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#1 [Permalink] Posted on 26th August 2015 12:35

Restoring a beneficial Thread from Here on Muraqabah..

Shall add on later إن شاء الله

What is Muraqabah ?

Brother Fani Wrote:

Muraqaba is to 'Keep your focus on one particular thought for a specified period of time' such that the concept of that particular thought enters deep into your subconscious mind. It is a useful thing and has many forms.

It is important to mention that when we think of Muraqaba (meditation), unintentionally our mind diverts to the books on meditation scattered on the Internet, mostly written by Buddhist monks or their western followers.

Their focus is on 'concentration of thoughts'....our din taught us "Concentration of aqeeda".The thoughts of a Muslim are focused on Allah سبحانه وتعالى ,that is why our Din is called "Din e Haneef". Allah سبحانه وتعالى have, by his grace, saved us from the practices widely published,which do nothing but strengthen the 'Nafs'.

As here we are dealing with 'Ahle Din' we will discuss the types used for consolidations of certain deeni concepts :

Probably the most Important and the most effective is "Muraqiba e Maut" (The Muraqabah of Death) which shaikh Fusus Al Hikam had posted on SF in an extremely effective way..If Fusus happen to visit this thread,he may kindly post the link here.

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#2 [Permalink] Posted on 26th August 2015 12:40

Brother Fani wrote:

Muraqaba e Safar (Muraqaba of a Journey) :

It means to contemplate that we are actually traveling through 'time' to a particular destination....only that we tend to ignore this fact.It is just like one is sitting in a boat and the boat is moving fast.Similarly our physical body may not be moving,but we are passing from childhood to adulthood to an old age ....and ultimately death.

Every second of this life is a treasure.We can earn unending pleasure or unending pain,depending on how we used this time. Our life is like an ice...melting...soon it will be no more; We will have no other chance at life, once it is finished.

The purpose of this,and other muraqibat,is to remind us of certain realities, which we tend to forget,simply because these are too obvious or too common, and therefore we fail to appreciate the importance of it. Life and death is one such issue.

We see people dying and we see people born...and we do not stop to think even for a sec and realize that we are not only the observers but actually part of this process. Muraqibah serves to make this process as your 'own' experience.The positive effect upon your thought process and your deeds shall be obvious if we make it part of our daily routines.

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#3 [Permalink] Posted on 26th August 2015 12:45

Brother Fani wrote:

افى الله شك فاطر السموات والارض

("Is there a doubt about Allah, the creator of the heavens and the earth").

We all, Alhamdulillah, believe in Allah سبحانه وتعالى .... Why then, the effects of this belief do not manifest in our daily life ? Is it that we are born Muslims and we have not given it sufficient thought ? We have not convinced ourself about this fact through contemplation and rational thinking.?

In the ayat above,in a very simple way Allah سبحانه وتعالى invites us to think....to think about the creator of the heavens and the earth, to meditate upon HIS سبحانه وتعالى signs in the creation....as,... if we do that we will undoubtedly know the creator as well as the purpose of our creation.:

" O you people ! Worship your Guardian-Lord,who created you and those who came before you,that you may have the chance to become righteous; Who has made the earth your couch, and the heavens your canopy; and sent down rain from the heavens;and brought forth therewith fruits for your sustenance; then set not up rivals unto Allah when you know ( the truth)

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#4 [Permalink] Posted on 26th August 2015 12:49

Brother Fani wrote:

وفى الارض ايت للموقنين و فى أنفسكم افلا تبصرون

("On the earth are signs for those of assured Faith As also in your own selves: Will you not then see ?").

Indeed there are Signs of creator in the universe...but look at our own self.....! How amazing.

- Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 to 180 miles per hour.

- There are millions of nerve cells in the human body. This number even exceeds the number of stars in the Milky Way.

- The human brain alone consists of somewhere about 100 billion neurons. If all these neurons were to be lined up, it would form a 600 mile long line.

- In a child developing inside the womb, neurons grow at the rate of 250,000 neurons per minute.

- By the time of its birth, the baby's brains consists of around 10 million nerve cells.

- The human spinal cord consists of around 13,500,000 neurons. The cluster of nerves located at the base of the spinal cord are most sensitive.

At a given point of time, only four percent of the cells in the brain are active, the rest are kept in reserves

- The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet.

