The arrogance, for the self does not allow the soul to take precedence, claiming,on the pattern of Pharoah,' I am your Lord most high! For this men need to use drastic means, like emergency surgery, to eliminate the tyrannical self.This illustrated in a story about Bayazid as been told by my religious teacher (Ustaz Muhammad Sulayman).This is not for daawah purpose but for me to state what that have been told so it can be reflect and react upon InsyAllah.
" There was a man in Bishan who was always in Bayazid's assembly and he never separated from him. At the same time the man was a renowned scholar of the region . Once he said to Beyazid,"O master ! For thirty years I have been fasting in the daytime and remained standing at night in prayers. I have left all my passions,but I feel in my heart nothing at all of what you are talking about, although I believe in what you say and I know that you are telling the truth.
" Beyazid replied, 'Even if you fast for three hundred years and keep standing in night prayers for three hundred years while you are (in the state in which) I see you, you will not experience one atom of this knowledge."The man asked, "Why ,O master?" Bayazid answered ,"Because you are veiled by your own self." He asked," Is there any medicine by which to removed this well?" Bayazid told him," Remove the clothes (of the scholar) that you are wearing , put on this (ragged) cloak, attach a bag around your neck and fill it with chestnuts.Then gather children around you and say at the top pf your voice,"O children ! Whoever will slap me once I will give one chestnut . And whoever slaps me twice I will give two chestnuts. And whoever will push me so I fall down I will give three chestnuts."Go the place where you are most respected and let everyone who knows you see you like this. Begin with this before all else, so that first you fall from prestige (jah) and cause your self to be humiliated." That man (who was a scholar of renown)said,"Oh Glory to Allah! Is it to someone of my stature you say such a thing?
" Bayazid replied,"Stop, stop, stop! Now you are commiting the irresparable sin of association with Allah, shirk!" He continued ,"Stop now, you see how loose your tougue is. Even with thirty years (of struggles in the Way) set you cannot control it. When you control yourself by humiliating yourself and make it known that you are truly change, then you will be accepted," Bayazid continued,"After you do this I shall let you know what is nsuitable for you,"The man said ,"I am unsuitable to do this!" Bayazid had sought out the defect in his disciple's character, and exposed it to him, for when he said, Oh !Glory to Allah !" it was as if he was putting himself besides God, as if to say,"I am above that as Allah is above His Creation," This story illustrates the need to create a new way in your life as mentioned to that scholar of all science, by humbling and demeaning yourself.
The important message is "Do not ever uplift yourself or gives excuses to yourself,
for the Best of Creation , Sayyidina Muhammad (s) ,
The Master of masters ,
The seal of Messengers,
The Perfect human being was humble .
Allah gave him (s) everything ;
He gave him (s) intercession;
He made his nation the best of nations;
He forgave his nation their sins large and small and vouchsafed for them Abode of Safety in the afterlife;
He made him (s) the first to resurrected on Judgement Day ;
He made him (s) the first to enter paradise,
along with his entire Community.
All this and yet the Prophet (s) said: I am the Master of the sons of Adam on Judgement Day and say this without boasting.(Tirmidhi, ibn Majah and Ahmad)
For Allah 's Messenger (s) had no pride , therefore despite being the greatest of all ,
he was most pleased when His Lord called him"My servant,"abdi. MasyaAllah.
Allahumma salli a'ala Muhammad waala ali Muhammad.
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