Ibn E Taymiyyah[the wahabi sheikh ul islam] on Fana(wajd)
Book: Al Ubudiyyah: Being A True Slave Of Allah
Author: Ibn Taymiyah
Published: Ta-Ha Publishers
Adress: 1 Wynne Road, London,
PostCode: SW9 0BB
Country: UK
Page Number: 126
Chapter: Fana {"Oblivion"**
"An example of this is the concept of Fana {extinction of individual consciouness, recedence of the ego, obliteration of the self**. Fana is of three types:
1** The fana of the Prophets and Awliyah {Fana Fir'Rasool' & Fana Fil Awliyah** who have attained perfection.
2**The Fana of the Awliyah and the righteous peopl who are striving in the right direction even though they are not perfect.
Page Number: 127
3** The Fana of the hypocrites and heretics who liken Allah to His creation.
The first type of fana means the oblertation of the desire for anything except Allah so that a person does not love anyone or anything except Allah he does not worship anything except Him, he does not rely on anyone except Him and he deos not ask from anyone except Him. This is the sense which should be understood from the words of Seikh Abu Yazid {Al Bistami**: "I want to not to want anything except what He wants, what Pleases the beloved {Allah**." This is what is meant by the religios will of Allah. Perfection means that a man does not want love or like anything except what Allah wants loves and likes which is what He as caommanded and made wajib or mustahab. He only loves those whom Allah loves and such as the Angles, Prophets, and the righteous people. This is what is meant by their intrepration of the Ayah:
This is what is meant by their intrepration of the Ayah: "But only he will prosper who bring to Allah a sound heart." {26:89** They said its is sound and safe from evertthing ecept being a slave of Allah or everything ecvept wanting what Allah wants or everything except Loivng Allah. The meaning is the same and whether its is called fana or not it is the begining and end of Islam the foucus of entire religion."
The second type of fana is oblivion towards others which is attained by many of those who follow the path {triqah**, because their hearts are strongly attracted to remembering, wroshipping and loving Allah and distracted from noticing anyone or anything else. Nothing crosses their minds except thoughts of Allah; they are not even aware of anythng else, as was said in the interpretation of the ayah: "But there came to be a void in the heart of the mother of Musa. she was going almost to disclose his {case**, had We not strenthen her heart {with faith** ..." [28:10** They said: her heart was oblivious to ...
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Page Number: 128
... everything except thoughts of Musa which is the kind of thing that often happens to thouse who are overwhelmed with some concern whether it be love or hope or fear - the heart is disracted from everything except that which is loved or hoped for or feared, so that it is unaware of anything else.
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If this kind of fana overwhelms a person his focus on Allah becomes so intense that he is no longer aware of anything else, not his own existance or the dhikr he is doing and everything diminishes in his senses, every created being the person, himself and everyone else and there remains only the Lord. What is meant is that everything is diminished in persons perception, so that he longer notices or remebers anything, and is quite oblivious to what is going on around him.
If this feeling becomes so strong that the person becomes confused and can no longer make proper distinctions he may think that he is his beloved, as it was said that a man fell into the water and the one who loved him threw himself in after him. The former said: "I fell in by accident; what made you fall?" and the later replied: "I was so overwhelmed with love for you that i thought I was you."
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The idea as caused many people to stumble so that they thought in the terms of phisical unity whereby there is no longer any difference between a person and the object of his love. This is incorrect, for the Creator can not be united with anything else without becoming somehting else altogather; ther essecne of the two things is lost when they unite, and they become a third of thing, neither this nor that as is the case when water and milk are mixed togather, or water or wine and so on. But what is loved and wanted by both becomes one, and what is hated and loathed by both becomes one, so they love ...
on page 129 ibn taymiyyah states about salafs
....... at the time of the Tabi'in, among the worshippers of Al Basra, among whom were some who would swooon or even die when they heard the Quran, such as Abu Juhayr Al Darir and Zararah Ibn Awfa the Qadi of Al Basra.
Some of the Sufi Shaykhs experience this kind of oblivios and and intoxication where they are unable to make proper distinctions, and when they are in that state they may say words which when they come round they realise are wrong
,. Such stories are reported about ...
... acetics such as Abu Yazid {al Bistami**, Abu'l Hasan Al Nuri and Abu Bakr Al Shibli and so on ...
on Page Number: 130
... unlike Abu Sulayman Al Darini, Maruf Al Khar'ki, and Al Fudayl Ibn Ayyad, let alone Al Junayd {Al Baghdadi** and so on, who remained of the sound mind throughou all their experiences and who never rell into states of oblivion or intoxication, etc. Those who have reached a level ofperfection have nothing in theri hearts except love of Allah and the desire to worship Him alone.[Book: Al Ubudiyyah: Being A True Slave Of Allahm Ta-Ha Publishers]
Ibn Taymiyyah again said again
The second category consists of those sufis whose experience of fana and intoxication (sukr) weakened their sense of discrimination, and made them utter words that they later realized to be erroneous when they became sober
► Majmu Fatawa vol. 10, pp. 220-1
Book: Al Ubudiyyah: Being A True Slave Of Allah
Author: Ibn Taymiyah
Published: Ta-Ha Publishers
Adress: 1 Wynne Road, London,
PostCode: SW9 0BB
Country: UK
Page Number: 126
Chapter: Fana {"Oblivion"**
"An example of this is the concept of Fana {extinction of individual consciouness, recedence of the ego, obliteration of the self**. Fana is of three types:
1** The fana of the Prophets and Awliyah {Fana Fir'Rasool' & Fana Fil Awliyah** who have attained perfection.
