We Are In Need of Your Love

We are hoping to Reach

Reach to see the glance of the Beloved

We are searching to Find

Find your blessed hands to Kiss

We are waiting to See

See the blessed face of Master of Creation

We are hungry to Eat

Eat the knowledge that feeds our Souls

We are thirsty to Drink

Drink your Kawthar for the satisfying Sweetness

We are prisoners wanting to be Free

Free from the self with every praise on You

We are tyrants wanting to be of Service

Service that is a cause to make you be Pleased

We are Sleeping

Sleeping to be exalted by your Dream

We are Sitting

Sitting for our souls to be invited by You

We are Breathing

Breathing to whiff the perfume of your Breath

We are Walking

Walking to reach the green dome of Satisfaction

We are Crying

Crying to reach your holy Feet

We are in Need

Need that is in Need of even a Reflection of you Ya Sayyidi ya Rasullallah

The Design in Light

 

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The Design in Light

Holy Quran 6.78 When he saw the sun rising in splendor, he said: "This is my Lord; this is the greatest (of all signs)."

from Allah, The Suns Gift to Creation : Breathing, Seeing, Food ,Warmth and much more...

Holy Quran Rahman 55.13 Then which of the favors of your Lord will ye deny?

That the radiation from the sun (and from many sequence stars) should be concentrated into a minuscule band of the electromagnetic spectrum which provides precisely the radiation required to maintain life on earth is very remarkable.
Ian Campbell, British Physicist

The sun is probably the one thing we see most often throughout our lives.

Whenever we raise our sight to the sky during the day, we can see its dazzling light. If someone were to come up and ask "What good is the sun? we would probably reply without even a thought that the sun gives us light and heat. That answer, although a bit superficial, would be correct.

But does the sun just "happen" to radiate light and heat for us?

• Is it accidental and unplanned?

• Or is the sun specially designed for us?

• Could this great ball of fire in the sky be a gigantic "lamp" that was created so as to meet our exact needs?

Recent research indicates that the answer to the last two questions is "yes". "Yes" because in sunlight there is a design that inspires amazement.

The Right Wavelength

THE DIFFERENT WAVELENGTHS OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION The stars and other sources of light in the universe do not all give out the same kind of radiation. Instead, they radiate energy with a broad range of wavelengths. Gamma rays, which have the shortest wavelengths, are just 1/1025 the length of the longest radio waves. Strangely enough, nearly all of the radiation emitted by the sun falls into a single band that is also 1/1025 of the whole spectrum. The reason, is that the only kinds of radiation that are necessary and fit for life fall in this narrow band.

• Both light and heat are different manifestations of electromagnetic radiation.

• In all its manifestations, electromagnetic radiation moves through space in waves similar to those created when a stone is thrown into a lake.

• And just as the ripples created by the stone may have different heights and the distances between them may vary, electromagnetic radiation also has different wavelengths.

The analogy shouldn't be taken too far however because there are huge differences in the wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation.

• Some are several kilometers long while others are shorter than a billionth of a centimeter and the

• other wavelengths are to be found in a smooth, unbroken spectrum everywhere in between.

• To make things easier, scientists divide this spectrum up according to wavelength and they assign different names to different parts of it.

• The radiation with the shortest wavelength (one-trillionth of a centimeter) for example is called "gamma rays":

  • these rays pack tremendous amounts of energy.

• The longest wavelengths are called "radio waves":

  • they can be several kilometers long but carry very little energy. (One result of this is that radio waves are quite harmless to us while exposure to gamma rays can be fatal.)

  "Light" is a form of electromagnetic radiation that lies between these two extremes.

The first thing to be noticed about the electromagnetic spectrum is how broad it is: the longest wavelength is 10²⁵ times the size of the shortest one. Written out in full, 10²⁵ looks like this:

10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

A number that big is pretty meaningless by itself. Let's make a few comparisons.

For example, in 4 billion years (the estimated age of the earth) there are about 10¹⁷ seconds.

• If you wanted to count from 1 to 10²⁵ and did so at the rate of one number a second nonstop, day and night, it would take you 100 million times longer than the age of the earth!

• If we were to build a pile of 10²⁵ playing cards, we would end up with a stack stretching halfway across the observable universe.

