' The Child of the Moment '...

“A famous aphorism tells us,,"The Sufi is the child of the moment“ (as-sufi ibn al-waqt).. One of its meanings is, that the true Sufi lives in the constant awareness that his self is nothing, but what he is at the present moment.. And since each present moment, is unique,, each moment of the self is unique.. In some Sufi texts,, each moment is called a nafas,, a breath.“.. The Sufis are then called „the folk of the breaths“ (ahl al-anfas),,, because, they live in full awareness, of the uniqueness of the nafs at each nafas,, each breath,, each instant..... (p. 55-56)” ..... William C. Chittick,, Sufism: A Beginner's Guide