Kaleed ul Tauheed Kalan (The Key of Divine Oneness (Detailed)) by Sultan ul Faqr Publications

KALEED-UL-TAUHEED KALAN English Translation with Persian Text

Author Sultan-ul-Arifeen Sultan Bahoo

Translated Mrs. Ambreen Moghees Sarwari Qadri

SULTAN-UL-FAQR PUBLICATIONS LAHORE PAKISTAN

Dedicated to my Spiritual Guide Sultan-ul-Ashiqeen Sultan Mohammad Najib-ur-Rehman Without his favour and kindness I am nothing

CONTENT Page No. Preface

Short biography of Sultan-ul-Arifeen Sultan Bahoo

Kaleed-ul-Tauheed Kalan-English Translation

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Eulogy in the praise of Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani

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Explanation of the Mohammadan Assembly and Discussion about Meditation, Invocation, Concentration, Unveiling, Self-Accountability, Levels and Ranks

Explanation of the Perfect Assembly, Invocation and Glorification

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Explanation of the Mohammadan Assembly

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Levels of Annihilation in the sacred Name of Mohammad and the Divine Presence gained though it 102

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Explanation of Spiritual Guide and Seeker

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Further Explanation of Spiritual Guide and Seeker

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Explanation of Pre-Existence, Eternal End and the Entire Creation According to Respective Levels

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States of Gnosis of Divine Union, Annihilation of Innerself, Life of Inward and Immortality of Soul

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Explanation of Contemplation of Annihilation in the Perfect Mystic Spiritual Guide

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Explanation of Certainty

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Forty Authentic Hadiths about the Fuqara

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The Fourth Treasure-Explanation of Dawat

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Explanation of terminologies

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Glossary

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Original Persian Text

PREFACE Tauheed, literally meaning the Divine Oneness, is the basic pillar and foundation of Islam. Common Muslims consider that the requirement of this most important pillar of Islam is fulfilled just by declaring “La illaha ilAllahoo” i.e. “No one is worthy of worship but Allah” by tongue and superficially believing that Allah is the Creator, Master and Sustainer of every creation and only He should be worshipped. They neither know the essence of Tauheed nor verify it inwardly. That is why the Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: There are many who recite the creed verbally but only a few say it sincerely. For the Mystics, Tauheed means that only Allah exists and none else. They become one with The One and see Divine Oneness everywhere. They love, fear and trust only Allah, entrust all their matters to Him and keep their hopes only in Him which is the essence of Tauheed. The book “Kaleed-ul-Tauheed” meaning “The Key of Divine Oneness” and its teachings are a source to reach the veritable Tauheed through the medium of perfect spiritual guide of Sultan Bahoo‟s Sarwari Qadri order. Without strengthening the foundation of Islam i.e. Tauheed, it is impossible to fulfill other obligations as Allah desires. To spread the valuable teachings of Sultan Bahoo all over the world, his spiritual descendant Sultan-ul-Ashiqeen Sultan Mohammad Najib-ur-Rehman took up the responsibility to translate all the books of Sultan Bahoo from Persian to English and blessed me with this auspicious duty and the spiritual help and favour to perform it. Sultan-ul-Ashiqeen Sultan Mohammad Najib-ur-Rehman is the present perfect spiritual guide of Sarwari

9 Qadri order and the Reviver of Islam (Mujaddid1) of the millennium. To translate Kaleed-ul-Tauheed (Kalan), he provided me its following scripts; (1) Persian manuscript written by Sultan Mohammad Ibrahim in 1392 Hijri, printed in December 1993 by Asad Mehmood printing press, Rawalpindi. (2) Persian manuscript written by Faqeer Hazrat Ji son of Faqeer Mohammad Din in 1333 Hijri. (3) Printed Persian script along with Urdu translation done by Saad Ameer Khan Niazi. 1st edition published in 1993 and 3rd edition in July 2010. Sultan Bahoo used to write two volumes of his books; first detailed and the other brief. He added the Persian word “Kalan” meaning “big” to the title of the detailed book and “Khurd” meaning “small” to the title of the brief book. This particular book is the Kaleed ul Tauheed Kalan i.e. The key of Divine Oneness (Detailed). Its second volume Kaleed ul Tauheed Khurd will be translated soon. The book in hand is the first ever English translation of Kaleed-ul-Tauheed (Kalan). I am truly thankful to Miss Fatima Irfan Sarwari Qadri for deducing and writing the correct Persian script and Mr. Mohammad Rashid Gulzar Sarwari Qadri for composing it. I am also thankful to Mr. Ahsan Ali Sarwari Qadri for composing and rechecking the Arabic verses and Hadiths. I would also like to thank my husband and fellow disciple Mr. Mohammad Moghees Afzal Sarwari Qadri for reviewing the book and helping in its proof reading. Without their cooperation and the spiritual beneficence of my spiritual guide Sultan

According to popular Hadith, it refers to a person who appears at the turn of every century of Islamic calendar to revive Islam, cleansing it from extraneous elements and restoring it to its pristine purity.

10 Mohammad Najib-ur-Rehman, it would have been impossible to complete the translation. In the book, Sultan Bahoo has very persuasively explained the requirements of the spiritual way that leads to Tauheed and makes a person true man of Allah granting His closeness and vision. His diction is pure and easy to understand. Although, it is not possible to maintain his style while translating his words from Persian to English but I have humbly tried my best to convey the true spirit of the words as per my understanding. It is hoped that the book is read with the passion to understand the essence of Tauheed and acquire it veritably.

Lahore

Mrs. Ambreen Moghees Sarwari Qadri

November, 2017

M.A. Mass Communication University of The Punjab

SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF SULTAN-UL-ARIFEEN SULTAN BAHOO Sultan-ul-Arifeen Sultan Bahoo was born on Thursday, the 1st of Jamadi-us-Sani2 in 1039 H (17 January, 1630 A.D)at dawn, in the reign of mughal emperor Shah Jahan in Shorkot, District Jhang, Pakistan (then India). He belonged to the “Awan” tribe of the progeny of Ali ibn Abi Talib. Awans are Ali‟s children from wives other than Fatima daughter of Mohammad. Sultan Bahoo‟s father Bazayd Mohammad was a soldier by profession and a titleholder in Shah Jahan‟s army. His mother, Bibi Rasti was a Saintly woman. She was spiritually informed of Sultan Bahoo‟s grandeur and spiritual status before his birth and according to his status of annihilation in Hoo3, his name Bahoo (One with Hoo ) was revealed to her. Sultan Bahoo says:

Meaning: Bahoo‟s mother named him Bahoo because Bahoo has always remained with Hoo . Sultan Bahoo was a Saint by birth. He remained engrossed in heavenly experiences and doubtless spiritual triumphs from his early age. Sultan Bahoo gained his early mystic and spiritual education from his mother. A non Muslim would immediately recite the Islamic creed and accept Islam if his eyes fell upon the Divine face of Sultan Bahoo, such was the intensity of the Divine theophanies radiating from him.

