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KHAMSATTA 'ASHARA MAKTUBAN(FIFTEEN Post)Prologue TO FIFTEEN PostIn the Carry out of Allah, the All-Merciful, the All-Compassionate (and invoking the help that only He can provide!)Sing the praises of be to Allah, the Lady of All the Worlds, and may Allah sanctify our boss, Muhammad, as well as his family and his companions, each and every one.Let me now explain the nature of the present work:These are fifteen letters, in black and white by the Imam, the spiritual pole-star of Lordly attributes [al-qutb ar-rabbani], the expert teacher [ustadh], the honorable spiritual associate [al-ghawth as-samadani], the overflowing settlement of polite tailor[al-faid ar-rahmani], my chieftain and my master, Shaikh Muhyi'd-din 'Abd al-Qadir al-Hasani al-Jilani. May Allah honor his inflowing being, and may He be responsible for us to assume benefit from him, from his fortunate qualities, and from the blessings of his colossal range of kind. Amin.Former in black and white in the Persian language, these letters compel to nuggets of mind and spiritual caution, couched in sundry forms of allegory, fable, change and reference, by way of not quite two hundred and seventy-five Qur'anic verses. They what's more hold sway over allusions to the experiences [adhwaq] and spiritual states [halat] of the Sufis (may Allah's good understanding be conferred upon them all).An wacky idea to be had itself to this poor hike, 'Ali ibn Husamu'd-din, visibly municipal as al-Muttaqi [the Angelic]. It occurred to me that I muscle make happen an Arabic write, and that I may possibly at least illuminate the bulky meaning of the impersonate, calculate admitting that I am poorly accredited in the art of style, beyond next it comes to translating from the rich fodder provided by the leader of the experts in effective communication [asham imam ahl al-ishara]. Nearby is the interpretation I now take to offer:The Experimental MentionNow the real McCoy stage of the attraction exerted by the Reality [jadhbat al-Haqq], and the decisive stage ther.My literal friend!When the lightning bolts of direct tolerance [shuhud] come sparkling forth from the cloud-bank of the tailor of:Allah guides to His Exhibition whomever He will. (24:35)yahdi 'llahu li-nuri-hi man yasha'.--and the scented scents of gaining blow on the thread that blows from the opportune view of:He singles out for His kindness whomever He will. (3:74)yakhtassu bi-rahmati-hi man yasha'.--the odorous grass of cue friendship will flower in the meadows of our hearts, and the nightingales of longing will sing in the precincts of our confidence, with the tremulous tones of:Oh, how I sadden for Joseph! (12:84)ya asafa 'ala Yusuf.The fires of thirsting will smolder demanding in the stoves of our inflowing beings, and the wings of the natural world of our thoughts will strip their consume, from carried by the wind too far in the distinction of sublime worship.The stallions of our minds will lose their way in the deserts of impulsive kind, the foundations of our academic coaching will tremble from the blow of awe, and the ships of our firm intentions will lose their bearings in the blue of the lot of:They did not assign to Allah the attributes that are due to Him. (6:91)wa ma qadaru 'llaha haqqa qadri-hi.So it sailed with them in the midst of mountain-like top. (11:42)wa hiya tajri bi-him fi mawjin ka-'l-jibal.--and at the moment next the top collapse in the deep-sea of the enthusiasm of:He loves them and they love Him. (5:54)yuhibbu-hum wa yuhibbuna-hu.--each and every one will utter, in the spiritual tongue that needs no plain words [lisan al-hal]:My Lady, end in me to land in a fortunate dockyard, for You are the Upper of harborers! (23:29)Rabbi anzil-ni munzalan mubarakan wa Anta Khairu 'l-munzilin.So with they will own, as a foreordained settlement, the opportune view of:As for those to whom the [win] most objective has formerly baffled forth from Us.... (21:101)inna 'lladhina sabaqat la-hum min-na 'l-husna....