My daughter asked me to answer this question off the Internet.
     The word Muslim means one who has surrender their life to god.
The Islamic faith has the same problems as all other religions;
people take personal belief and culture plus bad interruption and act
upon that. In Islam, it states if you harm an innocent person, you
harm the whole world. I have even read In Christian pamphlets put out
by a church that Allah is a moon god these ideas come from uneducated
people. When Jesus prayed he spoke Aramaic. The word for god in
Aramaic is Allah. I have even heard Muslims hate Christians. How can
one religion hate another when they both have Jesus teaching in the
same book? The Quran has Jesus teachings and talks about the second
coming. Many Muslims have a Quran and a Bible. The world is to full
of people and governments saying I am right and everyone else is
wrong instead of saying, lets work together and bring peace into the
world
"As it states in the Quran: `Oh you who believe, stand up firmly for
justice, as witnesses to God, even if it be against yourselves, or
your parents, or your kin, and whether it be against rich or poor;
for God can best protect both. Do not follow any passion, lest you
not be just. And if you distort or decline to do justice, verily God
is well-acquainted with all that you do.'" (Quran 4:135)

40 Sayings Of A Modern Sufi Master
Asif Naqshbandi
May 16, 2000
  Translated by Asif Jehangir Naqshbandi Jamaati I am a biomedical
engineer. I became initiated into the Naqshbandi Order a few years
back and in my spare time I help to translate the works of great
Muslims of the Subcontinent into English.

Selection of wise sayings by a Naqshbandi Sufi Master from Pakistan.

Here is a compendium of forty (40) wise sayings of one of the
greatest Sufi saints of the 19th/20th centuries, Hazrat Pir Sayyid
Jamaat Ali Shah Sahib quds-sirruhu (c.1840 -1951) of Alipur Sharif,
Sialkot, Pakistan. The Shaykh was one of the great saints of the
Punjab and a sayyid also from both maternal and paternal sides of his
family. His ancestors, all sufi masters themselves, hailed from
Shiraz in Iran and came to the Subcontinent when one of them
accompanied Emperor Humayoun back to Delhi after his exile in Iran
where Humayoun had originally met him. The Shaykh's ancestors
honoured the court of Humayoun with their presence but when Akbar
began to deviate from the religion of Islam and announced his Din i
Ilaahi they left the imperial court in protest. Akbar was loathe to
see such saintly persons go but they were adamant and so he granted
them a piece of land in Alipur area as a parting honour. Here the
Shaykh's ancestors settled in the subcontinent and their descendants
have remained there ever since.

Hazrat Jamaat Ali Shah sahib was renowned for his saintliness even as
a young child and after completing his religious studies (he was an
expert in all of the branches of fiqh but especially in the sciences
of hadith) he went throughout the width and breadth of the
subcontinent working tirelessly for Islam and the Muslims. He laid
the foundation stones--and funded-- hundreds of mosques throughout
the Subcontinent from Peshawar to Hyderabad, Deccan. He was a leading
personality in all of the major movements of that time such as the
Khilafat movement and he was especially active against the Arya Samaj
movement and helped to save the iman of countless Muslims with his
tireless efforts. He also was one of the key defenders of the Ahle
Sunnah faith against the rise of Qadianism and also was an opponent
of the reform movements like that of the Wahabis.

He had a wonderful, awe-inspiring personality and was gentle and
loving towards all, yet was afraid of no one when it came to
defending the religion of Allah's Messenger sal Allahu alayhi wa
sallam; this is demonstrated by his leadership of the Muslims during
the Shahid Ganj Mosque incident where the Shaykh led the opposition
to the plans of the British rulers in Lahore as well as his refusal
to pray behind the official Wahaabi Imams in the Haramain appointed
by King Saud and his refusal to visit the King when he was ordered to
do so to explain: "I am a faqeer, he is a king" was his famous reply.
In the end it was Saud who relented and allowed the Shaykh to pray by
himself! He received medals from the Sultan of Ottoman Turkey for his
services to Islam and for his amazing generosity in helping the
people of Madina during a drought there for which he received the
title "Abu'l Arab".

However, apart from his vast learning, it was as a Sufi shaykh that
the saint was loved by the populace and it is estimated that he had
over 1 million murids [disciples] from Afghanistan to the southern
tip of India; he received the khirqa [cloak] from his Shaykh very
soon after taking bayah [pledge of spiritual allegaince] and was thus
the representative of his Shaykh early on. He was authorized to
accept murids into many Sufi Orders but it was as a Naqshbandi Master
that he is famous for, carrying the great secret of this Order. He
transformed the lives of countless people and sinners repented at his
hands by the thousand and many others themselves reached the highest
levels of spiritual development by his attention. His karaamaat
[miracles] are too many to recount and there are many eye-witnesses
to them.

He was extremely generous and magnanimous towards all, especially the
poor, and he would not eat alone and the poor had been invited to
share his table with him. Though possessing great family wealth the
Shaykh spent it all on Islam and the poor, himself living frugally in
the manner of the great Naqshbandi Sufis of the past.

He was a big supporter of the Pakistan movement and amongst his
admirers was one Muhammad Iqbal, the poet. Also, he wrote many
letters to Quaid e Azam offering advice and support and he was
instrumental in getting the populace to vote for the Muslim League:
he issued a fatwa saying that he would not read the janaazah prayer
of anyone of his mureeds who did not vote for Pakistan. He sent a
tasbih and prayer mat to the Quaid too and asked him to pray
regularly.

As a Sufi he occupied the status of a Perfect Master and he was loved
by all and sundry. It is for his love of the Holy Prophet of Allah
alayhi salaat o salaam that he is especially famous for (like Mawlana
Ahmad Raza Khan Barelvi alayhirahmat, his younger contemporary with
whom he had a great friendship and admired). He passed onto his
Creator in 1951 but until the very end he stuck passionately to the
commands of the Shar'iah, never missing a prayer and often he would
pray all night long. Inna lillaha wa inna ilaayhi raaj'iun.

I was fortunate enough to be initiated into this great Sufi family by
the great grandson of Hazrat Sayyid Jamaat Ali Shah, my Shaykh Hazrat
Sayyid Munawwar Hussain Shah Jamaati sahib a few years ago. I am
translating the biography of the Shaykh into English and insha Allah
I shall be succesful in this task.

