A spiritual Ishmaelite

Category: Sufi spirituality

  • The woman I love: Zain Bhika and weakening the root of sexual revolution

    The Woman I Love Lyrics

    For as long as, I remember
    You were there for me
    A young woman, growing older
    But always mum to me
    My heaven lies under your feet

    Now I look at you and there’s a few more, wrinkles and lines
    But I still see the same beautiful smile
    And it hurts to know someday the light will fade from your eyes
    Cos you’re the woman I love
    You’re the mother I love, my mother
    You’re the woman I love

    Life just passes by
    a fragile butterfly
    I thank Allah to have you by my side

    It seemed my heart beat, a little faster
    The day I held your hand
    We were young then, learning together
    To love and understand,
    You helped me to be who I am

    Now after all these years, I look at you, my beautiful bride
    My whole life is right there in your eyes
    And Allah allows me every day to wake up with your smile
    ‘cos you’re the woman I love
    You’re the woman I love, my wife
    You’re the woman I love

    Life just passes by
    a fragile butterfly
    I thank Allah to have you by my side

    How could I, describe the feeling
    of holding you that day
    From the moment, of your first breath
    You stole my heart away,
    There’s nothing about you I’d change

    Now I will stand by you, as you spread your wings, in this great big world
    But you’ll always be my little girl
    And I pray Allah will keep me by your side long enough for you to learn
    That you’re the woman I love
    You’re the woman I love, my daughter
    You’re the woman I love

    Cos Life will pass us by
    you are my fragile butterfly
    I thank Allah to have you by my side

    The greatest blessing
    That I have
    Are the women in my life…

    Performed: Zain Bhikha
    Written: Nasira Bhikha, Zain Bhikha and Idris Phillips
    Published: Zain Bhikha Studios (SA) 2011

    The Woman I Love

  • God bless Britt Nicole: Supernatural and firebrand faith in naturalist America

    Walk on the water:

    You look around and staring back at you
    Another wave of doubt
    Will it pull you under
    You wonder

    What if I’m overtaken
    What if I never make it

    What if no one’s there
    Will you hear my prayer?
    When you take that first step
    Into the unknown

    You know that he won’t let you go
    So what are you waiting for
    What do you have to lose
    Your insecurities

    They try to hold to you
    But you know you’re made for more

    So don’t be afraid to move
    Your faith is all it takes
    And you can walk on the water too
    So get out and let your fear fall to the ground

    No time to waste, don’t wait
    And don’t you turn around, and miss out on
    Everything you were made for
    Gotta be, I know you’re not sure, more

    So you play it safe, you try to run away
    If you take that first step
    Into the unknown
    He won’t let you go

    So what are you waiting for
    What do you have to lose
    Your insecurities
    They try to hold to you
    But you know you’re made for more
    So don’t be afraid to move
    Your faith is all it takes
    And you can walk on the water too
    Step out, even when it’s storming
    Step out, even when you’re broken
    Step out, even when your heart is telling you
    Telling you to give up
    Step out, when your hope is stolen
    Step out, you can’t see where you’re going
    You don’t have to be afraid
    So what are waiting, what are you waiting for
    So what are you waiting for
    What do you have to lose
    Your insecurities
    They try to hold to you
    But you know you’re made for more
    So don’t be afraid to move
    Your faith is all it takes
    And you can walk on the water
    Walk on the water too

     

    Set The World On Fire:

    I wanna set the world on fire
    Until it’s burning bright for You
    It’s everything that I desire
    Can I be the one You use?

    I, I am small but
    You, You are big enough
    I, I am weak but
    You, You are strong enough to
    Take my dreams
    Come and give them wings
    Lord with You
    Nothing I can not do
    Nothing I cannot do

    I wanna feed the hungry children
    And reach across the farthest land
    And tell the broken there is healing
    And mercy in the Father’s hands

    [CHORUS]

    Take my dreams
    Come and give them wings
    Lord with You
    Nothing I cannot do
    Nothing I cannot do

    My hands my feet
    My everything
    My life, my love
    Lord, use me

    I wanna set the world on fire
    I wanna set the world on fire, yeah

    Take my dreams
    Come and give them wings
    Lord with You
    Nothing I cannot do
    Take my dreams
    Come and give them wings
    Lord with You
    There’s nothing I can’t do
    Nothing I can’t do

    I’m gonna set the world on fire
    Set the world on fire

    Shalom the divine guidance may be upon truth seekers. God bless your remarkable faith in a faithless world. May God also bless your empathetic piece of writing. I arrived here listening to mystic music genre called qawwali and I wanted to explore modern Christian music. So, I loved Walk on the water by Britt Nicole so I ended up here. May God bless your supernatural faith in a naturalist West.

