A Muslim Convert Once Before

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Arabic numerology is known as abjad .   This article is about the spiritual meaning of the letter, Jim .   The Arabic letter “ Jim ” is equivalent to the letter “J” in the English alphabet.   It is the fifth letter in the Arabic character set.   “ Jim ” has the value of 3.   In the Qur’an, there are exactly three chapters that have names starting with the letter “ Jim ”.   These three chapters are Chapter 45, al-Jatsiyah; Chapter 62, al-Juma’ah; and Chapter 72, al-Jinn.   The first chapter with its name starting with the letter “ Jim ”, al-Jatsiyah, means to crouch, or bow, specifically to Allah ( s.w.t. ).   سُوۡرَةُ الجَاثیَة وَتَرَىٰ كُلَّ أُمَّةٍ۬ جَاثِيَةً۬‌ۚ كُلُّ أُمَّةٍ۬ تُدۡعَىٰٓ إِلَىٰ كِتَـٰبِہَا ٱلۡيَوۡمَ تُجۡزَوۡنَ مَا كُنتُمۡ تَعۡمَلُونَ (٢٨)   And you will see every nation bowing the knee: every nation will be called to its Record: “This Day shall you be recompensed for all th...

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Imam al-Mugits Husayn ibn Manswur al-Hallaj ( q.s. ) said, in a poem:   “The long-awaited revealing of a well-kept secret, Is becoming clear to you. A dawn is breaking on your darkness. Your own heart is the veil covering the Secret. If you had kept yourself, He would not have been Revealed to you. But when you destroy your own heart, He Enters it and Discloses His Divine Revelation. So, guarded by this Revelation, An ever-nourishing dialogue will follow; Its verse and prose delicious to Us both.”