friends, dato and tansri,
before we move on to surah az zukhruf, let us listen to our very own home grown shaykh.
shaykh aleey abdul qodir, 52, hailed from penang but for many years now has domiciled himself in london where he is the current chairman and co founder of the alamiyah institute.
last sunday, i finally succumbed to my good friend and neighbour, tuan syed hussien al junied's many previous invitation to visit his group's zawiyah.
i , in the past, have always been successful in averting visiting this zawiyah of his , stating from amongst other things, that i have bad sensitivity and allergy to shaykhs and zawiyahs , in general.
the free spirit to always have several tok gurus, as a safety net, and not 'ter-ikat' to anyone in particular, is addictive at my age.
i am a student with an attitude problem.
not something that i would generally recommend, as the general adab is to have a tok guru.
one without a tok guru, as a traveller, would move in circles, or like waliking on a threadmill without moving anywhere..........like thousands and millions of us do.
even rumi had his sham of tabriz!
but i guess at six score and five, and having gone thru the whole ten volume of hamka at the tender age of 30, one has a built-in tendency to take one's time before giving one's spiritual independence to just any tok guru.
the prequalifictions for choosing murshid and just sticking to one tok guru becomes harder....
it is a permanent head damage, of sort, i would say.
the basic inertia is configured by my sense of fear of losing my own spiritual independence, if i stick to one tok guru...and the 'taksub' that come with it.
an irrational fear , i assume, but i am sure i am not alone with this sentiment.
i guess many of us have that feeling.....'the recalcitrant mureed' one might say.
having said that, after listening to shaykh aleey's discourse on 'aligning the soul and the mind', i am fairly pleased that this is one 'anak malaysia that we can be proud about'.
unfortunately he now belongs to the world.
he is currently based in london, but do come back occasionally to malaysia.
he has a large following here.
listen to the good shaykh!
and implement his formulla: RUMI
i also enjoy his earlier tazkirah on ilm, ilm and ilm.
that must have been recorded in a 2016 majlis maulidurasul somewhere in selayang.
RUMI : read, understand, memorize & implement.
........consciously, constantly [ istiqamah],precisely,exactly, sincerely[ ikhlas ]
........surrender [ submission ]
.........delicate balance between doing and surrender.
........closeness.
........consciously, constantly [ istiqamah],precisely,exactly, sincerely[ ikhlas ]
........surrender [ submission ]
.........delicate balance between doing and surrender.
........closeness.
aligning the soul and the mind
q & a
on ilm , ilm , ilm and ilm..........at 25.50 the good shaykh alluded to 'most people being lost and overwhelmed by the sign-posts rather than the destination. he echoed what the good prof sayyid naguib al attas pointed out to me some 10 years back in his 'saturday night lecture' at istac.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65O5QJUW4po
last words from shaykh hamza yusuf on ilm, ilm, ilm and ilm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCB32MOjfNo
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