Patience

Patience is a requirement to a successful struggle on the path of love.

Desire continuously keeps attempting to overtake the self. It tries to dominate the self during the bad times as well as during the good times. In a hardship, desire tends to grow a retaliation feeling (hatred) and in an easiness, it attracts to nurture the delusive ego (arrogance and selfishness).

Patience neutralizes the desire. Through patience, a hardship is taken as a way to build up the emotional strength by seeking help to Allah. Patience accepts an easiness as a way to be grateful to Allah.

Perpetual remembrance to Allah (shalat & dzikr) increases the patience capability. Remembrance to Allah and patience develop each other adjacency.

Patience gets the self closer to Allah, The Love, at anytime.

Human

Human is the best among Allah's creations. When it was first created (Adam), the angels and jinns were asked to pay respect to it (by prostrating).

Human is equipped with desire and intellect. The desire drives the human's motivation to pursue a better life. The intellect (mind and conciousness) enables human to distinguish between the good and the evil (or to absorb The Light within self).

If the desire dominates the intellect, destructions will be happening on earth. If the intellect masters the desire, a productive life will be experienced by earth dwellers. A productive life in which justice, peace and prosperity endure (or love rules).

At the end of the day, human will be proven to be respectable through pursuit of a productive life.

Hypocrite

Someone is being a hypocrite when the action does not represent The Light that has been perceived by the intellect. The self knows The Light through the intellect but does not walk by The Light.

The desire in the self overwhelms the intellect. The desire to gain wealth, popularity, power and all the ego stuffs that distracts the self from Allah (or covers the self from The Light).

The deed of a hypocrite is intended to merely fulfill the desire, not directed to please Allah. The deed may seem righteous, yet the intention is tainted. When a good deed is aimed to please Allah, the self is being continuously purified.

The purified self is then more enabled to absorb The Light and to taste The Love.

Dream

Dream could be a place where the greater reality is construed.

A true dream serves a dual purpose. It could be used either to increase the faith or to be further led astray. Both, people of sanctity (such as the prophets) and people of tyranny (such as pharaoh), experienced the vision through dreams.

Virtuousness is determined by the action, not by a dream.

Makrifah

True knowledge (makrifah) comes after belief, belief comes after submission. True knowledge is gained when the intellect (mind) and spirituality (heart) are in harmony. In other words, The Light is being absorbed by the self.

True knowledge, belief and submission evolve together through life experience of the self. A continuous effort along with patience, forebearance and perseverance is the critical factor in the self's evolution to increase the consciousness.

Intellect

Intellect (mind) is a crucial tool to grasp The Light.

The Light's reflection is absorbed by intellect's meditating the scriptures (were passed on through the messengers) and the nature's phenomenon.

The Light's absorption by intellect without scriptures leads to a speculative comprehension of the unseen (God, angels, jinns, hereafter etc). Understanding the scriptures without intellect permits the self to adopt a superstitious and/or an emotional belief.

Due to various degree of intellect among people, helping each other is a must. Having greater intellect is not a privilege. It comes with the responsibility. To guide people to absorp The Light by walking with The Light. Any abuse has harsher consequences.

The greater the intellect, the more lenient the self to the darkness of arrogance and pride.

Enlightened Self

One of the self-purification-endeavor requirements is controlling desires.

An enlightment in self will be advanced through the intellect if the desires are tamed along with submission effort to The Light. The enlightment in which the self is experiencing a 'higher consciousness'.

True love, tranquility, unity, true peace are words used to express the affectionateness of the enlightened self. It may only be due to the words limitation.

The enlightened self is further able to gain virtuousness in life.

Salawat

The light of Al-Mustafa is the perfect form of human being which was physically materialized into the personality of Muhammad Rasulullah.

God and the angels send blessings (salawat) to it. People of faith must perform too. By sending blessings, it allows the self to be cleansed as well as an admonisher to his example (sunnah).

The blessings must be sent conjointly to his purified family (ahl-albayt) as they are also beacons of light of Al-Mustafa.

Peace and blessings be upon Al-Mustafa and his purified ahl-albayt.

Eden

What eden does look like is beyond human comprehension as it is a different type of world from this world (dunyaa) in which we are living now. Nevertheless, the edenic state of an individual is something we can get a grasp of from quraan.

It is mentioned in quraan that the eden dwellers have a positive mental state (happiness, love, tranquility etc). Hence, an individual should develop his/her mentality to reach this state by purifying the heart during this lifetime.

Spirituality (imaan), good deeds (amal saalih) and knowledge (ilm) are crucial for purifying the heart as have been demonstrated by the prophets, ahl-albayt and the people of truth. With a purified heart, an individual is able to have a 'higher consciousness'. A consciousness in which Allah's greatness and love are embraced.

All in all, an edenic state is a state where ego is being dissolved into ONENESS.

The Song Of Love

Hear, O darvish, the song of Love
the unending tale of the heart.
God whispers "Be!" and infinity takes eternal flight.
Love commands the darkness to depart,
and the world to arise in light.

Mountains, seas and stars bear witness,
The east wind cries out on the wing.

La Illaha illa Allah,
La Illaha illa Allah,

O Sufi, the universe sings.

From Master of the Jinn: A Sufi Novel