Bismillahi rahmani raheem, assalamu alaikum.
The following is for the benefit of the people who know me personally, to help them understand something, but I don’t mind sharing it as well.
Jabir ibn Abdullah reported: The angels came to the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, while he was sleeping and some of them said, “He is asleep.” And some of them said, “His eyes are asleep but his heart is awake.” They said, “Verily, your companion has a parable, so present the parable for him.” Some of them said, “He is asleep.” And some of them said, “His eyes are asleep but his heart is awake.” They said, “His parable is the example of a man who built a house, set up a banquet therein, and then sent a messenger to invite people. Whoever answered the invitation would enter the house and eat of the banquet, and whoever did not accept the invitation would not enter the house nor eat of the banquet.” The angels said, “Interpret this parable for him that he might understand.” Some of them said, “He is asleep.” And some of them said, “His eyes are asleep but his heart is awake.” They said, “The house represents Paradise and the messenger is Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him. Whoever obeys Muhammad has obeyed Allah, and whoever disobeys Muhammad has disobeyed Allah. Muhammad has caused distinction between the people.”
The idea of talking about this came about from something very funny, after writing my last email Gentle Warning, it took less than12 hours to get one of those funny letters asking me funny questions all the while softly accusing me of being a kafir, in the very lengthy letter which was mostly garbage, one point was raised about me seeing Jinn and visualising them. So this got me thinking about how these occultists see Jinn, I suppose to them it would be like seeing a marriage they believed in or the Jinn appearing to them and they recognise it as an image of their mind controlled by another creature or some variation on that.
For someone who has had the veils removed from them by the Prophet (saws) and granted true spiritual sight the matter is not so. Real spiritual sight for the Arifeen occurs much more naturally and without effort, as long as the Barzakh is present on your inner sight insanity is what stands between you and proper spiritual sight, so that veil is like constant weight on your inner perception and if you push against it you can go insane, this is something the Prophet (saws) explained to me himself just before he removed that veil from me, this is given to every person Allah wants to bring close so when you read the words of the great scholars and wonder where it comes from and why you don’t what they do, this is why, Allah wants them to experience things only given to people close to Him.
Once that veil is removed there is no on and off switch with your inner sight you sense and see that world always, it is something that will change you because your sense of inner peace will be gone like your privacy is taken away. So the scholars of tasawwuf usually train for this, but with myself I went through something difficult, akin to being attacked by Jinn and their hubris prepared me for what Allah wanted (i won’t go into the details) but it is why the prophet (saws) appeared to me, He healed me from what they had done, removed the brazakh to help me against them and explained to me what it is in detail.
If you have understood so far then you know why I quoted that hadith above, once that veil is removed the matter is like this all the time, “His eyes are asleep but his heart is awake,” and this is akin to sleep deprivation if you are not prepared for it.
I say sleep deprivation because the matter is like Imam Ibn Arabi explained, Allah’s spiritual creatures will seek you and need you and these are creatures who don’t know the world like we do, so your sense of inner peace will go and you will become a mercy for Allah’s creatures always helping and fixing.
Despite this I rarely see Jinn like these occultists invasion, they rarely want to show themselves to me either because they know if I hold them in my gaze I will hold them to account, and the ignorant among them who on the few occasions tried I hit them as soon as I saw them, so they tend not to try.
The matter is akin to having control of your inner perception effortlessly, I don’t need to envision anything or focus on anything or concentrate because there is now weight on my inner vision like theirs.
As long as the barzakh on your inner sight hasn’t been removed your easily susceptible to delusions, when it is removed your inner sight is straightened and while you’re not immune it sees true more often than not, so I guess it is harder for the Jinn to fake things as much they like so they often don’t try any fancy things like they do with the occultists.
Shaykh Rami Al Rifai.