This is the vast spectrum over which the different wavelengths of the universe's electromagnetic energy extend.

Now the curious thing about this is that the electromagnetic energy radiated by our sun is restricted to a very, very narrow section of this spectrum.

• 70% of the sun's radiation has wavelengths between 0.3 and 1.50 microns and within that narrow band there are three types of light: visible light, near-infrared light, and ultraviolet light.

• Three kinds of light might seem quite enough but all three combined make up an almost insignificant section of the total spectrum.

• Remember our 10²⁵ playing cards extending halfway across the universe?

• Compared with the total, the width of the band of light radiated by the sun corresponds to just one of those cards!

Why should sunlight be limited to such a narrow range?

The answer to that question is crucial because the only radiation that is capable of supporting life on earth is the kind that has wavelengths falling within this narrow range.

In Energy and the Atmosphere, the British physicist Ian Campbell addresses this question and says "That the radiation from the sun (and from many sequence stars) should be concentrated into a minuscule band of the electromagnetic spectrum which provides precisely the radiation required to maintain life on earth is very remarkable." According to Campbell, this situation is "staggering".

Let us now examine this "staggering design of light" more closely.

From Ultraviolet to Infrared

We said that there was a range of 1:10²⁵ in the sizes of the longest and shortest electromagnetic wavelengths.

• We also said that the amount of energy that was carried depended upon the wavelength:

• shorter wavelengths pack more energy than longer ones.

• Another difference has to do with how radiation at different wavelengths interacts with matter.

The shortest forms of radiation are called (in increasing order of wavelength)

• "gamma rays",

• "X-rays", and

• "ultraviolet light".

• They have the ability to split atoms because they are so highly energized. All three can cause molecules-especially organic molecules-to break up.

• In effect, they tear matter apart at the atomic or molecular level.

Radiation with wavelengths longer than visible light begins at infrared and extends up to radio waves.

• Its impact upon matter is less serious because the energy it conveys is not as great.

The "impact upon matter" that we spoke of has to do with chemical reactions.

• A significant number of chemical reactions can take place only if energy is added to the reaction.

• The energy required to start a chemical reaction is called its "energy threshold".

• If the energy is less than this threshold, the reaction will never start and if it is more, it is of no good: in either case, the energy will have been wasted.

In the whole electromagnetic spectrum, there is just one little band that has the energy to cross this threshold exactly.

• Its wavelengths range between 0.70 microns and 0.40 microns and if you'd like to see it, you can: just raise your head and look around-it's called "visible light".

• This radiation causes chemical reactions to take place in your eyes and that is why you are able to see.

The radiation known as "visible light" makes up 41% of sunlight even though it occupies less than 1/10²⁵ of the whole electromagnetic spectrum.

In his famous article "Life and Light", which appeared in Scientific American, the renowned physicist George Wald considered this matter and wrote "the radiation that is useful in prompting orderly chemical reactions comprises the great bulk of that of our sun."

That the sun should radiate light so exactly right for life is indeed an extraordinary example of design.

Nearly all of the sun's radiation is restricted to a narrow band of wavelengths ranging from 0.3 to 1.50 microns. This band encompasses near ultraviolet, visible, and infrared light.

Is the rest of the light the sun radiates good for anything?

• When we look at this part of the light we see that a large part of solar radiation falling outside the range of visible light is in the section of the spectrum called "near infrared".

• This begins where visible light ends and again occupies a very small part of the total spectrum-less than 1/10²⁵.

Is infrared light good for anything?

• Yes, but this time it's no use to look around because you can't see it with the naked eye.

• However you can easily feel it: the warmth you feel on your face when you look up on a bright sunny summer or spring day is caused by infrared radiation coming from the sun.

The sun's infrared radiation is what carries the thermal energy that keeps Earth warm.

• It too is as essential for life as visible light is. And the fascinating thing is that our sun was apparently created just to serve for these two purposes, because these two kinds of light make up the greatest part of sunlight.

And the third part of sunlight? Is that of any benefit?

You can bet on it.

• This is "near ultraviolet light" and it makes up the smallest fraction of sunlight.

• Like all ultraviolet light, it is highly energized and it can cause damage to living cells.

• The sun's ultraviolet light however is the "least harmful" kind since it is closest to visible light.

