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********************************************************************** SALVATION AND AFFLICTION - The Qu'ran VICTORY - MOSES of COUCY THE SECRET OF TRANSMUTATION - RIFA'I LIVE TRULY - BONAR ********************************************************************** SALVATION AND AFFLICTION In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful By the night, when she lets fall her darkness, and by the radiant day! By Him that created the male and the female, your endeavours have different ends! For him that gives in charity and guards himself against evil and believes in goodness, We shall smooth the path of salvation; but for him that neither gives nor takes and disbelieves in goodness, We shall smooth the path of affliction. When he breathes his last, his riches will not avail him. It is for Us to give guidance. Ours is the life of this world, Ours the life to come. I warn you, then, of the blazing fire, in which none shall burn save the hardened sinner, who denies the truth and gives no heed. But the good man who purifies himself by almsgiving shall keep away from it: and so shall he that does good works for the sake of the Most High only, not in recompense for a favour. Such men shall be content. The Qu'ran ********************************************************************** VICTORY It is because man is half angel, half brute, that his inner life witnesses such bitter war between such unlike natures. The brute in him clamours for sensual joy and things in which there is only vanity; but the angel resists and strives to make him know that meat, drink, sleep, are but means whereby the body may be made efficient for the study of the truths, and the doing of the will of God. Not until the very hour of death can it be certain or known to what measure the victory has been won. He who is but a novice in the fear of God will do well to say audibly each day, as he rises: "This day I will be a faithful servant of the Almighty. I will be on my guard against wrath, falsehood, hatred, and quarrelsomeness, and will forgive those who wound me." For whoso forgives is forgiven in his turn; hard-heartedness and a temper that will not make up quarrels are a heavy burden of sin, and unworthy of an Israelite. MOSES of COUCY ********************************************************************** THE SECRET OF TRANSMUTATION Seventy Thousand Veils separate Allah, the One Reality (al-haqq), from the world of matter and of sense. And every soul passes before his birth through these seventy thousand. The inner half of these are veils of light; the outer half, veils of darkness. For every one of the veils of light passed through, in this journey towards birth, the soul puts off a divine quality; and for every one of the dark veils, it puts on an earthly quality. Thus, the child is born weeping, for the soul knows its separation from Allah, the One Reality. And when the child cries in its sleep, it is because the soul remembers something of what it has lost. Otherwise, the passage through the veils has brought with it nisyan, forgetfulness: and for this reason, man is called insan. He is now, as it were, in prison in his body, separated by these thick curtains from Allah. But the whole purpose of Sufism, the way of the dervish, is to give him an escape from this prison, an apocalypse of the Seventy Thousand Veils, a recovery of the original unity with the One, whilst still in this body. The body is not to be put off; it is to be refined and made spiritual - a help and not a hindrance to the spirit. It is like metal that has to be refined by fire and transmuted. And the shaikh tells the aspirant that he has the secret of this transmutation. "We shall throw you into the fire of Spiritual Passion", he says, "and you will emerge refined." RIFA'I ********************************************************************** LIVE TRULY Thou must be true thyself, If thou the truth wouldst teach; Thy soul must overflow if thou Another's soul would reach. Think truly, and thy thoughts Shall the world's famine feed; Speak truly, and each word of thine Shall be a fruitful seed; Live truly, and thy life shall be A great and noble creed. BONAR ------- You are subscribed to Jewel in the Lotus - Complete Daily Readings as email@domain.com Visit the TLO Lists main page: http://theosophy.org/lists/ To be taken off this list instantly: http://ezinester.com/mpb/unsub.cgi?70603&<!--$pid-->&<!--$phash--> |
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