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Shaykha Iman Badawi الحُسيْنيّة Profile picture
@imanmbadawi
Oct 20, 2022 • 13 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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“The one in whose heart love has settled, can’t find it in himself to leave praise [of Rasūlullāh ﷺ]…”

Reflect deeply on what happens to Religion when it loses its spiritual element. It loses its HUMAN element (the heart).

When people ignorantly criticize the mawlid …
saying the sahaba loved Rasūlullāh ﷺ more than anyone yet never celebrated his mawlid, they should ask themselves — was the connection of the sahaba to Rasūlullāh ﷺ just through the mind or did they have a HUMAN CONNECTION to him?

Was their love manifest in words or deeds?
There’s absolutely no comparison between the sahaba & us. Allah be well pleased with them. They gave their lives for Rasūlullāh ﷺ. Today, we give almost nothing for this Religion and then sit around criticizing prophetic inheritors for calling to his love ﷺ through the mawlid
The loss of the heart is the loss of the RELIGIOUS MIND.

Tasawwuf is the well-spring of knowledge.

The sahaba didn’t understand Religion through intellectual conviction, they understood it through LOVE.

The greatest example of this is…Abu Bakr as-Siddīq

رضى الله تعالى عنه
He was called as-Siddīq because he was the only one who didn’t push back (with the mind) at all. He didn’t hesitate in offering his complete devotion to Rasūlullāh ﷺ. Why? He was his best friend. He loved him.

Who was the first Muslim? Lady Khadija. Why? She loved him.
The sahaba were the most beautiful example of minds led by the heart.

How did master ‘Uthmān recognize nubuwwa? He tells of an INTUITION that led him to Rasūlullāh ﷺ

Master ‘Umar was about to kill him until he heard Quran. Intellectual or spiritual response?

رضى الله عنهم
Why did Quraysh reject him despite acknowledging his character ﷺ and even acknowledging the inimitable nature of the Quran?

They hated him, were envious of him. So, they concocted lies about him. Intellectual or spiritual?

The worst example of minds veiled by corrupt hearts.
Ulema don’t tell you ABOUT the truth, they tell you how to ACTUALIZE the truth.

Tasawwuf is the well-spring of knowledge.

Scholars of the Hereafter drink from this spring and give others to drink from it.

The mind is just a means, a tool. The heart is the goal.

وسائل وغايات
The heart can also lead astray as well, you say? Absolutely correct. That’s why the mind must be employed to SHAPE LOVE. What is the shape of that container that holds love? It’s the Sunna. This is what real scholarship is — spirit & form.

What is Imam Ghazali known for best?
What is Ghazali know for?

He’s known for calling to the spirit (tasawwuf) among those who cling to forms & calling to the proper form (fiqh) among those who don’t understand how to shape the spirit. Fiqh and tasawwuf. The Revival of the Islamic Sciences.

We call it #metafiqh
#metafiqh is a sense ABOVE fiqh that remains self-referrial. It’s ‘innovative tradition’.

#metafiqh is an understanding UNDER fiqh, meaning underlying premises that were second-nature to the Imams. It’s ‘usuli excavation’.

Why? So we can discover the FORM in our times…
If we weren’t so busy arguing over forms of PAST TIMES, perhaps we’d envision Islam as it should be today…

“Tradition is a flower that never dies.”

اللهم صلّ وسلّم وبارك على سيدنا محمد وآله
الحمد لله ربّ العالمين

اللهم صل على سيدنا محمد نورِ الأنوار ،و سر الأسرار، وترياق الأغيار ، ومفتاح باب اليسار ،سيدنا محمد المختار ،و آله الأطهار ، وأصحابه الأخيار ،عدد نعم الله و افضاله

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Shaykha Iman Badawi الحُسيْنيّة Profile picture
Nov 9, 2023
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Miracle of the Arabic Language

On the morning commute, my daughter asked to review the structure of Arabic verbs. She said,

الفعل المضارع مرفوع أليس كذلك؟
Present tense is marfū’, right?

