Fifth Level
Station of Akhfa أخفاء (Most Hidden)
From The Teachings of Shaykh Hisham Kabbani as Taught By Shaykh Sayed
Nurjan Mirahmadi
The Essence – Soul’s Origin
Black Hole – Annihilation
The Station of the Akhfa (Most Hidden) is symbolized by Black hole. Black
hole is the center…..
It has a black colour which absorbs all colours and it represents Fana
(annihilation).
Once you perfect the hearing, seeing, feeling, and smell, the sense of taste
begins. The highest sense is the sense of taste. This is where you can taste
the heavenly realities.
This is the state of Dhatiya (Essence) and the reality of going back to our
origin of light.
Realities
State: Dhatiya (Essence)
Sense: Taste
Symbolized by: Black Hole
Color: Black – black absorbs all colours and represents Fana (Annihilation)
Archangel: Malik (as)
Prophet: Sayyidina Muhammad ( )ﷺ – He was raised
to the Divine Presence, in the Night of Ascension
Pillar of Islam: Hajj (Pilgrimage to Ka’bah) in Makkah
Salat (Prayer time): Fajr (Morning) – Dawn, before Sunrise
Dhikr: La Hawla wa la Quwwata illa billahil ‘Ali ul ‘Azeem
(There is no Support and no Power except in Allah)
Seek Support: Ya Allah هللا يا
6th Sense: Spiritual Taste
Highlights of the Station of the Akhfa in the Upcoming Articles:
Station of Akhfa is the Muhammadan Reality
State of the Dhatiya, the Essence – Our Soul’s origin
We are created from one soul and going back to it (Quran )
Everything is Created from Nur Muhammad (saws)
Reaching the Presence of Sultanan Naseera (Victorious King)(saws)
There is no Support or Power except in Allah and His Rasul (saws)
The Black colour represents Fana (Annihilation)
Prophet Muhammad (saws) is the Master of Annihilation
Be Nothing and go back to the Ocean of your Origin
Angel Malik (as) oversees other Archangels
Archangel Malik (as)
at the Station of Akhfa (Most Hidden)
Sayyidina Muhammad (saws) is the Master of Annihilation
Prophet (salallahu `alayhi wa sallam) is the master of annihilating, that
anything other than what Allah (Azza wa Jal) wants, Prophet (salallahu
`alayhi wa sallam) will annihilate. So then
the servant comes as completely nothing that, yaa Sayyidi Yaa Rasul
Kareem (O’ generous Messenger), let my head just to be at your feet. Tell
me what Allah (Azza wa Jal) wants for me, not to lift myself or to think
anything, just to be dust under your feet. And they carry the sandal as a
reminder upon yourself, upon your body, upon your head, I want to be
nothing.
As Sayyidina Adam bowed down to the light of Sayyidina Muhammad
(salallahu `alayhi wa sallam) we take ourselves to that same understanding.
Bowing is not for worshipness, that is only for Allah (Azza wa Jal). This
is sajdatil ihtiraam (bowing out of respect) that you are in the presence of
someone whom Allah (Azza wa Jal) has a magnificent love for, and out of
respect, that I am not one to look at your divinely and blessed face. I am
not one to expect anything, Yaa Sayyidi, yaa Rasul Kareem, Ya Habibul
‘Azeem, just keep me at your threshold, just have pity upon my poor being,
dress me from your nazar, dress me from your blessings, lift me from my
difficulties.
When You are Oppressor to Yourself, Go to Prophet (saws) (Quran
4:64)
Then the love of Prophet (salallahu `alayhi wa sallam) comes and begins to
enter that reality sultanan naseera. Means Allah (Azza wa Jal) wants to know
who signed-off for you, because when the servant is an oppressor to
themselves they have to come to you, yaa Sayyidi, yaa Rasulullah.
َ َولَ ْو أَ َّن ُه ْم إِذ َّظلَمُوا أَنفُ َس ُه ْم َجاء
٦٤ ُوك َفاسْ َت ْغ َف ُروا اللَّـ َه َواسْ َت ْغ َف َر لَ ُه ُم الرَّسُو ُل لَ َو َج ُدوا اللَّـ َه َت َّوابًا رَّحِيمًا
4:64 – … wa law annahum idh dhalamoo anfusahum jaooka fastaghfaro
Allaha wastaghfara lahumur Rasolu lawajado Allaha tawwaban raheema. ”
(Surat An Nisa)
“…And if, when they had wronged [were oppressor to] themselves, they had
but come to you (saws) and asked forgiveness of Allah, and asked
forgiveness of the messenger, they would have found Allah Forgiving,
Merciful.” (The Women 4: 64)
You see all of Qur’an is describing this. This is that ayat (verse) opening:
they have to come to you and ask My forgiveness, then they have to ask
your forgiveness, then Allah (Azza wa Jal) describes, then I am forgiving.
Why are they coming to Me directly? Why are they asking Me when they
didn’t come to you?
So means this whole reality is this understanding,
that you are coming to perfect your character. Sayyidina Israfil is teaching,
that you want the real repentance, the real reality of what Allah (Azza wa
Jal) wants, then go into the presence of Prophet (salallahu `alayhi wa
sallam) as nothing and don’t claim to be anything. Ask to be dressed from
his nazar (gaze), dressed and blessed from his light, so that Sayyidina
Muhammad (salallahu `alayhi wa sallam) signs your paper.
