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ADA NAMA TUHAN DI NAFASMU‼️ Rahasia Ilmu 'HU' dan Titik Keramat di Dalam Tubuh yang Jarang Disadari — Transcript

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  1. 0:13Try to pause all your busyness this
  2. 0:15very second. Take one deep breath, then
  3. 0:19exhale slowly and listen to the soft
  4. 0:21sighing sound coming from your throat.
  5. 0:26Have you ever thought about it? Why is
  6. 0:29human life, which appears so mighty in
  7. 0:31this world, actually just hung on a
  8. 0:33thin strand of air that enters and
  9. 0:35exits without ceasing? Centuries ago, a
  10. 0:40great Sufi scholar named Sheikh Abdul
  11. 0:43Karim Al-Jili revealed a great secret
  12. 0:45that made truth-seekers tremble: that
  13. 0:47within your soundless and letterless
  14. 0:50breath, the first name of God truly
  15. 0:52resides. A secret dhikr that sounds
  16. 0:57like "hu," constantly spinning to
  17. 0:59animate the sacred point between your
  18. 1:01navel and your heart. Connecting your
  19. 1:04spirit directly to the presence of the
  20. 1:06Creator. Do not move, and ensure you
  21. 1:08watch this video in its entirety until
  22. 1:10the very last second. Because
  23. 1:13understanding this secret of the breath
  24. 1:15only halfway will only leave you with
  25. 1:17questions. But if you absorb it
  26. 1:20completely, the way you view life,
  27. 1:22trials, and every single breath you
  28. 1:24take will never be the same again. But
  29. 1:29before we unveil this secret, from the
  30. 1:31depths of my heart, I pray for whoever
  31. 1:33you are who is destined to find this
  32. 1:35video today. May every breath you
  33. 1:40inhale today become a means. For the
  34. 1:43opening of the doors to lawful and
  35. 1:44abundant sustenance. For the clearing
  36. 1:48of all debts that have been weighing on
  37. 1:50your chest, the lifting of all
  38. 1:52illnesses from your body, and the
  39. 1:54replacement of all tears of hardship
  40. 1:56with peace and happiness by Allah
  41. 1:58Subhanahu wa Ta'ala. For those of you
  42. 2:02who say amen to this prayer, please
  43. 2:04press the like button, write the word "
  44. 2:06amen" along with your greatest desire
  45. 2:08in the comments column so that it may
  46. 2:10be joined by thousands of our other
  47. 2:12brothers and sisters. And don't forget
  48. 2:15to press the subscribe button on the
  49. 2:17Pedia Sejarah channel so you don't miss
  50. 2:19the next legacy of wisdom. Now, find
  51. 2:23the most comfortable sitting position.
  52. 2:26Release the burden of your thoughts for
  53. 2:28a moment. Calm your heart. Cleanse your
  54. 2:32soul, and listen until the end. And let
  55. 2:36us begin the story. My brother/sister,
  56. 2:40wherever you are right now, try to
  57. 2:42pause for a moment from all the noise
  58. 2:44surrounding your mind. Set aside the
  59. 2:48burden of unfinished work for now.
  60. 2:50Forget for a moment the pile of
  61. 2:52responsibilities pressing on your
  62. 2:54shoulders. And allow yourself to be
  63. 2:56fully present in this second. Sit
  64. 2:59calmly. Close your eyes slowly if
  65. 3:03possible. Then take one deep breath
  66. 3:06through your nose. Feel how the cool
  67. 3:12air flows in through your nasal cavity,
  68. 3:14touches the base of your throat, then
  69. 3:16descends to fill your chest, which may
  70. 3:18have felt so tight from the various
  71. 3:20problems of life. Now, hold that air
  72. 3:25for a second or two inside your chest.
  73. 3:29Then exhale it slowly while listening
  74. 3:31to the soft sighing sound that comes
  75. 3:32out. Listen carefully to the sound of
  76. 3:36that thin wind whispering softly
  77. 3:37between your lips and your nose, my
  78. 3:39brother/sister. There is a warmth that
  79. 3:42flows out along with that exhale. As if
  80. 3:45a portion of your inner fatigue
  81. 3:47dissolves and flies away into the air.
  82. 3:50So simple, so quiet, and so close.
  83. 3:55Until we often forget that the greatest
  84. 3:57miracle in this life is happening right
  85. 3:59under our own noses. Try to reflect for
  86. 4:02a moment, my brother. How many decades
  87. 4:05have we spent living on the face of
  88. 4:06this earth? Some of us may have passed
  89. 4:11the age of 30, 40, 50, or even further
  90. 4:14than that. The hair on our heads slowly
  91. 4:20turns white, lines on our faces become
  92. 4:22visible, and thousands of joys and
  93. 4:24sorrows have alternated through our
  94. 4:26days. Yet throughout that long journey
  95. 4:32of life, how many times have we truly
  96. 4:33greeted and paid attention to the
  97. 4:35breath that has faithfully accompanied
  98. 4:37us since the very first second we were
  99. 4:39born? We are often so busy focusing on
  100. 4:43things that are far outside of
  101. 4:45ourselves. Every morning we wake up in
  102. 4:50a rush, thinking about how to earn a
  103. 4:52living, keep our family's honor, make
  104. 4:54our children and spouses happy, even
  105. 4:56worrying about a future we might not
  106. 4:58even see tomorrow. Our minds run here
  107. 5:03and there, chasing a world that never
  108. 5:05ends. Meanwhile, inside our bodies, our
  109. 5:09lungs and hearts work in silence
  110. 5:11without ever demanding praise. That
  111. 5:14breath continues to go in and out
  112. 5:16patiently, keeping our bodies warm and
  113. 5:19our souls sustained within our frames.
  114. 5:22My brother, has it ever happened in the
  115. 5:24silence of the night when everyone in
  116. 5:26the house is asleep and you are alone,
  117. 5:28staring at the ceiling? A big question
  118. 5:32suddenly crosses your mind. Why are
  119. 5:36humans, who seem so mighty, capable of
  120. 5:38building skyscrapers, and able to
  121. 5:40master the oceans and lands? In reality
  122. 5:44, their lives hang only on a thin
  123. 5:46strand of wind invisible to the eye. We
  124. 5:49often feel we have everything, feeling
  125. 5:51strong enough to manage many things.
  126. 5:55Yet our entire existence in this world
  127. 5:57is only limited by the very short
  128. 5:59distance between one inhale and the
  129. 6:01next exhale. Imagine, my brother, what
  130. 6:06would happen if the breath that just
  131. 6:08left your nose this very second
  132. 6:10suddenly refused to return into your
  133. 6:12chest. There is not a single greatest
  134. 6:16doctor in the world. Not a single pile
  135. 6:20of wealth and not a single high
  136. 6:22position capable of buying it back. In
  137. 6:25a matter of seconds, a body that was
  138. 6:27once moving nimbly will lie stiff.
  139. 6:30Every grand plan that has been disusun
  140. 6:32for years will stop instantly. And the
  141. 6:36person who was once called by their
  142. 6:38name and titles of honor will soon be
  143. 6:40called a corpse. Conversely, imagine
  144. 6:46also what would happen if the air you
  145. 6:48just inhaled into your chest suddenly
  146. 6:50became trapped inside and was not
  147. 6:52allowed to come out; your chest would
  148. 6:54feel incredibly tight. The vast world
  149. 7:01would feel narrow, and humans would
  150. 7:03realize how weak they are before a
  151. 7:04handful of air. We don't even have
  152. 7:09absolute power to hold our own breath.
  153. 7:12For more than a few minutes. At this
  154. 7:16point of realization, my brother, all
  155. 7:18human arrogance should crumble to
  156. 7:20pieces before the greatness of the
  157. 7:22Owner of Life. There is another secret
  158. 7:27often overlooked in our daily
  159. 7:29reflections: the moment we fall asleep
  160. 7:31at night, when our eyes close and our
  161. 7:33consciousness completely fades, we no
  162. 7:35longer know where we are. We can no
  163. 7:39longer control our own hands, feet, or
  164. 7:42even our thoughts. Yet strangely, while
  165. 7:46our reason and will are in a state of
  166. 7:48suspended animation during sleep, who
  167. 7:50is it that continues to regulate the
  168. 7:52rhythm of our breathing? Who ensures we
  169. 7:57do not forget to breathe in the depth
  170. 7:58of our dreams, so that we are still
  171. 8:00permitted to open our eyes when the
  172. 8:02dawn breaks? This question leads our
  173. 8:06inner selves to a truth that deeply
  174. 8:07stirs the soul. That, in reality, it is
  175. 8:11not we who are breathing by our own
  176. 8:13power. All this time, we have felt that
  177. 8:16we are the ones inhaling the air and
  178. 8:18the ones exhaling it. Yet in essence,
  179. 8:21we are being breathed by the compassion
  180. 8:23of the Ever-Living. Every inhalation is
  181. 8:27an extension of His grace, embracing
  182. 8:29our spirit so it remains within the
  183. 8:31body. And every exhalation is proof of
  184. 8:35His guardianship, which never slumbers
  185. 8:37nor sleeps for even a second. Sages of
  186. 8:42the past calculated that in a day and a
  187. 8:45night, a normal human breathes in and
  188. 8:47out approximately 24,000 times. Imagine
  189. 8:51that number, my brothers and sisters.
