Hair Dye

Jabir (may Allah be pleased with him) reported that Abu Qahafa father of 'Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) was presented to the Messenger of Allah (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) on the day of the conquest of Makkah and his head and his beard were just like snow. The Messenger of Allah (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) said that, 'Change it with something and avoid black.' Meaning dye it with a colour and do not use black.

Usage of Miswak

The use of Miswak is a means of purifying the mouth and is pleasing to Allah (The Exalted).

Sunnah of All The Prophet’s (upon them all be peace)
The Miswak is a stick by which a person cleans the mouth. This is a great Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah (may Allah bless him and grant him peace). It is also a Sunnah of all the Messengers of Allah (upon them all be peace), for they used the Miswak.

Abu Ayyub Ansari (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that four things are the Sunnahs of all the prophets (upon them all be peace) 1) Circumcision, 2) To apply fragrance (Itr), 3) To use Miswak, 4) Marriage.

Seventy Extra Rewards For One Salaah
‘Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) has reported that,

“The prayer before which the Miswak is used is seventy times more excellent than that before which it is not used.”

Ibn Abbas, ‘Ali and Ata (may Allah be pleased with them all) state that,

“But it increases to 99 or 400 times.”

This reward is based on sincerity, the more sincerity you have the more reward you get, it may be that you can get 70, 99 or even 400. Subhanallah!

Many Other Benefits
Abu Darda (may Allah be pleased with him) states that,

“Make Miswak a must do not be headless as there are twenty four benefits in Miswak, the greatest benefit is that Allah (swt), becomes pleased, there is increase in wealth, it freshens the breath, it strengthens the gums, it relieves headaches, it relieves toothache and due to the light from the face and teeth the angles shake hands.”

Ali, Ata and ‘Abdullah ibn ‘Abbas (may Allah be please with them all) state that Miswak strengthens a person’s memory, cures headaches, relieves the veins in the head, it gets rid of phlegm, strengthens the eye sight, keeps the liver healthy and helps digest food, increases intelligence, helps increase in family, lineage stays healthy in an old age, strengthens the stomach, purifies the heart, when exiting the Mosque the angles walk behind the person, the Prophets’ make supplication of forgiveness for the person, the Shaytan is displeased, the difficulties of death become easy and one remembers the Shahadah, when the angel of death comes to take the soul he will come as one of your friends and in some narrations it states he comes in the form when he takes the soul of a Prophet, you will get the book of deeds in the right hand, cross the bridge of Pul-Sirat with the speed of lightening, peace in the grave, if a person forgets to use the Miswak who has a habit will still be rewarded, and the doors of paradise are opened for that person.

‘Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) states that,

“The Miswak increases the memory and rids phlegm.”

The doctors say that the reasons for spots in the mouth are due to heat and acid from the liver and bacteria that is created in the mouth. One should use a Miswak as the saliva that is created from using the Miswak rids the illnesses.

On Awakening
‘Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) narrates that the Messenger of Allah (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) said,

“Never woke from sleeping at any time of the day or night without cleaning his teeth with a Miswak before performing ablution.”

To perform Miswak after sleeping when one awakes is a Sunnah. Whilst asleep the bad odours from the stomach comes towards the mouth which is why the mouth smells. With the blessings of this Sunnah the mouth will be cleansed.

On Entering The House
When the Messenger of Allah (may Allah bless him and grant him peace), intended to recite the Qur’an or sleep, he would use a Miswak. He did the same when entering the house. ‘Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) said that,

“The first thing that the Messenger of Allah (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) did on entering the house, was Miswak.”

Part of Ablution
Hassan bin ‘Atiyya (may Allah be pleased with him) states that,

“Ablution is part of faith and using a Miswak is part of ablution.”

The Emphasis
Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates the Messenger of Allah (may Allah bless him and grant him peace), said that,

“If I had not found it hard for my followers or the people, I would have ordered them to clean their teeth with Miswak for every prayer.”

Importance of Miswak
Allama Sha’rani (may Allah have Mercy upon him) states that,

‘Once Abu Bakr Shibli (d.334 A.H.) (may Allah have Mercy upon him) was in need of a Miswak at the time of wudhu, he looked for one but could not find one. He spent a Dinar and bought one and used it, people said, ‘You have over spent, can you buy a Miswak this expensive?’ Abu Bakr Shibli (may Allah have Mercy upon him) replied, ‘This world and all its contents in front of Allah (The Exalted) is not even compared to a mosquito, what answer will I give on the Day of Judgement when Allah (The Exalted) asks me, “Why did you leave the Sunnah of my beloved? The wealth that I gave you which (in front of me) is not equivalent to a mosquito, you did not spend it for this Sunnah?””

Miswak a Great Sunnah
‘Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) said that,

“He passed away in my house, on my day, between my chest and throat. And at death Allah (The Exalted) joined my saliva to his. For when my brother ‘Abd al-Rahman entered carrying a Miswak in his hand, he (the Prophet) began to look at it, and I knew that it pleased him, so I said; “Shall I bring it to you?” Yes, he nodded, so I handed it to him. He put it into his mouth, but it was too hard for him. “Shall I soften it for you?” I asked. Yes, he nodded, so I made it soft. And by him there lay a leather vessel containing water into which he started dipping his hand, saying, “No deity is there except Allah! (The Exalted) truly death has agonies!” then he lifted up his hand and said, “The Highest Companion! The Highest Companion!” and I said, “So by Allah! (The Exalted) he will not prefer us.”” ‘Inna Lil-La-hi Wa-inna Ilay-hi Ra-Jioon.’

Even on the death bed the Miswak was a beloved Sunnah of the Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant him peace), because it pleases Allah (The Exalted). Let us grasp hold fast to this Sunnah, we brush our teeth anyway, why not use the Miswak too as you can carry the Miswak with you as there is no need for paste, as the Miswak comes form a tree which has natural benefits and you can use it whenever you want, after eating, before entering the house, etc.

Cure For Illness
‘Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) states that,

“There is a cure for every illness in Miswak besides death.”


Allama Amjad ‘Ali writes in Bahar-e-Shariat that, “The scholars state whosoever has a habit of using the Miswak, then at the time of death they will (be blessed with the) reciting of the Shahadah"

How to hold the Miswak
According to ‘Abd Allah ibn Mas’ud (may Allah be pleased with him) hold the Miswak in the right hand so that the small finger is below the Miswak and the thumb is below the tip and the other fingers are on top of the Miswak. Do not hold it in the fist as there is a chance of illness.

Shaykh Ahmad Raza Khan writes; “To keep the teeth healthy, a deed has been practised by the scholars, that is in the first cycle of the Witr prayer recites Surah Nasr , in the second Surah Lahab and in the third Surah Ikhlas .”

Manners of Miswak
1. The Miswak should not be too hard nor too soft.
2. It be from trees such as Zaytoon, Peelu or Neem and not from a fragrant tree.
3. Rub the Miswak on the gums at least three times and dip it in water each time.
4. If the finger is to be used instead of the Miswak, then the upper and lower jaws on the right side are cleaned with the thumb and the left side is cleaned similarly with the index finger.
5. Put the Miswak upright when not in use.
6. There is a chance of becoming insane if placed on the floor.
7. The Miswak should be no thicker than the little finger and longer than the hand span as the devil sits on the end if longer. It is not a problem if less than a hand span but not too short that it is difficult to use.
8. Imam Shafi said, ‘cleansing the teeth increases wisdom’.
9. Use the right hand to perform the Miswak.
10. Clean at least three times.
11. Do not perform the Miswak in a up/down motion but use it from right to left as there is a chance of damaging the gums.
12. It is disliked to use the Miswak in the toilet.
13. Do not use it whilst lying down as there is a chance of bad temper.
14. To perform Miswak in wudhu is an emphasized Sunnah (Sunnat-e-Muakeda).
15. Miswak is Sunnah for ablution and not for Salaah.
16. Do not throw away the Miswak or the bristles away but bury them.
17. Use the Miswak from one end and not both.
18. Women can also use the Miswak.
19. One who uses the Miswak gets five rewards for each tooth.
20. The companions would keep the Miswak on their ears even at the time of journey.
21. Cut the bristles (tip) of the Miswak every 1-2 days and start fresh by biting to make it soft.
22. It is permissible to use Miswak whilst fasting. However, it is not permissible to use a flavoured Miswak nor is it permissible to use toothpaste, when the taste enters the throat breaking the fast and it is wajib (necessary) to be made up. However, if it does not go down the throat it is Makrooh (disliked), but one should abstain if there is no need to do so.
23. It is Sunnah to use a Miswak on the day of Jumu’ah.
24. According to a hadith, the use of Miswak will gain a person the reward equivalent to the number of new Muslims that revert until the day of judgement.
25. To use the Miswak after eating, one will gain the reward of freeing two slaves.