- The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve razorblades.

- The human body is estimated to have 60,000 miles of blood vessels. To put that in perspective, the distance around the earth is about 25,000 miles, making the distance your blood vessels could travel if laid end to end more than two times around the earth.

- The surface area of a human lung is equal to a tennis court.

- The aorta is nearly the diameter of a garden hose.

- Feet have 500,000 sweat glands and can produce more than a pint of sweat a day.

- During your lifetime, you will produce enough saliva to fill two swimming pools.

- A fetus acquires fingerprints at the age of three months. When only a small fraction of the way through its development, a fetus will have already developed one of the most unique human traits: fingerprints. At only 6-13 weeks of development, the whorls of what will be fingerprints have already developed.

Oddly enough, those fingerprints will not change throughout the person’s life and will be one of the last things to disappear after death.

- Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.

- It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown.

- You use 200 muscles to take one step. Depending on how you divide up muscle groups, just to take a single step you use somewhere in the neighborhood of 200 muscles. That’s a lot of work for the muscles considering most of us take about 10,000 steps a day.

- Humans shed and regrow outer skin cells about every 27 days. Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour, your skin is constantly renewing itself and shedding dead cells.

- Three hundred million cells die in the human body every minute. While that sounds like a lot, it’s really just a small fraction of the cells that are in the human body. Estimates have placed the total number of cells in the body at 10-50 trillion so you can afford to lose a few hundred million without a hitch.Every day an adult body produces 300 billion new cells. Your body not only needs energy to keep your organs up and running but also to constantly repair and build new cells to form the building blocks of your body itself.

- Your body gives off enough heat in 30 minutes to bring half a gallon of water to a boil.

These were just some interesting facts derived from a rapid search on google,but the fact remains that if we think about our body,we will certainly come to the conclusion that such an organised system can not be created without a creator.

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#5 [Permalink] Posted on 26th August 2015 13:08

Brother Fani Wrote:

و هو معكم أينما كنتم

( HE is with You,wherever you are)

Without going into the 'How' of this Maeyat (togetherness),this powerful Muraqaba is to feel the presence of Allah سبحانه وتعالى ,his ILM, with us and around us.

If this concept really seeps in,we may not be able to do anything which is not liked by Allah سبحانه وتعالى.This fact is so important that it has been presented in Qu'ran multiple times, like:

ان الله لا يخفى عليه شئ فى الارض و لا فى السماء(ال عمران(ع

(From Allah,surely nothing is hidden on earth or in the heavens)

و هو الله فى السموات و فى الارض، يعلم سركم و جهركم و يعلم ما تكسبون (الا نعام ع١

( And He is Allah in the heavens and on earth.He knows what you hide,and what you reveal,and He knows the (recompense)which you earn( by your deeds)

وربك يعلم ما تكن صدورهم وما يعلنون،وهوالله لا اله الا هو،له الحمد فى الاولى والآخرة و له الحكم و اليه ترجعون ( القصص ع ٧)

(And your Lord knows all that their hearts conceal and all that they reveal.And He is Allah: There is no God but He.To Him be praise,at the first and at the last: For Him is the command,and to Him shall you (all) be brought back)

و لا تعملون من عمل الا كنا عليكم شهيدً اذ تفيضون فيه ، و ما يعزب عن ربك من مثقال ذرة فى الارض و لا فى السماء ( يونس ع٧)

(And whatever deed you (mankind) may be doing--we are witnesses thereof when you are deeply engrossed therein.Nor is hidden from your Lord (so much as) the weight of an atom on the earth or in heaven)

و اذا ساًلك عبادى عنى فانى قريب (البقرة ع٢٢

( When My servants ask you concerning Me,I am indeed close (to them).

و لقد خلقنا الانسان و نعلم ما توسوس به نفسه و نحن اقرب اليه من حبل الوريد (ق~ ع٢

(It was We who created man,and We know what dark suggestions his soul makes to him: for We are nearer to him than (his) Jugular vein)

ما يكون من نجوى ثلا ثة الا هو رابعهم ولا خمسة الا هو سادسهم و لا أدنى من ذالك ولا اكثر الا هو معهم اين ما كانوا ( مجادله ع٢)

(Do you not see that Allah does know (all) that is in the heavens and on earth ? There is not a secret consultation between three,but He makes the fourth among them--nor between five but He makes the sixth--nor between fewer or more,but He is in their midst)

These were just few ayaat of Qurane Hakeem.We Alhamdolillah being a Muslim know these ayaat and recite them regularly.What is required is regular contemplation of these verses, so that the concept behind these enter into the deepest recesses of our mind.

