Bismillahi rahmani raheem, assalamu alaikum
The heart is a window to the soul and the soul is the mirror that reflects to the heart everything that reaches it spiritually, the light of Allah, His Angels, Prophets, Jannah, Jahanam the Kursi, Arsh, Jinn and the light of other people. The soul by metaphor is a mirror for everything spiritual while the heart by metaphor is a mirror for everything “which exerts influence upon it”.
Imam al-Ghazzali (rahmutallah alayh) in “The Marvels of the Heart” writes:
“The heart is as a mirror that is surrounded by these factors which exert their influence upon it. These influences reach the heart in uninterrupted succession. The praiseworthy influences that we have mentioned add to the clearness, shining, illumination, and brightness of the mirror so that the clear statement of the Real (jalliyat al-Haqq) shines therein, and there is revealed in it the real nature of the thing sought in religion. To such a heart as this is the reference of the Prophet (sallahu alayhi wa sallam) in his saying “Whenever God wills good for a man He causes his heart to exhort him”; and in his saying (sallahu alayhi wa sallam) “The man whose heart is his exhorter has a protector from God over him.” This is the heart in which there abides the remembrance (dhikr) [of God]. God, the Exalted said, “Verily in remembrance of God do hearts find rest!” (13:28).
In reaching Allah a Muslims needs help to see, regarding this the Messenger of Allah said;
“A Muslim is a mirror to another Muslim” (Abu Dawwud)
An example of this at work is marriage, a husband and wife may feed of each other’s strengths, become each other’s mirror, they can also become susceptible to each other’s weaknesses. The wife may also come to consider her husband is her rock without which she can’t be, and it is because of this reality Allah commanded in the Quran;
“Women impure are for men impure, and men impure for women impure, and women of purity are for men of purity, and men of purity are for women of purity: these (this type of mirror is) not affected by what people say: for them there is forgiveness, and a provision honorable.” (24:26)
But the entire matter is beautifully stated by Allah in the following words; “They are your garments and ye are their garments.” (2:187) so be careful what your heart chooses to wear.
On a larger scale Allah’s intent in this is that so we learn from each other; “O mankind! Lo! We have created you male and female, and have made you nations and tribes that ye may know one another. Lo! the noblest of you, in the sight of Allah, is the best in conduct. Lo! Allah is Knower, Aware.” (49:13)
One of the most known statements among the people of is Ihsan is “polishing the mirror of the heart”, we continually polish the mirror of the heart in order that the heart might reflect the guidance, inspiration, and intelligence of Allah from the ghayb (unseen) it is connected to.
Through this we come to glimpse the faults that have come to settle upon our nature from living life carelessly. Man needs repetition in his life to stabilise his nature and gain strength and certainty in himself, this along with wisdom comes from carrying responsibility, those who avoid it stay immature this is the most common journey the soul takes in life.
Allah created your nature so it can reflect His qualities like a mirror taking from an image reflected in it, as long as the mirror/self looks at Allah it will still reflect those qualities, that image in front of the mirror, but as soon as the heart turns away from Allah it stops reflecting His qualities and begins reflecting the qualities of the low things now placed in the heart.
This is why the prophet (saws) said: “None of you will have faith till he loves me more than his father, his children and all mankind.” (Bukhari) The Prophet (saws) said ‘No, by the One in whose hands is my soul, not until I become more beloved to you than your own self.’ (Bukhari)
The prophet (saws) is the perfect mirror of Allah and you can’t truly see Allah, see what Allah has placed on the mirror of His (saws) heart, until you see the prophet (saws) clearly through love without yourself (your preconceptions) getting in the way.
You have not achieved anything in life to help you see Allah from your own work, Allah sent prophets to help you see the things you will not achieve, the only door that history has opened to you and the rest of mankind are the prophets (saws) of Allah.
This is a standard/state you need to maintain in your life and so the prophet (saws) also said “None of you [truly] believes until he loves for his brother that which he loves for himself” (Bukhari, Muslim) because “A Muslim is a mirror to another Muslim”, among them you will find mirrors reflecting the qualities of Allah which you take from.
