Remember every morning when we wake up our mind is empty of all thought and no sooner, it is flooded with them. The memories just flooded our mind and made us remember who we are, what we are supposed to do, we remember the events before and then the onslaught of worries, fear, happiness and others follow suit. To this end, even at the very moment of resurrection, our mind is empty.

And it is He Who makes the night a covering for you, and the sleep (as) a repose, and makes the day Nushûr (i.e. getting up and going about here and there for daily work, after one’s sleep at night or like resurrection after one’s death).[72]

 

And He it is Who takes your souls at night (in sleep), and He knows what you acquire in the day, then He raises you up therein that an appointed term may be fulfilled; then to Him is your return, then He will inform you of what you were doing.[73]

 

And thus did We rouse them that they might question each other. A speaker among them said: How long have you tarried? They said: We have tarried for a day or a part of a day. (Others) said: Your Lord knows best how long you have tarried.[74]

 

And the trumpet shall be blown, when lo ! from their graves they shall hasten on to their Lord. They shall say: O woe to us! who has raised us up from our sleeping-place? This is what the Beneficent Allah promised and the messengers told the truth.[75]

 

Once we realised the aforesaid then wait for the thoughts to come to our mind and we could differentiate the good and the bad thoughts. The good thoughts generally come from within but the bad thoughts are sourced from the outside. Eventually we could discern and distinguish them. We would then realise that the bad thoughts are from the evil ones. 

I (the evil ones) will certainly come to them from before them and from behind them, and from their right-hand side and from their left-hand side; and Thou shalt not find most of them thankful.[76]

So the angry thoughts, the murderous moods, the frustration, the hatred in us, the animosity, the greed and all other ill, evil and unsavoury thoughts are transmitted into our mind by the evil ones. Failing to understand this made us dance to the tune of the evil ones and pursuant thereto we later become remorseful.

O children of Adam! let not the Satan cause you to fall into affliction as he expelled your parents from the garden, pulling off from them both their clothing that he might show them their evil inclinations, he surely sees you, he as well as his host, from whence you cannot see them; surely We have made the Satans to be the guardians of those who do not believe.[77]

And indeed he (Satan) did lead astray a great multitude of you. Did you not, then, understand?[78]

Whoever will follow you (Satan), I will certainly fill hell with you all.[79]

In this connection, Syeikh Abdul Qadir Al Jilani had said to the effect:

If the mind is controlled by Satan and by evil desires, the mind will influence our self or our body to commit evils. [80]

Once we could differentiate the good and the evil thoughts, we can then take step to prevent the evil thoughts seeping into our mind. We can do so by totally surrendering mentally to remembrance of our Lord.

If a suggestion from satan assail thy (mind), seek refuge with Allah; for He heareth and knoweth (all things). Those who fear Allah, when a thought of evil from satan assaults them, bring Allah to remembrance, when lo! they see (aright)![81]

And Satan saith, when the matter hath been decided: Lo! Allah promised you a promise of truth; and I promised you, then failed you. And I had no power over you save that I called unto you and ye obeyed me. So blame not me, but blame yourselves.[82]

              We are to remember Him and no others all the time.

Therefore remember Me, I will remember you. [83]

Surely I am Allah, there is no god but I, therefore serve Me and keep up prayer for My remembrance. [84]

When ye have performed the act of worship, remember Allah, standing, sitting and reclining. [85]

Indeed shall achieve success whosoever purifies himself and remembers the Name of his Lord, and prays. [86]

In this connection, Syeikh Abdul Qadir Al Jilani had said to the effect:

The mind is like a house and the house shall have only one resident not two. Hence the house shall be resided by The Only One and that is, Allah.[87]

Let the mind be cleaned of all except Allah. [88]

Beware, every Sovereign has a royal garden with prohibitions and the Royal Garden of Allah prohibited those which are forbidden. [89]

              When we are remembering Him we must not visualise Him in whatsoever form.