• Although overexposure to solar ultraviolet light has been shown to cause cancer and cellular mutations, it has one vital benefit: the ultraviolet light concentrated in such a miniscule band is needed for the synthesis of vitamin D in humans and other vertebrates.

• (Vitamin D is necessary for the formation and nourishment of bone: without it, bones become soft or malformed, a disease called rickets that occurs in people deprived of sunlight for great lengths of time.)

In other words, all the radiation emitted by the sun is essential to life: none of it is wasted.

• The amazing thing is that all this radiation is limited to a 1/10²⁵ interval of the whole electromagnetic spectrum yet it is sufficient to keep us warm, see, and allow all the chemical reactions necessary for life to take place.

Even if all the other conditions necessary for life and mentioned elsewhere in this book existed,

• if the light radiated by the sun fell into any other part of the electromagnetic spectrum, there could be no life on Earth.

• It is certainly impossible to explain the fulfillment of this condition having a probability of 1 in 10²⁵ with a logic of coincidence.

And if all this were not enough, light does something else: it keeps us fed, too!

His Light Is Source of Your Sustenance:

"Holy Quran Surah Noor 24.35{ 24=light 24 hours in a day} :Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The Parable of His Light is as if there were a Niche and within it a Lamp: the Lamp enclosed in Glass: the glass as it were a brilliant star: Lit from a blessed Tree, an Olive, neither of the east nor of the west, whose oil is well-nigh luminous, though fire scarce touched it: Light upon Light! Allah doth guide whom He will to His Light: Allah doth set forth Parables for men: and Allah doth know all things. "

Photosynthesis and Light

Photosynthesis is a chemical process whose name almost everyone who's ever gone to school will be familiar with.

• Most people however fail to realize how vitally important this process is for life on Earth or what a mystery its workings are.

• First let's brush off our high-school chemistry and take a look at the formula for the photosynthesis reaction:

• THE DIFFERENT WAVELENGTHS OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
  The stars and other sources of light in the universe do not all give out the same kind of radiation.

• Instead, they radiate energy with a broad range of wavelengths.

• Gamma rays, which have the shortest wavelengths, are just 1/1025 the length of the longest radio waves.

• Strangely enough, nearly all of the radiation emitted by the sun falls into a single band that is also 1/1025 of the whole spectrum.

• The reason, is that the only kinds of radiation that are necessary and fit for life fall in this narrow band.

6H₂O + 6CO₂ +Sunlight --> C₆H₁₂O₆ + 6O₂ Glucose

 Translated into words this means:

• Water and carbon dioxide and sunlight produces glucose and oxygen.

• To be more exact what is happening in this chemical reaction is that six molecules of water (H₂O) combine with six molecules of carbon dioxide (CO₂) in a reaction that is energized by sunlight.

• When the reaction is complete, the result is a single molecule of glucose ( C₆H₁₂O₆), a simple sugar that is a fundamental element of nutrition-, and six molecules of gaseous oxygen (O₂).

• The source of all nutriments on our planet, glucose contains a great deal of energy.

Simple though this reaction may look, it is in fact incredibly complex. There is only one place where it occurs: in plants.

• The plants of this world produce the basic food for all living things.

• Every other living thing is ultimately nourished in one way or another by glucose.

• Herbivorous animals eat the plants themselves and carnivorous animals eat plants and/or other animals.

• Human beings are no exception: our energy is derived from the food we eat and comes from the same source. Every apple, potato, chocolate, or steak or anything else you eat is supplying you with energy that came from the sun.

But photosynthesis is important for another reason.

• The reaction has two products: in addition to glucose, it also releases six molecules of oxygen.

• What's happening here is that plants are continuously cleaning up an atmosphere that is constantly being "polluted" by air-breathing creatures-human beings and animals,

• whose energy is derived from combustion in oxygen, a reaction that produces carbon dioxide.

• If plants didn't release oxygen, the oxygen-breathers would eventually use up all the free oxygen in the atmosphere and that would be the end of them.

• Instead, the oxygen in the atmosphere is constantly being replenished by plants.

For hundreds of millions of years, plants have been busy doing something no laboratory has ever been able to duplicate: Using sunlight, the produce food. A crucial condition for this extraordinary transformation however is that the light that the plants receive must be precisely right for photosynthesis to take place.

