Imagine a two way connection and then
recite above mantra or awrad
When someone sits for
Meditation Sufi Meditation
Muraqaba and closes his eyes, The person doing Meditation focuses his mind on one single point. The
point in this case is usually the concept of his spiritual mentor, that is, he
focuses all his witnessing abilities concentratively in thinking about his
spiritual teacher, in order to get the image of his mentor on the mental screen,
as long as he remains in the state of Meditation. The properties,
characteristics and potentialities related to an image also transfer on
the screen of the mind when the image is formed on the mental screen and
the mind perceives them accordingly. For instance, a person is looking at
fire. When the image of fire transfers on the mental screen the warmth and
heat of the fire is perceived by the mind. A person who is present in a
garden enjoys the freshness and coolness of trees and plants present in
the garden to create their image on his mental screen. Similarly when
image of the spiritual mentor transfers on the screen of mind, the
Presented Knowledge which is operative in the
spiritual teacher, also transfers with it and the mind of the student
gradually assimilates the same.
3
Step
Positioning Kneeling
Smallest Things Count,
Keeping on knees,
-Closed Eyes-Mind Meditation
-Hands in position
-Mouth closed
-Tongue up
-Breathing controlled
-Ears listening to Quran,
Salawat or Mellow sounds.
-Room Dark
Sufi Meditation Muraqaba, thinking about the
spiritual mentor, an attempt to concentrative focus our thoughts on someone, so
that his image could recurrently reflect upon the screen of our mind, we are
liberated from the limiting senses. The more frequently a thought is displayed
upon the mental screen, the more vivid would be the formation of a pattern in
the mind. And, this pattern of mind, in terms of spirituality, is called the
'thinking approach'.
When we imagine the spiritual mentor or 'Shaykh', as a matter of eternal law,
the knowledge of Elohistic Attributes operative in the mentor or Shaykh is
reflected upon our mind with frequent repetitions resulting in enlightenment of
the mind of the spiritual associate with the lights functional in the mentor and
transferred to him. The enlightenment of the heart of the spiritual associate
attempts to reaches the level of his mentor. This
state, in Sufism, is
called 'Affinity' (nisbat). The best and tested way to enjoy the affinity, according to
spirituality, is the longing passion of love.
The mind of the mentor keeps on transferring to the spiritual associate
according to the passion of love and longing for the mentor flows in him and
there comes a time when the lights operative in Shaikh which actually are the
reflections of Beatific Visions of God are transferred to the spiritual
associate. This enables the spiritual associate to be familiar with the
effulgent lights and Beatific Visions. This state, in terms of sufism, is called
'Be one with mentor' (Fana fi Shaikh). The Lights of Shaikh and the refulgent
Beatific Visions operative in mentor are not the personal trait of the mentor.
Just as the spiritual associate, with devoted attention and concentration,
assimilates the knowledge and the traits of his mentor, the mentor has absorbed
the knowledge and attributes of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) with devoted attention
and concentration of the mind.
Remember its not me that
counts I am nothing, I and Me must vanish into He.
My Shaykh , My Rasul , Leads
us to My Lord..
Dhikr by negation and
affirmation, in the manner of the Naqshbandi Sufi Masters, demands that
the seeker close his eyes, close his mouth, clench his teeth, glue his
tongue to the roof of his mouth, and hold his breath. He must recite the
dhikr through the heart, by negation and affirmation, beginning with the
word LA ("No"). He lifts this "No" from under his navel up to his brain.
Upon reaching his brain the word "No" brings out the word
ILAHA ("god"),
moves from the brain to the Right shoulder, and
Then to left shoulder
where it hits the heart with ILALLAH ("except The Allah"). When that word
hits the heart its energy and heat spreads to all the parts of the body.
The seeker who has denied all that exists in this world with the words LA
ILAHA, affirms with the words ILLALLAH that all that exists has been
annihilated in the Divine Presence.
3b
Step
Positioning of Mouth & Tongue
close The eyes,
close The mouth,
clench teeth,
glue tongue to the roof of
the mouth, and
hold the breath.
