Dervish

I’m a month late, but Sidi Abdurrahman Squires has posted up Imam al-Ghazzali’s (may Allah be pleased with him) Ten Rules of spiritual ethics.

For me, punctuality is the key to a successful spiritual life. Hmm… no, let me rephrase that.  Punctuality in praying fajr and subh is the key to a successful spiritual life. From this one discipline, everything else follows. My ideal working day goes (and I will be the first to confess I don’t always hit the mark, just in case Abu Yasmin reads this and laughs at my audacity): set the alarm clock to go off for the beginning of the subh prayer time (longer term project is to set it back even further to get up for tahajjud but I digress); get up, pray and stay up. 

Do some Sunnipath study and then get ready for the day.  Off to work early, praying zuhr and ‘asr as soon as their times come in.  This bit is important, apart from the barakah in praying in the first of the times, if you develop an urgency in praying the prayer as soon as possible after the time has come in, it means you are much less likely to miss a prayer a’udhu billah. Back home for cooking and eating dinner, and spending time with the family. Praying maghrib, putting Yasmin to bed, reading her stories, spending time with Abu Yasmin and finally praying ‘isha and going to bed myself. May Allah make us successful in our endeavours.

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