Love (Shaykh Nazim, 57 pages, 1/4)
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Love
© Copyright 2008. Mawlana Sheikh Nazim, Argentina; Malaga, Spain
May our Beloved Creator, Allah Almighty, His Holy Prophet -Sayyidina Muhammad, the Nagshbandi Masters and the Sultan ul Awliya of our time, Mawlana Sheikh Nazim al Haqqani, be pleased with this work.
“sall-Allahu ‘alayhi wa sallam”, that means “blessings | and peace of Allah be upon him (Prophet Muhammad).”
FOREWORD
“Bismillahi ar Rahmani ar Rahim. For the Honour of our Lord, Lord of Heavens, Lord of Love.
It is a small drop from the oceans of endless Love Oceans.
Love that it is the reason of creation. We must use it first for our Creator and then His creatures.
Love is our religion.
We love who loves their Creator and we are giving our respect to our Lord through His Love.
May He Almighty bless true lovers.”
Lefke, Cyprus Ramadan, 1424, a. h. (November, 2003)
Mawlana Sheikh Nazim al Haqqani
LOVE
Prophet Muhammad&, prayed to God: “Oh! Allah I ask You to grant me The Love of You and The love of Those Whom You love, and grant me,
Oh! my Lord,
The Love of Those Actions Which Lead Me To The Love of You”
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The Love of You
To ask our Lord to open up our hearts to His Divine Love is the most important request we can make of Him in our prayers, as nothing can take the place of love.
The Holy Prophet, who is called the beloved of Allah, asked God for Divine Love, why?
Because who tastes that love, asks for more.
He whose heart is like a rock will not ask God for this love.
But those who have had the slightest taste of that love know that it is the key to all spiritual progress, to mercy, beauty, wisdom, to all favours that God may bestow upon His servants.
Therefore, the Holy Prophet taught all mankind what is precious in this life.
The love of those who love You And then this prayer continued: “And grant me the love of those who love You”.
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Hh Holy Prophet prayed, and the eds setlecea te ie | | prayer is proof enough of the veracity of Muhammad °
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The hermit emerged and called after him:
“Oh Moses, please ask your Lord to bestow upon me just an atom’s weight of His Divine Love”.
Moses agreed to do this, and then continued on his way. Later, when Moses was addressing his Lord, he petitioned on behalf of that hermit.
The Lord replied: “T will grant that servant of My Divine Love, but
not in the amount he requested. I will only grant him the tiniest fraction of an atom’s weight of that love”.
When Moses returned from the mountain, he quickly went to see what was happening to the hermit, to see what effect such a tiny dose of Divine Love might have had on him. When he arrived he was startled to see that where the cave had been a part of the mountain was blown away, and in place of that cave there was a deep chasm in the Earth.
“Oh servant of my Lord!” -he cried out-.
“What has happened, where are you?”
Then Moses looked down the chasm and saw the hermit sitting down there as ifin another world, completely overwhelmed by that love.
Why did that hermit ask for a portion of Divine Love?
Because he’ was worshipping but feeling nothing; he felt an emptiness in his heart that could only be filled by that love.
Without love, worship is tasteless and useless; therefore, we must be sure to build our worship upon a strong foundation of love and to bake love into the bricks of the building of our devotional practice.
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Endless Love
q Once upon a time, GrandSheikh Abu Yazid, one of the greatest pillars of the distinguished Naqshbandi Order, who has such spiritual power, that he was able to pray one Friday prayer at 12000 different places at once, met _ another Sheikh and had an association with him. That Sheikh presented himself to Abu Yazid (may Allah bless him), and said:
“Qh Sheikh! Here is one who just drank one cup of Allah Almighty’s love oceans. One cup just, and he was drunk.”
He meant himself with that.
And the GrandSheikh Abu Yazid answered him:
“Here is someone who drinks and drinks and never says ‘It is enough!’.” :
So you can drink this whole bottle by force, The taste will get less and less, but if you can reach endless love oceans and beauty oceans of your Lord and you are . allowed to enter into it, then you may drink and the taste will improve and increase and never become less.
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So:
Which of these is important for you; to increase your taste or to make it weaker every day?
The Most Perfect Teaching
ove aoe physical pleasures will become less and less a 'y. “A person may marry a lady, but already the
‘on night becomes less, the third night less, the second month will be less, the third month less. The first year is alright, the second year becomes less. That is the law of inte cannot prevent it.
ut if you can reach to the love of the Lord through wife = es aes it through you, then it ane oe en for more i i
but she it still like she was Os tele oe my Lord’s favour to me. Because we are asking through her love the real love of Allah Almighty. And it is the most perfect teaching for mankind: to makea relationship from that love and to jump to your Lord’s Love.
Your Lord Is Asking For Your Love én ie we are losing that chance if we are going to imp n ourselves in our physical love. Because physical love . = - real target. Instead, it is your Lord who is asking ‘ ee ove because He gave you that love towards her and er Ove towards you, so that you can find your way into the Lord's ee and be able to reach endless love oceans. oday, in our times, people come together for just ne on a ig not asking for the love of, animals. No! aa ankind, the deputies of the Lord, of Allah. You ust represent your Lord’s Love as a male, and she must represent her Lord’s Love as a female. Then both will mix
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and find light’ . The power goes through 2 wires -one alone cannot
function- only both of them together. Therefore when divine love pours into your heart, you pour it into her heart and you must join the two loves. And it is then going to be your Lord’s Love. And that is what we are asking for.