Then, inshaAllah,we will be able to live a life full of the awareness (of the presence of Allah سبحانه وتعالى )....and what a blessing that would be,to live in the company of Allah سبحانه وتعالى. May Allah سبحانه وتعالى grant it to me and to all of you. Ameen.

contd later إن شاء الله

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#6 [Permalink] Posted on 26th August 2015 14:25

Shaikh Fusoos wrote:

The Muraqaba posted above are very beneficial, this one is particularly good and the way to do it is like this:

Sit quietly somewhere turn off all distractions. Sit in a comfortable way. Close your mouth and put the front tip of your tongue up to touch the upper palate of your mouth so your mouth is sealed off and tongue doesnt move. Now look down and find some spot to focus on preferably some sort of a dot or a spot or you can draw a tiny dot on a paper make sure it is fully darkened and then keep the paper on the ground and just stare at the dot. Now just with your mind and thought, do not move your tongue at all, just stare at the dot you can blink if you want to and just keep pondering on this ayah:

"Does he not know that Allah sees?"

Just ponder on this again and again in your thought and mind as much as you can and do this for 10-15-20-30 minutes or more daily. Insha'Allah in a very short time your thought will awaken and strengthen.

Another way to do the above Muraqaba is that you just sit in the way described above and think "Allah is watching me, Allah is watching me" again and again in your thought.

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#7 [Permalink] Posted on 26th August 2015 14:29

Muraqaba e Maut

(Meditation On Death)

At bed time when you are laying in your bed, turn of all phones, laptops, ipods, ipads, myphones, iphones whatever phones and such things, and think like this:

The time has come for me now that I sever my hearts connections with all worldly things, all of the worldly transient things, all worldly transient beings, all worldly emotions, all worldly frustrations and stress, and I start a connection with my heart and Allah سبحانه وتعالى. As I am cutting off my hearts connections with the world and all that is in it, I can feel a connection now building with Allah سبحانه وتعالى. I can feel the presence of Allah سبحانه وتعالى. Now my real vision is opening, now my real sight is opening. Now my reality is opening to me.

Disconnect from the world, its things and its people, and ponder over your death in the following manner. Close your eyes, do not move your tongue or limbs, try to dive as deep into this thought as possible, try to live and experience what you are about to read. Dont see yourself in the follow scenario from a third person view, but actually live and take on what you are about to read. Lay there lifeless and imagine:

I have gotten into a tragic accident and I am now laying in a hospital bed. I am laying in a hospital bed. I am now laying in a hospital bed. My beloved mother, who I dearly love, is standing beside me crying watching me die, my father who provided me safety my entire life is standing by me crying, helpless, watching me take my last breath. My family is in my hospital room, no one can help me, no one can do anything to save my life. I am now dying. I am dying, I am dying. The doctor has said there is nothing more they can do for me. This is it, I never thought this moment would come, I am dying.

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#8 [Permalink] Posted on 26th August 2015 14:31

“What have I attained by gaining worldly status? What have I attained by accumulating gold, silver, wealth and learning a trade? I have to die one day, my death is certain, I can do whatever I wish in this world but my death is certain!”

Now my breathing is slowing down, my heart beat is slowing down, my soul is at my throat. I cannot save my own life, my life is in the hands of someone else. I am now dead. My soul has left my body. My mother and father are crying, my siblings are crying, no one could save me, no one could help me. I had the best medicine and doctors but they could not help me. I am now gone from the world I never thought I would leave.

My worldly possessions mean nothing now, all of the money and gold I accumulated mean nothing, my investments my business mean nothing now, I am dead. They have picked up my body and are now moving my body to the morgue. In the worldly life I had full power to go wherever I wanted to go, but today my body is being taken to the morgue, the mortuary, where dead bodies go. I am a dead body, I am helpless. Now people are coming to make ghusl to my body. In the worldly life, I showered myself, now I am powerless.

