http://www.spiritual-tendencies.com Notes on The Divine Path Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:41:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Perhaps you will ask, "How can the student and the teacher be travelers on the road of the Example of the Prophet and adhere to what is required of this community of faith?" The interrelationship between the teacher's instruction and the pupil's study comes down to this: The Prophetic Example ... http://www.spiritual-tendencies.com/2008/07/21/teacher-student/ Your cure is within you, but you do not know, Your illness is from you, but you do not see. You are the "Clarifying Book" Through whose letters becomes manifest the hidden. You suppose that you're a small body But the greatest world unfolds within you. You would not need what is outside yourself If you would ... http://www.spiritual-tendencies.com/2008/07/14/the-self/ Ruthlessness arises from covetousness, and covetousness arises from envy. Envy arises from desire, and desire arises from injustice, greed and ignorance. To get rid of envy, the envious person should remember that what he imagined about the object of his envy and the life he leads and the pleasures he enjoys ... http://www.spiritual-tendencies.com/2008/07/11/curing-envy/ If anyone is asked about the foundations of his path, he should reply, The foundations of our path are five: Taqwā – mindfulness of Allāh, privately and publicly Adherence to the Sunnah in word and deed Indifference to whether others accept or reject one Contentment with Allāh in times of both hardship and ease Turning to ... http://www.spiritual-tendencies.com/2008/07/09/foundations-of-the-spiritual-path/ The strong man is the one who is happy when this world leaves his hands, departs from him and flees from him, and he is happy when people blame him and accuse him. He is content with it because of his knowledge of God. Shaykh Ibn 'Atā'Illah, may God be ... http://www.spiritual-tendencies.com/2008/07/09/the-strong-man/ Remembrance (dhikr) is like a fire that neither stays nor spreads. When it enters a house, it says, ‘It is I; there is no one else but Me,’ which is one of the meanings, of ‘There is no divinity but God’. If it finds kindling inside, it consumes it and ... http://www.spiritual-tendencies.com/2008/07/09/nature-of-remembrance/ The man who gives his worldly life and his Hereafter equal attention, and has inwardly the same degree of concentration and eagerness and outwardly the same amount of effort and pursuit, is excessively foolish and stupid. What then of the man who gives more attention and effort to his worldly ... http://www.spiritual-tendencies.com/2008/07/09/attending-to-this-world-and-to-the-next/