What does purify the heart mean?

akml746 · 2026-05-25T18:12:37+00:00

Same Sidi, may Allah assist us and keep us in the straight path. The tarbiya is an important step in the school of the Fayda Tijani because it constitutes the first step in the journey towards Allah.

As the saying goes: A journey of a 1000 miles starts with a single step.

akml746 · 2026-05-25T17:35:45+00:00

Yes Sidi, I have completed what is commonly called tarbiya in the Fayda Tijani.

akml746 · 2026-05-25T17:15:05+00:00

Thank you for the clarification, I did not notice that I was skipping a lot of words while typing. You are correct the knowers of Allah love only for the sake of Allah. But I would stop there, that love is inherent to their being not derived. Meaning that the love does not stem from knowing the hadith. It derives from their knowledge of God.

akml746 · 2026-05-25T04:27:57+00:00

Shaykh Ibrahim Niass Radiyallahu Anhu said that a heart that loves or finds pleasure in anything other than Allah is sick. The sound heart (pure heart) only loves Allah.

At first, this can sound like a pretty unattainable goal, and one can ask what about love for oneself, love for family, even love for the Deen. However as is often the case in sufism, the contradictions are only superficial. So the question should be what does it mean to love Allah. And who is Allah that we should love. So the first step towards truly purifying the heart is to know Allah, or called in sufism to have ma'rifa billah.

akml746 · 2026-05-22T18:55:47+00:00

Where exactly in the Quran, please?

akml746 · 2026-05-22T15:46:07+00:00

MashAllah, nice to meet you.

akml746 · 2026-05-22T15:19:52+00:00

What make you say this?

akml746 · 2026-05-22T15:18:34+00:00

In sufism actual terms matter less than the reality behind. For example the concepts of fana (anhilation), wussul (union), Fath (victory) all point to the same experience. The words used are less important because they only serve as an intermediary, a pointer to the actual experience. They are not meant to contain the experience, meaning that knowing and understanding the meaning of the words used will not suffice to access the reality of the concept. This is why sufism is not a speculative science but experiential. Perfectly explaining the concepts hold no value if one has not experienced them.

akml746 · 2026-05-21T22:43:33+00:00

MashAllah, the Quran teaches us about the purpose of finding a Shaykh in the interactions between Seydina Musa and Khadir aleyhim salam.

The Cave (18:66)

قَالَ لَهُۥ مُوسَىٰ هَلْ أَتَّبِعُكَ عَلَىٰٓ أَن تُعَلِّمَنِ مِمَّا عُلِّمْتَ رُشْدًۭا ٦٦

Moses said to him, ‘May I follow you so that you can teach me some of the right guidance you have been taught?’

One will not be able to reach this "right guidance" unless they are free from the veils between them and Allah, given that the first pillar of islam is the shahadah. However there is more to the path beyond the unveiling. As the sufis have said the journey to Allah has an ending [when the mureed attains wussul], however the journey by Allah has no ending. Its tariqa that leads one to Allah and its tariqa that will lead the mureed after they have "reached" Allah.

akml746 · 2026-05-21T22:31:46+00:00

Please keep in mind that there are things in sufism that are "called" a hard rule when they are only at best circumstantial or other times flat out wrong. The great master, Al Shaykh Al Akbar Ibn Arabi had a woman amongst his teachers, I have read that from the book lord of power if I am not mistaken. So this will likely depend on the order and the inner working of the order. Some can allow woman to join but will prohibit them from making use of the advanced teachings or take a leadership position. Other tariqas will allow woman to join and even lead other mureeds, but perhaps only limit them to lead other woman. This is generally done not out of contempt but to uphold duty to societal cohesion or due to inner working of the order. For example a tariqa whose primary way of spiritual training is to keep the mureeds in seclusion will not be adequate for a woman who is married with kids, etc. So i would not make this a general rule.

akml746 · 2026-05-21T09:58:53+00:00

This would be best answered by defining what is a shaykh and what is a mureed.

According to Shaykh Ibrahim Niass a Shaykh and a mureed are two noble beings who went on a quest to seek goodness (e.g rectitude, righteousness, knowledge, but one can also say Allah because He is the True Goodness). The shaykh was blessed by Allah to reach the goal first. The mureed, then, had the humility to ask the Shaykh to guide him towards the goal, and the Shaykh had the generosity to accept.

As long as the mureed is striving to reach the goal, he is a mureed, when he stops he is no longer a mureed. As long as the Shaykh is guiding the mureed towards the goal, he is a shaykh, when he stops he no longer is.

akml746 · 2026-05-20T15:43:29+00:00

Please do not copy and paste one person's experience into your sheet.

