Concept of Ma'rifah (Gnosticism) Part IV

A Seeker drown in quest of Irfan is transforming from sphere of ignorance to sphere of witness. Sidi Mawaqit Al-Niffari RTA said "the spring of knowledge gushes forth from ignorance"  Hence, i perceive the Notion from 'Nothingness to Not-nothing through a vibrated thing' Its highly expedient for one who seeks his Lord to transform all forms of knowledge of the soul to the knowledge of God. Sidi Abubakri RTA "Glory be to Him who made the very incapacity to know Him to be the only path by which creatures may Know him". This quote takes us to the fundamental principles gnosticism.

In lieu of the above explanation, its obvious the first principle is dealing with 'Knowledge' the knowledge of Self seeked by self through Self. Allah SWT made us know in His Holy Scripture that His light is knowledge and thats everyform of righly guided knowledge. As for the knower, after been absorbed in the knowledge of His perception he moves to the knowledge of Reality, which makes him sees his Lord in all Ramification as informed by Quran, ' I'budu Lah ata yaatiyanaka L Yakeena' , 'Worship Allah until the reality emanates to you', in this concept the worship is translated as knowledge. An indepth philosophy of this principle is about ignorance or nothingness which leads to Fana' total annihilation of the self to uphold the emanation of the Self, so as to make the conscious within to participate in God's self Knowledge, therefore, his state and vibration is of Allah.

Another important principle is that from "Shukru" I read from reports of Sidi A-Lamati some years back that Sidi Al-Aarif AbdulAzeez Adabbarghy was said to enjoin all seeker of his Lord to go through the path of Shukru (Thankfulness), as this makes him more lovable by God. We'v been told by Hadith and Quran to always gives thanks to Allah in all states, this will resultantly increase mercy of irfaniyyah on us. Thanksfulness eliminates elements of shirk, polishes the eeman and invites ihsan.

Taqwa (Fear of Allah), is also another principle. This greatly makes the Aarif to be vast in the rules and desist from the unlawful. The fear of Allah makes Allah be with Aarif in all conditions, spheres and states. The heart bows and falls for his Lord as well as trembles only because of Allah and for Allah alone.

Invocation of His Holy names which polishes the heart must also be taken as another principle. Zikri connects the tongue to the heart and to the Lord. A scholar explained ' Do not  abandon the invocation because you do not feel the presence of God. Therein, for your forgetfulness of invocation of Him is worse than your forgetfulness in invocation of Him. perhaps, He'll take you from an invocation with forgetfulness ( gafla) to one with vigilance ( yaqza) and from vigilance to presence ( khudur). Due to this, Allah commands the angels to stamp the love of Aarif on the hearts of his creatures

The principle of Mahabah (Love), total pure love for God is of the greatest of all this these principles. As the seeker is always with his Lord, and his Lord is always with him. This brings about perfectiom of mercy on the Aarif, the knower of the highest order loves God more than any creature and the hidden Lock of this Mahabah is Seyyid l wujud SAW ("In kuntum tuhibunaLah fatabihuni" If you claim to love Allah follow me { Mohammed}...Quran). Perfect and undiluted love for Prophet Muhammed SAW will bring the seeker to land of ma'rifa

Watch out for part five where am going to annalyse the story of a wali in relaton of adept ma'rifa

As-salam alaekum warahmotullah wabarakatullah