lundi, mars 27, 2006

true poverty


Shaykh Naqshband was asked, “Why the seekers are called the poor?”

He said: Because they are poor, but they do not need to supplicate. Just as Prophet Abraham (peace on him), when he was thrown into the fire and Gabriel came and asked him, “Do you need help?” He replied, “I have no need to ask. He is well aware of my state.”

Poverty is a sign of annihilation and the erasure of attributes of existence.

Shaykh Muhammad Naqshband once asked, “who is the poor one?” No one answered him. He said , “ the poor one is the one whose inside is always in struggle and whose external is always at peace.”


Classical Islam, Shaykh Hisham Kabbani.

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