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As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullah!
Beloveds, I've started a new journal, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.3) yunus_wesley.
If you'd like to keep me on your friends list, add yunus_wesley --I won't be using Sepiamind anymore.
"Sepiamind" was a creation when I was less sure of who I was. I identified with "sepiai", cuttlefish, in that they're beautiful, change color very quickly, and very alien from human beings; & I identified with "mind". After several years of tasawwuf I'm finally starting to learn to live from my heart & to use my mind as one of my senses or faculties through my heart, through the center where all things "inside" and "outside" are gathered. |
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| 03:00pm 25/03/2003 |
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bismillah!
- a young newt trying to get itself killed on the gravel path
- between two and six bats this morning in the twilight
- a THREE INCH LONG cricket, crushed dead in the driveway
- great hordes of bumblebees
- some dang loud frogs with high voices
- hummingbirds supping on the great wildflower feast |
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| 09:03am 23/03/2003 |
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bismillah ir-rahman ir-rahim
my beloved lord
my beloved god
ya rahman, ya rahim, most merciful of the merciful
you are al-basir, the seeing
you are al-qawwi, the strong
you are al-hakim, the wise
to you belong all the names most beautiful
to you belongs the praise and the dominion of the heavens and the earths
o lord
quiet the hearts of the people of faith
your close ones who know you in peace, love, mercy and justice
o lord protect my heart from false assurance and false righteousness
o lord give us strength from your holiness and peace from your knowledge
ya allah shower your blessings upon your slave and your prophet and your messenger
the unlettered prophet who knew his lord
ya allah fill his heavenly heart with your peace
the peace that overflows into the hearts of the quiet lovers
my god, my god
help me to keep my trust in you
innaka kulli shay'in qadir
truly over everything you have power\
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| 10:22am 22/03/2003 |
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All classes, October 2002, Sidi set CD 1
Ibrahim: As-salamu alaykum everyone! Let's begin. There's basically two ways of working with people. You can work from the bottom up or the top down. When I started this I used to be a bottom-up person. But since becoming a Sufi I became top-down. Ultimately what we're trying to do is return everything back to Allah so that it's perfect in its nature because Allah is perfect. So if there is disease or there is sickness or there is separation or confusion, it's because at some level there's a lack of connection to the divine light. What we need to do is create that connection.
What I have found is there's a direct and an indirect way to heal. The direct way is, when you find out exactly what's going on, you understand it, and then you invoke Allah to change it. When I say invoke, I mean you petition the Most High to bring forth the healing light that's needed to make change. The other way is simply not to know but just to do different types of prayers and supplications that create change.
When we want to know what's going on, there's basically three ways of knowing. There's the knowing that comes through tajalli or direct revelation. This is considered the highest. When you're sitting with something and you're wanting to understand what's going on, you're actually moving into a a very deep state of oneness with Allah and Allah sends you directly the information, the light, the revelation and the healing that's needed for any specific case.
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| 12:00pm 20/03/2003 |
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bismillahi-r-rahmani-r-rahim!
So many ways to write the basmala, the invocation "in the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful", and all of them look odd in Latin letters!
Alhamdulillah, the world is as it is and I am as I am. Allah has provided me some great opportunities lately. I'm holding the web site & IT for the office here at SSC. This included a raise! Learning Dreamweaver & soon, insha'allah, related web snookum: CSS, scripting, how to get listed in search engines... I was so unmotivated to learn anything when I was in the technical world. Now, alhamdulillah! I have desire.
My new roller chair slides on the floor because the building's uneven :>
My beloved shamsbeloved is in Florida studying Chinese herbs to further her acupuncture knowledge, capability & certification. She was so excited last time she came back with what she learned & was shown in her heart about the realities of these plants; I pray she stays in love with this work. It's so good for her heart! |
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| 09:11am 18/03/2003 |
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four worlds,
fa'`dhima bihi min nabiyyin riyaadu l-mulki wa-l-malakuuti bizahri jamaalihi z-aahri muubiqatun
"Magnified is the Prophet," about whom ALlah, exalted is He, said, "whose glowing beauty blossoms the gardens of the dominion (al-malakuut) and the world of the kingdom (al-mulk)."
