Badaliyya Lesson 1: Let God be God…
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth… “Let
there be… and there was…” He is the beginning… to him belongs the initiative …
and the “wantedness” begins in him.
Experience the Divine Hospitality...
- God is a constant RSVP…
- He is the Host …
- The Rahman and the Rahim … Mercy and Compassion.
God is an invitation to mastery of oneself, discipline,
delight, celebration and entrustment.
“Wa ma qadaru-l-llahi
hatta drihi” (They did not have the true estimation of God) S6:91.
Who God is to me…?
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Joy: God
is a King and Miracle worker with all his splendor and majesty.
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Sad: God
is a friend and consoler.
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Confused:
God is a Guide and the Truth.
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Tempted:
God is a hound. I cannot hide
from him.
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Wronged:
God is a judge – just and forgiving.
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Usual:
God is the creator and Father.
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Poor: God
is a Provider and Generous Giver.
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Reader:
God is the Lord of the universe.
To me… Who God is…?
- The God I address in times of need. I pray to him. He is a friend and always present in me…
- He is the God who cares.
- God is everything.
- God is a loving and living one – Father and Friend.
- He I my Guide…
- Without him, I’m nothing…
- He is my protection and comfort.
- The Bounty…
- My sunrise and sunset…
- Obedience to his will…
- Confession of Sin…
- Declare that he is the greatest…
- Sing his praise in thanksgiving…
In Islamic Sufi Tradition…
- God is Supreme and unseen…
- One and only one God…
- No partners…
- All praise due to him…
- Humble myself before him
- Bow to him in adoration…
- Most Merciful and Beneficent…
- We forget him when we have all… and we remember him when we have none.
- Author and Inventor of creation…
- Tolerant God …
- Lord of all…
- Master… I’m his servant.
- Beyond … yet closer to me than the jugular vein…
- My seeing, walking, my everything…
- His absence will reduce me to nothing…
- From him I came to him I shall return…
- One in his essence and attribute…
- He begets not nor begotten…
- None like unto him…
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