Sulam Nurul Muttashil Epilogue: Return Before Death - The Essence of the Light Journey

"Everything that originates from Light will return to the Source of Light" - Epilogue of Sulam Nurul Muttashil

EPILOGUE

سُلَّمُ النُّورِ الْمُتَّصِلِ

SULAM NURUL MUTTASHIL

The Ladder of Connected Light

Epilogue: Return Before Death

The Essence of the Light Journey

"Everything that originates from Light will return to the Source of Light."

Sulam Nurul Muttashil began with a simple question: how does the human soul return to Allah? The answer is not found in theory, but in the gradual experience depicted as a journey from Womb to Womb.

The first seven chapters outline the map of this journey. The last four chapters provide the theological and practical foundations. Yet all these explanations only come alive when practiced. Sholawat Nurul Muttashil is the means (wasilah) that connects the reader with the system described in this book.

مَن يَهْدِ اللَّهُ فَهُوَ الْمُهْتَدِ ۖ وَمَن يُضْلِلْ فَلَن تَجِدَ لَهُ وَلِيًّا مُّرْشِدًا

"Whoever Allah guides is the [rightly] guided; and whoever He leaves astray, never will you find for him a protecting guide."

Source: Surah Al-Kahfi (18):17

This verse affirms that guidance is the absolute right of Allah. Without the activation of the Nurul Muttashil circuit, help from any created being will not have any real saving impact.

اللَّهُ نُورُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ ۚ مَثَلُ نُورِهِ كَمِشْكَاةٍ فِيهَا مِصْبَاحٌ

"Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The example of His light is like a niche within which is a lamp."

Source: Surah An-Nur (24):35

Nurul Muttashil works following the pattern of this verse: Mishkat is the prepared structure of the human soul, Misbah is the active transmitter of guidance.

أَوَمَن كَانَ مَيْتًا فَأَحْيَيْنَاهُ وَجَعَلْنَا لَهُ نُورًا يَمْشِي بِهِ فِي النَّاسِ كَمَن مَّثَلُهُ فِي الظُّلُمَاتِ لَيْسَ بِخَارِجٍ مِّنْهَا

"And is one who was dead and We gave him life and made for him a light by which to walk among the people like one who is in darkness, never to emerge therefrom?"

Source: Surah Al-An'am (6):122

The essence of this practice is the realization of existence, like a fetus in the womb: it does not need to know the face of its mother, does not need to understand the mechanism of growth, it only needs to receive and feel the blessing of nurturing, protection, and care.

يَا أَيُّهَا النَّبِيُّ إِنَّا أَرْسَلْنَاكَ شَاهِدًا وَمُبَشِّرًا وَنَذِيرًا وَدَاعِيًا إِلَى اللَّهِ بِإِذْنِهِ وَسِرَاجًا مُّنِيرًا

"O Prophet, indeed We have sent you as a witness and a bringer of good tidings and a warner. And as one who invites to Allah by His permission, and as an illuminating lamp."

Source: Surah Al-Ahzab (33):45-46

قَدْ جَاءَكُم مِّنَ اللَّهِ نُورٌ وَكِتَابٌ مُّبِينٌ

"There has come to you from Allah a light and a clear Book."

Source: Surah Al-Ma'idah (5):15

يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ قَدْ جَاءَكُم بُرْهَانٌ مِّن رَّبِّكُمْ وَأَنزَلْنَا إِلَيْكُمْ نُورًا مُّبِينًا

"O mankind, there has come to you a clear proof from your Lord, and We have sent down to you a clear light."

Source: Surah An-Nisa (4):174

يَا أَيَّتُهَا النَّفْسُ الْمُطْمَئِنَّةُ ﴿٢٧﴾ ارْجِعِي إِلَىٰ رَبِّكِ رَاضِيَةً مَرْضِيَّةً ﴿٢٨﴾

"O reassured soul, return to your Lord, well-pleased and pleasing."

Source: Surah Al-Fajr (89):27-28

The compiler does not own this teaching. The name Zainal Ibnu Zahr is a sign, not a claim. Light cannot be owned, only connected. Wushul is a return, not an achievement.

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ABOUT THE COMPILER

Khādim an-Nūr (Servant of the Light)

بِسْمِ اللّٰهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيْمِ
السَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَةُ اللّٰهِ وَبَرَكَاتُهُ

Zainal Ibnu Zahr is not a birth name. It is used as a marker of adab (spiritual etiquette) and trust. The compiler is not a scholar, a guide (murshid), or a holy teacher. He is merely a muallif (compiler) and khādim (servant) who was given the trust to write what flows in inner experience and silence.

This work was compiled using the method of tabula rasa—emptying oneself from previous understandings to allow truth to speak directly from its source. Everything written comes from Allah, through the means (wasilah) of Nur Muhammad ﷺ and Sayyidah Fatimah Az-Zahra. The compiler is only the guardian of the gate of adab, not the owner of this garden of light.