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6th month of Islamic calendar The Divine Essence

12 Sultan Bahoo states in his books, “I searched for a spiritual guide4 for thirty years but in vain”. It was because he already held such elevated levels of Faqr where access of anyone is extremely arduous. Sultan Bahoo relates one of his revelations in his books that one day, engrossed in Allah‟s vision, he was wandering in the suburbs of Shorkot when Ali ibn Abi Talib came and took him to the Mohammadan Assembly where the people of cloak5, the four pious Caliphs and Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani were also present. There, Sultan Bahoo took oath of allegiance6 at the sacred hand of Prophet Mohammad who entrusted him to Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani for further spiritual guidance. That is why Sultan Bahoo always refers Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani as his spiritual guide in his books. He says, “When Ghaus-ul-Azam Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani blessed me spiritually, I surpassed all the spiritual levels from eternal beginning till eternal end.” Afterwards, following the orders of Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani, Sultan Bahoo took oath of allegiance at the hand of Shaikh Pir Abdul Rehman Jilani Dehlvi who entrusted the Divine Trust of Faqr to Sultan Bahoo in just a single meeting. The splendour of Sultan Bahoo is beyond anyone‟s speculation. He is blessed with the extremities of Faqr and stationed at the status of Sultan-ul-Faqr V. He says, “The Holy Prophet has 4

Spiritual guide is English term for the Arabic word Murshid. Murshid is Quranic term and is also one of the attributive names of Allah. Murshid is not only the spiritual guide of the seekers of Allah but also their spiritual doctor who treats their spiritual diseases and trains them spiritually as a spiritual instructor. No one has ever reached Allah without the guidance of a perfect Murshid. 5 English phrase for the Arabic phrase “Ahl-e-Bait” which means “people of the Prophet‟s house” and refer to the five most sacred entities; the Holy Prophet himself, his loving daughter Fatima, her husband Ali ibn Abi Talib and their beloved sons Hassan and Hussain. They are titled as the people of cloak because once the Holy Prophet took them under his holy cloak and recited the verse 33 of surah Ahzab for them, meaning “Allah intends to remove from you (every kind of ) impurity, O‟ people of the (Prophet’s) household, and to purify you with (extensive) purification”. 6 Oath of allegiance refers to the mystic term „Bayat‟. When a person takes bayat, he becomes a disciple and hands over himself to his spiritual guide in exchange of spiritual guidance after bayat. This in fact is a pact between Allah and His slave which eternally bonds the spiritual guide with his disciple.

13 ordered me to guide everyone, Muslim or non Muslim, fortunate or unfortunate, alive or dead and he has titled me as Mustafa Sani (Mustafa the second) and Mujtaba Akhir Zamani (Mujtaba of the last era) with his pearl divulging tongue.” (Risala Roohi Sharif) The spiritual order of Sultan Bahoo is the Sarwari Qadri order. The Qadri order reaches Prophet Mohammad through Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani. There are two offshoots of Qadri order, Zahidi Qadri and Sarwari Qadri. Sultan Bahoo considers only the Sarwari Qadri order the proper and real Qadri order. He says:  Qadri order has two off shoots; Sarwari Qadri and Zahidi Qadri. Sarwari Qadri spiritual guide has perfect command over contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat. When he blesses the seeker with the spiritual education and Divine guidance through Ism-e-Allah Zaat, he grants him the status equal to his own on the very first day. The seeker becomes indifferent and independent of all needs, his attention remains focused only on the Truth. Hence, gold and soil become equal for him. On the contrary, the follower of Zahidi Qadri order has to devote at least twelve years to very hard mystic struggles, so much so that his stomach remains empty. After twelve years, he becomes eligible to be present before Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani and attains the status of a spiritually lost7 devotee, while the status of a Sarwari Qadri is that of a beloved devotee. (Kaleed-ul-Tauheed Kalan) He describes the status of Sarwari Qadri spiritual guide and devotees in these words:  What is the initial level of Sarwari Qadri? It is that the perfect Qadri spiritual guide drowns the true seeker of Allah in the Divine light of gnosis of Allah and grants him the 7

The term is English translation for the Persian word Majzoob which is used for the one who cannot tolerate the effects of theophanies and loses his senses. Hence, due to his lost and absorbed state, does not follow shariah properly, neither progresses on the spiritual journey.

14 presence of the Mohammadan Assembly just by his glance or by the contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat or by the invocation of Islamic creed or by his spiritual attention. This is the first day lesson of the Qadri followers. The spiritual guide who neither knows this lesson nor takes his disciples to the Mohammadan Assembly is not the perfect Qadri spiritual guide. (Kaleed-ul-Tauheed) Sultan Bahoo himself holds this status. He says:

Meaning: For every true seeker of Allah I render my guidance. I can take him from the initial stage of the spiritual journey to the final and supreme level in just a moment. Come to me! Come to me! Come to me O‟ seeker of Allah! I can take you to Allah on the very first day. Sultan Bahoo could not avail the opportunity to receive formal academic education because he was ever absorbed in the deep ocean of Divine unity, even then he has written 140 books. All of his books are in Persian except the collection of his poetry which is in the form of Punjabi quatrains. Sultan Bahoo‟s books are masterpieces of the Divine knowledge. He proclaims that if anyone could not find a spiritual guide, his books will prove to be a medium for him to reach the perfect Sarwari Qadri spiritual guide who will take him to Allah. Sultan Bahoo‟s writing style is very simple and easy to understand even for a less educated person. His writings are so persuasive and influential that they envelop the reader completely. If his books are read respectfully after ablution, an ocean of spiritual beneficence pours down to the reader. If a reader continues reading them with complete faith and true intentions, he will be guided towards the perfect Sarwari Qadri spiritual guide

15 who is the real spiritual successor of Sultan Bahoo in the present age. Urdu Translations of Sultan Bahoo‟s following books are available in the market: (1) Abyat-e-Bahoo (Punjabi Poetry) (2) Dewan-e-Bahoo (Persian Poetry) (3) Ain-ul-Faqr (4) Majalisa-tul-Nabi (5) Kaleed-ulTauheed (Kalan) (6) Kaleed-ul-Tauheed (Khurd) (7) Shams-ulArifeen (8) Ameer-ul-Kaunain (9)Taigh-e-Barhana (10) Risala Roohi Sharif (11) Ganj-ul-Asrar (12) Mahak-ul-Faqr (Khurd) (13) Mahak-ul-Faqr (Kalan) (14) Asrar-e-Qadri (15) Aurang Shahi (16) Jamay-ul-Asrar (17) Aqal-e-Baydar (18) Fazal-ul-Laqa (Khurd) (19) Fazal-ul-Laqa (Kalan) (20) Miftah-ul-Arifeen (21) Noor-ul-Huda (Khurd) (22) Noor-ul-Huda (Kalan) (23) Taufeequl-Hidayat (24) Qurb-e-Deedar (25) Ain-ul-Arifeen (26) Kaleede-Jannat (27) Mohkim-ul-Fuqara (28) Sultan-ul-Waham (29) Deedar Bakhsh (30) Kashf-ul-Asrar (31) Mohabbat-ul-Asrar (32) Tarfa-tul-Ain (this book is also known as Hujjat-ul-Asrar). Among these, following books have been translated in English by Sultan-ul-Faqr Publications: 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8)

Risala Roohi Sharif Kashf-ul-Asrar Ganj-ul-Asrar Shams-ul-Arifeen Sultan-ul-Waham Ain-ul-Faqr Ameer-ul-Kaunian Mohkim-ul-Fuqara

Sultan Bahoo has not used the conventional terms of sufism or mysticism for his teachings, rather he calls them „Faqr‟. Faqr is the spiritual way which leads to the Divine knowledge and vision of Allah. In all his books, he lays emphasis on acquiring Faqr under the guidance of a Sarwari Qadri spiritual guide. He

16 declares the invocation and contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat the key to ultimate sanctity and purgation of soul after which the soul is blessed with the vision of Allah and presence in the Mohammadan Assembly, which are the most elevated spiritual stations. Sultan Bahoo says in his books that despite of all his efforts he could not find a truly capable seeker of Allah to whom he could entrust the Divine Trust of Faqr for the future guidance of seekers, so on the 1stof Jamadi-us-Sani in 1102 H (1st March, 1691 A.D) he passed away without transferring the Trust to anyone. Afterwards, Sultan Bahoo entrustedit spiritually to Syed Mohammad Abdullah Shah Madni Jilani. The shrine of Sultan Bahoo is in Jhang, Pakistan. His death anniversary is held on the first Thursday of Jamadi-us-Sani.8

To read the complete biography and teachings of Sultan Bahoo please read the books “Shams-ul-Fuqara” and “Mujtaba Akhir Zamani” written by Sultan-ul-Ashiqeen Sultan Mohammad Najib-ur-Rehman, or their English versions titled as “Sultan Bahoo-The Life and Teachings” and “The Spiritual Guides of Sarwari Qadri Order” respectively. His complete biography is also compiled by Sultan Mohammad Najib-ur-Rehman by the title “Sultan Bahoo”.