Other times when the usage of Miswak is Sunnah
1. For the recitation of the Holy Qur’an.
2. For the recitation of Hadith.
3. When the mouth emits bad odour.
4. For teaching or learning the virtues of Islam.
5. For making remembrance of Allah (The Exalted).
6. Before intercourse.
7. After entering one’s home.
8. Before entering any good gathering.
9. When experiencing pangs of hunger or thirst.
10. After the time of Suhoor.
11. Before meals.
12. Before and after a journey.
13. Before and after sleeping.

May Allah (The Exalted) give us the ability to practise this beautiful Sunnah with sincerity, Ameen.

Source: www.zikr.co.uk 

Sunnah of Applying Surma/Antimony

To apply Surma is a blessed Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah (may Allah bless him and grant him peace). When he would go to sleep at night he would apply Surma in his blessed eyes. We should also try to practice this Sunnah as we will gain the reward and benefit in following the Sunnah and the worldly benefits too.


Best type of Surma
'Abd-Allah Ibn 'Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him) narrates that, 'The Messenger of Allah (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) said that, ''among the best types of collyrium you use is ithmad, it clears the vision and makes the hair sprout.'

When to put Surma on
Ibn 'Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him) has related that, 'The Messenger of Allah (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) had a collyrium container out of which he applied collyrium every night, in each eye three times.'
It is the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) to apply Surma when going to sleep. It stays in the eyes for longer and makes it more effective.

Benefit of Surma
Ibn 'Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him) has related that the Messenger of Allah (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) said that, 'Apply antimony regularly, as it clears the sight, makes the eye lashes grow and is the best of things beautifying the eyes.'

How to put Surma on
Imran Ibn Abi Anas (may Allah be pleased with him) has related that, 'The Messenger of Allah (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) would apply antimony thrice in the right eye and twice in the left.'

The application of Surma is Sunnah for both men and women and be done at night, three times in each eye.

Imam Shafi (may Allah's mercy be upon him) states that four things that strengthen the eyesight, to sit towards the Qibla, to use Surma before sleeping, to look towards something with green colour, and to keep the clothes clean.

Manners of applying the Surma

Supplication for applying Surma
'Allahumma Mat-Ti'Ni Bissam-e Wal Basar'.

'O Allah (The Exalted) give me benefit in listening and seeing'

Thereafter apply some Surma in the right eye once then the left and so on three times. 

Death Fixation

I am surprised at the arrogant as yesterday he was a drop of water and tomorrow he will become a decaying corpse. I am surprised at one who doubts the existence of God while he sees His creation all the time. I am surprised at him who forgets death while he sees the dead. I am surprised at one who having seen this life denies the life to come. I am surprised at him who builds for this transitory world and forgets the world that is eternal –Imam Ali (A.S.)

They only know the palpable life of this world, and are oblivious of the Hereafter. (Surah ar-Rum, 30:7)
The visit to the graves is recommended so that we should be reminded of our death. We all know that during day and night we recite the following Qur'anic verse several times in our obligatory prayers so that we are reminded of the Resurrection day:

Master of the Day of Judgement. (Surah Fateha, 1:4)

Imam Ja'far Sadiq, our sixth Imam, says about the effects of remembering Death and the Resurrection day:

o Remembering of death suppresses the inordinate desires

o It uproots the very foundation of negligence and apathy.

o With the reminding of Allah's promise, it strengthens man's heart.

o It softens the hard mentality of man.

o It demolishes the banners of inordinate desires and transgression.

o It suppresses the evil of greediness and makes the world humble before one's eyes.

 We read in the Islamic traditions that the most wise and thoughtful are those who keep remembering death all the time. (Biharul Anwar, vol. VI, p. 135)

When the Holy Prophet said that hearts also get rusted like iron, the people asked, "With what substance can it be cleansed?" The Holy Prophet replied: "By remembering death and reciting the Holy Qur'an".

Another tradition that is narrated from the Holy Prophet is this: "Remember death frequently for it has four effects.

o It washes off your sins.

o It reduces your keen fondness for the world.

o It checks your indulgence in bad practices and improper use of wealth during the period of affluence.

o It makes a man content with whatever little quantity of wealth he has as during poverty his remembering of death makes him realize how easily he will account before Allah because he sees that when he has a small quantity of wealth his accountability also would be less". (Nahjul Fasahat, saying, 444)


Imam Ali in connection with a tradition says, "He who remembers death frequently will remain content with whatever little quantity of wealth he has. He never craves for more and he neither becomes greedy nor miser". (Biharul Anwar, vol. VI)

Actually, the world deceives its own lovers. Anyone who after having the thought of death and the Resurrection Day diverts his heart to the next world, this world's hypocrisies, pomp and show do not allure him towards it.

Imam Ali says, "Anyone who remembers death frequently saves himself from the hypocrisies of the world".



In another tradition which is about the impact of remembering death, we read: "Anyone who sees death in front of him and awaits it, will never lay behind in his daily performances because he knows that the time at his disposal is short and death can overtake him any movement. He gets busy in doing the noble deeds as much as is humanly possible".



Imam Ali reminds the people of how death overtook the people of the past generations and prepares them for it and says, "Where are now the kings of Yemen and Hejaz and their offsprings? Where have the Emperors of Iran and Rome gone? Where are the tyrants and their progenies? Where are those people who had built strong fortresses and decorated them with gold? Where are those people, whose life span was greater than that of yours and whose signs were greater than those of yours?"



Actually those mothers, who are anxious for the future of their daughters, prepare their dowries, little by little, from their very childhood. Those traders who think of their future debts and liabilities start saving something from the beginning.

Similarly those people who are concerned about death and the Resurrection day from today give up their bad deeds and start performing noble deeds so as to present them on the Resurrection day.



Some people asked a known religious scholar, who was an erudite scholar of Karbala: "If a credible man tells you that you are going to die in a week's time what will you do in the remaining few days?" He replied, "I will continue doing what I have been doing since my youth, because from the days of my youth whenever I intended to do a thing, I thought of the explanation to give on the Resurrection day and, therefore, for me to die at any moment is no worry at all".


Such people are the dedicated followers of that exalted person, Imam Ali (A.S.), who on the 19th of Ramadan, after receiving the fatal wound of the sword of Ibn Muljam said, "By Allah I have become triumphant". This very exalted personage in his sermon in Nahjul Balaghah advises his son to remember death at all moments so that by the time death overtakes him, his deeds are with him intact and he may not be questioned for his negligence. (Vide, Peak of Eloquence, ISP, 1984)


We read in many Qur'anic verses that when you think that you are a self-made person and you are pious and honorable before Allah, you should not be afraid of death; rather you should be desirous of it.

Remembering of Death in Supplications 
Remembering death and the Resurrection day is the integral part of supplications. As for example in the Supplication of Abu Hamza Thamali we read as follows:

O Lord! At the time of my dying bestow Your Mercy on my sorrow and helplessness.

O Lord! Bestow Your Mercy in the loneliness of my grave and in my fear and restlessness.

O Lord! On the Day of Judgement Bestow Your Mercy at the time of the scrutiny of my deeds when I am disgraced for failing to give explanation.

O Lord! Bestow Your Mercy at the time when my friends take my coffin to the graveyard.

 Imam Ali's Supplication in Masjid Kufa

O Lord! Protect me from that day and put me under Your shelter, when the tyrant will be chewing his own flesh and would be repenting and saying, 'Would that I had not followed those who misguided me to go astray and instead had adopted the path as shown by the Holy Prophet'.

O Lord! Bestow Your Mercy and protection on me on the day when the parents would not be able to help me; when the repentance of the tyrants will be of no avail; when man will run away even from his father, mother, brothers sons and friends when man will be singularly responsible for his own deeds

O Lord ! Protect me on the day when the sinners would wish that their sons, brothers, friends and the entire family might be caught instead of them, and save me from the torment of Hell.

Reciting of these supplications cures the sick and brightens the darkness of the soul. They purify the souls, broaden our mental horizon and enlighten us.

However the sinners and the transgressors are those who do not believe in the accountability and the Resurrection day or if they have belief in it they are spiritually bankrupt.

The Appeal of Graveyards

1) It is a quiet place which lends itself to introspection and reflection on what life is about and what is important. It puts us in touch with our own mortality. If we understand the fragility of life, we are better able to appreciate it. We get away from TV, computers, stress, responsibility, superficiality and the unimportant things that invade our lives. A graveyard promotes a level of introspection and reflection that not many other places can.

2) Graveyards are beautiful.

3) The mystery and supernatural atmosphere that surrounds graveyards is alluring. People often feel a spiritual or supernatural presence there. We generally tend to focus on the supernatural.

4)
a) It reminds one of death and afterlife, and makes him draw a lesson from it for his afterlife. (Muslim, Janaiz, 108; Tirmidhi, Janaiz, 59; Ibn Majah, Janaiz 47-48; Ahmad b. Hanbal, Musnad, I, 145).
b) It directs one to asceticism and taqwa (God-Consciousness). It prevents over-ambitiousness for worldly life and committing harams. It directs one to commit good deeds. (Ibn Majah, Janaiz, 47).
c) Visiting graves of saintly people - especially that of our Prophet’s - refreshes one’s soul and helps to evoke supreme feelings in them. It is mandoob to travel to the graves of our Prophet and Allah’s saintly slaves in order to visit them. The Prophet states in a hadith: “Whoever visits me after I die, it is as if he visited me when I was alive.” (Mansur Ali Nasif, at-Taj, al-Jamiu’l Usul, II, 190).
d) Visiting graves helps the strengthening of one’s relations with his past, religious culture and history. 

