The mystics say, "God never reveals Himself / Herself twice in the same manner." As God is Unique, each of His / Her expressions, epiphany is unique.
In his book titled "The Sufi Book of Life", Neil Douglas-Klotz wrote, "Suddenly, without warning, an expanded state of awareness can come upon us. Many people have experienced this when walking in nature, being in love or playing a sport. If we shrug off this experience or push it away, we've missed a door into another world."
In reality perhaps in that moment we may miss a particular Wajh or 'Face of God' in which He/She wishes to Reveal Itself to us, an unique and supra-limited edition of Self Disclosure of God, so to speak.
The classical Sufis called this momentary epiphany by the name of hal. They distinguished these "states of grace" from the awareness that we gain by effort or practice (which are called maqam or stations). However, the division is not so neat. Something that passes away may be just as valuable as what remains, if it shows us a new possibilities or unties the knots of the moment. The eleventh century Sufi Al-Qushayri compared these states to:
First, flashes of lighting
from an unknown horizon,
then rays of light
showing the path ahead
finally light all around,
the full brilliance revealed
only to those who
turn their senses within.
Al-Halim
Al-Halim (pronounced as AAL HA-LEEM) is the Great Stillness, the Cosmic Stillness.
Those who are full of information and useless knowledge but never applies them in their life, those who don't internalize or practice - are compared with donkey who carries book at its back in the Qur'an (Surah 62:5).
We seek refuge from God the All Powerful from being included among such category of people. There is no power and transformation except by and with God. La haowla wa la quwwata illa bi-Llah.
To become a person of Paradise on this very earth which was Paradise (Our Original Home) before and will be transformed into a Paradise again, its important we strive to abandon all tension, worries and elements of bondage that binds us and become worthy of those who shall be invited to enter the Garden, the Paradise again. It requires unlearning of all that robs us from the innocence of trust and faith in God, which is birthright of all children of God.
So Be It.
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Adopted from THE SUFI BOOK OF LIFE by Neil Douglas-Klotz