Sometimes I am stuck in a whirlpool of my own making.  It is a whirlpool that pulls me down and keeps my heart imprisoned to that which Allah does not have hubb-love for.  

It is only through the arrival of my true companions (ashāb) and the guidance and example that they set that I am gifted to exit that centripetal force.

Oh Allah!  Alllow us to always be in the companionship of those that elevate us to greater and greater spiritual heights and freedom.  Oh Allah! Make us from truthful – the siddiqīn…