Stations
SECTION I
- 001 Wakefulness - اليَقَظَةُ
- 002 Repentance - التَّوْبَةُ
- 003 Self-Reckoning - المُحَاسَبَةُ
- 004 Returning - الإنَابَةُ
- 005 Reflection - التَّفَكُّرُ
- 006 Remembrance - التَّذَكُّرُ
- 007 Taking Shelter - الاعْتِصَامُ
- 008 Fleeing - الفِرَارُ
- 009 Training - الرِّيَاضَةُ
- 010 Hearing - السَّمَاعُ
SECTION II
- 011 Grief - الْحُزْنُ
- 012 Fear - الْخَوْفُ
- 013 Concern - الإشْفَاقُ
- 014 Submissive Solemnity - الْخُشُوعُ
- 015 Serene Submissiveness - الإخْبَاتُ
- 016 Disinterest - الزُّهْدُ
- 017 Pious Conscientiousness - الْوَرَعُ
- 018 Dedication - التَّبَتُّلُ
- 019 Hope - الرَّجَاءُ
- 020 Desirous Quest - الرَّغْبَةُ
SECTION III
- 021 Caring - الرِّعَايَة
- 022 Observance - المُرَاقَبَةُ
- 023 Veneration - الحُرْمَةِ
- 024 Devotion - الإخْلَاصُ
- 025 Refinement - التَّهْذِيبِ
- 026 Straightness - الِاسْتِقَامَة
- 027 Reliance - التَوَكَّل
- 028 Delegation - التَّفْوِيضِ
- 029 Trust - الثِّقَةِ
- 030 Surrender - التَّسْلِيمِ
SECTION IV
- 031 Patience - الصَّبْرِ
- 032 Contentment - الرِّضَا
- 033 Gratefulness - الشُّكْرُ
- 034 Modesty - الْحَيَاءِ
- 035 Truthfulness - الصِّدْقِ
- 036 Altruism - الإيثَارِ
- 037 Character - الخُلُق
- 038 Humbleness - التَّواضُع
- 039 Pietistic Heroism - الْفُتُوَّةِ
- 040 Affability - الانْبِسَاط
SECTION V
- 041 Intent - الْقَصْدِ
- 042 Resolve - الْعَزْمِ
- 043 Willfulness - الْإِرَادَةِ
- 044 Propriety - الأدَبِ
- 045 Certainty - اليَقِين
- 046 Comforting Intimacy - الْأُنْسِ
- 047 Remembrance - الذِّكْرِ
- 048 Poverty - الْفَقْرِ
- 049 Richness - الْغِنَى
- 050 The Sought - الْمُرَاد
SECTION VI
- 051 Excellence - الْإِحْسَانِ
- 052 Knowledge - العِلْمِ
- 053 Wisdom - الحِكْمَةِ
- 054 Insight - الْبَصِيرَة
- 055 Astuteness - الْفِرَاسَةِ
- 056 Exaltation - التعظيم
- 057 Inspiration - الإلهام
- 058 Tranquility - السَّكِينَةُ
- 059 Serenity - الطُّمَأْنِينَة
- 060 Drive - الْهِمَّةِ
SECTION VII
- 061 Love - المَحَبَّةُ
- 062 Protectiveness - الْغَيْرَة
- 063 Yearning - الشَّوْقُ
- 064 Anxiety - الْقَلَقُ
- 065 Thirst - الْعَطَشُ
- 066 Ecstasy - الْوَجْدُ
- 067 Bewilderment - الدَّهَشُ
- 068 Mystification - الْهَيَمَان
- 069 Lightning - البَرْق
- 070 Taste - الذَّوْقِ
SECTION VIII
- 071 Noting - اللَّحْظ
- 072 Timeliness - الْوَقْتُ
- 073 Clarity - الصَّفَاءُ
- 074 Bliss - السُّرُورُ
- 075 Privacy - السِّرُّ
- 076 Breath - النَّفَسُ
- 077 Stranger-ness - الْغُرْبَةُ
- 078 Submersion - الغَرَق
- 079 Absence - الْغَيْبَةُ
- 080 Establishment - التَّمَكُّنِ
SECTION IX
- 081 Disclosure - الْمُكَاشَفَةِ
- 082 Witnessing - الْمُشَاهَدَةُ
- 083 Beholding - المُعَايَنَةُ
- 084 Life - الْحَيَاة
- 085 Constriction - الْقَبْضٌ
- 086 Expansion - الْبَسْطُ
- 087 Intoxication - السُّكْرُ
- 088 Sobriety - الصَّحْوُ
- 089 Connection - الِاتِّصَال
- 090 Detachment - الِانْفِصَال
SECTION X
Allah, the Almighty, said:
{Say: Each works according to his (own) manner...} [al-Isrâ’ 17:84]
قَالَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى: "قُلْ كُلٌّ يَعْمَلُ عَلَى شَاكِلَتِه"
Willfulness is one of the principal rules of this knowledge and its foundational structures.365 It concerns the willful response to the call of the Truth.366
It is of three levels:
الْإِرَادَةُ مِنْ قَوَانِينِ هَذَا الْعِلْمِ وَجَوَامِعِ أَبْنِيَتِهِ. وَهِيَ الْإِجَابَةُ لِدَوَاعِي الْحَقِيقَةِ طَوْعًا.
وَهِيَ عَلَى ثَلَاثِ دَرَجَاتٍ:
The first level is about:
الدَّرَجَةُ الْأُولَى:
- ذَهَابٌ عَنِ الْعَادَاتِ بِصُحْبَةِ الْعِلْمِ
- وَالتَّعَلُّقُ بِأَنْفَاسِ السَّالِكِينَ، مَعَ صِدْقِ الْقَصْدِ
- وَخَلْعُ كُلِّ شَاغِلٍ مِنَ الْإِخْوَانِ وَمُشَتِّتٌ مِنَ الْأَوْطَانِ
The second level is accomplished by:
والدَّرَجَةُ الثَّانِيَةُ تُقْطَعُ:
- بِصُحْبَةِ الْحَالِ
- وَتَرْوِيحِ الْأُنْسِ
- وَالسَّيْرِ بَيْنَ الْقَبْضِ وَالْبَسْط
The third level is a stupor with adherence to uprightness and attentiveness to the refinement of character.371
والدَّرَجَةُ الثَّالِثَةُ ذُهُولٌ مَعَ صُحْبَةِ الِاسْتِقَامَةِ وَمُلَازَمَةِ الرِّعَايَةِ عَلَى تَهْذِيبِ الْأَدَبِ.
365 Willfulness is the principal action of the heart. Therefore, it has a great place in the sciences of Sufism, which focus on the heart and its dispositions and actions.
366 This is about the genuine disposition of the heart. Unlike resolve, where one may compel themselves to behave a certain way, this is about the voluntary desire for the Creator.
367 You desert your own personal and societal preferences and biases and abide by the requirements of the Revelation as soon as you learn them.
368 Keeping the company of the travelers on the path to God while ensuring that your heart is directed towards the same destination.
369 Whatever spiritual imports Allah grants you, do not waste them.
370Those two states of inbisâṭ (ease, comfort, affability) and inqibâḍ (unease, strain, reservation) result from the alternation of hope and fear, proximity and distance, or could be merely caused by Allah to perfect His test, as Ibn ‘Aṭâ’ (may Allah be pleased with him) said, “He expanded you in order to not keep you in contraction; He contracted you in order to not keep you in expansion; and He took you out of both so that you will not belong to anything apart from Him.” A true servant will continue the march between these states without becoming hopeless in the state of contraction or exultant in the state of expansion. Allah said:
{In order that you not despair over what has eluded you and not exult [in pride] over what He has given you…} (al-Ḥadeed 57:23)
371 This is a stupor that will cause you to be distracted from this world, but not from your Lord. It is a stupor that will not cause you to deviate from propriety and uprightness or fail to observe proper etiquette with the creatures and their Creator.