Come To Me
Therefore our GrandSheikh Abu Yazid was saying:
“I was drinking oceans and yet I was not satisfied”.
Which one do you prefer?
Permanent and increasing or temporary and decreasing?
You must think about that.
When you say:
“That is alright”, then come to me.
When you have made your decision, then we must show you the ways. Because children may play in the playgrounds, but when they grow up to the age of maturity, they will come to their parents and say:
“This game is no good anymore, we want something else. We are no little children anymore, we are asking for another game”. .
Because when you have finished the importance of your temporary pleasures and you have decided to reach the age of maturity, you may say:
“T must ask for something else”, and “Life is not just a game” and “This planet is not just a playground”. Then you may reach the real target of your permanent pleasures and permanent desires. You may then taste the endless love oceans.
* Men represent the Perfection (Kamal) of Allah Almighty, and women represent the Beauty (Jamal) of Allah Almighty. The completeness for both is when there are together.
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How to Reach the Love Ocean?
European people are writing: “Love, love” everywhere “Love”. It means that it is the most important thing for them. But they are not asking for real love and how they can reach to that endless love ocean.
They have only been given a drop of that endless love ocean and they waste it so quickly. Still they are saying, “Love, love, love...”. Because they have lost their chance.
They had been given that love as a chance to show and reach real love oceans, endless love oceans of our Lord. But it had been wasted and now you are running and saying, “Love, love, love...” and there is no more love.
All people are sincerely asking to reach endless love oceans. Everyone's soul is asking to reach endless beauty oceans. Only one drop of the beauty oceans of the Lord is divided between all people. So:
From that drop how much can reach a beautiful girl?
Or a handsome person? .
How much?
So much that you can be drunk by the beauty of one person.
You may lose yourself through that beauty, even though it is just the part of that one drop that is coming to her from the endless beauty oceans that are waiting and expecting you to reach it and to come into it and to swim and to drink and to be drunk in it.
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Prayers at Night To make much more prayers at night is impossible without enough desire and love through your heart for
your Lord. It also requires great wisdom: Do you think that a car may move without fuel?
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Spiritual Power Try to give more time of your day to reach to spiritual power. Every worshipping and dhikr helps, giving you more love to the Lord, and real life comes through love. Saints say: people without love are like dead ones
walking on earth. ‘ Love is life, light and our perfection. As much
as your love is growing, you live more enjoyful, happy. The main purpose of tariqats (sufi way) is to train people to make dhikr, so that they may take support and power
from it. All illnesses go away by glorifying the Lord. Through your love for the Lord you will reach health,
pleasure and happiness here and hereafter.
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Burning By observing its hue and motion the keen eye may
You are burnin | g. | ne ae burns you perceive indications of that ocean’s unfathomable depth. Sr OVEr The Lord’s mercy and compassion are an ocean with no
_ shore, providing endlessly varied vistas for those who sail its surface, but the greatest wonderment and fulfillment is reserved for those “creatures of the sea” for whom that mercy has become their own medium. The Lord beckons us through a Divine love and attraction which has been implanted in our hearts, a love that maybe understood and felt consciously as Divine by some, and only indirectly as love for His creatures or creation by others. In either case the pull of our heartstrings draws us to those mercy Oceans, just as our physical bodies feel drawn to a warm and gentle sea.
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We are of the Sea
By means of the revelation of Holy Books and through the example set by Prophets and Saints, all human beings have been brought in contact with those Oceans.
For humankind at large, these revelations serve as vessels, or as “instruction manuals” for building and maintaining vessels that ply those most spacious seas, but for those who have the means to read between the lines, a great revelation emerges: that we are of that sea, that our place, our home is in the depths of that sea, not on its
surface.
Love Oceans, h | | andenvy? — ow can there be jealousy, hatred, enmity
It is impossible,
Hh Yes, impossible! Oceans of Love
| Creatures of the Sea
Does anyone thi appears on its surface? nk that the ocean is only what
To Dissolve in the Ocean The Lord is beckoning us to enter that Ocean of Unity while we are yet in this life, to dissolve as sugar dissolves in tea. When the sugar dissolves you can no longer say, “This is sugar and this is tea”. Our Lord’s invitation to join in His Unity is always extended, and it
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p our fate to suffer until we respond to that invitation. As Ong as we cling to our claim of autonomy we will have hard lessons that this world has In pain. Let go and nothing can
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will withstand all earthquak ; build it as high and iste a in danger.
Therefore, our Way is the W r , ay of Love. ins is keeping you from following that Path and ae ow it with perseverance; follow this path all the way to
your destination.
My Love for You One of the greatest Saints was Rabia al Adawiyya.
We call her Rabia § ultan i thet ee, 2, because she was dressed in the
She used to address the Lord: Oh my Lord, I am not coming to You because [
to offer us - and cry out harm you.
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_ am eager to get into Your paradise. I am also not coming
to You because I am afraid of hell. I am free of that. I come to You through my love for You. You are the only One I can give myself to with full love. Even if there was no paradise and no hell, I would come to You. You must
__ be praised. You must be respected. You must be obeyed”.
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God’s Mercy
Everything pertaining to this world is impermanent, constantly in a state of transition. Therefore, itis only natural that I am here addressing you today and elsewhere tomorrow. Don’t let this condition sadden you, for, in reality, transition is God’s mercy to man. Don’t wish even for good times to last forever, for you wouldn’t be able to bear permanence, you would just get fed up.