The world of the kingdom is the world of the presence of bodies, which are the places where actions manifest, so that everything which is known through the senses and the imagination is from this presence. The world of dominion is the presence of souls, which is the place of the manifestation of the qualites of beauty and magesty. All that which is known by the white mind and by true understanding is from this presence. The Prophet embellishes the world of the kingdom and the world of dominion as flowers embellish gardens. Just as gardens are beautified by flowers, so the world of the kingdom and the world of dominion are embellished by his beauty, may the peace and blessigns of Allah be upon him.
In brief, there are four worlds, these being: the world of the kingdom, the world of dominion, the world of omnipotence, and the world of power. The world of the kingdom is that which is manifest to us. The world of dominion is concealed from recognition by the senses, and to it belong the garden and the fire, the throne and the footstool, and it comprises the presence of souls, as previously stated. The world of omnipotence is the world of secrets, containing the knowledge of phenomenal things, the knowledge of things hidden. The world of power (al-`aalam al-`izza) is reserved, by Allah, praised and exalted is He, exclusively for the knowing of His essence and qualities.
wa-hiyaad ma`aalimi l-jaburuuti bifaydi anwaari sirrihi l-baahiri mutadaffiqatun
"And the resevoirs of the world of al-jaburuut pour forth in profusion the lights of his dazzling secret."
The reservoir is the place where water is collected in order that it may be distributed for irrigation, and the reservoirs here represent a state of intense preparedness and of readiness in all creatures. the world of omnipotence, as already mentioned, is the place where the essence manifests, freed from incidents of chance. In brief, an analogy can be made in that the world of al-mulk and the world of al-malakuut shine through him, the Prophet, may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, like spacious gardens on high. Another indication is the use of the word garden for both the world of al-mulk and the world of al-malakut.
His beauty, may Allah send His peace and blessings upon him, is like the plants of these gardens, as indicated by the word flowers, and teh world of omnipotence is like a sea on the two shores of which are gardens that are watered from its reservoirs.
his lights are like the irrigating water, indicated by the words "to pour forth," which means that he, may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, is the embellishment and splendour of the three worlds, and also that if it were not for him they would not exist. He is the mirror which reveals the essence and the qualities and all actions. In him, may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, the hearts of travelers come to witness the actions of Allah and their realization, while the souls of the knowers are graced by witnessing the qualities, and they yearn for the witnessing of the essence.* But the secrets of the perfected ones enjoy witnessing the essence, and they are immersed in it every moment of their time.
Then know that my master, the father of our shaykh, when he praised our master, Muhammad, may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, and when he extolled him with this praise, made clear that the three worlds of al-mulk, al-malakuut and al-jaburuut reach back to the flowers of his beauty and the overflowing of his lights.
*When you arrive in the station of the world of the witnessing, you see, in the essence of the witnessing, Who moves everything. It is only Allah. You see yourself moving and doing, but when you go through these pictures, you witness every deed from Allah. WHen you reach this station, the important thing is that there is no presence, only He. This is what I mean by rubbing out or erasing yourself. Do not keep anything. If you keep anything, then you do not reach this station of witnessing. When you do reach, you are from al-`arifuun, the knowers. |
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| 01:31pm 16/03/2003 |
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Images made to illustrate class transcriptions at Jaffe Institute for the book project, which is now on hold while whoever is responsible decides whether to include transcriptions, new prose, or what.
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| 08:21am 13/03/2003 |
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bismillah ir-rahman ir-rahim!
dictionaries, delightful piles of words. As a kid I would spend hours reading dictionaries. Then in college I got Greek and Latin dictionaries & did it again.
english, my lugha / glossis / sprache of choice, spoken by a greater variety of people and peoples than any language ever before, with probably the largest vocabulary ever accreted by any language.
fath, rhymes not with path but fat-H, a noisy arabic H. Opening, victory, illumination. My name used to be Abdul Fattah, from the divine quality of the same root. A sudden clarification.