As a taster, here is a sample of 40 sayings of the Shaykh (malfuzat)
which I have translated. Each one is an ocean of wisdom and may Allah
help us to benefit from them and to act on the advice. Ameen.

Forty Utterances [Malfuzat] of The Most Venerable Shaykh, Amir-E-
Millat Hadrat Sayyid Jamaat Ali Shah Naqshbandi-Mujaddidi [May Allah
sanctify his mighty secret!]



In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful

He (May Allah be pleased with him) said:

1.If the name of Allah is uttered even once with the tongue, it is
the dhikr (remembrance) of the tongue; if Allah is remembered once
with the heart, then that is equal to thirty five million utterances
(dhikr) of the tongue. Such is the dhikr of the heart. There are 35
million blood vessels in the body, and all are connected to the
heart. If Allah's name is uttered even once (with the heart) then all
the vessels utter it too.

2.In a river, a boat travels on the water and the greater the amount
of water, the more at ease the boat will be. However if that very
water enters the boat, it will capsize. The heart is as the boat and
the sorrows and heartaches of the world are the water; everyone's
boat has sunk except that of the people of Allah—those who do dhikr—
which always stays afloat.

3.Allah [May He be Exalted!] has created Hell for the enemies of the
Holy Messenger [sal Allahu alayhi wa sallam] and Paradise for those
who are his lovers. Those people who worry about whether they will go
to Heaven or Hell after death, should ask themselves whether they are
lovers of His Excellency (sal Allahu alayhi wa sallam) or amongst his
enemies.

4."Kullu jadeedin lazeezun"; you may like every new thing of this
world but in your Faith [Deen] you must stick with the same, ancient,
Islam as that of your Predecessors.

5.If a man has bad (sinful) actions [`amal] so be it, but Allah
forbid that his Belief [`aqeedah] is bad. In a hadith it is written
that run from a leper as you would from a lion; those with bad Belief
are lepers of the heart—protect yourself from them, in fact do not
even sit where they have sat.

6.Constant contemplation [fikr] about prayer [salat; namaz] is given
the name prayer i.e. a person is busy doing some work but his heart
is always thinking about the (next) prayer so that sometimes he asks
about the time, sometimes he looks at his watch, at other times he
looks at the (position of) the sun, to make sure that he doesn't miss
the (correct) prayer time. Until such templation is achieved, the
prayer is just a ritual and a habit which is being performed. May
Allah Almighty grant us such contemplation!

7.If a farmer uses a plough all his life but does not plant the
seeds, can his crops grow? Of course not! Using the plough is fasting
[sawm], prayer [salat], pilgrimage [Hajj] and sowing the seeds is
charity [zakat]. If one does not give zakat, all his praying, fasting
and making the pilgrimage is in vain.

8.If two tasks need to be performed, one for the Faith [Deen], the
other for the world [dunya], then perform the one for the Deen first.
Through it's blessing [baraka'] the worldly task will also be
achieved.

9.Every supplication [dua'] has two wings: lawful earnings, and a
truthful tongue. Whoever earns through lawful [halal] means and
speaks the truth, his supplication will definitely be accepted.

10.Whoever asks from you in fact does you a favour, for he asks you
for a paisa [a hundredth of a rupee] and Allah rewards you for
(giving) it seven-hundred fold.

11.Saying, `La ilaha il Allah' (there is no god but Allah) makes one
a muwwahid (monotheist), not a Believer (mu'min). So when will you
become a Believer? When you say `La ilaha il Allahu Muhammadur Rasul
Allah' (there is no god but Allah (and) Muhammad is the Messenger of
Allah). For us the greatest blessing (ni'mat) is that of Iman
(Faith).Even Satan recites `La ilaha il Allah', but why is he still
known as the Accursed? He (even) says, `Inni akhafullaha Rabbal
aalamin' (Verily, I have fear of Allah, the Lord of the Worlds).

All the different groups in the world are believers in the Oneness of
God [tawhid], whether they be bhangis, choorhay-chamaar,Christians,
or some other group, but why are they accursed (mala'un)? Because
they only say, 'There is no god but Allah' but omit `Muhammad is the
Messenger of Allah'.

12.When the blessed name of the Chief of Both the Worlds (Muhammad),
sal Allahu alayhi wa sallam, comes on one's tongue, all one's
lifetime of blasphemy [kufr], polytheism [shirk], and all one's sins
are erased.

13.In this day and age it is common to hear that do not praise His
Excellency Muhammad), sal Allahu alayhi wa sallam, beyond his limit.
But only one who knows a limit can go beyond it. If someone does not
know the limit, how will he exceed it? Apart from Allah Almighty no
one knows the limits of the Prophet (sal Allahu alayhi wa sallam);
reading his noble kalimah once is enough to wipe out a lifetime's
sins! This much we do know about his limits:

Muhammad Mustafa, O Kaif, is praised by Allah Forget about Man: no
one can truly praise him!

Muhammad is the Divine Secret, his secrets who knows?

In shar'iah he is a man, in reality [haqiqah] God knows!

14.In , `Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah', there is laudation
[na'at] of the Prophet sal Allahu alayhi wa sallam; those who do not
like the Prophet's laudation [na'at], should also refrain from
saying, "Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah."

15.The earth does not eat the bodies of the Prophets, neither does it
touch them. The Prophets pray [perform namaz] in their graves.

Use analogy [qiyas] then, and think what the state of The Prophet
will be like (in his grave).

16.The Messenger of Allah, sal Allahu alayhi wa sallam, said that
whoever sends salutations upon me I will answer his salutations.

17.His Excellency (Muhammad), sal Allahu alayhi wa sallam, said that
whoever sends blessings [durud-i-sharif] upon me with love, I hear it
with my own ears.

18.The Holy Prophet sal Allahu alayhi wa sallam ,after veiling
himself from this world, is, without doubt, alive and still upon his
Prophethood (in his blessed grave) and is pleased by the worship and
good deeds of his Community [ummah] and saddened by the sins and
disobedience.

19.A loose, unbridled, camel never reaches it's destination and
wherever it goes it is beaten and hit. A camel in a line (of camels)
however, no matter how thin and weak it is, definitely will reach
it's destination.

20.The body has been given to use, and not to nourish and make fat:

You must awake, so awaken now, whilst beneath the heavens' shadow

You shall have until Judgement Day to sleep --beneath the earth's
shadow!