Allah created all things with Ihsan/perfection, looking within yourself helps you see beyond the immature ego, or nafs, you developed in your youth;
Imam Rumi said;
I drained this cup (of my former self):
there is nothing, now,
but ecstatic annihilation (acceptance and calmness).
This is what Allah says in the Quran, “Return to your Lord accepting, (and) accepted” (69:28), you empty yourself of your ego so you advance spiritually gaining from Allah, when we see spiritually we are shown things in our inner sight, our mind, if you have preconceptions, make assumptions about things you delude that sight with imagination, you don’t have time to reflect when this is occurring because your mind is both seeing and understanding at the same time.
So any later reflection is now upon your own delusions and not the truth, we get rid of our ego, annihilate the self so we are able to understand spiritually what Allah or the Mala’ikah place their, this is why Allah said “accepting” first in the verse followed by “accepted”.
Some people achieve this in life, the prophet called them “forerunners” we call them Awliyah, the first with Allah, hence Imam Ali (ra) advised, “Die before you die”, die to yourself before your real death comes and you are forced to see all your self-delusion at the same time’
“(He will be told), “You were completely heedless of this day. We have removed the veil from your eyes and your (spiritual) vision will now be sharp and strong (Hadid, like Iron)” (50:22).
The Prophet (s) said about the mirror of the heart, “Everything has its polish and the polish of hearts is dhikrullah”, or doing things that remind you of Allah.
Allah said in Surat al-Baqara, 152: “Remember Me and I will remember you”, what most don’t understand is the second half of that statement, what does it mean that Allah remembers us.
In Occult practice there is something called duality where they contract a shaytan to mirror or shadow an aspect of you in order to control it, they call it duality because outwardly that is how it appears to them but like most things they know about the spiritual part of the universe they are mistaken.
In short, a copy or mimic of something is not that thing and anything you learn or gain through this sihr will fall short the deeper you look into the details, because to have absolute control over something the details that make it up is the only place to go, into the realm of the Angels who see the subatomic to the Jinn’s macroscopic view of the universe and hence they are incapable of truly achieving control.
What we are interested is this ability of the Jinn and Angels to take the form of what they like and man’s ability to “copy” qualities from others, like his role models. This is the same thing as what the jinn and Angels are doing, our intellect, imagination, spiritual sight are all functions of the brain and heart and what we see in our mind is made of particles, so just like we can imagine anything and change the shape of that image in our head to what ever we like that is in fact the same ability as the Jinn and Angels, except they are creatures made of particles without a physical body that can’t change.
Umamah al-Bahili (may Allah be pleased with him) said the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said of the Dajjal: “Part of his fitnah will be that he will say to a Bedouin, do you think that if I resurrect your father and mother for you that you will testify that I am your lord?’ He will say, ‘Yes.’ So, two devils will appear to him in the image of his father and mother, saying, ‘O my son, follow him for he is your lord.’” (Ibn Majah)
“And make mention of Mary in the Scripture, when she had withdrawn from her people to a chamber looking East, And had chosen seclusion from them. Then We sent unto her Our Spirit (Gabriel) and it assumed for her the likeness of a perfect man.” (19:16-17)
Understand that if you can understand this subject it will elevate you above the elitism of this world, to them this subject is at the height of spiritual knowledge because it is the thing that makes all of their sihr work, it is the keystone holding everything up for the occult societies and empires ruling the world today, and the foundation behind all misery and confusion on earth at the hands of Jinn.
If you could stop this one thing from happening all sihr would end except for the lessor things that are incapable of destroying a person from the inside out.
Duality is only as perfect as the mirror, as perfect as the mimic is, as perfect as the heart is, because understanding is required and a perfect heart is the only thing capable of properly understanding the nature of something other than it, “and (Gabriel) assumed for her the likeness of a perfect man.” (19:17), which is why Jinn can only mimic what they see without actual understanding.
