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A good friend of mine recently gave me a definition of a malamati, an apparently simple formulation, that I thought might be useful to offer up.

She said: “A malamati is one who makes things better, by making things worse.”

Hi Kevin - hehe, it’s a good one!

sure, I would agree. I resist this tendancy to judge another, especially some one who is dead, heresay does terrible damages.

My shaykh once said that we aren’t sufis becuase of our virtues.

If we say we are imperfect, than I would imagine at sompoint we would manifest it!

Lord knows I’m not virtuous…

Societal “norms” , when accepted from the “commanding nafs”: without thought and refection, can be destructive to the potential of becoming “whole”, or the insan kamil. This doesn;t mean, per se, that one needs to go around breaking rules inorder to progress on the path, hardly. Rather, a seeker should by nature question everything that he does, check the intention for all his actions, and look and go towards only the truth.

Allah, does say in the Quran, that He created both “bad” and “good’. How exacly this can apply to our actions I’m sure, but this idea of holiness is trricky.

what ever had given is coming from The “rahmaan” and all the effect is just from us to make sure we can reach the “rahiim”

Tasawuf (suff) is nothing but bunch of poetry for awwam. But there are level that human must reach before ‘jump’ to tassawuf, the tassawuf is a training for ‘qalb’ to get nearer to God.
for every knowledge there is a foundation.
The first is Syari’ah : make sure you follow the rule of ibadah
the second is thariqah : learn on how to find other way of reaching the Al-latiif
The third is Haqiqah : dive into the deepest sea of live based on syariah and branch of thariqah
The last one is Makrifat : reach the closest position as a servant of Allah

In Islam; human kind and jin are nothing to create axcept for Ibadah to Allah
(from Al-Quran)
If one jump from not step by step, they surely reach nothing but a mystic feeling only, without escence of life