Journey through the Heart:
When to Use the Divine Names of Creation in Your Practices
Video Transcript:
It would help you to recite these Divine name together when you’re preparing yourself for something that you would like to create. And In particular, even if you don’t recite them altogether, it may be that there’s a place in you where you feel insecure in your ability to create.
It might be. In the area of knowledge al- Alim where you might be concerned about whether you have enough knowledge to create what it is that you’re wanting to create. So you could work with the recitation of al- Alim to help strengthen you in in that area of knowledge of intrinsic knowledge that comes directly from a last wisdom.
That can strengthen your ability and your knowledge. Can enlarge your knowledge also or you know, maybe if you’re a little bit wishy-washy about whether you really want to go out and actually do this project you could work with the Divine name the quality al-Murid to help to strengthen your will.
And then again also if you’re concerned about am I capable of creating what it is that I want to create you could work with the Divine name al-Qadir.To strengthen your capability and your confidence in yourself to be able to create what it is that your envisioning?
You might work with the Divine names for the senses if you’re wanting to strengthen. the guidance within you if you’re looking for divine guidance as you create and you want to strengthen that guidance you might work with the Divine names as-Samia or al-Basir or al-Mutaqallim or in order to in order to open yourself to Divine guidance.
You could also work with the Divine name al-Hadi, which is the guide H-A-D-I. As well to strengthen your ability to receive guidance as you’re creating. So I’m going to begin with a recitation of these Divine names, but we begin this recitation or I’m going to begin this recitation with the recitation of the Fatiha and placing one of these Divine names at the end of each line or each verse of the Fatiha. The Fatiha is actually means the opener in Arabic and it’s the opening prayer that we often use. At the beginning or ending of any events or any healing circles anything that we’re doing is a as a group of Sufis.
It’s the first chapter or Sura in the Quran. It’s very short. It’s only seven verses long and so we were we begin I’m beginning very reciting the fatiha and placing one of these Divine names for creation at the end of Each verse and then we’ll recite the seven names themselves 33 times.
Bismillah- ar-Rahman ir-Rahim ya Hayy, Alhamdulillah ir-rabbi alamin ya Alim Ar- Rahman ir-Rahim ya Murid, Maliki o-mideen ya Qadir iyyakana buduwa iyaka nasta-in ya Samia ihdina sirattal mustaqin ya Samia ihdina sirataal mustaqin ihdina sirataal mustaqin ya Basir Siraata ladhina an umpta alayhim ghayril magdhubi’alayhim wa la daaaalin ya Mutakallim ya Hayy ya Alim ya Murid ya Qadir ya Sami ya Basir ya Mutakallim