21.By putting one's head on the dust (in prostration), a man becomes
purified:

What right do we have to put our feet on the ground

When, in prostration, we've never put our head on the ground?

22.Do not stay in the company of people with incorrect beliefs
[aqidah], in fact do not even sit where they have sat.

23.Wherever the water touches during wudu'[ritual washing], that
place will not burn in the hellfire.

24.If after mendicancy [faqr], the faqir becomes a dog of the world
[dunya] again;

The fool after being purified, has become embroiled in filth again!

25.In the verse of Surah Fatiha, `Guide us to the straight path, the
path of those whom You have favoured', there is proof of taqlid and
its

necessity.

26."Fatta bi `u millata Ibrahima hanifa'n". There have been 124, 000
prophets but this command, "Therefore follow the religion of Ibrahim

who was separate from every falsehood" proves that it is obligatory
[fard] to do taqlģd of an Imam.

27.Everybody's grave will be dark but the grave of those who pray the
tahajjud prayer will be full of light. The reading of the Ayat ul
Kursi

(Verse of the Throne) after each prayer (namaz), and the Sura
(beginning with)Tabarakulladhi each night will definitely result in
there

being no punishment in the grave.

28.Just as it is obligatory [fard] to send blessings [durud] upon the
Holy Prophet (sal Allahu alayhi wa sallam) during the prayer [salat],
likewise it is also obligatory to send blessings [durud] upon his
Family [Å l], otherwise the prayer will not be (valid).

29.Nothing is had before it has been destined [qismat] and before
it's appointed time [waqt].

30.Allah Ta'aala has created the heart [dil] for his remembrance
[dhikr], and has not created it for worries.

31.When people from previous nations sinned, there faces used to
metamorphose but His Excellency, the Holy Prophet (sal Allahu alayhi
wa sallam), declared, "Allah the Pure will not change the faces of
those who believe in me."

32.The Day of Judgement [qiyamat] will come when from amongst Allah's
servants, no one remains to pronounces Allah's name.

33.Respect the great men of religion [buzurg], if they become angry
(with you) then there is no hope for salvation. To insult one is to
insult them all. If a chicken lays a rotten egg, then even if that
one egg is placed beneath a thousand other chickens, a chick will
never emerge from that egg.

34.Read the Word of Allah (Qur'an) only for Allah. Reading it for
worldly reasons [dunya], is like giving rubies in exchange for a few
worthless pennies; it is another matter if, after reading for Allah,
Allah Himself gives you worldly benefits for the sake of your reading
(for Him).

35.He who has no shame [ghairat] has no faith [iman].

36.To accept an invitation (to dine) [dawah] is Sunnah. His
Excellency the Holy Prophet (sal Allahu alayhi wa sallam) said that
even if someone makes you an invitation which is at a distance of
three miles away, and invites you for something simple, you should
still attend.

37.At the time of entering Madina Sharif , you must pay full
attention to its etiquette [adab]. At the very least, one's facial
appearance should be that of a Muslim: the latest fashions, and
hairstyles, etc. should be avoided.

38.If one wishes to give anything in the way of Allah, one should do
so in one's own lifetime. After we die, neither our wife nor our
children

will give anything in our name; in fact, it will be difficult even
for them to come to read the Fatihah at our graves!

39.If there are ten people doing dhikr and one person who is
abstaining [ghafil], the remembrancers [dhakir] will make the
abstainer radiant too [nurani].Staying [suhbat] with company wherein
Allah's dhikr is performed will bring contentment.

40.It is said that after death the dead person does not receive
spiritual reward [thawab]. The situation is this, that the soul does
not die; when the soul does not die, why then will it receive no
reward?!

amin to that brother~isham


>From: "Sheikh Mehdi abd al Qadir Malang" <mehdimalang@...>
>Reply-To: Sufi_Poetry@yahoogroups.com
>To: Sufi_Poetry@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [Sufi_Poetry] Do u think that Muslims r bad or good?what exactly
>about them?
>Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2007 02:53:04 -0000
>
>My daughter asked me to answer this question off the Internet.
>     The word Muslim means one who has surrender their life to god.
>The Islamic faith has the same problems as all other religions;
>people take personal belief and culture plus bad interruption and act
>upon that. In Islam, it states if you harm an innocent person, you
>harm the whole world. I have even read In Christian pamphlets put out
>by a church that Allah is a moon god these ideas come from uneducated
>people. When Jesus prayed he spoke Aramaic. The word for god in
>Aramaic is Allah. I have even heard Muslims hate Christians. How can
>one religion hate another when they both have Jesus teaching in the
>same book? The Quran has Jesus teachings and talks about the second
>coming. Many Muslims have a Quran and a Bible. The world is to full
>of people and governments saying I am right and everyone else is
>wrong instead of saying, lets work together and bring peace into the
>world
>"As it states in the Quran: `Oh you who believe, stand up firmly for
>justice, as witnesses to God, even if it be against yourselves, or
>your parents, or your kin, and whether it be against rich or poor;
>for God can best protect both. Do not follow any passion, lest you
>not be just. And if you distort or decline to do justice, verily God
>is well-acquainted with all that you do.'" (Quran 4:135)
>
>
>

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Aslam Alakum, brothers and sisters
Educated people kill innocent people all the time and by doing so leave
there religion behind. People who convince innocent people to kill in
the name of God suffer a thousand torments in the end. Hate is not holy
war.  Loving Allah above all else. Seeking Allah above all else. Crying
to Allah when others sleep. Thinking of your death and dieing before
you die. Ziker is not done when you have time but twenty-four seven.
Prayer is not just five times a day but as much as you can. That is
holy war. You cannot own anything, you cannot find work you cannot take
care of anyone not even yourself.
Allah dose it all weather you know it or not. You may call Allah a
thousand different names but there is only one God, ALLAH! and Allah
knows what you do. To be a true lover you must surrender completely
mind body heart and soul. People look outside of themselves when the
true work is within. A thousand different teachers, guides, or saints
will not change that. No one will do it for you. Lela for Allah.
Malang

Wanders follow the river downstream to the mercy ocean of Allah
The people of the secret go upstream to the source. Isan is the Kabba
of the heart. Make Hajj everyday and night. At the Mazamudda lovers
drink tea with the Nabi then the real work begins. If you do not awake
in the morning and fall in to prayer you are not awake............