How To Hypnotize

HYPNOTISM

I's the practice of hypnotizing a person (Putting them into unconscious state), sometimes for making changes in mind of the person being hypnotized according to the will of Hypnotist.

Types Of Hypnotism 

1-SELF HYPNOTISM

2-HYPNOTISM ON OTHERS

But before hypnotizing others, one must hypnotize oneself, because one who can hypnotize himself/herself can hypnotize the world. So, here's a way to hypnotize yourself. You can put these techniques to hypnotize them for you, but you must hypnotize yourself first.

The essentials of self hypnotism are the same as for the meditation that you must be able to relaxe and clear your mind from all sorta thoughts.
For understanding the hypnotism, it's necessary to know about the states of mind.

States Of Mind 

There are 3 basic states of mind.
1. Lot of thoughts, usually most of us experience it
2. Blank state of mind
3. Only one concentrated thought at a time (It is needed in meditation, hypnotism and telepathy and all kinda especial (extra sensory perceptions) practices.

Step By Step Tutorial

• Step 1. First step is physical relaxation. Sit in an easy position, close your eyes and try to avoid unnecessary movements of your body. Try to imagine that each part of your head is relaxing from hair roots, eyes, ears, nose, mouth, lips till neck then go to right hand, then left hand, then chest, belly muscles to the right leg, foot, then left leg , left foot, in this way relax muscles of whole body.

•  Step 2. Second step is all about mental relaxation, normally you must be in state of "Lots Of Thoughts"  that is many thoughts and worries must be in your mind, but now you have to relax our mind by clearing your mind from all sorta thoughts and worries, there're a lot of ways to do so, here's a simple one: You can put a bowlful water in front of you and then pick all of your worries and thoughts (Education, job, family matters etc) and put them into this water bowl one by one, in this way sooner or later your mind will enter into the second state of mind, "Blank State Of Mind"  that is without worries and thoughts, you go completely into unconscious state, always remember to ask your mind in beginning of mental relaxation that after so time (Decide this time yourself) you will be awaken out of this unconscious state of mind (Hypnotic Sleep).

As soon as you achieve this pint, you must be in good state of peace

Now you may start active part of self hypnotism as follows

• Step 3. Put your arm in front of you, now tell yourself that your arm is getting lighter and lighter, say these words and feel them in your mind until your arm becomes so lighter that it starts raising in the air in front of you. 

• Step 4. Once you succeeded in achieving this step then ask yourself that your arm is getting heavy and heavy and it's lowering down, until it again comes back in your lap. Once you have succeeded in it, you may try other actions of obeying difficult orders. 

• Step 5. Now tell yourself that you're going to awake out of this state of mind, in this way you will be out of self hypnosis state. 

Once you get success in performing all these steps on yourself, then you may try them on others to hypnotize them for you.
Always remember that a mind in the form of Hypnotic Sleep gets ready to accept all types of suggestions from hypnotist. In this way hypnotism may be useful in making a person ready to leave all his bad habits like drinking, doing ill sexual practices and hurting others. 

If you don't succeed in performing these steps, then don't loose your heart and try to give effective suggestions by careful selections of the words used in the whole process and increase concentration of your mind by focusing your eyes on "Hypnotic Disc" and then do this practice again and again until you get this great skill of hypnotizing yourself and others.

NOTE: Never force yourself or others to do such things which are against the nature or religious limits. Always use it to relieve worries of yourself and others to make this world full of pleasures. 

Bahu Is Nowhere

Bahu is nowhere;
Only He is there within
and without--- Hu!

One practices austerities and
goes through deep afflictions---- Hu!

One studies million of books
and becomes a renowned scholar,
a sage, --- Hu!

But
the title of Faqir is granted
only to him
Says Bahu,
whose grave becomes
a living symbol* --- Hu! 

Allah Favoured You

Allah favoured you
and you
memorised the Quran
but the veils were not removed--- Hu!

You
became a scholar
even then
you seek gold coins? ---- Hu!

You studied
hundred and thousand books
but the cruel baser self
did not die--- Hu!

No body could kill
this thief within,
says Bahu,
except the Faqirs---- Hu! 

As Soon As We Came To Know

As soon as we came to know
the significance of the Name* --- Allah---
the love shone more radiantly---- Hu!

It gave warmth
day and night,
made itself felt more and more--- Hu!

All that fire
burns in our soul.
The flames, the fuel, the smoke,
all within--- Hu!

When the love became
our guide,
says Bahu,
the Love was found
"closer than even the jugular vein" --- Hu! 

Alif* Allah's Name is a Jessamine Sapling 2

Alif;
Allah's Name is
a jessamine sapling
planted in my heart
by the Murshid--- Hu!

Watered through nafi athbat*
in every vein and every joint --- Hu!


It has blossomed
into flowers.
It emits sweet fragrance
all within --- Hu!

Long live the Murshid
says Bahu,
who planted the plant--- Hu! 

Alif* Allah's Name Is A Jessamine Sapling

Alif*
Allah's Name is
a jessamine sapling
planted in the heart
by the Murshid (Spiritual Guide)--- Hu!

He teaches the tune
and the mode of dancing
of his own choice--- Hu!

The beloved teacher
remembers us
in every state
all the time--- Hu!

In fact,
it is He Himself
who grants the vision
says Bahu
He transforms the aspirant
His own image* --- Hu! 

My spirit heard

My spirit heard:
"Am I not your Lord?"
and
it still goes on  crying
in response:
"We bear witness
that you are" --- Hu!

Love for my real place*
over-powers me;
it lets me no rest
even for a moment--- Hu!

May you be doomed
O robbing world!
You plunder the way-farers
on the pathway to Truth--- Hu!

The lovers never accept her,
says Bahu
though
she wails for the attention--- Hu! 

When the One shoed himself to me

When the One
showed Himself to me,
my baser self
was mortified--- Hu!

I reached
where there was no nearness,
no meeting, no goal
and
there was neither body
no spirit--- Hu!

Neither was love
and affection
nor existence and universe--- Hu!

I was transformed
says Bahu
into the Absolute reality,
a secret of the pure Essence--- Hu! 

Eyes red, Face pale

Eyes red,
face pale
and sighs
from all sides--- Hu!

The fragrant love
that we chose,
has spread far and near--- Hu!

Love and musk
cannot be concealed,
they're evident there and then--- Hu!

Only they who enjoy the blissful grandeur of placelss,
says Bahu,
can be called Faqirs* ---- Hu! 

How To Perform Muraqaba 2

For muraqaba, it is advisable to sit quietly and alone in a dark peaceful room where one is able to focus all thoughts and attention on receiving enlightenment.

The main forms of Muraqaba or spiritual chain are given below. 

• Visualizing the Sacred Name:

This is when one visualizes the Name of Allah i.e. Allahu, upon his/her heart and therefore focuses on the attributes of Allah leaving no other thought but Him. All focus must be upon the Creator.

For this, the eyes must be closed, visualizing the words ‘Allah’ engraved onto your heart. Some also prefer to visualize the Name of ‘Muhammad’ upon their hearts too as the Beloved Messenger source intermediary for us to Allah at all times. The one visualising must then recite ‘Allah’ in his/her mind whilst breathing in through the nose, and recite ‘Hu’ whilst exhaling through the mouth.

In this manner, the breathing of such a person becomes engaged in repeating ‘Allahu’ with every breath thus making the heart say the Name of God.

It is reported that Imam al-Ghazali said, “Zikr is, in its reality, the progressive Power of the Named One on the heart, while the Zikr itself wears away and disappears.”

This is in reference to the deep absorption and intensity which pure hearts are able to attain when involved in Muraqaba. Eventually only the Presence of Allah remains in such a heart, whilst the Name, having completed its purpose, fades away.

Permission  for Muraqaba

One must have the permission of their Spiritual Guide before beginning on the journey of Muraqaba, or indeed any type of Wazaa’if (recitation); your Spiritual Guide is your source of guidance, and he knows what is best for your current state and condition.

Khwaja Shah Baha’uddin al-Naqshband said regarding this, “The permission for the zikr must be given by the Perfected One (your Spiritual Guide), in order to influence the one who is using it; just as the arrow from a master of archery is better than the arrow shot from the bow of an ordinary person.”

How to perform Muraqaba

1- Candles: 

Turn off the lights in the room and set some white candles around.

2- Fragrance:

Have some fragrance according to your astrological character or just put some roses/flowers with some beautiful fragrance.

3- Sounds:

There shouldn't be any sounds (of Telephone, Bell, People) coming in the room.

