April 13 at 11:00 am at the Shalem Center, 881 High Street, Suite 206.
Worthington, OH 43085.
This class will include zikr, breathing practices, and wazifa practice.
“The divine qualities are inherent in the human soul which is an activity
of God…Every human being is born with many of these divine
qualities intact, and everyone has the potential to develop the
qualities that have not been realized.” P. 379, Physicians of the Heart
For more information contact Aatoon at aatoon.nina.massey@gmail.com
Worthington, OH 43085.
This class will include zikr, breathing practices, and wazifa practice.
“The divine qualities are inherent in the human soul which is an activity
of God…Every human being is born with many of these divine
qualities intact, and everyone has the potential to develop the
qualities that have not been realized.” P. 379, Physicians of the Heart
For more information contact Aatoon at aatoon.nina.massey@gmail.com
Below are suggestions for practice for the next class.
We will be working with Chapter 11, The Matrix of Divine Protection. Ch
11: The Matrix of Divine Protection
p. 171:
Repeat the name Ya Hafiz, O
Protector. It is at the center of the
mandala of protection. Read the poetry of Hafiz.
p. 172: Invoke the presence of the silsilah, through the shaykh and the lineage of teachers.
p. 173-174: Consider areas of your life where lack of
trust is an issue. Repeat Ya Muqit, Ya Muhaimin to find the way to
a state in which infinite presence is nourishing and sustaining.
p. 175-176: There are three stages of trust, of tawakkul:
The
first stage is associated with al-Qadir.
Your feeling that you are in the hands of Allah is like that of a slave.
The
second stage is called tasleem. It is associated with al-Kafi, the one who satisfies all needs. There is peaceful trust
and surrender. When you call out you are content with the response.
The
third and highest stage of this journey to complete trust in Allah is call tafweed. It is dissolving of self in
Allah (al-fanaa’u fi-llaah). There is
complete and absolute trust in Allah. Ya
Khaliq is associated with this stage.
It points to when the human quality passes away and what remains is a
divine quality.
Ask yourself: In whom do you trust to always provide you
with sustenance and to protect your property?
p. 176-177: Consider how intimately you are connected to
life. Repeat Ya Wali, Ya Waliyy together, invoking the protection if intimate
friends on earth, along with the protection of Infinite Presence.
p. 178: Repeat Ya
Raqib to advance of the demanding path of concentration.
p. 178: Consider a vigil at night, watching the stars
rise and set. Note what arises in your heart and mind.
p. 178-179: Imagine that a fortress surrounds you. Allow your mind to create and build an
unbreachable fortress of protection around you.
Invoke this visualization when needed. Consider when you need this and
what conditions arise that remind you that you have this protection.
p. 179: Consider the root meanings of al-Hafiz. It is to be mindful, conscious, considerate,
aware careful; to respect, to honor, to revere.
It means to keep in your heart, to memorize. This is the meaning of the
state called haf. What is it that you
hold in your heart to this degree?
p. 181: Repeat Ya
Hafiz to invoke divine protection against angry impulses and thoughtless
speech.
p. 182: The citadel is the aspect of essence that
gives you support, or the capacity to be unwavering in your soul’s direction in
life. No matter what comes to your world, this citadel protects and preserves
you in the direction of truth. Continue the remembrance that you are part of
God, and that you are protected and preserved by the great being.
p. 182-186: Read and reflect upon ‘Some Psychological
Reflections.
“If
there is any protecting influence in the world, it is no other than love. In
all aspects of life, wherever we find
protection, its motive is always love, and no one can have trust in any protection, however great, except the protection that love offers. If a
giant were to frighten a child, the child would say, 'I will tell my mother.'
The strength and power of any man is too small in comparison with love's protection which the mother affords
her child.”
By
Hazrat Inayat Khan
Volume
V - Spiritual Liberty
Part
IV: Love, Human and Divine
Ch.
1: The Philosophy of Love
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