Second Annual Southwest Sufi Camp
Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Space:
With Wali Ali : Southwest Sufi Camp, NM. ~ Aug 3 – 9
Details TBA
Retreat with Sherif Baba
September 14 -16, 2007 (Friday dinner through Sunday lunch)
Voice of the Turtle Retreat Center
near Silver City, New Mexico

Beloved Turkish Sufi teacher Sherif Baba will do a teaching retreat
at our small retreat center on 1500 wilderness acres in the Rocky
Mountains http://www.southwestsuficommunity.org/. Baba will share
Sohbet Friday night, Saturday and Sunday morning, and lead Zikr on
Saturday night.

8-10 indoor sleeping spaces available, many camping sites
sliding scale - $95 - $125, includes meals
work exchange scholarships are available
contact: Jamila jconnors@... 505 388-4088

Love is a candle flame burning warm and bright. Fighting is like the
wind blowing, it can cause it to got out. Threw darkness love can
light yer way. But once the flame has gone out, 'what is left?' you
find yerself asking. Lost in darkness without love. But Look around
you, you are loved, by many and more than you honestly think. But
don't let what you have burn out.

Second Annual Southwest Sufi Camp
Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Space:
With Wali Ali : Southwest Sufi Camp, NM. ~ Aug 3 – 9
Details TBA
Retreat with Sherif Baba
September 14 -16, 2007 (Friday dinner through Sunday lunch)
Voice of the Turtle Retreat Center
near Silver City, New Mexico

Beloved Turkish Sufi teacher Sherif Baba will do a teaching retreat
at our small retreat center on 1500 wilderness acres in the Rocky
Mountains http://www.southwestsuficommunity.org/. Baba will share
Sohbet Friday night, Saturday and Sunday morning, and lead Zikr on
Saturday night.

8-10 indoor sleeping spaces available, many camping sites
sliding scale - $95 - $125, includes meals
work exchange scholarships are available
contact: Jamila jconnors@highstream.net 505 388-4088

Aslam Alakum my Brothers and Sisters
This is an open letter to answer questions asked by many.
The Sufi poetry space is open to all. I do not monitor or censer any
material that comes in. I do not use or condone profanity and
intelligent people can use other words to express themselves, so I
may delete that. I am online very little; I have no computer of my
own so it takes a little while to respond. It is your space not mine
so write. If you read some thing that inspires you write. this is not
my own personal space I just hold it in trust for you to share with
one and other.   In sharing may we all learn more. Seek knowledge.
Also I post gatherings for people and I would like to know about them
if you go. I do censer it first.
Sufi is not a religion. It is a term meaning ones who are trying to
surrender to god.
It is not my way or the highway. In the Quran it states there is no
compulsion in religion and Allah leads whom he will [ruff translation
my Allah for give me for my mistakes]. You are not following Islam if
you don't follow Quran and Hadith. Meaning no harming innocent people
for you own agenda or beliefs. No taking your own life it is harem
and forbidden. There is no reason to kill yourself, no matter what
any one tells you. You are not a martyr just some one who is not
following god law. I pray Allah punishes those who teach this
unislamic and unholy act.
In a Christian hand out they say Allah comes from a term meaning moon
god, who ever wrote this propaganda has not studded Christianity.
Jesus prayed to Allah and in the Bible Jesus said don't call me
perfect only Allah is perfect.
My beliefs are simple I know there is no god but Allah and the Nabi
is his messenger. The words of the messenger are important so study
Hadith. I do not follow any school [Mathab] but I study those who
came before me and if it is not contrary to the Quran or the Nabi I
use it in my life. There are many good Sheikhs who left us a good
solid path to help us on our way.  May peace and blessing be on the
Nabi Mohammed and may peace and blessing be on the 24,000 Prophets
before him{some say the Nabi was the last prophet some say the last
in the line of Abraham I do not know only Allah knows}.
On last thing if my spelling or grammar is wrong or if I am wrong may
Allah forgive me. I have very little time to type out letters, I try
to catch the mistakes, but only Allah is perfect.
  Mehdi abd al-Qadir Malang

Aslam Alakum See I do make a lot of mistakes. The one I found is on
posting gatherings I do not read them first. I only delete profanity. I
do not care what path you follow seek god and god will show you the
way. No censoring. Mehdi

Know that no man is free of either being a teacher or taught, no more.
Whenever teachings by another ends for him, he starts to teach another.
There are two states, and there is no third. Whoever wants a third, it
is invalidity and halting. Invalidity and halting is something Allah
ta'ala did not create. Who ever wants it, wants to fight the power of
before endless-time and after- endless-time. There is no doubt that
whoever wants to wrestle with power is brought to the ground in every
case.

You will not find any change to the Sunna of Allah
Sheikh Sid Ali al-Jamal of Fez Morocco

sorry = bran new here.

--- In Sufi_Poetry@yahoogroups.com, "strangler" <soul_sihka@...> wrote:
>
> sorry = bran new here.
>
Aslam Alakum
Please ask any Questions and inshallah I will answer. You never need to
be sorry. On the side of the page it is written home messages and under
there you see post hit that button. Write any time.
Mehdi

Bismillahi-r-Rahmani-r-Rahim,
As-salaamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatahu

  http://www.suficenter.org/Sidi%20Schedule.htm

Rajab Mubarak & Shaban Karim

Sidi Summer Events and Sufi School Dates for 2007

Below are the dates for the Sufi Schools inshallah. As you know it
is best to spend as much time with our beloved guide as you can.
Look forward to seeing all of you there!



First Event with Sidi    August 17th Friday 7pm through August 19,
2007

                                                             Greet
Sidi and receive his first teachings!

             Location:                                 Shadhiliyya
Sufi Center, Pope Valley, CA

             Register On line:
https://www.formspring.com/forms/event_registration-
Sidi_Welcome_Weekend



Sufi School Austin                     Aug 23 - 26     (Thursday 9
am thru Sunday 5pm)

             Location:                                 McKinney Rough
Nature Park, Austin, TX

             To Register:                             Salaam Young@
512-302-6744

             Website:
http://suficenteraustin.org/ssa07/



Mid West Sufi Event     September 7, 2007 September 10th

                                                             Friday
Evening from 6:30 - 9pm Through Monday 12:30pm)

             Location:                                 Divine Word
International

                                                             2001
Waukegan Road, Northbrook, IL (near O'hare Airport)

             To Register:                             1-800-937-
8728          (Beginning Aug 13, 2007)

             Website:
www.chicagosufi.org



Sufi School West            September 15 – 18 (Saturday 8:30am
through Tues 5 pm)

             Location:                                 Shadhiliyya
Sufi Center, Pope Valley, CA 94567

             To Register:                             Watch the
website for on-line registration link.