• Without photosynthesis, plant life could not exist; and without plant life, there would be no animal or human life.

• This marvelous chemical reaction, which has never been duplicated in any laboratory, is taking place deep in the grass you step on and in trees you may not even notice.

• It once occurred in the vegetables on your dinner plate. It is one of the fundamental processes of life.

The interesting thing is what a carefully-designed process photosynthesis is.

• When we study it, we can't help but observe that there is a perfect balance between plant photosynthesis and the energy consumption of oxygen-breathers.

• Plants supply glucose and oxygen.

• Oxygen-breathers burn the glucose in the oxygen in their cells to get energy and they release carbon dioxide and water (in effect, they're reversing the photosynthesis reaction) that the plants use to make more glucose and oxygen.

• And so it goes on, a continuous cycle that is called the "carbon cycle" and it is powered by the energy of the sun.

In order to see how perfectly-created this cycle truly is, let us focus our attention on just one of its elements for the moment: the sunlight.

• In the first part of this chapter we looked at sunlight and found that its radiation components were specially tailored to allow life on Earth.

• Could sunlight also be deliberately tailored for photosynthesis as well?

• Or are plants flexible enough so that they can perform the reaction no matter which kind of light reaches them?

The American astronomer George Greenstein discusses this in The Symbiotic Universe:

• Chlorophyll is the molecule that accomplishes photosynthesis...

• The mechanism of photosynthesis is initiated by the absorption of sunlight by a chlorophyll molecule.

• But in order for this to occur, the light must be of the right color. Light of the wrong color won't do the trick.

A good analogy is that of a television set.

• In order for the set to receive a given channel it must be tuned to that channel;

• tune it differently and the reception will not occur.

• It is the same with photosynthesis, the Sun functioning as the transmitter in the analogy and the chlorophyll molecule as the receiving TV set.

• If the molecule and the Sun are not tuned to each other-tuned in the sense of colour- photosynthesis will not occur. As it turns out, the sun's color is just right.

THE FITNESS OF SUNLIGHT AND CHLOROPHYLL Plants are able to perform photosynthesis because the chlorophyll molecules in their cells are sensitive to sunlight. But chlorophyll is only able to use a very limited range of light wavelengths and those are the wavelengths that the sun radiates the most. What is even more interesting is that this interval corresponds to just 1/1025 of the whole electromagnetic spectrum. In the two graphs above, the extraordinary fitness between sunlight and chlorophyll can be seen. In the upper chart is the distribution of the light emitted by the sun. In the lower one is the light under which photosynthesis will work. The fact that these two curves are almost identical is an indication of how perfectly designed visible light is. <

The absorption of light is accomplished by the excitation of electrons in molecules to higher energy states,

• and the same no matter what molecule you are discussing.

• Furthermore, light is composed of photons, packets of energy and photons of the wrong energy simply can not be absorbed…

• As things stand in reality, there is a good fit between the physics of stars and that of molecules.

• Failing this fit, however, life would have been impossible.

No plant can only perform photosynthesis except within a very narrow range of light wavelengths. And that range corresponds exactly to the light given out by the sun.

The harmony between stellar and molecular physics that Greenstein refers to is a harmony too extraordinary ever to be explained by chance. There was only one chance in 10²⁵ of the sun's providing just the right kind of light necessary for us and that there should be molecules in our world that are capable of using that light. This perfect harmony is unquestionably proof of intentional, deliberate design.

In other words, there is a single Creator, the Ruler of starlight and of the molecules of plants Who has created all these things in harmony with one other, exactly as is revealed in the Qur'an:

Holy Quran Rahman 55.5 The sun and the moon follow courses (exactly) computed

The Light of Your Eyes

We have seen how the light coming to us from the sun consists of just three narrow bands of the electromagnetic spectrum:

1) Infrared light, whose wavelengths are longer than visible light and which keeps Earth warm.

2) A small amount of ultraviolet light, whose wavelengths are shorter than visible light and which is necessary for the synthesis of vitamin D among other things.

3) Visible light, which makes vision possible and supports plant photosynthesis.

The existence of a range of "visible light" is as important for the support of biological vision as it is for photosynthesis.

• The reason is that it is impossible for a biological eye to see any band of the spectrum outside that of visible light and a very small section of near infrared.

