The Ninth Section

          Nine Allusions

[This  section  is  about  the paths  of sainthood,  and  consists  of  nine allusions.]

In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate.

Behold!  Verily  on  the  friends  of  God  there  is  no  fear,  nor  shall  they grieve.(10:62)

First Allusion

Underlying the terms Sufism, path, sainthood, and spiritual journeying is an agreeable, luminous, joyful, and spiritual sacred truth. This truth has been proclaimed, taught, and described in thousands of books written by authoritative scholars among the people of illumination and unveiling, who have told the Muslim community and us about it. May God reward them abundantly! Now, because of some compelling circumstances at this time, we shall point out a few droplets, like sprinklings, from that vast ocean.

Question?  What is the Sufi path?

The Answer: The aim and goal of the Sufi path is – knowledge of God and the unfolding of the truths of faith – through a spiritual journeying with the feet of the heart under the shadow of the Ascension of Muhammad  (UWBP), to manifest the truths of faith and the Qur’an through tasting and certain enhanced states, and to an extent through direct vision; it is an elevated human mystery and perfection called the Sufi path or Sufism.

Yes, since man is a comprehensive  index of the universe, his heart resembles a map  of  thousands  of  worlds.  For  innumerable   human  sciences  and  fields  of knowledge show that man’s brain in his head is a sort of centre of the universe, like a telephone  and telegraph  exchange  for innumerable  lines. Similarly,  the millions of light-scattering books written by incalculable saints show man’s heart in his essential being to be the place of manifestation of innumerable cosmic truths, and to be their pivot, and seed.