Ego And The Pull Of Gravity
Shaykh Muhammad Hisham Kabbani
Zawiyah Michigan USA, 2006
Every category of animal lives together. There is no
mixing of different ones Eall must be the same within
each species. They say that human beings are perfect
speaking animals. God has created us in perfection
and honored us as he said in His Holy Book: We have
honored human beingsE(Al-IsraE70). Unfortunately, I
am afraid to say that we are less than animals yet.
Every category of animals can live with each other.
We, either men or women, are also a category of
creation Eand yet no humans can live with each other
without fighting.
Do you see lions, elephants, and all kinds of animals
perpetually fighting with each other? They dont fight
but are raised all together. Here, two of us will be
fighting in the space of only one month.
There must be some secret there to make you fight with
each other. Go to any center in the human community Echurches, synagogues,
mosques, Sūfī centers,
and you will see them fighting.
Because there is something hidden in themselves, which
is pride. Everyone wants to be he-himself,Ethe one
whose ideas, whose opinions, whose leadership must
work, either in his house, his job, his group, or
anywhere. Wives want to fight husbands, husbands want
to fight wives for the slightest mistake. At work, no
one accepts someone elses opinion. In a group, ones
opinion must be the first.
This is never-ending. Why? because God imposed over
human beings their ego. When God puts that ego there,
it will not accept anything. That is the meaning of
the ayat: We have offered the heavens, the earth,
and the mountains Our Trust to carry, but they were
unable to carry it and were afraid; and when We asked
human beings, quickly they ran to do itE(al-Ahzāb 72), because they want
to possess
everything. If you gave someone all of Montreal, he
will not be happy and will look over to Ontario to see
if he can have it. You can never make a human being
satisfied of anything. If you give him gold, he wants
diamonds. If you give him diamonds, he wants your
neck.
Because man is so greedy, God made him so that nothing
can satisfy his eyes except sand. Why? Because when
he is passing away, even if you bring him all the
treasures of this world, he does not want them.
Finished Ehe just wants to go to the grave and be
surrounded by sand. It does not mean that he does not
feel anything. He feels everything. But when he sees
how merciful God is with him, and how he was running
away from his Lord, if you give him at that time the
most beautiful lady or the pleasures of this life, he
will be running after his Lord, because he is seeing
the reality at the time that he is given birth.
That is why the Prophet (s)
said,الناس
نيام
فإذا
ماتوا
أنبتهوا -
"Human beings are sleeping; nothing awakes them except
deathE If this is the case, why are we fighting? We
are of the same family. Everyone loves his sons and
his daughters. Arent we all the children of Adam ¡
and Eve? All of you in your hearts are now saying,
yes, the Shaykh is right. I can hear this. But as
soon as you go out of this door, everything is
forgotten. It might be that some men and women who
came here will begin to fight even as they come down
the stairs Enot even waiting to reach home.
These elements which God created for men are trying to
pull us back to their origin. What is their origin?
Earth. Gravity is pulling you because the rule of
everything is earthly gravity. As a circle has a
center, with an infinite number of radii that all come
from one point, the center, so human beings also all
refer back to one point through gravity, the earth.
In the opposite direction, your spirit, which is
coming from Gods ocean of power, through his
attribute Al-Qādir, the Powerful, is pulling you
up to that second origin.
In some games, they bring a big rope and tell this
party to pull this side, and that party to pull that
side, to see which side will win. Any side that pulls
more, the other side must go with it and no one
remains on that side. One must be catching the other,
not just winning but bringing the other over. This is
the conflict between spirituality and egoism, or the
physical part of man. Whichever one wins pulls the
other to it. That is why you see all people losing.
They are all falling towards gravity, towards this
earth. Only saints raise themselves up and they can
raise their group.
Now they are sending Columbia into outer space. There
is no gravity there anymore. You can see them
floating in the spaceship, without gravity. When
Sayyidinā Jalaluddun Rūmī whirled with
his group of dervishes, he used to rise from earth and
levitate. There is nothing pulling him down. His
good side is more than his bad side. His bad side
cannot pull him down anymore. If we can make our good
side more powerful than our bad side now, we are going
to be good people in the community.
People are going to look at you and say, this mans
good side is far better than his bad side, so we are
going to try to follow him. But if your bad manners
outnumber your good manners, at that time you are
going to fall and all those who are following you are
going to fall with you.
We have to try our best to eliminate that pride from
our hearts because it is the chief disease of all bad
manners. If you are going to keep your pride high,
then, of course, you are not going to accept any
advice, you are not going to listen to anyone, you are
going to fight, and you are going to fall into bad
manners. Our masters advice for tonight is to reject
pride from our hearts and to come to each other with
love, not with anything else.
God created us with His love. If He did not love us
He would not have created us. Come back with love to
each other, and bring this love to all around you.
And from God is all success. Bi
hurmatEl-Fātihah.
Wa min Allah at Tawfiq.
wassalam, arief hamdani
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