https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAnJJcTAbPI part 2 [ shaykh al yacoubi ]
friends, dato and tansri,
ayat 41 to ayat 45 is all about remembrance of allah,
"...ya ayyu hal lazi na amanu iz kurullah ha zikran kasira.......",
zikran kasira....a lot of remembrance, not just any ordinary remembrance, a lot of remembrance!
shaykh al yacoubi, globe trotting daie and scholar formerly from damascus, syria, gave a profound discourse on ' zikr' in oslo some years back .
he stresses on [1] location, [2] constancy and thirdly on [3] focus, for best effect .
let us listen to him.
after al yacoubi , let us listen to shaykh ninowy whose discourse on 'levels and levels', is very related to this important subject of 'zikran kasira'.
in essence, all of us are travelers on the path towards more closeness to allah.
'innalillah hiwainna ilai hiro jion'
from Him we come, to HIM we return.
dr nik
[2] [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blJ8neV3wYU ]
al junayd al bagdadi was asked in a dream by his mureeds:
' how are you doing with HIM sir?'
' all the isharats and the ibarats, the commas and the apostrophes, the small prints and the big prints, in our discourses, amounts to nothing, once you are gone,.....it is the extra 2 rakaats that you do in the wee hours of the morning that count..',........ something to that effect.
after you finnish with [1], and [2], i can guarantee you that you will have to 'break and split' some neurons in your brain trying to comprehend the next lecture, which is about 'stations' or 'maqam' of a 'traveler', but still closely related to 'zikran kasira' and 'travel' :
[3] [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UK2v-0IBqk ]
this is already my seventh time listening to the good shaykh on his 'travel advisory'.
my relatively 'secularly wired brain' still cannot comprehend him fully, but what i can, i try to put here in point form....
1. the 'early traveler in the path to HIM initially begin to notice the incremental 'volume' of his remembrance in whatever form.
2. then , slowly, slowly, he enjoys in the 'volume' and oftentimes than not, slowly slowly more and more 'volume' become effortless.
after years or perhaps decades, he is totally submerged by the 'volume'. he cannot do without it.
3. finally it is just HIM, he sees HIM everywhere, the rest are inconsequential.
success, failures, ease, difficulty, expansion, restriction, happiness and sadness all become the same...all blunted.
he has arrived, alhamdullillah!
allahualam.
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