Waswasa has to be one of my all-time favourite Arabic words. Because it sounds exactly like what it is. It’s a demonic, satanic “whisper”.
We are taught in the Islamic tradition that not all of your thoughts are your own. In fact, there are four sources of thoughts:
- Rabbani (Divine) – those thoughts that Allah blesses you with – where you feel suddenly compelled to do something good
- Malakani (Angelic) – these are beautiful, angelic inspirations. I believe all writers and artists completely depend on these.
- Shaytani (Satanic) – these are demonic suggestions, or ‘waswasa’. ie. Really bad thoughts about doing really bad things.
- Nafsani (Egoic) – these are compulsive thoughts that come from your own ego.
A lot of Muslims believe that all of their ‘thinking’ problems come from ‘waswasa’.
Not so.
For most people Satan doesn’t really have much work to do. Their own egoic, nafs-based negative thinking is doing 95% of the heavy lifting of sabotaging their lives.
Now you might be wondering how you can put yourself in a position where you are much more likely to be “downloading” the godly or angelic thoughts.
And the answer is simple: come to the next Nafs Mastery Session, because we’re going to do a deep dive into the 7 Presence Portals that get your mind into a psychological-spiritual state of presence.
When you’re in that state, your shields are up against nafs-based and satanic thoughts, and your mind is relaxed, calm and totally free to absorb angelic and godly inspiration.
The beautiful thing when you learn how to enter the Seven Presence Portals is that you can get yourself into a state of mind that’s open to the higher frequency thought-forms at will, whenever you want.
And that’s exactly what everyone in the Nafs Mastery Program will be experimenting with this evening when I teach the first session live.
If you want to join us, go to this page and take your time to read and absorb all of the details.
If you feel a slight angelic nudge of inspiration to dive in and join the program, then I recommend you listen to it:
