Minister and anyone who has been placed in a position of authority because who gave them that authority? The Divine! If it was not written and destined for that person to have that job, how could it happen?

 

Tariqa comes to perfect our faith and learn to accept God’s will.

That opens the spiritual reality, because there is a spiritual government just like there is a government in this material world. So if you must obey material authority, it means you must also obey spiritual authority, and there are Saints with different ranks and stations in that spiritual government who are inheriting from the Prophets. If you find them and follow them you will be in safety because they are on authority and that authority is coming directly from Divine presence.

 

As Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal said,
“O my son, you have to sit with the Sufis because they are like a fountain of knowledge. They recite the remembrance of God in their hearts. They are the ascetics, and they have the most spiritual power. I do not know any people better than them.”

Saints are inheriting from the perfection of Prophet (s). Through spiritual training and constant remembrance of God, they have purified their hearts of all imperfections in character and in worship. It means that their hearts have become like mirrors.

“Hold tight to the rope of God and do not separate.” (3:103)

 

Whereas Prophet (s) is a mirror reflecting the Divine Light towards the Saints, the Saints in-turn are receiving the light of Prophet (s) and reflecting it towards humanity in our time. The Saints of the Naqshbandi Golden Chain are inheriting that light from Prophet (s) through the lineage of 40 Grandshaykhs, beginning with Sayedena Abu Bakr (r) and reaching us today with Mawlana Shaykh Nazim and His Deputies Shaykh Hisham and Shaykh Adnan. That lineage is like a rope reaching seekers in the 21st century and guiding them on their journey towards the Divine.

How to do the Meditation?

As-Sayed Nurjan Mirahmadi | Thursday, May 06, 2010 | Vancouver, BC

A`udhu billahi min ash-shaytaan ir-rajeem

Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem

We are trying to reach Allah’s satisfaction.  To love Awliya and to dress our self and perfect our self.  The process of Muraqabah ultimately is to be like the good characters of Shaykhs.  We are not doing Muraqabah but meditation.  We are learning how to discipline ourselves.  At Mawlana Shaykh Hisham’s level he only faces the face of power of Sultan al Awliya Mawlana Shaykh Nazim (q).  One direction of power.

Meditation teaches us to sit and discipline myself and bring calm and peace and begin the process of contemplation.  After your prayers, sit facing qiblah.  You are coming to the door of Qutbul Mutasarrif, Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Qabbani (q).  We are asking from his blessings to be directed to the most powerful Awliya.  We are asking the holy face of Mawlana Shaykh Nazim and the presence of Prophet (saws). 

Your hands positioned on your legs and sitting on your knees.  You can also sit in the lotus position but the highest level of ‘adab’ respect is to sit on the knees.  Sultan al Awliya is under the flag of ‘Lailaha Illalah’ (there is no God but Allah).  Your focus should be on the heart.  I don’t need to fly anywhere.  It only takes the permission from Awliya (saints) to drop a veil in the heart then my light connects to its reality.  Only a drop of light has been given to me.

All of Creation is a circle and the center is the nucleus.  Electrons are negatively charged and Protons are positively charged.  There is mass attraction between them and they are hoping to collide.  Our soul knows its way home.  It’s made from the light but our ego and bad desires are blocking it.  There are seven realities governing us [Opening the 7 points].  Connect from outer form to reality of your soul.  When there is permission for the veil to drop then the light connects.  These great Awliya have achieved this reality and we are given a temporary pass in their presence.  But when we are away we have to practice the meditation.  Why are you not picking up the signal? My receiver has to receive.  Practice to burn away the cloud of darkness and bring down the desires to bring their presence.  The concept of WiFi.  Awliya are the moving powerhouse signal.  The constant practice of meditation will push the ego away,

Holding your thumb during the meditation takes your focus back to the heart.  My reality is in that nucleus and the breath in the ocean of light.  There is energy in six directions.  Keeping your eyes closed and begin the breathing.  It is the breath of power.  The soul begins to move and the fuel for the soul is the breath. 'Nafasa Rahma'.  All this way is built on the breath.  Tariqa is based on the breath.  Everything from the Holy Quran and apex is 'Qul Hu' (say Hu, chapter of Ikhlas-112).  Just say 'HU'.  It is being sent from the reality of Prophet (saws).  Every knowledge is moving in that energy.  To catch the energy is thru HU.

Seal the mouth with your tongue touching the palate of the mouth.  The palate has the major control of lataifs. Divine energy protects the being and you are asking for the reservoir of that energy.  I am in need for it to dress me.  Visualize ocean of light thru the power of the heart.  To take away the focus on the head tilt it forward.  The faculty of head has no value.  Your paradise is your soul.  How much you expand your soul the more your paradise.  Prophet Muhammad (saws) said seek your knowledge.  The more you love the bigger your soul.  Give death to the body and during meditation park the body.  Only breathing the 'zikr' HU.