2**The Fana of the Awliyah and the righteous peopl who are striving in the right direction even though they are not perfect.
Page Number: 127
3** The Fana of the hypocrites and heretics who liken Allah to His creation.
The first type of fana means the oblertation of the desire for anything except Allah so that a person does not love anyone or anything except Allah he does not worship anything except Him, he does not rely on anyone except Him and he deos not ask from anyone except Him. This is the sense which should be understood from the words of Seikh Abu Yazid {Al Bistami**: "I want to not to want anything except what He wants, what Pleases the beloved {Allah**." This is what is meant by the religios will of Allah. Perfection means that a man does not want love or like anything except what Allah wants loves and likes which is what He as caommanded and made wajib or mustahab. He only loves those whom Allah loves and such as the Angles, Prophets, and the righteous people. This is what is meant by their intrepration of the Ayah:
This is what is meant by their intrepration of the Ayah: "But only he will prosper who bring to Allah a sound heart." {26:89** They said its is sound and safe from evertthing ecept being a slave of Allah or everything ecvept wanting what Allah wants or everything except Loivng Allah. The meaning is the same and whether its is called fana or not it is the begining and end of Islam the foucus of entire religion."
The second type of fana is oblivion towards others which is attained by many of those who follow the path {triqah**, because their hearts are strongly attracted to remembering, wroshipping and loving Allah and distracted from noticing anyone or anything else. Nothing crosses their minds except thoughts of Allah; they are not even aware of anythng else, as was said in the interpretation of the ayah: "But there came to be a void in the heart of the mother of Musa. she was going almost to disclose his {case**, had We not strenthen her heart {with faith** ..." [28:10** They said: her heart was oblivious to ...
,
Page Number: 128
... everything except thoughts of Musa which is the kind of thing that often happens to thouse who are overwhelmed with some concern whether it be love or hope or fear - the heart is disracted from everything except that which is loved or hoped for or feared, so that it is unaware of anything else.
,
If this kind of fana overwhelms a person his focus on Allah becomes so intense that he is no longer aware of anything else, not his own existance or the dhikr he is doing and everything diminishes in his senses, every created being the person, himself and everyone else and there remains only the Lord. What is meant is that everything is diminished in persons perception, so that he longer notices or remebers anything, and is quite oblivious to what is going on around him.
If this feeling becomes so strong that the person becomes confused and can no longer make proper distinctions he may think that he is his beloved, as it was said that a man fell into the water and the one who loved him threw himself in after him. The former said: "I fell in by accident; what made you fall?" and the later replied: "I was so overwhelmed with love for you that i thought I was you."
,
The idea as caused many people to stumble so that they thought in the terms of phisical unity whereby there is no longer any difference between a person and the object of his love. This is incorrect, for the Creator can not be united with anything else without becoming somehting else altogather; ther essecne of the two things is lost when they unite, and they become a third of thing, neither this nor that as is the case when water and milk are mixed togather, or water or wine and so on. But what is loved and wanted by both becomes one, and what is hated and loathed by both becomes one, so they love ...
on page 129 ibn taymiyyah states about salafs
....... at the time of the Tabi'in, among the worshippers of Al Basra, among whom were some who would swooon or even die when they heard the Quran, such as Abu Juhayr Al Darir and Zararah Ibn Awfa the Qadi of Al Basra.
Some of the Sufi Shaykhs experience this kind of oblivios and and intoxication where they are unable to make proper distinctions, and when they are in that state they may say words which when they come round they realise are wrong
,. Such stories are reported about ...
... acetics such as Abu Yazid {al Bistami**, Abu'l Hasan Al Nuri and Abu Bakr Al Shibli and so on ...
on Page Number: 130
... unlike Abu Sulayman Al Darini, Maruf Al Khar'ki, and Al Fudayl Ibn Ayyad, let alone Al Junayd {Al Baghdadi** and so on, who remained of the sound mind throughou all their experiences and who never rell into states of oblivion or intoxication, etc. Those who have reached a level ofperfection have nothing in theri hearts except love of Allah and the desire to worship Him alone.[Book: Al Ubudiyyah: Being A True Slave Of Allahm Ta-Ha Publishers]
Ibn Taymiyyah again said again
The second category consists of those sufis whose experience of fana and intoxication (sukr) weakened their sense of discrimination, and made them utter words that they later realized to be erroneous when they became sober
► Majmu Fatawa vol. 10, pp. 220-1