He is The Truth
All praise and gratitude is due to God, the Wise and the Merciful; the God
Who enables His slaves to travel through the horizons (afaq) so that they may
observe the wonders of His Might and Wisdom and discover the proofs of His
Majesty, as well as the signs of His Grace and Mercy in all directions and
corners of the world; the God Who makes the (satanic) selves of the wayfarers
to die and makes manifest the hidden secret of their inner selves, and brings
what is concealed to light through the hardships of journey, the taking of
risks, and the separation from home and children and the avoidance of
association with others (than Allah) and shunning all except Allah, the Master
of the Kingdom (Malik al-Mulk). May God's peace and praise be upon the chief of
mankind and the noblest of the human species, Muhammad al-Mustafa, his pure
Family, his Companions and his Ummah. Therefore, surrender yourself totally to
Hadrat Al-Haqq (The Truth, The Reality i.e. God).
O slave of Allah! Know that you are a wayfarer (salik) seeking your Lord and
ultimately one day you would meet Him, as said in a tradition: Whoever hopes to
meet God should know that the time of the meeting will come. And you should
know that God, the Exalted, by leis perfect Might and Wisdom has destined two
journeys for the Children of Adam. One of them is involuntary (qahri), and the
other one is voluntary (ikhtiyari).
As to the involuntary journey, the starting point is the father's loins
(sulb); the second stage is the mother's womb; the third stage is the physical
world; and the fourth stage is that of the grave, which is either a garden out
of the gardens of paradise or is a pit out of the pits of hell. The fifth stage
is the Day of Resurrection, which is equal to fifty thousand years of this
world.
After that stage you will reach your eternal home and attain the real abode-
that is, the abode of peace (dar al-salam) and the paradise of security and
peace, in case you are among the felicitous and the friends of the Haqq; or
your home will be the abode of fire and torture, if, God forbid, you should be
among the wretched and the enemies of the Haqq, as Allah has said: "On the Day
of Resurrection a group will be in paradise and a group in hell."
Every breath that you take is a step towards the stage of death. Every day of
your life is equal to a parsang. Each month is like a stage (marhalah) and each
year like a station (manzil). Your journey is like the movement of the sun and
the moon- yet you are oblivious of this journey and movement- and in your
ignorance and forgetfulness you have failed to make ready and equip yourself
properly for the station (manzil) of the grave and the onward journey to the
station of the Day of Resurrection and your eternal and real home.
But the voluntary journey is of two kinds: one is the journey of the souls
and the hearts toward the Almighty and All-powerful King of the world. The
second is a physical journey (safar jismani) in the earth of God. O Lord, open
the gates of Your grace and mercy to us! O Lord, Who art Bounteous and
Magnanimous!
Excerpted from: "Adab al-Suluk: A Treatise on Spiritual Wayfaring"
by Shaykh Najm al-Din Kubra al-Khwarazmi translated by Ali Baqirshahi
[Forwarded post from Akh Hamid)
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