Ayatollah Tabrizi's Secret To Ayatollah Isfahani

[_Fatima]

Bismillah

 

Assalam alaykum warah matallahi wabarakatuhu Dear Sisters and Brothers in faith and humanity. 

 

Ayatollah Muhammad Husain Isfahani known as Kompani was an outstanding Muslim Jurist and philosopher of his time. In a letter to Ayatollah Tabrizi - known as ‘The Beauty of Wayfarers’ - he requested him to write a practical prescription for his spiritual perfection. I quote parts of the prescription from my teacher Ayatollah Hasan-Zadeh (pictured) who quoted it from his teacher Allamah Tabatabaei:

“ ...The beneficial way in knowing the self is to endeavour in reducing your animality by the following disciplines: 
1. Reducing your meals in that you don’t have more than two meals a day and not to have meat more than two or three times in a week. 
2. Reducing your sleeping hours in that you don’t sleep more than six hours. 
3. Endeavour in safeguarding your tongue and abstaining from heedless people.These three will be very helpful in reducing the animality of man.

 

As for accelerating and reinforcing your spirituality:
1. Have permanent grief of the heart (not facial) in fear of not reaching your destination.
2. Dhikr (remembrance of Allah) and Fikr (to think and ponder) as these two are the wings of flying to the heaven of knowledge. As for the Dhikr, the Dhikr of Yunusiyah (Laa Elaaha Ellaa Ant Sobhanaka Enni Konto Mena dhalemin) in the morning and at night is very much experienced and brings about many blessings. The minimum times of reciting it is 400 times. As for the Fikr for a beginner the best is to ponder upon death.”

 

(wasalam)

[Al-Englisi]

Bismillah

 

Assalam alaykum warah matallahi wabarakatuhu Dear Sisters and Brothers in faith and humanity. 

 

Ayatollah Muhammad Husain Isfahani known as Kompani was an outstanding Muslim Jurist and philosopher of his time. In a letter to Ayatollah Tabrizi - known as ‘The Beauty of Wayfarers’ - he requested him to write a practical prescription for his spiritual perfection. I quote parts of the prescription from my teacher Ayatollah Hasan-Zadeh (pictured) who quoted it from his teacher Allamah Tabatabaei:

“ ...The beneficial way in knowing the self is to endeavour in reducing your animality by the following disciplines: 

1. Reducing your meals in that you don’t have more than two meals a day and not to have meat more than two or three times in a week. 

2. Reducing your sleeping hours in that you don’t sleep more than six hours. 

3. Endeavour in safeguarding your tongue and abstaining from heedless people.These three will be very helpful in reducing the animality of man.

 

As for accelerating and reinforcing your spirituality:

1. Have permanent grief of the heart (not facial) in fear of not reaching your destination.

2. Dhikr (remembrance of Allah) and Fikr (to think and ponder) as these two are the wings of flying to the heaven of knowledge. As for the Dhikr, the Dhikr of Yunusiyah (Laa Elaaha Ellaa Ant Sobhanaka Enni Konto Mena dhalemin) in the morning and at night is very much experienced and brings about many blessings. The minimum times of reciting it is 400 times. As for the Fikr for a beginner the best is to ponder upon death.”

 

(wasalam)

 

Bismillah

 

Just a note for the readers of this thread, incase it wasn't clear.

 

The Ayt. Tabrizi mentioned here is the famous Mirza Jawad Maliki Tabrizi ®, the teacher of Ayt. Khumayn'i. Not to be confused with the recently deceased Shaykh Mirza Jawad Tabrizi ®, student of Sayyid al-Khu'i ®. 

 

Mirza Maliki Tabrizi is famously known for his books 'Spiritual Journey of the Mystics (Saluk al-`Arifan), known in Arabic as 'Al-Muraqebat fi Amal al-Sunnah' or 'Al-Muraqebaat'   in short.   

 

http://www.al-islam.org/suluk-al-arifan-spiritual-journey-of-the-mystics

[AnaAmmar1]

beautiful :cry:

 

jazakallah for sharing.