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| Excrepts from KASHF-AL MAHJUB The oldest persian treatise on Sufism |
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Ali B. Uthman Al-Jullabi Al Hujwary (Popularly known as Hazrat Data Gunj Baksh) |
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| Translated by Reynold A. Nicholson |
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| HAL |
| Hal (state) is that which descends upon waqt (time) and adorns it, as the spirit adorns the body. �Waqt� has need of �Hal�, for waqt is beautiful by hal, he is no more subject to change and is made steadfast (mustaqim) in his state. If one has �waqt� without hal� he may lose it. With whom ��hal�� attaches itself, all his state becomes �waqt� and cannot be lost. What seems to be coming and going (a`mad shud) is development of (takawwun). A person may become forgetful. The tongue of the possessor of �hal�l is silent concerning his �hal�, but his actions proclaim the reality of his �hal�. �hal� is also known as annihilation of speech (maqal). |
| He was not conscious of separation, that he should be stricken with grief, nor of union, that he should be filled with joy. The sun The sun and the moon and the stars contributed to his 'hal' (state), but he while gazing was independent of them: whatever he looked on, he saw only God and he said, "I love not those that set." (Qur'an, 6:76) |
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| 'Hal� (state) is an attribute of the object desired (murad), while 'waqt' (time) is the rank of the desirer (murid). The later is in pleasure with himself of waqt, the former with God in the delight of 'hal' (state). How far apart are the two degrees! |
| Ibn-al-Haal |
| �Ibn-al-Haal� is the Sufi fully in control of his spiritual state; he never lets the common guess his spiritual heights, that he has reached the knowledge of Essence. |
| Pages 367-370 |
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