Month: February 2024

I am in my believers opinion of Me

This was a poem written by Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi and given to me in the zawiyyah in Bristol Gardens, London in the early 1970s, along with a note he wrote, unfortunately lost, which said words to the effect, ‘he who digs a hole for his brother falls into it himself’, referring to sayyidina Yusuf, alayhi sallam.

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The original hand written poem from Shaykh Abdalqadir’s hand to mine
Rendered more legible

I am in my Believer’s opinion of Me

Hadith Qudsi

This contains a great secret

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Your belief about Him

Is the extent of your knowledge of Him

The extent of your knowledge of Him

Is the extent of your own nafs

The nature of your knowledge of Him

Is none other than your own

Knowledge of your nafs

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