To explain why this should be so, we first need to understand how vision takes place.

• It begins with particles of light called "photons" { From the Sun} passing through the pupil of eye and falling onto the surface of the retina located at the back of the eye.

• The retina contains cells that are light-sensitive.

• They are so sensitive that each can recognize when even a single photon strikes it.

• The photon's energy activates a complex molecule called "rhodopsine", large quantities of which are contained in these cells.

• The rhodopsine in turn activates other cells and those activate still others in turn.

• Eventually an electrical current is generated and this is carried to the brain by the optic nerves.

The first requirement for this system to work is that the retina cell must be able to recognize when a photon strikes it.

• For that to happen, the photon must carry an exact amount of energy: if it is too much or too less, it won't activate the formation of rhodopsine.

• Changing the size of the eye makes no difference: the crucial thing is the harmony between the size of the cell and the wavelengths of the photons coming in.

The only rays of light that are suitable for biological vision have wavelengths that fall within the range of what is called "visible light". A large part of the energy that is emitted by the sun falls in that range.

Designing an organic eye that could see other ranges of the electromagnetic spectrum turns out to be impossible in a world dominated by carbon-based life.

• In Nature's Destiny, Michael Denton explains this subject in detail and confirms that an organic eye can only see within the range of visible light.

• While other models of eyes that could, in theory, be designed, none of them would be able to see different ranges of the spectrum. Denton tells us why:

• UV, X-ray, and gamma rays are too energetic and are highly destructive, while infrared and radio waves are too weak to be detected because they impart so little energy interacting with matter...

• And so it would appear that for several different reasons, the visual region of the electromagnetic spectrum is the one region supremely fit for biological vision and particularly for the high-resolution vertebrate camera eye of a design and dimension very close to that of the human eye.

Pausing to think about everything that has been said so far, we come to this conclusion:

• The sun radiates energy within a narrow band (a band so narrow that it corresponds to just 1/10²⁵ of the whole electromagnetic spectrum) that has been carefully chosen.

• So finely adjusted is this band that it keeps the world warm, supports the biological functions of complex life-forms, enables photosynthesis, and allows the creatures of this world to see.

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Paradise Realities

Shaykh Nurjan Mirahmadi
From the Teachings of Mawlana Shaykh Hisham Kabbani
Sufi Meditation Center, Vancouver, BC

Yourtube Video (www.youtube.com/nurmir)

Aoodhu billahi min ash-Shaytani rajeem, Bismillahi Rahmaani Raheem.
We are talking from the teachings of Mawlana Shaykh Hisham and our beliefs. And we are asking, "Rabbana atina fi d-dunya wa'l akhirati hassantan wa qina azaaban naar, O Allah give goodness in this world and good in the hereafter, give us our Paradise Reality." And most religious practises mention that no matter which spiritual path we believe in.

 But tariqah Naqshbandiyya comes to perfect our understanding that we can make this world a means to achieve a tremendous reality instead of settling for something mediocre. And they ask that for this dunya if you study hard and you graduate, you will have a good career. Most people do study hard to become doctors and lawyers and have other successful careers and their dunya can be very big. But Allah (SWT) wants more of that for the reality of our souls, and there are many different ahadith to support this. And one hadith that the Prophet (s) has mentioned that we are accountable for our time and the reason he was drawing attention to this was to show that we can use our time wisely to taste from our Paradise Reality, from whatever dress that was bestowed on our souls. Instead of only having a decent life in the material world, let us make this world a means to realize this tremendous Paradise Reality. Then Mawlana Shaykh comes into our lives and begins to inspire us that everything we are doing, we can do it for the sake of our Paradise Reality so that if our Paradise Reality is the love of the Divine Presence then they begin to shine that love that if you love that Presence then love the Prophetic Reality and when you do that they begin to teach then serve the Prophetic Reality.

