We mark the Urs Mubarik of Ghaus Pak (ra)...

with the Jamal of Allah...

 

The world is darkness, ilm, knowledge, is its light.

 

The one for whom knowledge prevailed over the desire of their nafs, (the base self of three, Ammara, Lawamma - repentant, Mutma’inna - contented) that knowledge is of benefit and why would it not be?

 

It closes the doors of Creation and opens the Door of Allah, the greatest door of all.

 

Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jilani (ra)

 

Malik - II

 

I was in my room listening to a new track that happily found its way to me Friday night - www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip7oYH_h3ck - when Malik came into my head. I know I’m in a state anyway when I hear songs that once would make me dance under skies now make me weep.

 

The story I had written about him on my return two weeks ago - www.flickr.com/photos/42093313@N00/52435600567/in/datepos... - was the sweetest thing I had written in I don’t know how long. I must have read it over a dozen times.

 

My writing is so serious these days. I am hard on myself, people say. Writing about a child revealed the softness of my heart to me.

 

It was my last day in Damascus. I told the street kids I would have lunch with them in a park. That was different. Normally I just bought something for them and they all dispersed. Heading in different directions where they might earn a lira or two from their fellow Syrians whose hearts possessed the softness of clouds jami’an, in totality.

 

After I ordered the food I told them I needed to get something to eat too. I didn’t want a shawarma or a burger.

 

“I’ll pick up the thin bread with the za’tar and muhammara,” I said to them forgetting its name in Arabic. I signaled to Malik.

 

“Come with me,” and told the other boys we would meet in 15 minutes.

 

It wasn’t a green park. It was a place with benches and some trees bang in the middle of the Old City. With beautiful couplets written around it by famous poets about the city and how they expressed only one thing; Ishqi Damashq, Damascus is my love.

 

Malik was my favourite of them all. He was the first kid I had encountered on the previous trip. He was unforgettable clearly, he had been popping in and out of my head since I returned. At first I thought it might make the others feel bad, my preference, but then it was Allah Subhanahu who said:

 

تِلۡكَ ٱلرُّسُلُ فَضَّلۡنَا بَعۡضَهُمۡ عَلَىٰ بَعۡضࣲ

 

These are the Messengers, We have preferred some of them over others.

Surah Al Baqarah, Verse 253

 

And then He said it again about rizq, sustenance:

 

وَٱللَّهُ فَضَّلَ بَعۡضَكُمۡ عَلَىٰ بَعۡضࣲ فِی ٱلرِّزۡقِۚ

 

And Allah has favored some of you over others in provisions.

Surah An Nahl, Verse 71

 

But this time He also said:

 

فَمَا ٱلَّذِینَ فُضِّلُوا۟ بِرَاۤدِّی رِزۡقِهِمۡ عَلَىٰ مَا مَلَكَتۡ أَیۡمَـٰنُهُمۡ فَهُمۡ فِیهِ سَوَاۤءٌۚ

أَفَبِنِعۡمَةِ ٱللَّهِ یَجۡحَدُونَ

 

But those who were favored would not share their wealth with those whom their right hands possess so that they might become equal in this respect.

Then is it the Favor of Allah they deny?

 

Surah An Nahl, Verse 71

 

As Malik and I headed towards the shop where they sold what I wanted, I saw another boy carrying a large sack. He was collecting garbage. I asked him to join us. I had seen children do that in the Old City and they were the ones I ran to, to give money or buy something to eat.

 

I had read once that Ghaus Pak (ra) as a young man had to peruse through garbage to find food and I never forgot it. Sometimes he didn’t even do that so other Friends of God could take something instead of him. Because they weren’t allowed to ask anyone for anything. He was the reason I sought garbage collectors in any city to give them anything I was granted the ability to give.

 

Once I saw a little girl bent over so low from the weight of the bag she was carrying, I thought she would fall over. I had asked her what she wanted to eat. There was a restaurant selling food but all she asked for were fries. I kept pushing her to get something else but that’s all she took from me. A little bag of French fries.

