Before We Move On to Surah Fussilat.......'reflection on the beautiful names of god'.

friends, dato and tansri,

i have  very few 'living' guru to speak off.

tuan guru nik aziz, if a few visit can be considered as such, has gone on to join the realm of the beloved.
shaykh ninowy ,due to his  very international commitment and travel, i have not met for the past 2 years.
tuan hj lokeman of subang jaya, is more of a friend to lean on, rather than a tok guru. he is 20 years my junior.

'virtual tok gurus', i have many.

imam abu hamid al ghazali tops them all.
his 'mukhasyafatul qulub', translated into 'bahasa', is phenomenal and very readable.
his 'ihya', still in indonesian can be an overdose of spiritual sleeping pill if one does not have  strong stamina and resolve.
tj winter's of cambridge treatment of 'ihya' into english is more comforting!

i can count on prof 'hamka' as my most definitive 'virtual tok guru'.
i read his voluminous 'tafsir al azhar' , all about 10,000 pages in all in my early 30's.
he was the 'seed' of my present 'permanent head damage , phd!

shaykh abdal qadir al jilani, many lazy malays i am afraid, just remember him for his alledged ability to 'walk on water'.
little do they care to read his almost subliminal writitngs such as 'futuh al ghaib'[ revelations of the unseen], 'utterances', 'sublime revelations' etc and etc, all thankfully translated by the late prof mukhtar holland. his 'secrets of secrets', translated by one one turkish sufi master. al jerahi, is also very readable.

the late shaykh abdal qadir isa's writing also are contemporary writings that one must get their hands on. his 'realities of tasawuf' is superb reading for the beginners .

i must confess that having read all these 'virtual tok gurus' , have spoilt my appetite for having 'living tok gurus'. it is just like having driven ferraris and porshes, the rest become mundane and just 'myvi'.

but having said that, of the current living ones whom i would love to meet one day , i would count shaykh hamzah yusuf, shaykh al yacoubi of syria and shaykh mokhtar al magrhaoi as the ones topping the list.

before we move on to surah fussilat let us visit shaykh mokhtar al magrhaoui of al madina institute, usa. 

shaykh moktar hails from morocco, currently domiciled in irving, usa.
has a double phd in physics and electronics.

here, his tazkirah is on 'reflection on the beautiful names of god', if you focus and listen carefully, is almost subliminal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1u755g3fu6w

ya fatah, ya razak, ya  wahab, ya ghoniy, ya mughniy, ya qadim, ya daim, ya wahid, ya samad, ya rahman , ya rahim, ya hayyu, ya qayyum, ya rabb, ya zaljala-liwalikram,

ya ghaniy, ya hamid, ya mubdiu, ya muid, ya rahim, ya wadud.

ya latif, ya salam.........



PS:  ...and  before we part, friends..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWEApW8R4l0

...the most powerful statement in the whole universe is not POTUS or PUTIN.
it is , ' subhanallah wal hamdullillah wala illa haillallah huwallah huakbar. wala haula  wal kuwwata illa billa hil aliyul azim'.
POTUS and PUTIN can both go and fly kites!


mashaallah, it is very liberating....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYl6LwPk_mk

this is the believer's secret weapon!
try it. initially, i must warn , you can get a splitting headache, but it will get better and better.
sooner than you expect, finally you get 'addicted'.

in my day to day life i have tried.
my 'experimentation' started some 10 years ago.
http://drnikisahak.blogspot.my/2009/03/exercise-mixing-profane-and-sublime.html