Nothing like a likeness of Him. [90]

None is like Him. [91]

Vision comprehends Him not. [92]

Nevertheless, there are sects which make it their practice in visualising their leader in all their acts of worship. This practice is called “Rabitah”.

They take their priests and their anchorites to be their lords in derogation of Allah. [93]

By mentally remembering Allah, this will bring peace, calmness and serenity to our mind. Remembrance of our Lord blocked evil thoughts seeping into our mind transmitted by the evil ones from invisible positions. So seek solace with our Lord by totally remembering Him wholly.

Those who believe their hearts are at peace by the remembrance of Allah; now surely by Allah’s remembrance are the hearts at peace.[94]

Seek refuge with Allah from the accursed Satan. Surely he has no authority over those who believe and rely on their Lord.[95]

And say: “O my Lord! I seek refuge with Thee from the suggestions of the Evil Ones and I seek refuge with Thee O my Lord! lest they should come near me.”[96]

Truly he succeeds that purifies it, And he fails that corrupts it![97]

In this connection Syeikh Abdul Qadir Al Jilani had said to the effect:

Leave everything outside and enter you into His domain alone. [98]

22.              Once the mind is consistently occupied with remembrance of Allah, slowly but surely and eventually we will be invited to be by His side. There is no word to describe this amazing, beautiful and serene place of solace; a joyous spiritual retreat.

(To the righteous soul will be said:) “O (thou) soul, in (complete) rest and satisfaction! “Come back thou to thy Lord well pleased (thyself), and well-pleasing unto Him![99]

In this connection Syeikh Abdul Qadir Al Jilani had said to the effect:

Once the mind is consistently occupied with remembrance of God, we have reached and are in the gathering of the Lord, Most Exalted. God loves them and they love God.[100]

 

 

 

Bibliografi

[72] Al Furqan (25):47

[73] Al An’aam (6):60

[74] Al Kahfi (18):19. The cave dwellers who had slept for 300 years and thought it was just yesterday.

[75] Yasin (36):51-52

[76] Al Araaf (7):17

[77] Al Araaf (7):27

[78] Yasin (36):62

[79] Al Araaf (7):18.

[80] Syeikh Abdul Qadir Al Jilani, Futuh Ghaib, 80 (1990).

[81] Al Araaf (7):200-201

[82] Ibrahim (14):22

[83] Al Baqarah (2):152.

[84] Thaha (20):14

[85] An Nisa (4):103.

[86] Al A’laa (87):14-15.

[87] Syeikh Abdul Qadir Al Jilani, Futuh Ghaib, 79 (1990).

[88] Syeikh Abdul Qadir Al Jilani, Futuh Ghaib, 138 (1990).

[89] Syeikh Abdul Qadir Al Jilani, Futuh Ghaib, 102 (1990).

[90] Asy Syura (42):11.

[91] Al Iklas (112):4.

[92] Al Anaam (6):103.

[93] At Taubah (9):31.

[94] Ar R’ad (13):28

[95] An Nahl (16):99

[96] Al Mukminun (23):97-98

[97] Ash Sham (91):9-10

[98] Syeikh Abdul Qadir Al Jilani, Futuh Ghaib, 188 (1990).

[99] Al Fajar (89):28

[100] Syeikh Abdul Qadir Al Jilani, Futuh Ghaib, 143 (1990).

[101] At Tahrim (66):8

[102] Al Hadid (57):12

[103] Syeikh Abdul Qadir Al Jilani, Futuh Ghaib, 29 (1990).

[104] Syeikh Abdul Qadir Al Jilani, Futuh Ghaib, 148 (1990).

[105] Al Mujadilah (58):22

[106] Syeikh Abdul Qadir Al Jilani, Futuh Ghaib, 22 (1990).

[107] Id, 23.

[108] Syeikh Abdul Qadir Al Jilani, Futuh Ghaib, 47 (1990).

[109] Syeikh Abdul Qadir Al Jilani, Futuh Ghaib, 57-58 (1990).