#Tassawuf

This is a chapter from my future book, The Garden of Reflections.

Ibn Sab'in argues that ordinary people believe in multiplicity because they are deceived by the senses and by the outward forms of material things. Mystics, on the other hand, perceive the deeper truth that existence is one, indivisible reality.

In every land of Islam, people gather. They come not only to places, but to meanings. They are in remembrance of God, of His Messenger ﷺ, of those who lived in devotion and left behind a fragrance of sincerity. Some bring food. Some bring money

In the shadow of power, where men contend over authority, where the sacred is drawn into the affairs of rule and command, another understanding takes form, almost unnoticed.

Many who came after him wrote. Among them is Ibn al-Zayyat al-Tadili, who preserved the lives of saints in his At-Tashawwuf ila Rijal at-Tasawwuf. Through such works, we come to know Abu al-Abbas. But even there, what is written is only a shadow of what was lived.

So, my advice to all young people who wish to become poets is, do something easy, like learning how to blow up the world, unless you’re not only willing but glad to feel, work, and fight until you die.

This Sufi poem is inspired by a state of innahilation and trance. Poetry is the language of deep spiritual growth.

A Sufi supplication for everyone

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