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Mercy Oceans' Rising Sun
111 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 1986
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Muhammad Nazim Adil Al-Haqqani
95 books57 followersMuhammad Nazim Adil Al-Qubrusi Al-Haqqani Ar-Rabbani Naqshbandi
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April 27, 2022
My favorite part of the book is the heartwarming and funny little Sufi story about the ant with the broken leg, which illustrates the infinite mercy of God. If God made a way for that ant, then he can make a way for all of us. Nobody is beyond hope and redemption. If divine love, grace and mercy is the heart, source and true nature of reality, then there is always a way. And if there is no way, then the Infinite Loving One will make a way. We must have the faith that things will work out somehow, that God will make a way for us when there seems no way. Rumi said, “If you find all your roads and paths blocked, the Beloved will show you a secret way that no one knows”.
“As you start to walk on the Way, the Way appears.” — Sufi Saying
“Perhaps an ant with a broken leg may intend to travel from London to Mecca in order to perform the rites of pilgrimage. He may intend such a journey and start on his way, but do you think that there is any hope of him arriving? Then Allah Almighty sends a pilgrim who sets down his handbag; and as the ant crawls in to see if there is any food to be found for the way, the pilgrim comes, picks up the bag and gets into the taxi to the airport. When the pilgrim arrives at Jeddah, he boards a bus to Mecca, then a taxi to his hotel. At the hotel he leaves his other bags, but takes this valuable one with him to the holy Mosque to make his Tawaf of the Kaaba…. After his Tawaf he sits down to read Quran, and the terrified ant slowly emerges, only to find himself in front of the Kaaba.
Allah Almighty made a way for that ant because it firmly intended to reach that unattainable station, with its broken leg and all; and he helped it arrive quickly, too. So don’t lose hope! We are like that ant; we are directing our faces towards the Divine Presence and asking to attain to it. He may take us to that state, but we can never make it on our own.”
— Sheikh Nazim, Mercy Oceans' Rising Sun
“As you start to walk on the Way, the Way appears.” — Sufi Saying
“Perhaps an ant with a broken leg may intend to travel from London to Mecca in order to perform the rites of pilgrimage. He may intend such a journey and start on his way, but do you think that there is any hope of him arriving? Then Allah Almighty sends a pilgrim who sets down his handbag; and as the ant crawls in to see if there is any food to be found for the way, the pilgrim comes, picks up the bag and gets into the taxi to the airport. When the pilgrim arrives at Jeddah, he boards a bus to Mecca, then a taxi to his hotel. At the hotel he leaves his other bags, but takes this valuable one with him to the holy Mosque to make his Tawaf of the Kaaba…. After his Tawaf he sits down to read Quran, and the terrified ant slowly emerges, only to find himself in front of the Kaaba.
Allah Almighty made a way for that ant because it firmly intended to reach that unattainable station, with its broken leg and all; and he helped it arrive quickly, too. So don’t lose hope! We are like that ant; we are directing our faces towards the Divine Presence and asking to attain to it. He may take us to that state, but we can never make it on our own.”
— Sheikh Nazim, Mercy Oceans' Rising Sun
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