That is why John F. Kennedy says, "Don't ask what your country can do for you, but ask what you can do for your country." And it is the same for the prophets. Don't keep asking what God and the prophets can do for you, "Give me this, O my Lord, give me that." They come and show us that is from bad adab, and everyday wake up and say, "O my Lord, what can I do for You?"
He already gave us so many different nimat/blessings, He gave us life and so many difficulties have been kept away. And so you wake up every morning thinking about this because you can't go straight to the Divine and say "What can I do for you Allah?" So then they teach you the manners of approaching the Divine that if you love the Prophetic Reality then ask yourself everyday, "My Lord how can I serve the Prophetic Reality today?" "How can I serve it tomorrow and with what?" Verily with my life, my wealth, my family, my possession, my debt is all for the Divine. So then the Divine is saying put all that on the table and put it for the service of Sayyidina Muhammad or for the service of Sayyidina Isa or for the service of Sayyidina Musa (as), with whatever you have serve it for their sake. And then they teach everyday wake up and say that if we are the Muhamadiyoon then how can we raise the flag of Sayyidina Muhammad's name today? Not only once a year that we meet for Eid and we do something nice, but ask everyday how can I be of service today, tomorrow or next week? How can I increase the love of Sayyidina Muhammad?

When we go out and have a program which is free on Friday nights, we are asking, "Yaa Rabbi send people to witness what the lovers of Sayyidina Muhammad do." We don't get together and yell crazy things, but we are celebrating the love of the Most Beloved in Paradise and Allah (SWT) is guiding us to show them (that honour) with the flavour of love. And you see everybody coming and experiencing this and saying, "This is so beautiful, it's so fragrant, and everything is so nice and so elegant. Everything is so clean; you are calling your people to be clean ones. Why when we go to some places it is so filthy and dirty? And you are the people of wudu." Everything we are doing is to show the greatness of the Divine and the greatness of Prophet (s). Let Prophet (s) be happy with us, "O you who taught us to wash ourselves and be clean, look our floors and chairs are clean," and we check for dust everywhere. Wudu was not for showing off, but to show that we are the clean ones that wash not only the outside but the inside also. And when we wash the inside everything begins to shine. Anything could be pleasing, and everything we do is with the intention to show that love, respect and honour to be of service to Prophet (s). And our whole life is based on that. We have free majaalis and associations.

And then Mawlana Shaykh teaches that if we are inviting people to make sure that no one goes away hungry. They came for the love of the prophets and there are many other organizations like that which have the same goal, to raise the name and the honour of the prophets, and the prophets don't need it from us, but we need it. They don't need that honour to raise them in Divine Presence but we are trying to give flavour to our existence. We came into (this life) this huge ocean of difficulty, the fires of difficulty are everywhere and Mawlana Shaykh is describing that we are like ants trying to put out that fire. All we want is that it be written for us that we died while trying (to be of service), we did one little good deed or action and if our Lord finds happiness in that, alhamdulillah.

And that becomes the flavour and the fruit of our lives. We live a life asking everyday, "What can I do?" If I can't do it all by myself then find the people who are doing it and support them because they are doing it with a rock on their head that is crushing them. That is why we have the concept of coming together and sitting together. It is not just one person that can do that and raise that flag. So then once we have that concept and understanding that I am going to raise the name, the awareness and love of the Prophetic Reality and the Divine Reality, that is my goal and that is what I am going to do everyday asking myself how will I do that? Then accompany those who are already doing that; support them, be with them, accompany them, and we begin to see the fruit of our life is based on that reality; everything we do is praising the Divine and praising the Prophetic Reality and raising that honour with love and respect so that any stranger that comes, he is treated as a guest of God. If they come, they all say the same thing, "It smelled nice there. There was perfume, the people were so loving, generous and welcoming," because they were trained in tarbiyyah, that anyone who comes through that door is a guest of Allah. And Allah (SWT) is sending that guest to that house to say go and see the lovers of Prophet (s), accompany them and you will see the reality of those lovers' lives. They go away with the fragrance, and say there was so much food, water, drinks and everything you can imagine, it was like a table sent from Paradise, because it is (celebration of) the same prophets.

Holy Quran 5:114 

Qala AAeesa ibnu maryama allahummarabbana anzil AAalayna ma-idatan mina assama-itakoonu lana AAeedan li-awwalina waakhirinawaayatan minka warzuqna waanta khayru arraziqeen 

Yusuf Ali: Said Jesus the son of Mary: "O Allah our Lord! Send us from heaven a table set (with viands), that there may be for us - for the first and the last of us - a solemn festival and a sign from thee; and provide for our sustenance, for thou art the best Sustainer (of our needs)."

