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The pole star is fixed...

with all other stars revolving around it.

The Qutb is fixed with all the other saints revolving around him also. The Qutb is the Sultan of the Awliya, the real Caliph and representative of Allah on earth. This is the highest rank among the saints.

The orders of the Qutb are the orders of Allah, and his will is the equivalent of Allah’s will. Why? It is because he is no longer subject to his nafs’ desires. Only Allah’s Will is with him. There are no hobbies with him, only Allah’s Work.

Only this kind of man can be a Wali [saint].

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It is very difficult to stay on the throne of the pole star.

Our Grandshaykh spoke of one Wali who stayed on that throne for forty years, unsurpassed by any other saint. This is a sign of great ‘spiritual poverty,’ and from this ‘poverty’ come his words. These words are unchanging laws.

He was our Grandshaykh’s Shaykh, and this is his tradition coming to us.

He said...

“If anyone doesn’t consider death and the hereafter at least four times a day, his faith is too weak to build upon. To consider death makes the soul free to contact its heavenly station and Divine Powers.”

What is the meaning of death? It is to be invisible in this world, to disappear from it and reappear in the Heavens. This is the meaning of death to the saints. Remembrance of that gives us more spiritual power.

It is the reality of death. At the same moment we are living here, we are reaching there. When your spirit leaves your body, immediately it will be in its Heavenly station. Our soul is waiting, like a bird in a cage, to be free. It waits with endless desire for the time when it can fly to its Heavenly station.

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When a man knows the truth of death...

he no longer fears it, but waits for it.

This knowledge gives us love to reach our Heavenly home, and also a Way.

The Prophet ﷺ said...

“The way to meet your Lord is death. 
If you don’t like death, you don’t want to meet your Lord!”

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All real believers must, therefore, like death.

For it is the way to the Heavens.

Thinking of death gives more power to our faith.

The love of God is the power of our faith, the spirit of our faith.

If you haven’t any love for Allah, then you cannot have any faith.

It is impossible.


~bron~