The Heart Flashcards
How many lives do we have?
5
The first life is
Before this world. The spiritual realm. Malakut, Great witnessing. We were spirit beings, on the plain of Arafat our of the loin of Adam. Allah manifested to us, asked us to testify. Alastu Birabbikum. Bala Shahidna.
Taklif?
Allah is asking, Am I not
Do the spirits know each other?
The spirits are soldiers in many ranks. Those who recognised each other, like each other. In that world. Those who don’t recognise each other because they belong to another army. They don’t get along.
What is the second life?
Right here, begins in the womb of our mothers.
Ends in the grave or not. End of the physical world.
What is the third life?
Alam barzakh. The intermediary world. Nobody is dead in this realm. The spirit never dies. Either rewarded or punished. Punishment might be purification or one that never ends. Malakut world.
What is Yauma Yubathun?
Life no 4, we will be reconstituted. Either beautiful or ugly (shaqib = wretched, cursed deeds). If the heart is beautiful, in the next world you will be beautiful in the next world.
There is no beautiful women in the akhirah.
If our hearts are good, we will be beautiful.
The fifth world is
After the judgement. The garden and hellfire. Profound cosmic meaning. Absolutely true realities.
What did Ibrahim say?
Do not humiliate me on the day, when wealth and children are of no benefit except those who come back to God with Qalbun Salim
The superheart is
The metaphysical and more general heart.
Surah Qaff : 32-33.
What you are promised with, they are true. It is for everyone who turns back to God again and again (Awwab) and what God has set down (Hafiz).
Awwab
Always reorienting himself back to God.
Hafiz
Lives in accordance to the limits and the ordinances of Prophetic law.
Ihsan?
Worship Allah as if you can see Him, and as though He sees you. With this gift we will fear Him in the unseen, in private and in secret.