Sayyidina Isa was asking, "O our Lord, send us a table from Heaven to feed the first of us and the last so that no body goes away unsatisfied," and not only the Physical Table but the Spiritual Table. There is no doubt that they will be given a physical table with food and drinks and everything to make their egos and their bodies to be happy. And within that food are all these realities, there are Lights and unimaginable blessings that makes their souls to be purified.
Many different difficulties are taken away from them.
Wa qul ja al-Haqqa wa zaahakal batil, in al-batila kaana zahooka, "Verily as the Truth approaches falsehood perishes," because we come to the Truth with all the falsehood of bad character and in that Presence the two of them cannot co-exist within the same dimension. So as soon as they come into these Lights and associations that Light of Divine Love and Divine Grace begins to dress them and pushes away or as Allah (SWT) mentioned, it "knocks off" falsehood.

 It means it takes away their burdens and brings them tremendous happiness and guidance and understanding. What can be a better life than that? Why do we have to wait for Paradise for all these gifts? We just said that Allah (SWT) can make that life like Paradise for us right now, and because He wants us to be like a little Paradise, to be like an oasis of Paradise, whatever you eat is then from Paradise Realities.

Because Allah (SWT)'s rida/satisfaction as mentioned in the Holy Qur'an, Salaamun qawlam mir Rabbi 'r-Raheem, (36:58) He Grants you Salaam/Peace. It means Allah (SWT) is happy with what that servant(s) are doing and He is going to change the entire sustenance of that soul. If Allah (SWT) opens the soul's reality and if He likes what we are doing then He grants His rida to what we are doing, it means your soul's dress will be dressing you in this material world.
So then what we eat can't be from our physical reality anymore because it will just clash.

Wa qul ja al- Haqqa wa zaahakal batil, in al-batila kaana zahooka (17:81),

every falsehood that is contained in the food and drink cannot sustain a Paradise Reality; between the two angels these are two different realities.

So then Angel Gabriel  (as) has to come and begin to dress with  a Light of Guidance, it's a yellow light and it begins to dress the heart and bless the heart with Allah (SWT)'s Divinely Guidance. Then Angel Mikhail has to come with a reddish light and it takes away falsehood and brings the Light of Haqq into the soul. As the Light of Haqq enters the soul then the sustenance has to change. It means Allah (SWT) immediately begins to flip your sustenance and instructs angels to send sustenance from Paradise. So as that soul is breathing, through Nafas al-Rahma, just like our soul, we can't see it but it will be like a vent coming in and will let them breathe from their Paradise breath and their Paradise energies begin to sustain them.

Pious Soul : Everything that they eat is from their Paradise Reality and their drink is from that reality and everything they do is from their Paradise Reality. Even as they pray and as soon as they say Allahu Akbar, depending upon the level of what has opened into their heart, they are now praying at their Paradise Reality. The most basic Paradise Reality is that when they are praying they should be seeing their Shaykh, their Guides and these are mentioned in the prayer; Asalaamu `alayka ayyuhan Nabi wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh, asalaamu `alayna wa `ala `ibadillahi 'saliheen.

You can't see the Nabi, but you must be able to see the `ibadilaahi 'saliheen (if you are being dressed from your Paradise Reality). Who are these saliheen? These are awliyaullah. It means when you pray with them it's not like our regular prayer or behind an imam at a mosque. It's because their Paradise Reality is dressing them, because it's their sustenance and it is dressing them during the prayers. That is why Prophet (s) said there are three things which are dear to him, women, attar/perfume and the prayer which is coolness for his eyes in Divinely Presence. It means when that Paradise Reality begins to open within the soul, the first level is that they must be witnessing the saliheen. If the soul is progressing in its opening they must then be witnessing Sayyidina Muhammad (s) because they have to at least complete the first pillar of Islam: Ashadu an laa ilaha il-Allah wa ashadu anna Muhammad` abduhu wa habeebuhu. Shahada is to be witness, and means you must have seen Prophet (s) otherwise we are not bearing witness, we are in an imitational salah; everybody is in imitational salat and it can only be real when you see and witness what you are saying. Allah (SWT) will ask, "Did you really see Prophet (s)?" And if you didn't then you are lying, it's an imitation; that salah is an imitation. But when the saliheen are praying they are witnessing Prophet (s). And if Allah (SWT) wants them to witness more within the heart of Prophet (s), they witness Divinely Oceans and whatever Allah (SWT) would like them to witness within the heart of Prophet (s).

