SPIRITUAL FOOD PART 2
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RANDOM GOLDEN EXTRACTS FROM:
IKMAALUSH SHIYAM (PERFECION OF MORALS)
By: Shaikh Ibn Ataullah Iskandari
Translated by: Mujlisul Ulama of S.A
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6.FOUR STATES – FOUR RIGHTS
Four states (halaat) which occur to the bandah perpetually in succession. These haalat are of four kinds: Ni’mat (Bounty), Museebat (Calamity), Taa-at (Obedience) and Ma’siyat (Sin). At any given time the bandah will certainly be in one of these four states. The rights of these four haalaat are termed Huqooq-e-Auqaat. The Haq of Ni’mat is Shukr. The Haq of Museebat is Sabr. The Haq of Taa-at is Mushaahadah (Perception) of Allah’s Fadhl (Grace). The Haq of Ma’siyat is Taubah and Istighfaar.
No such time will be found in which some Haq has not devolved on the bandah. Therefore, if these rights are not honoured, compensation (making qadhaa) for them is not possible.
7.A MERCY FROM HIM
Allah Ta’ala has fixed the world as the abode of lesson and the mine of pollutions in order to turn you away from it.
Allah Ta’ala has made the world a place in which man should derive lesson and experience. He has also made it an abode of pollutions and worries. From the aweful and awesome episodes enacted night and day on earth, the intelligent man takes lesson and gains experience. From the terrible calamities and upheavals happening in the world, man gains admonition. No one is able to attain fulfilment of his wishes and goals. An ill man desires health, but sickness refuses to depart from him. A man wishes for wealth, but is overcome by poverty. In short, the world is the abode of worry and pollutions.
In the hardships, trials, tribulations and experiences of man there is considerable mercy of Allah Ta’ala. As a result of these trials, man becomes disenchanted from the world. By means of man’s disinclination does Allah Ta’ala separate him from this carrion (i.e. the world).
8.TAKE LESSON
Allah Ta’ala was aware that naseehat (good counsel) will not be sufficient for you. He therefore causes you to taste of the bitterness of worldly hardships, thereby simplifying your separation from the world.
Naseehat, the Qur’aan and Hadith are adequate for a man devoid of the love of the world and whose intelligence is correct. However, Allah was aware that the love of worldly pleasures and pollution is firmly entrenched in the hearts of numerous people. Their intelligence is deficient, hence Naseehat alone is not sufficient for them. He gives them a taste of worldly hardships and trials so that they become disillusioned with this carrion. Abandoning the world (worldly love), therefore, becomes a matter of ease.
There also are such people who fail to gain any lesson from difficulties and hardships. Nevertheless, numerous Muslims do turn towards Allah Ta’ala in consequence of the calamities which befall them. Thus, in relation to their former state of degeneration, they progress in the direction leading to Allah Ta’ala.
9.DONT BE SURPRISED
As long as you are in this worldly abode do not be surprised at the incidence of (spiritual and moral) contaminations, because the world has merely exposed its essential attribute.
As long as you are in this world, do not be surprised at difficulties, misfortunes and displeasing occurrences. O Saalik! While you are in this earthly abode do not feel surprised if clouds of contamination settle over you. An amazing and a surprising event is something which is not expected to transpire. But regarding the misfortunes and calamities of this world, nothing surprising happens. Such events are merely the natural manifestations of the attributes of the world.
Contamination and pollution are the natural and necessary characteristics of the world since Allah Ta’ala has created it as a trial and a test to distinguish between the patient and the impatient, and between the grateful and the ungrateful..
{tab10.HE WILL HUMBLE YOU!}
His power is indeed wonderful and marvellous. When He desires to display the greatness and splendour of His Divinity (Rububiyat) to His servants, then He does so by revealing the effects of the Uboodiyat (slavery) of His servants. The effects of Uboodiyat are those states of the servants, which draw their attention to Allah Ta’ala. Such states are sickness, poverty, hardships, etc. When the bandah is afflicted with these conditions, he is compelled to turn towards his Creator. He supplicates for the removal of the hardships and he humbles himself. In such circumstances he develops firmness in faith and understands well that he, most certainly, has a Creator Who is All-Powerful. In the absence of these effects, the greatness of Allah would not have become manifest for His servants, because they would be perpetually dwelling in their personal whims and fancies. The servants of Allah would then have been deprived of this inner knowledge (ma’rifat).
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