Day 26 Ramadhan - Step 29

Day 26 #Ramadhan - Step 29 - Sufi Secrets & Gems of Ramadhan by ~Sajad Ali~

Every hour of the month of Ramadhan 600,000 people are delivered from Divine Punishment, it goes like this until the Night of Qadr, then on that night the Rate of deliverance then becomes equal to the total of those spared in the hours between the beginning of Ramadhan and the night of Qadr; it then continues like this until the day of Eid.

Heavens, earth and angels weep last day of month of Ramadhan. On the last day of Ramadhan the heavens, earth and angels weep for the misfortune of end of Ramadhan, When asked What misfortune! It was said the misfortune of Ramadhan being over.

Why weep In the month of Ramadhan, prayers are accepted, charity is received, good deeds are rewarded 100's folded, punishment is waived, and sin are pardoned. But it should be us weeping that such a blessed month has passed, will we never see another next year?

1000 years of Punishment for the Nafs, But it still was arrogant - Fasting the Cure

When Allah created the Nafs he asked who it was, the reply was with arrogance, the same as you. So Allah burned it 1000 years, asked it again the same reply the same as you, so He froze it for a 1000 years, the same reply. Allah Punished the Ego with so many different types of punishments, each time for a 1000 years. Finally he starved the Ego for a1000 years and then asked who are you, the Ego replied humbly your mere servant and you are the Lord of the Worlds. So Fasting has a major impact for the Ego, it humble its and gives the Spirit more freedom. Most of us live our lives following of Egos, but when we fast it allows us to be more obedient slaves of Allah.

Inviting Allah to Dinner

Remember the story when Bani-Israel inviting Allah, for Meal. But Allah was turned away By Musa. So Musa and his people waited patiently but only a poor old man came asking for water, but Musa turned him away saying, don't you know who is coming, go there and do some work, he replied but I'm hungry. His people embraced him saying you lied, Allah didn't come. Later he asked his Lord, You said you would come to dinner. Allah said I did come, I came in the heart of that old man who you turned away.

Nothing can contain Allah, no cosmos, universes or all the worlds. But the heart of the Mu-min, can only contain Allah. So how about Ramadhan, and feeding the poor and hungry, your brothers in Islam. You may just turn away Allah, like Musa did. It's a Month of being Generous so feed who ever you can, even if it be with one Date. For you will receive the reward of two fasts, yours and theirs by feeding them, increase the number of people to feed and receive more rewards and palaces in heaven.

Know the Master (Sayyid) of the Months is Ramadhan, and the Master (Sayyid) of the days is Friday. Why is Friday a Sayyid-Master of Days, Well there are 5 reasons and one of the secrets is, a holy hour on Friday were no Dua is surely refused, it is the hour when Sayyiduna Adam was created, and it's the last hour of sun light on Friday. So do much Dua's on this day in Ramadhan and in all the days of the month of Ramadhan. And don't forget, The 10 T's of Ramadhan.

The 10 T's of Ramadhan not to forget

1 Tilawah - read Quran

2 Tahajjud - 8 rakah's before Fajr

3 Taraweeh - 20 rakahs

4 Tasbeehat - Read 3rd Kamilat

5 Tadharru' - (ardent Dua)

6 Tatawwu' - (Nafil Ibadah

7 Tasahhur - (eating Sehri)

8 Tawadhu - (humility)

9 Tafakkur - (contemplation)

10 Taubah - (repentance)

Poem by Maulana Rumi Fasting

There's hidden sweetness in the stomach's emptiness.

We are lutes, no more, no less

If the soundbox is stuffed full of anything, no music.

If the brain and the belly are burning clean with fasting,

every moment a new song comes out of the fire.

The fog clears, and new energy makes you run up the steps in front of you.

Be emptier and cry like reed instruments cry.

Emptier, write secrets with the reed pen.

When you're full of food and drink, an ugly metal statue sits where your

spirit should.

When you fast, good habits gather like friends who want to help.

Fasting is Solomon (as) 's ring.

Don't give it to some illusion and lose your power, but even if you have,

if you've lost all will and control, they come back when you fast,

like soldiers appearing out of the ground, pennants flying above them.

A table descends to your tents, the Lord's table.

Expect to see it when you fast, this table spread with other food,

better than the broth of cabbages.

Rumi’s Poem on Fasting during Ramadan

Celebrate! The month of fasting has come.

Pleasant journey to the one

Who is the company of the fasting.

I climbed the roof to see the Moon,

Because I really missed fasting

By heart and soul.

I lost my hat while looking at the Moon.

the Sultan of fasting made me drunk.

O Muslims, I have been drunk

since that day I lost my mind.

What a beautiful fortune fasting has.

What a wonderful glory.

There is another secret moon

Besides this one.

He is hiding in the tent of fasting

Like a Turk.

Anyone who comes

To the harvest of fasting in this month

Finds the way to this Moon.

Whoever makes his face

Resemble pale satin

Wears the silk clothes of fasting.

Prayers will be accepted in this month.

Sighs of the one fasting pierce the sky.

The person who sits patiently

At the bottom of fasting’s well

Owns the love of Egypt, like Joseph.

O the word which eats the Sahur* meal,

Be silent so that anyone

Who knows fasting will enjoy fasting.

Come, O Shams, the brave one of whom Tabriz is proud.

You are the commander of fasting’s soldiers.

– Jalaluddin Rumi, a ghazal from the Divan-e Shams-e Tabrizi,
translated by Nevit Ergin.

Note: * Sahur:  Meal before dawn during Ramadan fast.