A Knower of God Recognizes your Inner State. Here’s How.

Dear servants of God, when one of the names of the Real comes to reside in the heart, its luminosity flows through the entirety of the body, so that when that body breathes, it breathes through that name. This is why the breath of created being is of tremendous importance. Sayyidunā ʿAlī, may God ennoble his face, said, “When the knower of God speaks, we recognize him instantly.” That is to say, when he breathes and the warmth of his breath and the circles of air come out, we recognize him at once by virtue of his breath. We know whether he is a man molded by the divine mercy (Raḥmānī) or not. We know whether he is a person of elevation or lowliness. ʿAlī (r) went on: “And if he remains silent, we recognize him by the end of the day,” by virtue of observing his outward actions, because the outward speaks to the inward.

Now when the conscience (sarīra) of the knower of God becomes pure, his heart becomes a mirror for the disclosures of the names of the Real. He exhales breaths that are pure, spiritual, and elevated. That is why the Beloved Prophet (s) said of his noble Companions, may God be pleased with all of them, “My Companions are like the stars: whichever one you follow, you shall be guided.” This is because when the Muḥammadan sun reflected upon them, their hearts became stars and their bodily limbs took on the fragrance of the lights of following him, and their breaths were purified because they issued from the root of the luminous original tree. The light of al-Muṣṭafā purifies animalistic hearts, so that the warmth of the in-blown spirit is emitted from them, and they exhibit Adamic sciences and Muḥammadan inner secrets that would dazzle anyone possessed of intellect. Such are the possessors of the star-breath (al-nafas al-najmī).

Shaykh Mohamed Faouzi al-Karkari (qs)

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