T A S A U W U F - Zinda Nawaz

(Quranic verse): “Verily for every breathing self, there is a guard over his protection.
NAFS-E-AMMARA:
“The deadliest enemy of you is your own self, which occupies the seat in between your two sides. “O dear!
In a tradition, when Hazrat Adam (A.S.) diverted his sight towards the Laoh-e-Mehfooz. (i.e. the divine
protected state) he found written on it the purged Kalima: “Laa Ilaha Illullah, Mohammedur Resool ullah
(Peace Be Upon Him). In his heart, Adam (A.S.) felt ashamed. By way of the sense of shame, he
submitted before the divinely site: “whose name it is that has found room before the Name of Thine”. The
reply came: “He is a prophet amongst the prophets, and your son-out of pedigeree, and he is intercessor of
your sin. Upon listening this, a misconception passed through the heart of Adam (A.S.) that it should be
father to do intersession towards the son and not that a son should do intercession in favour of the father.
At that moment Gabrael (A.S.) was ondained to go ahead and split up the misconception in two parts.
Garbrael (A.S.) descended from the threshold of the majesty and introduced two parts in the
misconception; removing one half of the part and buried in paradise so that the wheat plant was grown
from it and this turned out to be the reason Adam’s, dependence while the second half remained Adams
(A.S.) breast and from the same Nafs-e-Ammara was born.
Nafs-e-Ammara has uncountable attributes. “Verily the Nafs (i.e. self) is imperative in driving
toward the wicked deeds. Pride, hantiness, egoism, worldly lust, greed, polytheism, longitude antagonism
of the orders of Allah and His messenger etc., O dear! You should reckon that the self is born with human
being and survives till he breathes his last.It is narrated in a Hadeeth that at the time of birth of human
being a satanic jinni also is born along with him. Therefore, the companions (R.A.) said: “O Allah‘s
messenger! Was there a satanic jinni too born along with you also?” the (PBUH) said: “Yes one satanic
jinni has born even with me. However, that satanic jinni of mine has converted as Muslim”. The seeker of
truth ought to first convert his birth collegue satanic jinn into a Muslim. The Nafs-e-Ammara has super
dominance over sexual lust.This self remains intoxicated with the taste of sexual lust and it likes that
nothing should outstrip its lutches. This self is well versed in creating defects on each and every destination
and spot of human being, and to leave a devotee go astray of the divine threshold. It is equipped with forty
thousands types of deception. But an enlightened person recognizes it through the mode of: “One who
identifies ………” and with Allah’s bliss he resorts to purging of the self, however, he continues in keeping a
watch over it. In the trait of a seeker of truth this self is villianic.
NAFS-E-LAUWAMA:
Allah has said: “And forbade his self from the wicked -desire.” The attributes of the Nafas-e-Lauwama are
innumerable too. To establish contact with the friends of God to look out the path of God, to have liking for
both devotion are well as life, to indulging in sins as also to express repentance on them, to admonish the
others and not to practice on to personally, to maintain a neatly body and to leave the heart fittly, to
demonstrate humility by tongue and to nourish pride inside the heart, to indulge in back- biting and to look
into mistakes of the elderlise etc.
Nafs-e-Lauvama is also called, heart which every moment churns good or vicious thoughts and
leave mankind perturbed and perplexed. One of the major deceptions by this Nafs is that it goes into
making the mankind under stand that to err is human and human is bound to err. It means that this Nafs-e-
Lauvama admonishes the Nafs-e-Ammara to obtain from indulging in sin and to fear Allah, however,
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