  190. 8:5324,000 times. Within 24 hours, an
  191. 8:56invisible door within us opens and
  192. 8:59closes incessantly. But of the tens of
  193. 9:03thousands of breaths passing through
  194. 9:05our throats and chests every day, how
  195. 9:07many of them are we actually aware of?
  196. 9:12What a loss for a traveler on this
  197. 9:13earth if the millions of breaths
  198. 9:15entrusted to them from youth to old age
  199. 9:17simply pass by like meaningless wind.
  200. 9:22Centuries ago, long before modern
  201. 9:24humans knew medical tools to check
  202. 9:26heartbeats and lung capacity, great
  203. 9:28Sufis had already explored the ocean of
  204. 9:31this breath's secret. In the corners of
  205. 9:35Baghdad, Damascus, and the blessed
  206. 9:37lands of Yemen, cold nights became
  207. 9:39silent witnesses to seekers of the
  208. 9:41Divine sitting cross-legged in the
  209. 9:44stillness. In dimly lit stone rooms,
  210. 9:47accompanied only by the flicker of oil
  211. 9:49lamps swaying in the night breeze. They
  212. 9:53were not seeking worldly power, but
  213. 9:55investigating the greatest secret
  214. 9:57hidden behind the movement of their own
  215. 9:59chests. Among those great Sufi scholars
  216. 10:03lived figures of profound knowledge
  217. 10:05like Sheikh Ibn Arabi and Sheikh Abdul
  218. 10:08Karim Al-Jili, whose thoughts shook the
  219. 10:10world of Sufism. While most people of
  220. 10:15their time were busy observing the
  221. 10:17wonders of the universe outside
  222. 10:19themselves, like the orbit of the sun,
  223. 10:21the stars, and the vastness of the
  224. 10:23oceans. Sheikh Abdul Karim Al-Jili
  225. 10:27instead invited his students to bow
  226. 10:29their heads and look within. He
  227. 10:34unveiled a deep spiritual insight that
  228. 10:37the human body is not merely a lump of
  229. 10:39flesh, bone, and blood, but a living
  230. 10:41book holding all the secrets of the
  231. 10:43Divine. The trail of this secret
  232. 10:48knowledge did not stop in the Middle
  233. 10:50East, my brothers, but flowed across
  234. 10:52vast oceans with the winds of trade and
  235. 10:55faith, eventually reaching the
  236. 10:56archipelago. In Java, Sumatra, and the
  237. 11:01remote corners of this land, the Wali
  238. 11:03Songo and the venerable scholars of old
  239. 11:05inherited an equally profound
  240. 11:07understanding of the essence of breath.
  241. 11:13In quiet wooden pavilions and ancient
  242. 11:15prayer houses surrounded by the night
  243. 11:17mist, the murshid teachers taught their
  244. 11:19chosen students that whoever can
  245. 11:21recognize the secret of the breath's
  246. 11:23inflow and outflow holds the key to
  247. 11:25knowing themselves and their Lord. To
  248. 11:30the saints and Sufis of the past,
  249. 11:32breath was never merely a biological
  250. 11:34process of exchanging oxygen and carbon
  251. 11:36dioxide. As we learned in school,
  252. 11:40oxygen is just an external vessel for
  253. 11:42our physical bodies to keep from
  254. 11:44decaying. But behind that invisible air
  255. 11:49lies a spiritual life energy that
  256. 11:51originates directly from the realm of
  257. 11:53eternity. Breath is a mystical
  258. 11:58messenger arriving with a life-giving
  259. 12:00message from the heavens into the
  260. 12:02depths of the human chest. Then it
  261. 12:05returns to His presence, carrying the
  262. 12:07record of what the servant's heart is
  263. 12:09feeling at that very moment. That is
  264. 12:14why, my brothers, the wise sages
  265. 12:16describe breath as a mystical cord
  266. 12:18stretched taut between the weak servant
  267. 12:20and the Great Creator. As long as this
  268. 12:27cord remains connected and vibrates
  269. 12:29with every inhalation and exhalation,
  270. 12:31God is speaking very closely to us,
  271. 12:33even closer than our own jugular vein.
  272. 12:39It is just that our inner ears are
  273. 12:41often too noisy with the roar of
  274. 12:43worldly ambition, anxieties about
  275. 12:45tomorrow, and the wounds of the past.
  276. 12:50So we are no longer able to hear the
  277. 12:52soft whispers flowing in every single
  278. 12:54breath. Have you ever noticed why, when
  279. 12:59someone is struck by profound sorrow or
  280. 13:02carrying life burdens that seem to have
  281. 13:04no way out? Their chest suddenly feels
  282. 13:08tight and their breath becomes shallow
  283. 13:10and short. Conversely, when someone
  284. 13:15feels genuine peace, their breath flows
  285. 13:18long, slow, and feels cool down to the
  286. 13:20core of their heart. This happens
  287. 13:26because breath has a direct link to the
  288. 13:28center of inner consciousness within
  289. 13:29our bodies. A secret point that serves
  290. 13:34as the dwelling place for true
  291. 13:36tranquility, which cannot be bought
  292. 13:38with any worldly wealth. Unfortunately,
  293. 13:41most people seek the cure for their
  294. 13:43inner restlessness in all the wrong
  295. 13:45places. They go far away seeking
  296. 13:48entertainment. Whereas the remedy has
  297. 13:51been placed by God within every single
  298. 13:53one of their own inhalations. When
  299. 13:57someone does not know the science of
  300. 13:59their own breath, they are like someone
  301. 14:01starving in a barn full of grain or
  302. 14:03someone thirsty in the midst of a clear
  303. 14:05mountain spring. They keep complaining
  304. 14:09about their life, feeling it is empty
  305. 14:11and dry. Yet within their own chest
  306. 14:14flows a river of light that never stops
  307. 14:16radiating Divine love every single
  308. 14:18second. Great Sufis with purified
  309. 14:22hearts can see that in every inhalation
  310. 14:24and exhalation of human breath, there
  311. 14:26is a flash of subtle light moving down
  312. 14:28from the bridge of the nose into the
  313. 14:30depths of the body. That flow does not
  314. 14:34simply stop at the lungs but penetrates
  315. 14:36spiritual dimensions, touching secret
  316. 14:38nodes within the physical form that are
  317. 14:40rarely noticed by ordinary people. It
  318. 14:45is there, in the silent space behind
  319. 14:47our ribs, that a sacred meeting occurs
  320. 14:49thousands of times a day without us
  321. 14:52ever realizing its presence.
  322. 14:55Furthermore, my brother, Sheikh Abdul
  323. 14:57Karim Al-Jili and the masters of gnosis
  324. 15:00reveal that the sound of breath flowing
  325. 15:02in and out of our throats is not a
  326. 15:04meaningless coincidence. If we listen
  327. 15:09with clear inner hearing, the sound of
  328. 15:11air gently brushing against the
  329. 15:12respiratory tract is actually chanting
  330. 15:15a secret code from the divine realm. A
  331. 15:20holy call that requires no movement of
  332. 15:22the tongue, no closing of the lips, and
  333. 15:25is not composed of letters written on
  334. 15:27paper, yet it continues to echo,
  335. 15:29calling out the greatest name that
  336. 15:31existed even before this universe was
  337. 15:33created. My brother, since we sat in
  338. 15:37religious study circles during our
  339. 15:39childhood, our ears have certainly been
  340. 15:41very familiar with the chanting of the
  341. 15:4399 Beautiful Names of God. We memorize
  342. 15:49them with deep awe, starting from
  343. 15:51Ar-Rahman the Most Gracious, Ar-Rahim
  344. 15:54the Most Merciful, Al-Malik the
  345. 15:56Sovereign, to As-Sabur the Most Patient
  346. 15:58. Those beautiful names are grandly
  347. 16:05engraved in gold ink on mosque walls,
  348. 16:07written neatly in the pages of holy
  349. 16:09books, and fluently spoken by millions
  350. 16:12of human tongues across the earth after
  351. 16:14every prayer. Yet, my brother, behind
  352. 16:20those 99 grand and manifest names,
  353. 16:22spiritual travelers of the past held a
  354. 16:25great question that constantly tickled
  355. 16:27the depths of their souls. Why does the
  356. 16:33number taught to ordinary people stop
  357. 16:36at 99, an odd number that is just one
  358. 16:38step away from reaching 100? Where is
  359. 16:43that one completing name located? A
  360. 16:47name that the Sufis refer to as Ismul
  361. 16:50Azham, or God’s most magnificent and
  362. 16:52most hidden name in the entire universe
  363. 16:54. The story of the search for this
  364. 16:59100th name has become a very long inner
  365. 17:01journey in the history of truth-seekers
  366. 17:04for centuries. It is told in various
  367. 17:11accounts of wisdom that many
  368. 17:12worshippers were willing to leave the
  369. 17:14glitz of the city, walk across
  370. 17:16skin-scorching deserts, and climb
  371. 17:18silent mountain peaks to discover the
  372. 17:20secret of that name. They believed in a
  373. 17:28heavenly report that whoever prays by
  374. 17:30invoking that greatest name, their
  375. 17:32prayer will never be rejected, and
  376. 17:33every veil blocking their inner sight
  377. 17:35will be instantly lifted. However, my
  378. 17:41brother, the further they searched for
  379. 17:43it in stacks of thick books and the
  380. 17:45harder they questioned the linguistic
  381. 17:47experts. The 100th name felt even more
  382. 17:51obscure and unreachable. No ancient
  383. 17:56parchment is capable of recording its
  384. 17:58spelling, and no poet's pen is able to
  385. 18:00depict the form of its letters. Why is
  386. 18:05that, my brother? Because those seekers
  387. 18:09still use their intellect and physical
  388. 18:11eyes to search for something that
  389. 18:13exists beyond the boundaries of space.