That is why it is mentioned laa wahdatul wujood "(There is no) Oneness with Allah (SWT)," and Naqshbandiyya teaching is that there is wahdatul shuhud, "(There is) Oneness of witnessing."
When you enter into the heart of Prophet's Reality at that time Prophet (s) says, "Look at what Allah (SWT) wants you to look at," and there are Oceans of Light and you are surrounded by that Light. If a person prays like that means everybody in the room is dressed from that reality; everybody eating with them is dressed from that reality, everybody drinking is dressed with it. So then Allah (SWT) is asking to take all the secrets of the Holy Qur'an by mentioning wa koonu ma as-sadiqeen,..
Allah (SWT) says have consciousness and keep the company of the saliheen. Why? Because of all those realities; everything about you will change and it won't change by your effort, it's impossible. But you have to accompany those whose hearts are open; the Ahlu 'l-Basira the people of insight. And if we accompany people whose hearts are not open then how will our hearts open by accompanying them? It means that all their practises were not accepted by the Divine Presence and so their hearts never opened. So by accompanying them we will increase in disobedience and we will move further away from our reality. Because the one whose heart is not open will be distancing himself from Divine Presence like an iron block that builds and builds (a barrier) and keeps the distance from the Divine. So why do we have all these pictures and books of the Shaykhs ?

It's because we have to keep the company of the saliheen, those whose only interest is the opening of their qalb/heart. And with their qalb they witness what Allah wants and they are building us and training us through these Lights. How can someone train us when these Lights and emanations are not coming? It means you have to first sit with them, as Mawlana Shah Naqshband was saying, At-tariqatuna suhbah Khair fil jamiyyah, to sit in their company and they will dress you from their sustenance because your sustenance will never change you even if you sit by yourself for forty years; Allah (SWT) does not give the key (that easily). If we could get the key by ourselves then what is the purpose of the Ahlul Sunnah wal Jamah? We might as well be sitting at home. But what Allah (SWT) wants is what the Prophet (s) had in his life and they were the Sahabah keeping companionship with the Prophet (s).

And so keep companionship with those who are the chosen ones and everything you eat with them will change you completely; it will move your heart. And everything you drink will begin to change the whole blood system because 70% of our body is made of water and as soon as you drink with them, it changes the angelic reality within that liquid in our bodies. The food, ta`am, is accompanied by 300 malaaika/angels as Mawlana Shaykh described. So which darajaat/ranks are these angels from that accompany that food? Coming from Qutb al-Mutasarrif these are malaaikat al-Suaada, happy angels which are in service to that wali, to that Qutb.

So imagine if you eat from that Qutb what kind of sustenance are you getting? Whatever energy he needs to do the work that Allah (SWT) wants him to do, that fuel is dressing the association and dressing everybody in their presence. So if you go eat in the tajalli of Sultan al-Awliya what kind of unimaginable reality is that? It means whatever fuel that soul needs to do the work that Allah has assigned, everybody is going to be dressed by that sustenance. And the saliheen, those pious people who are always trying to improve themselves, everything they eat and drink will begin to change our reality (in companionship). That is what fi dunya wal akhiraati is all about. The Paradise Reality is for everyone who accompanies them, it begins to change everything and as their Paradise dress begins to dress them, many miraculous things happen and it takes away tremendous difficulties and brings tremendous blessings to their children and their environment and everything around them. Subhaanaka Rabbil izzati amma yasifoon wa Salaamun 'alal mursaleen wal Hamdulillahi Rabbil 'Aalameen.  

The Rising Sun

 

The Sun has Risen to the perfection of Nine

Blessed is the west to have witness the Shine

His each step opened what they worked to close

Knowledge was in need of him to bring it to safety shores

Tricks and Traps were unraveled to expose

Attacks are too many to put mission on hold

The words you speak are directed to the perfected mirror

You only portray the malevolent self the mirror reflects

Mansoor stands in front of you as the leader of rising Suns

The pole of authority who does not compare to none

Heavenly ornamented to impart the true help

No matter your intention His hands are raised to supplicate to the One