             Website:
www.suficenter.org



Sufi School East              September 27th to 30th (Thursday
8:30am through Sunday 5pm)

             Location:                                 Farm of Peace,
Warfordsburg, PA

             To Register:                             Maryam Whelan @
301-260-8643

             Website:
www.suficentereast.org



10 Day Ramadan Retreat      October 3 – 13

             Location:                                Shadhiliyya
Sufi Center, Pope Valley, CA

             Sidi's Presence                        Sidi at the
Ramadan Retreat October 8 – 12

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website for on-line registration link.



University Session       Sit with Sidi Guest Program

             Date:                                       October 23nd
to 26th

             Location:                                 Flamingo
Hotel, Santa Rosa, CA

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707-965-0400

Our Sins after We Repent from Them:

Avail the opportunity in the forthcoming month of Ramadaan

The Qur'ān and Sunnah speak frequently and emphatically about the
fact that a worshipper who repents and asks forgiveness for his sins
will be forgiven and will not be asked about those sins again. In
fact, Allah tells us that those sins will be exchanged for good deeds.

Allah says: "Except those who repent and believe and work righteous
deeds, for them Allah will change their evil deeds to good deeds, and
Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful." [Sūrah al-Furqān: 70]

Ibn Kathīr discusses the issue of evil deeds being changed to good
deeds in his Tafsīr, saying:

There are two opinions on what it means…The second opinion is that
those evil deeds that have passed are turned into good deeds by way
of the true and sincere repentance itself. This is because every time
that person remembers what he had done, he regrets it, feels remorse,
and seeks Allah's forgiveness. In this way, the sin becomes an act of
obedience. On the Day of Judgment, even if he finds those sins
recorded against him, they do him no harm and are turned into good
deeds on the page of his account. This is what is established by the
Sunnah and by the statements related to us from the Pious
Predecessors.

Here is the text of that hadīth:

Allah's Messenger said: "Indeed, I know the last person to leave the
Hellfire and the last person to enter Paradise . A man will be
brought and it will be said: `Set aside his major sins and ask him
only about his minor ones.' It will be said to him: `On a certain day
did you do such deeds and on a certain day did you do such a deed?'
He will say: `Yes', unable to deny anything of it. Then it shall be
said to him: `For you is a good deed for each of those evil deeds.'
Then he will say: `O My Lord! I did other things that I do not see
(recorded) here!'"

Thereupon Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) laughed until we
could see his molar teeth. [Sahīh Muslim (190)]

The human being, by nature, is prone to err. This is why the Prophet
(peace be upon him) said: "Every descendant of Adam is oft to err,
and the best of those who err are those who are oft to repent."
[Sunan al-Tirmidhī (2499) and Sunan Ibn Mājah (4251)]

The Prophet (peace be upon him) also said: "If you were to not commit
sins, Allah would remove you and replace you with a people who would
commit sins and then seek Allah's forgiveness, so Allah could forgive
them." [Sahīh Muslim (2749)]

Ibn al-Hanafiyyah relates from `Alī that the Prophet (peace be upon
him) said: "Indeed Allah loves the believing servant who falls into
trials and then repents." [Musnad Ahmad (605, 810) with a weak chain
of transmission]

Ibn Hajar al-`Asqalānī mentions this statement in Fath al-Bārī with
the wording: `The best of you are those of you who fall into trials
and then repent." quoting it from Musnad al-Firdaws from `Alī.

Therefore, we must make ourselves upright and not pine over our past
faults. We must know that none of us are going to gain admission into
Paradise by virtue of our deeds, but only by Allah encompassing us
with his mercy and His grace.

The believer may very well at times be weak and indulgent. However,
he does not establish himself upon a sin and he does not persist in
his heedlessness. He neither despairs of Allah's mercy nor sees
renewal as hopeless. Instead, he resolves himself to seek Allah's
forgiveness and to follow up his evil deed with works of
righteousness. He knows for certain that Allah is the Most Merciful
of all and the best in forgiveness.

Allah's mercy encompasses all things. Allah says: "Indeed the mercy
of Allah is near to those who do good." [Sūrah al-A`rāf: 56]

We should resolve, then, to be from among those who do good.

We must make it our habit to remember Allah, to thank Him, and to
seek His forgiveness, for indeed good deeds wipe away evil ones. If
we slip and commit a sin, we must make sure not to follow it up with
another sin.

Instead, we must hasten to what is good and wipe away the effect of
that evil deed from our slate. We must cleanse our countenance of it
and remove its pain from our souls.

The believer knows that he has no power on his own to turn from sin
to obedience, from heedlessness to awareness, and from weakness to
strength, except by the grace of Almighty Allah. Therefore, we ask
Allah, by his grace and generosity, to turn us towards Him by his
mercy, forgive us, and not to leave us to our own devices.

Courtesy: Shaik Sadek- Premier [mailto:sadeks@...

Zikr 

You will like it. Track 4 and 5 are really amazing... Must for a sufi lover...

Zikr is a beautiful Sufi meditation cd which weaves together very intoxicating and invigorating meditation techniques with the Sufi art of whirling and worship. Listening to the tracks intently with utter mindfulness can open the door to the divine for a seeker, at any moment.

Enjoy the magical experience and offering of Zikr, from the unblemished hands of beloved Gurumaaji herself .

Call of the Heart
This opening track calls for utmost attention of the listeners as this can be the beginning on the path for those who are drunk with Love. Allah's grace is being sought, as one who surrenders to the Lord will receive the bountiful shower of Bliss. While listening to it, pray that your heart opens up and hidden mysteries get revealed.

Wajjad - The Divine Union
When Soul is searching for the Truth, Love brings a person closer to his heart. And when one listens to the humming of the heart, it is already singing the melody of love!
What a surprise! What one was looking for in whole world is found finally in one's own heart. The tears, the longing, the desperation nourishes the seed of love and one day this seed sprouts and it grows into a strong tree of knowledge where the fruit of divinity is tasted. When our journey began, we were two; when it ended there is only oneness left.