"I am not the owner of this garden. I only know where the gate is."
— Zainal Ibnu Zahr
Khadim An Nur (Servant of the Sons and Daughters of Light, Practitioners of Nurul Muttashil)
under the shade of the Light of Ummi Sayyidah Fatimah Az-Zahra AS wa RA

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GLOSSARY

Key Terms in Sulam Nurul Muttashil

Ahadiyah

The Absolute Essence of Allah, without tajalli (manifestation), without attributes, without creation. The sacred boundary of tawhid that cannot be reached by the senses, intellect, or spiritual experience.

Barzakh

The separating barrier or waiting room between the Womb of Earth and the Womb of the Light of Az-Zahra. Not a womb and not a purifier, but a place for the separation of worldly attachments.

Fana

The dissolution of the servant's ego in the unity of Divine attributes. Not self-annihilation, but return.

Hidayah (Guidance)

Divine guidance that comes through the connection of the soul with Light. Not an achievement, but a gift.

Inshirah

Expansion of the chest. The first phenomenon of the opening of consciousness when the coral of the ego begins to crack.

Ittishal

Connection. The linking of the soul with Divine Light through the means (wasilah) of Sholawat.

Ma'rifah

True knowledge of Allah. Not intellectual knowledge, but direct experience of truth through an open heart.

Mahdiyyin

Guided ones. An inner quality, not a political identity or exclusive claim.

Mithaq

The primordial covenant. The first womb in the realm of origin when Allah took the testimony of souls.

Nurul Muttashil

The connecting light. The divine function that organizes every part of the human self to be under Divine control.

Rahim (Womb)

A place of protection and growth. In Sulam Nurul Muttashil, the Womb is a metaphor for each phase of the soul's journey.

Ruh Munfasil

The outermost fragment of the self's light that fetches the intellect when the skin of the heart begins to crack.

Ruh Muttashil

The true guide that is always connected to Nur Muhammad. The pilot of consciousness at the center of the heart's orbit.

Tajalli

Manifestation of Divine light. The appearance of Allah's Attributes, not His Essence.

Tazkiyah

Purification. The process of calibrating the eight cables of attributes so that the conductivity of light is maximized.

Wahdaniyah

The Unity of Allah's Attributes. The first station of tajalli, where Nur Muhammad was born as the crystallization of light.

Wushul

Return. Not a spiritual achievement, but returning to Allah with order.

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REFERENCES

Primary and Secondary Sources

A. The Holy Qur'an

Mushaf Al-Qur'an with Uthmani script. Referenced verses are spread across 55 surahs.

Al-Baqarah (2, 20, 28, 29, 156, 195, 249, 257, 282) Ali Imran (6, 7, 79) An-Nisa (43, 174) Al-Ma'idah (15, 35) Al-An'am (103, 122) Al-A'raf (11, 156, 172) Yunus (12) Ar-Ra'd (8, 28) An-Nahl (102) Al-Isra (1, 85) Al-Kahfi (17) Maryam (58) Taha (55, 110) Al-Anbiya (16, 107) Al-Hajj (46) Al-Mu'minun (100) An-Nur (35) Al-Furqan (2, 58) Ash-Shu'ara (88-89) Al-Ankabut (69) As-Sajdah (7, 9, 24) Al-Ahzab (6, 33, 45-46, 56) Az-Zumar (22, 42) Ghafir (60) Fussilat (30, 53) Ash-Shura (11, 23) Muhammad (17) Qaf (16, 37) An-Najm (11, 42) Ar-Rahman (7-8) Al-Hadid (3, 4) Al-Hashr (22) At-Talaq (3) Al-Mulk (14) Nuh (10, 28) Al-Jinn (26-27) Al-Buruj (14, 21-22) Al-Fajr (27-30) Ash-Shams (9) Ad-Duha (6) Al-Inshirah (1) Al-'Alaq (19) Al-Bayyinah (5) Az-Zalzalah (4-5) Al-Kautsar (1-3) Al-Ikhlas (1-4)

B. Prophetic Hadith

• Sahih Al-Bukhari (Numbers: 1, 39, 3336, 3714, 3768, 5971, 5988, 7386)

• Sahih Muslim (Numbers: 408, 482, 1907, 2408, 2444, 2449, 2450, 2541, 2548, 2638, 2643, 2704, 2816, 2985)

• Sunan At-Tirmidhi (Numbers: 1924, 2155, 3609, 3788, 3866, 3870)

• Sunan Abu Dawud (Numbers: 8, 2041, 4700)

• Al-Mustadrak 'ala ash-Shahihain, by Al-Hakim

C. Scholarly References

• Ibn 'Arabi, Muhyiddin. Al-Futuhat Al-Makkiyah

• Al-Ghazali, Abu Hamid. Ihya' 'Ulumuddin

• Al-Ghazali, Abu Hamid. Al-Maqshad al-Asna

• Ash-Sha'rani, Abdul Wahhab. Al-Yawaqit wa al-Jawahir

• Hamka. Tafsir Al-Azhar