That sultanan naseera, somebody signed off for you, that “We know you, we
authorized you, we have our nazar upon you, you are being dressed by
Sayyidina Jibreel, Sayyidina Mikhail, Sayyidina Azrael, Sayyidina Israfil and
Sayyidina Malik.”
5. Archangel Malik (as) at the Station of Akhfa (Most
Hidden)
– Guards your Heavenly Reality
It means the point at the Station of Akhfa is the guardian of jahannum,
Sayyidina Malik (`alayhi ‘s-salaam). Sayyidina Malik is the guardian of
Paradise. Your Paradise has no value if Sayyidina Malik is not guarding it
because then every Shaytan will enter into that Paradise and flip it upside
down. They begin to teach that we are entering into the presence of Prophet
(salallahu `alayhi wa sallam) and they introduce to you Sayyidina Maalik and
the Zabaniy’s, the guardians of jahannam.
Sayyidina Malik has to sign off for you that: this is what sultanan
naseera, Prophet (salallahu `alayhi wa sallam) wants for you that
our nazar is on you, we are watching you, that anything coming from the
Heavens coming towards you, we are responsible for guarding you. That this
light of Allah (Azza wa Jal), this light of Prophet (salallahu `alayhi wa sallam)
this light of Awliyaullah must be protected and guarded.
So it means they introduce at that time to Sayyidina Malik and Sayyidina
Malik begins to support Awliyaullah with
the Zabaniya. They have the ability to make a du`a and bring the fires
of jahannam onto this Earth. One Awliyaullah can flip the entire Earth upside
down. There are 124,0000 of them on this Earth. It is unimaginable when
Allah (Azza wa Jal) gives. Means that for any knowledge to open upon a
saint, that first Allah (Azza wa Jal) must have the flags of guardianship, they
must be guarded people, otherwise whatever Allah (Azza wa Jal) opens for
that person will be stolen by Shaytan.
So it means first Allah (Azza wa Jal) will assign that Sayyidina Malik and
whom are under the authority of Sayyidina Malik (`alayhi ‘s-salaam), to
guard that one. To guard that one’s soul with all they have been dressed
from Paradise and Sayyidina Muhammad (saws), your duty is to guard them.
They have a flag and in old time many would draw them with a dragon. So
old time drawings were dragons. So their image is like a dragon and there
must be a dragon supporting that wali. As a result that fire comes from them
as a support.
It means that Paradise reality is now going to walk onto this Earth, it is not
going to be without Allah (Azza wa Jal)’s protection. Allah (Azza wa Jal)’s
protection is Sayyidina Maalik. As you are guarding the Paradises, guard that
servant. That fire and that light is guarding them, so that every reality and
knowledge that is coming out is a knowledge that is protected. This is a gift
from Prophet (salallahu `alayhi wa sallam) to servants who are moving to
open the realities.
Sayyidina Muhammad (saws)
At the Station of Akhfa أخفاء (Most Hidden)
There is a reality on all the lata’ifs and all of them taking us to the centre-
most Akhfa reality which is under the authority of
Sayyidina Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. And Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam comes into our life for the perfection of all the lata’ifs, for
the perfection of submission and for the perfection of taking us into the
Divinely Presence. That Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam is the Master of
the oceans of annihilation, that to be nothing, to be absolutely nothing and
take you back into your oceans of origin; where Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa
sallam was so happy to be called ‘Abdullah. Means just to be a servant of the
Divine. Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam comes and begins to teach us
that: be nothing, be nothing, be nothing, and in that ocean and the reality of
nothingness, you can be brought into the Divinely Presence.
From there is the ocean of binary code, that there’s always on and off, on
and off. For you to reach that which is on, you must reach a state of off. If
you are on, you cannot reach towards that reality. Means the ‘ana niyya’,
the person who thinks themself to be something and gives themself so much
importance, they cannot approach that reality of the Divinely Presence.
Sayyidina Muhammad (s) teaches Islam, Iman, and Ihsan
And Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam comes to teach us, with all the
realities of Islam is submission. To open the oceans of iman (faith) and to
bring the maqam al ihsaan (station of excellence), is to worship as if you see
Allah ‘Azza wa Jal. Means these are all maqam al ihsaan, and the oceans of
annihilation: to annihilate all the bad characteristics and to move into the
oceans of submission, to become nothing and to exist in the oceans of
power.
If you look as these lata’if, that everything in our life is going to be based on
this hourglass. Many zikrs are based on this: Subhanallah, Alhamdulillah wa
La ilaha illa-Llahu Akbar; La hawla wa la quwwata illa billahil ‘Aliyul ‘aZheem,
‘cause the hawla wa quwwa is coming from the Akhfa reality that is in the
hand of Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam. Many of masha’ikh zikrs will be
based on those lata’if and the understanding of that lata’if.
We pray that Allah ‘Azza wa Jal give more and more and that
Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa sallam give more permission, and Maulana
Shaykh give more permission for its understanding and to enter the oceans
of these realities.