Know that the discontinuation of any desirable state or condition is the catalyst for gaining an even deeper appreciation of what is good. Longing for the attainment of the spiritual realities of which you have caught a glimpse is the means to their attainment.
Is there any morsel tastier than that upon which the fast is broken?
This is the reason that Allah Almighty created the world as it is.
The signs of the heavens take their turns inspiring our souls. The rising sun brightens our day, but just when we would start to get fed up with it, lo and behold, it bows out and the soft light of the moon enchants us with its
many forms: appearing first as a delicate crescent, then waxing gradually to its full and waning. If it never waned no one would be able to appreciate the awe-inspiring immensity of the starlit heavens.
Thethreadbarepilgrim may cross snowy mountain passes and sun-scorched deserts barefoot, or even on his hands and knees in order to reach Mecca. When he finally arrives he is struck dumb by the awesome majesty of the Holy Kaaba. Tears stream down his face as he clings to its door, pouring out his heart and soul to his Lord. And the Lord fulfills his heart’s innermost desire in accordance with the longing that drove him to suffer freezing wind and scorching sun.
Longing brought him to the house of the Lord, but the pilgrim’s dedication to his Lord will not be served by his staying in Mecca on and on, but returning to his country with the cherished memories of his pilgrimage inspiring his faith. Should he choose to remain in Mecca he runs the risks of gradually becoming callous and hardened to the sight of the Kaaba like the inhabitants, who never had a Mecca as their distant sought-after goal -who crossed no desert to attain it-, but who may, rather, cross through the Holy Mosque as a shortcut to get from
one part to the market to another, barely casting a glance at the magnificent Kaaba.
Once a murid (disciple) used to attend his Sheikh's discourses only occasionally, although he lived in the vicinity of Sheikh’s Dergah (Sufi School),
The Sheikh asked him:
“Why do you attend so infrequently?”
The clever murid answered:
“Because I don’t like being asked to attend less
frequently” ,
Love is Eternal
The sun, the moon, the stars, the Holy Kaaba, the beauty of nature or architecture, or the face of a beloved person: all these sights may inspire us, may remind us of a great truth that is alive in our hearts, but of which we are yet heedless. But don’t become enamored of the signs to such an extent that they become ends in themselves, and you cease to follow the directions they seek to impart to you. The object is not a heavenly body that will set, a symbol which may become a commonplace nor a face that will age or turn
‘ou.
ar praies Abraham was yet a seeker of truth, at a stage of bewilderment on his road to truth, he became enamored of the sun, moon and stars, but, as each set he said: c
“My love is not for those that disappear”.
Love is eternal, and the transitory nature of all things pertaining to this — is - sign of truth, a sign
ws us by means of contrast. : - Real eiiaal love: love of God and love of mankind for the sake of God is the only truth, the only thing in this world that is permanently and constantly sweet. /
Physical separation from someone you love, in accordance with the rule that pertains to the physical, may create a longing that will cause love to increase, may augment the bliss of reunion. But on the spiritual level that love is constant, is never interrupted by distance or by timé.
Your beloved may be on the ae and you vob
iss at the thought of reunion, but if love is unrequited,
oe ce sweet paar but a bitter pill. The extinction of love is pitch darkness. You may regard the sunset 4 beautiful, but how would you feel if it were setting forever?
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Divine Love Binds
Love is the water of life. God created Adam from clay and water. If it were not for water the clay would hold no shape. Divine Love is what binds our souls together. That is why people become so miserable when they feel unloved. It is a feeling that something essential is missing from one's life, that life itself is incomplete, and in the face of this ache, people set out in search of love with the desperation of a man dying of thirst.
Love is an attribute of God Almighty which binds His servants to Him eternally.
The Lord created us and loves us; that is why everyone loves love. No one complains of love or wants it to be taken from him, but all want to be loved more.
“Where are you Seeking Love?”
Are you taking pure water from the gushing source, or muddy, slimy water from the ditch?
You love people, but they will die. Perhaps your love will be unrequited, or because of a small error or indiscretion on your part that person’s heart will harden to you and love will be no more.
You say that you love him or her, but do you love him or her unconditionally?
Is your love permanent -love for the real immaculate divine essence living in that person-, or temporary, as result of some desirable attributes: beauty, youth, wealth, station or wit?
When that beautiful, young, wealthy, clever, amiable socialite becomes an ugly, old, penniless, senile, grumpy outcast will you still love her?
Is your love of the spirit or of the world? Oh people! Seek real love, a love that cannot
astray. That love is the love of God and the love of itis creatures for the sake of His love for them. That love emanation may bind all receptive hearts. There is a common saying: “The friend of a friend is a friend”, so love people if you love God, for you must know that He loves them.
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Oceans of Unity You have been given one drop of love, one drop of existence from the Lord. Try to give it back to the endless ocean of love and existence: the unity oceans of Allah. You will be in the ocean and cannot ever be taken out into
loneliness again.
The Sign of Love i The sign for your love towards the Lord is that it
makes you familiar with everyone and everything, so that you love all creatures of Allah, never hating anyone.
