Tariq ut-Tahqiq (The Path of Realization)

“They ask you about the Ruh (Spirit, Soul), say: The Ruh (Spirit, Soul) is under my Lord’s command” (Koran [17:85])

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With greed and envy
Do not pollute your Soul
With praiseworthy characteristics
Do ornate to decore.  [1]
Befriend not your soul
With pigs and dogs
With evil friends
Let it not be so close. [2]
Since death pushes you afar
From anyone you may know
Throws you into the grave
At the bottom supine
Therefore:
It is only the Soul allowed
In Sacred Presence of The One [3]
Since the corps cannot escape
The Tightness of the tomb.
The strength and nourishment [4]
Within this universe
The fuel transporting
The return to the Malakut (Realm of Souls).
Here only the four elements count
Our bodies the combination of the four
Once the soul separates from the corps
Each journeying back to their original abode. [5]
That which survives
The traces of your existence
Is the Soul, that everlasting Soul!
Smash the cage of the five senses
Free the bird of the Soul from bondage
What business has a falcon
Sole within a frightful cage?
Clutched upon the hand of the King
For the Soul’s rightful place!
Eject him out of this living room
So the soul could fly
Within the atmosphere of the Hu [6]

End.




[1] Contrary to the public view the most instrumental and perhaps the most effective aspect of Sufism is that of correcting the behavior. What is understood as the “Sufi Journey” is to depart from shameful behavior, foul language and wicked thoughts to corresponding lofty and pure ones. You can wear the Sufi garments, listen to their chants and whirl around as much as you like, you are no closer to the goal of Sufism.

[2] A Morid (Seeker) must choose friends, mates, neighbors, and business partners and in general those s/he comes close very carefully. There is no point to practice anything from Sufism while befriending lowbred and the evil.

[3] The One is actually the Arabic word Ahad that means one but a peculiar type of Oneness: It cannot be copied, it cannot be divided and it cannot be compared to anything else except to itself. Therefore in the presence of Ahad anything that can be copied or divisible into parts can be found. Indeed the Souls are those unique forms of beingness that are allowed to be in Ahad’s Divine Presence.

[4] Nourishment refers the nourishment for the hearts e.g. loving, piety, Dhikr (Remembrance), truthfulness, silence, solitude and so on.

[5] There is a Sufi proverb saying: All things would return to their origin. Upon the arrival of death, our bodies would go to one direction and our Souls to another. “Four Elements” are the remnants of ancient Greek physics; in today’s terms you may say light, energy and matter or the atomic structures. The bottom line is that there is a breaking point between the physical world and our Souls, and that moment the two would return to their place of origin.

[6] ‘Hu’ in Arabic if the third person single pronoun for IT or He. It is used in Koran as the Ishārat (Pointer, Vector) pointing at the direction of the Divine Beingness. This word is used in place of words like God or Lord, as simply a vector pointing without the need for describing something that is indescribable—Ahad.


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