Oppose Your Ego
Mawlana Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani ar Rabbani
A disciple (murid) of Sayyidina Khalid al-Baghdadi a
saint of the Golden Chain who passed away some 200
years ago and is buried in Damascus was sent to Hajj
by his Shaykh. His Shaykh told him to look for
something specific, but he did not find it when he was
there. However, he heard that there was an unbeliever
in Bombay who had miraculous powers and could do
everything that you asked him to do.
The disciple was upset: he had been with his Shaykh
dozens of years and he could not do any anything
miraculous. How did that unbeliever, who was neither
following the Way nor even following Isl¨¡m, have
miraculous powers? I am going back to my Shaykh to
tell him, O my Shaykh, you sent me to look for a
saint, and I found an unbeliever who has miraculous
powers, while we cannot do anything! What is this
teaching?¡± This is reality for us: we come and sit
with Mawl¨¡n¨¡ Shaykh N¨¡zim for hours and hours, and
we are not benefiting for a reason which is coming
presently.
The disciple went and told his Shaykh about his
doubts. Sayyidina Khalid answered, O my son, dont get
the wrong impression. You would be making a mistake.
I shall give you the answer tomorrow." That night,
Sayyidina Khalid was in India in one second by saying
In name of God, The Merciful, The Compassionate -
Bismillahi'r-Rahmani 'r-Rahim."
That is another power which Mawlana Shaykh Nazim is
not using. The shaykhs have freed their spiritual
powers from the cage of their bodies. Now the spirit
can take the body with it, whereas before, the spirit
went only where the body took it. They move by
putting their body inside their spirit, not
vice-versa: thus travel is possible in one second,
wherever the spirit goes. As he came to the door of
that person in India, he again put back his spirit
into his physical body, and thus appeared there.
The man from Bombay was waiting at his door.
He was a monk of another faith. He said: O my
Shaykh, I knew that you were coming through my power,
and I ordered a Muslim lady to prepare a meal for you
as I know that you do not eat of our food." They sat
opposite each other. Before saying anything to him,
Sayyidina Khalid al-Baghdadi said to him Recite the
Testification of Faith, the shahadah, now.
The monk sat in silence concentrating on his heart for
half an hour, in meditation, while Sayyidina Khalid
al-Baghdadi did not say anything. After half an hour,
the monk raised his head. He then said, ¡°Ashhadu an
la ilaaha illallah wa ashhadu anna
Muhammadur-Rasulullah." Beforethis he possessed all
sorts of worldly miraculous powers; as soon as he
recited the Testification of Faith, he received
miraculous heavenly powers.
Sayyidina Khalid asked him, Why did you wait half an
hour in unbelief when you knew that belief was
Reality. He said: O my Shaykh, I am very sorry, but
for twenty-five years I have not done anything without
asking my Shaykh." "Who is your Shaykh?"
He said, "My Shaykh is my ego. For every matter, I
have to ask my ego and see what it will tell me.
Whatever it tells me, I do the opposite, for I know
the ego is only seeking destruction of the soul. After
I got an answer from my ego, I recited the
Testification of Faith.
"O my Shaykh, for 25 years, whatever my ego told me to
do when I asked for its advice, I did the opposite.
Now, when I asked it what I should do, whether I
should take the Testification of Faith, or not, my ego
told me: ' 'Are you crazy? Are you going to go down to
the bottom step and climb all the way up again? You
are crazy! Be aware of this! Never give the
Testification of Faith!' And I was fighting with my
ego whether to say or not. Since my ego insisted not
to say it, I decided to say it.
Sayyidina Khalid said: When you said it, you received
heavenly powers. We do not depend on wordly powers.
Wordly power is for Satan." When you see non-Muslims
or Muslims who are not keeping Islam, that can perform
miraculous feats, you must know that this is worldly
power. Satan and devils can do this easily: walking
on water, going through fires, walking on nails,
penetrating through walls. This is not dependable.
We need heavenly powers, and they come from the light
of the heart.
We need to love everyone as we love ourself. That is
what we need truly. We need to respect everyone. We
need to be helpful with everyone, humble towards
everyone. Be aware of this, and you will find that
heavenly powers are open in front of you.
The next day, Sayyidina Khalid went back to his
association of hundreds of scholars, disciples and
students in Damascus, and he said to them: I have been
teaching you for forty or fifty years, and no one is
doing something to tame his ego. That unbeliever was
able to gain miraculous powers wordly powers because
he was doing something against his ego. You I have
told to fight your ego, to kill your ego, to be good
servants, and you are not accepting. For that reason
heavenly powers are never going to be opened for you.
Take this story into consideration and be good
servants. And from God is all success.
Wa min Allah at Tawfiq.
wassalam, arief hamdani
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