KALEED-UL-TAUHEED KALAN ENGLISH TRANSLATION

In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful the Most Beneficent

Meaning: All praises are for Allah the Lord of worlds. Blessings and salutations upon the Holy Prophet Mohammad, his sacred progeny, companions and the people of cloak. The writer of this book who is at the level of ultimate annihilation in Allah being immortal with Him by the Guidance and Kindness of Allah, is going to discuss in this holy and subtle book, which grants honour to the dignified, some sacred and true points according to Quran and Hadiths about the Compassion and Grace of Allah which are gained by the glorification of name of Allah. The writer, Faqeer Bahoo son of Bazayd, belonging to the Awan tribe, resident of Qila Shor is writing this book in the era of emperor Mohiyyuddin Shah Aurangzeb9 who is firm upon the religion and a man of sharia10.

Meaning: The living soldier, king Aurangzeb is distinguished among the men of Allah as he is steadfast upon the religion of Prophet Mohammad and terminates the infidels like the sacred companions of the Prophet did. 9

The sixth and widely considered the last effective mughal emperor. His reign lasted for 49 years, from 1658 AD till1707 AD. 10 Sharia is the set of Islamic laws which include obligations like the prayer offered at fixed five times a day, fasting in the month of Ramadan, paying zakat, performing Hajj as well as virtues like telling the truth, fulfilling the promises, veiling of women from strangers, helping the needy etc. Sharia also forbids evils like making partners with Allah, cheating or lying, theft, adultery, backbiting, blaming others wrongly etc.

18 May Allah bless the king with peace and power. The book has been named Kaleed-ul-Tauheed (the Key of Divine Oneness) and is titled as the solver of all problems, grantor of the honour of presence in the Mohammadan Assembly and the source of immersion in the Oneness of Allah. The accomplished, perfect and supreme spiritual guide who is comprehensive of all levels, holds authority over the whole universe and is the man of Divine secrets. He drowns the seeker of Allah in Divinity by giving him the lesson of closeness and gnosis of Allah (Marifa11) on the very first day and also acquaints him with all the secrets from beginning till end. Mystic struggle is needed to cover the path while the Divine secrets are revealed by contemplation12 of Ism-eAllah Zaat13 which immerses the seeker in Divinity granting him ultimate closeness of Allah on the very first day. The spiritual guide who can reveal the level of annihilation in Allah upon the seeker and take him to this level by drowning him in the ultimate closeness of Allah by the grace of Ism-e-Azam14, efficacy of the magnificent

The Arabic word Marifa is translated in English as gnosis of Allah. It is the vastest term of mysticism that gives a new meaning at every spiritual level. Basically, it refers to the knowledge and recognition of Allah which keeps on increasing as the lover of Allah progresses towards His closeness, hence reveals new dimensions at every stage. It includes vision of Allah, knowledge of His Essence and attributes, acquiring the attributes, annihilating in Him and finally becoming One with the Essence having His ultimate gnosis. Since Allah is Infinite, His Marifa is also endless. The invocation and contemplation of Allahâ&#x20AC;&#x;s personal name are the foundation of Marifa. It can be gained from the inward sources like the intuitive and inspired knowledge as well as the outward sources like the spiritually effective Sufi teachings and the words of the perfect spiritual guide. 12 Mystically, contemplation refers to spiritual practice of Tasawur which is to contemplate the name of Allah in a particular manner after taking oath of allegiance at the hand of perfect spiritual guide and having his permission. When the seeker elevates spiritually, his contemplation also elevates and becomes stronger. 13 Ism-e-Allah Zaat is translated literally as â&#x20AC;&#x153;the personal name of Allahâ&#x20AC;? and it refers to the name . It represents all the Divine attributes and the Essence. It is the most powerful name of Allah as it includes the powers of all other attributive names of Allah. 14 Ism-e-Azam literally means the greatest name of Allah amongst His ninety nine beautiful names. It is the name which contains all His powers and whose recitation solves all the problems. Mystics confirm that Ism-e-Azam refers to Ism-e-Allah Zaat

because no other name of Allah is more powerful than the Divine name .

19 Islamic creed15 and overpowering effects of contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat is absolutely perfect. The austerity of the men of secrets is to offer the prayer five times a day in congregation according to Sunna16. The Divine secrets gained by offering the prayer are true while the secrets gotten without following the sharia or saying the prayer are false. The true men of Divine secrets are always engrossed in the contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat. They are the Mystics immortal with Allah and the men of perfect sight who are perpetually suffering the inward pains and hardships. No austerity is better and harsher than this. Austerities are also of two kinds; the common austerities which are performed by some people hypocritically to satisfy the desires of their innerself17 and to earn respect, fame and inclination from the people. Other kind is the special austerities performed by the distinguished people which are for the sake of Allah only, inwardly as well as outwardly. The key of the path which leads towards the secret of Tauheed18 is the Islamic creed . The seeker who opens the lock of his inward with the key of Islamic creed and gets the Divine secrets of gnosis of Allah from it, becomes indifferent and independent of all needs. This is the mystic path which leads to the Divine presence, immersion in the state of annihilation in Allah, observation of theophanies of Divine light19 of the Essence and the honour of presence in the Mohammadan Assembly. Hence, the inward of the seeker is replete and he

Declaration of Islamic faith by saying meaning: “There is no one to be worshipped but Allah and Prophet Mohammad is His Messenger”. 16 The ways and manners of the Holy Prophet 17 Innerself is translated from the Arabic word “Nafs”. It has four layers. Each layer annihilates into the next upon its purgation. The first layer incites man to commit sin. On purification, it elevates to next layer which repents. The third layer inspires before committing sin. Whereas, fourth layer is pure of sins and is at peace. 18 Oneness of Allah. For common Muslims Tauheed means that Allah is One, He is the sole Creator, Master and Sustainer but for the Mystics Tauheed means that only Allah exists and none else. They become one with The One and see Divine Oneness everywhere, which is actual Tauheed for the Mystics. 19 The Divine light is specific for Quranic word Noor. The Unknowable and Transcendent Divine Essence first of all manifested Himself in the form of Noor and that was the Noor of Mohammad which is the foundation of creation and is concealed in everything of the cosmos. Whoever reaches that Noor in his inward by following the spiritual path, comes in light from darkness and finds the Reality. 15

