To come into the presence of a true gnāna, of a true kamil sheikh, of a true enlightened being, is a great blessing. And if you have had that experience, you have to thank God on a regular basis for allowing that experience to occur to you. And you have to be thankful to the […]
In this world most countries that have a functioning government have developed laws and these laws are codified, they’re put into books, and they’re available to everyone to look at, and they’re used to keep order. Places where there are dictators they try to have less rules because they want to make them up as
Imagine along the coastline, like we have on the east coast of the US, and imagine many different harbors, and many different boats. Now, just because they come from different harbors, does not indicate where they’re going, it just indicates where they’re starting. The ocean has to be crossed, and it doesn’t matter which harbor
Man is a fragile creature and susceptible to many different influences and diseases; diseases of the body and diseases of the mind. And all of these can incapacitate him to the point of his being totally unable to function within the world. Now, functioning means more than one thing. For instance, when a psychiatrist labels
Perception is a big part of our existence. We perceive and we draw conclusions, and the conclusions that we draw have impact on us. Not everybody draws the same conclusions from the same set of circumstances; not everybody sees things the same way. There’s an app now called Fandango, which has to do with movies,
After Medina and Mecca became adversaries, while the Prophet was living in Medina, and Mecca kept attacking Medina, an Arab came to the Prophet and said to him, “Place a curse on the Arabs in Mecca.” And the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, responded, “I did not come into this world as a
There was a sheikh in Baghdad who had fifty disciples, and one morning he gave them each a chicken and said, “Go kill the chicken where nobody will see and bring it back to me.” And a couple hours later they all came back, and there was one particularly slow disciple, whose name was Ahmed,
We are in a dilemma. Why? Because we don’t know that much, we think we know a lot, but we really don’t know that much. The prophet, sallā llāhu ʿalay-hi wa-sallam, at one time stopped getting revelation, and he said, “What will become of me?” Imagine, the prophet said, “What will become of me?” So,
The idea of duality runs through most mystical concepts, and the idea of duality is difficult to understand; no matter what the explanations are they don’t seem to be sufficient to penetrate the duality that we exist in. So, recently, like about an hour and a half ago, an explanation came to me that I
Water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit, or 0 degrees Centigrade. That means that at 33 degrees Fahrenheit water isn’t frozen. It may be cold but it’s not ice. It means at 32.1 degrees it’s not frozen. Frozen is an altered state of water, and water doesn’t know frozen until it’s frozen, so for water to
