Reluctantly, Suleiman agreed to a single session. The old man opened the manuscript to a passage on al-fayḍ al-aqdas (the most holy emanation). As he recited — not in a lecture tone, but in a low, rhythmic chant — Suleiman felt a strange warmth spread from his chest to his fingertips. The words seemed to bypass his intellect entirely, landing directly into the silent space behind his thoughts.
But Suleiman replied, "Jurisprudence tells me what is lawful and unlawful. This book tells me what is real ." Al-fuyudat Ar-rabbaniyya Arabic Pdf
The climax came one night during the tahajjud prayer (night vigil). As he prostrated, the words of al-Bakkāʾī surfaced from memory: "The effusion is not a thing you see. It is the seeing itself." In that instant, the boundary between Suleiman and the act of prostration dissolved. There was no Suleiman prostrating to God. There was only prostration. Only effusion. Only rabbāniyya . Reluctantly, Suleiman agreed to a single session
That night, Suleiman could not sleep. He sat on the roof of his family compound, watching the stars wheel over the Niger River. For the first time, he did not try to categorize the stars by their names or astrological meanings. He simply let them be signs of something beyond signs. A single verse from the Qur'an (24:35) echoed in him: "Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth." But now the light felt not like a metaphor — but like a current entering his very bones. The words seemed to bypass his intellect entirely,