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O you who believe, seek help through patience and prayer. Verily, God is with the patient. And do not say about those who are killed in the way of Allah , "They are dead." Rather, they are alive, but you perceive it not. — Surah al-Baqarah, 2:153
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Join Me Live ⇒ www.borderpoint.com/livestream
Join me on YouTube next Wednesday, November 6, for a special livestream event in which I will answer some of your questions and during which we will have the opportunity to enjoy a guided meditation practice with the goal of strengthening faith and light in our hearts.
I hope to connect with you then!
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Invitation to Join Us ⇒ www.borderpoint.com/globaldhikr
You are invited to join us for the October Global Dhikr & Meditation livestream event this Wednesday, October 16 at 9pm GMT. For more information, please visit www.borderpoint.com/globaldhikr.
I hope to see you then. To your divine and eternal success.
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Join Us ⇒ www.borderpoint.com/globaldhikr
You are invited to join us for the September Global Dhikr & Meditation livestream event this Thursday, September 26 at 11am PT. For more information, please visit www.borderpoint.com/globaldhikr.
I hope to see you then. To your divine and eternal success.
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Have they not travelled throughout the land that their hearts might comprehend and that their ears may hear? Verily, it is not the eyes that are blind, but the hearts within their breasts. — Surah al-Hajj [22:46]
Bob Dylan in his classic Blowin' in the Wind sang in 1963:
And how many years can some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free?
Yes, and how many times can a man turn his head
And pretend that he just doesn't see?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind;
The answer is blowin' in the wind.
Yes, and how many times must a man look up
Before he can see the sky?
And how many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry?
Yes, and how many deaths will it take 'til he knows
That too many people have died?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind;
The answer is blowin' in the wind.
Now, sixty years later, in spite of the most radical and revolutionary measures of technological and social "progress," we are left still asking these very basic and fundamental questions, and at a time when traveling across the land to see and hear only requires tuning into the preponderance of evidence on social media of wanton and indiscriminate killing, wounding and maiming of innocent human beings.
The answer to the question is provided by the Holy Qur'an, which clarifies that it is not the eyes that do not see and the ears that do not hear, but the hearts that are dead.
What we are witnessing now on the global stage is the culmination of a western way of life paradigm that is devoid of conscience and ultimately without empathy—materialism and secularism—and no matter how cleverly it is veiled in the language of virtue, it inevitably results in the death of the heart and the inability to feel, as well as the abuse of human beings and of all life upon planet earth.
The alternative is faith and sincere spirituality, to which all of the prophets and messengers of God have called humanity.
May we be of they who choose light over dark, truth over falsehood, good over evil, integrity over hypocrisy, righteousness over corruption, and belief over unbelief.
Ameen.
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And thy Lord said unto the angels, "I am establishing within the earth a vicegerent." They asked, "Wilt Thou place therein one who will cause corruption and shed blood, whilst we hymn Thy praises and extol Thy sanctity?" He said, "I know what you know not." — Surah al-Baqarah [2:31]
Allah Almighty recounts in the Holy Qur'an the story of the divine destiny of creation and the establishing of man as His deputy within the earth, yet even the luminous angels asked to understand the wisdom of such. Allah Almighty replies that He knows that which they do not.
I once asked one of my shaykhs as to the wisdom and purpose in temporal creation when the sublime and eternal realms were so splendid and sublime.
He simply replied, "To learn."
I have since learned that we learn by opposites and contrast, and that the Universe requires balance between both light and dark, and both good and evil, and that only in the Hereafter is there singular peace and felicity.
We cannot know right without wrong, and we cannot choose righteousness unless there is also corruption. In the eternal tension between good and evil, all things are known, as are our choices, which will echo in eternity.
The fact that profound evil and corruption is now reaching such a pronounced degree of manifestation is testimony to the fact that concurrently profound good and light is also arising and possible.
The saints are they who transmute darkness into light, and evil into good. This is the way of Islam, and the way of the Prophet ﷺ, his companions and the pious since.
With profound pressure there is the possibility of sacred alchemy, and with the divine qualities of patience, forbearance and faith, the nation of believers will again rise to its divine destiny as true representatives and deputies of the divine through whom good is enjoined and evil is prevented, [9:71].
May Allah Almighty grant us the strength to transform first and foremost ourselves through light, and become living proof of what true faith is and makes possible.
Allahumma ameen.
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Some 25 years ago I was living in a small 10x10 room in a converted barn which had been made into a dergah, or center for spiritual training and discipline in the traditional methodology of the classical teachers and masters.
One early morning either before fajr prayer or just after, I sat in meditation and allowed myself to relax into stillness, and to enter into a receptive state of submission and surrender, the state of Islam.
Like gentle waves that subtly carry one deeper and further out into the ocean, I fell deeper into a state of peace and presence, yet entirely aware and conscious.
