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MYSTICISM OF DARVISHES: MURAQBAH INSILA AND TAWAJJUH
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MURAQBAH, INSILĀ AND TAWAJJUH There are two spiritual conditons resulting from contemplation and prayerfulness: one is called Murāgabah and the other insilā. The former is an ordinary state of pious contemplation in wakeful moments when the senses are overpowered by the soul-force but the body and the soul are unseparated; the latter is the condition when the soul leaves the body and wanders about without regard to time or space. "It was in this latter (condition) that the Prophet is believd to have ascended in the spirit to heaven, borne there on an imaginary celestial animal, called the Burāq"-says Brown. Shaikh Muhyy-ud-Din al-'Arabi describes the insila and also speaks of his having exercised fascination i.e. habs-e-nazr (meaning fixing of the gaze) and having arrested another until he obtained an answer from him so that the latter was unable to move at all until permitted to do so by the former. Ibn-'Isāi founder of the Order of 'Isawis explains in a work written by hin the above phenomenon. Talib signifies the Darvish or the active agent. Matlab is the person desired to appear. Mulälata is the action of thought of the Talib* compelling the Matlab* to appear.
Tawajjuh is the producing of the person. Ahl-e-hal is the person having power of making others appear. Ahl-e-tasarruf is the holy person possessing the power. Hal is the state of ecstasy into which the person goes who makes the absent appear to him. Hal is the condition of perfect submission of the person thus appearing to the power of the Hál. Shughl is operation of the performance of this act of power. Tasawwur is visualizing the matlab in imagination.
Tawajjuh is produced in two manners: firstly by fixing one's gaze upon the heart of the matlāb and secondly not by looking at his heart but hy praying to the Almighty. One must continue to pray with warmth and fervour until the matláb finally appears. Then the Talib blows as it were in the mouth of the matlab reciting the invocation
* Talib and Matlūh are the same as the Sadhaka and Sadhya of the Tantrikas.
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