We have to live our life knowing my master is with me.  If not then Shaytan is there.  My master always has to be with me.  To do the daily practices in the presence of the Shaykh.  Asking, Sayedi dress me with your light.  I am imitating but you make it to be real.  We have to have 'hadoor' (presence) of the Shaykh everyday.     Keeping that presence always around us counters the shaytan's attack.  I remember their teachings and you realize I cannot disappoint them.  Build their presence and understand the concept of annihilation.  Shaytan did not accept Prophet Adam (as) so he cannot be in the presence of Prophet Muhammad (saws).  To have the presence of Prophet (saws) is to make 'salawaats' on him constantly.

Be RABBANI, Race to the state of IHSAN

Madad ul Haqq

Be Rabbani, Race to the state of Ihsan

We are asking support from our masters in every breath that is coming and leaving.  Without their guidance we can not reach any reality.  As the recent events in the past week have unfolded, the messages coming from our masters have been astonishing to the listeners and viewers.  It leaves one in such awe but such is the caliber of such high rank saints.  The importance of following everything they speak becomes clear in these situations.  Not only what they say but whom they have authorized to speak on their behalf.  At our level, we are in need of an explanation to the realities our Masters are conveying to us.

Sultan al-Awliya Mawlana Shaykh Nazim al-Haqqani, 20 October 2010, “you must be Rabbani, I am trying to be Rabbani (those who establish lordly worship)’.  The message from this talk was clear to cancel anything that divides people and unite them under the flag of ‘Rabbani’.  The following day Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani explained on the meaning of Sultan al Awliya’s talk.

Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani, 21 October 2010 Lefke, Cyprus.  “Tell them that the first chapter is finished; now there is a second chapter.” Allahu Akbar. What is that next chapter? And then he said, “There will be a third chapter.”  Mawlana explained the first chapter has been closed.  He also explained the famous hadith of Prophet (saws) when S. Jibreel (a) asked Prophet (saws) the three levels of Islam.  These three levels were explained briefly in the previous article from a talk given by Shaykh Nurjan Mirahmadi in Cyprus on July 08, 2010.  If we meditate a little we can start to correlate between the three chapters and three levels of Islam. 


The first level is Islam that includes the five pillars of Islam: Saying the Shahada, praying, fasting, charity, and pilgrimage.  They are related to the physical state, an action one has to perform or a movement that occurs.  The second level is Iman (faith) that includes belief in God, all prophets, their books, all angels, and the divine decree.  This level is to believe in all the unseen, you cannot physically see but believe in their existence and the truth.  Third level is Ihsan, the level of moral excellence.  Mawlana Shaykh Hisham explained on this in the same talk mentioned earlier.  "To worship Allah as if you are seeing Him.” It means Rabbaaniyoon that is the era of now opening that maqaam on every mureed (student) that was previously closed. You have to achieve it; you have to run for it!”

 In the first chapter we were listening and watching Sultan al Awliya’s talks everyday.  It was a daily occurrence that we had become accustomed to.  We even became as comfortable as to miss them because we can watch tomorrow or another time.  We learn the value of something when it is taken away.  When the news came last week that talks would be ended, we were worried and begged for more.  Mawlana is teaching us that first level is finished.  I want you to progress so I will close all the faculties of the physicality for hearing and seeing.  He wants us to run to the next level of belief.  You have been given instructions from the first level now applying them to achieve the second.  He indicated the days are so close for the last days.  It is as if they are compressing all the steps of self purification to quickly drop this duniya from our heart and race toward the state of Ihsan. 

The second chapter is to believe everything that Sultan al Awliya has been speaking.  Close your eyes from this duniya and prepare for the difficulties that are coming.  Make your self available to be of service to these masters and ultimately to the seal of messengers (saws).  What you sacrifice now will only benefit you in the future.  Believe they are ever present in our life.  We were accustomed to hearing his message everyday.  Has that message stopped?  It is to say you went to visit the Niagara Falls and you saw the immence beauty and power of the water falls.  You see and hear but you have to leave.  When you are not there did the Water stop flowing?  No, it is flowing by God’s permission.  Mawlana’s knowledge is flowing constantly to reach his followers.  We only have to connect.  In the first level we were in the wire mode.  We connected to internet and we listened.  Now is the time to go wireless, meditate and connect to Mawlana to find the flowing streams again.  Mawlana Shaykh Hisham said, “When a patient is sick, you give him an injection to shake him. So they want to shake us, to wake us up. Not everything depends on the shaykh, and nothing comes from the mureed, no. They want something reciprocal between the shaykh and the mureed; something must come from the mureed, then the shaykh can help more.”  We pray and ask for this help.


