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MAULANA SHEIKH NAZIM AL HAQQANI AN NAQSHBANDI -
GRAND MASTER OF THE MOST DISTINGUISHED
NAQSHBANDI HAQQANI ORDER OF SUFISM.
Peace be upon you.
http://www.the-heart.net
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"The heart of man has been constituted by the Almighty that, like a flint, it contains a hidden fire which is evoked by music and harmony and renders man beside himself with ecstasy. These harmonies are echoes of that higher worldof beauty which we call the world of spirits; they remind man of his relationship with that world and produce in him an emotion so deep and strange that he himself is powerless to explain it. The effects of music and dancing fan into a flame whatever love is already dormant in the heart, wether it be earthly and sensual, or divine and spiritual. The innocent character of music and dancing, regarded merely as a pastime, is also corroborated by an authentic tradition which we have from our Lady Ayesha (the Prophets wife) who narrates: One festival day some negroes were performing in a mosque. The Prophet said to me, Do you wish to see them? I replied, Yes. Accordingly he lifted me up with his own blessed hand, and I looked on so long that he siad more than once, Havent you had enough? Another tradition from the Lady Ayesha relates how the Prophet allowed two girls to play and sing music in his house on a festival day. Ghazzali continues that pure religious music is used by the Sufis to stir up in themselves greater love toward God often obtaining spiritual visions and ecstasies, their heart becoming as clean as silver in the flame of a furnace. In holding these assemblies, regard must be had to time and place and that no spectators come with unworthy motives.
Those who participate in them should sit in silence, not looking at one another, but keeping ther heads bent, as in prayer, and concentrating their minds on God. Although these matters are comparitive novelties in Islam and have not been received from the first followers of the Prophet we must remember that not all nove,ties are forbidden, but only those which directly contravene the Law. Therefore it is generally permissable to fall in with usages that please people when non-conformity would vex them, as the Prophet himself said, Live with each man according to his habits and disposition. And Sheikh Nazim said, You may go into the lions den 99 times if the lion will eventually come into your house.
Extracts from The Alchemy of Happiness. Al Ghazali
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