Monday, April 1, 2013

ESTABLISHING ONESELF ON MUJAHIDA OF DEEN



BAYAN BY SHAYKH KAMALUDDIN ON www.islamicspirituality.org

Mujahida

Rooh aur qalb ki intehai koshish is called jihad e nafs.

Deen is mujahida.

Deen is striving in the path of Allah.

The person who is sometimes in the state of imaan and sometimes in the state without imaan, is a munafiq.
You should do mujahida all the time.

When you don’t do mujahida, or there is some flaw in your mujahida—that means there is something wrong with your shariat or your tariqa.

When you leave mujahida, you fall into sin.

Which person leaves mujahida? The person who becomes comfortable in the comforts of dunya.

He becomes contented with the luxuries of the dunya.

There’s a difference between having the luxuries of dunya and loving them. This is “zuhd”.

Someone may be rich and have zuhd, and another person may be poor and be lost in love of the world. 

Everyone is responsible for how much of the world they get, no matter how much.

The people doing mujahida of nafs never stop, they always seek more nearness of Allah. They never think that they have enough of closeness to Allah.

Someone is not able to do dhikr because they are caught up in the demands of the world: they let the dunya distract them.

The person who cannot do dhikr while caught up in the middle of the world, cannot do dhikr in his free time.

Mujahida=muraqabah and wuquf e qalbi (two methods of dhikr in naqshbandi mujaddadi tareeka of Islamic spirituality).

Leaving the world and shutting yourself up in a holy place is not true mujahida.

True mujahida is done while living in the midst of the world.

Some people say that how can I balance ilm and dhikr? I am too busy. How do I balance?

This is also a trap of Shaytan.

There are a lot of times during the day when you are not obtaining ilm or doing work.

When you are obtaining ilm or teaching it, you should do wuquf e qalbi.

This means remembering Allah in your spiritual heart while your body is engaged in the work of the world.

Your heart calls out to Allah while your hands are busy doing something else.

How can I do muraqabah while I am obtaining ilm?

If you do wuquf e qalbi during obtaining ilm—you will obtain the noor of that ilm.

The amount of noor is directly proportional to the amount of wuquf e qalbi.

One meaning of wuquf e qalbi is: the thing you do for Allah swt’s Pleasure, it is a form of dhikr.

One thing is that you drink from the stream of dhikr and ilm at the same time. This requires a lot of mujahida. 

But once you get the hang of it, your mind does it automatically.

It requires a lot of hard work.

Imam Rabbani r.a. said in maktoobaat about qurb (nearness): the best way to obtain the nearness of Allah is to follow shariat and sunnat.

No other way to attain nearness to Allah swt.

The faraiz, wajibaat and sunan give such a status in front of Allah that nafl cannot.

40 years maqbool tahajjud cannot give you that status that constant safeguarding of gaze does.

Mujahida means, then—moulding your life according to Quran and Sunnah.

Doing work of Nabuwwat—doesn’t mean that you will literally become a nabi. It just means spreading Allah swt’s Word.

The people who give life to Allah’s Shariat and Sunnat—dawah, teaching—any work that gives life to deen, are very close to Allah.

After all this comes dhikr—third level of qurb.

First (highest)—shariat and sunnat

Second>deen work/dawah

Third>dhikr, muraqabah etc

Then why so much stress on kasrat e dhikr?

Because high level of dhikr enables us to perform more Sunnah and follow Shariah.

Khidmat of deen. Acceptance of khidmat of deen by Allah depends on kasrat e dhikr.

If someone has the first two things—follows Shariat, follows Sunnah, does khidmat of deen—then that person is in danger of riyaa (showing off) or ujub (pride).

If a jumaat has Sunnah, Shariat, khidmat of deen, but not kasrat e zikr, this group of people will fall prey to pride and arrogance.

You cannot escape ujub (self-love, narcissism) on a personal or a community level without kasrat e zikr.