The third chapter is to reach the state if Ihsan.  Be Rabbaniyoon.  To be with S. Mehdi (as).  The warnings that Sultan al Awliya has been giving to us for the past year and half are to strengthen our faith.  Nothing will save us but our belief from what lies ahead of us.  Shaykh Nurjan Mirahmadi has been teaching us it is time to be nothing.  What does that mean?  It means empty our hearts from love of this world and fill our hearts with love of Awliya and Prophet (saws).  Humiliate our ego and take off the dress of selfishness and put on the dress of power of our beloved Master.  Mawlana Shaykh Hisham explained how we can achieve the state of Ihsan.  " That’s why Prophet (s) said:


To think or to meditate for one hour, it will be rewarded as if you worshipped for 70 years.


It means, "O Muslims! O Mureeds, followers of Mawlana Shaykh Nazim (q)! We have to think, to audit ourselves daily on what we have done, if not for one hour at least for five minutes. Don’t say, “I did this good and that good," no. Sayyidina Adam (a) said, "What is good is from Allah, what is bad is from us." Check what is bad and say, “Yaa Rabbee! Forgive me for that.” Allah will be happy because you remembered your mistakes."


Allah knows best what those chapters will bring in the coming days.  But if we give a little time to think on what is constantly coming from our Masters.  It will give us an understanding and tools to be in the ship of safety.  Mawlana speaks because of the great love he has for his followers and humanity.  All it requires from us is to increase that fire of love in our heart and burn all the badness in us and all around us.

Toward the Perfection of the Self As-Sayed Nurjan Mirahmadi | Thursday, Jul 08, 2010 | Lefke, Cyprus

Toward the Perfection of the Self

As-Sayed Nurjan Mirahmadi | Thursday, Jul 08, 2010 | Lefke, Cyprus

Muraqabah/Meditation Workshop Lecture Notes

A`udhu billahi min ash-shaytaan ir-rajeem

Bismillahi 'r-Rahmani 'r-Raheem

We are trying our best to enter the ocean of nothingness.  Do not ask to be anything but asking to be nothing.  We are traveling from far distances to come here and everyone coming to get charged.  While we are here in this ocean of Sultan ul Awliya, maximum amount of benefit is to be nothing.  There can not be two.  ‘Ahad’ (only one) and only one allowed near is the lover ‘Wahid’ (unique one). 

‘Amidoona bi Madad-e-kum’

All the blessings that are coming, if people think it is you.  You will carry the burden.  You have to declare you are nothing.  Concept of being nothing is to believe my Master is here.  We keep an empty chair for them and my place is to be on the floor.  A simple ‘Fatiha’ (first chapter of Quran) is not from me.  But my Master has to step in.  We are but a fishing line for the Shaykh and he is bringing them in.  When you make it complicated then you are sharing yourself in the ‘dua’ (request).  [it is no longer pure but is filled with your ego].  Grand Shaykh Abdallah Daghestani (Q) said All thirty ‘juz’ (parts of Quran) are in Surah Fatiha (opening chapter of Quran).  All of this opening only through sincerity not to show anything but show nothingness.  Through Muraqabah, hearing, seeing, breathing is opening.

Negating is the biggest step to nothingness [La ilaha illallah, negation of the self and realization of the one true lord].  There is no time for Allah (time only existing on earth).  The reality of Sayedina Adam (as) is always there, ascending.  

Description of the upward and downward triangle.

Secret book of Hu wa Hu

Islam is submission to the will of your Lord.  Islam teaches you discipline.  Allah is saying; submit your will back to mine.  What I want from you is your will.  Ya Rabbi (oh our Lord) I am nothing.  Submit but learn how to give your will back.  What God wants is taught by the Prophets (peace be upon them all).  They are the best examples of humanity.  They are the masters of following (‘wajib tahleek’).  Follow them and do as they do.  

At-Tauba [9:119]

‘Ya ayyuha allatheena amanoo ittaqoo Allaha wakoonoo maa alssadiqeen’

O ye who believe! Fear Allah and be with those who are true (in word and deed).

They start to perfect our character.

Iman is faith.  It is also to increase love in your heart for all creation.  Do not make yourself pious in front of others.  Smash your own Buddah (self statue).  Do all your extreme worship at home and be humble outside so people see you as nothing.  
Ihsan is sincerity.  Worship as if you see Allah.  If you do not see him then Allah is seeing you. [Perfection of the self in character and manners]
Islam came to overcome ignorance.  When you begin to increase your faith, it puts down your anger. [You begin to understand that everything is coming from your lord then why to be angry.  When combining Islam and Iman you begin to climb the pyramid upward toward perfection of the self].  Prophet Muhammad (saws) is the mercy to all creation.  When the light of faith begins to shine inside of you it puts down the fire of anger.  

That leads you to the reality of ‘Najm e Saqib’ the piercing star.  Surah 53: Al Najm (the star).  ‘Shams’ (the sun) is ‘Daiem’ (everlasting).  Prophet Adam (as) walked this earth and it is the same sun.
When Prophet Muhammad (saws) is coming, falsehood is leaving.

Fatiha