Duality is not a truth of the universe, it is not a law written into it which many people thought through history, but rather something livings things choose to do, you choose to copy someone’s hair style or dress or behaviour. Duality only exists with living things because it is a choice, it comes down to free will, Humans have the most free will and choice of all of Allah’s intellectual creatures, then Jinn and last are the Angels, we say Angels don’t have freewill but that isn’t exactly accurate, they have free will within the choices others make because Allah created them to support the universe and every living thing in it, in reality they have no lives of their own and that is how they have the least free will among Allah’s intellectual creatures.
Finally, we have animals, plants, insects and microbes which have the least choice of living things but Allah pays attention to their actions/choices as a species and does things for them, this is called evolution and it is mentioned in ahadith, Allah evolving one creature into another, only creatures without a “real” intellect are subject to it, hence Man, Jinn and Angels never needed to evolve intelligence is the height of creation and we have it.
Duality is something Jinn and Angels are good at because it supports the self of the Human being while developing. “Then We sent unto her Our Spirit (Gabriel) and it assumed for her the likeness of a perfect man (so he could support her).” (19:16-17)
While Jinn need to be dualities/mimics of Human beings because they often loose themselves in fitnah and find themselves again in man, the sahir abuses this ability of the Jinn to gain control of someone by asking the Jinn to be their subtle shadow.
Angels have no self so they can follow your choices to such perfection you think they chose to be your duality but in reality, that is their Ihsan in looking after you. The difference between Angels and Jinn is intention, the Jinn need while the Angels don’t.
If you can imagine the capacity of Angels then Imagine the Capacity of Allah who is more subtle and capable than them, He asks you to look inside yourself to find Him, think about what that means.
You can only find Allah in yourself when you annihilate it, destroy your nafs entirely, but isn’t that the opposite of Duality, one self mirroring another, isn’t that the opposite of looking for Allah.
The Answer is no, because Allah chooses to be your duality and mimics you particle by particle, the perfect mirror, until you see Him, He is the perfect guide. In reality by annihilating the self you are annihilating your immaturity so you can reach maturity, you are not wiping your personality you are growing so it can see more than itself by ridding it of its self-absorption, until you know how to see Allah.
Imam Rumi said:
“I searched for God among the Christians and on the Cross and therein I found Him not.
I went into the ancient temples of idolatry; no trace of Him was there.
I entered the mountain cave of Hira and then went as far as Qandhar but God I found not.
With set purpose I fared to the summit of Mount Caucasus and found there only ‘anqa’s habitation.
Then I directed my search to the Kaaba, the resort of old and young; God was not there even.
Turning to philosophy I inquired about him from ibn Sina but found Him not within his range.
I fared then to the scene of the Prophet’s experience of a great divine manifestation only a “two bow-lengths’ distance from him” (Jerusalem) but God was not there even in that exalted court.
Finally, I looked into my own heart and there I saw Him; He was nowhere else.”
The Prophet (saws) said, “Allah the Most High said, ‘I am as My servant thinks I am. I am with him when he mentions Me. If he mentions Me to himself, I mention him to Myself; and if he mentions Me in an assembly, I mention him in an assembly greater than it. If he draws near to Me a hand’s length, I draw near to him an arm’s length. And if he comes to Me walking, I go to him at speed.’”
This is a path you take, in reality you are clearing you self of preconceptions so you don’t assume or jump to conclusions when things occur, because when you are looking spiritually at matters doing these things means you are directing your spiritual sight to delusions and mistakes.
Allah explains the path away from him as such;
“Satan has overcome them and made them forget the remembrance of Allah. Those are the party of Satan.” (58:19)
“And be not like those who forgot Allah, so He made them forget themselves.” (59:19)
You would think remembering your self is then the path to Allah while forgetting yourself is the opposite, but the people who forget Allah forget themselves. Allah is saying to His people when you remember Him you are only remembering/strengthening yourself because He is reciprocating your intent and giving your self qualities it never had before, “If he draws near to Me a hand’s length, I draw near to him an arm’s length. And if he comes to Me walking, I go to him at speed’”, Allah isn’t saying He is moving, He is talking about what the self is doing it is acquiring qualities from Allah as it sees those qualities in Him, so in reality you are mirroring Him, becoming His duality
So, when you look at your self because you acquired His qualities are able to recognise Him, you see Him in yourself, this is the reason behind some famous sayings the Awliyah said in ecstasy which got them into trouble, like saying “I am He”, they looked in themselves and only saw Him.