Beginning Muraqaba

1. After morning prayer (salah e fajjar) or after Isha prayer, before sleeping, sit down on the ground.
2. First of all free your mind of all the thoughts. Normally, everyone is in the state of too many thoughts. It means they have a lot of thoughts at one time. Now, gradually start ceasing all of the thoughts, so that you get free of all thoughts (Just like a blank page). If you face any difficulty in getting rid of thoughts, then put a bowl full of water in front of you, then start whatever thought comes into your mind, grab it and put it into the water, with your imaginary hands. This way, in a little while you'll be free of all thoughts. Now, you can move forward to number 3 or 4 given below.
3. Now, don't do or think anything. After a little while some picture will come in your mind or voices will start coming from inside. These signs and sounds, in fact, will be coming from your Innerself (Rooh/ Soul) and with help of these one can find much about hidden (secret) things.
4. Or you, yourself, should imagine some particular thing (Chant of God's praise, Some holy sight, Your lover or God ) 

If done 20 minutes daily, soon, one will find success in Muraqaba.

One Example for "Particular Thought"

Within power of imagination, get out of your body and fly high in the air, towards Shrine of Hazrat Ali (A.S) Go inside come out and then come back to your body and open your eyes. 

We understood the significance

We understood the significance
of the eternities
and passed by
all the joyful sights--- Hu!

All the fourteen plains
are in the heart,
so we set fire
to the thoughts of retreats
in the cells--- Hu!

Desolate were they
in both the worlds
who did not find out
the truth--- Hu!

Look at the style of those,
says Bahu,
who immersed themselves
in the Unity--- Hu!

Half The Cure

Half the curse
upon the world
and the whole curse
upon the worldly--- Hu!

Those who did not spend
in the cause of the Master
would suffer "stern judgement"--- Hu!

Curse be upon the cunning world
that instigates the fathers
to kill their sons* --- Hu!

Those
who shunned the world,
says Bahu,
will enjoy the bliss
of evergreen gardens* ---- Hu! 

Curing Continuous Fever

Some people have continuous fever. They go to doctors, ask for medication, seek consultations but never receive a satisfactory answer. Anyone suffering from this problem should read this verse 7 times.

"BISMILLAAHIL KABEER A'UDHU BILLAAHI ADHEEM MIN SHARRI KULLI 'IRQIN KA'AARIN WA MIN SHARRI HARRIN"

If the patient cannot read this verse someone else who is pious and clean should read it for him/her Inshallah ta'ala, after reading this verse blow on the patients body or into water and then give it to the patient to drink. If done properly, the fever will not repeat again, Inshallah. 

What is a Pentacle?

It's an apparent derivation from the Greek prefix penta- (five) combined with the Latin suffix -culum (diminutive). An Italian word pentacolo appearing in 1483, is used to refer to 'any thing or table of five corners'. It's shape of a star. It represents five most important things which

1. spirit :  Spirit is the top point. It reminds us about the creators of all life,
   Allah (swt) the only God. He loves us and cares for us every day of our
     lives. Allah (swt)  has given us the four elements and
     these elements are the other four points.
2. AIR:  Air is important to all of us. We breathe it all the time. If we
     did not have air we would die. Take a deep breath, feel the air.
3. WATER: We also need water to survive. If we didn’t have water we would
   shrivel up and die. We have water in our mouth and eyes; the
   blood in our bodies is wet. Move your tongue around your mouth,
     feel the water
4. FIRE: Fire is warm, even hot sometimes. Feel your body it is warm.
   Every person has fire in their body. Sometimes when you have
     too much fire in your body you have a fever.
5. EARTH: From the earth we get our food which keeps us alive. Our body is
     also made up of earth, it is solid; touch your arm and feel it.

How To Make a Book Of Twilights

A Book of Twilights is a book containing religious texts and instructions for Spiritual rituals found within the Islamicraft (Islamick Spiritualism).

Your Book of Twilights is your most important form of record keeping. Your Book of Twilights is a reflection of your spiritual journey. It can be a reflection of any rituals you do, any prayers, any incantations, any spells you cast or verses your recite, and thoughts and feelings that you have. A Book of Twilights (BOT) is a record of all spiritual workings, favorite spells, amulets, verses, chants, rituals, chilla (retreats) and results. Try thinking of your Book of Twilights as a study of your life and the Spirituality that you create and witness.

You can do almost anything with your Book of Twilights. There is no mandatory formula for how you keep or decorate your Book of Twilights. You can decorate it any way that you may want, or you can write your Book of Twilights entirely in the secret alphabet if you wish.

Putting all of this information down in your Book of Twilights requires a bit of organizing and planing. Here are some tips.

File by topic (i.e., ritual work, spell work, etc...)
Alphabetize by subject
Chronological
Chapters

As your Book of Twilights is your journal or guide, there are many types of things that can go into it. Here's an example.

An opening dedication to your Allah
Table of Contents
Islamicraft Studies
A page of ethics or beliefs
Why you came to Islamicraft
Incantations
Quranic Remedies
Herbs
Spirituality (Sufism)
Hadiths
Rituals
Spells
Logs of spiritual workings you do
Recipes
Poems
Meditations  (Muraqaba)
Artwork
Impressions
Dreams
Divinations
Anything you feel contributes to your growth.


* One useful thing to consider when keeping a Book of Twilights is to keep a record of the spells etc that you use and create. You can note the type of spell, how it was conducted, the purpose of the spell, and the outcome. Such a record might look something like this:



[1] Purpose of Spell:

[2] Type of Spell Cast:

[3] Any Special Tools Used for the Spell:

[4] Astrological Correspondences Existing at Time of Spell:

[5] Weather:

[6] Your Health and Emotional State:

[7] Outcome of the Spell:

[8] Did the Spell Work the Way You Wanted It To?

[9] Other Notes:

A Plain Life - William Henry Davies

No idle gold -- since this fine sun, my friend,
Is no mean miser, but doth freely spend.

No precious stones -- since these green mornings show,
Without a charge, their pearls where'er I go.

No lifeless books -- since birds with their sweet tonges
Will read aloud to me their happier songs.

No painted scenes -- since clouds can change their skies
A hundred times a day to please my eyes.

No headstrong wine -- since, when I drink, the spring
Into my eager ears will softly sing.

No surplus clothes -- since every simple beast
Can teach me to be happy with the least
       
          William Henry Davies

A Greeting - William Henry Davies

Good morning, Life---and all
Things glad and beautiful.
My pockets nothing hold,
But he that owns the gold,
The Sun, is my great friend--
His spending has no end.

Hail to the morning sky,
Which bright clouds measure high;
Hail to you birds whose throats
Would number leaves by notes;
Hail to you shady bowers,
And you green field of flowers.

Hail to you women fair,
That make a show so rare
In cloth as white as milk--
Be't calico or silk:
Good morning, Life-- and all
Things glad and beautiful.

              William Henry Davies

Terminology, ords Definitions A-Z

A

Allah

Literally "The God." There is no plural, masculine or feminine forms of this word in Arabic. This denotes the One True God, the Almighty Creator. 


Alhamdulillah /al-hamdilillah / al-hamdulillah

A phrase that Muslims often use in conversation, especially when thanking God for blessings. It literally means "Praise be to Allah."




AFFIRMATIONS

Affirmations are declarations of our worthiest goals. Repeating those declarations often enough that our subconscious minds accepts them as fact, will guide our behaviour accordingly towards the goal. Through affirmations we can declare ourselves happier, more positive, healthier, stronger, more successful … the list goes on … whatever it is that will help us love ourselves more.

Positive affirmations align our spirit with the Universe.


ALCHEMY


Alchemy is the ancient practice in which ‘metallurgy’, medicine, chemistry, religion and mysticism were blended together in an effort to achieve several goals - the main one, being to transform base metals into ‘precious’ metals, was symbolic of the alchemist’s hope of bringing the Universe closer to its highest potential - physically and spiritually.

Another intention of the ancient alchemist was to discover an elixir that would cure all diseases, and indefinitely extend human life expectancy whilst maintaining optimum health. They are of the belief that there is an inseparable bond between the physical and the spiritual/metaphysical.


ALTERED STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS

An altered state of consciousness is a state in which the mind perceives, conceives and processes information in a different way to which it normally does. Such states include meditation, trances, astral travel, clairaudience, clairsentience, clairvoyance (and other psychic/spiritual/paranormal states) and hypnosis (both regression and otherwise), dreams and daydreams.

Other altered states of consciousness are induced voluntarily, such as ‘recreational’ and prescription drug use and the drinking of alcohol (to an inebriated state).

AMULETS

The wearing of amulets was practiced by all the great ancient civilizations, and especially that of Ancient Egypt from which so many symbols emerge. Centuries of magical faith and experience support the belief that these legendary luck-bringers can attract good luck or avert misfortune.

An amulet wards off danger, negative energies and misfortune. An amulet has always been used for protection, especially against the dreaded power of the ‘evil eye’.

Crystals and gemstones have been used both as amulets. Given their natural beauty, rarity and value, crystals and precious stones in the ancient cultures were believed to possess intrinsic virtues which radiated their energies to its owner or wearer.

Apart from precious stones and their virtues, there are time-honoured amulets consisting of things in some form or design which is believed to the ‘magical’.

