Kargador at Dawn

Kargador at Dawn
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Friday, February 03, 2006

The WAY of the Badal...

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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