Answering the Question "WHO?" by Shaykh Ahmed Abdur Rashid

Presented as the third question of 5 in a Sunday series on Tasawwuf.

The Shaykh introduces the topic: "The who question (Who are you? Who is your Lord?) is the question that governs our journey from birth to death. We are faced with this question over and over again in our life. We could say that the Sufi is one seeking answers at the intersection of "Who am I?" and "Who is Allah?" At that crossroads is an experience of awareness of tawheed/unity and the interrelationship of all things, transcending the concept of an isolated self, "I" identifying ourselves with an ultimate reality that we call Hu. "Know yourself and you will know your Lord." At a certain point every seeker must seek that crossroads, with utmost sincerity and consistently. The willingness to do this is an expression of sincere yearning for marifah and the doorway to liberation from the base formalism of orthodoxy that lacks vision or heart."

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