Muraqaba: The Powerful Islamic Spiritual Tool

[@jainoodiengoolam7574]

My understanding of the the meaning of Muraqaba is to be ALLAH CONSCIOUS is. Vigilant.Awareness ALLAH is WITNESS and the WITNESSED

[@tenteraeducation6578]

Muraqaba has no translation but emdless meaning only. Muraqaba Mim bila Mim....as it was expressed by sufic practicioner. It is as if, time is not borrowed to you but you are able to be extreamly close to God without wasilah (atoms or its construction) and mean time (zil) without throwing the good principles of Fikh. One of the method is Solat.

[@zaingazi3548]

@@tenteraeducation6578 Mohamed (saw) is your wasilah. Upon innitiation you are taught the salawat of wasilah. Constant repetition of this salawat puts you on Nabi's (saw) radar.

[@azwaryusoff662]

@@tenteraeducation6578 Solat is duty, Muraqaba is intimacy

[@zaingazi3548]

I think you borrowed these concepts somewhere which is why you're not fully explaining them. "... but master we are not always able to remember God. Teach us then how to always remember God..." "... I say Thomas Verily that is man's greatest loss..." --- Jesus Christ. ALLAH CONSCIOUS... yes this is good. Vigilant.Awareness... requires a lot of effort. "... ALLAH,ALLAH, ALLAH, ALLAH, ALLAH..." ---- Whose qalb is that, yours or mine..?? ---- My wife. I think it's mine but it could be yours. It's so loud I wish I had some volume control. --- Me. How do we acquire constant awareness without any effort on our part ? We train the Qalb. This is why you need a sheikh. ALLAH is WITNESS and the WITNESSED... can only be understood from direct experience. \But the real condition is...Observer and Observed. And it is not about Allah. It is about your single consciousness after it split into two ; the one consciousness in observance of the other. This is how we purge the nafs. When under observation it becomes aware of its negative inclinations. It wants to do haram but awareness that it is being observed makes it resist. It continues to resist until there is no more evil inclination. Very much like a child who stops misbehaving when he realises his father is watching him. So the Observer has rank and influence over the observed leading it to restrain itself from evil. This is by far the most remarkable dynamic that could ever play itself out inside the soul of a believer. A person should be willing to give anything for this experience. I am way out on a limb here in forbidden territory but I say this for only one reason... that you all might realise that meditation/ moraqaba is nothing like what you thought it was and be under no illusions as to its reality. There is much more to moraqaba than what I have already said but whether I will say more... maybe Allah does not want it. But times are changing, people are different and we must seek the balance of old and newand be available to those searching souls who simply have no idea what they stumble upon.

[@tenteraeducation6578]

The speed of evil or good concerns matters of the heart. The La - Nafi Aljinsi requires one to make a decision The last station of speed is undeteced nearesness - probably will never be understood. What is incorrect about Nearesness is when you compare your time and devine time as equivilant . A lot or maybes ideas may come from undetected plagiarism. The source of the plagiarism still makes one borrow understanding. If you do not borrow, than the item is yours. Its a choice to embrace it. New design of time may not be understood but still, we do attempt to understand it.

[@muslimahk8026]

JazakAllah Khayr sister Zuleyha for this knowledge. I started doing muraqaba without knowing it existed. I am trying to be conscious of what I say and sometimes my thoughts. May Allah make it easy for all of us, Aameen.

[@israacademy]

That's wonderful to hear. Muraqaba is natural to our fitrah (innate nature), which you seem to have discovered.

[@CalmAchiever]

I so needed to hear this. Thank you!

[@israacademy]

@CalmAchiever you are welcome.

[@123trueman]

جَزَاكَ ٱللَّٰهُ خَيْرًا

[@imransherif555]

BarakAllahu feek Mashaa Allah

[@israacademy]

Wa feeka.

[@Know_Allaah_The_All-Mighty]

Jazak Allaahu Khayran

[@RAZIAKHAN-h8m]

Jazakallah khairan katheera dear sister for this great update on " Muraqaba.

[@israacademy]

Wa iyyakum

[@imranlodhi1804]

Masha' ALLAH ♥️ Beautifully explained the Arabic term Muraqaba. Thanks Sister 😊

[@afzaalkhan2010]

Salaam ma'sha'Allah, well explained jaza-k-Allah khair ❤

[@israacademy]

@afzaalkhan2010 wa iyyakum.

[@supriyas5387]

Such a helpful concept! Accountability helps us rise above situations and This one is going in my bag of tools to do just that. Onwards and upwards towards ehsan 📈😊

[@tanerserdar]

Thank you Dr Zuleyha. Great video with detailed explanations.

[@israacademy]

@tanerserdar thank you.

[@abdulansari4719]

Jazakallah Khair ❤

[@israacademy]

Wa iyyakum

[@yasmeenzubairy8790]

Beautiful explanation

[@israacademy]

@yasmeenzubairy8790 thank you for your lovely comment.

[@MrAminmohamed]

Every book, design, project, wishes construct, man, woman, children is coming from a dream. Every day we dream alone and we wake in a common dream we call reality. In this common dream no one see or hear the thought of the other however in order to keep the dream working one must be listening to all of them.

