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Means of Reaching prayers, recitation of the Quran, prophetic prayers, Tazkiyah
meditation, companionship, taking lessons from
God the lives of the “saints”, etc. According to this Puri?cation of
thinking, tazkiyah is like a ?xed course, or something
Man is the creation and God is his Creator. As such, to be learned from a manual. However, the truth is the Soul
that there is no ?xed course for attaining tazkiyah.
it is human nature that he should come close to God Tazkiyah can be attained only through a living act.
The real means of attaining the ends of tazkiyah
to the ultimate extent. But various things, such as is for man to re?ect on the signs of God, activate
his thinking, and through continuous re?ection or
pride, negative thinking, etc., separate man from pondering, discover the deeper realities of things.
This discovery is spiritual food for a person who is
God. Tazkiyah aims at thoroughly purifying man of a seeker of tazkiyah. For instance, suppose you see a
bird. This reminds you of this saying of the Prophet
such negative feelings. The moment one detaches that the hearts of the people of Paradise will be like
the hearts of birds.
oneself from things other than God, one instantly
You later begin to think about yourself – whether or
feels that one has come as close to one’s Creator not your heart is like that of the bird; whether or not
your heart is free of all negative thinking like that
as it is humanly possible to come. One begins to of the bird; whether or not you are free from greed
like the bird; whether or not you are as harmless as
experience the presence of a bird; whether or not you follow the law of nature,
just as the bird does. Such thinking is the essence
God all around one. Tazkiyah of tazkiyah. Without such introspection, no one can
attain tazkiyah.
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