 

That’s the thing about the Syrians. Old or young. They are not tam’an, greedy. If offered anything, they only take what they need. Bi hasbi ahtiyaaj, according to need. Qari Sahib had recently pointed out that greed was the first bait of Iblis’. That’s what he had said to the Prophet Adam (as). Eat this! What you’re not supposed to eat. It will make you immortal.

 

The boy was older than Malik but not by much. He was maybe 12. As we walked by my hotel, I said Salam to an old woman who always sat outside it. She smiled at me. Its amazing, that feeling, of being known as the one who might give something. Something that is actually so insignificant in absolute terms that it by no means deserves recognition.

 

Once an old woman hunched over with poverty kissed my hand just because I walked up to her. Another followed me to kiss me on my forehead, uttering prayers because I gave her what was a dollar. I just stared at her. Everything about Damascus left me feeling amazed.

 

I was a little ahead of Malik as we turned a corner. I looked back and saw him making some gesture to her, then running to catch up with us. A second later, the old woman was shouting something as she walked towards him. She was so upset her voice was breaking.

 

She tried to tell me what he said but I didn’t understand. It was obvious though. Clearly Malik had done something that she thought was obscene. I looked at him in genuine surprise.

 

“Mada qulta laha?” What did you say to her?

 

He stared back at me and said nothing. That might have been because I was speaking Fusha and he didn’t know it.

 

I repeated myself a little firmly, making the question obvious by pointing in her direction. What did you say?

 

We both looked back at the woman as she continued to shout. I looked at Malik disapprovingly, a tone that is a shackle of my nafs I am desperately and literally dying to shirk.

 

“Hada laysa jayyad Malik,” I said softly. This is not nice. “Qul laha ana asif.” Say to her I'm sorry.

 

Before I had even finished my sentence, expecting to have to convince him, Malik was sprinting towards her. By then she had turned back, probably to go sit on her spot in the street again.

 

“Ana asif,” he yelled. “Hajja! Ana asif.”

 

I laughed out loud and I think even my heart smiled.

 

The obedience of the child is the most beautiful thing to see. More beautiful than anything else that I have seen. That obedience that holds the key to absolutely everything throughout one’s life, to witness its possession as an act of worship because its reason is only love, its beyond magnificent.

 

And we all possess it, till we lose it and then crave for it again.

 

The older boy whose name was Hamze didn’t want to come to the park. He didn’t have time I guess. He took his food and headed off. Again I had tried to buy him multiple things and he had wanted only one. I bought my bread and Malik and I started walking towards the park.

 

“Malik,” I said to him smiling. “Kem fuloos fi jaibik kul youm?” How much money is in your pocket every day?

 

He looked up at me.

 

“How much?” I repeated my question. “Kun sadiq.” Be honest!

 

“10,000 lira,” he said immediately. That was 2 dollars, 45o Pakistani Ruppees. “Laysa kul youm.” Not every day!

 

As I munched on my bread, I said to him from the corner of my eye.

 

“I saw a little girl the other day. She was telling her friend, she had 50,000 lira in her pocket.” 10 bucks!

 

He didn’t blink an eye. Just lifted his chin up. “The little girls,” he said without an iota of resentment, “they give them more.”

 

It was so honest I burst out laughing.

 

To prove to me he was telling the truth, he pulled out some crumpled notes in his hand. They were all small denominations, old, dirty. I felt bad for my survey-esque idiotic question.

 

I put my hand on his head and smiled at him. He wanted shoes. I needed to find a way to have someone buy them for him when I was gone. Shopping for kids was not my forte.

 

Then Malik started something saying to me. I focused on his words to catch the meaning. He kept saying Pakistan. I stopped walking so I could get what he meant. Then when he moved his hand like a plane, I understood.

 

“Take you with me to Pakistan?” I asked, resuming our walk. “But what about your mother?”

 

I had thought Malik was an orphan. Most of the boys who sold roses on the street were.

 

“Maatat,” he said. She died.

 

I thought I was misunderstanding him so I asked him again.

