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Awaken to Presence Transform your life. w orkshop series. Thanksgiving. Dr. Eren Tatari December 2012, Orlando. www.NurSpirituality.org. Saying of Muhammad (p): “Oh Lord, show us things as they are.” . Living with Divine Oneness To see the attributes of the One in every thing. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Thanksgiving
Awaken to PresenceTransform your lifeworkshop series
www.NurSpirituality.org
Dr. Eren Tatari
December 2012, Orlando
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Saying of Muhammad (p):“Oh Lord, show us things as they are.”
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Living with Divine Oneness
To see the attributes of the One in every thing.
To open a window directly onto His light from every thing.
To attain to perpetual awareness of the Divine presence.
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Aiming for the Prophetic Path of Transformation
Muhammad (p): “The utmost beauty (Ihsan) is to
worship God as though you see Him, and if you cannot see Him,
to be aware that He sees you”
…to become certain of God’s Unity through confirming belief (iman = certainty)by personal witnessing/experience
This is the secret of direct inner transformation
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Taqleedi Iman:Blind Faith
• I accept that God is One
• I haven’t contemplated enough to see His signature in his creation/myself
• My faith is not directing the way I experience creation
Tahqeeqi Iman: Witnessing the Divine Presence
• Requires internalizing faith through personal reasoning and contemplation – The Quranic invitation to every person
• I witness that His signature is in every thing I look at, that is why I have faith!
• My faith is embedded in my experience, it is directing my interaction with everything
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يشكرون .. افالاكرين .. الش وسنجزى
كم الزيدن شكرتم لئناكرين الش من وكن فاعبد الله بل
Will they not then give thanks?(Qur’an 36:35, 73)
And we shall surely reward those who give thanks.(Qur’an 3:145)
If you give thanks, I shall increase [my favors] to you. (Qur’an 14:7)
Worship God and be of those who give thanks.(Qur’an 39:66)
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God’s VISION for my lifeليعبدون إال واإلنس الجن خلقت وما
And I have not created the invisible beings and men but to [know and] worship Me. (Qur’an 51:56)
Experiential Knowledge of God
WitnessDivine Attributes
ReflectDivine Attributes
Thanksgiving
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How do I become thankful?
What is the secret to become more thankful?
It all depends on my perception of everything I experience in
this life…
Not a task on my to-do list!but a natural outcome of
contemplationawareness of “given-ness”
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My perception changes everything…
How beautiful it is
How beautiful it has been
made
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My perception changes everything…
How beautiful it is
How beautiful it has been
made
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My perception changes everything…
How beautiful it is
How beautiful it has been
made
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My perception changes everything…
How beautiful it is
How beautiful it has been
made
• Things bear meaning in themselves
• Feelings are unsatisfied…• Ephemeral beauty
• Things bear meaning of another• The Loving One is showing His
Love• Eternal beauty
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This choice makes all the difference…
Is what we have/own/are
given?
or
Is it … just is?
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The more I realize the Real Giver of what I claim to be mine,
the more I feel thankful towards the Divine
My property
My abilities
My life
Everything
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until I recognize that there is no thing that is not coming out of His grace…
My property
My abilities
My life
Everything
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Then, my life becomes a life of thankfulness… = inner paradise…
My property
My abilities
My life
Everything
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Who am I again?
Someone who has infinite taste buds!!
Why were these taste buds given?
To feel the Divine Loving Compassionate Presence through gratitude
and discover my real humanity…
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Thanksgiving is life transforming
How beautiful it is…
How beautiful it has been made,
thank you!
• I am by myself, life is dull, nobody loves me!
• I am loved, I am being taken care of, I am special!
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I am loved, I am being taken care of, I am special!
Thank you to the One who is sustaining me through all the gifts I receive…
Thank you my Sustainer, I love you, too!
I adore you = worship
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Sustenance…Pleasure is either…
Divine Gift to know the
Giver…
Something I demand…
My senses are pleased…My heart is pleased much
more!
Only my senses are pleased, very temporarily… Then, there
is darkness!
Infinite real joy
Temporary, limited pleasure=pain
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Thanksgiving comprises true faith and a sincere affirmation of God’s unity.
When I eat an apple and say “Praise be to God!” – I am declaring:
“This apple is a gift given directly by the Compassionate.”
Ascribe everything to the One, by witnessing the reflection of the Compassionate in everything.
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Thanksgiving =
recognition that we are guests in this universe of the Loving Compassionate
host…
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…However, he who is grateful [to God] is but grateful for his own good; and he who is ungrateful [should know that], verily, my
Sustainer is self-sufficient, most generous in giving! (Quran 27:40)
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How can thanksgiving transform our daily lives?