Some quotes I made on Witnessing:
Witnessing Allah
Witnessing is the seeing of the Haqq by the Haqq.[1]
…you will be using perceptions that combine outward and inward sensory perceptions… The necessary condition for having this combination is a light…[2]
Witnessing is connecting the seeing of the heart with the seeing of the outward. “Worship your God as if you see Him.”[3]
When the seeker is in the state of witnessing and he is under the influence of the tajalli and he tastes the satisfactions, the lights of the unseen become manifest to his heart.[4]
So the process of ascension of the Sufi in states begins from the state of the ego-self to the state of the heart without the basic human nature being aware of the change; then it moves from the state of the heart to the state of the state of the secret (sirr) without the ego-self being aware of that change; then from the state of the secret to the state of the spirit (ruh) without the heart being aware. So when the traveler on the path (salik) arrives to the state of the spirit he acquires unveiling (mukashafa) and witnessing (mushahada).[5]
Whoever witnesses the permeating flow of the divine power in the activity of the decrees, then it is said that this one has passed away from having any consideration or regard of the creation’s (apparent) ability to cause or bring something about …whoever is conquered by the dominant authority of the Reality (Haqiqah) until he does not witness from the alterities…subsisted by the Real.[6]
peace and blessings,
Doctor Nur
[1] Shaykh Muhammad Sa’id al-Jamal, The Path to Allah, Most High, page109.
[2] Ibid
[3] Ibid
[4] Ibid, page 110
[5] Shaykh Muhammad Sa’id al-Jamal, How the Arrival is Realized O People of Hearts and Souls and Intellects, page 100
[6] Ibid, page102