20 becomes fully blissful by invoking the name of Allah. This is the verified way of Prophet Mohammad and is the bestowal, kindness and graciousness of Allah Almighty. The imperfect, jealous, hypocrite and spiritually blind do not believe in this way, such people belong to the group of heretics. In this mystic way, the Divine secrets are acquired without austerities and spiritual observations are gained without mystic struggle. For the Faqeer20 annihilated in Allah, eating is struggle and sleeping is spiritual observation. His stomach is like stove, whatever he eats, burns by the heat of invocation21 and produces Divine light in his being, hence he acquires gnosis by the love of Allah without any hard work. He is blessed with special desire for Allah which is the basis of his obedience and the Divine favour to perpetually remain in the company of Allah is also conferred upon him. This way is absolved of the spiritual demotion22 as the beginning and end of all the spiritual levels of closeness to the Divine Essence and acquiring the Divine attributes are in the sight of the traveller of the way. His inward is ever in the state of perfect verification which removes all the veils from his inward and makes him enlightened. Verily, his tongue is like the sword of Allah (whatever he says is done by the order of Allah)23, he holds the rank of Friend of Allah and is the perfect practitioner of Ism-e-Azam and verses of Holy Quran and possesses all their specialties. His splendour is that he is the man of renunciation of world, man of perfect trust upon Allah24, man

The Saint of highest level who travels the path of Faqr i.e. the path to vision and union of Allah, and accomplishes in it reaching its final level stated in the Hadith, â&#x20AC;&#x153;When Faqr is accomplished that is Allah.â&#x20AC;? 21 Invocation is translated from Arabic/Quranic term Zikr which means to remember Allah through repeated recitation of His name. In the Sarwari Qadri order, invocation is done with breaths instead of tongue. 22 Translation for the Arabic/Persian word Rujjat. The spiritual journey is in fact the ascension journey of the soul. If the seeker disobeys the spiritual guide, goes against the laws of spirituality, breaks the law of shariah or commits any undesirable act, he is descended to a lower level which is considered Rujjat. If he repents sincerely, he is elevated back to his level otherwise not. If he remains stubborn upon his sin, his demotion manifests physically as well. 23 Words in brackets are by the translator. 24 Arabic word Tawakkal is translated as trust upon Allah. However, Tawakkal is specific for Allah. It is to trust only upon Allah in all matters and in all states.

21 of inward solitude25 and man of negation of self26. All his acts are purely for Allah and the hidden Divine treasures are under his view. The specialties and ranks of such a Faqeer who possesses the greatest level in the world are that he holds authority over the supernatural beings and angels such that whenever they are summoned, they come at once and answer all questions in detail. He knows the states and realities of the souls of all Prophets and Saints, all the jinns and humans, animals and birds rather the entire creation of eighteen thousand worlds due to the knowledge and Divine presence gained by the contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat and through the knowledge of all the beautiful names of Allah. He knows how to practise the knowledge of graves through the Divine presence by reciting the Saifi dua27 in such a way that Dawat28 is continued forever. He also has complete knowledge of making impressions by drawing lines, circles or using the science of letters and has authority over the whole world from east to west like the Solomon empire which is better than the kingdom of Alexander. Such a Faqeer holds the highest and greatest levels in the world. He takes pain for the people but never gives them pain. You must know that Allah has given so much power to the Fuqara29 who are men of Divine presence gained by Ism-e Allah Zaat that if they wish they can call the supernatural beings to have detailed knowledge of alchemy from them or order them to bring the Paras stone which turns iron into gold by rubbing. The supernatural beings will follow their order and bring them whatever they would ask from the hidden by the benediction of Ism-e-Azam. However, the Fuqara who are ever drowned in Divinity, are outwardly so indifferent and inwardly so much engrossed in presence of the 25

The mystic term Tajreed is translated as inward solitude. This mystic level is gained by negating everyone other than Allah. 26 The mystic term Tafreed is translated as negation of self. This mystic level is attained by negating oneâ&#x20AC;&#x;s own self. Inward solitude and negation of self are two basic levels before reaching the level of Tauheed i.e. Oneness with Allah. 27 An Arabic prayer for spiritual assistances. 28 Dawat is a spiritual act of communicating inwardly with the sacred souls of shrines. 29 Plural of Faqeer.

22 Mohammadan Assembly that they never put a glance towards the ranks of world or capturing the supernatural beings or the Paras stone even if they are starving to death. Allah says about the seekers of world;

Meaning: And We made a curse to chase them in this world. (Al -Qasas 42)

The love of world and its riches is like virus in the body and creates the disease of evil thoughts which keep the person restless. You must also know that when a seeker is engrossed in the Divine deeds, the souls of all the Prophets, Saints, martyrs, faithfuls30, Muslims and men of ranks come to meet him and each one of them shakes hand with him. The Fuqara and the immortal Mystic are always drowned in the gnosis of â&#x20AC;&#x153;None but Allahâ&#x20AC;? and the presence of the Mohammadan Assembly. Such Fuqara are independent of all needs in the world and hereafter. The Faqeer has seven keys, using which he crosses seven levels of Tauheed step by step and gains eternal life with the Eternal. Allah says;

Meaning: He is the One Who brings forth the living from the dead and brings forth the dead from the living. (Al-Rome 19) These seven keys grant him seven contemplations along with seven authorities as well as the seven categories of verses of Quran are revealed upon him and bless him with seven levels of Divine presence, hence he perpetually views the spectacle of both the worlds. These levels are possessed by the immortal Mystic who is man of sharia, true slave of Prophet Mohammad, annihilated in Allah and engrossed in 30

The Arabic word Momin is translated as the faithful. A Momin can be distinguished from a common Muslim as a Muslim accepts Islam just verbally or just because he is born in a Muslim family. He follows Islam only outwardly but the Momin reaches the essence of Islam following the spiritual path and worships Allah while beholding Him with perfect faith. Refer to surah Hujrat verse 14 to understand the difference.

23 Divinity. Such an immortal Mystic is not attracted towards apparent beauty and never appreciates drinking wine and the sound of music. Allah says:

Meaning: And warn them of the day of impending calamity when hearts will rise to throats due to the suppressed grief. The wrongdoers will have neither any kind friend nor any influential intercessor. He knows the treacherous eyes and also those secrets which the breasts hide (inside them). (AlMomin 18-19)

The root cause of adultery is music and love of apparent beauty while that of dishonesty is drinking and addiction. Whoever learns the reality of knowledge and acts upon it respectfully, the knowledge elevates him to high levels, as Allah says:

Meaning: Allah will raise those in ranks who are given knowledge. (Al-Mujadila 11) Whoever recognizes the essence of Ism-e-Allah Zaat and comes to know Its reality, It takes him to the gnosis of Oneness of the Divine Essence. Hence, it becomes evident upon him that knowledge has high levels because it grants the gnosis of Lordship and Oneness of the Divine Essence. The basis of Faqr31 and gnosis and the initial level of a Faqeer are that he brings into practise the knowledge of panacea and augmentation. When his heart is contented by practising both, he renounces them. Such a Faqeer is supported by the Divinity and is adorned with jamiat32. 31

Sultan Bahoo has neither titled his teachings as mysticism nor Sufism, rather he calls them Faqr. Faqr is the path which leads to the vision and union of Allah. The Holy Prophet has declared Faqr his pride and the reason of his superiority over the other Prophets. A Hadith states that Faqr is one of the treasures of Allah. 32 Jamiat is a mystic term having multiple meanings. It may refer to spiritual powers, stability, peace, accumulation or satisfaction. It is also the highest spiritual level whereby all the preceding levels accumulate in the being of the seeker.