  • Kamli walay Muhammad(p): The modern mystic music of the genre modern qawwali

    Assalamu alaykum. I come from an orthodox family and my younger brother is a pious modernist and he was listening to this. Obviously sacred legalists disagree with the music and I read that one of the Chishti saints would request the worldly people to leave the gathering of mystic music because they could only enjoy it sensually. But how to recognize whether the impact is sensual or mystic? I think if you wake up for fajr for next day, this is a good litmus test.

    http://kryptonguys.com/kamli-walay-muhammad-by-arshman-khan-farrukh-mehrvi-download/

    Krypton Guys have not published my comment so far. God bless you all the lovers of One God and His Messenger(p).

    http://www.islamiclyrics.net/milad-raza-qadri/kamle-wale-muhammed/

  • Discussing the linguistic and mystic definitions of bulh or the evil blind person with a mufti (a specialist of legal opinions)

    Ishmael Abraham
    Muhammad Mushrraf Well. It is very much difficult to translate “Bulh” in hadith with what was done by that guy.
    Brother is referring to Freddie Mercury and another hypocritical anti-gay politician
    Ishmael Abraham Both of these men were informed about western culture and uninformed about One God and His Messengers(as).
    Ishmael Abraham I love this definition: عن أبي عثمان : الأبله هو الأبله في دنياه ، الفقيه في دينه
    The saint Abu Uthman An Nahdi says: Bulh means someone unaware about his worldliness and someone with deep cognitive and sentient understanding of his religion.
    Ishmael Abrahamعن عاصم الأحول ، قال : بلغني أن أبا عثمان النهدي كان يصلي ما بين المغرب والعشاء مائة ركعة
    It is said that this saint who offers his definition used to offer 100 units of prayer between sunset prayer and night prayer
    Ishmael Abrahamعبد القاهر بن السري : عن أبيه ، عن جده ، قال : كان أبو عثمان من قضاعة ، وسكن الكوفة ، فلما قتل الحسين ، تحول إلى البصرة وقال : لا أسكن بلدا قتل فيه ابن بنت رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم
    When Prophetic grandson, peace be upon him, was martyred, he migrated to Basra from Kufah while saying: I will not live in the city where the son of the daughter of Messenger(s) of God was martyred.
    Ishmael Abrahamقال : وحج ستين مرة
    It is said that the same saint performed Hajj pilgrimage 60 times.

  • Quran 24:23, the evil-blind bulh and ghafilat: Freddie Mercury and fall from grace of an anti-gay politician

    My father won a scholarship to study at Maryland but he chose to return due to consumerist obsession although he did not appreciate the current sexual obsession two decades ago. I stumbled here as I was researching about Parsi singer Freddie Mercury who hated his past so much that he even changed his name from Farokh which means the happy person in Persian and Persian mystic Ghazali has written Alchemy of Happiness on the concept of psychological and soteriological happiness. Modern culture is glorified by western politicians as ‘offering’ creative destruction of the traditional world. This is natural and logical because absence of spiritual light of first commandment only zoological darkness will prevail. Even a Parsi scientist of Pakistani origin ended up being pulled by the black hole of sexual revolution. His case is curious for traditionalists because he died of AIDS. This lawmaker corroborates another Hadith that majority of inhabitants of Paradise will be those who are bulh/blind in materialistic and secular sense but enlightened in the spiritual and scriptural sense. Which implies that when people acquires secular, materialistic and political awareness, but do not have spiritual enlightenment most of them end up being victims of zoological instincts themselves after being provoked by the external fire. Like a Pakistani surgeon died of Congo fever after operating a patient suffering from Congo. God praises such evil-blind women of faith in Quran 24:23. God bless my evil-blind zoologist mother who chose not to work in intermingling corporate culture and still she does not use facebook like my father.

    http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2017/11/21/anti-gay-married-republican-lawmaker-sexually-harassed-dozens-of-young-men/

  • To Theo Hobson: How failed deism and sola scriptura leads to atheism?

    I want to revive the missionary legacy of what Quran calls a hawari/disciple Thomas who was martyred in India by polytheists for his monotheism. And, today Muslims in India, especially, Kashmir continue that legacy. I have witnessed a relationship between Sola Scriptura movements and deistic movements within both West and Middle East because both dislike the religious tradition, and many apostates tend to be influenced by Sola Scriptura and deism, but not everyone has the fervour of Herbert of Cherbury to dive in the ocean of love and ocean of logos at the same time. For example, Dawud At Tai a saint threw his books in the river to focus on worship and divine remembrance but his friend Imam Zufar managed to reconcile both which requires greater faith and greater scholarship. There is a Hadith that those who understand the logos deeply are more effective against the Evil than the worshipers, however, a Prophetic descendant warns that scholarship which does not have attendant piety is worthless. So, Islamic worldview has been able to contemplate and reconcile these issues centuries ago when West was relatively ignorant about both Scripture and logic. So, I was happy to find a western affirmation of my own conclusion. Thanks and may God bless you brother Theo Hobson.