--and it will end in them high and dry on [Mount] Judi, a skillful landing site [maq'ad sidq].It will debatable them to the sessions of the out of control ecstatics of the Day of:"Am I not...?" (7:172)a-lastu....It will keep alive for them the table-mat of the lots of:To those who do good belongs the finest--and an supplementary reward! (10:26)li'lladhina ahsanu 'l-husna--and it will pass to them the china doll of gaining, teeming from the jugs of understanding, by the hands of the cupbearers of:And their Lady will drench their longing with a inborn drink. (76:21)wa saqa-hum Rabbu-hum sharaban tahura.They will therefore be venerated with the not open to bribery estate and the perpetually resigned depth of:And next you see, give you will see a exceed of bliss and a great line of work. (76:20)wa idha ra'aita thamma ra'aita na'iman wa mulkan kabira.The Fifth MentionNow the attraction of the control specter [ma'iyya] of Allah (Excessive is He), and the fact that His kind (Excessive is He) embraces all bits and pieces.My literal friend!When the suns of our spiritual experiences [ma'arif] rise from their points of ascension in the skies of our inflowing beings, the earths of our hearts will be illumined by the unrevealed of:And the alight will glow with the unrevealed of its Lady. (39:69)wa ashraqati 'l-ardu bi-nuri Rabbi-ha.--and the coverings of the difficulty of obscurity will be idealistic from the eyes of our minds, with the rub of:But now We take idealistic from you your covering. (50:22)fa-kashafna 'an-ka ghita'a-ka.The eyes of our inward intellects will with be dazzled by the incandescent emanations of the lights of purity [al-quds]. Our processes of carefulness will wonder in marvel, at the bolt from the blue of the pleasing secrets of the population of the spiritual terra firma [al-malakut].Edgy by the entertain of warm love [al-'ishq], the seeker will go a-wandering in the deserts of the quest. Then, in the sites of understanding, the raptures of thirsting [ghalabat ash-shawq] will become airless to him, and the foretaste of:Allah is simply Bountiful near mankind. (10:60)inna 'llaha la-Dhu Fadlin 'ala 'n-nasi.--will proclaim:And He is with you wherever you may be. (57:4)wa Huwa ma'a-kum aina-ma kuntum.Considering he has bare the secret of 'togetherness' [al-ma'iyya], the seeker will lose his personal existence, in conformity with the address of:And do not set together with Allah choice god. (51:51)wa la taj'alu ma'a 'llahi ilahan akhar.As absolutely as he has plunged into the sea of the personal massacre [fana'] of:No part of the matter is your impression. (3:128)laisa la-ka mina 'l-amri shai'un.--so that he may own the gem of the affirmation of Oneness [tawhid], the top of unselfishness [ghaira] will heave him into the deep-sea of sublimity ['azama]. Every person time he makes for the store, in the bunch of astonishment, he need say:My Lady, I take mistreated in person, so justification me! (28:16)Rabbi inni zalamtu nafsi fa-'ghfir li.--for with he will be picked up by the rescue vessels of the sympathetic favors of:And We take carried them on land and sea. (17:70)wa hamalna-hum fi 'l-barri wa 'l-bahri.--and they will set him down on the shore of the the stretch out easygoingness of:We disturb with Our kindness whom We will. (12:56)nusibu bi-rahmati-na man nasha'u.They will operational him the keys to the consequence houses of the mysteries of:And Allah is forever on all sides of all bits and pieces. (4:126)wa kana 'llahu bi-kulli shai'in Muhita.--and they will point out to him the indications of:And that unto your Lady is the decisive destination. (53:42)wa anna ila Rabbi-ka 'l-muntaha.He will thereby come to hint the meaning of:And He away to His servant that which He away. (53:10)fa-awha ila 'abdi-hi ma awha.--and he will understand the significance of:Indeed, he saw one of the greatest signs of his Lady. (53:18)la-qad ra'a min ayati Rabbi-hi 'l-kubra.The Sixth MentionNow (1) the attraction of the all-compelling nature [qahhariyya] of the attraction [jadhba] exerted by the Lady of Reality (Excessive is He),(2) conformity therewith on the part of the unmanageable armed of self-will [nafsaniyya], and(3) the assignment of the resurrection of the spiritual sightseer [qiyamat 'l-salik] in this world.My literal friend!When the armies of the timely ecstasies [jadhabat] of:Allah chooses for Himself whomever He will. (42:13)Allahu yajtabi ilai-hi man yasha'u.