Keeping the negative energy away is our whole path, our path is based on that. To give a little sort of summary of what we are trying to accomplish is an internal protection and external protection. External and internal protection are related. It means that the strength of the internal protection and the practices begins to create a field of energy that protects us externally. So the internal practices would involve washing, the understanding of how to wash, the understanding of what to eat and not to eat.
Clean Your Food’s Energy with a Prayer
What we are going to bring into the body through our mouth and through our eating and drinking has tremendous amounts of negative energy. There is a power of praying over our food, mentioning the names of pious people over the food. Prophet ﷺ’s teaching is that any time you mention pious people, “tanzil ar-rahmah,” it brings a rahmah and a mercy.
عِنْدَ ذِكْرِ الصَّالِحِينَ تَنْزِلُ الرَّحْمَةُ
“Inda dhikres Saliheena Tanzilur Rahma.”
“In mentioning the names of the pious people, Allah’s Mercy descends.” Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ)
So then the power of praying over that food, watching what type of food you eat, the energy from that food, who is preparing that food. Then how to eat and drink, the adab (manners) of the eating and drinking, that, preferably eat with the right hand because we use left hand for cleaning ourselves. All of those mannerisms are then going to determine the quality of energy that is entering within ourselves.
Then our practices, our zikr, our wudu (ablution), our namaaz (daily prayer), the different prayers – all of those again begin to build the inner energy. Then the most important in that development is when we are trying our best to perfect our self.
Negative Energy moves through the Blood
Prophet ﷺ ’s teaching is that the evilness is moving through our blood.
قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: إِنَّ الشَّيْطَانَ يَجْرِي مِنْ الْإِنْسَانِ مَجْرَى الدَّمِ.” صحيح مسلم
Qala Rasulallah (ﷺ): “Innash Shaitana yajri minal Insani majrad dami.”
The Prophet said, “Satan circulates in the human being as blood circulates in the body” [Sahih Muslim 2174]
Evilness gains access into the being, to a black spot onto the heart. So it operates heart at the level of the qalb, enters into the heart, moves throughout the body through the blood. That’s why in the purification of meat, we eat meat that the blood has been taken out of the animal, because the dirtiness and the bad energy is within that blood.
So the concept of the halal, the zabiha, all of those are tremendous energy practices as we begin to open up and understand that the energy I have within me, how am I going to control that negativity? So then what I’m eating and what I’m drinking, praying over it. Then understand the energy internally, the different chantings, the different zikr, the different practices- all of that going to build the energy purification internally. And then that energy begins to provide an energy and a force field outside and begins to push away negativity.
The earth is in a fast motion and the core of the earth has a magnetic core, the iron within the earth. It moves and because of the speed and the movement, it creates a force field around the earth. That force field is protecting the earth from all sorts of penetration. That as things are penetrating and astroids and all sorts of rays and things that are trying to hit to the earth, by the force field inside the earth produces an energy that called the Van Allen belt.
So then the core is going to determine the quality of the external. If the core not strong, then the external has no protection. So if the earth’s core stops, there is no more shield. The sun will completely burn us, annihilate us. So then in ourselves, the strength of the core practices within ourselves, the part that people don’t see, going to determine the field of energy that we have as a protection. And the strength of that protection will repel and push away negativity.
So the fastest way towards that perfection is in the madad of the master(any spiritual master in tassuwaf or directly from Allah SWT). That bringing the presence of the master and the perfection of his light or their light into my life. As he begins to dress me from his perfection, then it’s no longer me only trying to build myself to push things back because God wants us to know that our life is about a companionship and fellowship- a fellowship of the ring.
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا اتَّقُوا اللّهَ وَكُونُوا مَعَ الصَّادِقِينَ ١١٩
9:119 – “Ya ayyuhal ladheena amano ittaqollaha wa kono ma’as sadiqeen.” (Surat at Tawba)
“O you who have believed, have consciousness of Allah and be with those who are truthful/pious (in words and deed).” (The Repentance 9:119)
Means the company we keep is going to be very important. So when we seek out that pious company, then we trying to attune our self to their energies. So the whole concept of the meditation and Sufi muraqabah (spiritual connection) is that we are calling upon these masters to dress us from their spiritual presence: visualizing their presence, keeping them always around us, looking at their picture, remembering them, remembering them, remembering them.