In that moment, I had the realization that such a state of pure be-ing and stillness was the primordial state in which we were first created when Allah Almighty said, "Be!"
This moment precedes the Big Bang, and is the instant in which all of creation was made manifest in a single point just prior to its expansion into the known Universe.
This moment was and is the state between existence and non-existence, between time and eternity, and between life and death. It is a state of pure presence and stillness, and it is the doorway and the key to transcendence of the temporal world and the self.
It is the key to connection with Truth and the Divine Presence. It is the pure state of surrender, and it is this state that "meditation" makes possible.
Tonight (or tomorrow night) marks the anniversary of the sacred Night Journey of the Prophet ﷺ which takes place on the 27th night of Rajab, and which is one of the most important and sacred events in spiritual history in which he ﷺ ascended to the Divine Presence of God, beyond time and space.
On this occasion, it is important for us to remember to cultivate the stillness and surrender that the Prophet ﷺ awakened to, and that made possible this real and experiential connection with the Divine.
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To your divine and eternal success.
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"Verily, with hardship there is ease. Verily, with hardship, there is ease." — Surah ash-Sharh [94:5-6]
In seeking to perform this migration pilgrimage in the footsteps of the Prophet ﷺ, we set out with an incredibly ambitious goal to walk as much of the nearly 300 miles from Mecca to Madinah on foot within 10-12 days as we could.
The result was that by the end of the very first day, several of us had to begin facing our very real physical limitations. Unfortunately, due to prior travel and lack of time from work overload, I was one of the least physically conditioned and prepared for such an undertaking (not to mention not even being well prepared with much of the right gear, equipment and supplies).
By the end of the first day, I seriously did not think I would be able to continue.
Yet before throwing in the towel altogether, I somehow managed to get my tent up in the dark (thanks in great part to the kind Imam Dawood Yasin who in spite of his own tiredness took the time to help me out). I just managed to crawl in and collapse.
The grace of God manifested in the form of instant sleep that provided just enough recovery to set out again the next morning. I managed to hold on. And this became my story for the next number of days—mustering enough strength and resilience to just hold on and not give up.
Yet by day 3, a profound shift began to occur. I began to make peace with pain.
We were walking so much in incredibly inhospitable terrain and conditions while carrying essential gear and water in the form of heavily laden backpacks that literally every step became painful.
At first, I protested, grieved and complained (mostly internally, occasionally outwardly), and the pain persisted. I believed up until a point that my experience (and life by extension) should be free of pain and suffering, and that I should somehow be spared such a trial, that I did not deserve to experience discomfort.
Yet somewhere along the way on the third day of the trek, I began to surrender.
I accepted the pain.
I simply accepted that each step would hurt, and that it wouldn't stop me. I became quiet, both inwardly and outwardly, and my walking began to take on the quality of meditation. I began to experience peace.
The pain persisted, but somehow, it stopped bothering me. It just became a fairly insignificant background part of the experience. It had to be dealt with in the form of bandaging blisters that were beginning to form, getting off my feet and removing my boots to allow my feet to rest and breathe as much as possible during the short breaks we could afford, massaging and applying whatever medication or moisturizer we had that could help at nights, etc.; yet overall the pain and discomfort became increasingly less significant.
What I am saying is that I simply accepted pain as a part of the experience, and that somehow in that surrender, it ceased to be significant. Pain began to cease in being a deterrent or a psychologically limiting factor in just doing what had to be done, which in this case was simply putting one foot in front of the other.
In my coaching and work, I have often shared that resistance to pain only creates more of it, and that the sooner we simply accept and surrender to it as an inescapable part of life, the sooner we will find peace.
I had often mentioned this in the form of psychological and emotional hardships and difficulties (of which I have had plenty), yet this physical experience made it much more real, and I began to understand this principle far more deeply.
I believe this is an aspect of what is meant in the Holy Qur'an in Surah ash-Sharh wherein Allah Almighty affirms not once but twice that "verily, with hardship there is ease."
It does not mean that hardships will cease—such are an inescapable aspect of life on earth—but rather that through acceptance and surrender, hardships and difficulties, with Allah Almighty's divine grace and support, are made "easy."
In this way, strength, resilience, forbearance and patience are developed—all vital attributes that must be awakened in the human being who is seeking to know his or her Creator, for we draw nearer unto to God through His divine attributes by cultivating them within ourselves.
In conclusion, this is a reminder (first and foremost to myself) to not become too complacent with ease and comfort, and to actively develop strength both inwardly and outwardly through both physical and spiritual exercise (fasting, prayer, meditation, strenuous exercise, etc.) with the intention of awakening and overcoming the unconsciousness inducing nature of the world.
May Allah Almighty guide us to what is best and most blessed with His mercy, light and love, and awaken our hearts through the experience of His beauty.
Allahumma ameen.
To your divine and eternal success.
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