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Connecting to Sheik
Leads to Divine
Connection
The Technique
of Rabita
From Sheik Nazim
Website sri lanka
Our Pir of the Tariqa Shah
Bahaudeen Naqshaband said:
“Allah looks at the hearts of His Saints with His Lights, and whoever is
around that Saint will get the blessings of those Lights.”
“Whoever is initiated by us and follows and loves us, whether he is near
or far,
wherever he is, even if he is in the East and we are in the West, we nourish
from the
stream of Divine Love and give him Divine Light in his daily life.”
“Tafakkur sa’atin khayrun min
‘ibaadati saba’in sanatin”- Reflective thinking for one
hour is better than 70 years of superogatory worship.
Make Ghuzul or Wudhu and put on clean clothes if possible. Pray two Rakaats
‘Tahiyatu’l Wudhu’. Then sit down in a silent private place and face the
Qiblah. Close your eyes and try to stop all movements, thinking and wishing.
Imagine yourself in the presence of your Sheikh and
him sitting in front of you. For that purpose you can try to remember a
moment you had with the Sheikh which was pleasant or impressive to you, or
use a picture of him to remember his face. Connect with him through your
heart, turning in love towards him.
“Sincerity is to worship Allah as if you were seeing Him; and even if you
don’t see Him, He is always looking to you.” The Sheikh is the
representative of the Holy Prophet who is the Caliphatullah.
Remember that the Sheikh is always looking to us, that he is always with us,
even though we may not be able to see, hear or feel him. This is why we are
not with him and forget him. Imagine yourself always in his presence, he
being at your side, no matter what you do. This will protect you from
misbehaving.
To connect with the Sheikh, read 3 x Suratu’l Ikhlas and 1 x Suratu’l
Fatiha. Dedicate them to the Holy Prophet Muhammad sws and to the soul of
our Grandsheikh Abdullah ad-Daghestani. Then ask for Maulana Sheikh Nazim.
You can imagine the heart of the Sheikh like an ocean of Divine Faiz,
Blessings, and your own heart like a vessel which
is being filled with that Faiz running from the Sheikh’s heart to your own
heart.
Or you can imagine your Sheikh covering you like a tent under which you are
sitting. On its four sides the Divine Faiz (blessings) are raining down.
You can also imagine yourself swimming in the ocean of the Sheikh’s heart,
like a fish or a drop of water.
If you are getting disturbed by other pictures, open your eyes quickly. They
will disappear and then you can continue to concentrate. If disturbing
thoughts are coming to you, say:
“La haula wa la quwatta illa bi’llahi’l ‘Aliyu’l ‘Azim”, (There is no
power nor strength with me except that which is coming from Allah, the most
High, the Magnificiant) and/or: “Audhu bi’llahi mina shaitani rajim”, (I
seek refuge in Allah’s Presence from the cursed Shaitan), 100 times or more,
until they disappear. Our Grandsheikh Shah-u-Naqshiband said: “The seeker in
this way must be busy in rejecting evil whisperings and the ego’s demands,
either before they reach him, or after they reach him but
before they control him.
A seeker who doesn’t reject them until after they reached him and controlled
him cannot get any fruit, because at that time it is impossible to take the
whisperings out of the heart.”
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practicing the silent Dhikr of the heart keep the
tongue on the upper palate and the teeth on top of each other.
To deepen the concentration while listening to the heart’s Dhikr you can
imagine the Name of Allah from light being engraved on your heart.
Everything has been created for man except for his heart. The heart is for
Allah Alone, so that He can make it His Throne. The ‘Naqsh’ is Allah’s stamp
or seal on the heart. During the training in the Naqshibandi Order Allah’s
Name is being perfectly engraved in the heart of the seeker or disciple.
Our Grandsheikh Abdullah ad-Daghestani said: “I will teach you a way to
approach me quickly. Whenever you do your prayers, make Dhikr, read Quran,
anything that you are doing, make the following intention:
Navaithul arbain, navaithul uzla, navaithul khalwa, navaithul itikaf navaithul
suluq, navaithul riala, li’llaha ta’ala fi haazal jaami i” ( I am
intending to perform the 40 days of retreat, isolation, solitude and to
follow the path and spiritual practices for the sake of Allah Almighty in
this place of worship.) Your worshipping with this intention
will be deducted from the 40 Days of Seclusion, which are obligatory for a
Naqshabandi Murid.