Rooh-e-Parwaaz - Flight of the Soul
When the heart opens for Love with divine invocation and ego surrenders, every breath gets blessed with His name. When the bondage of mind is broken, the soul is set free from all clutches; and a stream of joy gushes in the heart. When all the shackles are broken, then the heart soars higher and higher in the inner world.

Tariqat - Breath Taste
Every breath is life, every breath is a gift and every breath can become a mode of bringing the wandering heart to real home. Name of Allah is said with the breath. This track is the most difficult to sing. So listen with heart as the rhythmic pattern of breath and recitation of Allah's name is taken. Mere listening to it can shatter the wall of ego and ignorance and then the truth peeps in through the window of awareness. This method has to be learnt from Sheikh - the master. In all dergahs in Turkey, Iran, and even in India, these hidden methods are being taught.

Jannat - The Paradise
This track is sheer celebration of the divine union which has happened; there can be no word which can do justice to what happened in the inner recesses of the heart. Yet, the heart cannot remain quiet - thus it bursts into a song - a song of rejoicing, emancipation and enlightenment.
"This album has got this shape only with the grace of Allah. It was a call of heart which took us to Turkey, right up to Konya where finally we came to know that the messiah of Love had called us there; truth is being said in all humbleness! There is no other way to explain the whole mysterious journey which was taken. A flautist became a Neyzen, an Indian master became a vehicle to bring the message of Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi and Hazrat Shems to India. Zikr which is always performed in a dergah is for the first time being brought into the open."

--from--

www.gurumaa.com

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Meditation-camps
Guided meditation cds. 

Praise be to Allah who, through His Eternal Word, does not cease to
be praised: The Universally Merciful, the Singularly Compassionate,
Who by His Mercy has stirred up in us gratitude for His goodness
wherewith He has enriched us and inspired us to praise and glorify
Him. The limits of favour and the bounds of praise were extended
when He promised to those grateful for His bounty still more
blessings; and He spread wide the carpet of His Assembly to those
who remember Him. He has brought into subjection all things
according to His Wisdom and Equity, as He has willed, by His Power,
so that by His Authority the mover remains still and the still
moves. 'He is the First and the Last, The Outer and the Inner,'
(57:3) the Controller of expansion [bast] and contraction
[qabd],'the Knower of the Unseen [al-ghayb]; not even the weight of
an atom, or less than that or greater than that, either in the
heavens or on the earth escapes Him. ' {34:3} We praise Him with the
praise of those who know Him with true knowledge of Him. We give
thanks to Him with the expressions of gratitude of those who
acknowledge the perfection of His goodness and favour. We bear
witness that there is no deity other than Allah alone, having no
companion, with an affirmation to which no doubt is attached and
before which no door closes from accepting. We testify that our
liege-lord Muhammad is His Slave and Worshipper and Prophet and
Messenger. May Allah bless him with a blessing that will bring us to
him and gather us around him on the Day of Assembly and Reckoning.
May Allah be pleased and grant peace to his family, his helpers, his
descendants, the people of his household, his illustrious
companions, the best of friends, as long as a star will shine, a new
moon shall rise and a cloud shall float above the face of the earth.

As-salaamu alaykum.

Welcome to the web page of the Green Mountain Branch of the
Shadhdhuli School for the Tranquillity of Being and the Illumination
of Hearts, under the direction of Shaykh A. Nooruddeen Durkee, the
Khalifah in North America of Shaykh Dr. Ibrahim Muhammad al-Battawi,
from whom he received idhn and ijaza in 1984CE/1405H to teach Islam
from the Sufic (tasawwuf) perspective and to initiate, train and
guide people specifically in the way of Shaykh Abu'l Hasan ash-
Shadhdhuli, may Allah sanctify his secret.

The Green Mountain School is actively dedicated to making known in
English language and Arabic transliteration the ahzab, adhkar, awrad
and du'aa' of Sidi Abu'l Hasan ash-Shadhdhuli, may Allah sanctify
his secret, which have informed, inspired and delivered to spiritual
salvation many thousands of people from all over the world for more
than 800 years.

Sidi Abu'l Hasan said, "Of all the Ways there are two: the way of
traveling (suluk) and the way of attraction (jadhb). Our way is the
Way of Jadhb. Our beginning is their end. Their beginning is our
completion."

"Who is illumined in the beginning is illumined in the end."

Shaykh Ibrahim Muhammad al-Battawi, the teacher of Shaykh
Nooruddeen, received his `ijaza and khilafa from Shaykh Sidi Salama
ar-Radi in the line that comes down from Sidna Yaqut al-Arsh, who,
along with Sidna Ibn Ata 'Illah, was the khalifah of Sidna Mursi
Abu'l Abbas, who was the khalifah of Shaykh Abu'l Hasan ash-
Shadhdhuli, may Allah sanctify their secret.

Sidi Salama ar-Radi gave Shaykh Ibrahim the specific duty to teach
foreigners ('ajami) and named him Shaykhu-l-Afandiya. He fulfilled
this duty in the course of his twenty-five year tenure at al-Azhar
University , where his main focus was the teaching of Islamic
philosophy, specifically the Ihya 'Ulumu-d-Din of Abu Hamid al-
Ghazali, may Allah be content with him. The students of Shaykh
Ibrahim have come from, and then returned to teach in, areas all
over the world, including Turkey , Central Asia, China , Indonesia ,
the Subcontinent, Africa and the West.

While attending the traditional course at al-Azhar, these students
would come for personal teaching in weekly classes at the nearby
zawiyah of the Shaykh. There, he instructed them in the Sufic
understanding of the Qur'an, hadith, fiqh, usul-ud-din and the other
Islamic sciences, and there they also met, ate, shared ideas and
attended hadrah, dhikr, and made khalwa, especially itiqaf during
the holy month of Ramadan. Upon completion of their studies, these
students have returned to their countries to become teachers,
professors, social workers and leaders, setting up masajid,
orphanages, hospitals and other centers for the teaching and
assistance of their various communities.

Shaykh Ibrahim in his mid-eighties (may Allah give him good health),
is now retired, but continues teaching from the zawiyah on Azhar St.
as well as from a new Masjid and Zawiyah he has constructed in the
Heliopolis area of Misr Gadeed on the desert outskirts of Cairo.
Shaykh Ibrahim has visited the United States four times and has
spoken and taught at many centers and masajid, including the Dar al-
Islam Foundation in Abiquiu, New Mexico where he served on the Board
of Religious Education and development of Islamic Curriculum.

