Thursday, June 19, 2008

The Self At Peace

The Goal of Ihsan : an-nafs al-mutma'inna: the self at peace

Finally there is the self at peace which is illuminated and acts according to the good and its therefore liberated
 " O self at peace, return to your Lord, well=pleased, well-pleasing.
Enter among My servant. Enter My Garden."

"A certain state came over me so that the attributes of Allah appeared in manifestation in myself and in all creation...I began to love my self and to love all creation. Whoever I saw, man or woman, old man or child, I loved..I also began to love animals, rivers, trees, birds, the sky and the stars, and the earth and its stones...whatever loved me and I loved whatever did not love because I saw that my essence contained existence, hig and low, existence was part of me. It was like my limbs and extremities. my love of them appeared to me to be only love of me essence and attributes.

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