- interactions with a loved one
- interactions with spiritual guides
- learning about mehdi and how he is the prophesized one to bring unity to the whole world
- different groups affecting the iman levels of the population … like nurcu-like group raising the average … tariqahs taking it much higher
as a side off from the main story, an idea came today for the units within khaled’s physical body… they can be germoleans… its like a government or nation in there, how all the different body systems work and change with the changes in khaled’s life
Khaled was telling his little bros about the importance of prayer and salah…. that it is the most important thing that we can do in our life… his little bro, was saying that salah is only good for the next life and work is needed in this life…. it seemed to Khaled that his little bros were taking salah lightly…
Later on during the night, as Khaled was performing his salah, those thoughts came into his mind, and he started feeling very angry against those little bros. He was remembering the conversation, and in his mind, he felt like crushing the whole table in two… the table that they were sitting around…. he kept trying to think of the name as-Saboor of Allah (swt) to calm down and al-Wakeel.. he was feeling confident that Allah will guide him in the best way to act for this matter… later on he got inspired that even the worst polytheists in makkah were doing so many bad things to our Prophet Muhammad (saw) but he wasnt acting angrily towards them… he was still calm and caring for them and trying his best to do good for them… those little bros are much better than those polytheists… later on, Khaled also remembered a saying of the Prophet Muhammad (saw) that the one who becomes angry and then controls it for the sake of Allah, will be granted a palace in the center of Heaven. Khaled also used some power techniques that were taught to him by his spiritual shaikh to keep things under control.
After a few moments, Khaled was back to feeling good again… he said “All praise be to Allah, who helped me to control my anger and allow me to love my bros and keep away hatred from my heart”.
after learning some new tactics Khaled noticed that his energy level was much higher and it was as if he was operating at a much higher level… Like a super-charged device…. he noticed that the energy to his body was coming from somewhere, it was important to keep the entrace wide open and allow it to go up to the other places in his body as well so as to power it up to make it work properly…. noticed that a trick of shaytan is for ppl to close down their energy intakes so that they cannot do more good deeds… so mainly, the trick that shaytan was using for people to cut off their energy is to divert the incoming energy to the body at the entrance and make the people lose the energy
with all this incoming energy burning inside him, Khaled felt so much more power than normal, even when reading things like the Qur’an, his ability to see the events before his eyes was much better… like a projector that is plugged in runs with more power, so his energy that he was projecting to the different areas of the Qur’an allowed him to see things more clearly because the light coming from him was more intense. Khaled praised Allah for this new found discovery and new that a guide is very important in these matters. If there is no guide, than people may very easily fall into doing something wrong. He asked Allah for protection from falling into any wrongdoings and things that are not pleasing to Allah Almighty.
Khaled was cut off from normal civilization for 1 year. He started spending his days and nights in a mosque in an obscure town in Daghestan. He met with the community there and they hired him as a cleaner of the mosque. He stayed in a room of the mosque and was passing his time working on some of his work and also increasing in knowledge by reading some of the books in the library. The mosque also had a weekend school and Khaled volunteered to help out in teaching the kids Quran and islamic studies. Khaled was interested in spiritual development of himself but he didn’t have a teacher or spiritual master. However, at nights, when everyone left the mosque, and when Khaled was there by himself, he started to notice some feelings of love coming towards him. He checked with his spiritual gaze who it was and saw that Shaykh Rahmani was spiritually watching over him and he was assigned to be his spiritual trainer for now.
From Shaykh Rahmani, Khaled could see that that Shaykh was under the authorization of the Sultan of all the Saints of this time, the title being called Sultan-ul-awliya. They both came to him and said that they are assigned by the Prophet (saw) to train Khaled so that he also can be prepared to become the Sultan-ul-Awliya.
During the days, Khaled was being inspired to continually recite the attribute of Allah, al-Hayy so as to try to keep his heart awake continuously so that it may be open to receiving the heavenly blessings. As Khaled spent his time in the mosque, his heart was becoming purer and cleaner from sins and his old habits. As a result, his level of iman was also increasing. Now he could see and speak with his Shaykh Rahmani and even the Prophet (saw) and all other saints and prophets in the divine court whenever he wished to do so.