Insha'Allah he will make another visit to the US in the near future.
Please check our latest news section coming soon.

Shaykh Nooruddeen came to this traditional Sufic Islam after
embracing Islam in his early thirties in al-Quds. He is now in his
mid sixties (may Allah give him health).

His embrace of Islam came after many years of traditional religious
education as a youth followed, in his early manhood, by a decade of
intense study of the world's major religions, along with the
principles of geography, history, art and world culture. As a result
he brings to his teaching a very broad and inclusive view. Being
originally from the West, he has an understanding of the needs and
problems of western people, particularly Americans. His language is
often laced with references to places, items of pop culture, and
situations familiar to that audience, and he has a particular heart-
felt understanding for their need to understand Islam from within as
well as without. At the same time, his long years in the East,
especially in the ancient sites of the origins of spirituality
including extended stays of many years in Makkah and Egypt as well
as intense visits to Madinah and al-Quds, have given him an
awareness of The Long View and a tolerance for the universal Source
of religious and spiritual consciousness, as well as a clear
understand of Islam and how exactly it is in Truth the past, the
final, and present operating system (OS) of those who heed The
Command; the very seal and fulfillment of the myriad revelations
sent by Allah in the history of humankind.

An historian and geographer by inclination, he has traced the
origins of language, the movement of ideas, and the development of
religions across continents and cultures, and this knowledge informs
his teaching with a depth and breadth the students find challenging,
informing and invigorating.

The Green Mountain School is the third school Shaykh Nooruddeen has
founded.

The first was established in 1969CE/1389H on Flag Mountain in New
Mexico . This school was the site of the first purpose-built masjid
ever erected in New Mexico .

The second school he founded was Dar al-Islam, established by him in
Abiquiu , New Mexico in 1980/1400. In addition to its use for the
Islamic education of children, it has been used for teaching by such
well-known teachers as Shaykh Seyed Ali Ashraf, Shaykh Umar
Abdullah, Shaykh Nazim Adil al-Haqqani and Shaykh Hisham Kabbani,
Shaykh Nuh Ha Mim Keller and Imam Hamza Yusuf, and well as his own
Shaykh, Sidi Ibrahim al-Battawi among others.

After founding and then serving as the president of Dar al-Islam
Foundation for eight years, Shaykh Nooruddeen moved to Alexandria ,
Egypt where he lived for five years. There he taught under the
direction of his own Shaykh and translated, transliterated, edited
and produced the Orisons and Origins of the Shadhdhuliyyah, which
include all of the well-known and widely accepted Awrad, Ahzab,
Adhkar, and Du'aa' of Shaykh Abu'l Hasan, Allah sanctify his secret,
as well as the snatches and tatters of the oral teaching which were
recorded by various students of Shaykh Abu'l Hasan and his teachers.
The wide dispersal of these texts has been and continues to be among
the basic objectives of the Green Mountain School .

A new edition of the Orisons of the Shadhdhuliyyah is presently
proceeding to press in Malaysia and it will, Insha'Allah, be back in
print by Ramadan 1406/2005.

Shaykh Nooruddeen started the Green Mountain School , named after
the mountain ridge on which he presently lives, in 1995 when he
returned from Egypt . The major concentration of the school was and
continues to be the teaching of the Qur'an.

In the course of transliterating the Orisons, he had received a
number of requests for the transliteration of such surahs as Ya Seen
and al-Wa'qiyah. This in turn led to his concentration for over
twelve years on the transliteration of the Arabic of the Holy Qur'an
and, consequentially, the translation of the text into literate 21st
Century American English.

The transliteration aspect of the Transliterated Tajwidi Qur'an is
more important to him than the translation, although the translation
has proved very useful and easy to understand. But the
transliteration has the ability to help the non-Arabic reader to
enunciate a semblance of the original text, and thus to fulfill the
primary Order of Allah which is to "Read" ('Iqra ) or "Recite". This
Tajwidi Qur'an is now being read and used in teaching all over the
English-speaking world.

Shaykh Nooruddeen, along with two close associates, has now
developed a course which enables, and has enabled, young people and
adults to move quickly from using transliterated texts to actual
recitation of the Qur'an. This course of Reading , Writing and
Reciting Qur'anic Arabic uses the system of orthography created by
Dr. Zafr Iqbal, in which the rules of tajwid are graphically
represented in the text as an aid to the student reader.

This text is the same as the one used in the Transliterated Tajwidi
Qur'an and also the final lessons in the teaching book "Qur'an Made
Easy", by Shabbir Behlim, which, along with the rules in "Easy
Tajwid" by Dr. Syed Muqri al-Husayni forms the basis of the
teaching.

In the past year alone more than forty people, using this system,
have learned to read directly and without hesitation from the Arabic
text of the Qur'an.

The Green Mountain School also serves to make more widely known some
of the thinking of Shaykh Nooruddeen on many contemporary issues.
These can be found in various written, audio and visual forms on
this website.

A large part of Shaykh Nooruddeen's work has been in the realm of
education, and for many years specifically in the realm of teaching
reading, writing, and reciting of Qur'anic Arabic, which grew out of
his work in the translation and transliteration of the sacred texts
of the Shadhdhuliyyah and finally the Qur'an. He, along with other
teachers affiliated with the school, are deeply involved in work
with children and adults, in the local masjid and nationally,
particularly in the south-eastern United States .

Additionally, Shaykh Nooruddeen lectures widely, nationally and
internationally. On a local level he has for ten years delivered the
weekly khutbah (sermon) at a number of different community masajid
where he serves a varied constituency, including prisoners,
students, immigrants and refugees, Afro-Americans and Euro-
Americans.

In 2005 and he gave the Eid Khutbah to the United Muslim Communities
of Richmond, Virginia where he spoke to over 6000 people on the
theme of "One Deen, One Ummah."

His talks and sermons are based on the understanding of Islam as the
vehicle for the advancement of the prophetic ideals of peace,
justice, mercy, love and freedom, which the Prophet, peace &
blessings be upon him, made clear in the fulfillment of his mission
as a Mercy to all the worlds:

"And We have not sent you save as a mercy to all the worlds."
(Q21:107)

Shaykh Nooruddeen is deeply convinced that this message of Universal
Mercy (ar-rahmah) is the message that all kinds of people are
thirsting for, and that it is a positive way forward for Muslims,
especially those living in minority circumstances. Rather than
believing in ideas of progress or reformation or the re-invention of
Islam, he believes that what is necessary is that we pay attention
to the actual message of Mercy and Justice that Allah revealed and
that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him and his family,
demonstrated, and seek to become messengers of mercy to the various
worlds in which we live.