four worlds, known among Sufis, Kabalists and at least some strands of Buddhism. Layers of reality, increasing in density and manifestation of the divine will into form. An essential practice for understanding God's orders and permission is to see events in all four simultaneous worlds. |
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| 09:32am 09/03/2003 |
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Explicating this list gives me some idea about where my world is right now. Not sure how much this list skews things in favor of the mental section or overlay of my world, but hey.
breath, In, out. The spirit is on the breath; the body is in the spirit (ruh, cf. ruach), not the spirit in the body.
bugs, tiny robots charged by God with managing the planet's biosphere. Segmented, shiny, simple and beautiful.
calendrics, see, there's this planet, and its satelite, both of which are satelites of our sun. Out of the various rotations come three regular cycles, the day, the month and the year; the second, minute, hour and degree also come from the turning. The cycles are so close to fitting neatly and evenly, one inside another in whole number ratios, but not quite, so humans have spent vast effort juggling calendars to approximate the cycles.
calligraphy, kallei-graphein, beautiful writing. A pure expression of humanity, mostly without reference to any other created form.
community, [L. communitas: OE. commun, comon, OF. comun, F. commun, fr. L. communis; com- + munis ready to be of service; cf. Skr. mi to make fast, set up, build, Goth. gamains common, G. gemein, and E. mean low, common. Cf. {Immunity}: immunity: L. immunitas, fr. immunis free from a public service ]
contemplative etymology, just now, I learned that 'mean' is from the same origin as "common" and "community"; the meaning cleaved into positive and negative denotations. The history of words is the history of the spirit in motion in the earth.
creation, an ongoing event, a complete shape from one perspective and a bewildering jungle for most of us in it.
critters, wriggling, fuzzy, toothy, crawling, leaping, creeping, flying, buzzing, warbling, whirring, twittering, twitterpated. They're all great. Some of my favorites are bugs (see above), hedgehogs, salamandars, hummingbirds, octopuses & kin (sepiamind: sepia, Greek "cuttlefish")...
cycles, everything turns, everything's in motion, nested, whirling with the friend as the dervish whirls around the axis of his heart every Thursday night, as the pilgrims make tawaf around the Ka`ba in ten days once a year, as the worshipper makes his (at least) seventeen standings, seventeen bowings, thrity-four prostrations and seven kneelings while the planet rotates once on its axis. Twenty-eight days in the month, twenty-eight letters in the Arabic abjad, twenty-eight stations of the self, heart, spirit and secret across seven fundamental levels of self and four worlds.
dict, my nineth or tenth sense.
panix3% dict
dict 1.8.0/rf on NetBSD 1.5.4_ALPHA
Copyright 1997-2002 Rickard E. Faith (faith@dict.org)
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| 10:59pm 06/03/2003 |
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Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim!
My interests lists is full of oddball words. To know them all would require a set of interests pretty similar to mine... it gives me such pleasure, every two or six months, to revamp my list that I thought I'd run through some of them.
abjads, from the Arabic acronym for the letters alif ba jim dal, second cousins of our English a-b-c-d. An abjad is a name for an alphabetic writing system that represents consonants, vowels being supplied by e.g. diacritic marks. Arabic and Hebrew are the best known abjads. Alif ba jim dal is the old Semitic order of letters; in the medieval period, Arabic gramarians reordered the alphabet by grouping letters of similar shape together.
al-ghazzali, Imam Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, born 450 / 1058, died 505 / 1111. Master scholar of Islam who recognized the scholastic method was an inadequate basis for religion, mysticism and law; that the outer forms and laws are essential protection for the inner realities but that memorizing and spouting texts and interpreting them literally don't work so good. He knew 300,000 hadiths by heart(traditions of our Master and Prophet Muhammad, alayhi salam; texts from a line in length to several pages) before he went over to the Sufis and direct tasting in the heart from Supreme Reality.
al-insan al-kamil, literally the-human the-complete, the perfect man, the complete(d) human being. The vice-regent of God in the universe, the union of microcosm and macrocosm, the human being with all the 99 Beautiful Names perfectly clean in his heart who is the perfect image of his creator and lord. "Who knows himself, knows his Lord."