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The Beckoning of Love er The Trials e Almighty has given His Divine Love to th
Descendants of Ad Lord, oe lam, and we have responded to our Lord,
“We are true unto You, oh our Lord!”
Les He Almighty said:
“I am going to try you, to examine all see who : true in his claim of loving Me.” ae
n all of our lives there are trials, and by bein i . . tient in the face of them may we gain our Lord's =i oe. "
— ee Ibn Adham _ One of the most famous of Islam’s Saints wi the King of the land of Balkh, Ibrahim ibn Adham. He abandoned his kingship for his Lord’s sake and went away aes on pe = baie by performing tasks of menial ; and devoted his spare tim Raunt Pp e, and all his heart, to When he abdicated his throne and ; t went away, Fe left behind him a pregnant wife. After twelve years, he pic his wife had borne began to inquire after his father. e boy set out in search of his father, and successfully traced his movements until he finally came across him in Mecca. Ibrahim ibn Adham knew that the boy was his son the very first time he laid eyes upon his noble face. He said: “You are my son.” The boy said: “You are my father.” pea Ibrahim prayed to his Lord: my Lord, You know best that, up until all of my love has been exclusively for You. New I see tae some of my love is going to this bay. Oh my Lord, all [want in this life is that my heart be purely for You; therefore, I
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Jore You to please transform this love in my heart for boy to love for You.”
Then Allah Almighty took the soul of that boy to Divine Presence. The love that the boy had had for father was transformed into Divine Love, so that he nt to the Divine Presence totally pure; and the love that Ibrahim ibn Adham had for the boy also penetrated to the realm of Divine Love, merged into the Divine Love Oceans
of his Saintly heart.
Pure Heart
Allah Almighty is “Al-Ghayyur”, “The Jealous God”.
He call us to merge all the love we feel into His Divine Love: to take the love we feel for our loved ones and transform it into a love that will penetrate into the realm of Divine Love.
This is the meaning of His requiring a “pure heart” (qalbun salim) from His servants, for all that you love in those dear ones is but the attraction of a ray of _ the attributes of your Lord which you see in them, which shines through the familiarity between you and them and reaches your heart.
Those loved ones will die, and so will you; but if that love reaches to the ultimate recipient of all love, then the goal of human love has been attained, and it is acceptable and lovely in the Divine Presence. But if we fail to surrender to our Lord’s decree of mortality for all His creatures, and hate Him for putting us in a temporary existence of passing images, states and feelings, life becomes a pill too bitter to swallow. In such a case, life itself becomes a sorrow ocean, as He Almighty calls all of His servants, one by one, back to His Divine Presence and away from us and this world.
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Divine Wisdom
He is our Lord, the sole Sustainer of our existence.
He has rights over us and tries us to see who will be true
and hold to the love of their Lord. Therefore, all manner
of events may occur: lovely people may die, young people
may die, brothers, parents, wives and husbands may die, will die, must die. Everyone you love will die.
Then He looks to see what you will do:
Can you transform your love and make tragedy a Cause of increasing your love for your Lord?
So few people understand this, and that is why they can’t see the Divine Wisdom in sorrowful events, They don’t recognize that our Lord is beckoning us to love Him wholly and exclusively; therefore they suffer,
Everything He Almighty has given to the Descendants of Adam is temporary, not worthy of that ultimate love. You must give your love to the One who is always in existence, from pre-eternity to post-eternity,
“Glorified is the Ever-living (Lord), for whom there is no Death.”
Therefore, you must awaken to these realities and not ever think that events tepresent the decrees of a merciless Gad. No! For, in these apparently merciless events is contained boundless mercy, as our Lord rewards us in
accordance with the severity of our trials: the recompense is more and more of His Love.
At any time sorrowful and unliked events may (and will) descend upon you. Your Lord makes them a means to approach to Him that He may pour out everlasting Love Oceans on His beloved servants,
This is a very important point, and a very heavy one. We must comprehend these wisdoms and their import, but such realization will evade us as long as we
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inki j ‘ds. That Divine are thinking that these are just some wor Love must be tasted. As much as I may repeat the words:
_ “Honey, honey, honey... or describe the characteristics and
i taste it, not going flavour of honey, you are. not going to to be satisfied. These realities must be tasted, and unless you have reached that point you cannot understand more
than these words.
Love is the Most Precious Thing
Love is the most precious thing for everyone. It is the most precious, most valuable, and most expensive thing that the sons of Adam (peace be upon him) have
been given.
Nearness ital
If you do not notice nearness and do not no it coming ten if your soul does not ask daily for the beloved, nothing has happened. You are playing. You are
wasting your time.
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Real Love
Our GrandSheikh is speaking about love:
There was one murid (disciple) in Daghestan who was on a high degree of love, a strong lover of Allah and the Prophet#. He was saying about love between people that so many people are liking one another but we are not accepting this love until it is tested to be true or not.
A love that is true for only seven days, or seven months, or seven years and then on the eight goes away, that is not love.
How is that love described?
You m ay see in your friend a no good word or action, and become angry with him and cut that love. Any love ending in enmity is not real love.
We must like for the sake of Allah then there is always forgiveness, love never ending. Real love must be forever.
If I like you and you are grinding me in a mill, if
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© Copyright 2008. Mawlana Sheikh Nazim, Argentina; Malaga, Spain
May our Beloved Creator, Allah Almighty, His Holy Prophet -Sayyidina Muhammad, the Nagshbandi Masters and the Sultan ul Awliya of our time, Mawlana Sheikh Nazim al Haqqani, be pleased with this work.
