Remembrance Meditation: Al-Wasi‘ The All-Embracing

This Sufi meditation is focused on invoking and reciting the Divine Name "Al-Wasi: The All-Embracing, The All-Reaching, The Endless." An opportunity to quiet the mind and allow your awareness to expand to a place where there is space for everything.

Transcript

My name is Elizabeth Rejana and I'll be leading you in your remembrance meditation today.

Prayer is when we're speaking to God and meditation is when we're receiving and listening.

And Sufi meditation or remembrance has elements of both.

Today I'd like to start out with prayer and then move into meditation and receiving.

So if you all could just allow yourselves to relax into your seat wherever you might be sitting or standing or lying down and just setting the intention that during this time you're wanting to reconnect or become aware of your connection to your divine creator.

Knowing that this is always there but we don't always acknowledge it or recognize it or experience it through our awareness.

So the intention is to open the meditation,

To open the meditation with prayer and invocation evoking from within us a willingness to connect and commune with the divine and then asking the divine to come and be with us in a special way.

So I'm going to recite a prayer called Al-Fatiha which is also the first surah or chapter in the Quran and it's a very beautiful and healing prayer.

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim As-siratan mustaqeem As-siratan ladhina anam talihim Ghayru maqdub ilayhim Wal adhoyim Ameen So I'd like to ask you now to just focus in your heart allowing your awareness to drop from your mind deep into the center of your being at your heart with the intention to connect with and remember your beloved God,

Your divine creator who created everything out of the deep love.

I'm taking a couple of deep breaths also feeling your body as we connect with this intention to focus on our heart and to remember our divine creator in doing so we quiet our personality and we connect more deeply with our eternal essence and our true nature.

We remember God and then we remember who we are.

Focusing in the heart going down and inside and behind and behind that is the intention of the prayer.

Focusing in the heart going down and inside and behind and behind is one of the ways we can connect with our soul with our more eternal self Quieting the mind and allowing our awareness to expand to the place where there's space for everything.

So today I'd like to focus our meditation on a particular divine name and this divine name is pronounced Al-Waasi.

So Al meaning the and Waasi in the transliteration W-A-S-I it means the all embracing the endless the all reaching.

I'm going to read a small excerpt from a book called Divine Names the 99 Healing Names of the One Love by Rosina Fauzia Arawi and this book describes the divine names which are also described as the qualities of God reminding us of who God is who God tells us that God is.

And so the thing I really love about this particular divine name Al-Waasi is that Al-Waasi really helps with this time of year for me when the days are shorter and there can be some overwhelm and there can be some kind of slowing down some emotional depression that can come in.

And when we recite a divine name we can say Al-Waasi or we can say Ya-Waasi and Ya means Oh or Come so it's more of an invocation and Al-Waasi is just a naming which can be more intimate but I'm going to be using Ya because we're invoking and we're showing politeness and asking for this quality to be increased in our life and our heart.

So the excerpt says Al-Waasi the All Embracing the Endless the All Reaching God's fullness embraces all beings and things.

This divine name manifests greatness,

Power,

And open handedness and it shows God's boundless generosity and all encompassing presence.

Al-Waasi is the one who can hold everything and who makes space for everything.

Al-Waasi widens that which is narrow or limited be it on the personal,

Financial,

Or professional level and through Al-Waasi's open handedness makes space for new paths and opportunities.

Those who suffer from the weight of their responsibilities and their difficult work can strengthen relief if they keep repeating this name which can also heal those diseases called jealousy and revenge.

Depression can be alleviated and dissipated by repeating this name 137 times.

This name also reflects the kindness and the mercy over and around everything.

Knowing that and knowing that you are protected,

That you and all beings are taken care of.

Open your heart,

Have trust,

And grant your heart the honor of knowing the All Embracing wisdom.

To let the divine quality Al-Waasi grow in us means to develop the capacity to hold and embrace everything that comes to us in whatever shape or form.

No matter what happens to us through all difficulties and problems,

We human beings always have a choice either to stretch or to break.

We are always between neediness and capacity.

Therefore recognize the neediness so that the capacity may be growing in you and see that a situation that comes to you is there to teach you to expand inside in order to develop and bring to life new capacities in you.

To expand,

Use this every day of this life to widen our fearful heart,

Our sharp mind.

What beauty we carry within.