Khaled would spend some time each day to ask for blessings on the Holy Prophet (saw) by reading the delail-i hayrat. His shaykhs told him that now he must train his heart to carry much more love than its current capacity. Love is the water of life and the bonding force used to bond people’s hearts together and the thing that attracts people whenever they are attracted to anything. If he was going to be the sultan-ul-awliya, Khaled’s heart needed to be increased so as to be able to feed love to all the hearts by the will of Allah.
By using some special tactics for Khaled and by asking him to recite the attribute of al-Wadood a lot during the days and nights, the heart of Khaled was becoming more and more accustomed to love. He noticed that his shaykhs were giving him unusual things to train his heart with love. Khaled also noticed now the connections of his heart with all his friends and the strength of the love bond of each. He noticed that he is connected with all of them through love and that is the connecting factor. As the love training progressed, Khaled noticed smoother and better relations with people as well. With love, the heart of Khaled could stay awake longer and be less prone to falling into the state of ghaflah (heedlessness).
After the cool reunion lunch Khaled had at his rich friend Ali’s villa up on Snow Fluff Mountain with most of his old high school and middle school friends, Khaled rode on his limosine ride that Ali arranged for him to take him back home. When going on the way and as the black-tinted window rolled up after saying salam to Ali, Khaled noticed that there was someone else in the limosine in the passenger area besides him and Hank-yu. He had a green shirt on and was looking out of the window at the beautiful scenery from the top of Snow Fluff mountain towards the panoramic view of the valley below.
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Khaled entered into Zakariyya’s computer intelligence and communications room and was amazed with all the technology around. It looked like a nasa operations control center with screens showing moving graphs and data. Some screens showing maps and satellite views of some areas around the globe.
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.. Hank-yu said “but thats impossible! It’s not like the old days! There is simply too much knowledge! One person can never become a master of all the knowledge now in these days! It takes too long for one to become an expert in one area of knowledge!” … Zakariyya replied “One person’s limitation doesn’t mean that another person has the same limitation”. Hank-yu blustered angrily “What the heck? You’re so arrogant! You think you are better and smarter than everyone else?” Zakariyya said “No, I’m just a traveler in the world of knowledge and I have transportation alhamdulillah to allow me to access all types of knowledge worlds very easily.”
his uncle kareem jandala met with Khaled at the masjid and they prayed to the Lord of Heavens there together…
after their prayer, Khaled drove his uncle to his home. In the car, they were discussing Khaled’s future plans. Khaled was always a big dreamer and he told his uncle that he wants to enter MIT even though he got rejected. His uncle was saying that it is very difficult to get in there. Even people who have 4.0 gpas in their undergraduate dont get accepted because of limited space. Sometimes there are a group of applications that arent even looked at. Someone gives a call to the application analyzer and says accept such and such a person and that person is accepted. So its the relations you have.
Khaled was thinking that that is exactly his plan of action. He told his uncle that he’s going to apply to the advanced study program there and then take courses there. In the meanwhile, he will meet with the professors and other people over there. Then if they like him and want to work with him, they can then accept him to graduate studies especially if Khaled is going to pay for it. His internship at Ayar Corp should also provide some good background for Khaled he was thinking.
At Ayar Corp, Khaled took an internship that was arranged by the president Mr. Ayar. He actually got to work in the Ayar Relief subdivision helping to administer cash flows to various charities around the world. Other than a few events that transpired there (such as some encounters with some unruly poor people that tried to take over the institution and other criminals) Khaled had a good experience over there. This experience would serve him well in his pursuit of an academic degree as master of the arts of human relations.
Amongst these thoughts, Khaled told his uncle Kareem that he wasnt only interested to go to MIT just to get a degree. Khaled said that his plan is to go there and develop relations with the people over there. He was saying that the world’s top talent are there and they are the future world leaders. It is always good for someone who wants to positively affect the world to have good relations with the top talent. When uncle Kareem heard that, he said, “yes, your idea is correct.”