“sall-Allahu ‘alayhi wa sallam”, that means “blessings | and peace of Allah be upon him (Prophet Muhammad).”
FOREWORD
“Bismillahi ar Rahmani ar Rahim. For the Honour of our Lord, Lord of Heavens, Lord of Love.
It is a small drop from the oceans of endless Love Oceans.
Love that it is the reason of creation. We must use it first for our Creator and then His creatures.
Love is our religion.
We love who loves their Creator and we are giving our respect to our Lord through His Love.
May He Almighty bless true lovers.”
Lefke, Cyprus Ramadan, 1424, a. h. (November, 2003)
Mawlana Sheikh Nazim al Haqqani
LOVE
Prophet Muhammad&, prayed to God: “Oh! Allah I ask You to grant me The Love of You and The love of Those Whom You love, and grant me,
Oh! my Lord,
The Love of Those Actions Which Lead Me To The Love of You”
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The Love of You
To ask our Lord to open up our hearts to His Divine Love is the most important request we can make of Him in our prayers, as nothing can take the place of love.
The Holy Prophet, who is called the beloved of Allah, asked God for Divine Love, why?
Because who tastes that love, asks for more.
He whose heart is like a rock will not ask God for this love.
But those who have had the slightest taste of that love know that it is the key to all spiritual progress, to mercy, beauty, wisdom, to all favours that God may bestow upon His servants.
Therefore, the Holy Prophet taught all mankind what is precious in this life.
The love of those who love You And then this prayer continued: “And grant me the love of those who love You”.
The first level, “Love of God”, j i ts, and you can't ste ate batten a es mene p from the bottom of the ay to Allah Almighty is the Transcendent Bei | / t Being. | begin to fathom anything about Him Mickie erie =e represent His Love among i inThe love of those actions which ; lead me to the love of You | a at So Holy Prophet@ asks for the love of hs Eien, hi os to the love of God, actions which em, which weaken our greed and selfishness, ae These are the actions enco t uraged by o eee the example of His Prophets, actions eteeiaad ecommended in His Holy Books ma And, although in the be inni i | ginning our may not correspond to these Saintly mutiege bregeele our limbs in what pl i | bee pleases our Lord, He will strengthen our
These are the three levels of love f i
Hh Holy Prophet prayed, and the eds setlecea te ie | | prayer is proof enough of the veracity of Muhammad °
| = a A Story ce, as Moses, peace be upon him, was h | toward Mount Sinai, he passed the cave ofa heat naed
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The hermit emerged and called after him:
“Oh Moses, please ask your Lord to bestow upon me just an atom’s weight of His Divine Love”.
Moses agreed to do this, and then continued on his way. Later, when Moses was addressing his Lord, he petitioned on behalf of that hermit.
The Lord replied: “T will grant that servant of My Divine Love, but
not in the amount he requested. I will only grant him the tiniest fraction of an atom’s weight of that love”.
When Moses returned from the mountain, he quickly went to see what was happening to the hermit, to see what effect such a tiny dose of Divine Love might have had on him. When he arrived he was startled to see that where the cave had been a part of the mountain was blown away, and in place of that cave there was a deep chasm in the Earth.
“Oh servant of my Lord!” -he cried out-.
“What has happened, where are you?”
Then Moses looked down the chasm and saw the hermit sitting down there as ifin another world, completely overwhelmed by that love.
Why did that hermit ask for a portion of Divine Love?
Because he’ was worshipping but feeling nothing; he felt an emptiness in his heart that could only be filled by that love.
Without love, worship is tasteless and useless; therefore, we must be sure to build our worship upon a strong foundation of love and to bake love into the bricks of the building of our devotional practice.
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Endless Love
q Once upon a time, GrandSheikh Abu Yazid, one of the greatest pillars of the distinguished Naqshbandi Order, who has such spiritual power, that he was able to pray one Friday prayer at 12000 different places at once, met _ another Sheikh and had an association with him. That Sheikh presented himself to Abu Yazid (may Allah bless him), and said:
“Qh Sheikh! Here is one who just drank one cup of Allah Almighty’s love oceans. One cup just, and he was drunk.”
He meant himself with that.
And the GrandSheikh Abu Yazid answered him:
“Here is someone who drinks and drinks and never says ‘It is enough!’.” :
So you can drink this whole bottle by force, The taste will get less and less, but if you can reach endless love oceans and beauty oceans of your Lord and you are . allowed to enter into it, then you may drink and the taste will improve and increase and never become less.
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So:
Which of these is important for you; to increase your taste or to make it weaker every day?
The Most Perfect Teaching
ove aoe physical pleasures will become less and less a 'y. “A person may marry a lady, but already the
‘on night becomes less, the third night less, the second month will be less, the third month less. The first year is alright, the second year becomes less. That is the law of inte cannot prevent it.
ut if you can reach to the love of the Lord through wife = es aes it through you, then it ane oe en for more i i
but she it still like she was Os tele oe my Lord’s favour to me. Because we are asking through her love the real love of Allah Almighty. And it is the most perfect teaching for mankind: to makea relationship from that love and to jump to your Lord’s Love.
