how to quit your self (nafs).

This is the deep training (tarbiyah): how to quit your self (nafs).

Allah bestows honor on the one who bows to another and practices ‘humility’ for the sake of Allah. He who bows down is uplifted. He who is vain falls. The seed germinates only when it has been buried in the earth. The people at the time of the Prophet used to ask,

What is it with this Prophet

who eats food and walks in the marketplace?

Why hasn’t an angel been sent down with him to give admonition?

(Surah al-Furqan 25:7)

and followed that up with,

How come we don’t see the angels come down to us

and why don’t we see our Lord?

(Surah al-Furqan 25:21)

and Allah answered them saying,

[Even] if We had made an angel, 

We would have sent him as a man, 

and dressed him as you are dressed.

(Surah al-'An'am 6:9)

So it is that our guides, our shuyukh, our murshids are people like us but more along the lines of the response of the Prophet, upon him be peace,

Truly I am a man like you

but it has been revealed to me that your G-d is one G-d.

(Surah al-Kahf 18:10)

and our shuyukh, the human inheritors (warathah) of the Rasul (divine Messenger), continue to do just that - remind us of the oneness of Allah and train us in the Way of Allah urging us to board the Ship of Safety so that, insha'Allah, we may reach the farthest shore. Our task, as sincere students, is to take the reminder, walk through the door and take the hand of the man whose hand is in the hand of the man whose hand is in the hand of the Prophet so then, like bulbs connected to wires running from pole to pole, we will be connected to the generator in the powerhouse of love and mercy.

yadul-Llahi faoqa aydihim
And the Hand of Allah is above their hands!

(Surah al-Fath 25:7)

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