Wanna know a secret?

Well I guess it’s not going to be a secret anymore, now that I am posting on my highly trafficked blog ;-)

You know that ayah in the Quran where Allah says that ~= “Surely if you thank me, then surely I will increase you (in that)”

And then there’s the principle (which I’m pretty sure is derived from the Quran): When you get something good, thank Allah, and if you are afflicted with something “bad” blame only yourself.

Well Shaykh Muhammad explained that when you perform a good action, maybe tahajjud, or some extra dhikr or avoid a haram action, that you should do a sajdah of shukr that Allah allowed you to do that good deed... then the devine Law that Allah has told us about him increasing us in that will kick in, and He will enable you to do even more.

You get it? so like, lets say you prayed tahajjud right, well that’s a good thing, and you don’t give yourself credit, you know that it was Allah that gave you the tawfiq to pray tahajjud and gave you the means to do so (allowing you to stay awake, etc), so you should thank him for that by doing a sajdah-e-shukr.

Now the clincher is that because you thanked Him for being able to worship Him, He will increase you in worshipping him more. Then you thank him more, and he increases you more. And this seems to me like a path to wilayah.

It’s pretty amazing.

Here's an excerpt from it, again, it's Shaykh Muhammad Al-Ya'qubi in the "Invocations of the Heart" lecture series, CD2, Track 5, starting at around 8:54