  390. 18:18As well as human language. Until
  391. 18:21finally, in the deep silence of the
  392. 18:23night, great Sufi scholars like Sheikh
  393. 18:26Abdul Karim Al-Jili and Sheikh Ibn
  394. 18:28Arabi opened the door of consciousness
  395. 18:30for their chosen students. With a voice
  396. 18:34that is gentle yet capable of shaking
  397. 18:36the walls of the heart. Those spiritual
  398. 18:40masters explained that the 99 names we
  399. 18:42usually recite are names of attributes,
  400. 18:45which describe God's nature and actions
  401. 18:47toward His creations. All those names
  402. 18:53can be written with alphabetic letters,
  403. 18:55spelled by lips, and heard by our
  404. 18:57physical ears. But the 1st name holds a
  405. 19:02very different position, my brother.
  406. 19:06Because it is not merely a name of an
  407. 19:08attribute, but a direct signal toward
  408. 19:10the purity of God's absolute essence.
  409. 19:15The gnostics refer to this 1st name
  410. 19:18with a short phrase famous in Sufi
  411. 19:20literature: la biharfin wa la sawtin,
  412. 19:22meaning it has no letters and no sound.
  413. 19:29It is not composed of letters like alif
  414. 19:31, lam, mim, or others, and does not
  415. 19:34require the shouting of a voice from
  416. 19:36human vocal cords to manifest. Let us
  417. 19:41contemplate for a moment with a clear
  418. 19:44mind and a calm heart, my brother: why
  419. 19:46does the greatest name of the Creator
  420. 19:48of the universe have no letters and no
  421. 19:50sound? The answer holds a secret of
  422. 19:55God's justice that is truly moving when
  423. 19:58we reflect upon it in our maturing
  424. 20:00years. For everything that still
  425. 20:05requires a structure of letters and
  426. 20:07tongue movement is essentially limited,
  427. 20:09bound by the language of a nation, and
  428. 20:11dependent on the perfection of human
  429. 20:13organs. Imagine, my brother, the plight
  430. 20:19of our brothers and sisters destined to
  431. 20:22be born mute or unable to speak, whose
  432. 20:24tongues are tied and cannot clearly
  433. 20:26articulate a single letter. Imagine
  434. 20:31also the fate of someone lying weak in
  435. 20:33a hospital ward, whose body is
  436. 20:35paralyzed by a severe illness. So much
  437. 20:39so that they no longer have the
  438. 20:41strength to even move their lips. If
  439. 20:45God's greatest name had to be spoken
  440. 20:47with an eloquent tongue and complex
  441. 20:49sequences of letters, how many weak
  442. 20:51humans would lose the chance to call
  443. 20:53upon their God in the most critical
  444. 20:55moments of their lives? Thus, with His
  445. 20:59mercy that encompasses all things,
  446. 21:01Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala did not place
  447. 21:04the 1st name on the tip of the human
  448. 21:06tongue. And He did not hide it in a
  449. 21:10book that can only be read by the
  450. 21:12learned. Instead, God placed His
  451. 21:17greatest name in the most just, the
  452. 21:19closest, and the most inescapable place
  453. 21:21for every living creature on this earth
  454. 21:23. That secret place is none other than
  455. 21:28the coming and going of the breath that
  456. 21:30flows softly within your chest at this
  457. 21:32very moment, my brother. It is truly a
  458. 21:36reality that sends shivers down our
  459. 21:38spines when we realize it for the first
  460. 21:40time. For decades, we may have felt we
  461. 21:43were not religious enough. We often
  462. 21:47feel inferior because our recitations
  463. 21:49are not as many as the scholars. Or we
  464. 21:53feel distant from God due to the
  465. 21:55busyness of earning a daily living. Yet
  466. 22:01, without us realizing it, every second
  467. 22:03as air enters through our nose and
  468. 22:05flows out calmly, our entire body and
  469. 22:07soul are actually chanting the first
  470. 22:09name of God without ever stopping for a
  471. 22:12second. People who are eloquent in
  472. 22:17speech and those born mute. The
  473. 22:20extremely wealthy and the destitute,
  474. 22:22those who are fit and healthy, and
  475. 22:24those in a coma on their deathbed. All
  476. 22:28of them have an equal share in this
  477. 22:30name. As long as breath still blows
  478. 22:35through their windpipe, they are
  479. 22:37connected to that silent, soundless
  480. 22:39dhikr. There is no partition between a
  481. 22:47servant and their Creator regarding
  482. 22:48breath, except for the negligence of
  483. 22:50the human mind itself that never wishes
  484. 22:52to look within. In a very famous Sufi
  485. 22:59contemplation story, it is told that
  486. 23:01there was a student who had wandered
  487. 23:03for decades searching for the holiest
  488. 23:05place on earth to whisper close to God.
  489. 23:10When his hair had turned white and his
  490. 23:12footsteps began to falter with age, he
  491. 23:14met an old sheikh sitting calmly on the
  492. 23:16porch of an ancient prayer house. The
  493. 23:21student asked breathlessly, "Where
  494. 23:23exactly is the most secret treasury of
  495. 23:25God's name hidden? Throughout his life,
  496. 23:29he had not yet succeeded in finding it.
  497. 23:31" The old sheikh with a serene face did
  498. 23:34not answer by quoting scriptures, but
  499. 23:36only smiled gently while placing his
  500. 23:38palm on the student's chest, which was
  501. 23:41rising and falling from exhaustion. He
  502. 23:46said in a very soft voice that what you
  503. 23:47are searching for to the ends of the
  504. 23:49earth is actually moving your chest
  505. 23:51right now to ask me. You are busy
  506. 23:56looking for water in the middle of a
  507. 23:58desert mirage, while the true spring of
  508. 24:00life is flowing abundantly in every
  509. 24:02breath that leaves your own nose.
  510. 24:05Hearing that answer, my brother, the
  511. 24:07student instantly fell to a sitting
  512. 24:09position and wept bitterly in the
  513. 24:10silence of the night. He realized how
  514. 24:14funny the human journey is, often
  515. 24:16searching for peace and searching for
  516. 24:18God in places so far away out there.
  517. 24:23Whereas God has declared that He is
  518. 24:25closer to man than his own jugular vein
  519. 24:27. And the most tangible form of that
  520. 24:31closeness, which transcends the jugular
  521. 24:33vein, is the breath that merges
  522. 24:35directly with our life in every
  523. 24:36inhalation. Try to feel your breath
  524. 24:40again as you listen to this story. My
  525. 24:43brother, feel how that air enters
  526. 24:44without you needing to command it and
  527. 24:46exits without you needing to arrange
  528. 24:48its letters. Within the silence of the
  529. 24:51breath lies the highest purity of
  530. 24:53oneness. A sacred realm within the
  531. 24:56human being that cannot be tainted by
  532. 24:57the falsehoods of speech. For the human
  533. 25:01mouth may well lie. The human tongue
  534. 25:03can weave sweet words just to be
  535. 25:05praised by others. Yet the human breath
  536. 25:09can never lie before its creator when
  537. 25:11all strings of letters have dissolved
  538. 25:14and all the noises of the world have
  539. 25:16been extinguished; within the heart,
  540. 25:18what remains in the chest cavity is
  541. 25:19merely a pure sigh flowing as it is.
  542. 25:25That sigh becomes a mystical bridge
  543. 25:27between the transient physical realm
  544. 25:29and the eternal spiritual realm,
  545. 25:31carrying every grievance of the heart
  546. 25:33that can no longer be uttered by words.
  547. 25:39And if we sharpen our inner hearing
  548. 25:41even deeper to listen to that innocent
  549. 25:43sigh of breath, free from the
  550. 25:44manipulation of the tongue, we will
  551. 25:46find a natural sound that is the mother
  552. 25:48of all remembrance in the universe. My
  553. 25:53brother, after realizing that the
  554. 25:55greatest name is placed so close within
  555. 25:57the incoming and outgoing breath, let
  556. 25:59us dive even deeper. What is truly the
  557. 26:03whisper that flows along with the air?