Your Lord Is Asking For Your Love én ie we are losing that chance if we are going to imp n ourselves in our physical love. Because physical love . = - real target. Instead, it is your Lord who is asking ‘ ee ove because He gave you that love towards her and er Ove towards you, so that you can find your way into the Lord's ee and be able to reach endless love oceans. oday, in our times, people come together for just ne on a ig not asking for the love of, animals. No! aa ankind, the deputies of the Lord, of Allah. You ust represent your Lord’s Love as a male, and she must represent her Lord’s Love as a female. Then both will mix
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and find light’ . The power goes through 2 wires -one alone cannot
function- only both of them together. Therefore when divine love pours into your heart, you pour it into her heart and you must join the two loves. And it is then going to be your Lord’s Love. And that is what we are asking for.
Come To Me
Therefore our GrandSheikh Abu Yazid was saying:
“I was drinking oceans and yet I was not satisfied”.
Which one do you prefer?
Permanent and increasing or temporary and decreasing?
You must think about that.
When you say:
“That is alright”, then come to me.
When you have made your decision, then we must show you the ways. Because children may play in the playgrounds, but when they grow up to the age of maturity, they will come to their parents and say:
“This game is no good anymore, we want something else. We are no little children anymore, we are asking for another game”. .
Because when you have finished the importance of your temporary pleasures and you have decided to reach the age of maturity, you may say:
“T must ask for something else”, and “Life is not just a game” and “This planet is not just a playground”. Then you may reach the real target of your permanent pleasures and permanent desires. You may then taste the endless love oceans.
* Men represent the Perfection (Kamal) of Allah Almighty, and women represent the Beauty (Jamal) of Allah Almighty. The completeness for both is when there are together.
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How to Reach the Love Ocean?
European people are writing: “Love, love” everywhere “Love”. It means that it is the most important thing for them. But they are not asking for real love and how they can reach to that endless love ocean.
They have only been given a drop of that endless love ocean and they waste it so quickly. Still they are saying, “Love, love, love...”. Because they have lost their chance.
They had been given that love as a chance to show and reach real love oceans, endless love oceans of our Lord. But it had been wasted and now you are running and saying, “Love, love, love...” and there is no more love.
All people are sincerely asking to reach endless love oceans. Everyone's soul is asking to reach endless beauty oceans. Only one drop of the beauty oceans of the Lord is divided between all people. So:
From that drop how much can reach a beautiful girl?
Or a handsome person? .
How much?
So much that you can be drunk by the beauty of one person.
You may lose yourself through that beauty, even though it is just the part of that one drop that is coming to her from the endless beauty oceans that are waiting and expecting you to reach it and to come into it and to swim and to drink and to be drunk in it.
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Prayers at Night To make much more prayers at night is impossible without enough desire and love through your heart for
your Lord. It also requires great wisdom: Do you think that a car may move without fuel?
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Spiritual Power Try to give more time of your day to reach to spiritual power. Every worshipping and dhikr helps, giving you more love to the Lord, and real life comes through love. Saints say: people without love are like dead ones
walking on earth. ‘ Love is life, light and our perfection. As much
as your love is growing, you live more enjoyful, happy. The main purpose of tariqats (sufi way) is to train people to make dhikr, so that they may take support and power
from it. All illnesses go away by glorifying the Lord. Through your love for the Lord you will reach health,
pleasure and happiness here and hereafter.
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Burning By observing its hue and motion the keen eye may
You are burnin | g. | ne ae burns you perceive indications of that ocean’s unfathomable depth. Sr OVEr The Lord’s mercy and compassion are an ocean with no
_ shore, providing endlessly varied vistas for those who sail its surface, but the greatest wonderment and fulfillment is reserved for those “creatures of the sea” for whom that mercy has become their own medium. The Lord beckons us through a Divine love and attraction which has been implanted in our hearts, a love that maybe understood and felt consciously as Divine by some, and only indirectly as love for His creatures or creation by others. In either case the pull of our heartstrings draws us to those mercy Oceans, just as our physical bodies feel drawn to a warm and gentle sea.
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We are of the Sea
By means of the revelation of Holy Books and through the example set by Prophets and Saints, all human beings have been brought in contact with those Oceans.
For humankind at large, these revelations serve as vessels, or as “instruction manuals” for building and maintaining vessels that ply those most spacious seas, but for those who have the means to read between the lines, a great revelation emerges: that we are of that sea, that our place, our home is in the depths of that sea, not on its
surface.
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To Dissolve in the Ocean The Lord is beckoning us to enter that Ocean of Unity while we are yet in this life, to dissolve as sugar dissolves in tea. When the sugar dissolves you can no longer say, “This is sugar and this is tea”. Our Lord’s invitation to join in His Unity is always extended, and it
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p our fate to suffer until we respond to that invitation. As Ong as we cling to our claim of autonomy we will have hard lessons that this world has In pain. Let go and nothing can
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Therefore, our Way is the W r , ay of Love. ins is keeping you from following that Path and ae ow it with perseverance; follow this path all the way to
your destination.
My Love for You One of the greatest Saints was Rabia al Adawiyya.
We call her Rabia § ultan i thet ee, 2, because she was dressed in the
She used to address the Lord: Oh my Lord, I am not coming to You because [
to offer us - and cry out harm you.
