Levels of “With-ness”

  Listen, O’ servant of Allāh, and listen well with the ear of your soul. May Allāh guide you and me to His secrets of the Universe, as Sayyidī Abū Madyan said, “Allāh has secrets in the universe through which He can be seen.” Being “with” is of various types. The first type is sensory, when you are at their graves. The second type is metaphorical…

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Shaykh in the Barzakh

  Sayyiduna Shaykh Salih al-Ja'fari explaining the reality of the shaykh of tariqa. "Know that the founders of all the Sufi tariqas are now in the barzakh, in the other world. And from there, each has more knowledge of his murid than the knowledge of his khalifa in the world, multiple times over. This is a spiritual tarbiya (upbringing), from the category of ‘breaking norms’, and…

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