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The
Brotherhood
[My
sons, refrain, as
being ungrateful for our
grace
will
not benefit you,
and brotherhood is the thanks of our
grace]
35/51
The
study in the previous issue was about "love".
In this issue we preferred
to have the study be about "brotherhood"
which is one of the most important
fruits of love, rather
it is the greatest one.
We can say it is the price of victory and
triumph.
[My
sons
refrain]:
is an address from the
merciful father to
his sons to refrain from being ungrateful
for the grace and avoid
that totally. This matter is so
important to understand
and avoided. But
firstly there is a question, what is this grace?
what is meant by "being ungrateful";
is it "direct disbelief"
or what?
The grace
according to the book of Allah, Qur'an,
is two graces:
The
first grace is in the worldly life,
[And remember Allah's
grace
unto
you
when you were enemies
then Allah put the affection among your hearts,
so that you became brothers by His grace]
Aal-Imran 3:103.
This is the grace of love after the
enmity, about this ibn Kathir said:
 This
context was about al-Aws
and al-Khazraj who had
many wars between them
and a strong enmity in
the ignorance era, before Islam. Lots
of fighting and calumniation that lasted
long between them because of that enmity
and rancor.
However, when Allah
came with Islam came, many of them embraced it then they
became brothers and loved one another with the Majesty of Allah.
They became connected for the sake of
Allah and cooperating for the
righteousness
and
piety. Allah
said [He it is,
Who supported you
with His victory and the believers
¤
and He put affection among their hearts.
Not if you had
spent all that is in the earth,
couldn you have
produced affection among their hearts.
However, Allah did put the affection
amongst them. For He is
the All-Mighty and All-Wise]
Al-Anfal 8:62-63.
The
saying of Ibn Kathir ended.
The
second grace is in the hereafter
[and You were at
the brink of a pit of
fire then, He
saved you from it]
Aal-Imran 3:103,
and this is a survivor in the hereafter.
So,
love in the worldly life is a survivor in
the hereafter. However, the enmity, Allah
forbid, is annihilation in the hereafter.
So let's preserve the
grace of love in the worldly life to win the
survivor in the hereafter. In some
interpretations such as, sayydi
ibn 'Agibah,
[AAH]
and all Imams that we mentioned and will,
says [And
remember Allah's
grace
unto
you]
which includes the right guidance
to Islam that leads to the affection and
the demise of rancor. [when
you were enemies]
in the ignorance era, before Islam,
and killing each other.
[then
Allah put the affection among your hearts]
by Islam [so
that you became brothers by His grace]
loving one another and gathering
together as brothers
in Allah. The Prophet[PPBUH]
said (Do not envy one another.
Do not
hate one another. Do
not give each other
your backs. And be brothers
and servants of Allah.
A Muslim
is the brother of the Muslim,
he does not
oppress him nor let him down).
 It
is narrated that al-Aws and
al-Khazraj were brothers but enmity
was excited
between their sons,
and the war between them lasted longer
than one hundred and twenty years,
untill Allah suppressed it by Islam and produced
affection amongst them by
the Messenger of Allah [PPBUH],
thus was that
verse revealed about them.
The
path of Islam
and the path of Tariqa is
a blessing. Also the
Tariqa includes Islam, Iman [Faith]
and Ihsan [perfection]. Our
shiekh has put his
guarantied path in his
poems.
Here we are trying to understand an
important thing! Is there any muslim
who objects to the path
of Islam? Certainly not! Allah forbid a
thousand times! And is there a
member of Tariqa
who objects to the path
of Tariqa? Allah forbid
a thousand of a thousand times! so
what is the meaning of being ungrateful?
The
case is that the path
calls for love, affection and
brotherhood, and so
thanking the grace requires
us to work with it by being brothers,
love each other, have affection to one another,
do not envy each other,
do not hate each other, do not
argue with each other and be servants of
Allah and brothers.
Doing otherwise would
be ungrateful, may Allah
protect us from that.
To
clarify this subject more, we find our sheikh
[AAH]
saying about the group
study:
[whoever knocks the door of
words asking for our aid
He
won't find except our giving and it is
generous]
47/7
So he
who asks to learn the meaning of
his path [AAH],
he will not find except
the gifts and generosity, however
this is conditioned:
[If
you gathered with love and mercy,
be
certain of connection as Allah is my donor]
37/21
[and you
gather together without stubbornness
whenever its meanings become obscure for me to give you the solution]
78/21
[and
I
know what is inside the coffers of secrets
but
whoever becomes proud, will not taste any of it]
9/12
After
that he [AAH]
said:
[And
live thankful in the blessing of gifts
To
survive through
the deadly trials]
39/31
 So
make these meanings as a guide to your
deeds and behaviour and fraternize with it.
Thus your brotherhood will be the
gratitude for the
grace. So what is the use of this
gratitude? After
we are grateful he will provide us
with the meanings that will give us love
and affiction for each other,
and will be a cause for surviving
the deadly trials
then it will be a cause for victory over the
most demonized enemies which are:
the subjectivity, the worldly life , the
self and Satan. Thus
any one gets controlled
by one of these enemies will never have
victory over it unless Allah grants
him victory. Imam
Fakhreddin [AAH]
says:
[And
if you are thankful, after that,
I will give you more
victory,
as the penetrating arrows
are mine]
15/17
May
Allah, Almighty, gives us victory
and supports us with
his supporting, may He be pleased
with him and all of us with him.
Prayers be upon sayyduna Muhammed
and all his
kinship and companions.
And
until we meet again with another pearl
from the pearls of Sharab al-Wasl, peace,
blessing and mercy be upon you.
Written
by Mohamed Maqboul
Translated
by
Fatima az-Zahra'
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