The people are now moving my hands and legs, I have no power in my hands, I have no power in my legs, I am lifeless. I have died. Now they are covering my body in just one white sheet. In the worldly life I wanted to wear the best of clothes, the expensive fragrances, the best shoes, today I am wrapped in one white sheet. I am leaving my entire wardrobe behind, I am leaving my expensive shoes behind, I am leaving my beautiful fragrances behind, nothing is coming with me but this one white sheet I have on. The reality has struck me:

“My soul has to surely go one day, what I sow in this world I have to reap one day”

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#9 [Permalink] Posted on 26th August 2015 14:34

The people have gathered around, they have lifted me and now they are carrying me to the masjid. Before this I traveled in the best of cars, I wanted the best of transportation, airplanes, expensive luxury cars, motorcycles, I wanted the best and hottest cars of the time, today my janaza is my transportation.

I now have to enter the masjid. In the worldly life I had so many chances to go to the masjid for salaat, to ask forgiveness for my sins, to prepare for this day, I avoided the masjid, I procrastinated in going to the masjid, today I have no choice but to go, my body is being forced to go and I cannot stop it. Now they are starting my salaat ul janaza.

In the worldly life I read janaza for countless people heedless that one day people would be praying salaat for my janaza, today is my janaza. My body is in front of the gathering, the imam starts the salaat. They are offering my salaat ul janaza. Now the salaat is over and the people are rushing to grab my janaza, to carry me on their shoulders, straight to the graveyard.

They are holding me and carrying me, they are rushing to bury me. In the worldly life I went to so many places I shouldnt have gone, today I am going to the place I have to go.

I am now laying on top of my grave. In the worldly life I lived in lavish homes, I wanted the biggest and best house, I was hooked to mtv cribs, I wanted to live in the homes of the movie stars, in mansions. I am about to enter into a hole in the ground 6 feet long and 3 feet wide, this is my lavish house, dirt, this is my home until qiyamat. Now they are lowering my body into my grave. My family, my friends, my beloved ones are now lowering me into a hole in the ground.

No one is coming with me, I have to go into my grave alone. Now all relations are cut off, all connections are broken, I am now going into this stage of my life alone, to meet with my Creator. My friends who I tried to please cannot help me. The world I tried to please cannot come with me to help me.

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#10 [Permalink] Posted on 26th August 2015 14:37

I am now in my grave. All around me are dirt walls. My family and friends are throwing dirt on me. This is my reality, this was certain to happen one day. I thought I would never see this day, I thought I had it all, I wanted a lavish life, big home, fancy car, status, wealth, but this is my lot; I am being buried covered in dirt. I can feel the pressure of the dirt as it covers me, its pressing my chest, its covering my entire grave. I look up and see the sky, my last view of the world, the view is getting smaller and smaller as the dirt piles on.

Now it’s completely closed – I am in complete darkness. Now people are making dua for me. I can hear them walking away. My family has now left me alone in my grave, they are going back to their busy lives. My friends have now left me in my grave, they are all returning back to their busy lives. My hang outs are done, my friendships are over, my parties are over, my socializing is finished. They are back in their life, I am left in my grave, alone in darkness.

There is no cell phone, no internet, no worldly possessions, no wealth, no degree, no honor; of all of the things I worked so hard to accumulate in the world nothing came with me. Its complete silence and darkness. Suddenly I see two frightening beings coming towards me.

They grab hold of me, I cannot run, they sit me up. With voice like thunder they ask me who my Rab is, they ask me who my Lord is…today I cannot cheat on the answer, shrewdness does not work today, I will only answer with what is in my heart. If I had taken Allah سبحانه وتعالى sincerely to be my Rab, if I obeyed Allah سبحانه وتعالى and lived a life following Allah سبحانه وتعالى then today I would answer correctly telling them that Allah سبحانه وتعالى is my Rabb.

If I had lived a life contrary to the commandments of Allah سبحانه وتعالى I will answer incorrectly and suffer terrible consequences. They ask me what my deen is…I cannot make up an answer, I will only answer with the lifestyle I had lived in the world, if I lived a deeni lifestyle then today I will answer correctly that my deen is Islam. If I had lived a life contrary to deen I will answer incorrectly.