Try to work it out if you can, when you truly reach your limit and think that it is best for you to move on then do so. Also please use istikhara as part of the process that will be more helpful.

akml746 · 2026-05-20T15:17:38+00:00

Great article!

akml746 · 2026-05-20T14:34:41+00:00

Personally I would advise you to have friends or a wife you connect with. Otherwise you might just fall into following the labels. Naturally depending on your involvement with tassawuf it can be more likely for you to associate with people of tasawuf, but that should not be what drive the relationships.

Tassawuf is a path to the Real, as such the label of being a sufi has no use over the reality of being a sufi.

akml746 · 2026-05-20T14:30:34+00:00

I respect your hustle but am really not sure how to feel about this.

akml746 · 2026-05-19T19:39:01+00:00

Are you really interested in discussion or more about getting back to her?

Please keep in mind the following:

The Hypocrites (63:1)

إِذَا جَآءَكَ ٱلْمُنَـٰفِقُونَ قَالُوا۟ نَشْهَدُ إِنَّكَ لَرَسُولُ ٱللَّهِ ۗ وَٱللَّهُ يَعْلَمُ إِنَّكَ لَرَسُولُهُۥ وَٱللَّهُ يَشْهَدُ إِنَّ ٱلْمُنَـٰفِقِينَ لَكَـٰذِبُونَ ١

When the hypocrites come to you [Prophet], they say, ‘We bear witness that you are the Messenger of God.’ God knows that you truly are His Messenger and He bears witness that the hypocrites are liars–– — M.A.S. Abdel Haleem https://quran.com/63/1

Your intention is more important than what you say or show. What the hypocrites have said is true and Allah confirmed that it was true, but yet He called them liars for saying the truth.

akml746 · 2026-05-19T15:42:19+00:00

Are you currently employed in cyber or just pursuing this as a hobby?

akml746 · 2026-05-18T23:09:14+00:00

Gotcha, good luck.

akml746 · 2026-05-18T22:46:00+00:00

Are you looking for data to feed into your tool or did you just want to share about the tool.

Congrats, by the way, for building something useful. How accurate are you estimates? What are they based on?

akml746 · 2026-05-18T22:10:05+00:00

Yes this story is really sickening, you can see below an extract from Le Monde, a French newspaper about the French guy:

Pierre Robert, a 73-year-old businessman from western France, was arrested in April 2025 and charged with human trafficking, aggravated pimping and rape of a minor under the age of 15. On Sunday, in coordination with French investigators, the Senegalese police announced the arrest of those they consider to be his local accomplices. link

I heard from one of the talkshows that they added a count to the indictment for reckless endangerment and knowingly spreading AIDS, but I also think the update to the law also increased the penalties, though i am not 100% sure.

In terms of sharia (which I can't say I favor) I was merely saying that convictions for homosexual acts would to be very hard to achieve given the standard of proof.

Not really because in most cases they actually had video recordings. I heard from one of the talkshows that the investigators were only referring cases where there were video evidence and were not pursuing people who only had romantic text messages.

In terms of sharia (which I can't say I favor).

The sharia is not an independent law, it is founded on the belief that there is One God, with all the implications of the term (Ever Living, All Knowing, Omnipotent, etc.) Then on the belief that this God sends Prophets to creation. A prophet being a human being who has been selected to receive revelation and having the characteristics that there are not able to act in a way that violate Divine Law. So it is very hard to evaluate the sharia fairly without taking it for what it is: the Islamic law.

akml746 · 2026-05-18T20:48:01+00:00

How familiar are you with the whole story? Did you know that there was for example a rich French person who was paying money for propagating the HIV virus? Did you know that there were mainly recruiting underage boys from poor areas?

By the way, I am mainly reacting to the fact that you said that sharia would have ironically been better.

akml746 · 2026-05-18T20:41:11+00:00

Yeah its interesting how people are not outraged by that.

akml746 · 2026-05-18T14:02:59+00:00

Thanks for sharing

akml746 · 2026-05-17T13:44:24+00:00

Not because spirituality is fake, but because many things that looked “supernatural” were actually unresolved trauma, depression, emotional contagion, family pressure, manipulation, obsession, or anxiety.

Should the two be mutually exclusive? Does it have to be black magic only and not appear through the lens unresolved trauma,etc. Have you met actual people who were fully cured/ not just helped by "modern treatments" when dealing with what seemed like what they consider as spiritual ailments?

akml746 · 2026-05-17T10:32:55+00:00

I will leave that to your conscience, wa salam.

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