I really love your sharing with us your meditation, I can research and learn so much from you @steemitcountry. I was raised Christian and have loved God since my Mom caught me getting dressed at the age of three getting ready to go to Church to be with God. My Mom wasn't very religious but my Dad was, however he was flying missions and gone all the time so we didn't go to church that often and I really loved going to Church. My Dad was a navigator and Captain in the air force. He died when I was around five years old and my Mom didn't go to church. But I started going to church by myself when I was around 12 years old.

The Christians I grew up with thought meditation was evil. They thought I was doing the devils work when I started going to Buddhist retreat. I think they need to start meditating and practicing loving kindness (metta) and compassion (karuna ). However I met lots of Christians at vipassana retreat including Catholic monks and nuns who told me meditation helped them hear God instead of hearing their own wants and needs.

When as I grew older I found that praying wasn't enough to remove my conditioning and I started lookiing for something that would help me let go and found Buddhism. I wasn't born a Buddhist and I don't really call myself a Buddhist but I follow the lessons taught by Buddha. One of my teachers, my meditation teacher SN Goenka (he has passed away) told me the art of living is the art of dying. When I die I won't be afraid and I will be able to see reality as it is or maybe even see God when I leave this body.

I am researching all the information you leave, I really love the Sufi practices, they speak to my heart.

A friend of my husband went to the Middle East to find a real Sufi teacher, one with a lineage that is still active. He told my husband it was difficult to find a qualified Sufi master from a real live lineage. I hope your practice continues to prosper!

I found this link

http://www.sufischool.org/practises/muraqabah.html