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_ am eager to get into Your paradise. I am also not coming
to You because I am afraid of hell. I am free of that. I come to You through my love for You. You are the only One I can give myself to with full love. Even if there was no paradise and no hell, I would come to You. You must
__ be praised. You must be respected. You must be obeyed”.
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God’s Mercy
Everything pertaining to this world is impermanent, constantly in a state of transition. Therefore, itis only natural that I am here addressing you today and elsewhere tomorrow. Don’t let this condition sadden you, for, in reality, transition is God’s mercy to man. Don’t wish even for good times to last forever, for you wouldn’t be able to bear permanence, you would just get fed up.
Know that the discontinuation of any desirable state or condition is the catalyst for gaining an even deeper appreciation of what is good. Longing for the attainment of the spiritual realities of which you have caught a glimpse is the means to their attainment.
Is there any morsel tastier than that upon which the fast is broken?
This is the reason that Allah Almighty created the world as it is.
The signs of the heavens take their turns inspiring our souls. The rising sun brightens our day, but just when we would start to get fed up with it, lo and behold, it bows out and the soft light of the moon enchants us with its
many forms: appearing first as a delicate crescent, then waxing gradually to its full and waning. If it never waned no one would be able to appreciate the awe-inspiring immensity of the starlit heavens.
Thethreadbarepilgrim may cross snowy mountain passes and sun-scorched deserts barefoot, or even on his hands and knees in order to reach Mecca. When he finally arrives he is struck dumb by the awesome majesty of the Holy Kaaba. Tears stream down his face as he clings to its door, pouring out his heart and soul to his Lord. And the Lord fulfills his heart’s innermost desire in accordance with the longing that drove him to suffer freezing wind and scorching sun.
Longing brought him to the house of the Lord, but the pilgrim’s dedication to his Lord will not be served by his staying in Mecca on and on, but returning to his country with the cherished memories of his pilgrimage inspiring his faith. Should he choose to remain in Mecca he runs the risks of gradually becoming callous and hardened to the sight of the Kaaba like the inhabitants, who never had a Mecca as their distant sought-after goal -who crossed no desert to attain it-, but who may, rather, cross through the Holy Mosque as a shortcut to get from
one part to the market to another, barely casting a glance at the magnificent Kaaba.
Once a murid (disciple) used to attend his Sheikh's discourses only occasionally, although he lived in the vicinity of Sheikh’s Dergah (Sufi School),
The Sheikh asked him:
“Why do you attend so infrequently?”
The clever murid answered:
“Because I don’t like being asked to attend less
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Love is Eternal
The sun, the moon, the stars, the Holy Kaaba, the beauty of nature or architecture, or the face of a beloved person: all these sights may inspire us, may remind us of a great truth that is alive in our hearts, but of which we are yet heedless. But don’t become enamored of the signs to such an extent that they become ends in themselves, and you cease to follow the directions they seek to impart to you. The object is not a heavenly body that will set, a symbol which may become a commonplace nor a face that will age or turn
‘ou.
ar praies Abraham was yet a seeker of truth, at a stage of bewilderment on his road to truth, he became enamored of the sun, moon and stars, but, as each set he said: c
“My love is not for those that disappear”.
Love is eternal, and the transitory nature of all things pertaining to this — is - sign of truth, a sign
ws us by means of contrast. : - Real eiiaal love: love of God and love of mankind for the sake of God is the only truth, the only thing in this world that is permanently and constantly sweet. /
Physical separation from someone you love, in accordance with the rule that pertains to the physical, may create a longing that will cause love to increase, may augment the bliss of reunion. But on the spiritual level that love is constant, is never interrupted by distance or by timé.
Your beloved may be on the ae and you vob
iss at the thought of reunion, but if love is unrequited,
oe ce sweet paar but a bitter pill. The extinction of love is pitch darkness. You may regard the sunset 4 beautiful, but how would you feel if it were setting forever?
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Divine Love Binds
Love is the water of life. God created Adam from clay and water. If it were not for water the clay would hold no shape. Divine Love is what binds our souls together. That is why people become so miserable when they feel unloved. It is a feeling that something essential is missing from one's life, that life itself is incomplete, and in the face of this ache, people set out in search of love with the desperation of a man dying of thirst.
Love is an attribute of God Almighty which binds His servants to Him eternally.
The Lord created us and loves us; that is why everyone loves love. No one complains of love or wants it to be taken from him, but all want to be loved more.
“Where are you Seeking Love?”
Are you taking pure water from the gushing source, or muddy, slimy water from the ditch?
You love people, but they will die. Perhaps your love will be unrequited, or because of a small error or indiscretion on your part that person’s heart will harden to you and love will be no more.
You say that you love him or her, but do you love him or her unconditionally?
Is your love permanent -love for the real immaculate divine essence living in that person-, or temporary, as result of some desirable attributes: beauty, youth, wealth, station or wit?
When that beautiful, young, wealthy, clever, amiable socialite becomes an ugly, old, penniless, senile, grumpy outcast will you still love her?
Is your love of the spirit or of the world? Oh people! Seek real love, a love that cannot
astray. That love is the love of God and the love of itis creatures for the sake of His love for them. That love emanation may bind all receptive hearts. There is a common saying: “The friend of a friend is a friend”, so love people if you love God, for you must know that He loves them.
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Oceans of Unity You have been given one drop of love, one drop of existence from the Lord. Try to give it back to the endless ocean of love and existence: the unity oceans of Allah. You will be in the ocean and cannot ever be taken out into
loneliness again.
