we are supposed to WATCH the thoughts
it means neither to block them
to stay with energy
nor to follow them however attractive path they describe,
towards your progress
an Amerindian grandfather said to his grandson
within are two enemies who battle with each other
the son asked, which one wins?
he answered the one you feed the most [i.e. with your attention!]
thus at one point, one realises strikingly
that we are Someone watching thoughts
and we are no more them.
even if we say it with words
it is NOT true, unless you FELT it, or SENSED this dis-association.
and what happens when you let thoughts come and go?
they are no more being fed
thus they lose power/control over you
and are gone...
like dust.
it is said,
if you wish to know whether something is true or false
then remember
that only Truth REMAINS
while falsehood passes away, fades away
this is why it is said that shaitan lead men to attractive paths
but once he faces the Power of God
he leaves, saying to the servant he misled "i leave you there, as for me, i fear my Lord"
for falsehood never remains
and if you are associated with it
meaning, if you equals yourself with it
then you BECOME it
and as thoughts are MEANT to perish
as waves die in the ocean
you perish with them
hence the loss you feel
but if you watch the waves dying in the ocean
that is another beautiful spectacle, isn't it?
thus the state of WITNESS ( Ash- Shaheed) is the ONE sought after
not the one of the slave (of thoughts and emotions)
once you have reached the state of dis-association from thoughts (=do not associate gods with Me)
and KNOW you are NOT them (= la illaha = there is no god)
then TRUTH remains -UNCLOUDED- for you to SEE
there is ONLY ONE (ill Allah)
but those who meditate not
they let thoughts to accumulate themselves
as sedimentation happens in river bed
and what was before only an immaterial thought
becomes your physical condition
which can only decay and never be everlasting.
as it is said in quran,
surah al israa (=The Ascension) :
Say [to the people] that the Spirit of Truth has come and falsehood has vanished.
Qur'an [17: 82]and that,
“Everything will perish, save His Face.” Quran [28:88]
From the interpretation of Ibn Kathīr: And God, the Most High's statement that “Everything will perish save His Face” shows that He is the Eternal, the Everlasting, the Ever-Living and the Self-Existent, who does not die while all of creation will die. As God, the Most High said “Everything on this earth will perish, but forever will abide the Face of your Lord, full of Might and Glory”, and ‘Face’ denotes the Being (of Allāh).
and
are thoughts not our creation ?
is not a skyscraper a thought initially? which has been fed enough to become a repetitive idea, then a decision and then a design on paper and finally a building?
it means not, "do not think",
but means do NOT IDENTIFY yourself with/nor love/nor devote your life for thoughts
that YOU have created!
they are only a creation of yours
and act as waves :
they come and GO.
but seek something ETERNAL, EVER-LASTING
which WAS, IS and WILL EVER BE
and that is YOUR TRUE NATURE.
The Pure Spirit breathed by Allah in Adam.
This is The Light of His in us
and those who seek, find :
O you who believe! whoever from among you turns back from his religion, then Allah will bring a people,
He shall love them and they shall love Him,
lowly before the believers,
mighty against the unbelievers,
they shall strive hard in Allah's way and shall not fear the censure of any censurer;
this is Allah's Face,
He gives it to whom He pleases, and Allah is Ample-giving, Knowing.
Quran [5:54]
Everything will perish, save His Face ...
