Tuesday, March 28, 2006

Shah Naqshband's sayings on Spiritual Stations

He said one time,

"How do the People of God look at the hidden actions and the whispers of the heart?" He said, "By the light of the vision that Allah granted them, as mentioned in the Holy Hadith, 'Beware of the vision of the Believer, because he looks with the light of God.'"

He was asked about showing miraculous powers. He said, "What more miraculous powers do you want than that we are still walking this earth with all these sins upon us and around us."

He was asked, "Who is the reciter and who is the Sufi in the saying of Junayd, 'Disconnect yourself from the reciters of books, and accompany the Sufis?'" He said, "The reciter is the one busy with the words and names, and the Sufi is the one who is busy with the essence of the names."

He warned, "If a murid, a shaikh or anyone speaks about a state that he has not attained, Allah will forbid him to reach that state."

He said, "The mirror of every shaikh has two directions. But our mirror has six directions."

He said, "What is meant by the Holy Hadith, 'I am with the one who remembers Me,' is a clear evidence and a proof supporting the people of the heart who remember Him always. And the other saying of the Prophet speaking on behalf of God, as-Sawmu li ('the fast is for Me') is an affirmation that the true fast is to fast from all that is other than God."

from www.naqshbandi.org/chain/17.htm

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