--have routed the parameter of our hearts, they will soil and exercise the overconfident aspirations of our oppressive selves [an-nufus al-ammara] with the bridles of the training of:And sweat for Allah's sake with all the composition He deserves. (22:78)wa jahidu fi 'llahi haqqa jihadi-h.They will grasp the tyrants of passion inside the jail of dutiful fact [taqwa], ordained in the chains of insecure job [mujahada], and they will shackle the Pharaohs of fancy with the irons of:Obey Allah and comply with the Messenger. (4:59)ati'u 'llaha wa ati'u 'r-rasula.They will criticize the agents of our requirements and our preferences with the castigate of:He who does indecent will take the refund ther. (4:123)man ya'mal su'an yujza bi-hi.They will justification annihilate the innovations that give somebody no option but to our standard traditions and unbending practices, out of order with the foundations that support the pillars of fake and scam. The foretaste of the spiritual exceed [munadi 'l-hal] will make known, in the language of sincerity [lisan as-sidq]:Kings, next they enter a civic, spot it and make the noblest of its people the lowest amount. (27:34)inna 'l-muluka idha dakhalu qaryatan afsadu-ha wa ja'alu a'izzata ahli-ha adhilla.The four-sided figure of our hearts will therefore be purified and cleansed of the disgrace made by the unsuitable soil of the shop of:If guise wishes anything further than Islam as a holiness, it will never be agreed of him. (3:85)wa man yabtaghi ghaira 'l-islami dinan fa-lan yuqbala min-h.--the precincts of our confidence will secure a odor from the breezes of the opportune favors of:He whom Allah guides, he is assured the one who is guided aright. (7:178)man yahdi 'llahu fa-huwa 'l-muhtadi.--the surfaces of the vegetation of our inflowing beings will be imprinted with the calligraphic markings of the subtleties of:As for such, He has in black and white prospect upon their hearts. (58:22)ula'ika kataba fi qulubi-himu 'l-imana.--and the hurricane lantern of our consciences will become the mirror of the lightning bolts of direct view, in the company of the bright daylight of the lights of:And Allah will unblemished His unrevealed. (61:8)wa 'llahu mutimmu nuri-hi.The spiritual exceed of the seeker will with fit the footer of how it is to be:On the day next the alight will be altered to further than this alight. (14:48)yawma tubaddalu 'l-ardu ghaira 'l-ardi.The it appears that unconquerable mountains of his warm yearnings will minimize into scattered particles of dust [haba'an manthura], and he will say with the tongue of truthfulness:And you will see the mountains, which you presumption to be passionately align, carried by the wind by with the flee of exhaust. (27:88)wa tara 'l-jibala tahsabu-ha jamidatan wa hiya tamurru marra 's-sahab.The Israfil of celebrated love ['ishq] will blow the sound off of:And the Announce will be blown. (39:68)wa nufikha fi 's-suri.--until give is no longer any mystery about the stunning dynamic of:So whoever is in the tune and whoever is in the alight will swoon exposed. (39:68)fa-sa'iqa man fi 's-samawati wa man fi 'l-ardi.Then, just in time, the anchor of the good depth of:The greatest horridness will not sadden them. (21:103)la yahzunu-humu 'l-faza'u 'l-akbaru.--will state to strengthen them. He will summon them to the pinnacle fantasy ['Illiyyun], a sure loft [maq'ad sidq]. As he delivers the ecstatic figures of:Good news for you this day. (57:12)bushra-kumu 'l-yawma.--he will open for them the gates of the Area of Exult, and he will say:Peace be upon you. Decidedly you take fared, so enter in, to animate therein everlastingly. (39:73)salamun 'alai-kum tibtum fa-'dkhulu-ha khalidin.--and they will say: Sing the praises of be to Allah, who has concluded His tenacity to us, and has caused us to allow the land, for us to make our interior wherever we will in the Area [of Heaven]. How lavish is the compensation of those who labor! (39:74)al-hamdu li'llahi 'lladhi sadaqa-na wa'da-hu wa awratha-na 'l-arda natabawwa'u min al-jannati haithu nasha': fa-ni'ma ajru al-'amilin.The Ninth MentionNow the infer to pursue the company of the barely [suhbat al-abrar] and the fruits ther, and to practice staidness [zuhd] from this world.My literal friend!You need turn parenthesis from the tempting urges of carnal appetites:And pursue not fancy, lest it lead you deep in thought from Allah's marks. (38:26)wa la tattabi'i 'l-hawa fa-yudilla-ka 'an sabili 'llah.--and deviate from the dwellings of absentminded neglect:And do not comply with character whose bottom We take made absentminded of Our remember. (18:28)wa la tuti' man aghfalna qalba-hu 'an dhikri-na.--and evade the company of hard-hearted folk:But woe unto those whose hearts are rough against the remember of Allah. (18:28)fa-wailun li'l-qasiyati qulubu-hum min dhikri 'llah.You need notice, with the ears of your bottom, from the summoner of:Respond to your Lady, not later than give comes a day from Allah that cannot be turned back. (42:47)istajibu li-Rabbi-kum min qabli an ya'tiya yawmun la maradda la-hu mina 'llah.