The Language of the Future

Sufi Terminology by Murshid F.A. Ali ElSenossi

Arabic words starting with Q

QASIM
Qasim

The Distributor. The Holy Prophet Muhammad al Mustapha (May the Salutations of Allah be upon him and Peace) is The Distributor. The Light of Muhammad is from the Light of Allah and all of creation is from Muhammad's Light. He is the Master and Teach...

qaum
Folk

(Qaum). The People or Folk. This term is often used as a synonym for the Sufis. They are the Folk of Allah.

qawl
Speech

(Qawl). The first connection between mankind and Allah was His Speech (qawl) and our listening to It. It is this very connection which gives the spiritual concert (sama') its immense spiritual power. The one who is worthy of the sama' is the one who...

qawwal
Sufi Singer

(Qawwal). During the 'spiritual concert' (sama') the qawwal may be the means through which the hearer finds Allah in ecstasy. When this occurs it is true sama' because sama' is a bird which flies from Allah to Allah - Allah is the singer and Allah i...

qawwali
Sufi Song

(Qawwali). A Sufi song and music. Through the rhythms of qawwali the listener may be opened to inrushes of knowledge and awareness through which he reaches ecstasy. If he 'finds' Allah within this ecstasy then he has experienced the true 'spiritual c...

qayd
Obstacle

(Qayyad). An obstacle or limitation which may be encountered on the Journey to Allah.

qiblah
Direction

(Qibla). The ritual orientation or the direction in which one prays. Ultimately the qibla is in every direction because "Wherever you turn, there is the Face of Allah" (The Qur'an 2:115). To attain to knowledge of this directionless direction, the t...

qidam
Pre-existence

(Qidam). Eternity or antiquity or pre-existence. Qidam is that which is fixed for the slave in the Knowledge of Allah.

Qiff ya Muhammad a lana Rabbika yusalla
Stop, Oh Muhammad, your Lord is praising you

(Qiff ya Muhammad a lana Rabbika yusalla). These words were spoken to the Holy Prophet Muhammad al Mustapha on the Night of his Ascension to the Divine Presence, may Allah shower him with His Eternal Salutations and give him Peace. This profoundly b...

qishr
Shell

(Qishr). The shell or husk or outer covering. The men of rational faculties are people of the shell. They miss the kernel and mistake the means for the end. Reason must be employed as a shell upon a kernel. It must be broken through in order to get t...

qismat
Fate

(Qismat).

qismat wa al-nasib
Fate and Lot in life

(Qismat wal nasib). This expression indicates an acceptance of the events of everyday life in which Allah's Majesty or Beauty become manifest. This acceptance can pervade the Muslim with a tranquillity and patience which is so often misunderstood by...

qist
Just Scale

(Qist). The qist is the state possessed by existence. Were Allah to drop this Just Scale from His Hand for even an instant the entire cosmos would be utterly annihilated. In the same way as Allah keeps hold of the Just Scale, so too does His Slave ho...

qiyam
Standing

(Qiyam). The standing posture of the ritual prayer. This upright position of 'the one who prays' is a symbol of the development of the self in its ascent to knowledge. The first qiyam indicates the first rung on the ladder to Knowledge, which is ver...

qiyamah
Judgement

(Qiyamah) indicates the time when the realities will dawn on each entity. This is the time when every entity will meet with the deeds which he sent before him.

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