Naqshbandi Teachings of The 9 Lataif / Points &

Realties of The Enneagram

Naqshbandi Sufi Way Guidebook

From the teachings of Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani

The Golden Chain

Shaykh Sharafuddin (q) asked Shaykh `Abdullah (q) to host their guest. Shaykh `Abdullah recounted the events of the meeting to several of his murids many years later. As soon as they met, Shaykh `Abdullah said, "You are interested in the knowledge of the Nine Points. We can speak on it in the morning after Fajr prayer. Now you eat something and rest." At Fajr time Shaykh `Abdullah called Gurdjieff to come and pray with him. As soon as the prayer finished, the Shaykh began to recite Surat Ya Sin from the Holy Qur'an. As he finished reading, Gurdjieff approached him and asked if he could speak of what he had just experienced. Gurdjieff said:

His States and Discourses After His Second Seclusion At 30 years of age, Shaykh Abdullah was ordered to enter a second long seclusion for five years. During that seclusion, many visions and states were granted to him, which it would be impossible to describe within the span of this book. After he completed this second seclusion, the power of his spiritual attraction increased. He became so renowned that even during his Shaykh's lifetime, people used to come from everywhere to learn from him. Following are some of his discourses: "I do not speak to you about any Station (Maqam), Manifestation (Tajalli), or Rank (Rutbah) without my having already entered that station or position and experienced that Manifestation. I am not like many others, I do not speak separating my sight from my heart, enumerating the Stations (Maqamat) for you without my knowing their Reality (Haqiqat). No! First of all I followed that path and saw what it was. I learned those Realities and Secrets which may be found along it, and I worked my way along it until I obtained the

• Knowledge of Certainty (`ilm al-yaqin),

• the Eye of Certainty (`ayn al-yaqin), and

• the Truth of Certainty (haqq al-yaqin).

• Only then do I speak to you, giving you a tiny taste of what I have tasted, until I am able to make you reach that station without tiring you and without difficulties.

• qalb, sirr, sirr as-sirr, khafa and akhfa.

• Qalb is the Heart,

• sirr is the Secret,

• sirr as-sirr is the Secret of the Secret,

• khafa is the Hidden, and

• akhfa the Most Hidden. The secret of this Tariqat is based on these five lata'if (Subtle Things), the Stations of the heart.

Latifat as-sirr, the station of the Secret, is under Sayyidina Nuh , because it is the Vessel which is saved from the Ocean of Darkness, salvation from the flood of ignorance.

• The light of the Heart is a yellow hue;

• the light of the Secret is red;

• the light of the Secret of the Secret is white;

• the light of the Hidden Station is green; and

• the light of the Most Hidden Station is black."

1. The first station involves the power of imprisoning the ego

2. The key to the second state is Dhikr with la ilaha illallah.

3. The third state consists in witnessing the engraving of Allah's name on the heart (naqsh).

4. The fourth state relates to the meaning of that engraving on the heart.

5. The fifth state is to imprint the engraving with your dhikr.

6. In the sixth state the heart is made to stop pumping at will and to start pumping at will.

7. The seventh state is to be aware of the number of times one stops the heart from pumping and the number of times one restores the pumping of the heart.

8. "In the eighth state one mentions the phrase Muhammadun Rasulullah in every cessation of the heart and every restoration of its pumping.

9. The ninth stage is to return to your Cave, as Allah mentioned in Surat al-Kahf, "When ye turn away from them and the things they worship other than Allah, betake yourself to the Cave: your Lord will shower His mercies on you..." [18:16]. { 9:40 This the Power of 9 Importance of the King, Return to the King, 12 Veil of Power 9 in Holy Quran Tauba Surah 9 Verse 40 is the Beginning of entrance to the THAWR Cave}

"The Cave is the Divine Presence. Here one utters the cherished prayer of the Prophet : 'O God, You are my destination and Your Pleasure is what I seek.' The heart, as it cycles between the cessation and restoration of its pumping, is existing at the level of the Essence of the Divine Presence. Because that Divine Essence is the source of all created being, that heart will be at one with every minutest creation in this universe. The heart which has reached the secrets of the nine points will be able to see everything, hear everything, know everything, taste everything, sense everything, 'Until He will be the ears with which he hears, the eyes with which he sees, the tongue with which he speaks, the hand with which he grasps, and the feet with which he walks. He will be Lordly, he only need say to a thing Be! and it will be.'" { This is Perfectly Manifested in Sayedena Muhammad {s} Our Eternal Messenger of Allah.}

"29" When the Prophet went into that cave, a spider and a dove came and made a house over the door in order that no one would know what was inside. { The Spider is 29th Surah directing us that the secrets of 29 and the Lam Alif is the seal for the entry into the divine presence | The Dove is the Angelic Realm and Eggs are the story of Creation.} 29 Secretly encoded Surahs .

Knowledge of Letters , Fawatih Letters of Muqatta'at and Secrets of Numbers
 

This is common knowledge. As for the secret, look to love. When love for someone is pure, God will never forget that person. Before leaving Makkah for Madinah, the Prophet put someone in his bed because the ignorant people came to his door intent on killing him. He put Ali (as) in his bed. There is a secret to that, it means that he made Ali (as) his representative, in his place. He did not put Umar (r) there. He did not put Uthman (r)-none of the Companions, but someone of his own flesh and blood.