 

Maatat, he repeated.

 

My heart sank.

 

“And your father?” I asked hopefully.

 

“He left,” he said.

 

“So do you see him?” I asked.

 

He shook his head.

 

“Then who do you live with?” I asked.

 

“A’mmi,” he replied. My uncle. Maternal. “Wa akhi.” My brother.

 

“Ok,” I said feeling happy he had a brother. Then I smiled at him making the same gesture with my hand of a flying plane,

 

“If you leave with me, then he will cry, your brother.” I put my hands to my eyes and started making boohoo sounds.

 

“Wayn Malik,” I said pretending to sob, “Wayn Malik?” Where did Malik go?

 

He laughed and I kept doing it and he kept laughing. I could see in his face though, he didn’t want his brother to cry.

 

Of course he wanted a tab or a phone and I told him he has to wait till he’s older. I wished I could tell him that this obedience he possessed, he would be robbed of it the day the machine came into his hands. But I didn’t have the vocab.

 

We arrived at the park. I had finished my food by then. We sat on benches and the boys inhaled their sandwiches and fries. We didn’t chat. We didn’t understand each other enough to have a conversation. Cats jumped up to snatch their food and we laughed. Then I said goodbye and we parted ways.

 

Of all the things that changes the condition of the human heart, from hard to soft, from cruel to kind, sohbat, company, is the most effective and it is the easiest. It carries the lightest burden and diminishes the possibility of munafiqat, hypocrisy. It doesn't eradicate it because hypocrisy, Ghaus Pak (ra), says, is with one's own self, but it dissipates it.

 

Best of all it brings happiness because the companionship of a friend, as Maula e Kayinaat (as) says, is the greatest treasure of all. However long spiritual paths traverse before they move on. I knew all that in theory but in Damascus, I saw it change me.

 

I felt nothing but elation all the time. Day in and day out my nafs was mutma’inna, only content. In perfect alignment with my qalb, the heart within the heart that is the seat of recognition of my Lord and my batin, the inner self, Allah’s Secret within me. And this was in the company of strangers, not even friends.

 

Softness is the gift of the Ahl e Bait, the family of Nabi Kareem (is it any wonder that Allah sends greetings and salutations upon him continuously). They are its mabda’a, origin. And Bibi Zainab (as), her presence in the city overwhelms everything else. Just like Allah Ar Rahim’s Mercy prevails over everything.

 

Thousands upon thousands of Names and Attributes, countless really as each Abid, worshipper, comes up with their own in expression of their love for Him. Still, for everyone one dominates all the others. For the good as well as the defiant!

 

وَرَحْمَتِى وَسِعَتْ كُلَّ شَىْءٍۢ ۚ

 

My Mercy encompasses everything

Surah Al Araaf, Verse

 

Tafseer e Jilani

 

Wa rahmati wasi’at kulla shayan: My Mercy encompasses every single thing from the Al Muta’een, the obedient ones and the Al A’sieen, the sinners and others from amongst them.

 

And so an Urs begins. Of my Master who is the Master of all Spiritual Masters, who allows me a form of nearness to him that few possess. A connection through words he spoke and others wrote, that sooner or later bring clarity into my veiled, clouded, forgetful, too easily deceived existence.

 

At sunset on a Sunday, we mark our grateful happiness with the first word that celebrated the dawn of the Quran and was gifted to the Conveyer of its hidden meanings and its message:

 

Iqra! Read…

 

237. There is nothing like Him because there is no shay’, thing, except Him

 

لَیۡسَ كَمِثۡلِهِۦ شَیۡءࣱۖ

وَهُوَ ٱلسَّمِیعُ ٱلۡبَصِیرُ

 

There is not like Him anything,

and He (is) the All-Hearer, the All-Seer.

Surah Ash-Shura, Verse 11

 

Tafseer e Jilani

 

Laysa kamislihi: There is nothing like Allah Subhanahu…

 

Shayin: which exists in its presence or is similar in its reality and proof and it means for sure by this (following) example that nothing is like Him is His Essence i.e. There is nothing that can be compared to His Essence so how can anything other apart from Him be like Him?