24 Whoever is unaware of the seven levels of Divine presence and the seven contemplations and authorities of the Divine Essence, his Faqeerism is either a verbal claim or imperfect and defective. The invocation and contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat drown in Divinity and reveal the Divine light of Allah. By this Divine light, all the realities are exposed upon the seeker and the inward and outward Guarded Tablet is revealed upon the tablet of his mind. The Divine presence gained by the contemplation of Islamic creed (“La illaha ilAllahoo Mohammad-ur-Rasoolullah” meaning “None is worthy of worship except Allah and Mohammad is His Messenger”) reveals such pure and fragrant invocation upon the seeker which benefits him in both the worlds and fulfills all his wishes. The perfect spiritual guide opens seven locks of Divine presence with these seven keys for the true seeker and lets him achieve objectives of both the worlds in just one moment and one step such as the outward powers, the inward powers, the powers related with pre-existence, the powers related with eternal end, powers of the world, powers of hereafter, powers acquired by immersion in the state of annihilation in Allah and the power of gnosis of Tauheed which is superior to all the levels. These secrets and treasures can be gained without any hard work or pain from the perfect and accomplished Sarwari Qadri33 spiritual guide who is comprehensive of all levels of Faqr, comprehensive of all graciousness, comprehensive of all levels of Divine closeness, comprehensive of complete gnosis, comprehensive of Tauheed and is immersed in Divine light. Only such a spiritual guide is entitled to lead the seekers of Allah on the path of Allah till the end. The imperfect spiritual guide is a brigand who leaves his disciples imperfect and unaccomplished.

Sarwari Qadri is the spiritual order of Sultan Bahoo which starts from the Holy Prophet and reaches Sultan Bahoo through Ghaus-ul-Azam Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani.

25 Meaning: Oâ&#x20AC;&#x; Bahoo! The powerful spiritual guide takes the seeker to ultimate levels while the impotent spiritual guide only desires material wealth. The Ilm-e-Dawat34 is also revealed upon the seeker by the spiritual guide. By the power of Dawat, the seeker gets connected with the souls of Prophets and Saints and derives benefit from them. The practitioner of reciting Dawat at the shrines is permitted by the Holy Prophet that all his jobs are accomplished by doing the eternal invocation which carries him to the gnosis and union of Allah in a single moment. Hence, the outward jobs are done just by uttering words from tongue i.e. he becomes the scholar and specialist of words, the inward jobs are done by his inward as he has gnosis of inward states i.e. he becomes scholar and specialist of inward states, the spiritual jobs are done by his soul which is blessed with Divine union i.e. he becomes scholar and specialist of Divine union. Similarly, the jobs related with core35 are done through his core, the jobs related with gnosis are done through his gnosis, the jobs related with Oneness are done through his Oneness, the jobs related with spiritual observation are done through his observation, the jobs related with Divine light are done through his Divine light, the jobs related with inward solitude are done through his inward solitude, the jobs related with negation of self are done through his negation of self and the jobs related with the Divine presence are done through his Divine presence. Such beneficent and marvelous scholar is only the Mystic Faqeer who is at the level of;

Meaning: When Faqr is accomplished that is Allah.

Knowledge of communicating spiritually with the souls of Saints. Core of human inward contains the Divine secret. The spiritual being of a human has seven subtle layers which are; Nafs (the innerself), Qalb (the inward), Rooh (the soul), Sirâ&#x20AC;&#x;r (the core which contains the Divine secret), Khafi (the Hidden, the Divine Soul), Yakhfa (the most Arcane- the Divine light of Mohammad), Ana (the Divine Essence). 35

26 He is the man of Tauheed spiritual guide i.e. one who carries to the closeness of the Divine Essence. The spiritual guide who can neither reveal all the levels, core after core, upon the seeker nor makes him cover all levels step by step is just an emulator and carries the seekers to the lowest level of appetites of innerself. Certainly, he is unaware of the Faqr of Holy Prophet and far away from it being trapped in the desires of innerself.

Meaning: Only this advice is sufficient for the seekers of Allah that the path to Allah is the path of real strong men which is covered vigilantly and leads to the Divine presence. Being a spiritual guide or a seeker is not an easy job. It includes great secrets related with observation of theophanies of the Divine Essence, becoming favourite of Allah and being honoured with the presence of the Mohammadan Assembly. Only Allah everything other than Allah is lust!

Meaning: Every inward which is opposite to the outward is surely false.

Meaning: Invocation is also a sign of farness. Drown in the Divine light so that you always remain in the sight of the Holy Prophet. If the Faqeer Mystics had not been blessed with the favour of Divine knowledge, Oneness with Allah, magnificent level of gnosis of Allah and the grand felicity of presence in the Mohammadan Assembly, no one would have been able to guide the travellers of the spiritual path. Neither anyone could have informed them about the inward and outward states nor they would have been blessed with kindness and

27 bounties of closeness to Allah and would have got depraved from the spiritual path. The outward good deeds should be meant to improve the inward not to earn money and luxuries or to fulfill the desires of innerself in this world.

Meaning: Whosoeverâ&#x20AC;&#x;s inward eye is enlightened by the Divine light, gets rid of arrogance and is blessed with presence of the Mohammadan Assembly. Allah says;

Meaning: We are your Friend and Helper in the life of this world and in the hereafter (too). And there is for you every blessing that you long for. And all those things are (available) for you there that you ask for. (Ha-Meem as- Sajda 31)

Meaning: And all those things which the hearts will long for, and (which) will cool the eyes will be available there. And you will live there forever. (Al-Zukhruf 71) The path to Allah is inwardly as well as outwardly related with knowledge. Without knowledge, the Divine path can never be traversed because an ignorant is the seeker of desires of his innerself and a disciple of Satan. Ignorant is another name for the unwise who is worried of his own acts, his creation is like the worm of dung. In the world, nothing is worse than ignorance and ignorant, unless the ignorant come in the slavery of the Divine scholars to learn knowledge and follow the sharia. That is to say, knowledge is the asset of faith, guide of the scholars, blessing in both the worlds and the executioner of Satan. Knowledge converts the inciting innerself into a Muslim, grants spiritual health and is a shield

28 against the hell fire. The esoteric and exoteric knowledge reveal the secret of secrets of the Divine Nature. The practitioner scholar‟s kingdom of knowledge is better than the Solomon empire. Whoever recognizes the importance of knowledge and practises upon it, eventually becomes an immortal Mystic and scholar, then nothing remains hidden from him. True knowledge is that which carries to the Truth. The knowledge which elevates to spirituality, grants its scholar the power of(giving life to the dead souls by saying) (Qum Bi-Iznillah) meaning: “Rise by the command of Allah”. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: The true scholars are the heirs of Prophets. This Hadith is specific for the scholars who can give new life to the dead with the breath powered with the attribute of Christ36. These scholars are actually the immortal Faqeer Mystics who are the men of Divine powers having absolutely pure inward and are perpetually present in the Mohammadan Assembly. No! I do not say wrong that the Faqeer Saints of the nation of Prophet Mohammad have more powerful attributes than the breath of Christ as when Christ gave life to the dead by saying Qum Bi-Iznillah meaning; “Rise by the command of Allah”, the dead rose from the grave, started talking and then again died after a while. However, when the Faqeer Saints of nation of Prophet Mohammad give life to the dead soul present in the grave of physical body by saying, “Rise by the command of Allah”, the soul starts invoking the name of Allah and recites by the inward tongue. Then the soul and the body never die until the man of alive soul enters the heaven crossing all the levels and is blessed with eternal life and everlasting felicity.

Christ had the power to enliven the dead with a blow of breath.