  558. 26:08If we strip away all our ego and let
  559. 26:10the breath flow as it is without
  560. 26:11artifice, we will find the most ancient
  561. 26:14divine code in the universe. That code
  562. 26:19is a short word that becomes the axis
  563. 26:21of all the esoteric knowledge of the
  564. 26:23saints, which is the word Hu or Hua. In
  565. 26:27the treasury of classical Sufism
  566. 26:29inherited from Sheikh Ibn Arabi to
  567. 26:31Sheikh Abdul Karim Al-Jili, and taught
  568. 26:33through generations by the Wali Songo
  569. 26:36in the lands of the archipelago. The
  570. 26:38word Hu is not merely an ordinary
  571. 26:40pronoun. In Arabic, hua indeed means he
  572. 26:44. A demonstrative word for a third
  573. 26:48party unseen by the physical eye. Yet
  574. 26:51for the masters of truth, Hu is the
  575. 26:53essence. A sacred sign pointing
  576. 26:57directly to the purity of God's
  577. 26:59absolute essence before He introduced
  578. 27:01Himself by various names and attributes
  579. 27:03to His creation. Before the heavens and
  580. 27:06the earth were spread out, before there
  581. 27:08was heaven or hell, and even before any
  582. 27:11being knew the names Ar-Rahman or
  583. 27:12Ar-Rahim, the pure essence of God,
  584. 27:14unreachable by human intellect, was
  585. 27:17referred to by the Sufis with the
  586. 27:18consciousness of Hu. It is absolute
  587. 27:22purity, free from all depictions of the
  588. 27:24human mind. A divine ocean without
  589. 27:27shore or bottom. When a Sufi mentions
  590. 27:32or realizes the word Hu within their
  591. 27:34inner self, they are releasing all ties
  592. 27:36to worldly forms and directing their
  593. 27:38soul straight to the deepest center of
  594. 27:40divine mystery. Why is its highest sign
  595. 27:44the sound Hu, my brother, and not some
  596. 27:46other sound? Herein lies the miracle of
  597. 27:50human creation that often makes the
  598. 27:52wise shed tears of wonder in the
  599. 27:53stillness of the night. Try it right
  600. 27:57now where you are sitting. Open your
  601. 28:01lips slightly. Relax your tongue so it
  602. 28:03touches neither the roof of your mouth
  603. 28:05nor your teeth. Then exhale directly
  604. 28:08from the depths of your chest. Listen
  605. 28:11carefully with a silent ear and heart.
  606. 28:14What sound emerges naturally from the
  607. 28:16base of your throat without any effort
  608. 28:18on your part? That pure sound flowing
  609. 28:23from the empty chest cavity is none
  610. 28:25other than a soft sigh of "Hu,"
  611. 28:27regardless of your ethnicity or the
  612. 28:29language you have spoken since
  613. 28:31childhood. Every human throat under
  614. 28:36this sky inevitably produces the same
  615. 28:38fundamental sound when exhaling from
  616. 28:40the depths of the chest. To pronounce
  617. 28:44other letters like ba, mim, or kaf, you
  618. 28:47require the hard work of your lips and
  619. 28:49tongue. But to release the sound "Hu,"
  620. 28:54you only need to surrender and let the
  621. 28:56breath of life flow out as it is. Sufi
  622. 29:01scholars explain that this happens
  623. 29:03because the letter 'H', the root of the
  624. 29:05word "Hu," emerges from the deepest
  625. 29:08part of the throat, the place closest
  626. 29:10to the human chest cavity and heart.
  627. 29:16This is undeniable, tangible proof that
  628. 29:18since the beginning of our creation,
  629. 29:20the Creator has tuned the instrument of
  630. 29:22the human body to constantly vibrate
  631. 29:24with the signal of His essence. We are
  632. 29:29essentially spiritual flutes, and every
  633. 29:31time the wind of life is blown through
  634. 29:34us, the fundamental note emanating from
  635. 29:36this bodily flute is the eternal
  636. 29:38remembrance of "Hu." If we look back
  637. 29:42and contemplate the history of our
  638. 29:44initial arrival into this mortal world,
  639. 29:46we will find the traces of the word "Hu
  640. 29:49" standing as the first witness to our
  641. 29:51lives. Remember, my brother, the state
  642. 29:56of a tiny baby who has just emerged
  643. 29:58from the dark, warm womb of its mother
  644. 30:00into the bright, illuminated world. For
  645. 30:049 months in the womb, the baby's lungs
  646. 30:06remained folded and silent, without air
  647. 30:09. Yet, once born and the umbilical cord
  648. 30:12is cut, it must take its first breath
  649. 30:14on its own. When the air of the world
  650. 30:18first breaks through to open the baby's
  651. 30:20lungs, a jolt of life occurs, followed
  652. 30:22by the first cry that breaks the
  653. 30:24silence of the delivery room. Have you
  654. 30:29ever listened carefully to the sound of
  655. 30:31that newborn's cry, my brother? A baby
  656. 30:35who knows not a single letter in this
  657. 30:37world, whose tongue is still pure from
  658. 30:40all sin and falsehood, cries with a
  659. 30:42long, piercing wail that sounds like "
  660. 30:44hua" or "hoa," a pure echo of the word
  661. 30:47"Hu." The wise sages in Java and the
  662. 30:50archipelago often impart the profound
  663. 30:52teaching that a baby's cry at birth is
  664. 30:54not a cry without meaning. The spirit
  665. 30:59of the baby, having just made a long
  666. 31:01journey from the divine realm to the
  667. 31:03prison of the body, is testifying and
  668. 31:05calling upon its Lord with the
  669. 31:07invocation "Hua." As if saying that He
  670. 31:11alone is where I come from, and only
  671. 31:13because of Him do I live. Everyone
  672. 31:18present around the baby smiles happily,
  673. 31:20welcoming its birth without realizing
  674. 31:22that the baby is chanting its first
  675. 31:24remembrance upon this world. Then time
  676. 31:28keeps moving on, my brother. The baby
  677. 31:32grows into a child, reaches adulthood,
  678. 31:35eventually enters the age of 30, 40, 50
  679. 31:38, and slowly grows old just like us
  680. 31:40today. Throughout our journey of life,
  681. 31:46the Hu breath remains loyal, flowing in
  682. 31:48and out with every step we take.
  683. 31:52Whether we are laughing in happiness or
  684. 31:54weeping alone while bearing the burdens
  685. 31:56of life. Until a day arrives that has
  686. 32:00been ordained in the Preserved Tablet.
  687. 32:04A day when our allotted count of
  688. 32:06breaths on the surface of this earth
  689. 32:08leaves only one final intake. Imagine
  690. 32:12the most sacred yet heart-trembling
  691. 32:14sight at the end of human life: the
  692. 32:16final moments approaching death. As a
  693. 32:22person lies weak on their deathbed,
  694. 32:24surrounded by weeping children, spouse,
  695. 32:27and relatives, the strength of their
  696. 32:29body is slowly being withdrawn. Their
  697. 32:34feet begin to turn cold and numb. Their
  698. 32:36hands can no longer be moved. Their
  699. 32:39vision starts to blur, and their tongue
  700. 32:41is locked tight. No longer able to
  701. 32:44utter a single word to say goodbye. In
  702. 32:48that most critical second, when all
  703. 32:49human words and language have collapsed
  704. 32:52helplessly, what is the last thing that
  705. 32:54leaves a person's throat before the
  706. 32:56soul truly departs the body? Only one
  707. 33:02long breath flowing out from the
  708. 33:04deepest chest, passing through a
  709. 33:06narrowing throat, producing a final
  710. 33:08sigh that sounds so faint yet clear.
  711. 33:16After that final Hu sigh escapes, the
  712. 33:18chin drops, the chest stops moving
  713. 33:20forever, and the contract of human life
  714. 33:23on earth is officially closed. My
  715. 33:27brother, blessed by Allah, try to
  716. 33:28absorb this reality with the most
  717. 33:30honest heart in your chest. We arrive
  718. 33:34in this world ushered in by the sound
  719. 33:36of a "Hua" cry. We survive for decades
  720. 33:39in this world, sustained by millions of
  721. 33:41inhalations and exhalations of the Hu
  722. 33:43breath. And eventually, we will all
  723. 33:46surely depart this world, concluded by
  724. 33:48one final Hu sigh. The entire stage of
  725. 33:53our life's drama, all the wealth we
  726. 33:55struggle to accumulate, and all the
  727. 33:57ranks we pride ourselves on are
  728. 33:59actually confined between those two Hu
  729. 34:01breaths. Yet therein lies the greatest
  730. 34:05irony that often makes the saints and
  731. 34:07Sufis weep bitterly when observing the
  732. 34:09state of humanity. Our lungs and breath
  733. 34:13chant "Hu" 24,000 times a day and night
  734. 34:16in complete obedience. Never absent,
  735. 34:20even while we are fast asleep. Every
  736. 34:23cell in our body vibrates along with
  737. 34:25the rhythm of that natural dhikr.