Our Grandsheikh Shah Bahaudin Naqshaband said:
“Intention, ‘Niyat’, is very important. It consists of three letters: ‘Nun’,
which represents the ‘Nur Allah’, the Light of God; ‘Ya’, which represents
the ‘Yad Allah’, the Hand of God; and ‘Ha’, which represents ‘Hidayatullah’,
the guidance of Allah. Niyat is the breeze of the soul, coming from the
unseen world, not from the material.”
On the
way of Truth, Tariq-i-Haqq, two methods are being used:
Tariqats follow either the Tariq-i-Nafsani, the
way on which first of all the Nafs, the ego, is educated in order for the
soul to be saved, or they follow the Tariq-i-Ruhani,
the way on which first of all the Ruh, the spirit or soul is purified.
The Tariq-i-Nafsani is heavy. Always you have to do the opposite of what
your ego wants from you. It is a big
fight. The Tariq-i-Ruhani is easy. Sheikh says that
on our way you can use the best of everything under the condition that you
also do your best in worshipping Allah. On this way first of all the spirit
or soul is purified, with no regard to the ego. After the Ruh has found its
original attributes the ego, willingly or unwillingly, must follow the Ruh
and obey its orders.
The Sheikh opens from his heart to the heart of the Murid a spring of Faiz,
Divine Blessings, from the Divine Oceans of Faiz. He increases the love for
Allah in the heart of the Murid and in this fire of Divine Love all
worldliness is burnt. Through the Faiz the heart is cleaned. Then the state
of the Murid changes. It is through the
Baraka and the spiritual power of the Sheikh that the Murid progresses from
the lowest level or state of his soul to the highest.
There is two beings in the Children of Adam which are always fighting:
The Ruh-u-Hayvaniya,
which is always against Allah and rebellious, and the Ruh-u-Sultaniya,
which is always obedient to Allah and finds its pleasure in worshipping
Allah. If the lower self is absolutely in control, one’s characteristics can
be worse than a wild
animal. If the higher Self is absolutely in control, one’s characteristics
can be better than those of the Angels. To
become an Insan Kamil, a perfected human being, one must undergo a training
at the hands of a perfect Master, because the Nafs (soul, self, ego) must
develop.
The End
THE
ART OF MEDITATION
and its SEVERAL LEVELS
 Most masters today present the method of meditation to you. But usually they
do not base it on Christianity, or Judaism or Islam, so many people think
that it is a method which originated within other religions. That is
however not the case. Meditation was a method which was already given to the
first man, within the first message, to the first Messenger.
What purpose does meditation serve, and how can we reach such a state? It
is mentioned in all our Holy Books: the Torah, the Gospels and in the Holy
Quran, as a method to reach the Divine Presence. When we come face to
face with our Creator, we leave everything else behind. Nothing remains
except your soul. Even if I tried to cut you with a sword, you would not be
harmed. Nothing can touch you physically in such a state, because your
physical body will have entered your spiritual being. Normally it is the
opposite: our souls are imprisoned in the physical body. In a perfect state
of meditation, your soul covers your physical body and you become a
spirit. There was once a Grandsheikh, Sheik Abdul Qadir al Jilani. While
he was meditating he kept saying, “I am the truth!” People around him were
offended by this utterance and started attacking him with swords, but
nothing happened to him. They could not touch him.
When Maulana Rumi was in real meditation, he would be whirling and take off
from the ground. He had full connection with the Divine Presence. According
to our traditional knowledge, meditation has so many steps before reaching
to the top point. If you keep to those rules, real meditation can come to
you at any time. Everyone must try within the rules which exist in their
religion, to praise the Lord first, in the way the prophets taught us.
We can then sit in a silent place, preferably in the dark, cover ourselves
and withdraw from everything around us. We should not hear or feel anything,
only
think that we are one within the existence of the Lord Almighty Allah in the
Divine Presence.
Even if it only lasts for 5 minutes, it will give us power. This will then
increase and make peace-falcons out of peace-doves. If a terrorist even
looks at you, he will fall down. With meditation you can attain ultra-power.
Don’t think that meditation is something easy. It is the most important
power which has been given to mankind. |
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