13.THE WONDERS OF ALLAH’S SIGNS
While I was on my way to hajj, I and the people with me were worried that the desert Bedouins might attack us. We therefore took the route through Khaybar, upon which I saw huge mountains and natural pathways that blew my mind and made my appreciation of Allah’s Greatness increase in my heart. I sensed Allah’s greatness here more than any other place.
So I rebuked my ‘self, ‘Woe to you!’ [If this is amazes you then] go to the sea and contemplate its greatness. You will see greater wonders than this. Look then at the universe and all the heavens and orbits, you will find that it is just like an atom in a desert.
Then let your thoughts roam around the orbits of planets and circulate around the Throne (‘arsh) and heed to what is in the heavens and hell. Then detach yourself from everything and direct your attention to Him as then you will see all that is grasped within the fist of the Almighty whose ability has no limits.
Look then at yourself, think of your beginning and your end. Think about what you were prior to your beginning; you were non-existent and think about yourself after death, where there will only be dirt.
How could anyone feel comfortable with this existence while viewing the beginning and the end through the eye of his intellect? And how could those whose hearts are mindful, forget remembering their great Lord?
By Allah! If people were to wake up from the intoxication of their desires they would melt out of fear of Him or would dwell into loving Him.
Yet mankind is often overpowered by its attachment to tangible objects; hence people glorify Allah and His Capacity’ when seeing a mountain. If the wit of a person contemplates the meaning intended, His Capacity’ and Ability will direct us to Him more than it would have the evidence of the mountain.
Glory to He who made most people occupied with their affairs instead of the purpose of their creation!
(Source: al-Hafiz Abu’l-Faraj ibn al-jawzl [d. 597AH] “CAPTURED THOUGHTS being” a translation of his masterpiece ‘Sayd al-K hatir)
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