ANGELS

 beings of light that serve as God's messengers; They lack free will.



APPORT / APPORTATION

The spirit world is able to manipulate physical objects here on earth, often transporting them through space and time so that they appear before us. This manipulation or ability is called ‘apportation’.


ASTRAL BODY

The Astral Body consists of a subtle energy field of light that encases the physical body. The Astral Body is the fourth layer of the aura. It is morphous - that is, lacking definite shape, and is composed of clouds of colour, more beautiful than those of the emotional body.

The Astral body usually has the same set of colours as the emotional body, but they are mostly infused with the rose colour of Love. This body extends from six to twelve inches from the physical body.

ASTRAL CATALEPSY

Astral Catalepsy is the sensation of the body’s reaction when the spirit either enters or leaves the physical body.

During ‘Astral Travel’ the spirit leaves the physical body. The vast majority of the time our spirits slip in and out of our bodies very easily without disturbing our sleeping, conscious minds.

On rare occasions though, depending upon the level of sleep the conscious mind happens to be in, the spirit is ‘caught’ either entering or leaving the body. This gives one the sensation of:

* shortness of breath, often caused by the sensation of an oppressive weight on the chest.

* paralysis

* being touched by something or someone menacing, but invisible.

* an overwhelming vibration

* loud noises and/or buzzing

* the appearance of strange lights

* a sensation of someone/something sitting on the bed, or moving the bed sheets etc.

ASTRAL PROJECTION

Astral projection is when the spirit temporarily leaves the body. The spirit is able to leave for a moment; or can project itself to a specific location – which in the dimension of the spirit realm takes no longer than an instant.

ASTRAL TRAVEL

Astral travel is when our spirits take a ‘trip’ away from the physical body. The spirit is able to take off and visit wherever and whomever we wish. Astral travel lies at the core of some of our most vivid and memorable dreams.

ASTROLOGY

Astrology is an ancient art charting the cycles of the Universe and the positions of the planets at the time of birth, to forecast, predict and draw a distinct impression of the personality and the Life Path.

The Astrology Chart or Zodiac is made up of twelve Sun or natal signs; each with its own ruling planet and a specific segment of the calendar.


AURA

The Aura is sometimes called the ‘etheric substance’ or ‘etheric body’ that surrounds and emanates every living thing. It is the outer-layer of the electromagnetic energies.

Every aura contains all the colours of the spectrum, but the dominant colours may vary depending upon our physical and emotional health.

Bodies of the Aura

• The Etheric Body is the first layer. It has the same structure as the physical body, including all the anatomical parts and organs. The web-like structure of the etheric body is in constant motion and to the clairvoyant vision, sparks of bluish-white light move along its energy-lines throughout the entire physical body It extends from one quarter of an inch to two inches from the physical body.

• The Emotional Body is the second layer and is associated with feelings. Its structure is more fluid than the etheric, and it does not duplicate the physical, but instead roughly follows the outline of the physical body. It appears to be coloured clouds of fine substance in continual fluid motion and extends from one inch to three inches from the physical body.

• The Mental Body is the third layer. It extends beyond the emotional body and is composed of still finer substances, all of which are associated with thought and mental processes. This body usually appears as a bright yellow light radiating about the head and shoulders and extending around the whole body. It extends three to eight inches from the physical body.

• The Astral Body is the fourth layer. It is morphous - that is, lacking definite shape, and is composed of clouds of colour, more beautiful than those of the emotional body. The Astral body usually has the same set of colours as the emotional body, but they are mostly infused with the rose colour of Love. This body extends from six to twelve inches from the physical body.

• The Etheric Template Body is the fifth layer, and is so called because if contains all the forms that exist on the physical plane in a ‘blueprint’ form. It looks rather like the negative of a photograph. It is the blueprint or perfect form for the etheric layer to take and it extends from one and a half to two feet from the physical body.

• The Celestial Body is the sixth layer and is the emotional level of the Spiritual plane. It is the level through which we experience Spiritual ecstasy and can be reached through deep meditation and it extends two to two and a half feet from the physical body.

• The Ketheric Body or Causal Body is the seventh layer. This is the mental level of the Spiritual plane. It extends from two and a half to three and a half feet from the physical body.

AUTOMATIC WRITING

Automatic writing is writing (or typing) that involves the intuitive mind taking over from the rational mind in order to access and record information.

Azrael 


The angel of death.

B

Barzakh

The state of the souls of the deceased before the Day of Judgment, when they will be assigned to Heaven or to Hell.

BANSHEE

The word ‘banshee’ originates from a Celtic word meaning ‘woman of the fairy’. Banshees are most noted for their piercing wail said to break glass for miles around, alerting families to the death of a relative.

The sound of the wailing is said to do with the density of the fog and the speed of the spirit moving from the physical body into the realm of spirit.



BI-LOCATE (BI-LOCATION)

To bi-locate is the ability to be in two (or more) places at once.

This is able to be achieved in the spirit realm but not in the physical/material world when we are in human form.

BIRTH SIGN

The Birth Sign is also known as the Sun Sign in Astrology. This is the astrological sign that the sun was in at the time you were born.



BLEED-THROUGH

A bleed-through is an event in which two separate times or dimensions come together with such intense spiritual force that for a brief time they meet, meld and blend together and become one.

C

CHAKRAS

The word chakra is Sanskrit for ‘vortex’ or ‘wheel’. The chakras are energy centres within our physical bodies. There are 7 major chakras between the crown (or top) of the head, to the base of the spine. There are another 42 or so minor chakras and more in the aura.

Each of the 7 chakras correspond to a major endocrine gland in the body and each of them control specific physical areas and functions.

CELL MEMORY

Cell Memory is the entire body of knowledge that our spirit minds have gathered during all our past lives, infused and reacted to by every cell in the physical body the moment the spirit enters the fetus.

Our spirit minds remember every moment we’ve experienced in this life.

CHANNEL / CHANNELING (Kashf e Kaboor)

A ‘channel’ or ‘channeler’ is someone who is able to communicate with spirit and the ‘other side’. This process is known as ‘channeling’. A channel is also sometimes known as a Medium and also known as Kashf-e-Kaboor in Islamic spiritualism.

CHANT / CHANTING

Repetitive, short, simple words, an affirmation, or sounds used to help attain a deeper spiritual or meditative state.



CHI

Chi is the positive Universal energy that flows through the body’s vital organs and circulates through the entire body. Chi is positive energy.



CLAIRAUDIENCE

Clairaudience is a French word that means ‘clear hearing’. Clairaudience is the ability to hear things that originate in another dimension. It is the definite audio-perception of actual sounds and words.

CLAIRSENTIENCE

Clairsentience is the ability to receive a silent thought, message or projected emotion from nearby or from other dimensions, and experience it as an actual physical and emotional sensation. Clairsentience is sometimes called ‘clear thinking’ or ‘clear knowing’.

CLAIRVOYANCE

Clairvoyance is the ability to see things, objects or information that originates from another dimension. Sometimes this is called ‘clear seeing.’

· Clairvoyant visions originate in other dimensions, and earth is the only dimension where we have the concept of ‘time’. Everywhere else there is nothing but ‘now’, so past, present and future are not necessarily factored into a vision. This is why it is often difficult for clairvoyants to predict an exact date or time.


CONTEMPLATION

Deep thought or inner-reflection as a type of prayer or meditation.

COSMIC OTHER SIDE (THE)

The Cosmic Other Side is as identical reflection of the Universe as our Other Side is of Earth. The residents of the Other Side are the most highly advanced in the Universe.

Creation

 A six-stages creative act by God. 

CREATIVE VISUALIZATION

Creative visualization is the method of using images to help one to achieve their goals. This is often used during meditation, prayer or deep relaxation.

CRYSTALS

Crystals and other natural gems are formed in the earth over countless millennia. The energy they have absorbed during their formation is ancient, rich and potent, and their atoms are arranged with geometric precision.

Some crystals align the magnetic fields of the earth as the crystal naturally vibrates it’s own energy. This energizes it’s environment and anyone and anything in close proximity. Because of the potent energy they emit, crystals are capable of balancing human energy amongst other things.Crystals emit negative ions which help create uplifting and harmonious feelings. As a personal tool for transformation crystals can be used to amplify, store, transmit and focus your thoughts, emotions and desires, ultimately manifesting them into reality. Crystals bring about clarity, stimulate our resources to cope, and bring about a state of peace and balance into our life.


CURSES

Curses are an attempt at controlling others by way of manipulation and fear.

D

Darda'il  

The angels who travel in the earth searching out assemblies where people remember God’s name. Harut and Marut are two angels mentioned in Qur'an, who were sent down to test the people at Babylon.



DISCARNATE SPIRIT

A discarnate spirit is a spirit without a physical body. eg. a ghost.

DEJA VU

Deja vu is a fleeting glimpse into our other lives, on earth and on the Other Side.

There are two kinds of déjà vu.

