While meditation is often obscured by occult and mystical interpretations, the truth is that as a practice properly understood it simply teaches us how to again rest, relax and awaken to presence.
By learning how to let go of the constant anxiety and stress that the mind produces as a result of time dominance, or being consumed by the past and future, we begin to learn what it truly means to surrender and trust in the Divine.
In this engaging conversation with Jonathan Abdus-Samad, I discuss the centrality of meditation for spiritual growth and development, and we dive deeper into the subtleties and nuances of this often misunderstood practice.
Topics covered include a discussion on fitra and our natural disposition towards presence, the necessity of exercise both physically and spiritually in the modern world as a consequence of our unnatural lifestyles, how creativity emerges from the void and the importance of boredom, the flow state and how to enter into a state of oneness with what is and what you are doing, the subtle art and practice of non-doing, right action and sacred servanthood, and much more.
Deepen Your Understanding and Practice of Meditation
If you have not yet begun a simple and consistent presence practice to cultivate increasing stillness and centeredness so as to reduce stress, anxiety, fear and worry while concurrently deepening and strengthening your relationship with the Divine, the Islamic Meditation Program is an ideal place to start.
By learning how to first relax and surrender in a total, whole and complete way, we not only learn to relinquish the resistance to the present moment and the divine will of God that is the primary barrier to spiritual development, we also awaken our innate human potential as servants and vicegerents of Allah endowed with sacred healing ability.
May Allah Almighty guide, bless, strengthen, support and heal us both individually and collectively as a nation committed to the highest ideals of excellence, truth and justice.
Allahumma ameen.
To your divine and eternal success.