  738. 34:28Submitting and obeying the law of the
  739. 34:30Creator who holds our life and death in
  740. 34:32every passing second. However, while
  741. 34:36our entire body and breath are busy
  742. 34:39chanting "Hu," where have our minds and
  743. 34:41conscious hearts been all this time? My
  744. 34:45brother, often our breath is calling
  745. 34:47out the name of God. Yet at the same
  746. 34:51second, our minds are busy planning
  747. 34:53deceit. Our hearts are filled with envy
  748. 34:58for others, or our spirits are drowning
  749. 35:00in despair. As if we do not have a God
  750. 35:04who determines our sustenance. A
  751. 35:07heartbreaking divide occurs within the
  752. 35:09human being, where their breath
  753. 35:11constantly faces the heavens while
  754. 35:13their heart remains prostrate, kissing
  755. 35:15the dust of the world. The dissonance
  756. 35:19between the sacred rhythm of the breath
  757. 35:21and the impure movements of the mind is
  758. 35:23the true root. Of all the inner
  759. 35:26restlessness experienced by adults. We
  760. 35:29feel an exhaustion that never ends. We
  761. 35:32feel hollow even when surrounded by our
  762. 35:35family. And our chests often feel
  763. 35:38crushed by the fears we create
  764. 35:40ourselves. This happens because our
  765. 35:44consciousness has disconnected from the
  766. 35:46rhythm of our own breath's remembrance.
  767. 35:49Like a dry leaf that has detached from
  768. 35:51its tree branch. Tossed about by the
  769. 35:54wind here and there with nothing to
  770. 35:56hold onto. The masters of old
  771. 35:59understood this human spiritual ailment
  772. 36:01well, so they didn't just stop at
  773. 36:03explaining the sound of "Hu" in the
  774. 36:05throat. They guided their students to
  775. 36:09follow where the flow of air and life
  776. 36:11energy went after passing the base of
  777. 36:13the throat into the dark depths of the
  778. 36:15body. Because behind our chest and
  779. 36:20abdominal walls, the flow of the "Hu"
  780. 36:22breath is actually heading toward a
  781. 36:24sacred junction. Igniting a spiritual
  782. 36:27lantern at two secret points that serve
  783. 36:29as the control center of human life. My
  784. 36:33brother, when a breath carrying that
  785. 36:35sacred sigh enters past the throat,
  786. 36:37where does it truly wander within the
  787. 36:39dark cavities of our body? To modern
  788. 36:44medical science, that air is simply
  789. 36:46considered to stop in the lung sacs and
  790. 36:48be absorbed by blood vessels to
  791. 36:50circulate throughout the body. But to
  792. 36:55the inner vision of the great Sufis and
  793. 36:57saints of the past, the journey of the
  794. 36:59breath does not stop that simply.
  795. 37:04Behind this coarse mass of flesh, ribs,
  796. 37:06and flowing blood lies a sacred map
  797. 37:09that is spiritual and highly secret.
  798. 37:14How often adults are so familiar with
  799. 37:16city street maps, knowing exactly how
  800. 37:18to get to work, or even understanding
  801. 37:20the location of distant continents
  802. 37:22across the sea. Yet ironically, we
  803. 37:28often become strangers in our own
  804. 37:30bodies, blind to the paths of light
  805. 37:32that our breath traverses every second
  806. 37:35behind our chest walls. In the
  807. 37:41high-level treasury of Sufism taught by
  808. 37:43masters from the great orders in the
  809. 37:45Middle East to the legacy of the Wali
  810. 37:48Songo in the archipelago, the human
  811. 37:50body has subtle points called "Lataif."
  812. 37:57Among all these subtle points, there
  813. 37:59are two main axes that support the life
  814. 38:01and death of a servant's consciousness
  815. 38:03before their God. The two sacred points
  816. 38:09connected by an unseen path are located
  817. 38:12exactly at our navel and our spiritual
  818. 38:14heart, or "Qalb." My brother, let us
  819. 38:19lower our gaze for a moment and
  820. 38:20contemplate the first sacred point, the
  821. 38:23navel located right in the center of
  822. 38:25our stomachs. In the decades you have
  823. 38:30lived, have you ever touched your own
  824. 38:32navel and asked yourself, "Why does
  825. 38:34this trace of a skin knot remain on our
  826. 38:36body until old age?" Why didn't the
  827. 38:43Creator simply erase the navel scar
  828. 38:45when we grew up, instead leaving it
  829. 38:47etched as a permanent mark in the
  830. 38:49center of the human body? The answer
  831. 38:54holds a secret history of our creation
  832. 38:56that deeply stirs the soul. My brother,
  833. 39:00remember the time when we were all
  834. 39:02curled up weakly for nine months in the
  835. 39:04darkness of our mother's womb. In the
  836. 39:09narrow, amniotic-fluid-filled realm of
  837. 39:12the womb, our noses could not breathe
  838. 39:14air, our mouths were tightly shut, and
  839. 39:16our lungs were not working at all. Then
  840. 39:22, from where did the breath and life
  841. 39:24flow in to keep our tiny bodies growing
  842. 39:26and surviving? The entire flow of life
  843. 39:30in the womb entered through a single
  844. 39:32portal, the navel, which was connected
  845. 39:34directly to our mother's body. In those
  846. 39:38days, we never worried about what we
  847. 39:40would eat the next day. We had no fear
  848. 39:44of poverty, and we had no power or
  849. 39:46effort to control our own lives
  850. 39:48whatsoever. The navel is a monument to
  851. 39:52a servant's total surrender. A starting
  852. 39:56point where humans once lived entirely
  853. 39:58within God's loving care, without the
  854. 40:00interference of the arrogance of the
  855. 40:02intellect. When we were born into the
  856. 40:05world and that physical umbilical cord
  857. 40:07was cut, most people assumed that the
  858. 40:09navel's function had simply ended. Yet,
  859. 40:14in the teachings of reputable Sufi
  860. 40:16orders like the Shattariyyah and
  861. 40:18Naqshbandiyyah, and as written in
  862. 40:20ancient manuscripts left by the saints
  863. 40:22of Java, such as the Serat Wirid
  864. 40:24Hidayat Jati, the navel remains a
  865. 40:26central node of life energy.
  866. 40:32Spiritually, our inner umbilical cord
  867. 40:34never breaks; it merely transforms into
  868. 40:37the flow of breath, connecting our
  869. 40:39physical body to the Divine. From that
  870. 40:44navel point, which holds the memory of
  871. 40:47absolute surrender, a sacred path
  872. 40:48within our body stretches upward toward
  873. 40:51the second, most noble point: the
  874. 40:53region of the chest and the heart. The
  875. 40:57wise explain that this spiritual heart
  876. 40:59is located approximately two fingers
  877. 41:01below the left breast, near the center
  878. 41:03of the chest, which serves as the
  879. 41:05gateway to consciousness. If the navel
  880. 41:10is the root of our physical tree of
  881. 41:12life, then the heart is the throne
  882. 41:14where the spirit and Divine light
  883. 41:16reside within a human being. A wisdom
  884. 41:21narrative, popular among Sufi scholars,
  885. 41:23states that the vast heavens and earth
  886. 41:26are not enough to contain the greatness
  887. 41:28of God. Yet, that greatness can be
  888. 41:33contained within the heart of a
  889. 41:35faithful and gentle servant. This heart
  890. 41:41is truly the real House of God within
  891. 41:43the human body, the place upon which
  892. 41:45the Creator's gaze of love falls every
  893. 41:47passing second. God does not look at
  894. 41:54our aging faces or the luxurious
  895. 41:55clothes that wrap our bodies, but looks
  896. 41:58straight into that point of the heart.
  897. 42:04The great problem that often befalls us
  898. 42:06at the age of 30, 40, or 50 and beyond
  899. 42:08is the severing of this connection
  900. 42:10between the navel and the heart, my
  901. 42:12brother. When someone pushes themselves
  902. 42:18too hard in pursuit of worldly
  903. 42:20ambitions, their breath becomes shallow
  904. 42:22, stopping only at the throat and upper
  905. 42:24chest. The flow of their breath's
  906. 42:28consciousness no longer descends to
  907. 42:30touch the stillness at the navel point.
  908. 42:32Consequently, their inner self is
  909. 42:34easily shaken, quick to anger, always
  910. 42:36feeling insufficient, and prone to
  911. 42:38excessive anxiety. To reconnect this
  912. 42:41severed sacred path, past saints and
  913. 42:44Sufi scholars bequeathed a secret known
  914. 42:46as the science of anfas. In this
  915. 42:51science, the life-breath moving within
  916. 42:54a human is not referred to by a single
  917. 42:56name, but is divided into four levels
  918. 42:59of consciousness: nafas, tanafus, ampas
  919. 43:01, and nufus. These four elements work
  920. 43:06in succession like four guardian angels
  921. 43:08, escorting the journey of the light of
  922. 43:11life from outside the body to the
  923. 43:12deepest point of the heart. The wise
  924. 43:16elders of the archipelago explain that
  925. 43:18nafas is the air we have just inhaled,
  926. 43:20entering through the nostrils and
  927. 43:22moving toward the throat. When that
  928. 43:26airflow descends deeper to touch the
  929. 43:28base of the stomach at the navel and
  930. 43:30settles there peacefully for a moment,
  931. 43:32it is renamed tanafus. Then, as the air
  932. 43:36reverses direction, moving up from the
  933. 43:38navel toward the chest cavity while
  934. 43:40carrying the warmth of life's energy,
  935. 43:42it is called ampas. And its peak, which
  936. 43:45unites with the consciousness of the
  937. 43:47spirit within the heart, is referred to
  938. 43:49as nufus. Imagine what the inner eye of
  939. 43:52a Sufi master sees while sitting in
  940. 43:54solemn silence at night, observing the
  941. 43:56journey of these four breath elements.
