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:
{…And Allah is better and more lasting.} [Ṭâ Hâ 20:73]
قَالَ اللهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ: "وَاللَّهُ خَيْرٌ وَأَبْقَى"
Subsistence is a name for what lasts after the annihilation of the indicants and their obliteration.798 It is of three levels:
الْبَقَاءُ اسْمٌ لِمَا بَقِيَ بَعْدَ فَنَاءِ الشَّوَاهِدِ وَسُقُوطِهَا، وَهُوَ عَلَى ثَلَاثِ دَرَجَاتٍ.
The first level is the subsistence of the known after the obliteration of knowledge: in reality, not [only] in recognition. 799
الدَّرَجَةُ الْأُولَى بَقَاءُ الْمَعْلُومِ بَعْدَ سُقُوطِ الْعِلْمِ عَيْنًا لَا عِلْمًا.
And the subsistence of the beheld after the obliteration of the beholding: in actuality, not [only] in expression. 800
وَبَقَاءُ الْمَشْهُودِ بَعْدَ سُقُوطِ الشُّهُودِ وُجُودًا لَا نَعْتًا.
And the subsistence of He Who has always been by erasing that which was not. 801
وَبَقَاءُ مَا لَمْ يَزَلْ حَقًّا بِإِسْقَاطِ مَا لَمْ يَكُنْ مَحْوًا.
798 It is the annihilation of the manifestations and phenomena pointing to the Real (exalted is He) when one finds Him.
799 The mental knowledge is what is obliterated. The servant experiences the Divine until that experience obliterates his or her knowledge of Him (i.e., their knowing).
800 The actualization of finding the Divine will overcome the beholding of Him until that beholding vanishes.
801The temporally originated cannot be self-subsistent. Only the Eternal without beginning is Eternal without end by Himself (al-Qayyoom). The temporally originated may subsist only by Him.
After one rids themselves of the ego that keeps them away from Allah and they make Allah the focus of their attention, they will reach a point where they subsist only by Him, for Him, and with Him. This was best expressed in clear and powerful language by the most eloquent of humanity when he (ﷺ) relayed the following hadith qudsi: