Mokhtar Maghraoui – Spiritual Purification #03 What is the Soul

Mokhtar Maghraoui
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The speaker discusses the importance of the ruha in the spiritual nature of Allah's spiritual teachings. The ruha is the source of life of the human being, not the source of his own. The ruha is the means by which he made his spiritual teachings possible, and it is the source of his spiritual work.
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As Allah

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mentioned to us

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in the early

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genesis of the human being

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That the Ruha is that which he

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instilled

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and created,

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breathed and created into the human being

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from him as the wajjud

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in ways beyond

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any modality.

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And

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that is

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what made the human being worth

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anything

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And most importantly,

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worth

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that the elect and most select

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of the creatures of Allah

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The angels

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to be ordered

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to show reverence to the human being and

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to lay themselves prostrate

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to the human

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being. That ruh is that Lapreehar Abbaniyah,

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that divine

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subtle

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of the beyond creation of Allah, a zu

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jal, that is also the source

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of life

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of the human being.

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The source of human life,

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not the source of life.

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There is life in plants. There is life

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in animals.

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Plants are living

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beings, are living organisms.

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They are in dhikr of Allah, Azza Wajal,

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but plants are not endowed,

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as we know, from

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our spiritual legacies.

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They are not endowed with ruha.

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So there is a human life and vegetation

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life and animal life.

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Ruhe

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is the means, the source

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by which the human being

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became

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alive

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and intelligent

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and cognate and and cognizant.

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The human being without ruha

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is a dry stick,

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not a fresh stick.

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The ruha is what characterizes

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the essential reality

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of the human being,

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and it is from Allah

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and by Allah

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No matter how much we want to learn

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and we seek to learn

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about the nature

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of the ruha,

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we would simply arrive to the ultimate conclusion

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that it is as he

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ruhumin amr rabbi.

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Allah said that the ruh is a matter

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from the divine

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He breathed into the human being of

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his ruha.

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That's where we ought to stop

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and not go beyond.

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And yet we learn more about ruha as

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we

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learn,

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as we worship, as we practice, as we

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devote

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our minds,

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our hearts,

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ourselves

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through obedience

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of our limbs,

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when we devote all of that

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to knowing Allah and seeking Allah,

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Allah would

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instill in the hearts of some or of

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many, would instill

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more cognition,

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more awareness,

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more

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Ma'arifah and more knowledge

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about

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the Ruha itself.

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