Thursday, November 8, 2007

Update on the sales of Habib Syech Assegaf cd


Alhamdulilah, the sales of Habib Syech bin Abd Kader Assegaf cd "The best of Qasidah vol 01" had recieved tremendous support from you. Hence, we have many cd shops selling this amazing cds. For those who are keen, you may get from the shops listed below. You may contact me for any enquiries +65 90687106. Insha'Allah, we are having more shops and retailers distributing and selling this wonderful yet unique cd. Thanks for the support, May Allah bless you.
  • Wardah books
  • http://www.wardahbooks.com/
  • 58 Bussorah Street, Singapore 199474
  • Hj Hashim Bookstore
  • 134 Arab Street, near Sultan Mosque and Bugis Mrt Station
  • Fragrance of Makkah Trading
  • 9 jalan Pisang, near Sultan Mosque
  • Makkah International Pte ltd
  • 390 Victoria Street #01-59, Golden Landmark Shopping Centre
  • Al Khidmah
  • http://www.alkhidmah.com/
  • (Usually the will be selling Habib Syech cd during the haul, like the Haul of Syadatina Khadijah at Maqam Habib Noh 10 nov after Ishak)
  • Muzika Record
  • http://muzika.com.sg/
  • Joo Chiat Complex Blk 1 #01-1031 Joo Chiat Road, Joo Chiat Complex
  • Prophetic Medical Centre
  • Geylang Malay Village, near Mussollah
  • Darul Arqam English Bookshop
  • Galaxy centre, opposite Malay Village
  • Mustika Bonda
  • Blk 139, Tampines st 11, #01-62, tel: 67837764
  • Saffron
  • Blk 201D, Tampines st 21

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Loving in imagination

Everyone who falls in love with something only falls in love with it after actualizing it in his imagination, setting up an image (mithâl) for it in his imaginal faculty (wahm), and making his beloved coincide (tatbîq) with his image. If this were not the situation, then once the person separated from his connection to his beloved in terms of sight of hearing or other sense faculty, he would also separate from his connection to her person. But we do not find this to be the case. This shows that the beloved exists with the lover in the image of a form ('alâ mithâl sûra) and that he has brought her forth in his imagination. Hence he clings to contemplating his beloved, his ecstasy (wajd) doubles, and his love continues to increase. The image which he formed provokes its former (musawwir) to seek her on whose form he formed it. The root [i.e., his beloved] is the spirit of the image, making it subsist and preserving it. The love of the lover intensifies only toward his own making (san'a) and act (fi'l), for he himself had made the form with which he has fallen in love in his imagination. So he loves nothing but that which goes back to himself; he attaches himself (ta'alluq) to himself, and he praises his own act.

- Ibn al-'Arabi, The Meccan Revelations (Volume I)