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
all 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 beings (Al-Isra 70).
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 and 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 churches, 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, the 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 it (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 he 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 death1 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 not 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 hurmatìl-Fātihah.
Wa min Allah at Tawfiq.
wassalam, arief hamdani
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