[@warakanda7356]

MasyaAllah..! SubhanAllah Ahamdulillah AllahuAkhbar..! May Allah SWT guide those who reverted to Islam with the true teaching of Islam and being obedient Muslim, will grant them and all the Ummah with a place in Jannah. Aamiin Yarobbil Aalaamiin...🌙🕌🤲🤲🤲🤲💕🌹

[@israacademy]

Ameen

[@ManJadda-nb9wy]

MasyaAllah

[@israacademy]

Dr Zuleyha Keskin is an Associate Professor at ISRA Academy. She also has her personal KZbin channel if you would like to see more content from her: www.youtube.com/@drzuleyhakeskin

[@bettinawilson9660]

Assalamu Alaikum my sister from Switzerland beautiful explained and much needed Jazahallah Khairan are there any classes you my teach In'shallah Please let me know A sister

[@israacademy]

Alaikum Salam. Dr Zuleyha teaches at a university. For more of her content, you can visit her personal KZbin channel: www.youtube.com/@drzuleyhakeskin

[@suhaizad123]

Sister, can you share with us exercises on muraqabah so we may attain the status of ehsan?

[@israacademy]

We'll pass on your request to Dr Zuleyha

[@jingulu]

Is there any centre in Sydney that conducts classes on Muraqaba?

[@israacademy]

@jingulu not that we know of.

[@MKTElM]

The Self observes the self. the dormant 'conscience' is awakened and becomes the referee of our behaviour. Start your accounting before you are subjected to accounting on the DAY.

[@israacademy]

Indeed...

[@guljhanhakik77]

Alhuumdilallah

[@aaduhkan]

Thank you for the video :) but the qualifier at the start was perhaps not needed, as to the phd, and the ten years of teaching, and how many hours you've taught about it of course a villager in Morocco who has none of those things may know more.

[@israacademy]

The qualifications may help qualify a person to speak publicly on a topic, especially on a platform like KZbin where everyone has an opinion about everything. No doubt a villager in Morocco may have understood and internalised muraqaba, but whether they would present on the topic to the masses on a platform like KZbin, is another thing.

[@zaingazi3548]

When we enter the spiritual realm all the physical laws disappear and reality is flipped on its head. This is why you cannot rationalise moraqaba or meditation or anything spiritual by guess work. You must taste it to know it. " By Allah there are things that were I to tell you about them you would think me mad" ............. Abu Huraira. Our prophet (pbuh) , did he not meditate in the cave of Hira before the angel Gabriel found him ? And did he not say that every religion has an inner and an outer and likewise this religion has its inner and its outer... and salah belongs to the outer ?? Yet there be muslims who treat it like inner. Does Allah not invite us to meditate when he says in the glorious Quran... be still, be still and know that I am God. And does Allah not say those who perform salah obtain salvation but those who perform (additional) supererogatory worship obtain nearness to Me. Only a fool can deny the position of moraqaba in Islam. How many invitations do you want ? So what is moraqaba and how does it work ? If my memory serves me it is Ghazali in his " Ihya Ulloom Uddin " who teaches us that prayer has three forms. The first is ritual worship of which salah is a type. The second is supplication of which du'ah is a type. The third is subtle of which meditation is a type. Moraqaba is a special type of meditation that is unique to Islam. Many religions include meditation in their agenda but not many religions are authorised by Allah and much less purification traditions are sanctioned by Allah. And most sufi traditions practice loud forms of zikr. Yes it is (only) in Sufism where moraqba is practiced and only in one of twelve tariqa where it forms the foundational practice. Not anyone can practice moraqaba. Indeed not anyone can find moraqaba, this assembly of great souls. There is a pre- requisite. Quite simple actually. You must want it like your life depends on it. Then Allah will guide you to it in accordance with your destiny and your rizk. You must be innitiated by a Sheikh and be tested by him and instructed by him. The inaccessibility of moraqaba is a measure of its great value. It holds the key to Jannah and is not to be wasted on undisciplined people.

[@Samyt-f9i]

There is no connection related to Muraqbah in islam.It is rather just a way to ponder on some thing.If you connect ig to islam then you are introducing a " Bid'ah / innovation in islam which is sin. ". If you want to get sprituality in islsm then it is Salat which will 100% a medium of sprituality.

[@israacademy]

The Prophet (saw) never taught concepts such as sahih hadith and dhaith hadith, but we still accept as part of Usul al-Hadith and thus the Islamic tradition. Similarly, concepts such as muhasabah and muraqabah which stem from Quran and Hadith are also important in the Islamic tradition.

[@Samyt-f9i]

@israacademy you are making again mistake by forcing an act which has no link with islam and tradition of prophet ( swt).Only those hadithes are correct which were written by Sahabas and narrated by wives of prophet and daughter ( peace be upon them ).Others are not authentic..No matter Sahih Muslim or Sahih Bukhari ...or other hadith books have them..Holy prophet and sahabas never did any Muraqbah..Muraqbah is a branch of suifism and Sufiasm is another Bid'ah ( wrong concept of islamic belief ).

[@mohammadalam7536]

It is not Islamic, it is sufism. Rasul Allah pbuh never taught this.

[@israacademy]

Rasul Allah never taught sahih hadith and dhaith hadith, but we still accept such concepts as part of Usul al-Hadith. Similarly, concepts such as muhasabah and muraqabah which stem from Quran and Hadith are also important in the Islamic tradition.