"O' disciple, strive to purify your heart both from the fear of people and from putting your hopes in them, for this would make you remain silent when faced with falsehood, compromise your religion, and neglect enjoining good and forbidding evil. This would be ample humiliation. A believer is strong by his Lord; he feels no fear nor hope except with regard to Him.
When one of your Muslim brothers offers you something by way of showing affection, take it if you need it, but thank God, for He is the real giver, and thank the one whom God has chosen to deliver it to you. If you do not need it, see whether it would be better for your heart to take it or refuse it. If you refuse, do it tactfully so as not to hurt the heart of the giver, for the feelings of a Muslim are of consequence to God.
Beware of refusing for the sake of acquiring a reputation, or of accepting for your appetites. However, to accept for your appetites is better than turning something down to acquire a reputation of asceticism and of turning away from the world. The truthful will not be confused, for his Lord gives him a light in his heart by which he knows what is required of him. "
-Imam Alawi al-Haddad
‘I could not praise Muhammad with my words;rather,my words were made praiseworthy by Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him).’-Hassan bin Thabit
Mehfil -e- Zikr & Khatam Khwajagan
will be held at My Home
This Thursday 04/12/07 at 7:45 pm inshallah
if you have any questions
Take everything away
and leave me alone with You.
Close every door
and open the one to You.
-Hakim Sana’i
"If the forms of phenomenal beings are embedded in the mirror of the heart, how can it be illuminated? If it is fettered by its appetites, how can it travel to Allah? If it is not purified of the great impurity of its heedlessness, how can it aspire to enter the presence of Allah? If it has not turned away in regret from its lapses, how can it hope to grasp the subtleties of secret knowledge? "
-Ibn Arabi
Announcement
The Weekly Mehfil -e- Zikr & Khatam Khwajagan
will be held at Br. Jahanzeb's Home
This Saturday 04/07/07 at 7:30 pm inshallah
if you have any questionsin regards to directions please
contact me at
NaqshbandiNYC@Gmail.com
Go sweep out the chamber of your heart.
Make it ready to be the dwelling place of the Beloved.
When you depart out,
He will enter it.
In you, void of yourself,
will He display His beauties.
-Shabistari
Do not think you are veiled from Allah
by something that is not Allah.
There is nothing besides Allah.
You are veiled from Him by the
Illusion that there is something other than Allah.
- Ibn Ata‘ Allah
Have mercy, just one glance, take the veil off your face:On your cheeks, the gleam of the full moon left its trace.
Your chastity is pure as cracked wheat and chickpeas,Your forehead, your crescent brows teach the young moon grace
Which one of your beauties should the tongue talk about? God, keep them off the evil eye in a safe place.
I couldn't tell your height apart from a cypress, I was in doubt--the rings on your ears made me guess.
Yunus saw God manifest Himself on your face; You can't be separated, you reveal His Grace.
When my Beloved appears,
With what eye do I see Him?
With His eye, not with mine,
For none sees Him except Himself.
-Ibn Arabi