  • To a self-described Salafi feminist: How company of tahajjud-observant sisters can help overcoming anarchist narcissism

    I think Sayyidah Nafisah, peace be upon her, is the pinnacle of female saints among the later Salaf. A woman who has memorized the Quran in 21st century would be better than a public speaker which can induce anarchist narcissism which has led to many divorces in the traditional world. Psychologists say that sign of narcissism is marrying a weak submissive man instead of an assertive scholar of Salaf. However if you develop zuhd and asecticism of Salaf through the company of tahajjud-observant sisters, along with their scholarship, you may not develop anarchist narcissism.
    For one of the best articles on psychology of a sensual Paradise an idea which is based on the Jewish idea of a physical Paradise of milk and honey as opposed to Christian idea of no marriage in heaven which an atheist commentator described equivalent to Hell.

  • The nests of divine remembrace and obedience: Eagle’s nest and secular distrurbances

    ISHMAEL ABRAHAM·WEDNESDAY, 15 NOVEMBER 2017 
    God compares attraction of a saint to remembrance and obedience like that of eagle to its nest.
    This is narrated by Imam Ahmad in his book about asceticism from Ata bin Yasar who describes a dialogue between Moses peace be upon him and God. Moses peace be upon him asks God, who are your Godly people whom you will grant the shade of your throne. So, God describes them as eagles of love and obedience and tigers against the forbidden.
    في الزهد للإمام أحمد عن عطاء بن يسار ، قال : قال موسى عليه السلام : يا رب ، من هم أهلك الذين تظلهم في ظل عرشك ؟ قال : يا موسى ، هم البريئة أيديهم ، الطاهرة قلوبهم ، الذين يتحابون بجلالي ، الذين إذا ذكرت ذكروا بي ، وإذا ذكروا ذكرت بذكرهم ، الذين يسبغون الوضوء في المكاره ، وينيبون إلى ذكري كما تنيب النسور إلى وكورها ، ويكلفون بحبي كما يكلف الصبي بحب الناس ، ويغضبون لمحارمي إذا استحلت كما يغضب النمر إذا حورب
    A Vermillion, Ohio nest measured 2.6 meters across its top and was 3.6 meters high and weighed nearly 1,000 kilograms! Sometimes, eagles will build more than one nest and use them alternately.
    An eagle nest is constructed from large sticks, which are laid together to form the outside part of the nest. The center of the nest is filled with dead weeds, stubble and other softer materials, which may be available in the area. The nest cavity where the eggs are laid is lined with grass, dry moss and feathers. Many authorities believe that some bald eagles show such a strong attraction to their nesting site that, if displaced or overly disturbed, a pair may not return to the nest the following year. This fact places great importance on protecting nesting areas from disturbances such as logging operations, land development and recreational activities.
    Secularism describes those disturbances.
    http://eaglenature.com/eagle_facts.php
    The weeping saint Ata bin Yasar due to the scorpion of seduction:
    https://iskandrani.wordpress.com/2008/02/09/ata-bin-yasar/

  • Quran 6:108: The difference between self-shaming, guilt, insult and blasphemy according to psychology

    ISHMAEL ABRAHAM·SUNDAY, 12 NOVEMBER 2017
    Self-shaming and guilt about trying to hurt God’s honour are good. Because Guy Winch admits that guilt is a relationship protector with God or another human. But God says that even the most faithless should not be insulted in Quran 6:108. As mentioned in 1 Corinthians 10:28 Pulpit Commentary But if any man say unto you. Who is the “any man” is left undefined. Perhaps some “weak” Christian is meant, who happens to be a fellow guest. This is offered in sacrifice unto idols. The true reading is probably, hierothuton, sacred sacrifice, not eidolothuton, idol sacrifice. Perhaps there is a touch of delicate reserve in the word, implying that the remark is made at the table of heathens, who would be insulted by the word eidolothuton, sacrificed to idols.
    Thanks for contriubting to interfaith dialogue
    Submitted by Ishmael on November 11, 2017 – 2:26pm
    I am involved in an interfaith dialogue with a Christian sister from US about the nature of spiritual self-shaming and guilt for displeasing God. Thanks for contributing to our dialogue by adding the nuance.

  • Redorbit and fadeeha: When children of clerics fall from grace

    I came here while researching the word fadeeha which can mean scandal and fall from grace and this word has been used for her in the Arabic world. May God guide her to the path of her cleric father. A sacred Islamic text states that those who look lustfully at others will be humiliated/fadeeha by God before they die if they do not repent.