 

When it is said in Arabic, “There is no one stingy like you,” it doesn’t mean that you are stingy (it means that you are not stingy) and its purpose of being said is negating count as related to Allah Subhanahu in general and this negation of count is for emphasis and for certification so now it is proved that nothing is present except for Him and there is no stability for anyone except with Him. (Shayin here means that there is in fact no thing except Him).

 

Wa: And when this has been proved then this is also apparent that indeed,…

 

Huwa As Sami’ul Baseer: He is by His Essence Al Munhasir, The Exclusive One, exclusively holding the attribute of hearing and seeing and the gathering of all attributes of His Essence in perfection, encompassing all their effects in the two Realms of Ghaib, Unseen and Shahadat, Witnessing.

 

Subhan Allah! 

 

238. Whether willing or unwilling, everyone is in a state of praise of Allah

 

وَلِلَّهِ يَسْجُدُ مَن فِى ٱلسَّمَـٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ طَوْعًۭا وَكَرْهًۭا

وَظِلَـٰلُهُم بِٱلْغُدُوِّ وَٱلْـَٔاصَالِ ۩

 

And to Allah prostrates whoever is in the heavens and the earth, willingly or unwillingly, and (so do) their shadows in the mornings and in the afternoons.

Surah Ar Rad, Verse 15

 

Tafseer e Jilani

 

Wa: And how can he focus upon and how can he worship anything except Allah Al Haqq, The Truth, given that indeed, there is no deity to worship except Allah and there is only Him and there is nothing except for Him, because…

 

Lillahe: for Allah, Al Mutta’assil, The One who is the source of everything in existence, attributed by His Everlastingness, He is Everlasting in His Own Self and not like other things which exist from the shadows of what is vanishing in its own reality.

 

Yasjudu: He prostrates i.e. he is in humility and in surrender …

 

Man fis samawaati: whoever is in the heavens i.e. in the Realm of the Names and Attributes which are known by the Al Ayaan e Saabita, all things that are in the Knowledge of Allah…

 

Wa: and whoever is in the Earth…

 

Al ardi: i.e. the realm of nature from the shapes and infrastructures which are reflected (and appear) from the Names and Attributes…

 

Tau’an: (some prostrate) willing, inclining with love (towards Him) with knowledge and insight…

 

Wa karhan: (and others prostrate themselves before Him) by force with hesitation and disobedience.

 

Wa: And also surrender to Him…

 

Dilaluhum: their shadows i.e. the necessary requirements of their existence (air, food, water etc) and what comes upon them as ambiguities…

 

Bilghudu: in the mornings i.e. the first appearance and emergence…

 

Wal aasaal: and in the evenings i.e. the time of disappearance and ending.

 

Exquisite! 

 

249. No difficulty comes upon us except what is decreed by Allah Subhanahu

 

قُل لَّن یُصِیبَنَاۤ إِلَّا مَا كَتَبَ ٱللَّهُ لَنَا هُوَ مَوۡلَىٰنَاۚ وَعَلَى ٱللَّهِ فَلۡیَتَوَكَّلِ ٱلۡمُؤۡمِنُونَ

 

Say, "Never will befall us except what has decreed Allah for us, He is our Protector."

And so on Allah the believers put their trust.

 

Surah At Taubah, Verse 51

 

Tafseer e Jilani

 

Qul: Say, O Akmal ar Rusul, O Messenger who perfects the Messenger-hood (Allah sends greetings and salutations upon him and his family), to those who find their pleasure in, God forbid, mocking you, who are hypocrites, (say to them) according to your unveiling and your witnessing…

 

Layyuseebana: no adversity will ever come to us from traumas…

 

Illa ma kataballah: except that which Allah has written, Al Muqaddir, The One who has the power to destine death and sustenance and all other deeds and states and all the continuous occurings in the Realm of the Unseen as well as the Realm of the Witnessing, i.e. the world…

 

Lana: for us and Allah chose for us from His Ever Present Knowledge because…

 

Huwa: He Himself is…

Maulana: alone our Protector and Controller of all our matters that He does to us, according to what He has confirmed in His Ever-Present Knowledge, without exchange and without amendment.

