When we are alone by ourselves (in Khalwah), we are with our Nafs. If our Nafs is not beautiful internally, our time with our self transforms into restlessness and a feeling of “Wahshah”
Wahshah means ‘wild beast’ and is the opposite of ‘UNS’ or humaness. ‘UNS’ is something that was given to Adam (AS) in Jannah and placed in our genome.
( My take: Thus to return to our status of humanity as it was in Jannah we have to conquer, subdue and tame our Nafs to obey us as an insaan with insaaniat, rather than for us to obey the dictates of our Nafs)
(Excerpts from the Retreat on Tazkiyah Nafs 08 with Sheikh Mokhtar Magroubi)
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NS // June 28, 2009 at 5:37 pm |
The word is to “Tame” the Nafs and keep it Tamed.
asqfish // June 29, 2009 at 8:57 am |
Dear NS ,
You have touched the essence of it