Of Clogged Arteries and Clogged Souls....

[ zikran khasira ]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ma2tN54QFI

Friends, Dato' and Tansri,

I drove up to Ipoh last Sunday to meet a noted scholar from Atlanta, USA, a friend of mine.

He was running a short series of hadith lectures for senior staff  and post-doctoral fellows of an ugama univ in Perak Darul Ridzuan.

'' Sidi,'' , I said to him , '' in my  30 years of plumbing profession, I see lots of people with clogged arteries but  I see more clogged souls now than i see clogged hearts......amongst friends and acquintance, and patients, muslims and non-muslims. I see them often  and from my vantage point, I come to love all of them. Love in an empathic-mahabbah way that is. It is quite sad, Sidi, that I can open up clogged hearts with the latest in balloons and stents in one hour or so, and at the most, 2 to 3 hours, but most clogged souls remain impervious to all kinds of probing.....'

" Nik, " , he said, " I can  understand that and I can emphatise with you, your sadness. 

We  are all fellow travelers. Muslims and non-Muslims. But most are running on the spot and some go round and round. Very few travelers[ salik ] move on.

The problem is most of us see  syaitan in just metaphorical and figurative sense. As long as we see syaitan in this way, we are not going to move anywhere, does not matter if we live a million years. "

"Syaitan is not a metaphor, Nik . He is real!! "

Dr Nik Howk

ps : ' How is my heart with Allah today '.....I like that expression

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blJ8neV3wYU

[ on 'basic immunology  ]......on three level of travelers

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relevant article in the blog :

http://drnikisahak.blogspot.com/2014/12/a-long-prescription-for-friend.html