Badal's JOURNEY begins...
I have come and I am standing before his presence… like Samuel speaking to God: "Speak, for your servant heareth..." or like the Pilgrim visiting the House of God.
1. The first image is God as a Host…
- We are his guests…
- God makes us feel at ease…
- To feel at home in Him and in his abode…
- To be at rest in his presence…
- To let go… and trust Him…
2. The second image is the Lord as Companion in our journey…
- Pilgrimage… the journey to the House of God...
- To take the journey to God in one’s heart…
- To walk with God in faith, hope and love…
- To journey in trust – knowing and believing…
- Confident that we shall arrive in him…
- Letting go and to abandon in God’s love…
3. The third image is the Pilgrim…
- To embark on a journey…
- To assume the state of Ihram… divesting ourselves (fana’ – shedding off) and putting on the cloth of the Pilgrim (the state of purity).
- Commitment and devotion to obeying his willTo be consecrated to God…
- To take a shayk … a guide in our journey…
- Labbayka … to stand before his presence …/ naked!
4. The fourth image is the person of remembrance … Dhikr.
- To treasure God’s word in one’s heart…
- To proclaim God’s praise with our lips…
- To act on God’s word in our lives…
- To walk in his remembrance…
Bapa Eliseo
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