The Language of the Future
Sufi Terminology
by Murshid F.A. Ali ElSenossi

mashgul farigh
Busy / not busy

(Mashgul farigh). One who is engaged and yet is free. This term is applied to the devotee whose outward appearance is that of one engaged in mundane matters, yet his heart is free from such things being totally present with Allah.


See also: 'I am sitting with the one who remembers Me Not busy/busy 'One who remembers' Perpetual Presence of Allah Remembrance of Allah
(Farigh Mashgul). 'Free and yet engaged'. This name denotes the devotee who appears to be in contemplation of Allah, yet his mind is perturbed by unholy and even satanic suggestions.
(Dawam al Hudur). The Perpetual Presence of Allah. It is 'here' and 'now' that His slaves stand, in abject poverty and need, and with overwhelming awe and love. In this Presence they are oblivious to all that is other-than-Allah, because, for them, there is nothing but Allah. All is Allah!
(Dhikrullah). Invocation of Allah through one of His Names or through His Words. The perfect dhikrullah, in which Allah becomes the seeing, the hearing, the speaking, the grasping of the one who remembers, is attained when every atom of the dhakir's being is absorbed and annihilated in the Remembrance of Allah. The dhakir becomes internally unified with the Absolute. Only then does Allah sit totally with the one who remembers Allah.

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