The Sign of Love i The sign for your love towards the Lord is that it
makes you familiar with everyone and everything, so that you love all creatures of Allah, never hating anyone.
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The Beckoning of Love er The Trials e Almighty has given His Divine Love to th
Descendants of Ad Lord, oe lam, and we have responded to our Lord,
“We are true unto You, oh our Lord!”
Les He Almighty said:
“I am going to try you, to examine all see who : true in his claim of loving Me.” ae
n all of our lives there are trials, and by bein i . . tient in the face of them may we gain our Lord's =i oe. "
— ee Ibn Adham _ One of the most famous of Islam’s Saints wi the King of the land of Balkh, Ibrahim ibn Adham. He abandoned his kingship for his Lord’s sake and went away aes on pe = baie by performing tasks of menial ; and devoted his spare tim Raunt Pp e, and all his heart, to When he abdicated his throne and ; t went away, Fe left behind him a pregnant wife. After twelve years, he pic his wife had borne began to inquire after his father. e boy set out in search of his father, and successfully traced his movements until he finally came across him in Mecca. Ibrahim ibn Adham knew that the boy was his son the very first time he laid eyes upon his noble face. He said: “You are my son.” The boy said: “You are my father.” pea Ibrahim prayed to his Lord: my Lord, You know best that, up until all of my love has been exclusively for You. New I see tae some of my love is going to this bay. Oh my Lord, all [want in this life is that my heart be purely for You; therefore, I
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Jore You to please transform this love in my heart for boy to love for You.”
Then Allah Almighty took the soul of that boy to Divine Presence. The love that the boy had had for father was transformed into Divine Love, so that he nt to the Divine Presence totally pure; and the love that Ibrahim ibn Adham had for the boy also penetrated to the realm of Divine Love, merged into the Divine Love Oceans
of his Saintly heart.
Pure Heart
Allah Almighty is “Al-Ghayyur”, “The Jealous God”.
He call us to merge all the love we feel into His Divine Love: to take the love we feel for our loved ones and transform it into a love that will penetrate into the realm of Divine Love.
This is the meaning of His requiring a “pure heart” (qalbun salim) from His servants, for all that you love in those dear ones is but the attraction of a ray of _ the attributes of your Lord which you see in them, which shines through the familiarity between you and them and reaches your heart.
Those loved ones will die, and so will you; but if that love reaches to the ultimate recipient of all love, then the goal of human love has been attained, and it is acceptable and lovely in the Divine Presence. But if we fail to surrender to our Lord’s decree of mortality for all His creatures, and hate Him for putting us in a temporary existence of passing images, states and feelings, life becomes a pill too bitter to swallow. In such a case, life itself becomes a sorrow ocean, as He Almighty calls all of His servants, one by one, back to His Divine Presence and away from us and this world.
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Divine Wisdom
He is our Lord, the sole Sustainer of our existence.
He has rights over us and tries us to see who will be true
and hold to the love of their Lord. Therefore, all manner
of events may occur: lovely people may die, young people
may die, brothers, parents, wives and husbands may die, will die, must die. Everyone you love will die.
Then He looks to see what you will do:
Can you transform your love and make tragedy a Cause of increasing your love for your Lord?
So few people understand this, and that is why they can’t see the Divine Wisdom in sorrowful events, They don’t recognize that our Lord is beckoning us to love Him wholly and exclusively; therefore they suffer,
Everything He Almighty has given to the Descendants of Adam is temporary, not worthy of that ultimate love. You must give your love to the One who is always in existence, from pre-eternity to post-eternity,
“Glorified is the Ever-living (Lord), for whom there is no Death.”
Therefore, you must awaken to these realities and not ever think that events tepresent the decrees of a merciless Gad. No! For, in these apparently merciless events is contained boundless mercy, as our Lord rewards us in
accordance with the severity of our trials: the recompense is more and more of His Love.
At any time sorrowful and unliked events may (and will) descend upon you. Your Lord makes them a means to approach to Him that He may pour out everlasting Love Oceans on His beloved servants,
This is a very important point, and a very heavy one. We must comprehend these wisdoms and their import, but such realization will evade us as long as we
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inki j ‘ds. That Divine are thinking that these are just some wor Love must be tasted. As much as I may repeat the words:
_ “Honey, honey, honey... or describe the characteristics and
i taste it, not going flavour of honey, you are. not going to to be satisfied. These realities must be tasted, and unless you have reached that point you cannot understand more
than these words.
Love is the Most Precious Thing
Love is the most precious thing for everyone. It is the most precious, most valuable, and most expensive thing that the sons of Adam (peace be upon him) have
been given.
Nearness ital
If you do not notice nearness and do not no it coming ten if your soul does not ask daily for the beloved, nothing has happened. You are playing. You are
wasting your time.
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Real Love
Our GrandSheikh is speaking about love:
There was one murid (disciple) in Daghestan who was on a high degree of love, a strong lover of Allah and the Prophet#. He was saying about love between people that so many people are liking one another but we are not accepting this love until it is tested to be true or not.
A love that is true for only seven days, or seven months, or seven years and then on the eight goes away, that is not love.
How is that love described?
You m ay see in your friend a no good word or action, and become angry with him and cut that love. Any love ending in enmity is not real love.
We must like for the sake of Allah then there is always forgiveness, love never ending. Real love must be forever.
If I like you and you are grinding me in a mill, if
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