Practicing The way of the travelers (Madarij AsSalikeen)

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2 min readOct 7, 2020

Practicing The way of the travelers (Madarij AsSalikeen) مدارج السالكين

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Introduction

Many times, we get into heedlessness of the hereafter. Many times, Allah will wake us up from this heedlessness to be conscious of the remaining time and work hard towards the goal of winning paradise. However, since we do not have a guide, a map, or what we need to do to stay moving forward, our enemies of devils, desires, and distractions always win over us and bring us back to heedlessness, again and get us busy with this life. Ibn ElQayeem realized this struggle and he wrote a book that will take the travelers to Allah step by step through over sixty steps starting from the step of Consciousness. I went through those steps multiple times, but I could not find a real practical application for it that is appropriate to the 20th century. The unfortunate events of the year 2020 of Covid-19, Fires in California, Layoffs, the stock market going down, and all the panic and chaos were one of the reasons to wake me up, again, to look into my life and get back, again on the road to Allah following the travelers steps as a guide. While, I have multiple audio sessions, before on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNT8BTFvQYHLmHSeXABFEYS-hZ9IwGdWI ) and https://MyIslam.net, I received the feedback of a need for a written format. Also, another feedback was the length of the Madarej. Therefore, I decided to summarize it to the action and keep references to the long audio explanations. The new series in shaa Allah will be posted to https://myislam.net and https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNT8BTFvQYHJ9RBJR54wk1j_O4DaQt-Zq

The step of Consciousness:

“The first station is “al-Yaqadhah” “The Waking up” This is when the heart wakes up from the slumber of unawareness.”( Anwar Al-Awlaki)

We get into the consciousness state many times. It could be triggered by an event, such as a calamity, a bounty, a supplication that is accepted, a lecture, Ramadan, or a death of a close person. When we are in this state, we need to keep it and stay awake. Imam Ibn ElQayeem said that we need to take an action. The Consciousness will lead to realizing that we are behind in preparing for the real life. It will lead to looking into sins and understanding the danger in it. Then plan to make up for the shortcomings. This will lead to the following state, The Idea.

What are the pillars of vigilance/Consciousness? أركان اليقظة

1-مطالعة الجناية

Consciousness of bounties of Allah. The heart will notice the grace of Allah.

2-لحظ القلب إلى النعمة

Consciousness of your Sins

3-معرفة الزيادة و النقصان من الأيام.

Consciousness of time. Realizing the increase and decrease of days.

More details can be found at https://youtu.be/gLzpcem5wpA

· English Audio lectures for State of Consciousness (awakening) :

o https://youtu.be/l7dGtFTfy0Y

o https://youtu.be/gLzpcem5wpA

o https://youtu.be/K0UTAscn0OM