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| 02:19pm 06/03/2003 |
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(thanks to blostopher)
1. What is your favorite type of literature to read (magazine, newspaper, novels, nonfiction, poetry, etc.)?
"Nonfiction" is too broad to be meaningful, but I most enjoy history, spirituality (especially my guide Sidi's works), linguistics, and scholarship relating to Islam, Sufism, and the Ibrahimic religions generally. I like novels, too. Science fiction novels used to be practically all I read; at some point I started to be curious about writers who know something about the heart and inner realities and don't live exclusively in the mind.
2. What is your favorite novel?
Going by the novel I've read the most, Frank Herbert's _Dune_. Last time I read it, though, it seemed pretty shallow.
Mmmm. Speaking of the mind, Neal Stephenson's _Cryptonomicon_ is a wonderfully fun, brainy read.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's _Love in the Time of Cholera_ might be it, or it might be Dostoevsky's _Brothers Karamazov_. I'll let you know when I've finished it.
3. Do you have a favorite poem? (Share it!)
I'm quite ignorant of poetry. It's best read aloud in person; poetry on a page usually makes my eyes glaze over.
4. What is one thing you've always wanted to read, or wish you had more time to read?
When I have more Arabic, insha'allah, the noble Qur'an and the Hadith collections of Imams Bukhari, Muslim, Malik... and al-Ghazzali's _Incoherence of the Philosophers_ and _Revivification of the Religious Sciences_... and Ibn al-Arabi's _Bezels of Wisdom_... and Sidi's works in the original... et cetera!
I wish I'd read Plato when I still had some ability with Greek.
5. What are you currently reading?
the generous Qur'an, starting to memorize Surat al-Ma`un, Simple Kindness. My beloved Shams just bought me a beautiful pocket-sized mushaf (text of the Qur'an; the artifact bearing written or printed pages of the Qur'an is not "a Qur'an", it's only a copy of the text.) I'm working through the short surahs in the last 30th.
_The Brothers Karamazov_ Doestoevsky. Can't say much about it yet (not finished) but oh my. Three sons of one father by two different mothers contrast the life of prayer and the heart, the life of the mind exploding with desire to understand, and the life of violent passion and jealousy. Dostoevsky knew a few things about the true path, or at least he's transmitting them. Not sure how much he lived it.
_A Peace to End all Peace_, David Fromkin, a history of the origins of the modern Middle East in the midst of World War One British meddling. Gosh, Britain is supportive of today's war on Iraq?! how frightfully predictable!
_The Sufi Orders in Islam_ J. Spencer Trimingham, a history and sort of social overview of the importance of Sufism institutionalized into tariqats and lineages. Has a gorgeous twenty-page glossary. |
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bismillah!
a spate of little posts. i'm enjoying myself on the internet all afternoon, something i never do anymore, compensating (my nafs, probably) for not being able to do the work i want to today, editing old transcripts. especial under my textual gaze is making sure arabic words and phrases are spelled consistently & in some way that doesn't make my eyes cross :>
the files have been spirited away with the jaffe institute file server to their new location; shadhiliyya sufi center has expanded into their offices.
so, in a life update, grad school is again postponed until, if allah wills, fall of 2004 by the nazarene calendar. this gives me a while to research a great and fun writing sample this spring, summer and fall.
right now the university of virginia is looking the best. i want to study arabic but starting a graduate program centered on the language when you have a few things memorized & can read and write the alphabet doesn't cut it! so UV has islamic studies and an undergraduate arabic language program. it feels like my open door. |
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bismillah!
a week without reading email & all i got was error messages from my lists. someday, when i'm on a faster connection & can stand monkeying with them, i'm going to divest myself of these beasties. insha'allah. |
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| 09:02pm 12/02/2003 |
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My dear sister Sabura has a workshop!
Being a Woman in the Way of God
with Sabura Tierney
in Woodstock, NY
April 11th, 12th and 13th 2003
A workshop for women to discover, embrace and honor the essence of the Feminine in each of us.