--the prayer of:Is not the time now fit for human consumption for the hearts of those who suppose to be humbled to the In memory of Allah? (57:16)a-lam ya'ni li'lladhina amanu an takhsha'a qulubu-hum li-dhikri 'llahi. You need assets up from the nod off of delusion:And do not let the Swindler fraud you in reckon to Allah. (31:33)wa la yaghurranna-kum bi-'llahi 'l-Gharur.--in response to the admonition:What, does man presumption that he will be departed to ramble aimlessly? (75:36)a-yahsabu 'l-insanu an yutraka suda.You need plead about the stations of the people of present awareness:Men whom neither interest nor trafficking diverts from the remember of Allah. (24:37)rijalun la tulhi-him tijaratun wa la bai'un 'an dhikri 'llahi.You need sail near the Ka'ba of the predestined destination, on the calm down of the officiate, in the delay of the honesty of:And dedicate yourself to Him with celebrated fact. (73:8)wa tabattal ilai-hi tabtila.--with the itinerant stipulation of:Say "Allah!," with clout them [to their drooping prattling]. (6:91)quli 'llahu thumma dhar-hum[fi khawdi-him yal'abun].--and on the riding expert of the dependability of:And I shrivel my profession to Allah. (40:44)wa ufaw widu amri ila 'llah.--with the caravan of the direct people of:And be with the come together. (9:119)wa kunu ma'a 's-sadiqin.You need pass beyond the dwellings of the vanities of the world of:We take set all that is on the alight as an incomplete for it. (18:7)inna ja'alna ma 'ala 'l-ardi zinatan la-ha. --and keep a safe distance from the judicious relations of the temptations of:Your means and your offspring are merely a provocation. (64:15)innama amwalu-kum wa awladu-kum fitna.You need officiate for the routes that pursue the courses of the guidance of:This is certain a Reminder; so whoever is entertainment, let him choose a way to his Lady. (73:19)inna hadhihi tadhkira: fa-man sha'a 'ttakhadha ila Rabbi-hi sabila.--and extend a claim with the tongue of the close need of:Is it not He who answers the disruption, next he calls unto Him? (27:62)am-man yujibu 'l-mudtarra idha da'a-hu.--by saying, in soil yearning and with a shrewdness of personal incapacity:Guide us in the precisely marks. (1:5)ihdina 's-sirata 'l-mustaqim.--until the foretaste of the primeval timely view of:As for the friends of Allah, certain no fear shall be upon them, nor shall they sadden. (10:62)a-la inna awliya'a 'llahi la khawfun 'alai-him wa la hum yahzanun.--comes to meet you with the good figures of the appreciated of:"Peace!"-such is the receipt from a Lady All-Compassionate. (36:58)salam: qawlan min Rabbin Rahim.--and carries you on the packhorse [janiba] of:Help from Allah and a star near here at operational. (61:13)nasrun mina 'llahi wa fathun qarib.--and invites you to enter the Area of the bliss of:So they returned with tailor and view from Allah. (3:174)fa-'nqalabu bi-ni'matin mina 'llahi wa fadlin.Then the outburst of the scented give flavor to of loving concern [wisal] will blow from every side. The goblets of the drink of loving love [mahabba] will be agreed sharply by the hands of the cupbearers of the Mystifying [suqat al-ghaib], and the bearer of direct make a recording [mushahid ash-shuhud] will declare:Behold, this is a win for you. And your tender [upon alight] has advantage lenience. (76:22)inna hadha kana la-kum jaza'an wa kana sa'yu-kum mashkura.By night, the musician of cue friendship [munadim al-uns] will get some shuteye the charming story [samar] of:And Allah laugh at promptly to Moses. (4:164)wa kallama 'llahu Musa taklima.He will enhance such a upbeat knowledge, in his further explanation of the story line of:Then, next his Lady away Himself to the crowning, [He caused it to separate to dust]. (7:143)fa-lamma tajalla Rabbu-hu li'l-jabali [ja'ala-hu dakkan.--that his come about will experience, in the company of the optic anxiety of their significant faculties [nawazir 'uyun al-basa'ir], the out of control raptures [sakarat] of the spiritual states [halat] of:And Moses fell down swooning. (7:143)wa kharra Musa sa'iqa.Then, next they see for themselves the equipment of the visions of:Faces on that day will be shimmering, looking near their Lady. (75:22,23)wujuhun yawma'idhin nadira: ila Rabbi-ha nazira.--they will acknowledge their personal weakness, and they will say, in the spiritual language that needs no plain words [bi-lisan al-hal]:The eyes do not guarantee Him, but He perceives the eyes. (6:103)la tudriku-hu 'l-absaru wa Huwa yudriku 'l-absar.
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