A Muslim Convert Once More

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ   This is an excellent study on the nature of the nafs , and its resilience.   From a spiritual perspective, we are all, to an extent, delusional, and the world is our asylum.   The lesson here is that even when confronted with the truth, so many of us construct our own reality and justify our unbelief.   That is the essence of kufr .   The following is taken from When Three Jesus Christs Collided .   In t 1959, psychologist Dr. Milton Rokeach, and a team of researchers, began an experiment in which they gathered three psychiatric patients, and had them live together, in Michigan’s Ypsilanti State Hospital to see how their beliefs might change or adapt.   These three patients were all suffering under the delusion that they were Jesus Christ.   Dr. Rokeach’s methods were questionable, and his results both inconclusive and of little worth, but the experiment has become one of the weirder and more infamous of...

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ   Shaykh Muhyi ad-Din Abu Muhammad ibn Abu Swalih ‘Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani ( q.s. ) said, “Accept these invocations of swalawat from me, for I received them by way of ilham from Allah ( s.w.t. ), then I presented them to the Prophet ( s.a.w. ).   I intended to ask him about their special merit, but he answered me before I asked him, and he said to me, ‘They have a special merit that is something too tremendous to be calculated.   They raise those who adopt them to the highest degrees, and cause them to reach the farthest goals.   If someone seeks to achieve some purpose by them, he will not be turned away disappointed.   His idea will not be frustrated, and his supplication will not be Rejected.   If someone recites them, even one time only, or carries them with him, Allah ( s.w.t. ) will Grant Forgiveness to him and to those who are with him in his company.   When his final moment is at hand, four of the an...

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ The following is called Swalawat an-Nuraniyyah , or Swalawat Badawi al-Kubra .   When Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ahmad at-Tilimsani ( q.s. ) completed reciting Dala’il al-Khayrah a hundred thousand times, he saw the Prophet ( s.a.w. ) in a dream.   The Prophet ( s.a.w. ) said, “O Muhammad, if you read the Swalawat an-Nuraniyyah of Ahmad al-Badawi, it will be as if you have completed Dala’il al-Khayrah eight hundred thousand times.”   اَللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ وَسَلِّمْ وَباَرِكْ عَلىَ سَيِّدِناَ وَمَوْلاَناَ مُحَمَّدٍ شَجَرَةِ اْلاَصْلِ النُّوْرَانِيَّةِ وَلَمْعَةِ الْقَبْضَةِ الرَّحْمَانِيَّةِ وَأَفْضَلِ الْخَلِيْقَةِ اْلاِنْسَانِيَّةِ وَأَشْرَفِ الصُّوْرَةِ الْجِسْمَانِيَّةِ وَمَعْدِنِ اْلاَسْرَارِ الرَبَّانيِّةِ وَخَزَائِنِ الْعُلُوْمِ اْلاِصْطِفَائِيَّةِ صَاحِبِ الْقَبْضَةِ اْلاَصْلِيَّةِ وَالْبَهْجَةِ السَّنِيَّةِ وَالرُّتْبَةِ الْعَلِيَّةِ مَنِ انْدَرَجَتِ النَّبِيُّوْنَ تَحْتَ لِوَائِهِ فَهُمْ مِنْهُ وَاِلَيْهِ وَصَلِّ وَسَلِّمْ وَبا...