29 Meaning: The spiritual guide is the giver of life and death; he enlivens the soul and kills the inciting innerself.

Meaning: Oâ&#x20AC;&#x; Bahoo! When the people of alive soul and dead body are buried under soil, even the soil and dead body become alive by the sacred invocation done by their soul. Their grave is like a secluded place where they are in seclusion with Allah drowned in Oneness with perfect faith. If all the true scholars present on the earth always say the truth, earn honestly, gain knowledge only for Allah and to perform good deeds and teach their students the same, which thing is better than even this? If a person can travel the entire earth in just two and a half steps and always say the prayer five times a day in the Holy Kaaba in congregation, what is better than even this? If a person ever remains in the company of Khidr-the Prophet of Allah and have rounds of sharing knowledge with him, what is better than even this? If, during rain, a person can see that angels carry each drop of rain on their palm and put it on earth and he knows each one of them by name and recognizes them through inward knowledge, what is better than this even? If a person knows and meets the souls of all Prophets, Saints and high ranked faithfuls and Muslims who came from Prophet Adam till the last Prophet Mohammad and will come after Prophet Mohammad till the Doomsday, keeps their company and recognizes all of them by name, what is even better than this? If all the men of recitals and Dawat and the memorizers of Quran present on the entire earth keep reciting Quran day and night after purification, what is better than this even? If a man of invocation, reflection37, self-accountability and unveiling reaches the level of jamiat and always keeps good behaviour with people, what is better than this even? If a 37

Mystic term Fikr is translated as reflection which means to ponder over the spiritual matters. According to Sultan Bahoo, reflection is must along with invocation to have the gnosis of Allah.

30 person spends his whole life in circumambulating Kaaba and never leaves any hajj38, neither he is ever careless in paying zakat39 nor lets any moment pass in which he is not offering prayer, spends the nights in devotions and days in fasting, becomes a man of austerity and piety and keeps studying the knowledge of jurisprudence and exegesis, what is better than all this? If a person spends his whole life in fighting for the cause of Allah and kills infidels in the battle field, what is better than this even? If a person earns the entire wealth on earth and generously spends it in the way of Allah day and night and benefits the Muslims, what is even better than this? If a person becomes a powerful king who is like the shadow of God for his subject and is kind and just for all the people from east to west, what is better than this even? If a person becomes so enlightened that he can view the spectacle of both the worlds and the states of eternity on his thumb nail or palm top, what is better than this even? If a person attains the highest spiritual ranks such as Ghaus, Qutb, Abdal or Autad and gains authority over seventy thousand spheres from above the Throne till deep down the earth which all are related with the desires of innerself, what is even better than this? In fact, all these are way stations and each one of them is like a ladder to reach the actual destination of Divine Oneness, gnosis of Allah, drowning in the Divine light of annihilation in Allah and becoming favourite of Allah by the contemplation of Ism-e Allah Zaat as well as being honoured with the presence of the Mohammadan Assembly which is the best of all the above mentioned things. This is the way of Divine presence gained by the contemplation of Islamic creed

Pilgrimage to Makkah performed in fixed days i.e. 9th to 13th of the Islamic month of Zilhaj. 39 Obligatory charity

31 Meaning: One, who reaches the eternal beginning i.e. the Divine Oneness, eventually converts to Divine light. Real invocation is that which takes the seeker to Allah and lets him be forgiven. That is to say, one who immerses in the Divine light reaching the station of annihilation in Allah and drowns in the Divine observations, becomes a man of Divine light. His speaking, listening, seeing rather everything is through Divine light. Hence, it becomes clear that the innerself of man of Divine light elevates to the level of the peaceful innerself and becomes Divine light after perfect purgation. His inward becomes Divine light after sanctification, soul becomes pure and turns to Divine light after being enlightened and core also becomes Divine light due to the theophanies of closeness of Allah and reveals the Divine secrets and observations. He is Divine light from head to toe, not even a single undesirable act is committed by him. He becomes favourite of Allah and eternally remains present in the Mohammadan Assembly. The man of Divine light neither has innerself (nafs) nor the inward (qalb), soul (rooh), core (sirâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;r) or body, as he is all Divine light. He is not limited to the boundaries of creation and is always with Allah. These are the levels of the man of Divine light whose inward is thriving. Such men of Divine light are unique and have perfect control over the existence.

Meaning: His (Bahooâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s) innerself, inward, soul and core are no more. Originally, I was Divine light so I became Divine light eventually by drowning in Allah and becoming One with Him. These levels of converting to the Divine light of the Essence are attained by immersion in the Divine presence gained through Ism-e-Allah Zaat and by the benediction and efficacy of Ism-e-Azam, Quranic injunctions and verses, Hadiths and

32 the invocation of Islamic creed . A person is never liberated from the chains of innerself nor can dominate the Satan unless he renounces the world, keeps trust upon Allah and his heart becomes free of love of the world. He cannot rise to the level of seeker of Allah and become true to his desire for Allah unless he takes oath of allegiance upon the hand of perfect Qadri40 spiritual guide.

Meaning: All the objectives are achieved by having the privilege of beholding the sacred countenance of Prophet Mohammad and one is blessed with immersion in the state of Divine presence and Oneness with Allah.

Meaning: One may get demoted spiritually by doing invocation or become lunatic by reciting Dawat (if oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s intentions are not pure or is not permitted by the perfect spiritual guide). Even the states of spiritual intoxication41 and ecstasy42 are signs of imperfection and farness from Allah.

Meaning: If you want to have the eternal Divine presence, adopt the company of souls of shrines.

Whenever Sultan Bahoo mentions Qadri order, he actually refers to Sarwari Qadri order. 41 Spiritual intoxication is translated from mystic term Sukr. It is the state of absence of self-awareness brought about through a powerful spiritual influence such as immersion in the invocation of Allah, attention of the perfect spiritual guide, deep emotions of love for the Divine Beloved. 42 The Persian mystic term Masti is translated as the spiritual ecstasy. It is the state of soul when it is deeply immersed in the intense love of the Beloved by the invocation and contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat or on beholding the Beloved. The lover remembers none but the Beloved.

Meaning: Oâ&#x20AC;&#x; Bahoo! For Allahâ&#x20AC;&#x;s sake show the way to Divine presence and annihilation by the contemplation of Ism-e-Allah . In the way of Faqr, there are two levels of gnosis of Allah which are called the grand and magnificent levels. All the initial and final levels are included in these two levels. These levels cannot be achieved by outward physical deeds and are beyond invocations and reflections. They are related with spiritual observations of Divine presence and Divine light of Tauheed. They are revealed by the contemplation of Ism-eAllah Zaat and return to Ism-e-Allah Zaat after drowning the seeker in the state of annihilation in Allah. These are; the level of Divine vision and the level of Divine presence. The seeker who is conferred with these two levels by the kindness of perfect spiritual guide and keeps them in practise, attains all the other spiritual levels through these two in just a blink of an eye by the power of Ism-e-Allah Zaat. The seeker immerses in the Divine presence of Tauheed through the Divine presence gained by Ism-e-Allah Zaat only by the order of Allah and permission of the Holy Prophet as Divine presence is granted only by the Divinity. Without permission and Divine presence, the power of Ism-e-Allah Zaat neither affects the being of the seeker nor benefits him, neither the inward is enlivened nor the innerself is subdued, neither the heart becomes passionate for Allah nor the soul finds bliss, neither the core provides beneficence nor the existence blooms with freshness. If the perfect and accomplished Sarwari Qadri spiritual guide elevates the seeker to Divinity, he finds vision of the absolute Reality and his existence becomes pure of falsehood, filth, rage, backbiting, worries of the world and everything other than Allah. Only Allah, everything other than Allah is lust! Hence, he becomes independent of both the worlds. Ayesha, the daughter of Abu Bakr Siddique, narrates that the Holy Prophet perpetually remained drowned

34 in the Divine observations of gnosis and closeness of Allah. His Oneness with Tauheed of Allah was so absolute and the light of Divine presence radiated so intensely from his existence that he was never left without the vision and presence of Allah even for a moment. He could not find peace for a single breath due to the immeasurable pain of love and blazing fire of Ishq43 of the Divine Unity and used to say;

Meaning: O‟ my Holy Lord! Would that Mohammad had not been born! This was due to the heavy trust and blaze of Ism-e-Allah Zaat.