And so in order to receive with openness all of the things that life brings to us,

To embrace all with the same welcome,

To be able to be with what arises,

We recite Al-Waasi.

And so to begin I'd like to start with remembering the first name,

The 99 names,

Allah.

I'm calling upon Allah,

Ya Allah.

We're asking God to open our capacity to receive more light,

To receive more connection,

To understand our true nature and relationship to our divine creator.

So again taking another deep breath,

Allowing your focus to move into your heart,

Imagining that your heart has its own consciousness,

Which it does,

And complement to the mind.

The mind is a servant to the heart,

Allowing your heart to see and hear and sense and speaking from your heart,

Reciting the name Allah.

Bismillah ir-Rahman ir-Rahim,

In the name of the One,

The Most Merciful,

The Compassionate.

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Our human condition to really just want the things that we prefer.

But our soul is more interested in our overall growth and meeting our preferences.

And our beloved God creates for us experiences in our spiritual walking that help us to heal,

To grow,

To expand our capacity,

To be present,

To contain,

To be there for others,

To connect more deeply.

Now just offering whatever these situations might be where we see there might be limitation,

Where we maybe can't hold to opposing thoughts or to opposing emotions.

The All Embracing Awasya creates space for everything and allows us to be with our personality and with our soul and with our divine essence all at once.

So asking in your heart for a law to come and to help you to be able to hold with mercy all of the pieces of our lives.

So I'm going to read a little bit more about Awasya from Rosina Al Rawi's book.

The combination of the divine name Yawasya and Yarraheem,

The singularly compassionate Yarraheem,

Helps us when we're afraid of closeness,

Of going into relationships,

Of letting go and surrendering out of fear of losing our identity.

Yawasya helps us find a balance between fencing off others and forgetting ourselves in a relationship.

Through excessive identification with the other.

Yawasya also helps us balance between the flexibility that life demands of us with its constant changes and the belief in continuity that enables us to participate in life in a constructive way.

A law is called Awasya ar-Rahma.

Rich in mercy and awasya al-adal,

Rich in justice.

May repeating Yawasya let the divine wind of mercy set our heart upright and align it.

People who feel overwhelmed by the burden they carry in terms of work or responsibility can find help in reciting this divine name.

Yawasya is the name that fosters healing,

Especially in times of difficulty and depression.

Because the disease of the soul always results from feelings of separation.

Depression is that state when the people and circumstances around us no longer touch or nurture us.

When we can no longer touch them or connect with them and we feel as if we have lost our place on earth.

Yawasya opens again the gentle gates of connectedness,

Expanse and joy.

So repeat Yawasya with soft lips.

Massage your breast with the richness of this name.

Forgive yourself and others and come back.

The divine name Awasya carries endless kindness and the quality of forgiveness.

It gives us the capacity to open our arms even in times of constriction and even to those who have brought about those difficulties and that constriction.

O Allah,

Expand and increase my noble qualities and my knowledge of You and expand my light and my abilities so that I may recognize Your manifestations.

So I'm going to recite now and hopefully you can recite with me Yawasya Yar Rahim.

O the all embracing,

O the singularly compassionate and allowing this mercy to pour through your heart into your world and to the hearts of everyone around you.

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim in the name of the one,

The most merciful,

The singularly compassionate.

Yawasya Yar Rahim.

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Checking with your heart,

Noticing the state of your being.

Noticing the qualities of mercy and expansiveness.

Allowing yourself to receive even more deeply.

And giving thanks.

That even when we're not aware,

This quality is always being poured out to us.

And so I'd like to end today's remembrance meditation with a prayer for peace.

And now ending again with the prayer that we started with.

Al-Fatiha,

The opener.

And may we be able to pour out into our lives and throughout our personality all that we've received.

In the name of Allah,

The Merciful,

The Compassionate.

All praise belongs to Allah,

The Lord of all worlds.

And may we be able to pour out into our lives and throughout our personality all that we've received.

And may we be able to pour out into our lives and throughout our personality all that we've received.

Ameen.

Reviews

Beautiful!!! Alhamdulilah! Thanks to your heart ! From a beloved in MexicoCity:)

Incredible. Alhamdulillah.

I love the chanting, soothing voice, and deepening that this meditation brought me.

Thank you. Haven’t found a practice on here like this before. Really appreciated it. I️ hope you do more from the 99 namese.

Really enjoyed. Thank you.