The hadith Qudsi in reality is about how easy Allah has made it to acquire His qualities so we see Him by knowing our self after that point.
The Prophet (saws) said, “The difference between the one who makes dhikr and the one who doesn’t make dhikr is like the difference between the living and the dead.” (Bukhari)
Don’t be like the occultists who forgot Allah so Allah took away their qualities, that is the biggest thing they suffer from today and they go to great lengths to get any part of it back.
Looking back at the problem of duality the world is facing because of the occult, you may have heard the saying the spiritual world is a mirror to this one, or your dreams are a mirror of your reality (life), in understanding this is the solution to this occult problem.
Ghayb the world from which Jinn use duality against us, its impact in our life needs to be mitigated and there is a simple way to do this, it is the reason why voodoo dolls and representation magic work, the doll is by no means a perfect copy of you but somehow someone sticking needles into something has power spiritually because it is connected to you through intension or something you own.
That is because a spiritual connection is created between you and the doll when the person creating it creates it with the intent of it being you. When they took the prophets (saws) hair and did sihr to it the spiritual connection was already there because it was His (saws) hair, the doll just allows the sahir to make a connection to you from nothing if they don’t have anything you own (because intent entangles particles and causes them to make connections with you, in physics a famous experiment called the double slit experiment proved this).
Do you think a village sahir had the power to affect the most perfect being Allah created, yet sihr worked against the prophet (saws) because the universe reacts to everything you do, likewise you can affect what reaches your life even from the largest Empires.
The answer to this sihr used on a global scale is for you to make something that represents the thing causing your problems, this way its force/power against you will be divided.
This works because where before there was say only one America (Superpower) in your life causing you all your problems, now there is another which you built with your own hands sharing realities in your life and so the universe will react to this, the Jinn around you who rely on this haq/”truths” of the universe will consequently be less effective in everything they do and that is the aim, if they can’t affect you neither will America’s spiritual reality.
You can do this in any number of ways but the easiest is by creating model towns, cities, countries, places, buildings, businesses, streets, communities, they don’t even need to look identical, just like the voodoo doll is not realistic, they just need to represent the thing, then you name what you created after these real places, any number of simulation computer games will let you do this.
You may have heard the saying there is power in names, and knowing the name of something like a Jinn is power over it, by creating this model and naming it you are dividing the power behind that name in your life between the real thing and the model, it’s like reverse engineering a voodoo doll.
This doesn’t just work for places if you can make something that represents the issue and problem, anything effectively, it will work.
If are still thinking “how”, it is no more unbelievable than an idiotic doll controlling how your body works against you, the reality is the universe makes spiritual connections between anything on any scale you can imagine and occultists knows this well and abuse it.
Imam Ali said “The vision of the eye is limited but the vision of the heart transcends all barriers of time and space.” What makes this possible makes the other and it is all because subatomic particles make it possible.
“Those who believe fight in the cause of Allah, and those who disbelieve fight in the cause of Taghut (the oppressors). So, fight against the allies of Satan. Indeed, the (spiritual) plot of Satan has ever been weak (fragile because it is subtle).” (4:76) the spiritual world is called the subtle world (Latif) in the Quran because it is very sensitive and reacts to the subtlest things that occur, from the subatomic to the atomic, to us, if you do nothing then power against you will snowball, but as soon as you act your will work no matter how small it may seem to you will counteract it.
It is the nature of the universe to react to every particle in it, “And whoso doeth good a particles (Zaratin) weight will see it then, and whoever has done a particle’s-weight of evil will see that.” (98-7-8)