1. The first occurs when you visit a certain place, house, foreign country or somewhere that you know you’ve never been to before, and suddenly realize that it is very familiar. When we experience this intense familiarity with an unfamiliar place, it is our spirit’s memories of a past life. When the spirit memories build in the subconscious are stirred so deeply by sights from a whole other incarnation, those memories emerge into the conscious mind. This same kind of déjà vu applies to people as well. We all know people who have seemed familiar the moment we meet them.
2. The second kind of déjà vu consists of a moment in which every single detail, from what you are doing and saying to what you are wearing, the surrounds and what you are thinking are so familiar that you are absolutely positive that you are re-living an exact duplicate of a moment from your past. These instances never last longer than a few seconds. The moment is always gone in less time than it too us to notice it.

DISTANT HEALING

Distant healing is the ability to give and/or receive ‘healing’ from a distance. This is where the client/patient/person/animal does not have to be in the vicinity of the healer for the healing affects to take place. The healing is projected to the person/animal who is being healed.



DIVINATION

Divination is the use of objects in the hopes of finding answers to our questions. It is also the practice of ‘fortune-telling’ future events. There are many hundreds of different tools practitioners use when divining.

DIVINER

A diviner is someone who divines the location of water, minerals and objects, often with the use of ‘divining rods’.



DOPPELGANGER

‘Doppelganger’ is a German word meaning ‘double goer’. When a doppelganger is involved, the body (living, breathing, physical body) bi-locates, or can be seen in two different places at once.

DOWSING

Dowsing is a form of divination that has been used for thousands and thousands of years to search for everything from underground water and minerals to buried treasure. It is also utilized to find energy fields, discover illness in the body and find lost items.

DOWSER

A dowser is a person who dowses.

DREAMS

Generally, there are five (5) categories of dreams: Release Dreams, Wish Dreams, Prophetic Dreams, Information or Problem Solving Dreams and Astral Travels/Visits.

Deluge and Noah's (Nuh's) Ark

Worldwide flood event with water vessel containing remains of humanity and set of all animals.

E

EARTHBOUND SPIRIT

An earthbound spirit is another name for a ghost or spirit that has left its physical body, but is unable or unwilling to enter the ‘tunnel’. As a result of this, the spirit remains earthbound.

ECTOPLASM

Ectoplasm is thought to be the tangible residue of energy that is transmitted between a psychic/medium and a ghost or spirit. It is the etheric matter that spirits/ghosts produce to make themselves visible to living beings.

Another theory is that ectoplasm originates in the earthbound and is the manifestation of the ghost’s own etheric substance caught between dimensions.

From personal experience, one is able to come into contact with ectoplasm during ‘trance’ work and contact with spirit during meditation and the like. It has a sticky, cob-web-spider-web-like feeling and gives the impression of clinging to you. (hard to describe…)

ESSENCE

Essence = I AM

ETHERIC SUBSTANCE

The etheric substance is the energy that permeates and emanates from every space in the Universe and every space within us all.

E S P

E S P stands for ‘extra-sensory perception’. ESP is a means of knowing that something is going to happen before it does. It also describes perceptions of thought and experiences without using any of the 5 basic human senses.


EXTRA-TERRESTRIALS

We are definitely not the only inhabited planet in the Universe.

EXORCISM

The driving out of an unwanted and unwelcome spirit.

F

FAIRY / FAIRIES

Fairies exist in the ‘Elemental’ realm.

FAKIRS

‘Fakirs’ are specific orders of yogis, Sufis and East Indians who embrace the belief that poverty and deprivation are essential for a true closeness to God.

FENG SHUI

Feng Shui is the ancient Chinese system for creating harmony in the environment, unblocking and ushering out negative energies. It is the practice of balancing energies in the environment.

FREE ASSOCIATION

Free association is the method of saying or writing the first thing that comes to mind in response to a word or picture.

G

Garden of Eden

The heavenly Paradise where Adam and Eve lived before their Fall.


GHOSTS

Ghosts are discarnate spirits. For a variety of very personal reasons, some spirits either see the tunnel and white light and reject it, or refuse to acknowledge it at all, which leaves them stranded here on the earthplane outside of their bodies, caught between the lower vibrational level we exist in on earth, and the much higher-frequency vibrational level of the Other Side.

GRAPHOLOGY

Graphology is the examination and analysis of a person’s handwriting to determine that person’s personality and character.

GUARDIAN ANGELS / SPIRIT GUIDES / HUMZAD/ QAREEN

With every single human there's a Humzad with him/her. It's born with him/her.

GUIDED IMAGERY

Guided imagery is usually in the form of meditation. A guided meditation uses inspiring imagination in a focused and directed way to achieve goals and to heal the mind and body.

GLOSSOLALIA

Glossolalia is ‘talking in tongues’. ‘Talking in tongues’ is a practice still observed in some religious sects in which a person is elevated to a state of ecstasy that seems to trigger a stream of incomprehensible syllables unrelated to any known language, past or present.

H

HAUNTING / HAUNTED

A place is deemed to be ‘haunted’ if there is a discarnate spirit or ghost in residence.

HEALER

A ‘healer’ is a person who is able to channel healing energies and direct them to someone in need of ‘healing’, be that physically, mentally and/or spirituality.

HOLDING PLACE (THE) / Barzakh

The state of the souls of the deceased before the Day of Judgment, when they will be assigned to Heaven or to Hell

HOROSCOPE

The studying of the Horoscope is an ancient art charting the cycles of the Universe and the positions of the planets at the time of birth, to forecast, predict and draw a distinct impression of the personality and the Life Path.

The Horoscope, Astrology Chart or Zodiac is made up of twelve sun or natal signs; each with its own ruling planet and a specific segment of the calendar, called ‘Houses’.


HYPNOSIS

Hypnosis is a procedure by which the conscious mind is suppressed enough that underlying information held in the subconscious and/or the spirit mind can be assessed.

HYPNOTIST / HYPNOTHERAPIST

A hypnotherapist or hypnotist is someone trained to hypnotize.

I

Insha'Allah

God Willing, we must use Insha'Allah in every time we talk in future tense. Cuz nothing can happen without will of God.


Israfel


The angel of doom trumpet.

INTUITION

Your intuition is your own personal early warning system.It alerts you to changing energies, dangers, knowledge and relevant information.Our job is to listen to what it is telling us and take heed of the messages.

INVOCATION

An invocation is a formal greeting or prayer to call upon the presence of spirits, jinns or qareen/guardian angel.

IMPRINTS

An imprint is an intensely concentrated pocket of energy – a site at which some extremely dramatic event/s has taken place with such profound impact that the images and emotions from those events literally become a part of the land and the atmosphere at the site itself. Not only do those images and emotions become self-sustaining over the years, but everyone who experiences the powerful effect of the imprinted images and emotions and strongly reacts also lends even more energy to the imprint and helps perpetuate it.



INFUSED KNOWLEDGE

Infused knowledge is the phenomenon in which information is directly transferred from one mind to another, with no involvement at all from the five physical senses.

Infused knowledge is one of the most common ways that the spirit world on the Other Side communicates with our spirit minds.

J

Jannah

Heaven; the abode of the righteous after the Day of Judgment; contains the Garden of Paradise.


Jahannam

 Hell; the abode of the wicked after the Day of Judgment.



Jibrail / Gabriel


 The archangel Gabriel and Jibrail is an archangel who serves as a messenger from God. 



Jinn

creatures of fire; along with angels and humans, one of the three intelligent species created by God.

K

Kaaba 

The sacred mosque that we visit while on the Hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca). Ibrahim (Abraham) and Ishmael built the Kaaba at God's request, to serve as the earthly counterpart of Jannah (Heaven). Adam built the original earthly Kaaba, but Ibraham and his son had to rebuild it.  

KAMI

A Kami is the spirit of a departed loved one whose energy remains within the family and community.

Kiraman Katibin

 The two angels who record a person's good and bad deeds.



KINETIC ENERGY

Kinetic energy is the unintentional, spontaneous manipulation of inanimate objects through no obvious physical means, causing its possessor to become kind of a walking force field.

Kinetic energy is often at its strongest when the body is going through dramatic hormonal changes - during pre-pubescence or puberty, or in pregnant or menopausal women. It can also manifest itself in young children.

KIRILIAN PHOTOGRAPHY

Kirilian photography is a method of capturing on film the auras, or energy patterns, that surround all living things.

It was discovered by two Russian scientists, Semyon and Valentina Kirilian in 1939. It involves passing a high frequency electrical current through an object while photographing the object either directly or through glass. The result is an image of the object, along with coloured auras around them that are capable of indicating illness, stress and other emotional and physical afflictions.

L

LEVITATION

Levitation is the phenomenon in which the human body is physically elevated into the air and suspended there for a discernible length of time, without the use of any external or artificial device/s.


LIFE FORCE

The Life Force is that energy within us and the entirety of creation that makes us ‘alive’.

M

Maalik

The angel who guards the Hellfire.

Michael


The angel of nature. 


MEDITATION / MURAQABA

A state in which the body is consciously relaxed, and the mind is able to become calm and focused.



