22/08/2025
✨ THE TRANQUIL SOUL ✨
“When God says O tranquil soul, return to your Lord, well pleased and well pleasing; and then join My servants and enter My Garden! This is an address from God, Exalted is He, to the Tranquil Soul.
What then is the Tranquil Soul? It is that which has found its tranquillity in good works, in Tawhid, in remembrance: Those who believe and whose hearts are tranquil in the remembrance of God, for indeed it is in the remembrance of God that hearts become tranquil?’
The Tranquil Soul is one that is tranquil in good works, so that these become dear to it; it is satisfied and contented with them. This is why He says, Transcendent and Exalted is He, ‘O tranquil soul, return to your Lord, well-pleased and well-pleasing,’ for here it is tranquil due to its good works, not its frivolity; tranquil in its Lord, its deeds, its prayers, and everything that draws it nearer to Him, purified and disciplined. When it turns away from this world, God, Transcendent and Exalted is He, addresses it, saying, O tranquil soul, return to your Lord, well-pleased and well-pleasing! which means to return, pleased with the state you are in, satisfied with the recompense you see, your nearness to God, the lights before you, and accepted by God, Transcendent and Exalted is He.
What is its recompense? And then join My servants. Those I show mercy to, who have been true servants of Mine; real servants of God, not servants of the devils or of their egos, but true servants of God - a great honour when this servitude finds acceptance. Join My servants with whom I am well pleased, My servants who are saints, My servants who have been granted to succeed. Join My servants and enter My Garden, the Garden that is as wide as the heavens and the earth put together. This is the Tranquil Soul that we often hear about.”
(Habib Ahmad Mashhur al-Haddad’s commentary on Surah al-Fajr 89: 27-30 in “A Man of Many Splendours” p.495)
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