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Homecoming ( tawbah )

Awaken to Presence Transform your life. w orkshop series. Homecoming ( tawbah ). Dr. M. Omar November 2012, Orlando. http://www.nurspirituality.org/. Surrendering to the Loving Creator is the most basic human innate disposition It is not something extra to us…

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Homecoming ( tawbah )

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  1. Awaken to PresenceTransform your life workshop series Homecoming (tawbah) Dr. M. Omar November 2012, Orlando http://www.nurspirituality.org/

  2. Surrendering to the Loving Creator is the most basic human innate disposition It is not something extra to us… Not surrendering is going against our nature… All revelations are sent as a reminder… We are to discover who we are, to awaken what is within…

  3. Shattering the external idols is easy. How about the false gods in my heart? Our attachments to everything other than The One. “I love not those that set” (Quran 6:77) “I love/adore/worship not those that set” At our deepest level, our hearts are only to the One Our imaginations skew this reality Our hellish states are the result of this

  4. OK, so what are we saying here? Our hearts love the attributes that do not set… Our deepest desire is to rest in the Loving One This is what our hearts are after all the time… OK, but why aren’t we living from this center? Why aren’t we God-centered? Because we choose to be self-centered and cloudthis truth…

  5. We choose not to live from our hearts We put barriers to this message It is not the reality our hearts witness… We say ME, ME, ME…. We are afraid to let go.. We limit God’s beautiful attributes and pretend to own them The inevitable conclusion of this: we suffer, now… My heart shouts, says “NO”… Self-centered False Self

  6. Once we become aware of our self-centeredness (discernment), we can turn completely towards Him (repent) قُلْ يَا عِبَادِيَ الَّذِينَ أَسْرَفُوا عَلَىٰ أَنفُسِهِمْ لَا تَقْنَطُوا مِن رَّحْمَةِ اللَّه ِ إِنَّ اللَّهَ يَغْفِرُ الذُّنُوبَ جَمِيعًا إِنَّهُ هُوَ الْغَفُورُ الرَّحِيمُ Say: “[Thus speaks God:] ‘O you servants of Mine who have transgressed against your own selves! Despair not of God’s mercy: behold, God forgives all sins – for, verily, He alone is much-forgiving, a dispenser of grace!’” (Quran 39:53) God-centered Content Self = True Self Struggle Self-centered False Self

  7. Once we recognize what we have been doing to ourselves (mess), We can surrender to the truth. We can surrender to our deepest desires for the limitless divine attributes. We can surrender to our deepest desires for the Limitless Loving One (Rahman, Raheem). We can’t bring the living water… We can only ask for it through the recognition of our need… That’s the connection (plug) God-centered Content Self = True Self Struggle Self-centered False Self

  8. With this reality, we choose to be God-centered… Moment by moment… We choose to follow our heart or our false self. In the momentsthat we choose to be God-centered: • We see the Loving One… • We reflect the Loving One… • We live in the presence of the Loving One… God-centered Content Self = True Self Struggle Self-centered False Self

  9. At first, the devil was my teacher, and soon he was no more than a puff of air compared to me. God saw all of this sinfulness of mine, but then He transformed it as if He never saw it so He could avoid embarrassing me. Mercy repaired the shredded cloak of my piety, and draped me in repentance sweeter than life itself. Whatever sins I had committed before, mercy considered them as never having occurred. Whatever duties I had failed to do, mercy considered them done. Mercy made me as free and pure as the cypress and the lily; it filled my heart with a sense of fortune and joy. It wrote my name in the Book of the Righteous. I had been destined for Hell; yet it gave me Paradise. God-centered Content Self = True Self Struggle Self-centered False Self

  10. When I had cried, “I’ve fallen to the very bottom of the pit,” my cry became a rope, and that rope was lowered down into my dark hole. I took hold of that rope and climbed out. I became happy and strong, committed and cheerful. Once I was lying in misery at the bottom of a pit; now I’ve transcended the whole world! Praise be to You, O God, for you carried me far from my distress. Even if the tip of every hair of mine could gain the power to speak, that still wouldn’t express the amount of thanks due to You. Among the gardens and fountains of Paradise, I’m crying out to all humanity, “Oh, if only my people knew about all of this!” (Quran, 36:26) Rumi (Mathnawi V, 2305-2316) God-centered Content Self = True Self Struggle Self-centered False Self

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