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Publisher: Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. |
| Author Sheikh Taoshobuddha | |
| Language: English | |
| Pages: 146 | |
| Cover: PAPERBACK | |
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7.5x5.0 Inch |
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Weight 140 gm |
| Edition: 2011 | |
| ISBN: 9788120756946 | |
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I am very grateful for the opportunity given to me to write
the foreword for this book. Bismillahir Rahmaani Rahiim. Nahmadubu Wa Nusolli
'Ala Rasulihil Karim. Amma Badu: This humble and poor servant of Allah, Hadhrat
Maulawi Jalaluddin Ahmad Ar-Rowi 'Ufiyallahu Anhu Wali Walidaihi Wali Jami'il
Muslimin has been requested to write the foreword for this classic literature
work titled The Essence of Sufism by the Enlightened Master of the Path
Hadhrat, Sufi Taoshobuddha. May Allah sanctify all his secrets! Tasawwuf is a
realization process to clean the physical aspects of man from all the bad
qualities and lifestyles and fill it with all the good qualities and the
lifestyles of the Holy Prophet Muhammad Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
and to clean the spiritual aspects of man from all the thoughts regarding the
creations and fill it with the thought of the greatness of Allah Subhanabu Wa
Tirala the Ultimate Creator! For someone who wants to learn Tasawwuf, he or she
needs to practice the Sunnah of the Holy Prophet Muhammad Rasulullah Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam into their daily life and fill their thoughts with the
remembrance of Allah Ta'ala the lord and the creator of the entire universe.
This is the path of the Sufis on which they struggled and for which they
sacrificed. It is because of the efforts they took to explain about the path by
the blessings of Allah Ta'ala, that the knowledge of Tasawwuf continues until
today, through their sacred literature. No one can deny the truth of the
spiritual aspect in humans and that the one who really understands about the
selves and the creator of the selves is the Prophet Muhammad Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam because he is the first Rub (spirit) that Allah had
created. Then He created the saints and the Sufis who really know and
understand about the heart, which is the reflection of the centre of the 'Anash
(throne) in the human heart. They are the people of the heart who connect
themselves to the ultimate being whose secrets are above the throne. Learning
the path of the Sufis or the Tariqah is the key to reach the Ma'rifat (gnosis)
of Allah's essence, qualities, attributes, names, and actions and by practicing
on the path it will lead the seekers to reach the Haqiqat (reality). Practicing
the path will enable the seekers to understand the sayings and utterances of
the Sufis and to understand their poems or poetries by understanding their
sacred path. The sayings are so beautiful that they touch the seeker's heart.
Allah's words are the most high above all the words of the Creation that
nothing can be compared to them and the Holy Prophet Muhammad Rasulullah
Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam's words are the best words amongst the Creation.
Other than that, are the poets who express their love and affection towards
Allah Ta'ala, the sustainer of the entire universe!
Dr. Visier Sanyü
CHARACTERIZING TASAWWUF
tidings to those who believe and do good works that they
shall Binherit gardens beneath which rivers flow. So often as they are fed in
in that life with fruits they shall say: "These are the fruits which are
given us formerly," because they shall find the fruits after life
resembling the fruits which were given them here.
Holy Quran
This esoteric dimension exists in all religions, and in
Islam it originated with the tradition of Prophet Muhammad. Mysticism in Islam
is termed as Sufism. The mystic is a Sufi. One of the first women Sufis we can
trace in Islamic mysticism is Fatima Bint (608-633 A.H.). There is an
interesting transition that you notice in her personality. While mourning the
death of Propher Muhammad she said, "It is not surprising that whoever
catche the fragrance of Muhammad's tomb will never know another perfume Destiny
injured me with bereavement so sorrowful and so dark that if had fallen on the
days they would have been turned into eternal night Her expression of this
utterance is Tasawwuf Poetry and love shqi Hagigi) are the important languages
of expression in Tasawwuf. While traversing on the path for attaining the
status of Sufi when the self undergoes certain transitions, it acquires an
ecstasy and the expression of that ecstasy is Tasawwuf. As the Quran reveals
that within the human self there are seven 'selved within each soul. The first
is Nafi-i-ammara, the physical self or the spiris of self prone to evil; the
second is Nafis-lawama, the moral self or the self-accusing spirit or conscience,
the third is Nafi-i-Mullahama, the inspired self, and the fourth is the
Nafs-i-murmainnah, the self-tranqual or the spiritual self. The fifth,
Nafi-i-Radiyya is the contented self, the sixth is Nafi-i-Mandiyye, the soul
satisfying, and the last is the Mafi-Safiyya wa Kamila, the self-clarified and
perfect. The attainment of the Nafs-i-mutmainnah is described in the Holy Quran
thus: "O thou soul that art at rest (and restest fully consented with thy
Lord), return to thy Lord, thou being pleased with Him and He pleased with
thee, so enter among my servants and enter into My paradise."
Holy Quran LXXXIX28-30
When a human being pursues the path of spirituality he gets
transformed from grossness to virtue; this process purifies the spirit of his
conscience and he acquires the control over unbridled passions, sensual
desires, and bestial appetites. He gets freedom from all weaknesses, material
longings, and other worldly attachments and thus attains Nafs-i-Safiyya wa
Kamila.
Sheikh Taoshobuddha was born in a Sufi family of Enlightened
Sheikhs on February 6, 1951. Enlightened Master Taoshobuddha officially known
as Brij K. Saksena, majored in Economics, taught at Kanpur University in India,
and authored many books on Economics. In 1981 he migrated to Trinidad, West
Indies where he started a business, but his eternal quest continued. For the
transformation of human consciousness he began his first Radio program in 1990,
the Hour of Introspection. Later, in 2005 he began another series of
inspirational programs called Whispers of the Unknown. Thus, the work of
transforming human consciousness continues. As part of his works he conducts
maraqbas and talks in Trinidad as well as worldwide. He is the author of
various books, namely, Meditation: The way to self-realization, Meditation the
Ultimate in Healing, Leaves from a Sufi Heart vol. 1, Leaves from a Sufi Heart
vol. 2, Maraqba-I-Naqshbandi, Maraqba-I-Rumi, Shah Bahauddin Naqshband - Life
and Works, Tasuwware Sheikh.
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