 

Wa: And there is no option for us except Raza, being pleased with that which happened to us and that which is happening and will happen from what He has fated for us so that’s…

 

Alallahi: in Allah Subhanahu and no one else except Him in all causes and means because everything is returning towards Him, just as their origin initially itself is also from Him…

 

Falyatawakkalil Mo’minoon: so the believers should place their trust in Allah’s One-ness and the extension of the Secrets of His One-ness upon the sheets of all His Creation.

 

255. Allah Subhanahu does not wrong people, they wrong themselves

 

إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ لَا یَظۡلِمُ ٱلنَّاسَ شَیۡءࣰا وَلَـٰكِنَّ ٱلنَّاسَ أَنفُسَهُمۡ یَظۡلِمُونَ

 

Indeed, Allah does not wrong people in anything, but the people themselves wrong.

Surah Yunus, Verse 44

 

Tafseer e Jilani

 

Inallaha: Indeed Allah, Al Muta’azziz, The Only Dominant One, with His Mantle of Adma, Majesty and Kibriya, Pride…

 

La yadlimun naasa: is not unjust to people, Al Mustawajjibeena, the ones who became deserving of punishment and exemplary retribution…

 

Shay’an: in anything which comes to them from Him…

 

Wa lakinnan naasa: but the people, An Naseen, the ones who are forgetful of where to use the blessings given by Allah to them, (are forgetful) of what those blessings were created for…

 

Anfusahum yadlimoon: only they themselves are unjust by spending the blessings on the opposite of His Command and the opposite of what purpose those blessings appeared from Him so that they become deserving of intense dislike and revenge.

 

253. Why did you not prostrate when commanded? And Iblis answered, “I am better than Him.”

 

قَالَ یَـٰۤإِبۡلِیسُ مَا مَنَعَكَ أَن تَسۡجُدَ لِمَا خَلَقۡتُ بِیَدَیَّۖ أَسۡتَكۡبَرۡتَ أَمۡ كُنتَ مِنَ ٱلۡعَالِی

قَالَ أَنَا۠ خَیۡرࣱ مِّنۡهُ خَلَقۡتَنِی مِن نَّارࣲ وَخَلَقۡتَهُۥ مِن طِینࣲ

 

He said, "O Iblis! What prevented you from prostrating before the one whom I created with My Hands?

Are you too arrogant or are you of the exalted ones."

He said, "I am better than him. You created me from fire and You created him from clay."

 

Surah Sad, Verse 76

 

Tafseer e Jilani

 

Then when at the time Iblis refused his, the Prophet Adam (as), obedience and his honouring even though the Command came from Allah and was compulsory:

 

Qala: He, Allah Subhanahu, said, with anger at him, calling out to him, asking him the reason for his refusal…

 

Ya Iblis: O Iblis, Al Mustakbir, the one whose desire for pride (not even in possession of it) overcame the Command, the one who turned away from Our Order…

 

Ma manaka an tasjud: what prevented you for prostrating i.e. what was the thing that stopped you from the prostration of honouring…

 

Lama khalaqtu bi yadihi: the one who I created by My Hand and to whom I gave form by My Authority in accordance with My Form and with the perfection of My Strength and Control so he could be My Mirror and be able for My Friendship and My Viceregency.

 

Astakbarta: Did you desire to become arrogant from the obedience of Our Command and follow Our Order…

 

Am kunta: or you considered yourself…

 

Min A’lieen: of the exalted ones, Al Mutafawwaqeena, the ones made higher than you, so much so that your nafs, self, has made you so that you cannot surrender before Allah and be obedient to Him?

