Millennium Discourses

Shaykh Ebrahim Etsko Schuitema

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9781907839016

This is a collection of discourses delivered in and around the time of the turn of the millennium.

Within the Darqawi Sufi order, a dars is usually delivered by the shaykh or muqaddam after a session of dhikr when all concerned are in a deep and quiet state.

Excerpt: "Our freedom lies in our capability to be still. It is only when we are still that we are in a position to correctly appraise that which Allah is putting in front of us. If you are on the path you must have the capacity to suspend your own agenda and to stop talking to yourself; to silence your inner dialogue. The dhikr delivers us to a place where, for a few moments, this aperture of silence appears. We have a taste of peace."

Contents

Discourse 1: Iqraa - Reading the text

Discourse 2: Seeing Things as They Are

Discourse 3: Consciousness - Moment by Moment

Discourse 4: Freeing the Breath

Discourse 5: Not Knowing

Discourse 6: Patience and Gratitude - The Signs of Imaan

Discourse 7: Allah is in Charge

Discourse 8: Gratitude - Cracking the Code

Discourse 9: The Worship of the Free

Discourse 10: Journeying Through the Three Stations

Discourse 11: Shifting Perception - Shifting the Worldview

Discourse 12: Being Present in the Moment

Discourse 13: Testing: Seeing the Cracks Enables You to Deal With Them

Discourse 14: Know Yourself and You Will Know Your Lord

Discourse 15: Yearning

Discourse 16: Listen!

Discourse 17: Submission and Witnessing

Discourse 18: Expansion and Contraction: It's Like Breathing

Discourse 19: Our Intentions

Discourse 20: Annihilation

Discourse 21: Light - Allah is the Light

Discourse 22: Humility

Discourse 23: Witness

Discourse 24: Repentance and Courtesy

Discourse 25: Love

Discourse 26: Hand Over to Allah

Discourse 27: Who Am I?

Discourse 28: You Contain All of Existence!

Discourse 29: Reprogramming Ourselves - Ramadan

Discourse 30: Revolution of the Self - The Emergence of Nobility