They show me the Prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam, they ask me to identify him, to tell them who he is. I cannot make up any answer, my heart will only answer today, if I lived a life on sunnah I will answer that he is Muhammad salallahu alayhi wa sallam who I believed as the last messenger of Allah swt and who I tried to emulate. If I lived a life contrary to sunnah I will answer incorrectly.

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#11 [Permalink] Posted on 26th August 2015 14:39

If I answered everything correctly my grave will now become a garden from the gardens of paradise, I will be clothed with the clothing of paradise, the angels will put the fragrance of paradise on me, the window of paradise will be opened to me, Allah سبحانه وتعالى will show me my abode in paradise, my grave will expand as far as my eyes can see.

If I answered incorrectly my grave will become a pit from the pits of hell, snakes and serpents will be unleashed on my grave to bite me until qiyamat. My grave will press down into me breaking my ribs like eggs, punishment will start in my grave. My grave will be utterly dark until qiyamat, full of snakes and insects biting me and stinging me.

Try to dive as deep into this thought of death as you can, forgetting your surroundings, lose yourself in the thought of your death. At the end of meditation on your death, open your eyes to what is now your new life. You are now starting a new life, a life where your heart is no longer connected to worldly things. You live in the world, you carry on with your worldly responsibilities but the world is now dead to your heart. Your heart is now connected to Allah سبحانه وتعالى.

Your heart will no longer allow you to sacrifice this new connection simply to fulfill worldly gains and to enjoy worldly pleasures. Then ask Allah سبحانه وتعالى to give you a good end.

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#12 [Permalink] Posted on 26th August 2015 14:40

Jazak'Allah... Dr, Sahib.

I have found the following Muraqabah of benefit.

Muraqaba Allah Loves Me..!

Hakim al Ummah Mawlana Ashraf Ali Thanawi (Allah have mercy on him) said,

Contemplate (make muraqaba) that I love Allah and Allah also loves me.

This muraqaba is extremely beneficial.

When an individual afflicted with extremes of worries and anxieties does this muraqaba, all of them vanish completely. This is because there is conviction that Allah loves me and therefore there must be some benefit for me in this affliction. In love, who will hurt the loved one?

Shariat wa Tariqat , page 278 www.ashrafiya.com/2013/02/24/...llah-loves-me/

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#13 [Permalink] Posted on 26th August 2015 14:43

Brother Fani wrote:

Yes,Shaikh....great muraqibat.

The Muraqaba of "Alam yalam be annallaha yara" is very useful and safe.My Shaikh taught this Muraqaba as follows:

"keep your focus on your Qalb (heart), and think that Allah سبحانه وتعالى is looking at the Qalb with great Love and affection".

It has a lot of benefits. Once it becomes a habit,you will 'know' that whether in public or in private...alone or accompanied, someone is looking at your heart from all sides.Your deeds,your thoughts,your intentions....every thing is known to Him...is under His watchful gaze.The addition of 'Loving gaze' will increase your 'Husne dhan' with Allah سبحانه وتعالى,and as a Hadeeth Qudsi says :

"Ana inda dhanni abdi bi"....Allah سبحانه وتعالى will start loving you too.

This concept of 'Rooyat' and 'dhan of love' will inshaAllah lead to eslah and muhabbat.

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#14 [Permalink] Posted on 26th August 2015 14:47

Maria al-Qibtiyya wrote:

السلام عليكم
Question:

Can maraqabah be practiced in order to develope/improve concentration in salah?

Brother Fani Replied:

This is the real objective of Muraqaba...to help us improve in our Deen

For concentration in salat,the following methods are used,choose any one which is more interesting for you :

1) Recite every word consciously (not from memory), do every act ( Rukoo,sujood) consciously ( not out of habit).While reciting Surah Fatiha or the Adhkar of Rukoo,sujood and attahiyyat,make it a point to think that my Tongue and my heart are saying the same words simultaneously.

2) Keep this thought In your mind that you are present before Allah سبحانه وتعالى and HE is watching you.

3) Imagine "Kaaba sharif" in front of you.If visualisation is difficult,even this feeling is enough.

I personally find the first one more effective for me.

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#15 [Permalink] Posted on 30th October 2018 10:46

السلام عليكم

Came across this beneficial thread..

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