THE FIFTY STATIONS IN THE CHISHTIYYAH SOJOURN TO ALLAH TA’ALA – PART 2
THE THIRTEEN STAGES OF TASFIYAH AND TAKHLIYAH (CLEANSING AND REMOVING EVIL TRAITS)
- Hirs Alal Maal (Greed for Wealth)
• Reduce your expenditure.
• Do not worry and preoccupy yourself with the future.
• Think that a greedy person is perpetually in disgrace.
- Hirs alal Umr (Desire for Longer Life)
• Remove love of the world from the heart.
- Tama’ (Carnal Passion)
• Keep your carnal desires under check.
• Do not succumb to your inordinate desires. Desires should be under the reins of the Aqal (intelligence) and the Aql under the reins of the Shariat.
- Ghussah (Anger)
• Think that Allah Ta’ala has complete power over you. If He punishes you at once for each wrong, then what will your condition be?
• Think of your wrongs.
• Understand that nothing happens without the will of Allah Ta’ala.
• Study Hazrat Thanwi’s wa’z Al-Ghadhab(Anger)
- Darogh (Falsehood)
• Be attentive before speaking.
• Have courage when speaking.
• Make amends after speaking.
• Repent at any sinful talk.
• Think about the harms of false talk.
- Hasad (Jealousy)
• Praise the one you are jealous of.
• Treat whom you are jealous of with humility and respect.
- Bukhl (Miserliness)
• Remember death in abundance.
• Reflect on the Hadeeth: “A miser is far from people, far from Jannat, close to Jahannam.”
- Riyaa (Ostentation)
• Rid yourself of love for the world.
• Discharge non-congregational acts of Ibaadat in privacy.
• With excessive repetition turn Ibaadat into aadat (habit) and the aadat into Ikhlaas (sincerity).
- Ujub (Vainglory)
• Think of the favours of Allah Ta’ala.
• Reflect over the power of Allah Ta’ala. Whenever He wishes He can snatch the favour away.
• Think of the highest stage of perfection.
• Reflect over your external faults and shortcomings.
• Reflect over your internal faults and shortcomings.
- Takabbur (Haughtiness)
• Bring to mind and reflect over the highest stage of perfection.
• Approach others with humility and respect.
• Think and meditate over one’s origin (sand and sperm), current state of carrying najaasat (filth, i.e. waste matter in the stomach) and one’s ending (decomposing in the grave).
• Reflect over each ni’mat (bounty) of Allah Ta’ala. If it be snatched away, what would your condition be? For instance, had one become insane—Allah forbid—what would one’s condition be?
- Keenah (Malice)
• Forgive the one despised.
• Meet him with humbleness.
- Hubb-e-Jaah (Love for Fame)
• Think that neither are those people who praise me going to remain, nor am I.
- Hubb-e-Dunya (Love of the World)
• Excessive remembrance of death
• Abandon distant and remote plans and ideas.
• Stop thinking much about the future.