The feminine is a Divine river that flows through each us as women. Its nature is defined, not by our beliefs or our culture's beliefs, but by the One, all-wise Creator of all things. What is the true nature of the woman and her essential role in creation? How can we let it "Be" through us? Let us come together and through lecture, exercises, transmission and prayer reveal the beauty of our gender within us! Learn how to love being a woman and embrace the soft, gentle strength of the flower within! LEarn how to carry and give this beauty, this deep water of Love in your relationships and in the world, where it is so needed. Experience the deep peace of allowing yourself to "Be" according to your true nature.
~Adam and Eve -the true story
~The divine nature of the feminine and her role in creation
~Our mistaken beliefs that keep us from embracing this nature
~Divine relationship
~Divine sexuality
~Being a Mom
"As I continue to touch deeper levels of the feminine within myself and allow the Divine Essence of the woman to unfold in me, I am in awe of it. The magnificent beauty I winess can only be that of God." ~Sabura
Introductory evening ~Friday, April 11th 7-10pm ~$15
Workshop ~ Sat. and Sun., April 12th and 13th 9am-4pm
$190 if paid in full by March 31st, $220 thereafter
Plus optional
Sufi evening, teaching, Q&A and Dhikr (Sufi prayer circle)
Saturday April 12th, 7:30 to 10pm. No charge and open to public.
CALL 845 679 7215
Sabura carries deep love, compassion and wisdom that she has acquired through her journey to know the Love and the way of the heart. Her teachings move from a deep desire to share this knowing with others and to help them to experience God's reality for themselves, in their own lives. Sabura is a teacher for the Shadhiliyya Sufi order in the United States and a faculty member at the Jaffe Institute. Sabura teaches throughout the country and has a successful private healing practice. |
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Today is Waqfat al-`Arafat, when the pilgrims in Mecca stand on Mount Arafat at the height of the Hajj. I was inspired to share the following station written by my guide, Sidi Muhammad al-Jamal, on the inner nature of the Hajj. I'd like to share it to give the flavor of the work I'm doing.
love,
Yunus Wesley
AL-HAJJ AL-AKBAR
The Great Pilgrimage
bismillah ir-rahman ir-rahim
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate
The Great Pilgrimage --where the lovers meet at the door of the sacred mosque and reunite in the still center after turning and turning and turning around the throne of the Most High.
Majnun meets Laila in the course of his journey around the holy house. She has always been with him, but only in this station, in the midst of his unveiling, does he realize her nearness and the intimacy of her discourse. The dialogue of love is the mystery of her revelation within him. As he circumambulates the reality and becomes more and more effaced in it, as one by one he surrenders the veils of his separateness, her presence, the still center, the open heart around which he turns, becomes more and more revealed withim him until no other existence remains.
So many are the veils to be burnt in the holy hajj, and hidden within every ritual act is the annihilating flame. First he circumambulates the Ka`ba seven times, and in this turning he walks through the stations of the self. Laila is his shaykh, his guide, to take him through every station. She is the message; she can only be what she is. He must travel through all his trials and doubts, his anger and depression, his joys, his yearnings, his tests: "What is the meaning of this? Why are we going in circles?" She is the patience to carry him through every station of his journey. Her eyes, which never lose sight of him, are mercy and compassion. And yet she kills him with the sword of al-Haqq [the real, the truth; a name of God] which is her essence. He penetrates every veil and annihilates himself simply by being the essence of the truth as he travels, so intimately, with her around the holy house. At the end of his first seven circumambulations, he kisses the foundation stone of the Ka`ba, which Adam brought from the garden, and which Ibrahim built the Ka`ba around. Here he prays two rak`at [cycles of ritual worship] where Ibrahim prayed. In this he drinks from the wine of the prophets and sends the love which they carried to every side.