Meaning: Ism-e-Allah is the priceless and grandest holy treasure. Its reality is known only to the Holy Prophet. The existence which dives into Ism-e-Allah Zaat‟s ocean of Tauheed, drowns in the state of annihilation in Allah like a fish drowns its existence in water and views everything unveiled.

Meaning: Let your being drown and conceal in the Divine name just like the “ ”44 has been concealed in “Bism” is actually

. [

“Ba Ism” which means “with the name

of” but while writing “ ” (“Bismillah” meaning: with the name of Allah) “ ” becomes silent or it gets concealed].

43 44

Intense Divine love First letter of Arabic alphabets

35 The reality of gnosis of Faqr, annihilation, immortality, inward purity and the Truth is known only to the one who has left falsehood and attained the Divine Reality. However, only one out of thousand disciples and spiritual guides is true Sarwari45 Qadri46 who is ever immersed in Divine Oneness and present in the Mohammadan Assembly and is an obedient slave of Ghaus-ul-Azam Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani.

EULOGY IN THE PRAISE OF SHAIKH ABDUL QADIR JILANI

Meaning: The king of Jilan, Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani is the intercessor of the nation of Holy Prophet. All praise to Allah Almighty! How powerful Allah has made him!

Meaning: Alexander claims to be his humble slave and Plato confesses lack of his knowledge as compared to his.

Meaning: The great kings of this world are beggars of your beggars. Only you deserve to be the king and ruler of the world.

Meaning: You have all the authorities, if you wish you can turn a king into a beggar or grant kingdom to a beggar in a moment. 45

Sarwar means the leader, Sarwari means related to Sarwar-e-Alam (Leader of the worlds) Prophet Mohammad 46 Qadir means All- Powerful, Qadri means related to Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani

Meaning: What a magnificent splendour you are adorned with Oâ&#x20AC;&#x; Ghaus-ul-Azam! Khaqan47 is a servant of your court and Qaiser48 is your slave.

Meaning: No doubt! None can be like you. No one has ever attained such heights of majesty, grandeur, power and magnificence and none will ever.

Meaning: Whether a person is at the level of physical world49, the angelic realm50, the realm of Power51 or the realm of Absolute Unity52, everyone is under your step. How elevated is your lordship!

Meaning: You explained the Reality and gave a boom to mysticism. You are the moon of the horizon of sharia and the sun of Divine light.

47,48

Names of great kings.

Called Nasut in Arabic. Refers to Malakut, the realm where everything is in an intangible form like that we see in dreams. During the ascending journey of soul, Malakut comes after the physical world. 51 Refers to Jabrut which is above Malakut and is the realm where angels were created along with the human souls. 52 Refers to LaHoot which is above Jabrut. Here the Divine Essence is present in the form of Divine Soul, the Soul of Mohammad which is the origin of all souls. When the soul of the true seeker ascends to this realm by the kindness of spiritual guide, it achieves the origin and Unity and becomes Divine. 50

Meaning: Marvelously, you are the greatest of all mystics, light of the assembly of Holy Prophet, cherished one of Ali bin Abi Talib and the beloved of Allah.

Meaning: O‟ heart! Be the disciple of the great Ghaus-ulAzam and get blessed with more of his kindness. Observe how beautiful morals he is attributed with and keep praising him.

Meaning: First clean and purify your tongue with the water of heaven and then take the sacred name of Mohiyyuddin53 Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani.

Meaning: O‟ Ghaus-ul-Azam! All the true Muslims whether old or young, men or women are your disciples. Hiding other‟s faults, bestowing blessings, conferring the true religion and ruling the world are your marvelous attributes.

Meaning: You are the king of Saints and all the Saints seek kindness of your court. The spiritual leaders bow their head at your door and feel proud to be your doorkeeper.

The title of Ghaus-ul-Azam Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani. Mohiyyuddin means “One who enlivened the religion”. 53

Meaning: The giants, angels, fairies and jinns, all are your obedient slaves as you are the king of kings and the leader of all living humans and souls.

Meaning: You are Abdul Qadir (slave of All-Powerful) and are blessed with such powers that you can fulfill even the hidden desires in just a moment by your kindness.

Meaning: Your mercy is such an ocean of compassion and your kindness is such a treasure of beneficence that you bestow the pearls of paradise in this world and the eternal paradise in the hereafter.

Meaning: Your patronage is the shelter and your solace is the refuge. Please liberate from the vortex of worries owing to your kind favour.

Meaning: My soul is shattered, inward is aggrieved and heart is hoping for your kindness. Favour me by granting the remedy of my problems and cure of my pains.

39 Meaning: You have thousands of humble slaves like me in the world but I have nowhere to go except your court, it is up to you whether you call me or rebuke.

Meaning: Except pain, worries and hardships, I have nothing in this world. I implore you to grant me salvation from these countless problems.

Meaning: I am an indigent who has no one to sympathize or help but you. Please keep me under your kind attention; Allah has given you the authority.

Meaning: This humble slave has fallen in your street. It would not be strange if you convert this particle into an enlightened sun.

Meaning: Oâ&#x20AC;&#x; seeker! If you want the closeness of Allah, become the dog of the court of Ghaus-ul-Azam as the dogs of his court are superior to the lions. Answer of the writer;

Meaning: Every true disciple of Ghaus-ul-Azam is like the sun which guides towards the Truth and takes to the Mohammadan Assembly by providing the spiritual beneficence to the seekers of Allah.

Meaning: They grant the secret of compassion to the seekers and let them be blessed with the Grace and Favour of Allah. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whoever reaches the court of Ghaus-ul-Azam, never remains unfortunateâ&#x20AC;?, says Bahoo the pure hearted. The disciples of Ghaus-ul-Azam are strong men of solitude and are extremely compassionate.

Meaning: The Throne, the Chair, the Guarded Tablet and the Pen, all are in the inward. Whoever finds the reality of an alive inward is relieved from all worries.

Meaning: However, these are the levels of beginners and are full of desires of innerself. The real destination is the Divine union and immersion in Oneness with Allah.

Meaning: The light of Divinity and Oneness is non-creation. While, the spheres of universe are creation and their visitation keeps the soul stuck in the creation.

Meaning: Unless one completely immerses in the Divine light of Essence, one cannot be blessed with the Divine presence and become a true Mystic.

Meaning: There is not any wall between Allah and His slave but the people having dead inward are not capable to have His vision.

Meaning: Lift the veil and converse directly with the Essence so that you reach the core of the Divine command “Be”.54

Meaning: The ultimacy of Faqeer Mystics is that their eyes and heart become One with the Eyes and Heart of Allah.

Meaning: How can the Unparallel Divine Essence be likened with anything or anyone! Whoever surpasses his own self, finds the vision of His Beauty.

Meaning: Bahoo is blessed with the power to show you the Divinity and take you to the Mohammadan Assembly, just for the sake of Allah.