He believes that when we, as the humble followers of the followers,
embody that message of Mercy and Justice in the world in accordance
with the teaching of Allah connecting belief (al-'iman) and good
actions ('al-amal salih) we will be successful as was the Prophet,
blessings of Allah and peace be upon him and his family, for deep
down all people everywhere yearn for peace.

Only those who are at peace can make peace.
Only those who have love can give love.
If you want mercy be merciful.
Mercy is spread by those who are mercy full.

Those who give mercy get mercy. or as the Prophet, blessings of
Allah and peace be upon him, said,

"No one is a believer in Allah until he loves for his brother what
he loves for himself."

The School also serves as a local conduit for the dispersing of
zakat and sadaqah to those mentioned by Allah It sponsors a weekly
ma'idatu-l-rahmah (table of mercy), which gathers together orphans
and widows from the refugee community, local university students and
professors, and others among the poor, lately imprisoned and broken
hearted to eat together, pray together, make dhikr together and read
Qur'an together.

The Green Mountain School , in concert with An-Noor Foundation, has
for more than seven years run a prison chaplaincy for both men and
women in maximum security state prisons. This has been augmented and
widened by a correspondence program which now has spread to provide
copies of Qur'an and monthly letters to over one hundred and seventy
individual Muslim prisoners in more than twenty-six prisons all over
the country who are keen to know more about classical, traditional
Islam, given the onslaught of Wahhabi/Salafi extremism. To combat
these extremist tendencies, the school provides authentic
information about traditional Islam using books and visual materials
from among such teachers and guides as Shaykh Nuh Ha Mim Keller,
Shaykh Hisham al-Kabbani, Shaykh Muhammad al-Jamal, Shaykh Ibrahim
al-Battawi, and others teaching along the same lines.

These lectures, books, pamphlets and materials, drawn from a wide
variety of the traditional sources, give the inmates, who are often
heavily influenced by extremist viewpoints, a more complete idea of
the possibilities within the world of Islam than they would find
otherwise, since most of them have embraced Islam within the context
of being imprisoned and are often unaware of the larger ummah,
especially its historical and scholarly inheritance, other than as
an abstraction.

The Green Mountain School supports cooperation among the turuq and
in this area has worked closely over the last eight years with the
Islamic Study and Research Association (ISRA) in spreading the love
of Allah and His Prophet, blessings of peace be upon him and his
family, in reviving the public celebration and gathering for the
Mawlid an-Nabi and the Isra and Miraj held annually in Columbia, SC
and Washington, DC. He maintains friendly and brotherly relations
with the two teaching shaykhs who are active in the same
geographical area: Shaykh Ahmad Abdu-r-Rashid and Shaykh Harun ar-
Rasheed al-Faye. Shaykh Nooruddeen has also devoted much time and
effort over the past four years to the teaching of the basic
principles of Islam, Iman, Ihsan, and Iqan as well as Reading,
Writing and Reciting Qur'anic Arabic to the students of the
Shadhdhuli shaykh from the sacred precinct of al-Quds ash-Sharif and
his long-time friend, Sidi Muhammad al-Jamal, whose message and call
for peace, justice, mercy, love and freedom he wholeheartedly
shares. Recently, along with Shaykh Ahmad Abdu-r-Rashid, he invited
Shaykh Muhammad Ibn Yahya al-Husayni an- Ninowy from www.alhaqq.net
Atlanta to give a series of lessons on the new publication by Noon
Hierographers of at-Tanwir fi `Isqaati-t-Tadbiir by Shaykh
Ibn `Ata'Illah as-Sakandari,
http://www.greenmountainschool.org/tasawwuf.htm#1 and is looking
forward to collaborating with Shaykh Ninowy on future programs at
the Center.

`Insha'Allah you will find on this website useful materials in the
realms of the written word as well as that of the spoken, chanted
and visible word.

You may communicate with the School by writing
Info@...

"When the help of Allah comes and the Opening, and you see people
entering the religion of Allah in multitudes, then hymn the praises
of your Lord and seek His forgiveness. Truly He is ever accepting of
repentance." (Q 110:01-03)

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www.google.com/s2/sharing/stuff?user=107557447629685618334

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjBN080DQTo

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Bismillah ar-Rahman, ar-Raheem
  In the name of Allah the beneficent the merciful. I am but dust,
filth on the sandal of the elite of Allah but Allah has moved my
heart to write a few reflections down. What did the holy Nabi [sws]
do when he went to the mountain? He reflected on Allah. There was no
Quran and no five times prayer he was rapped up in intimate
reflection on Allah. It is said there is gold in the morning hours
and yet we miss the mark which in French is to sin. Reflecting one
moment is worth a year's Ibada [worship] is a little know Hadith, and
yet it is a powerful one. if we can rise up and sit ,just sit and
reflect on Allah, not do Salat [pray] ,not read, just sit and reflect
on or Allah how much better our prayer would be, How much more
we would receive from our reading and we would not sit in judgment on
our brothers and sisters, for that is Allah job alone. Isk Ma'Haba la
ill la ha is telling us of the true love of Allah, how can we find
that love if we are like a chickens pecking for grain all the time.
To sit just sit and say forgive me, in what ever language you speak,
to say I love you, in what ever language you speak, to say I am your
servant show me the way, increase my light so I am not in so much
darkness that I am tripping all the time and just be in the presents
of you Lord before the rush of the day comes streaming over your head.
It has been said a man laden with books is nether a wise man nor an
intellectual for one cannot know with out action. One of the most
powerful actions is sitting and reflection on your Lord.
Arise at 3:30, sit, and Reflect, and then pray, read and leave the
judgment for AllAh for the sleep of nonexistence is upon us all. We
spend our day reflecting on the world is it too much to ask to spend
time reflecting on Allah?  Will Allah say on judgment day he has no
time to reflect on us and to take us away?........

Share the works of the lovers. Send the light to the world. This group
belongs to the lovers of the way. Send your writings stories things you
have read and light the way for other wayfarers.
Peace