I said, “Yes. It’s معرب (grammatically variable), as opposed to the past tense…

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“…which is مبني (grammatically inherent).” I gave her some examples, then said,

“Do you see the miracle of the Arabic language? It mirrors reality. Can we change the past — no, but we can change the present.”

In her intelligence, she said, “Mama, what about فعل الأمر ?

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I said, “The command tense is also مبني (inherent) but appears in different forms. Do you see now, my love, why Allāh chose the Arabic language for the Quran? It mirrors Reality.”

Meanwhile, she was eating breakfast. She said, شبعتُ (I am satiated). We said the masnun du’ā’.

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Shaykha Iman Badawi الحُسيْنيّة Profile picture
Jun 27, 2023
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“You are His queen..”

A common sufi metaphor, in reference to the ‘masculine’ trait of generous sovereignty & the feminine trait of humble receptivity. All true believers (male & female), in relation to God, exhibit the ‘female principle’.

It has nothing to do with gender…
…but rather an expression of the relationship with the Divine in it being so beyond words that only the closest of human relationships could approximate it to the limits of the rational mind. Tasawwuf is supra-rational. Spiritual intelligence is the most sophisticated of all…
People are always enemies of what they don’t know, finding more comfort in denial than learning. Such is the curse of ignorance. Tasawwuf is the most courageous of all form of knowledge. The mind can only take one so far. Only cowards limit themselves to it. Those who know, know.
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May 26, 2023
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Friday Family Fun

One of the most devalued tools of tarbiya is the spiritual harnessing of family fun.

Children, in their relationships with others, are deeply affected by non-rational influences... Image
This makes them both vulnerable and impressionable, in heightened sensitivity to their caregivers, who have only to exert the most positive emotions they can conjure to create a loving, lasting bond, stiched in time with the thread of beautiful memories. Image
The main objective of social media is to use, even manipulate, the evocative to *influence* the ‘public customer’.

That’s why the *rational* hardly has a place in the digital jungle. Image
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May 25, 2023
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Mismatched Meanings

There is a fundamental rational problem with any sort of pontification on social media. It’s mutlaq, meaning mentioned ‘in the general’, as a principle, despite it coming from the posters *personal* vantage.

This creates many problems….
1 The illusion of understanding. The reader takes the ‘principle’ and applies it in their mind wherever they see fit and in accordance to their (non-expert) conceptualization of it, when, in reality, they’re processing it through the ego, in accordance to their whims….
2 The illusion of ownership. “Liking” something has implications associated with it, namely that one has grasped the full ramifications of it and can transition it from theory to application. Even among scholarship, it’s an advanced skill. Laymen don’t even have basic skills…
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Apr 24, 2023
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High vs. Low Value Women

About now, you’re all aware that I’m no fan of social media. I opened an Insta account last year and, well, from ‘how it started’ to ‘how it’s going’…let’s just say that I have a folder entitled #messed_up. On occasion, I’ll share some “goodies”… ImageImageImage
Our first exhibit is the ~80% of posts classifying women based on their “mindset” toward men as the determining factor of their “value”. How droll. As women, we’re supposed to be brainwashed into thinking that our intrinsic value is completely dependent on how we attract men? ImageImage
Do pardon me. When a person’s value is made subservient to another’s actions, we have a word for that in English; it’s called slavery. The intrinsic human value of a woman is exactly as that of a man, because it’s fully dependent on how she relates to God, her (and his) Creator…
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Apr 23, 2023
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Mental Health Statistics on US Children

1 in 6 U.S. children aged 2–8 years (17.4%) had a diagnosed mental, behavioral, or developmental disorder.

So young. Look at the increase over age bracket.

Reminds me of an incident with my daughter when she was 4 and had observed… Image
a group of (Muslim) teenagers. She was perplexed by their behavior and asked me one of the most insightful questions I’ve been asked by anyone, including adults.

“Mama, aren’t people supposed to get better when they’re older?”

I smiled, took her into my arms and said…
“Yes. They are.”

Entirety satisfied, she cheerfully jumped off my lap and went to play, and I just stood there, amazed by her intellect and simultaneously frightened because I knew that children, most of them, even Muslims, were not “getting better when they’re older”…
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