MEDIUM / MEDIUMSHIP

Mediumship is the ability to experience contact with the spirits of passed over people/souls, as well as other entities such as angels and spirit guides.

A Medium is a person whose psychic abilities are complimented by an extended range of frequency perceptions. The role of the medium is to fascilitate communication with the spirit realm in order to receive and share messages.

MERIDIANS

Every atom, particle and cell of all living things on this planet are surrounded by an energy field known as the ‘Aura’. The aura has a series of layers and ‘meridians’ which are channels which convey energy around the body. According to ancient Chinese medicine, there are 14 meridians that carry ‘chi’ throughout the body.


METAPHYSICS / METAPHYSICAL

The word metaphysics is derived from the Greek work ‘meta’ meaning ‘beyond’ or ‘after’, and ‘physika’ meaning physical’.

Metaphysics is a philosophy that looks at events that have no physical, scientific explanation.

MORPHIC RESONANCE

Morphic Resonance occurs when the spirit mind is confronted with a place or a person so profoundly familiar from a past life that it experiences almost total recall. Deeply affected by that recall, the spirit mind infuses the conscious mind with that same factual and emotional information to the point where the whole body (physically, mentally and spiritually) resonates with a familiarity that only the spirit mind can claim.

Munkar and Nakir

The angels who test the faith of the dead in their graves.

Mu'aqqibat


A class of guardian angels who keep people from death until its decreed time.


MYTH / MYTHOLOGY

Broadly, the word ‘myth’ can refer to any traditional story.

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NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE

A Near Death Experience (NDE) is the phenomenon where the physical body experiences clinical death, but has the vivid awareness of the spirit separating from his or her physical body.

NUMEROLOGY

Numerology is ‘The Science of Numbers’ - the study of numbers and their incredible effect on our lives. Numbers have been in existence since the beginning of time and predates all Alphabets.

Numerology tells of our potential destiny, our natural talents, and helps us to gain a better understanding of ourselves and others. It shows us the pathway we need to take in our lives to fulfill our potential and also tells us one of the many reasons why we each have different traits and characteristics.

O

OMENS

Omens are signs we look for to predict the future, or to tell us the circumstances of current events. Most omens have been adapted from ancient times to the present, spread and plagiarized from one culture to another and passed down through generations.


ORACLES

An oracle can be a person considered to be a source of wisdom. It can also be referred to as a shrine dedicated to a prophetic deity. The Runes, Tarot, I Ching, Angel Cards amongst many other forms of divination can be considered oracles.

OTHER SIDE (THE) / ALAM-E-BARZAKH

The Other Side is where our spirits come from when we enter the womb. It is also where our spirits go when the physical body dies. It is the realm of spirit. till the Qyammah (The day of judgement)

OUIJA BOARD

A Ouija Board consist of a board with letters of the alphabet, numbers and words. A ‘planchette’ moves around the board when fingers or hands are placed lightly upon it, spelling out words and messages from spirit.

OUT OF BODY EXPERIENCE

An ‘Out Of Body Experience’ is when a person’s consciousness is able to see the world from a perspective that transcends the physical body, and bypasses the physical senses.

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PALMISTRY

Palmistry is the interpretation of a person’s past, present and future, through the study of the lines and other natural markings of the hands. Your dominant hand is thought to reveal your life’s path, while the other hand is thought to indicate your ultimate destiny.


PENDULUM

A Pendulum is an object that is suspended from a fixed point, which moves in response to a natural force and/or psychic energy. Pendulums work by connecting with electrical impulses created by our subconscious minds. These influences cause the Pendulum to move, and we can then read these movements to gain insight into the deepest parts of ourselves.

PHENOMENON

The dictionary definition of the word phenomenon is: “an observable event, particularly one that is remarkable or in some way extraordinary.”


POSSESSION

Possession is when a spirit invades and completely overtakes a physical body without consent and to the total submission of the spirit who is already inhabiting that body.


PRANA

Prana is a form of energy that permeates all physical matter.


PRECOGNITION

An awareness (on a psychic level) of a future event before it takes place.

PREMONITION

A premonition is an awareness of a future event, yet to take place.

PROPHECY

A prophecy is knowledge and/or information that comes in the form of a vision or dream, before it happens.



PROPHETIC DREAMS

Prophetic dreams are dreams in which a future event or events are detailed. People of all creeds and cultures throughout the ages have accepted that dreams could foretell the future or reveal long-forgotten images of the past.

PSYCHIC ATTACKS

Rather than assaulting the body, ‘psychic attacks’ target our minds, our sense of personal power, our self-conscious, our self-esteem and our hopes and dreams. They drain us of our energy and make us feel depleted on every level.

A psychic attack happens when someone (or a dark entity) consciously and purposefully directs negative energy towards another.

PSYCHOANALYSIS

Psychoanalysis is a methodical approach used to examine the unconscious mind, as a way of mental and emotional healing.

PSYCHOKINESIS (TELEKINESIS)

Psychokinesis is a Greek word, ‘psyche’ meaning ‘mind’ and ‘kinein’ which means ‘to move’.

Psychokinesis is the ability to use the mind to move or manipulate objects without physically touching them. It is deliberate, focused and specific on the part of its practitioner.

PSYCHOMETRY

Psychometry is the ability to sense and interpret the living energy that has been absorbed by inanimate objects. Perceptions of that energy can come in the form of visions, smells, sounds, emotions and even specific empathic physical sensations like pain, heat and cold.

Q

Qiyamah

The Day of Resurrection (and the reward and punishment of the good and the wicked);

QUICKENING

‘Quickening’ means “to come to life” … “to have the spirit enter and activate the earthly body”.

R

Ridwan

 The angel in charge of maintaining Jannah or Paradise.

REFLEXOLOGY

Reflexology is a method of ‘hands on healing’ using massage to activate points on the feet and hands that directly relate to organs of the physical body. Reflexology is a technique of diagnosis and treatment in which certain areas of the body, particularly the hands and feet, are massaged to alleviate pain or other symptoms in the organs of the body.

Minor energy points are found within the hands and feet. Healers use these energy channels or points to heal others physically, emotionally and mentally by using healing techniques such Reflexology, Reiki, aromatherapy, massage and other similar alternative therapies.

REIKI

Reiki (pronounced ray-kee) is an ancient form of natural, holistic healing which was used in Tibet and the far East 6,000 years ago. Eastern religions considered it a sacred healing art and guarded against misuse by keeping the teachings and symbols secret. Only the ‘selected ones’ were taught and very few written records were made.

Dr. Mikao Usui, a Japanese Christian educator, rediscovered the technique encrypted among Sanskrit records in the late 1800s. Since then people all over the world have been taught to receive Universal Energy through their crown chakras (top of the head) and pass it through their bodies and out their hands into another’s body via the hands-on technique of Reiki.

Reiki is the ancient practice of ‘hands on’ energy healing. Healing with one’s hands is an art, or possibly a science, that finds documented testimonials of "miracles" predating Christianity by nearly a millennium. Universal Life-Force Energy fueled by the power of White Light is what energy-workers believe changes negative to positive, cures the sick, regenerates tissue and accelerates the body’s own natural healing process.

The hands-on healer is trained to utilize this energy, without ego, to facilitate themselves and others in returning to a state of balance and health.


REMOTE VIEWING

Remote viewing is a skill that allows us to perceive and describe details about a specific item or location that we are separated from by time, distance or a physical barrier.

RETROCOGNITION

Retrocognition is when one has intuitive knowledge of past events, without gaining information through the traditional five senses.

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 SAWS

When writing the name of the Prophet Muhammad, we must follow it with the abbreviation "SAWS." These letters stand for the Arabic words "sallallahu alayhi wa salaam" (may God's blessings and peace be with him). We use these words to show respect to one of God's Prophet. It is also abbreviated as "PBUH," which stand for the English words of similar meaning ("peace be upon him").


Also Known As: PBUH


SCRYING

Scrying is a practice of divination that provokes clairvoyance when a ‘reader’ stares into a reflective surface while in a deep state of concentration or trance. It is an ancient approach to fortune-telling that employs the use of an object to focus on, or stare at or into, until a vision appears. Objects used for scrying can be stones, coins, mirrors, crystals, crystal bowls and water.

SÉANCE

‘Séance’ is a French word which means ‘sitting’. A séance is a gathering in which a channeler attempts to communicate with spirit/s.

SHAMANISM

Shamanism are holistic healing techniques that begin at the spirit level.

Shamanistic practitioners (Shamans) thrive in countries throughout the world and in almost every religion. Shamans believe that everything in nature is alive. As a result everything in nature possesses information. Shamans work with that information and with the spirits of humans and animals around them to diagnose, to treat and to heal the soul and whatever illness is creating a shadow around it.



SYNCHRONICITY

Synchronicity is an ‘especially meaningful coincidences’.

(please see COINCIDENCE)

SYNERGISM

The dictionary defines ‘synergism’ as “the simultaneous action of separate agencies which, together, have greater total effect than the sum of their individual effects.”

Synergism, or synergy, is the simultaneous action of separate people who, together, have a greater total effect than the sum of their individual power.