{ at times to slow down
breathing and pulse of the Heart.}
Hands Carry a tremendous
secrets, they are like your satellite dish,
make sure they are clean and
in the proper position.
So when you begin
with the hands,
rubbing them, when washing them and rubbing them to activate
them, that is sign of 1 and zero, and you being to activate the process of
what codes Allah has given us thru the hands, you begin to activate them.
They have nine bullet points that
consist of the whole system, the whole body. When you rub the fingers you
are activating the 99 beautiful names of Allah.
b) By activating them
you are activating the 9 points that are on your body.
Right hand "18",
Left Hand "81"
both add to 9 and two 9's
Make 99 . Hands are Dressed with Allahs
Beautiful Names.
99th name of Rasul is Mustafa..
more later to come..
c) And when you
activate them, You Turn on the receiver, energy is going in, it begins
to work to be able to receive, digitize it and release it out as a picture
and as a sound, as we are seeing today.
d) Similarly, the
hands that are circles, that is why when we rub them and open them, they
begin to act as circles over each other, taking all energy coming
they are managing it. See Section on
Secrets of Hand
4
Step
Position of Hands:
Thumb to
Index spelling out
"Allah Hu"
position for most power.
Hands are coded with number
codings, Right hand
"18",
Left Hand
"81"
both add to 9 and
two 9's
Make 99 . Hands are Dressed
with Allahs
Beautiful Names.
99th name of Rasul is
Mustafa..
more later to come..
Conscious Breathing ("Hosh dar dam")
Hosh means "mind." Dar means "in."
Dam means "breath." It means, according to Mawlana Abdul Khaliq
al-Ghujdawani (q), that
"The most important mission for
the seeker in this Order is to safeguard his breath, and he who cannot
safeguard his breath, it would be said of him, 'he lost himself.'"
Shah Naqshband (q) said, "This Order is built on breath.
So it is a must for everyone to safeguard his breath in the time of his
inhalation and exhalation and further, to safeguard his breath in the
interval between the inhalation and exhalation."
"Dhikr is flowing in the body of every
single living creatures by the necessity of their breath -- even without
will -- as a sign of obedience, which is part of their creation. Through
their breathing, the sound of the letter "Ha" of the Divine Name Allah
is made with every exhalation and inhalation and it is a sign of the
Unseen Essence serving to emphasize the Uniqueness of God. Therefore it is
necessary to be present with that breathing, in order to realize the
Essence of the Creator."
The name 'Allah' which encompasses the
ninety-nine Names and Attributes consists of four letters,
Alif, Lam, Lam and the same Hah (ALLAH). The
people of Sufism say that the absolute unseen Essence of Allah Exalted and
Almighty is expressed by the last letter vowelized by the Alif, "Ha." It
represents the Absolutely Unseen "He-ness" of the Exalted God
Safeguarding your breath from heedlessness will
lead you to complete Presence, and complete Presence will lead you to
complete Vision, and complete Vision will lead you to complete
Manifestation of Allah's Ninety-Nine Names and Attributes. Allah leads you
to the Manifestation of His Ninety-Nine Names and Attributes and all His
other Attributes, because it is said, "Allah's Attributes are as numerous
as the breaths of human beings."
It must be known by everyone that securing the
breath from heedlessness is difficult for seekers.
Therefore they must safeguard it by seeking forgiveness (Istighfar)
because seeking forgiveness will purify it and sanctify it and prepare the
seeker for the Real Manifestation of Allah everywhere .
imagine Blackness carbon
monoxide is all your bad actions being purged from you.
"the wise seeker must
safeguard his breath from heedlessness, coming in and going out, thereby
keeping his heart always in the Divine Presence; and he must revive his
breath with worship and servitude and dispatch this worship to His Lord
full of life, for every breath which is inhaled and exhaled with Presence
is alive and connected with the Divine Presence. Every breath inhaled and
exhaled with heedlessness is dead, disconnected from the Divine Presence."
