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The
State
of My Seeker
[the ignorant
ones
deny the state of my seeker
The denier of al-Salsabil
(fresh cool water) is naive and ill]
12/11
We present to
you,
dearly beloveds, a verse of the stringing pearls of Imam Fakhreddin,
may Allah benefit us of his pearls and wisdom that’s set the assured
approach of the religion.
He [AAH]
said:
the ignorant ones deny: denying is the opposite of knowing
and ignorance is the opposite of science [knowledge] this is what we
know from language books and this is
what is amazing, ignorant and
denies what he sees from knowledge. So when will he learn? And what
else if he had been shown the truth and he denied it?
And we are
ordered
by the Qur'an to hear and think with our hearts, and never give
quick judgments without knowing or guidance, or enlightened book. [Will
they then not meditate
on the Qur’an, or are there locks on their
hearts?] Mohammad
47:24. [Lo! therein
verily is a reminder for him who has a heart, or gives ear and he is
a witness] Qaf 50:37.
Does he accept
to live in delusion?
Was he
deceived by a robe or a
beard? And in Sahih (Allah neither looks at your pictures nor
your moneys, He only looks at your hearts and your deeds). And
in other words: an ignorant who doesn't know anything in religion
and still he denies and refuses all that he hear. By Allah, this is
not fair or just, but it is self injustice
 the state of my seeker:
the state
is a Sufi expression which needs explaining. The realized one who
knows of Allah, i.e. knows by Allah; Sd. Mohyeddin ibn Araby [AAH] says; and wonder if he
says as the one who taught him is Allah, so nothing will be hidden
from him. [Fear Allah, and Allah will teaching you, and Allah is
Knower of all things]
al-Baqarah 2:282. And look
attentively at Allah's saying [Allah is Knower of all things].
Because he has been
pious
to Allah, so Allah loved him and taught him everything. Do not
wonder, o, brother, as the Lord, Almighty, says [And all
things We have kept in a evident Imam]
Yasin 36:12.
if you say that evident Imam is evident book, we would say that
books are many and different, and why did not Allah say evident
book? What supports this is His saying [But it is evident
revelations in the hearts of those who have been given knowledge,
and none deny Our revelations save wrong-doers]
Ankabout 29:49.
now are you ready to get the meaning of the state from the
words of Sd. Mohyeddin ibn Araby [AAH]:
the state… is what comes to the heart without
intension
or fetching then the characteristics of its owner changes
accordingly… states are gifts.
The state also: is the
appearance
of the servant in the characteristics of the Truth, which is
imitating the qualities of Allah that is expressed as formation
according to the names, and that is what the people of our time mean
we they talk about the state. We agree with that but we do
not agree with its effect, rather we say that the servant would be
in full control of it so he would if he wants to, but being polite
with Allah prevents him… Allah, Almighty, does not give knowledge
except to whom He loves but He may give the state to whom he do not
love, so pay attention. As knowledge is fixed but state is
transient because the one with it transfers from a state to another
and the state has every quality in a time without the other. Like
the drunken state and the absence state. The Drunken state does not
last and so does the absence state. With the drunken state we mean
the one that is lawful originating from a strong Wared which
is what comes of the gifts of Allah to the heart of the diligent
seeker while trying to get closer with Awrad, worship, and prayed to
the Prophet [PPBUH]
on the hand of a sheikh who knows of Allah, so he gets a state like
the one that happens to the drunk: of being absent of conscious. But
this lover Allah makes him absent from what Allah forbids. The
opposite of that is standing which is in each quality that needs
firmness and it is not right to move from it, like repentance.
The state of my seeker: the seeker of the sheikh, not just any
one, but he
described him to us:
[I gave my seeker a
drink
of an aged drink,
my hand was
the
cup, and being hid is my virtue]
1/8
i.e. his drink of
knowledge
is in hiding.
[I will not be away from
my seeker for a moment
and my
seeker is the one who wills my will]
1/266
i.e. when the will of the
seeker
is in compliance with the will of his sheikh, then he will be the
true seeker of the sheikh, otherwise he is not.
[he is not my seeker,
whoever gets blind of our words
Nor the one who says
to
himself: O, self, what do you care]
10/6
 i.e. he will not be
my
seeker and relates to me, the one who turns away from my words, he
meant his method in contradiction to himself subjectivity. The
seeker is the one talks the words, the method, and the knowledge of
his sheikh, and his state and will is the will of his sheikh. If one
of ignorant ones denies the state of this seeker, then he would be
naive and corrupting deceived ill one. The sheikh described his
seeker here as Salsabil, which means here the knowledge of
the sheikh and his moral drink that the seeker got with the grace of
Allah, from his sheikh. So he said [AAH]:
The denier
of al-Salsabil is naive and ill
As whoever denies
the
state of this seeker, who is a real translation to the method and
knowledge of his sheikh, which is the truth that Allah, Almighty,
wanted from us, then he is nothing but a corrupted deceived one who
trun people away from the real religion without knowledge or
guidance. May Allah save us from him and guides us with the guidance
of our sheikh to his Salsabil drink which fills his store [AAH].
To get more
about
this you can read the article of
My Drink is Sweet
– in
the archive of the Group Study.
And to the
next
issue ISA, may peace be upon you, and the mercy of Allah and his
blessings.
May the
Prayers of Allah be upon
sayyduna Muhammad, his family, and companions.
Written by
Mohamed
Maqbol
Translated by Sameh
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