 

And after the accursed one heard this from Subhanahu, such an address, consisting of all kinds of wrath…

 

Qala: he said, the accursed one, after choosing the second option for the refusal…

 

Ana khairun minhu: I am better than him in form and physical material because…

 

Khalaqtani: You created me by the Perfection of Your Authority…

 

Min naar: from fire and it is the better element and it is higher in value and place…

 

Wa khalaqtahu min teen: and You created him from clay and it is the lower element and it is not valuable and it is of a lower place. And the command of prostration for the higher and better before the lower and worthless is not suitable and not according to Your Solid Wisdom.

 

256. And everyone followed Iblis except one group

 

وَلَقَدۡ صَدَّقَ عَلَیۡهِمۡ إِبۡلِیسُ ظَنَّهُۥ فَٱتَّبَعُوهُ إِلَّا فَرِیقࣰا مِّنَ ٱلۡمُؤۡمِنِینَ

 

And certainly, Iblis’ opinion about them had been right for they followed him,

except a group of the believers.

 

Surah As Saba, Verse 20

 

Tafseer e Jilani

 

Then said Subhanahu taking an oath…

 

Wa: upon Himself…

 

Laqad saddaqa: indeed he, Iblis, authenticated…

 

Alayhim: upon those, Al Haalikeen, the ones who destroy themselves in the maze of khusraan, losses and kufraan, denial and ingratitude…

 

Iblis: the enemy for them, persistent, permanent in enemity with them from the beginning of their creation…

 

Dannahu: his belief, which was what he thought to be true for them when he said to their father, the Prophet Adam (as),

 

لَأَحۡتَنِكَنَّ ذُرِّیَّتَهُۥۤ إِلَّا قَلِیلࣰ

 

I will surely destroy his offspring except a few – Al Isra, 62

 

Tafseer e Jilani

 

La ahtanikanna durriyaatahu: Iblis said: I will make them wayward and trap them with vulgarity and by alluring them to do something wrong so that I can erase their names from the book of believers. So how can they become of the Arifeen, the ones who recognize Allah and the Al Mukaashifeen, for whom everything unveils, Al Mushahideen, the witnessing ones because what they are made from and their foundation, it demands different kinds of corruption and various kinds of sin and waywardness.

 

And for me there are many opportunities (through these demands) to create paranoia for them and allure them till they become misguided from the straight path of guidance and the way of correctness…

 

Illa qaleela: except a few amongst them for indeed they are Sabitoon, steadfast on what they are set up on. I have no power to persuade them towards wrongdoing because they are Muwwayadeen, assisted by You and they are Muwwafiqeen, granted ability by Your Power.

 

And he said:

 

وَلَا تَجِدُ أَكْثَرَهُمْ شَكِرِينَ ‎

 

and you will not find most of them grateful - Surah Al Araaf, Verse 17

 

Tafseer e Jilani

 

La tajidu: You will not find, Ya Muizzu, O You who is The Bestower of Honour to everybody else in in humiliation and The One directing the astray to the Right Path…

 

Aksarahim Shakireen: most of them to be grateful when they will return towards, (they will be not be) the grateful ones, spending from what You bestowed them of blessings on what You commanded them not to do.

 

And he said:

 

وَلَأُضِلَّنَّهُمۡ وَلَأُمَنِّیَنَّهُمۡ

 

"And I will surely deceive them and surely arouse desires in them – An Nisa, Verse 119

 

Tafseer e Jilani

 

Wa laudillanahum: And I will surely deceive them by different deceptions and whisperings of doubt and paranoia from the Way of Your Tauheed, One-ness…

 

Wa layumanniannahum: and I will arouse desires in them by their concerns with their livelihood in this place of deception (the world) with hirs, greed and tool al amal, never ending hopes and all types of desires of their nafs, their egos, which arise from lust and (seeking of) pleasure.

 

And much else apart from this. And after that he misguided them from the path of Shukr, Gratitude and Imaan, faith…

 

Fattaba’uhu: they followed him, ungrateful and denying of the blessings and Al Munim, the Bestower of those Blessings, all of them…

 

Illa fareeqan min al Mo’mineen: except a group from the Mo’mineen, the believers, Al Mu’qineena, possessing certaint in the Tauheed, the One-ness of Allah, Al Musaddeqeena, attesting to His Prophets, Al Muttadakkireena, taking warning that he is their enemy forever so they turned back from him and from his persuasion by deception so they remained Saalimeen, secure, from his persuasion to deceive.