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TALISMAN

A talisman is a token, charm or small object of some kind that is worn, carried or kept by its owner. The purpose of a talisman is to attract and help ensure a specific goal, usually good luck, self-confidence, protection, emotional clarity, strength, good health etc.

TAROT

Tarot cards reflect life’s journey from birth to death, mirroring the path from naivety to experience and self knowledge. Most aspects of human experience are found in the Tarot cards.

TELEPATHY

Telepathy is the direct, instantaneous passing of information, knowledge or feelings from one person or entity to another, without using the senses of sight, hearing, touch, taste or smell. Silent transference takes place from a sender to a receiver (sometimes over great distances) and it can happen deliberately or without either the sender nor the receiver being aware of it.

The information is received in a variety of ways: phrases or words that pop into the mind for no apparent reason, quick flashes of half-complete images, unusually vivid dreams, or a sudden preoccupation with a person we might not have seen, heard or thought of in a long time.


THOUGHT TRANSFERENCE

The ability to communicate thoughts to another without the use of physical means.

TOTEMS

A totem is an entity that protect and oversee groups of people such as clans, tribes and families.

Totem beliefs have been present within societies throughout the world, particularly in countries such as Australia, Asia, Africa, Eastern and Western Europe, the Americas and the Arctic polar region.

Many people today choose to adopt a personal totem which has special meaning to them. This can be an animal, symbol or any emblem of personal, spiritual significance.



TRANCE

A trance is a condition in which there is an actual, dramatic, measurable drop in the physical body’s vital signs, an equally measurable decrease in mental activity and a complete, temporary halt to all voluntary movement.

A trance is a state of altered consciousness.

TRANSFIGURATION

Transfiguration is when a spirit’s physical characteristics are superimposed over a person’s features (usually a ‘medium’ during trance) which presents an image of the spirit entity.

TULPA

Tulpas are beings that originate in the mind, then through intense belief and visualization, become actual physical realities.

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UNIVERSAL ENERGY FIELD

The universal Energy Field is the energy of all existence, which encompasses the physical and non-physical.

V

VORTEX

Vortexes are most commonly seen in nature in the form of tornados and water spouts – masses of air or water spinning with such speed and force that they are able to pull any objects in their path into the void or ‘eye’ at the centre.

These spiraling masses of energy also exist in swirling vortexes of the earth’s power, usually unseen but dramatically perceived via sudden gravitational anomalies, seemingly impossible light and sound distortions, unexplainable contorted plant life and human effects ranging from dizziness to sudden deep introspection to euphoria.

According to some studies, there are ‘in-flow’ vortexes where the energy flows from space towards the Earth – and ‘up-flow’ vortexes in which the energy flows out of the Earth towards space.

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X

XENOGLOSSY

Xenoglossy is the ability to speak or write in a language never learned by the person exhibiting these skills. Xenoglossy is a spontaneous, inexplicable fluency in a traceable (often ancient) language or dialect.

Aura

In parapsychology and many forms of spiritual practice, an aura is a field of subtle, luminous radiation surrounding a person or object (like the halo or aureola in religious art). The depiction of such an aura often connotes a person of particular power or holiness. Sometimes, however, it is said that all living things (including humans) and all objects manifest such an aura. Often it is held to be perceptible, whether spontaneously or with practice: such perception is at times linked with the third eye of Indian spirituality.[1][2] Various writers associate various personality traits with the colors of different layers of the aura.[3][4][5] It has also been described as a map of the thoughts and feelings surrounding a person.[6] In the ever growing case of 'mortal vampyres', the psi-vampyres claim to get energy from someone else's aura.

Skeptics such as Robert Todd Carroll contend that auras may be seen for reasons such as migraines, synesthesia,[7] epilepsy, a disorder within the visual system, a disorder within the brain, or due to the influence of psychedelic drugs such as LSD.[8][9] Eye fatigue can also produce an aura, sometimes referred to as eye burn.

Spiritual traditions

In Iran the aura is known as farr or "glory": it is depicted in association with Zoroastrian kings.[10]

Ideas of the aura are well represented in Indian religions. The Buddhist flag represents the colours seen around the enlightened Buddha.[11] In Jainism the concept of Lesya relates colours to mental and emotional dispositions. To the Indian teacher Meher Baba the aura is of seven colours, associated with the subtle body and its store of mental and emotional impressions. Spiritual practice gradually transforms this aura into a spiritual halo.[12] Hindu and Buddhist sources often link these colours to kundalini energy and the chakras.[13]

In the classical western mysticism of neoplatonism and Kabbalah the aura is associated with the lustre of the astral body, a subtle body identified with the planetary heavens, which were in turn associated with various mental faculties in an elaborate system of correspondences with colours, shapes, sounds, perfumes etc.[14]

The symbolism of light found in the Bible is at times associated with the idea of the aura or "body of light":[15] similar interpretations are found in Islamic traditions

plete description of the aura and its colours was provided by Charles Leadbeater, a theosophist of the 19th century.[17] The works of Leadbeater were later developed by Palamidessi[18] and others.

The British occultist W.E. Butler connected auras with clairvoyance and etheric, mental and emotional emanations. He classified the aura into two main types: etheric and spiritual. Auras are thought to serve as a visual measure of the state of the health of the physical body.[19] Robert Bruce classifies auras into three types: etheric, main, and spiritual.[20] According to Bruce auras are not actual light but a translation of other unknown sensory readings that is added to our visual processing. They are not seen in complete darkness and cannot be seen unless some portion of the person or object emitting the aura can also be seen.[21]
Glenn Morris, grandmaster of the Hoshin Roshi Ryu lineage, included perception of the aura in his training of advanced martial artists. His experience was that it consisted of multiple layers. He described the most easily visible of these as being "light and denser than the air in which the body is immersed", typically half to quarter of an inch thick and correlating with the etheric body of an individual. Around this he described a yard thick egg-shaped layer reflecting hormonal state that he linked to the emotional body, and outside this, other barely perceptible layers corresponding to the mental body and beyond.[22] Recalling the aura of another sōke, he wrote, "The first time I saw Hatsumi, he was running continuous bright, lime, neon green a foot wide and was so easy to see he would flash in bright sunlight".[23]

For holistic healers, aura reading is the art of investigating the human energy field, or the energy fields of other sentient beings. It is a basis for using techniques of holistic healing, and includes such practices as bioenergetics, energy medicine, energy spirituality, and energy psychology.

Tests

Recognition of auras has occasionally been tested on television. One test involved an aura reader standing on one side of a room with an opaque partition separating her from a number of slots which might contain either actual people or mannequins. The aura reader failed to identify the slots containing people, incorrectly stating that all contained people.[24]

In another televised test[25] another aura reader was placed before a partition where five people were standing. He claimed that he could see their auras from behind the partition. As each person moved out, the reader was asked to identify where that person was standing behind the slot. He identified only 2 out of 5 correctly. 

Anomalous operation

Anomalous operation, also known as anomalous perturbation, is a term used to describe any paranormal phenomena in which it is said that an individual (A) uses Psi (parapsychology) to influence a physical event, or (B) to effect a physical change, in object. There is no scientifically accepted evidence that any such powers exist or that any 'anomalous operations' have been observed in reality.

Overview

Alternatively, anomalous perturbation is defined as an interaction with matter without the use of all known physical mechanisms.[1] It can be used to describe a broad variety of phenomena, including Psychokinesis,[2] Faith healing and reality shifts. There is no scientifically accepted evidence that such 'interactions' have been observed in reality.

An example of Anomalous operation would be the use of Psi to manipulate a random number generator into giving out pre-selected results, or causing a compass needle to change its heading. Spoon bending through Psi would also be a form of anomalous operation.

Anomalous perturbations are divided into two categories based on the magnitude of its effects, Macro-AP and Micro-AP. Macro-AP are phenomenon that do not require complex statistical analysis to remove weak effects from the collected data. Phenomena under this category includes telekinesis, poltergeist, teleportation and materialization. Micro-AP on the other hand covers data that show minute differences that require statistical analysis to rule out expected data that was only randomly generated. This category covers random sources such as noisy diodes and radioactive decay.

Further Reading

^ Tart, Charles T. (1997). Body Mind Spirit: Exploring the Parapsychology of Spirituality. Hampton Roads Pub. Co.. pp. 221. ISBN 1-57174-073-2.
^ Bielski, Ursula (1998). Chicago Haunts: Ghostlore of the Windy City. Lake Claremont Press. pp. 1780964242672.
^ May, Edwin C.; Jessica M. Utts, S. James P. Spottiswoode (1995). "Decision augmentation theory: toward a model of anomalous mental phenomena". The Journal of Parapsychology 59. Retrieved 2008-01-05.
Thalbourne, Michael A. (2003) "A Glossary of Terms Used in Parapsychology", Puente Publications, ISBN 0-9634501-1-5
Royal, George (2005) "Psychic Abilities and Parapsychology", Ezine
"Parapsychology". Mandrake Press Ltd.. Retrieved 2008-01-05.