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Pir Shabda Kahn

/August 2024 Message

Beloved Family,

Greetings of the Heart as summer in the Northern Hemisphere is in her last month! We are deeply enjoying all the beautiful nature and wildlife around, the bountiful ripening fruits and vegetables and harvesting what we can.

With our dear Murshida Halima facing health challenges through surgery, it brings to our awareness the preciousness of life and the fragility and impermanence of these vehicles that we all occupy for the moment.

It suggests the expression of gratitude for all that we have received, what is arising, and the opportunities that are constantly before us.

It leads us to the wisdom of working on making friends with Life, to relieving suffering and applying ourselves to the Path of Awakening for the benefit of all sentient beings.

Loving kindness and compassion addresses the secondary causes of suffering, the challenges of life. The Path of Awakening is working toward relieving the primary cause of suffering, the false notion of the separate self.

Mendocino Camp was wonderful this year. I am particularly grateful that all our efforts to move the camp into the hands of the next generations is completely successful.

Next week, August 22-25 I travel to upstate New York to the Abode of the Message to lead a retreat with Murshid Himayat, Baqia Diana Lyon and hopefully Murshid Abraham in support. December 6-8, you can join me at the sufi retreat on Maui.

For our next wazifa lets recite what Murshid Sam used in his daily practice 101x YA HAYOO, YA QAYYUM -- O Infinite which is Livingness in all, in and beyond the cycle of life and death; O Eternal/Eternity which is the Source of All and dependent on no-thing. As fikr, breathe in YA HAYOO breathe out YA QAYYUM. When I recite it, I like to practice Tassawuri (attunement), tuning to Murshid Sam.

Much love,

Shabda

Wazifa Practice

Recite 101x

YA HAYOO ~ YA QAYYUM

62. Ya Hayy (yaa ḤAIYY)

Al-Hayy is the perfection of everlasting life, and the only one who truly lives. It is the one source of all life and the very life of everything that lives. It is the life principle that never dies, and it is inside every being. This divine Name is also the living presence of everything, whether it is dead, alive, animate, inanimate, material, spiritual, or anything in-between. No distinction is made among these states because al-Hayy lives in everything. Because of this infinitude, it is truly a transcendent Name, beyond the apparent relativity of al-Mumit (61) and al-Muhyi (60).

Al-Hayy is filled with vitality; it is the inner life of the heart. Repetition of Ya Hayy arouses a kind of life energy and freedom that is an antidote to the deadened condition of the heart that is often the result of grief and sorrow. See Ya Qayyum (63) and Ya Haqq (51), two similarly transcendent Names with which Ya Hayy is often paired in recitation.

63. Ya Qayyum (yaa ḳaiy-YOOM)

Al-Qayyum is the only one who remains through all the permutations of time and space. It is an existence beyond being or appearance, form, or continuance of form. Al-Qayyum manifests in everything, down to the very heart of every being. It is eternal time and omnipresence. Al-Qayyum is a continuous unending activity that bestows existence, or kun, to everything else.

The very fact that anything exists, including the very existence of being itself, is because of the nature of al-Qayyum, which transcends the passage of time. A variation of the root, qaama, means to stand. Things come and things go. Al-Qayyum stands. Due to the reality of al-Qayyum's nature, all things continually exist, even after death, as living entities in the mind of God. It is recommended to pair Ya Qayyum with Ya Hayy (62), in chanting. Both have the same root H-Y-Y, the life principle inside each one that never dies.

To hear the pronunciation: YA HAYY ~ YA QAYYUM