Then she leads him to the well, her deep secret spring. This is Zamzam, where the mercy of Allah sprang forth in the desert for Hajjar and Isma`il and all the believers who have walked in their footsteps, in the form of living water. Once he has drunk from the well of mercy, Majnun goes walking in the way of his motther Hajjar, between the stations of as-safa and al-marwa [two hills]. As-safa signifies the purity of being, the beauty of Allah and the purity of his intention, and al-marwa the station of the majesty of Allah. Seven times he walks between these poles --from the beauty of God, where Hajjar was with her son in peace and purity, to the severity of God where she was alone in the desert with the deepest fatigue. In his travels, Laila leads Majnun through the seven stations of the heart. In every passage she gives him another color behind the light and another dimension of the essence of love. At the end, when she sees the depth of his surrender and the ripeness of his soul, she leads him to the holy mountain of `Arafat, where Ibrahim offered Ismail and tool the last veil --killed the sense of separation.
Now Majnun, in the way of Isma`il, stops to pray on the road where Ibrahim, peace and prayers be upon him, prayed to ask for help. Then he ascends Mount `Arafat, the mountain of knowing (al-ma`RiFa), to offer himself as Isma`il was offered, giving everything to the unity (at-tawhid). Then Laila gives him holy and more holy dresses from her dress, until his existence (al-wujud) is only her existence. he begins to send her voice from his tongue, as Ibrahim called into the desert. He sings, "La ilaha ill Allah." She speaks through him because there is no he. When Majnun is inside Laila on the Mount of `Arafat, she says to him, "On this day, I complete your religion. You have come to know me as I know you. I can now say, you are my beloved. The source of every secret is from you. I created everything for you. Know me in everything, to send what I give you, in the holy marriage on the mountain of knowing. From this knowing your soul is broken. Now you are Laila, not another."
To complete the holy hajj, Majnun (immersed in Laila and Laila immersed in Majnun) walks from `Arafat to the place where the pilgrims throw stones at the shaytan [Satan]. The first day there he throws stones and hits his ash-shaytan seven times, and later seven times,. and then again seven times. The second day he repeats this, and the third day he repeats this, until all together he has thrown sixty-three stones. These stones represent all the veils. Every stone he throws is la ilaha ill Allah. His ash-shaytan surrenders to him and prostrates under his foot; the fallen angel returns to the truth in the beginning. Then Majnun who is Laila kisses the foundation stone of the Ka`ba to renew his promise with his father Adam, and circumabulates the Ka`ba seven final times to journey through the stations of the the soul. In every turning around the holy house, he realizes the station of a prophet. He holds a passport and this passport is a mirror. If his mirror is clean, when any prophet looks into the mirror, his image is reflected purely, without distortion. Then Majnun passes on. He realizes in Adam, truth; in Idris [Enoch], wisdom; in Noah, patience; in Ibrahim, surrender; in Musa [Moses] the word of God, the mind of God; in Isa [Jesus], the essence of the deep secret love; and in Muhammad, the station of complete effacement in the reality, may Allah's blessings and peace be upon them all. In this station of the seventh death, he takes off all his clothes and while he can see everyone, no one can see him.
In this station he makes his final sajda [prostration] at the door of the sacred mosque [maSJiD, place of SaJDa] and from this sajda he does not lift up his head again because there is no head to lift up. The Ka`ba is Laila's last veil. Majnun has made the great pilgrimage and come to the shore of the great sea. Now he stands on the edge of a cliff, overlooking the boundless vastness of his unity with all that he has sought and yearned for. Laila has led him by the hand through all the stations, through all the turns, through the burning of veils and the annihilation of all that is separate from Allah, to be done with everything, to make the perfect sajda and to pass through the ritual act, through the manifestation of her hand, beyond the circumambulations, beyond the apparent wall of the Ka`ba, to truly enter the sacred mosque of his own reality. He goes into the stone to find the hidden treasture within it, and when he sees himself face to face in the mirror of her essence, he starts to fly and to circumambulate the throne through the seven levels of her sky. The Ka`ba is Laila's last veil; the black stone is Laila's night. But the essence of the holy rock is pure and boundless light. When Majnun is completely inside the heart of the soul of his love, he sees that her light has absorbed all the darkness, like a hand that fits in a glove. Behind the obscuring veils of her form, the light of the reality is so intense that no one could enter the garden of her soul without penetrating the fence. No rocks or bricks can break through this wall, but only the depth of surrender, and only when Majnun is naughted by his love does Laila permit him to enter.
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