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Not revelation, but the accent, the flavor of
revelation, this commentary offers a description or analysis of the mysteries at the
heart of Sufi experience. The true study of Sufism does not begin in a book or in
scholarly investigations because this is an inner pursuit, a path which lies within
that must be examined experientially by anyone who has a hunger to know what must be
known, and that translated means a hunger for God and His truth.
When we contemplate the soul from the human
perspective we understand who we are, we came from God, we are a mirror of His light
which will be reflected back into Him one day. In the meantime, while we are here we
have certain obligations because of this divine origin, this connection and destiny -
we are the reflection of a formless power whose existence we must manifest in what we
do, what we think, what we say, what we believe. We do this by studying and acquiring
His attributes already invested in us, a shadow form, the reflection in the mirror.
What was given to us originally is purity and the
light of purity; this is the state we had to begin with and this is the state we need
to recover, using the fine blade of absolute faith to cut away the darkness and
clutter obscuring the grace which is our gift. Some talk of losing their faith, some
talk of not being able to find their faith, but Sufis know faith is a given, it is
already there, not something we can lose like an object, a toy, a set of keys,
although we have to undertake the task of uncovering it, shining it up so that this
faith can recognize the light of our original purity.
THE SUFI PRESS
ISBN13: 9780973753431
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