Ibn Ashir’s Introduction to Sufism (Tasawwuf) Explained: What is spirituality? How does it fit into Islam? Where would I learn about it? Looking at the lives and deeds of accomplished spiritual masters is very inspiring. But how can a person get from a basic practice of Islam to the states of the righteous people of the past?

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Shaykh Dr. Yahya Rhodus draws a beautiful parallel between the human heart and soil. We are experiencing over-cultivation and depletion of minerals in our soil that bares real fruits that lack any sort of nutrients. Our hearts, similarly, have experienced a drought, and as a consequence this has manifested within our limbs. We need to till our hearts. Even though this is our current state, we must understand that our hearts are not void of good, Shaykh Yahya says:

…there are so many aspects of our religion that are of a social nature, because its in the coming in contact with human beings that a lot of the meanings that lie dormant in the hearts rise to the surface, stirred up, in a way that you would have a bitter cup of tea with sugar at the bottom of it, that tea is not going to taste sweet until you stir it up, and once you stir it up, depending upon the amount of sugar, it will taste sweet. Likewise, there are many things that lie dormant by way of potentiality in the hearts of the children of Adam that it’s only with that spiritual struggle and exerting oneself that these things ever truly become realized within one…

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