{"id":2318,"date":"2017-11-19T01:17:57","date_gmt":"2017-11-19T01:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/?p=2318"},"modified":"2017-11-19T01:17:57","modified_gmt":"2017-11-19T01:17:57","slug":"the-woman-who-was-the-master-of-bayazid-bestami-ra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/the-woman-who-was-the-master-of-bayazid-bestami-ra\/","title":{"rendered":"The Woman Who Was The Master Of Bayazid Bestami (ra)"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is said that when Bayazid Bestami was asked who his master was, he explained:<\/p>\n

She was an old woman.
\nOne day, I was possessed by such ecstacy and yearning and sense of unity that not even a hair of anything else could be found in me. In this selfless mood, I went for a stroll in the desert, where I happened to meet an elderly lady burdened with a bag of flour.<\/p>\n

She asked me to carry the flour for her, but I was incapable of taking it, so I beckoned to a lion to take the load. The lion came up to me and I laid the sack upon its back. I then asked the old lady what she intended to say to the townspeople since I did not want them to apprehend who I was.<\/p>\n

“I’ll tell them,” she replied, “that I met a vain tyrant.”<\/p>\n

“What are talking about?” I exclaimed.<\/p>\n

The lady explained thus, first asking: “Has the lion been put to trouble or not?”<\/p>\n

“No,” I answered. –<\/p>\n

“Except for the fact that you burden down those whom God Himself has not burdened!” she objected. “Is that not oppression?”<\/p>\n

“So it is”, I admitted.<\/p>\n

“And, despite this”, she continued, “still you desire the townspeople to know that you have subjected a lion and are a miracle worker. Is that not vanity?”<\/p>\n

“Yes, it is”, I confessed.<\/p>\n

So I repented, experiencing abasement from my former exaltation. Indeed that old woman’s words performed the function of a spiritual guide and master for me.<\/p>\n

SOURCE: Attar, Tadhkerat al-auliya \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is said that when Bayazid Bestami was asked who his master was, he explained: She was an old woman. One day, I was possessed by such ecstacy and yearning and sense of unity that not even a hair of anything else could be found in me. In this selfless mood, I went for a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13826,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-other","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13826"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2320,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318\/revisions\/2320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/wanfahminfaiz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}