The greater sojourn of irfan is synergestically contingent on the ability of the aarif to get rid off many blockades from his heart (qalb), breast (sadr), intellect (aql) and Nafs inorder for the heart to receive the light of ma'rifa. According to shaykh Abdul-Azeez Addabarghy RTA, reported by seyyid A-Lamati RA that Shaykh said, there are three hundred and sixty-six darkness in the body of man and one who is set to know his Rabb (Lord) must extinguish this darkness by replacing them with 366 Nur (light). The sweetness of ma'rifa lies in the knower been able to depict the inner meaning of the Verses and Ahadith as hinted by Hujjatul Islam Imam Ghazalli RTA. This ability and capability to explain the esoteric through exoteric is dictated by illumination of the intellect (aql) to see beyond the Zaahr.
As i mentioned earlier in the first path of this concept, there exist in every Ilm ( knowledge), an Ilm that his hidden and could only be explained by the knower of God. Tashahud which is based on the pronouncement of God as the Sole God and nothing more is meant to be worked on in two aspects, the first aspect been in the exoteric manner which has to do with saying the khalma and Ibadat (Worship). The second aspect is meant to be treated in the realm of Ma'rifa taking congnisance of its esoteric mysticism, this simply explains the conversion of statement from 'There's no other god but God' to 'There's no other reality but The Real' This innermeaning is only exposed to aarifun ( the knowers) through Mukashafa (the mystical unveiling) of the eye of the heart (Fuad). Ibn Abbas reports, the Verse 'I created not the jinn and mankind except that they might worship me' Q51:56, the worship here then turns to knowledge (Irfan) and transforms the verse from 'ila liyabuduni' (so that they might worship me) to ' ila liyarifuni' (So that they might know). This is evident from the statement 'Farifuni qobla an ta'buduni wa man lam ya'rifni wa kayfa ya'buduni' meaning 'Know me before you worship me, whoso doesnt know me how can he worship me'.. The ultimate goal of an aarif is to be drown in the bahr irfan (sea of gnosticism) of his Rabb by transcending from the state of worship to the state of reality of worship (Irfan) as its obvious that not every worshipper knows his lord and might just be acting towards the call of religion.
How then, is ma'rifa obtained, in what form can it be obtained and how is it communicated?
Watch out for the next part
As-salam Alaekum warahmotullah wabarakatullah
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