Post by yusuf on Oct 14, 2019 8:25:07 GMT
As-Salaam alaikum,
In a gathering of older Sufis of Makkah, Abul-Qasim al-Junaid Ibn Muhammad Ibn Junaid al-Khazzaz, was asked to describe love (mahabbah). Tears came up in his eyes when he started saying:--
"The lover is a servant (of Allah) who departs from himself; who remembers Him constantly;
who is busy in discharging his duties towards Him; who sees Him by heart; whose heart is
set ablaze by the light of His Essence(Huwiyyah); who drinks a pure draught from the cup
of His love; to whom the Transcendent (al-Jabbar) reveals Himself from under the veils of
transcendence (ghaybah).
If he speaks, it is by Allah (that he speaks); if he discourses, it is Allah (that he discourses);
If he moves it is at Allah's Command; and if he is silent, it is with Allah."
Hearing these words the Shaykhs busrt out into tears and said: "May Allah comfort you, O the crown of Gnostics."
Source: Al-Qushayri's
'Al-Risalah'- page 623