To
climb the mountain, the seeker must journey from the Lower world to the
Divine Presence. He must travel from the ego's world of sensual reality to
the soul's consciousness of the Divine Reality. Sufi Meditation Muraqaba
To
make progress on this journey, the seeker must bring
into his heart the picture of his Shaykh (tasawwur), as it
is the most powerful means of detaching oneself from the hold of the
senses. The Shaykh becomes, in his heart, the mirror
of the Absolute Essence. If he is successful, the state of
Self-Effacement (ghayba) or "absence" from the world of the senses,
appears in him. To the degree that this state increases in him, his
attachment to the world of the senses will weaken and disappear, and the
station of the Absolute Void of Unsensing Other-than-Allah will dawn on
him.
The
highest degree of this station is called
Annihilation (fana'). Thus Shah Naqshband (q)
"The shortest path to our goal, which is Allah, Almighty and Exalted,
is for Allah to lift the veil from the Essence of the Face of His
Oneness that appears in all creation. He does this with the
State of Erasure (ghayba) and
Annihilation in His Absolute Oneness (fana'), until His
Majestic Essence dawns upon and eliminates consciousness of anything
other than Him. This is the end of the Journey
of Seeking Allah and the beginning of another Journey."
"At the end of the Journey of Seeking and the State of Attraction
comes the State of Self-Effacement and Annihilation.
This is the goal of all mankind as Allah mentioned in the Qur'an: 'I
did not create Jinn and Mankind except to worship me.' Worship here
means Perfect Knowledge (Macrifat)."
6th
Step
To carry the dress of the
Shaykh:
3 levels of continuous
struggle
Keep His Love {Muhabat}
,
Keep His Presence {
Hudur}
Execute His Will upon our
selves
{Annilation or
Fana}
We have our love for him, so
now wear his light and imagine everything from this point on, with that
dress upon us.
This is our life support. You
can not eat, drink, pray, dhikr or do anything without imagining the Shaykhs
Image upon us.
This Love will mix in with His
Presence, and this will open the door of Annilation in Him.
The more one can keep
remembering
to be dressed with him the more Annilation will take place.
Then the guide will Annihilate you in the presence of
the Holy Messenger of Allah Sayedena Muhammad {S}. Where again you will
keep
Rasuls Love {Muhabat},
Keep His Presence { Hudur}
Execute His Will upon our
selves
{Annilation or Fana}
Fana fi Ma Shaykh ,
RasulAllah, Allah..
Annihilation Fana
Sufi Meditation Muraqaba In the state of spiritual associate's oneness with the mentor those abilities
of the Shaikh become activated in the spiritual associate (salik) because of
which the Shaikh enjoys the affinity of the Holy Prophet (PBUH). This stage, in
terms of Sufism, is called 'Oneness with the Holy Prophet' (Fana fir
Rasul). It
is the holy statement of the Holy Prophet (PBUH), "I am a human being just like
you but I receive revelation'. When this statement is closely examined, it is
found that the exaltation of the Last Prophet is that he received Revelations
from God, Almighty which reflects the Divine Knowledge (Ilm-e-ladduni); the
knowledge directly inspired by God, the Beatific Visions of God and the
refulgent Lights upon the blessed Heart of Holy Prophet.
In the state of 'Oneness with the Holy Prophet' a spiritual associate because
of his passion, longing and love gradually, step by step, assimilates and
cognizes the knowledge of the Holy Prophet. Then comes that auspicious moment
when the knowledge and learning is transferred to him according to his capacity
from the Holy Prophet (PBUH).
The spiritual associate absorbs in the traits of
the Holy Prophet (PBUH) according to his aptitude, ability and capacity and
because of his affinity with the Holy Prophet and his support he manages to
reach that state when he had acknowledged the Lordship of God, the Lord of the
worlds saying, 'Yes, indeed you are our Lord God!. This affinity, in Sufism, is
called Annilation in Allah Love' (Fana fi-lah) or simply 'oneness' (wahidayia). After
that, if one is bestowed with ability one explores those areas about which
narration has no words to explain them because of their delicacy and subtleness.
7th
Step
To Be, a thing non-existent,
crystal clear vessel for whomever wishes to fill your being from Allah's
Divine Kingdom.
In the state of 'Oneness with
the Holy Prophet' a spiritual associate because of his passion, longing
and love gradually, step by step, assimilates and cognizes the knowledge
of the Holy Prophet.