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In his bookThe Path to Allah, Most High Sidi unveils more about the stations of the nafs and how the seeker may travel through the nafs to return to the Essence of God. These "newer" teachings should be combined with the teachings from the Music of the Soul (found here) to help the student to know himself and know how he lives with his Lord.

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The Nafs and Its Stations, from The Path to Allah, Most High

The spiritual stations on the Sufi path are a response to the need of the times. Whenever the soul (an-nafs) acquires an attribute, it also acquires the name that designates it. When it befriends the passionate nafs and submits to it, it is called inciting to evil (ammara bi'l-su)(Holy Qur'an 12:53). When it submits to the dictates of Shari'ah and agrees to follow the truth but still has some attraction to passional pleasures, it is called reproachful (lawamma)(75:1-2). When this attraction disappears and it acquires strength in opposing the passional nafs and its attracted to the world of sanctity ('alam al-quds), also called the world of divine matters or world of tanscendence, and begins to receive inspirations, it is then called 'inspired' (mulhama)(91:7-8). When its agitation quiets and the passional nafs lose all power over it and forgets its pleasures, it is called serene (mutma'inna). When it ascends higher than this and the spiritual stations themselves lose importance in its sight and it becomes extinct to all its own wishes, it is called contented (radiyya). When this state increases, it is named 'found pleasing' (mardiyya), this is, to both the Haqq and to created beings (89:27). When it is commanded to return to created beings to guide and to perfect them, it is called 'perfect' (kamala).

An-Nafs wa Mawam Matiha al-Amarra: The Nafs that Orders to Evil; The First Station

An-Nafs al-Lawamma: The Reproachable Nafs; The Second Station

An-Nafs al-Mulhama: The Station of the Inspired Nafs; The Third Stations

An-Nafs al-Mutma'inna: The Serene Nafs: The Nafs in Complete Rest and Satisfaction; The Fourth Station

An-Nafs ar-Radiyya: The Contented Well-Pleased Nafs; The Fifth Station

An-Nafs al-Mardiyya: The Well-Pleasing Nafs; The Sixth Station

An-Nafs al-Kamala: The Perfect Nafs; The Seventh Station

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