Durs on the Essence

Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi ad-Darqawi
Yesterday we got to a very significant point of approaching understanding of this great central claim of the people of tasawwuf from the Qur’an al-Karim. We found it in the event of Sayyiduna Musa, ‘alayhi salam, in his quest for this ultimate knowledge of Divine reality. In unfolding this we came on [...]

Love of the Prophet

Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi
Ihsan Mosque, Norwich 19.8.81
Surat al-Ahzab: 55
Certainly Allah and His angels pray on the Prophet. Oh you who believe! Pray on him and ask for much peace on him.
We will look at this ayat that has been recited. In it is permission and in it is a command to pray on Sayyiduna Muhammad, sallallahu [...]

The Nafs

The Nafs
Shaykh AbdalQadir As Sufi
Tucson Discourses
Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim
We start right at the beginning, trying to make a definition of nafs in its totality. So the first thing to understand is that inner science in the Sufic science of the self, and we must grasp Ibn ‘Arabi’s statement that nobody knows the nafs except the sufis. [...]