Rising Through the Levels: How Spiritual Practice Prepares Us to Bend Time
Spiritual mass, presence, and the structured path to bending time and space. For centuries, Muslims have read stories about tayy al‑arḍ — the ability of prophets, saints, and the awliyā’ to cross great distances instantly. Many imagine this as a miracle granted only to a few. Yet our own texts hint that this phenomenon is not just an external miracle but a direct outcome of spiritual density — what physics would call “mass” — built up through practice. In physics, mass bends time. The greater the mass, the slower time flows around it. If spiritual “mass” is real — the weight of purity, dhikr, knowledge, and presence — then time itself can bend around the soul. In our structured levels of practice , this is exactly what is happening: Levels 1–2 purify the vessel, stabilizing the ego through ritual, dhikr, and discipline. Levels 3–4 expand perception with tafsīr, fasāha, and balāgha, teaching the soul to hold multiple realities at once. Higher levels build high‑density pr...