This book is about the biography of a prominent contemporary Sufi
mystic Sheikh Ramadan Deeb al-Dimashqi who is a Sea that minds are
incapable of sailing in his horizons, and imagination is unable to
dive into his depths; yet I want people to know him, though I
realize that my depiction cannot satisfy some of the least of his
attributes, and my words shall no doubt fail to reach the first
degree of high principle, because he combines between the most
decent dignities and simplicity and humility, even many people
around him probably do not pay attention to his presence, while
among the righteous knowledgeable Gnostics he is a shining full
moon and bright light, whose gesture is worth the most precious
gems, and whose Secret is always surrounded by sanctification. When
I met him for the first time, I was confronted with a myriad of
surprises; when I entered the guest room in his home in the Mosque
of Abu-l-Nour, where he meets students and answers questions from
the general people who seek him every day in dozens, so when I
entered I thought to a good degree of certainty that I am in the
workshop of an electrical engineer, and then I said to myself: No,
he must be an electronics engineer, but then I saw other types of
different tools that filled the corners of the small room whose
walls are also filled with books which includes varieties of books
in different languages. Yet I was told that he conducts all such
crafts and reads in all these books and references Then after he
welcomed us and exchange some talking, I began to realize as if he
knows me very well, no but he seemed to really know me more than I
know myself; and he was wisely and ingeniously able to diagnose my
complications and explain them to me without letting anybody feel
that he was speaking personally about me I definitely felt, without
the slightest doubt, that I was an open book in front of him, and
for the first time in my life I realized in practical concrete
terms the divine narration that says: "watch the insight of the
believer since he looks with the light of God." Thus, not only his
shirt and cap are white and his beard is white, but his heart is a
white polished mirror in which reflected the light of God which
allows him to see. He filled his time with teaching and learning
the Koran and hadith, and dedicated himself to the service of
people who come to him from all over the cities and countries, for
their slight affairs and complicated problems, and they find in him
the compassionate Father and Brother, both in worldly matters or in
matters of religion; since he is knowledgeable in various sciences
of jurisprudence and general affairs of religion, and in medical
sciences, as he used to work as physician, and he is expert in
electrical engineering and electronics, construction, mechanics,
agriculture, and even in the Culinary Arts and foods; he simply
does not waste a glimpse of his time but only in science, either
learning and teaching. Yet, although he is prominent mystic and
expert master in the spiritual sciences, he relies mainly on usual
discipline and normal causes. As he was born in 1921, just after
the first world war, when Syria was occupied by France, he was
unable to follow the usual education program, thus he was
illiterate, but he started to take make-up courses at the age of 20
and he took the BSc at the age of 65, and the PhD at the age of 89.
Despite his advanced age, he still carries on all his work by his
hands, driving every day before dawn from his family house in the
countryside to the town center in Damascus to the Mosque of
Abu-l-Nour where he performs the prayers and gives many of his
weekly preaching sessions and meet all the people who come to seek
his advice or help. He has been following this same program for
decades, allowing himself only few hours for sleep. Yet he only
sleeps by the phone and answers his many students and others who
call him from all over the world sometimes not observing the time
difference.
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