One morning, while drawing water from the well, Suleiman heard a donkey bray, a child laugh, and a merchant haggle over salt. Normally, these sounds would be noise. Now, they seemed to be modulations of the same divine speech . He wept without sadness and laughed without joy — a state the book called sukr (divine intoxication).
The old man said: "The Lordly effusion never ceases. It is not something you earn. It is something you stop blocking." Al-fuyudat Ar-rabbaniyya Arabic Pdf
One day, an elderly blind faqir arrived in the city. He carried nothing but a worn leather satchel. From it, he took a single manuscript: Al-Fuyuḍāt al-Rabbāniyya by al-Bakkāʾī al-Kuntī. The old man said, "This book does not teach you about God. It teaches you how to be dissolved in His effusions." One morning, while drawing water from the well,
His old scholar friends were alarmed. "You are losing your reason," they said. "Come back to jurisprudence." He wept without sadness and laughed without joy
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.
Suleiman never became a famous teacher. He spent the rest of his days tending a small garden outside Timbuktu. But those who visited him — even for a few minutes — left with a strange lightness. They could not explain it. But they had tasted a drop of al-fayḍ al-rabbānī .
But Suleiman replied, "Jurisprudence tells me what is lawful and unlawful. This book tells me what is real ."