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“Tafakkur sa’atin khayrun min
‘ibaadati saba’in sanatin”
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Reflective thinking for one
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Many of these ancient Sufi masters' writings were only in
Arabic and used terms that were complex and unfamiliar to Western people. Such
as Taffakur, Tadhakkur, Muraqabah, Muhasabah, Insan Kamel by masters such as
Imam Gazalli, Ibn Arabi, Hadrat Abdul Qadir a Gilani all the Saints of the
Naqshbandi Sufi Way. This could not be taught without a Master like Shaykh
Hisham Kabbani, who began to open these realities in an easily digestible manner
for the Western audience. “ The Prophet [s] said, "The Sun would Rise from the
west “ That Sun is the Sun of Sayedena Muhammad [s] and the guidance of The
Sultan al-Awliya Muhammad Nazim al-Haqqani [Q]. The greatness of Mawlana Shaykh
is that he offers many flavors for all people and teaches us to Teach Khair -
goodness and love. Inna Allah la yandhuru ila suwarikum wa lakin yandhuru ila
quloobikum, Verily Allah does not look at your pictures but He looks at your
hearts.
The
goal and purpose of Sufi Meditation
Muraqaba Muraqabah / Meditation / Rabita Sharif is to manifest perpetual presence in the reality
of the Shaykh. The more one keeps to this vital practice, the more its
benefit will manifest in his daily life to the point that he reaches the state
of annihilation in the presence of the Shaykh. One must know well that the
Shaykh is the bridge between illusion and reality and he remains in this world
only for this purpose. The Shaykh is thus a unique rope extended to any who seek
freedom for only he may serve as the link between one still mired in this
world and the Divine Presence.
To be annihilated in
the presence and reality of the Shaykh is to be annihilated in reality, in
the Presence of the Divine, for this is precisely where he is. Sheik Nazim Website //sheiknazim2.com/connectingtosheikh: [Most masters
today present the method of meditation to you. But usually they do not
base it on Christianity, or Judaism or Islam, so many people think that it is a
method which originated within other religions. That is however not the case. Meditation was a method which was already given to the first man, within the
first message, to the first Messenger.
What purpose does meditation serve, and how can we reach such a state? It is
mentioned in all our Holy Books: the Torah, the Gospels and in the Holy Quran,
as a method to reach the Divine Presence. When we come face to face with our
Creator, we leave everything else behind. Nothing remains except your soul. Even
if I tried to cut you with a sword, you would not be harmed. Nothing can touch
you physically in
such a state, because your physical body will have entered your spiritual being.
Normally it is the opposite: our souls are imprisoned in the physical body. In a
perfect state of meditation, your soul covers your physical body and you become
a spirit. There was once a Grandsheikh, Sheik Abdul Qadir al Jilani. While he
was meditating he kept saying, “I am the truth!” People around him were offended
by this utterance and started attacking him with swords, but nothing happened to
him. They could not touch him.]
“Obey God, obey the
Prophet (s) and obey those charged with authority over you.” (4:59)
Step 1
All Illustrations by SALIM
Initially the murid may begin the practice of
Sufi Meditation Muraqaba
Muraqabah for short intervals of 5 to 15 minutes, and gradually work
towards longer sessions extending even for hours at a time. The important point
is that one maintain a consistent practice to obtain benefit. It is manifold
better and wiser to keep to a small amount daily than to be sporadic in one’s
discipline and practice. A small amount of effort done consistently will result
in tremendous progress in even a short amount of time.
Once a Day :
“Hold tight to the rope of God and
do not separate.” (3:103)
Step 2
-
Eyes Shut
ask for Permission to connect
his light
to your heart
and
your light to his heart.
Imagine a two way connection and then
recite above mantra or
awrad
“O ye who believe, be conscious of
God
and keep the company with those who are truthful.”
(9:119)

