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Here I Am, Lord – Abdur Rahman’s Corner
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Peace, one and all…
At our level, we often don’t accept God’s invitation immediately. We wait. We consider and contemplate. Ibrahim Ad’ham had considerations also. He wanted to be a dervish and to devote his life to find himself and to find God, but he had a lot to give up. He had to give up a whole kingdom, and give up the state of a sultan. The invitation was there—God was asking for him. But he wasn’t ready to say, “Here I am, Lord.” That is all you have to say, “I am here; I am present, at your orders.” Remembrance of God is
one of the fundamentals of Sufi practices. To remember is, most simply, to say, “I am here. I am.”
Shaykh Muzaffer Ozak, Love is the Wine