Khaled read a book about a well-known author in the topic of beliefs of Islam.. it talked about belief in angels and jinns… and other points of belief… on the back cover of the book, a paragraph of text showed the life of the author of the book… it showed that he has done so much good work for people since his young age… Khaled thought to himself “Did i do such good things? I need to organize my life so as to do the most good I can for everybody!”
“I have so many goals that I’m working for, but am I accomplishing any of them? I need to find time in my life to perform each of them. Which comes back to Doctor Engel’s talk about smart time management so that all my goals are achieved.”
While he was thinking thus, a nearby masjid in Istanbul started giving such a call to prayer that Khaled began to have goosebumps and he felt his energy rising to its utmost in feeling the awe and azimah of Allah. He placed that book back in its place in the bookstore and started walking towards the masjid.
Khaled was leaving to go back to his dormitory to continue his classes. He came to the airport and was practising cultivation even among people. He was exercising in the station of freedom. He learned by being with people that there is a constant energetic field that he constantly feels that is related to what he was also seeing around him in terms of so many people. He continued to exercise freedom by remembering “All phenomena are suffering” with his thoughts.
Some insights he came across while cultivating in this manner in the midst of so many people is that harmonious relationships are engendered with the emotion of love. The emotion of love - “Love your brother” … “You cannot attain iman until you love for your brother what you love for yourself” … “A look with love to your brother is worth so much” - grows more with more freedom from the shackles and traps that capture and inhibit it. Another insight that Khaled got is the idea of consciousness and the habits of it. When someone keeps their consciousness awake, he is able to see more truth around him and not fall into the trap of heedlessness and ghaflah. Therefore he is able to make better relationships with others. Habits of consciousness that he noticed in himself were that when he saw things that he knows, it was keeping awake and otherwise it was tending to go to ghaflah if he wasnt careful… and hence he understood the idea of ordering the ma3roof - the known … and preventing the unknown (munkar) from the viewpoint of consciousness cultivation.
Khaled went into the barber’s shop to get his hair done. His mom kept telling him that his hair was getting out of control especially on days when he rode the car with the window down. Khaled went to the town barber and took his seat waiting for his turn. The barber - Kemal Komiovich - had a client under his razor, with his face all in white shaving foam. On the other chair, another man was holding his chin and moaning as blood was seeping through his fingers. Khaled shuddered at the sight of that man. What had happened to him? Why was he in such a condition.
Kemal seemed pleasant enough. He was going about his business normally. Shaving his client’s foamy face. What Khaled didn’t realize too much at this time is that Allah was developing Khaled’s wisdom. By witnessing different signs and events through his experience and not becoming too attached to them, Khaled’s wisdom was developing. His daily routine of the five daily prayers gave him a good habit of being able to let go of everything with his consciousness and stay with his Creator.
The man with the bleeding chin ran to the sink on the side of the shop and started washing frantically his chin. It seemed like it was hurting a lot. Kemal asked his assistant to help the man get comfortable. A chair was provided to him and he sat down. The helper boy apprentice, slapped a wet towel on the mans chin, to take the blood and then applied some liquid hydrogen to kill of bacteria. What Khaled didn’t know is that this man whose chin was bleeding was none other than Hormoty - the dealer in stolen goods in Krenti Village.
A door opened from the side of the shop and a girl with an apron came in. She was carrying some fruits in a tray and offered some to Khaled and the other people who were waiting in line for the barber’s cutting service. The girl was beautiful and she was Zuleyha - the daughter of Kemal. They had both come together from Uzbekistan after Kemal’s wife had passed away. Khaled then noticed that Zuleyha was also in his school. She was actually the one getting the best grades in her class. She was a little older than Khaled. Everybody at school loved her for her generosity towards others and orphans. After school she participated along with her friends in a local soup kitchen to feed the poor.
Hormoty spit a huge wad of blood onto the floor and looked up to the helper boy’s face and said “My freaking BMW is waiting outside with my butler inside, finish it up quick!”. At that point, a jinn showed up (that was invisible to everyone in the shop) and whispered into the apprentice boy’s ear “Smack the man with the towel, its fun”.