When someone sits for
Meditation Sufi Meditation
Muraqaba and closes the 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.
From Naqshbandi teachings
بعض العارقين :ادخل الشيخ في قلبك و أسكنه فثه و لا تخرجه حتي تصير عارفا
بسببه.
“Some of the wise men said…” and then Shaykh writes “let the
Shaykh enter your heart.” Here he said adkhil ادخل which in Arabic
means “enter” so the full passage is: “Let the Shaykh enter your heart and
let him inhabit your heart and do not let the Shaykh leave your heart
until you become a knowledgeable person.” [end of quote]
So this picture is depicting the mureed entering the Shaykh into his
heart. This is clear, as the book didn't say “make the heart of the Shaykh
enter your heart. “ Shaykh clearly wrote: “let the Shaykh enter your
heart.”
Then question then comes: how do you cause the Shaykh to enter in your
heart? Wa askinhu feeh و اسكن فيه. Which “Means inhabit inside it.” That
also means “make the Shaykh’s house in your heart.” It means, in
English: “Make yourself one with your Shaykh and do not let him out
until you become a wise man.”
Then Shaykh said, in line 15: “ you must be fani, annihilated, in
your shaykh.” This means you become one with the shaykh. That means no
more irada, no will. You are leaving your will and supplanting it with the
Will of the Shaykh. This is what Shaykh is describing
on love stated that
ash-Shaykh Sirr as-Saqati said "la tasahu ‘l-mahabat" love is not
authentic between two until one says to the other
“ma anta illa ana -You
are me and I am you.” You cannot be in love until you say to the other
“ we are one. You are me and I am you. “ So this is what His Eminence
Shaykh has said that is represented in that picture. This picture is
a pictorial representation of what Shaykh described.]
[ Sheik Nazim Website
//sheiknazim2.com/connectingtosheikh: Everyone
must try within the rules which exist in their religion, to praise the
Lord first, in the way the prophets taught us. We can then sit in a silent
place, preferably in the dark, cover ourselves and withdraw from
everything around us. We should not hear or feel anything, only think
that we are one within the existence of the Lord Almighty Allah in the
Divine Presence.
from 2nd suhbat listed below (Rabita):
Make Ghuzul or Wudhu and put on clean clothes if possible. Pray two
Rakaats ‘Tahiyatu’l Wudhu’. Then sit down in a silent private place and
face the Qiblah. Close your eyes and try to stop all movements, thinking
and wishing. Imagine yourself in the presence of your Sheikh and him
sitting in front of you. For that purpose you can try to remember a
moment you had with the Sheikh which was pleasant or impressive to you, or
use a picture of him to remember his face. Connect with him through your
heart, turning in love towards him.] 
- Step 3 :
- Positioning Kneeling if possible
- Be Conscious of Grounding your energy,
- if possible sit on knees,
- Closed Eyes Hand position conscious of the Thumb for heart beat Mouth closed,
- Tongue on the palet of mouth 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 Sheikh). The Lights of
Shaykh 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. Shaykh stated that
ash-Shaykh Sirr as-Saqati said "la tasahu ‘l-mahabat" love is not
authentic between two until one says to the other
“ma anta illa ana -You
are me and I am you.” You cannot be in love until you say to the other
“ we are one. You are me and I am you. “ So this is what His Eminence
Shaykh has said that is represented in that picture. This picture is
a pictorial representation of what Shaykh described.]
Step 3a
- Positioning,
sitting is ok ,
- Wudu Ritual
Ablution is Key to Success.
Noah's Ship was Saved against the Flood
of Ignorance.
- Cleanliness is close to
Godliness.
- 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" Dont use your head to reach realities.
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 Allah").
When that word
hits the heart its energy and heat spreads to all the parts of the body.
The seeker who has annilated all that exists in this world with the words LA
ILAHA, affirms with the words ILa ALLAH that all that exists has been
annihilated in the Divine Presence.
Step 3b
- Positioning of Mouth & Tongue
- Close The eyes,
close The mouth
-
Clench teeth,
glue tongue to the roof of
the mouth,
- Slow the breath.
75:4 Yes. [We are] Able
[even] to proportion his fingertips.
75:4 Bala qadireena AAala an nusawwiya bananahu.
Quran is proving that your identity is connected
to your finger print and has a tremendous importance. That you will be raised
to the exact proportion of even your finger prints.
Hands Carry 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
Step 4

- Position of Hands: 75:4
Yes. [We are] Able [even] to proportion his fingertips.
75:4 Bala qadireena AAala an nusawwiya bananahu.
- Thumb to
Index 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 .
Step 5
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- Breathing,
Intake
thru Nose-Mantra/Dhikr =
"Hu
", imagine White light entering thru stomach.
- Exhale-thru Nose-Mantra/Dhikr=
"Hu", imagine Blackness carbon
monoxide and 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. From Shaykh [So this picture is depicting the mureed entering the Shaykh into his
heart. This is clear, as the book didn't say “make the heart of the Shaykh
enter your heart. “ Shaykh clearly wrote: “let the Shaykh enter your
heart.”
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)."
From Sheik Nazim Website [ On the way of Truth, Tariq-i-Haqq, two methods are being used: Tariqats follow either the Tariq-i-Nafsani, the way on which first of all the Nafs, the ego, is educated in order for
the soul to be saved, or they follow the Tariq-i-Ruhani, the way on
which first of all the Ruh, the spirit or soul is purified.
The Tariq-i-Nafsani is heavy. Always you have to do the opposite of
what your ego wants from you. It is a big fight. The Tariq-i-Ruhani
is easy. Sheikh says that on our way you can use the best of
everything under the condition that you also do your best in
worshipping Allah. On this way first of all the spirit or soul is
purified, with no regard to the ego. After the Ruh has found its
original attributes the ego, willingly or unwillingly, must follow the
Ruh and obey its orders. ]
Step 6

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..
Then Shaykh said, “ you must be fani, annihilated, in your shaykh.” . That means no more irada, no will. You are
leaving your will and supplanting it with the Will of the Shaykh. This is
what Shaykh is describing exactly in his book 
Shaykh stated that
ash-Shaykh Sirr as-Saqati said "la tasahu ‘l-mahabat" love is not
authentic between two until one says to the other
“ma anta illa ana -You
are me and I am you.” You cannot be in love until you say to the other
“ we are one. You are me and I am you. “ So this is what
Shaykh has said that is represented in that picture. This picture is
a pictorial representation of what Shaykh described.]
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 Shaykh 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.
Step 7

To Be, a thing non-existent,
crystal clear vessel for Your Lords Heavenly Service. 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 [s].
Step 2 Understanding
Spiritual Energy
Spread The Light and Love of The Most Praised One,
Most Honored One in Divinely Presence
Sayedena wa Mawlana Muhammad al
Mustafa [s]
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