  942. 44:00My brother, if our physical body were
  943. 44:03transparent, every time we breathed
  944. 44:05with full awareness, a stream of cool,
  945. 44:07bluish-white light would be seen
  946. 44:09entering through the nasal cavity. The
  947. 44:14stream of light moves downward gently,
  948. 44:16passing through the throat and chest,
  949. 44:18then plunging straight down to touch
  950. 44:20the sacred point at our navel. As soon
  951. 44:24as the breath touches the navel point,
  952. 44:26it is as if an ancient button of
  953. 44:28consciousness within us is pressed and
  954. 44:30activated once again. We are reminded
  955. 44:34that just as we were once brought to
  956. 44:36life helpless in our mother's womb, at
  957. 44:38this very moment, we are entirely
  958. 44:40dependent on the mercy of the Owner of
  959. 44:42the Breath. From the illuminated navel
  960. 44:47point, the flow of breath energy is
  961. 44:48then drawn back up, rushing toward the
  962. 44:50center of the chest and centering right
  963. 44:52within the space of the heart. At that
  964. 44:56meeting point between the center of the
  965. 44:58chest and the heart, my brother, a
  966. 45:00profoundly beautiful spiritual event
  967. 45:02occurs. The cool blue light from the
  968. 45:06inhaled breath meets the warmth of the
  969. 45:09spirit's longing, then swirls to form a
  970. 45:11vortex of golden light that glows
  971. 45:13brightly behind the sternum. This
  972. 45:17golden vortex of light becomes a
  973. 45:19mystical lantern that shatters all
  974. 45:21inner darkness. Burning away the rust
  975. 45:24of arrogance, resentment, past sorrows,
  976. 45:27and the fear of insufficient sustenance
  977. 45:29. Sheikh Abdul Karim Al-Jili describes
  978. 45:33that when the connection between the
  979. 45:35navel and the heart is perfectly
  980. 45:37bridged through the rhythm of conscious
  981. 45:39breathing, the human body is no longer
  982. 45:41as dark as ordinary clay. Every
  983. 45:44inhalation that descends to the navel
  984. 45:46and then rises to circulate within the
  985. 45:48heart with the inner echo of "Hu" will
  986. 45:50polish the mirror of the heart until it
  987. 45:52sparkles clear as crystal. When the
  988. 45:56mirror within the heart is clean and
  989. 45:58radiates its golden vortex of light,
  990. 46:00there are no longer thick walls
  991. 46:02hindering a servant's soul from feeling
  992. 46:04the presence of their God. Try to feel
  993. 46:07it this very second, my brother. As you
  994. 46:10breathe in slowly, direct your inner
  995. 46:12attention downward to touch the navel.
  996. 46:16Then feel the warmth rise to fill the
  997. 46:18space in the center of your chest.
  998. 46:21There is a calm vibration that
  999. 46:23immediately spreads throughout every
  1000. 46:25nerve. It is as if your soul, having
  1001. 46:28grown weary from wandering out there
  1002. 46:30for decades, has finally found the way
  1003. 46:32back home. And when the vortex of light
  1004. 46:38at the heart point spins steadily,
  1005. 46:39following the in-and-out flow of breath
  1006. 46:42, a person is stepping into the next
  1007. 46:44secret gate: the peak of unified
  1008. 46:45consciousness, which the saints call
  1009. 46:47the highest oneness. My brother, when
  1010. 46:52the path of light between the navel
  1011. 46:54point and the heart in the chest is
  1012. 46:56brightly connected, a spiritual
  1013. 46:57traveler will arrive at the most
  1014. 46:59magnificent gate of consciousness. At
  1015. 47:03this point, the science of breath is no
  1016. 47:06longer just an exercise in regulating
  1017. 47:08air intake, but transforms into an
  1018. 47:10inner encounter that profoundly stirs
  1019. 47:12the soul. Sufi scholars and the saints
  1020. 47:16of old called this peak of the journey
  1021. 47:18the highest oneness. A station where a
  1022. 47:21servant truly dissolves their sense of
  1023. 47:23self before the majesty of the Creator.
  1024. 47:27For decades we have lived in this world
  1025. 47:30, my brother, often trapped in a great
  1026. 47:32illusion that unknowingly tarnishes the
  1027. 47:34purity of our oneness. Every day we say
  1028. 47:39that it is we who work hard to earn a
  1029. 47:41living, we who move our feet to walk,
  1030. 47:44and we who are inhaling air to survive.
  1031. 47:48There is such a thick sense of
  1032. 47:49ownership within our chests. As if the
  1033. 47:52life and the breath flowing through
  1034. 47:54these nostrils were private property
  1035. 47:56that we could control at will whenever
  1036. 47:58we desire. But when the eye of the
  1037. 48:01heart begins to open through the light
  1038. 48:03of the breath's remembrance, that
  1039. 48:04mistaken view slowly crumbles on its
  1040. 48:06own. A servant whose inner being has
  1041. 48:09been enlightened will realize a truth
  1042. 48:11that makes their tears fall in silence:
  1043. 48:13the consciousness of the oneness of
  1044. 48:15actions and the oneness of essence.
  1045. 48:19They no longer feel that they are
  1046. 48:21breathing by their own will and power,
  1047. 48:23but they realize fully that, second by
  1048. 48:25second, they are being breathed by the
  1049. 48:27love of the Ever-Living God. Let us
  1050. 48:31contemplate this very subtle, yet
  1051. 48:33deeply meaningful distinction, my
  1052. 48:35brother. When you feel that it is you
  1053. 48:39who is breathing, there is still
  1054. 48:41self-pride, still a burden of thought,
  1055. 48:43and still the fear that your strength
  1056. 48:45might run out at any moment. However,
  1057. 48:51when you realize that you are being
  1058. 48:53breathed by Allah, all the tension
  1059. 48:54within your soul will instantly
  1060. 48:56straighten into the sweetest and most
  1061. 48:58soothing surrender. The clearest
  1062. 49:03evidence that we are merely creatures
  1063. 49:05being breathed can be witnessed every
  1064. 49:07night when we lie down to sleep on our
  1065. 49:08beds. Remember, my brother, once our
  1066. 49:13heads touch the pillow and our eyes
  1067. 49:15close to enter the realm of dreams,
  1068. 49:17where do our intelligence, status, and
  1069. 49:19brilliance of mind go at that moment?
  1070. 49:22We become completely helpless, unaware
  1071. 49:25even if our blanket slips off. We do
  1072. 49:28not even know if there is danger
  1073. 49:30lurking near our sleeping bodies. Yet,
  1074. 49:33in our state of forgetting everything,
  1075. 49:35there is one Great Guardian who never
  1076. 49:38slumbers and never tires of tending to
  1077. 49:40our physical forms. With the tenderness
  1078. 49:43of His compassion, He continues to blow
  1079. 49:45and draw back the air of life through
  1080. 49:47our nostrils. Ensuring that our
  1081. 49:49heartbeat and the movement of our chest
  1082. 49:51do not cease in the middle of the night
  1083. 49:53. If not for God who continues to
  1084. 49:56breathe through us while we are fast
  1085. 49:58asleep, surely not one of us would be
  1086. 50:00able to open our eyes again to see the
  1087. 50:02smiles of our families in the morning.
  1088. 50:06Sheikh Abdul Karim Al-Jili and the
  1089. 50:08spiritual masters explain that when
  1090. 50:10this awareness of being breathed by God
  1091. 50:13is carried into our waking hours, an
  1092. 50:15extraordinary unification of
  1093. 50:16consciousness occurs. Every time air is
  1094. 50:20drawn in from the nose toward the navel
  1095. 50:22and rises to the heart with an inner
  1096. 50:24sigh. Hu. The servant feels that divine
  1097. 50:27life is flowing to embrace their spirit
  1098. 50:30. And every time that air is exhaled
  1099. 50:33while uniting the consciousness of
  1100. 50:34Allah within the depths of the heart.
