Question:
Salam,
We in Indonesia country many people have the knowledge of inner power (tenaga dalam/ metafisic power) that have from dzikir. Can we study about it?
Note: metafisic power/inner power : have power from nur/light, it can hit someone without touch object.
Answer:
Alaykum Salam,
If nafs is still there then that power is istidraj (trap). In Tariqa Naqshbandiya the Awliya considered karamat as lack of iman, not progress. Therefore one hour of suhba with adab, tawba, powerlessness (‘ajz, inkisar) and tafakkur is better than a lifetime of study or even dhikr and ibada nafl. Let the dhikr be that of your murshid not yours because our dhikr is mixed and our nur still has zulm in it. But if you can keep yourself on istiqama and help others also in Indonesia, for example to stop smoking which is so widespread, then do it.
Hajj Gibril Haddad
