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Step 1 Migration
Obey Allah, obey the Prophet (s) and those in authority [4:59]
What is the real meaning of hijrah?
The real meaning of migration? Is the real meaning that you are migrating from one city to another or one country to another or one nationality to another? This is not hijrah; in the physical meaning it is the meaning leaving one place to another place. But in a scientific meaning today, the whole world become like a global village. You can be anywhere with everywhere. You can be on top of the mountain, in the moon, but in reality you are still connected with every part of the world with tech. You can run your business from a cave even, or from the himalaya mountains, thru a computer and thru a satellite that connects you everywhere.
So dunya (world) became now so small that people has to expand. And that is why they are trying to reach mars. They think they can go there and live there. Might be that is a real hijrah, migration. Because if they go there they never return back. Hijrah means you leave one place but you must not go back to it or else it is not considered hijrah. This whole world, but still you are in the world.The real hijrah that spiritual people and what the Prophet (s) gave to his sahaba (companions), the real hijrah is his teachings. His teachings are the highest level of understanding of hijrah, of migration. Because the Prophet (s) gave us the best and perfect principles of hijrah. And these principles if we do them, or if we observe them, experience them and act on them, we will achieve the real hijrah that everyone is longing for. Not hijrah from earth to mars. Not hijrah from earth to the moon. This still a dunya hijrah. What the Prophet (s) gave to us is the hijrah, migration from al-akhlaq al-dhameema to al-akhlaq al-hameeda, from the worst manners and desires to the best desires and to achieve moral values and by doing this and achieving this we achieve rida-ullah, Allah’s satisfaction or happiness from us.
Then they carry you to the real hijrah when you achieve these principles, migrating from bad desires and chars, to good chars and manners you will achieve the highest level of moral values, then you will achieve the power of spiritual ascension and self-realization of the ego, where it stands and knows its limits, then when you know your limits, if they will open the eyes of your heart and the vision that you can see with it you will not pretend like a blind person, that oh this is mine, when it is really from Allah, and it has been opened to you because you achieved that. And you will be rendering everything back to its reality and it source which is something from Allah’s divine names and attributes. At that time the real hijrah will open for you the highest level of understanding thru meditation; meditation that people are longing for it and people are trying today to practice it in every possible way and they might achieve they might think that they have achieved a spiritual ascension thru meditation wherever they are trying to reach and think that they have achieved there is still higher and higher. Because meditation is something that people say, “we are meditation” meditation on what.
We are trying to connect with energy, with the highest of the universal energy, which is the cosmos. We are trying to reach the divine presence. Meditation is not something that you hold. Meditation is something like a dua, like a prayer. It is thru meditation, Muraqabah, is equal to what you are doing, you are requesting something, istalab, asking something from someone. So realty meditation has no structure. Meditation has no form. Meditation is universal. Because everyone is asking something. Because everyone is thinking and meditation is a thought, it is not more than a thought. It might be you are thinking, and the thought came to you to be a bus. Or to be an engineer that is a mediation; or to study medicine that is a mediation; or to study carpentry that is a meditation; or to study philosophy that is a meditation; or to study spirituality that is a meditation.
So it is an asking request. It is not something that you have acquired. So when you are asking, it means you are asking something to get it. When you get it it is no more meditation, it is something else. At that time you own something. So meditation is only a step, one step toward enabling you, when you put that step, to reach like a ladder. The ladder is a ladder. If you take it away you fall down. But if you take a ladder and go to the roof, then take the ladder away you have achieved something. So meditation is a spiritual step that you are stepping and reaching thru it something that you will own it later.
And that is why the Prophet (s)said, tafakarru sa`atin khayrun min `ibadati sabaeen sannah. “To meditate/ponder for an hour is better than 70 years of worship.”
It is more
effective than and you will move quicker than a rocket relatively speaking to a car, in difference to a car, it will make you to speed up issues and to get higher reward as if you have worshiped. 70 years{ [70years x24= 1680 yrs of perfect worship, 30 days times 1680 47000 years of Heavenly worship.] x 365 per days = 630,000 years of Divine worship in One Years}.
See how much importance the Prophet (s) gave to meditation but it is only to reach a certain level. And when you reach that there is no more need for that kind of meditation. It becomes something different. Today the word might not like it. The meaning of that word, people might say, what is that word. But that is the reality of that word and it is in the holy Quran, when you meditate and meditate and leave good chars and go to good chars when you decide to leave and begin to leave, then mediation like climbing a ladder, going to a higher and higher position, you will become, as Allah said, alladheena jaahadoo feena lanahdiyanahum subula.Those who have struggled in us we will guide them in our ways. It means to what they are longing for. Here jihad (struggle), many people speak of jihad an nafs (ego). Jihad al-akbar is jihad an nafs. The Prophet (s) told the sahaba now we are returning from the greater jihad, jihad an nafs And Allah said, those who struggle in our ways we will guide them . what is Allah’s ways/| Jihad is by coming against that desire doesn’t like. It means coming struggling with the ego, whatever your ego ask, do differently. So in meditation you are still happy with what you are doing, because in meditation it makes you to feel happy because the ego is relaxed. That is still not struggle, because that is not jihad. That is not the higher level.
Muraqabah it gives you sweetness. When he does it he is happy. It gives you, it makes your ego proud. That you are doing muraqabah I am meditation and achieving. When you think of achievement and reward that is not a pure way or a pure meditation to Allah (swt). You are still asking something in return AwliyaAllah never asked anything in return. Why? Because they understood that Allah created them with his will, brought them in dunya with his will so whatever they have to do, it is up to his will where he takes them. They are not asking paradise or asking, give us divine presence then as if trading. You give us this and we give you that. That is trading.
That is not accepted in the higher level of spirituality. In higher level of spirituality. You are like a leaf in fall the wind takes it right or left. The leaf does not say why are you throwing me right or left. Like a sailing ship in the ocean wherever the wind takes it, it goes. Don’t think everything you like to get you will get. The vessels in the ocean sail according to the wind. The wind is not in your hand it is in Allah’s hand. So anything that you expect out of your meditation that ladder will never end. It means steps are endless. But when you say, O Allah, I am coming to you, asking nothing.
Then meditation takes less time when you are not asking anything. Whatever you want to do with me you do ya rabb (Lord). Ad-deenu deen al-hubbi. My religion is the religion of love. That is my religion. To love you. You sent your messenger say. Muhammad and so I love you I follow. It is as in western world unconditional love. What is unconditional love. Universal love. You see everyone in your eyes is equal because they are human beings, Allah created them the same. You have ears they have ears, you have eyes, you have eyes, they have mouth they have mouth. They are not different. They are the same. Seven layers [holds up both hands one finger pointing up]. Allah gave us 7 focal points that we have to realize and observe and Allah gave us 4 important point also and nine important points.
So it is 4 and 7 and 9. these 4, 7 and 9 will give you the real arithmetic of the body. And the real composition of your body.
If we keep these 4 points, 7 points and 9 points always clean then we achieve something.
- 4 points Levels of the Heart secret, secret of secret, hidden and most hidden. These 4 levels in heart.
This Will Open This Reality of :
These 4 levels are been given to us as the Prophet (s) said, ‘as long as my servant approaches me thru voluntary worship I will love him, if I love him I will be his ears that he can see with and I will be his eyes that he can see with. These are four points. Then what|: he said then I will be his tongue with and I will be his hand that he can sense with and I will be his feet that he can walk with; these are seven. 