Sufi Training: Expectations

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Expectation

“Once in a winter time, a King was roaming outside his palace. At night when he was entering his palace, he saw an old man at the entry gate of palace.

When the King got close he saw that he was an old man who was wearing very thin cloths which were not even warm. The King was surprised to see that how that old man was able to keep up in that cold weather even in those clothes.

So he stopped near that old man and said, “Aren’t you feeling cold?”

The old man replied, “I am feeling cold but what to do? I don’t have any warm clothes to wear. For many years I bear this cold weather without warm clothes. God gives me strength to bear this and live through winter time. ”

King Qahhar felt pity and said, “Don’t worry.. You wait here and We will send someone with warm clothes for you..”

Old man felt happy and thanked the King for his kindness.

Once the King entered palace, he forget about his talk with the old man and got busy with his routine.

Next morning, when a soldier approached, they saw the cold, stricken body of that old man. Beside his body was a message written in the dirt by that old man before dying.

Long live the King. I had been living wearing these thin clothes in such cold weather for so long. But last night your promise of giving me a warmth took my life..”

Expectations from Others can become a reason of Weakness if not met. Therefore, One should Learn to Live on his Own Strength and will power.

A saying, “Expectation is the root of all heartache.”

In Search of a Master

A man went in search of a Master. He was ready to go around the world, but he was determined to find the Master, the true Master, the Perfect Master.

Outside his village he met an old man, a nice fellow, sitting under a tree. He asked the old man, “Have you ever heard in your long life — you look like a wanderer…”

He said, “Yes, I am a wanderer. I wandered all over the earth.”

The man said, “That is the right kind of person. Can you suggest to me where I should go? I want to be a disciple of a Perfect Master.”

The old man suggested a few addresses to him, and the young man thanked him and went on.

After thirty years of wandering around the earth and finding nobody who was exactly fulfilling his expectations, he came back dejected, depressed. the moment he was entering his village he saw the old man who had become very old now, sitting under the tree. And suddenly he recognized that he is the Master! He fell at his feet and he said, “Why didn’t you say it to me, that you are the Master?”

The old man said, “But that was not time for you. You could not recognize me. You needed some experience. Wandering around the earth has given you a certain maturity, a certain understanding. Now you can see. Last time you had met me, but you had not seen me. You had missed. You were asking me about some Master. That was enough proof that you could not see me, you could not feel my presence, you could not smell the fragrance. You were utterly blind; hence I gave you some bogus addresses so you could go. But even to be with wrong people is good, because that is how one learns. For thirty years I have been waiting for you here, I have not left

Salaam Alaykum, murids, seekers, curious and interested listeners,

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