 

 

257. The ones who have imaan and taqwa, there is good in the world for them and they will be paid back with rewards without account

 

قُلۡ یَـٰعِبَادِ ٱلَّذِینَ ءَامَنُوا۟ ٱتَّقُوا۟ رَبَّكُمۡۚ لِلَّذِینَ أَحۡسَنُوا۟ فِی هَـٰذِهِ ٱلدُّنۡیَا حَسَنَةࣱۗ

إِنَّمَا یُوَفَّى ٱلصَّـٰبِرُونَ أَجۡرَهُم بِغَیۡرِ حِسَابࣲ

 

Say, "O My slaves those who believe!

Be mindful of your Lord. For those who do good in this world is good,

Only will be paid back in full the patient ones their reward without account."

 

Surah Az Zumar, Verse 10

 

Tafseer e Jilani

 

Qul: Say, Ya Akmal Ar Rusul (Allah sends blessings and salutations upon you since the beginning of everything), O Messenger who completes the Messenger-hood, give this message on Our Behalf, calling out to the selected sincere amongst my Servants…

 

Ya ibadi: O My Worshippers, by attaching them with His Essence making them special and honouring them…

 

Alladina aamano: those who attained to faith from amongst you in the One-ness of My Essence and My Appearance according to My Affairs and My Ever changing-ness in accordance with My Names and Attributes, the requirement of your faith is taqwa, mindfulness, from the demands of your desires…

 

Ittaqu Rabbukum: be conscious of your Lord and stay away from what is forbidden by Him and what He has ordered prevented for you and characterize yourself with His Commands and know that He…

 

Lilladina ahsanu: for the ones with spiritual excellence and beautiful regard with Allah…

 

Fi hadihi duniya: in this world, which is the place of gaining lessons and choosing…

 

Hasana: there is goodness, multifold and more than a thousand times more than that in the Hereafter which is the

 

Dar al Qarar, the abode which is forever so take heed, O people of vision, both inner and outer.

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Innama yuwaffas sabiroon: Only the steadfast are given in full as the Al Mutahammiloona, the ones who carry their burdens with the different kinds of difficulties and toiling with patience in the practice of Imaan, faith…

 

Ajrahum: their reward and in abundance upon them will be goodness and different kinds of recompenses and honours…

 

Bighairi hisaab: without count, for all of it and exceeding it, with no possibility of measure and enumeration and without any number, merely by His Bounty for them and His Honour upon them.

 

And in a hadith, endless salutations and greetings of Allah upon the one saying it:

 

“Fixed will be the scales on the Day of Judgement for the people of Sala’t, those who established their prayers and Sadaqa, those who gave charity beyond what is obligated and Hajj, the ones who performed the pilgrimage and they will be given their reward for it.

 

But there will be no scales for the Ahl al Bala, the people who faced afflictions. Instead poured upon them will be rewards.

Until they will intensely desire, the Ahl al Afiyat, the people who lived life without suffering in this world, wishing that their bodies had been cut with scissors in the world, after they see what the people who faced afflictions will be taking as their rewards.”

 

يَقُولُ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى:

"ابْنَ آدَمَ، اطْلُبْنِي تَجدني، فَإِنْ وَجَدْتَنِي وجَدْتَ كُلَّ شَيْءٍ، وَإِنْ فُتُّكَ فَاتَكَ كُلُّ شَيْءٍ،

وَأَنَا أَحَبُّ إِلَيْكَ مِنْ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ".

 

Says Allah Ta’ala:

 

“O Children of Adam (as)! Seek me and you will find me.

So if you find Me, you will find everything.

And if you miss this seeking, you will lose everything.

And I should be most beloved to you of all things.”

 

Urs Mubarik Ya Ghaus ul Muazzam :)

 

 

 

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