  1101. 50:37The servant surrenders all their life,
  1102. 50:39death, and affairs back to the Owner of
  1103. 50:41the universe. The inhalation is
  1104. 50:44awareness, and the exhalation dissolves
  1105. 50:46into the majesty of Allah. Which
  1106. 50:49resides at the center of the spiritual
  1107. 50:51heart. These two movements of breath,
  1108. 50:54in and out, combine into one complete
  1109. 50:57rhythm of remembrance. Like a bird's
  1110. 51:00two wings flapping in harmony, carrying
  1111. 51:02the soul to fly through the seven
  1112. 51:04layers of consciousness. There is no
  1113. 51:07longer any distance separating the
  1114. 51:09remembrance, the person remembering,
  1115. 51:11and the God remembered within that
  1116. 51:13remembrance. Because everything has
  1117. 51:16merged into a silent inner
  1118. 51:18consciousness in the land of the
  1119. 51:19archipelago, especially in the
  1120. 51:21teachings of gnosis inherited by the
  1121. 51:23Wali Songo and our ancestors. This
  1122. 51:27unification of breath and heart
  1123. 51:29awareness is known as salat daim. The
  1124. 51:33word "daim" means something continuous,
  1125. 51:36eternal, and never interrupted by the
  1126. 51:38passage of time or circumstances. This
  1127. 51:43is not a physical prayer that replaces
  1128. 51:46the obligation of the five daily
  1129. 51:47prayers, my brother, but the prayer of
  1130. 51:49the soul and spirit that continues
  1131. 51:51ceaselessly throughout every inhalation
  1132. 51:54and exhalation. The five daily prayers
  1133. 51:58that we perform with bowing and
  1134. 51:59prostration on the prayer mat have
  1135. 52:01specific time limits. They begin with
  1136. 52:04the takbiratul ihram and end with the
  1137. 52:06utterance of the salam. But for someone
  1138. 52:10who has discovered the secret of
  1139. 52:11knowledge within their breath, the
  1140. 52:13salam at the end of prayer is not a
  1141. 52:15sign of the end of their connection
  1142. 52:16with God. Even as his body rises,
  1143. 52:20folding the prayer mat and stepping out
  1144. 52:22of the mosque to return to his daily
  1145. 52:25toil, his soul and breath remain
  1146. 52:26lingering upon that endless expanse of
  1147. 52:29prostration. Imagine how beautiful the
  1148. 52:32inner state of a human being is who has
  1149. 52:34attained this consciousness of Salat
  1150. 52:36Daim in their adulthood. My brother, in
  1151. 52:41the eyes of the crowd, he may seem like
  1152. 52:44an ordinary person trading in the
  1153. 52:45market, driving a vehicle on the
  1154. 52:47highway, or sitting at work behind his
  1155. 52:49office desk. His hands and feet move
  1156. 52:54busily to complete worldly affairs. His
  1157. 52:57mouth speaks kindly while serving
  1158. 52:59others. Yet behind his breastbone, a
  1159. 53:02vortex of light at the point of the
  1160. 53:04heart continues to spin in rhythm with
  1161. 53:06his breath, reciting, "Hu Allah." He is
  1162. 53:09a human figure whose body walks,
  1163. 53:11treading upon the hard earth. But his
  1164. 53:14spirit's consciousness continues to
  1165. 53:16prostrate before the glorious throne of
  1166. 53:18the heavens. The noise of the world can
  1167. 53:22no longer steal the tranquility of his
  1168. 53:24heart, and the busyness of seeking
  1169. 53:26sustenance cannot make him neglect the
  1170. 53:28remembrance of his Lord for even a
  1171. 53:29second. For how could he forget God,
  1172. 53:35when every breath touching his nostrils
  1173. 53:37and chest is felt as a direct greeting
  1174. 53:39from his true Beloved? In the inner
  1175. 53:45vision of the Sufis, when one sits in
  1176. 53:47silence, aligning their breath and
  1177. 53:49heart in this dhikr, the boundaries of
  1178. 53:52their selfhood slowly fade away. Like a
  1179. 53:57lump of salt dropped into the middle of
  1180. 53:59a vast ocean, its narrow saltiness
  1181. 54:01dissolves, becoming one with the
  1182. 54:03endless expanse of the sea. Within the
  1183. 54:07silence of his inner space, it is as if
  1184. 54:10his physical body becomes transparent,
  1185. 54:12merging with the scattering particles
  1186. 54:14of divine golden light that fill all
  1187. 54:16space and time. This state of the
  1188. 54:20dissolution of the ego and selfhood
  1189. 54:22into divine consciousness is what the
  1190. 54:24masters of Sufism call the station of
  1191. 54:26fana. At this point, all the painful
  1192. 54:30burdens of the past, all the wounds of
  1193. 54:32human betrayal, and all the fear of
  1194. 54:34poverty instantly lose their power. For
  1195. 54:40in his inner vision, there is no longer
  1196. 54:42any created power capable of causing
  1197. 54:44harm or benefit, other than the will of
  1198. 54:46Him who moves every single breath in
  1199. 54:48the universe. My brother, many of us
  1200. 54:52spend decades seeking inner peace by
  1201. 54:54trying to control everything outside of
  1202. 54:56ourselves. We want everyone to act
  1203. 55:00kindly toward us. We want all our
  1204. 55:02business plans to run smoothly without
  1205. 55:04obstacles. And we want this life to
  1206. 55:07always follow the whims of our minds.
  1207. 55:10Yet, the harder we grasp the world with
  1208. 55:12our ego, the more suffocated our chests
  1209. 55:15become. Because we are carrying burdens
  1210. 55:18that should be God's business. The
  1211. 55:21secret of this breath-based tawhid
  1212. 55:23teaches us the most noble path of
  1213. 55:25release: returning the steering wheel
  1214. 55:27of our lives to the Owner of the breath
  1215. 55:29. When you inhale and realize that even
  1216. 55:33a breath that small is His gift, your
  1217. 55:35heart will become very soft and easily
  1218. 55:37accept all decrees of destiny. You will
  1219. 55:42no longer feel alone in facing the
  1220. 55:45harsh waves of life at the age of 30,
  1221. 55:4740, or 50. Because you know exactly
  1222. 55:51that the Almighty resides so closely
  1223. 55:53within every beat of your breath. This
  1224. 55:56highest consciousness of tawhid within
  1225. 55:59the breath is not a heavenly fairy tale
  1226. 56:01belonging only to saints of the past,
  1227. 56:03but a spiritual heritage whose doors
  1228. 56:05remain wide open for us today. It does
  1229. 56:09not demand that you seclude yourself in
  1230. 56:11a dark cave or abandon your
  1231. 56:13responsibilities toward your children
  1232. 56:15and beloved family. It only asks you to
  1233. 56:19bring home the heart's consciousness
  1234. 56:21that has been lost out there, then
  1235. 56:23gently tether it back to the inflow and
  1236. 56:25outflow of your breath to face all
  1237. 56:27life's trials with a calm soul. My
  1238. 56:32brother, after we have delved into the
  1239. 56:34magnificent secret of the union of
  1240. 56:36breath and heart consciousness of the
  1241. 56:38past saints, now is the time to bring
  1242. 56:40this heavenly knowledge down to touch
  1243. 56:42the earth where we stand. For the
  1244. 56:47essence of true Sufi knowledge is not
  1245. 56:49to make us float away, leaving behind
  1246. 56:51the reality of life, but to give us a
  1247. 56:53firm inner anchor when facing the waves
  1248. 56:56of the world. Especially at our age,
  1249. 57:02which has now passed 30, 40, 50 years,
  1250. 57:05or even more. The storms of life often
  1251. 57:10arrive without ever giving any warning
  1252. 57:12beforehand. Let us be honest with
  1253. 57:16ourselves, my brother, that the older a
  1254. 57:19person gets, the more silent the inner
  1255. 57:21battle they must face alone becomes. In
  1256. 57:26front of our children and spouses at
  1257. 57:28home, or before colleagues at work, we
  1258. 57:30may still be able to wear the strongest
  1259. 57:32smile as if everything is fine. But who
  1260. 57:37knows that behind our chest bones lies
  1261. 57:39the burden of unpaid debts? There is
  1262. 57:43anxiety about the cost of living for
  1263. 57:44tomorrow? Or the pain of being betrayed
  1264. 57:47by the person we trusted most. In
  1265. 57:51critical moments when life's problems
  1266. 57:53come crashing down from all directions,
  1267. 57:56observe what changes first within our
  1268. 57:58bodies, my brother. Without us
  1269. 58:02realizing it, our bodies become tense.
