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Message: <blockquote data-quote="A.K ramson" data-source="post: 3300030" data-attributes="member: 110651">[FONT=goudy old style, book antiqua, bell mt]...[/FONT][FONT=goudy old style, book antiqua, bell mt]F[/FONT][FONT=goudy old style, book antiqua, bell mt]rom the lips of     the Prophet Muhammad [/FONT][FONT=goudy old style, book antiqua, bell mt]{peace     be upon him}[/FONT][FONT=goudy old style, book antiqua, bell mt]     came the saying, Mutu qabla an tamutu (Die before you     die): leave this world with your own will before you are faced     with the necessity of leaving it at the end of your life.    <img src="http://www.sufism.org/images/dot_clear.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />    There are three steps to achieving eternal life by dying to the     world.    <img src="http://www.sufism.org/images/dot_clear.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />    The first step is to protect oneself against the love, the ambition,     the lust, the pleasures of this world, whose attractions pull     us down to it and whose illusions distract us from Truth.    <img src="http://www.sufism.org/images/dot_clear.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />    The second step is to try to live in strict accordance with the     divine precepts -- not in a forced way but in seeking and assuming     the divine attributes, the beautiful names of GOD, and in making     them one's character in sincerity. The most ordinary sort of     example of this is when a sincere man is dead and buried, beautiful     memories of him live on.    <img src="http://www.sufism.org/images/dot_clear.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />    The third and final step is to efface oneself, all that one has     done, and all that one was -- including the divine attributes     with which one has characterized oneself, such ass the Living     One, the Hearing One, the Seeing One, the Knowing One, the Speaking     One, the One with Power, the One with Will, the One Who Can Create     -- all and everything, and to realize that there is no existence     except [/FONT][FONT=goudy old style, book antiqua, bell mt]GOD[/FONT][FONT=goudy old style, book antiqua, bell mt]. There is no you, but He and you are lost in Him,     and you exist with Him. This is truly dying before dying.    <img src="http://www.sufism.org/images/dot_clear.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />    Such a person is in continuous remembrance and continually conscious;     his consciousness extends this world into the other. Therefore,     he will be alive eternally.    <img src="http://www.sufism.org/images/dot_clear.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />    Continuous remembrance, total consciousness, is the goal and     the sign of the perfect man. It is also the beginning, the means,     and the key to perfection. Perfection is in  [/FONT][FONT=goudy old style, book antiqua, bell mt]GOD [/FONT][FONT=goudy old style, book antiqua, bell mt]and is from[/FONT][FONT=goudy old style, book antiqua, bell mt] GOD[/FONT][FONT=goudy old style, book antiqua, bell mt] , and man attains it in the measure of his closeness to [/FONT][FONT=goudy old style, book antiqua, bell mt]GOD[/FONT][FONT=goudy old style, book antiqua, bell mt].    <img src="http://www.sufism.org/images/dot_clear.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />    To come close to[/FONT][FONT=goudy old style, book antiqua, bell mt] GOD[/FONT][FONT=goudy old style, book antiqua, bell mt]  is only possible through loving Him, and     to love Him is only possible through remembering Him. The Beloved     of [/FONT][FONT=goudy old style, book antiqua, bell mt]GOD[/FONT][FONT=goudy old style, book antiqua, bell mt], Muhammad [/FONT][FONT=goudy old style, book antiqua, bell mt]{peace     be upon him}[/FONT][FONT=goudy old style, book antiqua, bell mt],     said: Man remembers often the one whom he loves.    <img src="http://www.sufism.org/images/dot_clear.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />    Frequent remembrance of [/FONT][FONT=goudy old style, book antiqua, bell mt]GOD[/FONT][FONT=goudy old style, book antiqua, bell mt] increases His love in one's heart.     If one's heart and mind are preoccupied with other things, one     will forget the Creator and Sustainer of that heart and will     neither remember nor love Him.    <img src="http://www.sufism.org/images/dot_clear.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />    It is impossible to realize the Creator only with one's senses     and one's mind. It is not easy to submit to Him through reason.     But if one remembers Him often, that remembrance will penetrate     into one's being -- into every part, every cell, deep into one's     essence, making one able to remember Him without effort, like     a heartbeat. Then the effort to be conscious will be replaced     by the pleasure of consciousness. That pleasure will bring the     love of [/FONT][FONT=goudy old style, book antiqua, bell mt]GOD[/FONT][FONT=goudy old style, book antiqua, bell mt]. [/FONT][FONT=goudy old style, book antiqua, bell mt]GOD[/FONT][FONT=goudy old style, book antiqua, bell mt] says: [/FONT][FONT=goudy old style, book antiqua, bell mt]Remember [/FONT][FONT=goudy old style, book antiqua, bell mt]GOD[/FONT][FONT=goudy old style, book antiqua, bell mt] so often so that     you will find deliverance from heedlessness, and find happiness.     (Juma', 10). And: Those who remember  [/FONT][FONT=goudy old style, book antiqua, bell mt]GOD [/FONT][FONT=goudy old style, book antiqua, bell mt]standing     and sitting and lying on their sides...[/FONT][FONT=goudy old style, book antiqua, bell mt] (Al-i'Imran,     191) are the heedful who see the signs of the creation of the     heavens and the earth and know that they were not created in     vain.    <img src="http://www.sufism.org/images/dot_clear.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />    Realization of this is the reward of remembrance. The pleasure     of seeing the harmony in the creation, the love felt for the     Maker of this creation, are the signs that [/FONT][FONT=goudy old style, book antiqua, bell mt]GOD[/FONT][FONT=goudy old style, book antiqua, bell mt] has opened the     eyes of one's heart and the gates of His Paradise.    <img src="http://www.sufism.org/images/dot_clear.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />    There are only two rewards which [/FONT][FONT=goudy old style, book antiqua, bell mt]GOD[/FONT][FONT=goudy old style, book antiqua, bell mt] bestows upon a human being     that He never takes back. One is the pleasure given in the remembrance     of Him; the other is the lifting of dark veils from the eye of     the heart, so that wherever one looks one sees the Truth in the     beauty and power of the Creator.[/FONT][FONT=goudy old style, book antiqua, bell mt]    <img src="http://www.sufism.org/images/dot_clear.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />[/FONT]</blockquote>

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