A Muslim Convert Once Before

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Shaykh Shahab ad-Din Yahya ibn Habash as-Suhrawardi al-Ishraq ( q.s. ) said, “The visionary will understand the implication completely, learning much from a few hints.  He will have patience to be resolute in all matters, the secret of this patience being entrusted to the one who holds the authority to teach the book.  He will be characterised by Nearness to Allah ( s.w.t. ), a spare diet and little sleep, supplication to Allah ( s.w.t. ) to Ease the Path for him, and a heart made refined by refined thoughts.”

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Shaykh Shahab ad-Din Yahya ibn Habash as-Suhrawardi al-Ishraq ( q.s. ) said, “Whatever is produced in haste, goes easily to waste.”

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Shaykh Shahab ad-Din Yahya ibn Habash as-Suhrawardi al-Ishraq ( q.s. ) wrote, “The visionary will understand the implication completely, learning much from a few hints.  He will have patience to be resolute in all matters, the secret of this patience being entrusted to the one who holds the authority to teach the book.  He will be characterised by Nearness to Allah ( s.w.t. ), a spare diet and little sleep, supplication to Allah ( s.w.t. ) to Ease the Path for him and a heart made refined by refined thoughts.”   The real fast is the renunciation of all religious and worldly desires.  The desire of Paradise, and of worldly wealth and position should be avoided.  The love of anyone else except Allah ( s.w.t. ) and the desire for Paradise are the things, which break the fast.  The people who keep the fast abstain from eating and drinking.  But this is not the real fast.  It is an unreal fast.  Such a fast...

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Shaykh Shahab ad-Din Yahya ibn Habash as-Suhrawardi al-Ishraq ( q.s. ) said, “If words come out of the heart, they will enter the heart, but if they come from the tongue, they will not pass beyond the ears.”

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Shaykh Shahab ad-Din Yahya ibn Habash as-Suhrawardi al-Ishraq ( q.s. ) wrote, “The visionary will understand the implication completely, learning much from a few hints.  He will have patience to be resolute in all matters, the secret of this patience being entrusted to the one who holds the authority to teach the book.  He will be characterised by Nearness to Allah ( s.w.t. ), a spare diet and little sleep, supplication to Allah ( s.w.t. ) to Ease the Path for him and a heart made refined by refined thoughts.”   The real fast, according to the Shishtiyyah , is the renunciation of all religious and worldly desires.  The desire of Paradise, and of worldly wealth and position, should be avoided.  The love of anyone else except Allah ( s.w.t. ) and the desire for Paradise are the things, which break the fast.  The people who keep the fast abstain from eating and drinking.  But this is not the real fast.  It is ...