Enjoy Allah

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This is what I am also trying to do. Alright, for me, you have to love Allah and enjoy Allah. Not only love, enjoy Allah. Okay, enjoy! You have to have fun. You do not have to drink. These two avoid: drink and gambling. This is no fun. I love my life, I have fun. I love to have fun, I laugh a lot and you know, I joke and kid, and go to the movies and do all these.

You have this life. What I am trying to do is, do the best of this time you got. Enjoy it with Allah. Allah likes people who enjoy Him so that you can love and enjoy Allah. Do not make this life a prison for yourself.

Enjoy Allah here

The people of the sharia, they want janna in the Hereafter. For the sufis, Allah is here, and janna, which is paradise, is also here. And there too, it is okay. It is all in your mind and in your action. If you are in janna, you will see Allah. While here, you can also see Allah but you are stupid, you think you do not see, that is your problem. Plus Allah says, “Whoever is blind here is going to be blind there.” There is no guarantee that you are going to see Allah there. Because you are blind here, you are going to be blind there. He is not talking about physically blind people.

Enjoy Allah in every level

So here it is. I am with Allah 24/7 and in different levels. Allah is God, I am His servant, Allah is my teacher, I am His student, Allah is the cook, I am the one who is eating it. Allah is this in all these different levels. We deal with Allah everyday. Allah is in the bushes, Allah is in the sea, Allah is in the fish. So I watch, I enjoy everything.

Janna and Akhira

I am in paradise here. And Hereafter, who cares? I do not know about Hereafter. This is what it is. I will tell you what is here and what is Hereafter.

Your outer is here, and your inner is Hereafter.

Now when I say it, they are going to say, “Look, in sharia, Allah says in Qur’an-i Karim, ‘When you die, you are going to go to janna or jahannam,’ and this or that.” Yes, Allah says that. But Allah does not say, “I am not here on Earth.” Actually He says the following, but they do not want to mention that at all, because He says in verse 3 of suratul Hadid,

Huwa al Awwalu wal Akhiru wal Zahiru wal Batinu

He is Al Awwal [The Former] and Al Akhir [The Latter] and Al Zahir [The Outer] and Al Batin [The Inner]

What is left? So I recognized this and I am trying to teach you to recognize it and enjoy Allah now.

Qur’an References

Whoever is blind (to the truth) in this world will be blind (to the truth) in the Hereafter, and they will be further away from the (true) path. (Al Isra:72)

Insights (into the truth) have been given to you from your Rab. So whoever chooses to see, it is for the good of their own self. And whoever chooses to be blind, does so to their own detriment. And (tell them), “I am not a keeper over you.” (Al An’am:104)

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Keywords

akhira: Hereafter; afterlife

Jahannam: Hell

janna: garden; paradise; heaven (non-specific)

Janna, Al: The Garden; Paradise; Heaven

sharia: proper behavior; commandment; law; divine law; the body of Islamic religious canons; injunctions attributed to Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) regarding proper behavior for Muslims

This is an edited excerpt of the Online Saturday Sohbet given on December 10, 2011 by Murshid Shaykh Taner Vargonen Ansari and published on sufiview.com on May 30, 2022. The translation of the Qur’an verses are also from Murshid Shaykh Taner Vargonen Ansari.