  1270. 58:06Our heartbeats race faster and our
  1271. 58:08breath becomes short, rough, and
  1272. 58:10hurried. Our minds run wild, imagining
  1273. 58:14thousands of bad possibilities that may
  1274. 58:16not even happen. Meanwhile, the path of
  1275. 58:19light between our navel and our heart
  1276. 58:22is instantly covered by a thick fog of
  1277. 58:24panic. The spiritual guides and great
  1278. 58:27Sufi scholars like Sheikh Abdul Karim
  1279. 58:30Al-Jili have bequeathed a very valuable
  1280. 58:32spiritual teaching to face situations
  1281. 58:34like this. They teach that when the
  1282. 58:39world out there feels so narrow and
  1283. 58:41constricts your chest, never ever join
  1284. 58:43in the race to chase the noise of your
  1285. 58:45mind. Stop for a moment. Take a step
  1286. 58:50back from the hustle and bustle of that
  1287. 58:52panic. Then return and enter into the
  1288. 58:55sacred space that exists behind your
  1289. 58:57own exhaled breath. How do we practice
  1290. 59:02this way home in the midst of daily
  1291. 59:04life's storms, my brother, when your
  1292. 59:06chest begins to feel tight from
  1293. 59:07problems that seem to have no way out,
  1294. 59:09find a quiet place to sit and release
  1295. 59:11for a moment the desire to fight the
  1296. 59:13situation. Shift your inner focus, once
  1297. 59:21crowded with burdens in your head,
  1298. 59:23slowly down toward the space between
  1299. 59:25your chest and your navel. Take a soft,
  1300. 59:31slow, and deep breath through your nose
  1301. 59:33, fully aware that the cool air
  1302. 59:35entering is God's loving hand extended
  1303. 59:37to you. Feel that flow of air descend
  1304. 59:42and touch your navel point. Revive the
  1305. 59:46memory of total surrender, just as you
  1306. 59:48were once nurtured with love in your
  1307. 59:50mother's womb. Then, let the warmth of
  1308. 59:54that awareness rise and gather at the
  1309. 59:56heart, reigniting the vortex of calm
  1310. 59:58light in the center of your wounded
  1311. 1:00:00chest. After that, my brother, part
  1312. 1:00:04your lips slightly and exhale slowly
  1313. 1:00:06from the base of your chest, with an
  1314. 1:00:08inner echo whispering softly, "Hu." As
  1315. 1:00:15the warm air flows out through your
  1316. 1:00:17throat, imagine all the burdens of your
  1317. 1:00:19thoughts, fear, anger, and despair
  1318. 1:00:22fading away, carried off with that
  1319. 1:00:24breath. Return all the matters that
  1320. 1:00:29your weak shoulders can no longer bear
  1321. 1:00:31to Him who holds the heavens and the
  1322. 1:00:33earth. If the trial crushing your life
  1323. 1:00:39today is a lack of provision, crushing
  1324. 1:00:42debt, or a failing business, then hold
  1325. 1:00:44onto your breath as a witness to your
  1326. 1:00:46faith. Each time air enters your chest,
  1327. 1:00:54whisper to your restless heart that the
  1328. 1:00:56God who never forgets to send thousands
  1329. 1:00:58of free breaths every day could never
  1330. 1:01:00forget to provide for your life. As
  1331. 1:01:07long as breath is allowed to flow
  1332. 1:01:08through your throat, it means your
  1333. 1:01:10portion of provision on this earth is
  1334. 1:01:12not yet spent and His help is drawing
  1335. 1:01:14near. The same applies if the trial
  1336. 1:01:18crushing your soul today is the pain of
  1337. 1:01:20betrayal, human slander, or the
  1338. 1:01:22loneliness of being abandoned by those
  1339. 1:01:24closest to you. When your ears are
  1340. 1:01:29weary of hearing harsh human words that
  1341. 1:01:31hurt, enter the silence of the First
  1342. 1:01:33Name of God, which has no letters and
  1343. 1:01:35no sound within your breath. In the
  1344. 1:01:40embrace of that rhythmic remembrance,
  1345. 1:01:42you will realize that even if everyone
  1346. 1:01:44on earth turns away from you, the Owner
  1347. 1:01:46of your breath remains faithful in your
  1348. 1:01:48heart, closer than your own jugular
  1349. 1:01:50vein. Told in a story of wisdom from
  1350. 1:01:55the Archipelago, a middle-aged man with
  1351. 1:01:57a disheveled face once came to visit an
  1352. 1:01:59elderly sheikh in an old prayer house.
  1353. 1:02:03The man wept, complaining that all his
  1354. 1:02:06possessions had burned down, his
  1355. 1:02:07business had gone bankrupt, and his
  1356. 1:02:09family had begun to distance themselves
  1357. 1:02:12until he felt he could no longer go on
  1358. 1:02:14living. The elderly sheikh, with a very
  1359. 1:02:17serene face, only asked the man to sit
  1360. 1:02:20cross-legged, close his eyes, and
  1361. 1:02:22listen to the sound of his incoming and
  1362. 1:02:24outgoing breath for a few moments.
  1363. 1:02:27After the man's breath began to slow
  1364. 1:02:29and his weeping subsided, the Sufi
  1365. 1:02:31master spoke in a voice that pierced
  1366. 1:02:33straight to his core. He advised the
  1367. 1:02:38student to observe how the wind of his
  1368. 1:02:40breath entered his chest empty, without
  1369. 1:02:42carrying any burdens. And exited again
  1370. 1:02:46empty, without leaving behind any
  1371. 1:02:48attachments. That is how the heart of a
  1372. 1:02:51servant who knows their Lord through
  1373. 1:02:52the science of breath should be. They
  1374. 1:02:56accept destiny with an open heart when
  1375. 1:02:58it arrives and release it sincerely
  1376. 1:03:00when reclaimed by its Owner. My brother
  1377. 1:03:04, when we begin to accustom ourselves
  1378. 1:03:06to aligning the heart's consciousness
  1379. 1:03:08with the rhythm of our breath, as the
  1380. 1:03:10teacher advised, extraordinary inner
  1381. 1:03:12miracles will start to unfold. Problems
  1382. 1:03:17outside ourselves may not vanish in the
  1383. 1:03:19blink of an eye, but the storm within
  1384. 1:03:22our chests will subside first,
  1385. 1:03:23transforming into a tranquil lake. From
  1386. 1:03:27within a heart calmed and illuminated
  1387. 1:03:29by the dhikr of Hu Allah. That is when
  1388. 1:03:32our minds will clear, enabling us to
  1389. 1:03:34see solutions and doors of provision
  1390. 1:03:36that were previously obscured by the
  1391. 1:03:38fog of our own panic. Spare a few
  1392. 1:03:43minutes of your time every day, my
  1393. 1:03:44brother. Especially in the silence of
  1394. 1:03:48the last third of the night or after
  1395. 1:03:50you have performed your prayers, to sit
  1396. 1:03:52in solitude with your breath. While
  1397. 1:03:55others are busy complaining about the
  1398. 1:03:57harshness of the world, sit with your
  1399. 1:03:59back straight yet relaxed. Then, feel
  1400. 1:04:02once more the invisible connection
  1401. 1:04:04between your navel, your heart, and the
  1402. 1:04:06flow of your breath. Make that silent
  1403. 1:04:09moment a place of rest for your soul. A
  1404. 1:04:13space to recharge your spiritual energy
  1405. 1:04:15before you step out again tomorrow
  1406. 1:04:17morning to face the hardships of life.
  1407. 1:04:21Always remember, my brother, that at
  1408. 1:04:23our current age, the number of breaths
  1409. 1:04:25we have used in the past may already be
  1410. 1:04:27far greater than the remaining breaths
  1411. 1:04:29awaiting us in the future. Every single
  1412. 1:04:35breath that leaves our nose this second
  1413. 1:04:37is actually reducing our allotted time
  1414. 1:04:39in this world while bringing our steps
  1415. 1:04:41closer to the gate of eternal return.
  1416. 1:04:47Do not let the remaining, precious
  1417. 1:04:48breaths of this second half of our
  1418. 1:04:50lives be drained merely by lamenting
  1419. 1:04:52this transient world and forgetting the
  1420. 1:04:54Creator. Realize with deep emotion that
  1421. 1:04:58as long as your chest is still rising
  1422. 1:05:00and falling this very second. As long
  1423. 1:05:03as the gentle air is still permitted to
  1424. 1:05:05flow in and out through your nose. That
  1425. 1:05:09is the most tangible sign of love from
  1426. 1:05:11the heavens. It is a sign that Allah
  1427. 1:05:13Subhanahu wa ta'ala is not finished
  1428. 1:05:15loving you. He is still holding wide
  1429. 1:05:19the doors of His forgiveness for your
  1430. 1:05:21past and still giving you time to
  1431. 1:05:23reorganize a heart that had become
  1432. 1:05:24negligent. Every breath you take today
  1433. 1:05:30is a wordless love letter from God,
  1434. 1:05:32whispering gently that you have never
  1435. 1:05:34been left to struggle alone. Now, at
  1436. 1:05:40the end of this long contemplation, my
  1437. 1:05:42brother, let us practice one most
  1438. 1:05:44conscious and sincere breath from the
  1439. 1:05:46depths of our hearts. Sit in peace.
  1440. 1:05:50Release all the burdens weighing upon
  1441. 1:05:52your shoulders. Then, take a breath
  1442. 1:05:55slowly through your nose, feeling its
  1443. 1:05:57coolness flow down to touch your navel
  1444. 1:05:59and warm the heart center in your chest
  1445. 1:06:01. Feel how real the presence of God is,
  1446. 1:06:05breathing life into your body this very
  1447. 1:06:07second. Then exhale slowly with the
  1448. 1:06:09inner whisper of "Hu," filled with
  1449. 1:06:11gratitude, peace, and complete
  1450. 1:06:13surrender.

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