“Be! and it Becomes” is the command of Allah and is mentioned several times in the Quran. It is transliterated as Kun Fa-Yakun. The command by Allah when He decides upon a thing is “Kun” meaning “Be” and “it Becomes” immediately which is from the Quranic word Fa-Yakun. 54

42 Meaning: Whoever denies the eternal life of Prophet Mohammad and presence of his holy assembly will eventually become an infidel and will be raised among the wretched ones. By the outward good deeds, the inward is not cured of the spiritual diseases. Unless the fire of Divine love and gnosis of Allah is lit in the inward by the invocation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat, it neither gets rid of darkness and rust nor acquires truth and sincerity which are the outcomes of this special invocation. Without the invocation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat, neither the inciting innerself dies nor is the soul vivified even if a person keeps reciting the Holy Quran for his whole life or keeps learning the lessons of Islamic laws, because the sanctification of inward only lies in the eternal invocation. Allah says in Quran;

Meaning: Invoke your Lord most submissively and secretly. (Al- Aâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;raf 55)

Whoever does not burn the filth and rubbish of distractive thoughts created by the five senses with the fire of Ism-eAllah Zaat and does not arouse passion for Allah in his heart, remains the seeker of carrion world. Vision of Allah is impossible for the seekers of carrion world, and gnosis and union of Allah is impossible for those with distracted thoughts.

Meaning: Oâ&#x20AC;&#x; Lord! Fill the vessel of my inward with your real knowledge and grant me the enlightened eyes, awared soul and alive inward.

Meaning: Every cell of my body and all my senses are following their own way. Bless this disintegrated body and

43 soul with unity so that my existence travels towards you unitedly.

Meaning: For a long time, I have been just verbally discussing the knowledge which you have granted me. Now grant me the ability to practise that knowledge as well without discussing it verbally.

Meaning: It is not the way of men of elevated spirits to bestow incomplete beneficence and favour. If You have given me the permission to have Your vision, grant me the power to behold You as well.

Meaning: How can the person who is drowned in the carrion world attain the Divine vision? To have this blessing, you will have to erase everything other than Allah from your inward.

Meaning: Until the seeker forgets and annihilates himself, he cannot immerse in (the Divine light of) Allah. Whoever leaves himself, his inward becomes the guide towards Allah. You must know that there are two attributes of perfect and accomplished spiritual guide who is the man of Divine Oneness; one is that he is the man of sight and can take the seekers of Allah to the Divine Oneness and make them the favourite of Allah by his one glance, other is that he can take the seekers to the Mohammadan Assembly through the way

44 of Dawat or contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat or by his inward attention or by the overpowering passion for Allah. This mystic way leads to the Divine presence and is the secret of Divinity, as Divinity is revealed only by Divinity and Divinity can be seen only through Divinity.

Meaning: Oâ&#x20AC;&#x; Bahoo! Whoever beholds the Divine Essence, becomes forgiving for the people. The spiritual self of Mystics progresses due to this attribute. Only Allah! Everything other than Allah is lust. The following verse of Quran is about vast layers of the inward which has annihilated in the Divine Essence.

Meaning: Allah is the light of the heavens and the earth. The likeness of His light is like a niche wherein is glowing the lamp; the lamp is contained in a crystal globe. This globe is (as dazzling bright) as a glittering star. (This lamp) is lit with the sacred olive tree. It is neither (merely) eastern nor western (rather universal). Its oil is glowing, though no fire has even touched it yet. It is light upon light. Allah takes to (the gnosis of) His light whom He wills. And Allah explains similitudes for (the guidance of) people and Allah is WellAware of everything. (Al-Noor 35) The following verses are about the Friends of Allah and Friend of Allah is one who is eternally under the attention of Allah and remains present in the Mohammadan Assembly, whose soul is perfectly sanctified due to the invocation of Allah and who enjoys spiritual meetings with the souls of Prophets and Saints. The verses are;

45 Meaning: And Allah is Sufficient (as) a Protector and Allah is Sufficient (as) a Helper. (An-Nisa-45)

Meaning: So, do not make friends with (any of) them until they emigrate in the way of Allah. (An-Nisa-89)

Meaning: And if you apprehend treachery from a nation, then throw their promise back to them on the basis of equality. Indeed, Allah does not like the treacherous. (Al-Anfal-58) The heart of Friends of Allah is enveloped by the fear of Allah due to the effects of invocation and contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat.

Meaning: My heart turns to blood due to the fear that towards which one of the two destinations would my ways lead me. As, Allah has declared;

Meaning: One group will be in heaven and the other in hell. (Ash-Shura 7)

When the inward eyes of a person are opened, his physical eyes become useless. The immortal Mystic Friends of Allah see with the eyes of their soul. The physical eyes are possessed even by the animals. The men of inward eyes are the closest to Allah. The true seeker of Allah beholds Allah

46 with his inward eyes and attains the final level of certainty gained through experience55. Allah says;

Meaning: And you will be divided into three classes. So, (first) those on the right hand; what a class will the right hand be! And (second) those on the left hand; (in what miserable plight will be) the left-hand group! And (third) the excellent; (they) are the foremost. It is they who are the near ones (to Allah). (They will live) in the gardens of bliss. A large group (of these near ones) will be from the earlier people. And a small number (among them) will be from the later generations. (These near ones) will be on the thrones ornamented with gold, reclining there on cushions, face to face. The serving youths made eternal will go around them. (They will be attending) carrying bowls, ewers and cups filled with (transparent) drink (of nearness) from the freeflowing springs. By (drinking) this, they will have neither headache nor derangement of senses. And (the servants of paradise) will be (roaming about) with fruits which (the near ones) will like. And (there will be) bird-meat as well which they will desire. And also (in their companionship will be) maidens with wide lovely eyes, like pearls kept hidden, wellguarded. (That) will be reward of the (pious) deeds which they used to do. There, they will hear nothing absurd nor any 55

Translated from the Quranic phrase Haq-ul-Yaqeen which is the final level of certainty, preceding two being Ilm-ul-Yaqeen i.e. the knowledge of certainty and Ain-ul-Yaqeen i.e. the vision of certainty .

47 word of sin. But (these people of peace will hear) only one thing (from all sides) Peace, Peace. (Al-Waqia 7-26) The spiritual invocation and contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat drown the seeker in the Divine light of faith, make him steadfast upon the sharia outwardly while inwardly elevate him to the level of accomplished and immortal Mystic. Allah says;

Meaning: So thus, We revealed to you Our Soul by Our command. And (before revelation) you did not know what the Book was, nor did you know faith. But We made it a light. By means of this light We give guidance to those of Our servants whom We intend. And assuredly (Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; beloved Prophet!) you alone provide guidance towards the straight path. (This straight path is) the path of Allah to Whom belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the earth. Beware! All matters return to Allah alone. (Ash-Shura 52-53)

Meaning: This (Quran) is a confirmation of those (revealed Books) which We revealed before it, an explanation of everything and guidance and mercy for those who believe. (Yusuf 111)

Meaning: And those whom these (polytheists) call (for fulfillment of their needs) besides Allah cannot create anything; they have themselves been created. (An-Nahl 20)

Meaning: O‟ idol worshipper! Leave polytheism and infidelity so that you achieve Divine Unity with which you were blessed on the day of Divine covenant. If a person wishes to reach the ocean of Divine Oneness, remain present in the Mohammadan Assembly and meet the Sultan-ul-Faqr56 whose countenance is the light of Divinity because Sultan-ul-Faqr eternally enjoys ultimate closeness of Allah being annihilated in Him and companionship of Prophet Mohammad, then he must know that there are almost thirty crore thirty lac hair on the body of a human and every hair bears the dwelling of the devil which is the fountainhead of lustful desires created by the inciting innerself and physical senses. The base of these desires is the love of world while the pleasures of world nourish them just like water nurtures the plants. One who does not eliminate the love of world from the inward can neither find nearness of Allah nor presence in the Mohammadan Assembly. Without renouncing the world, the invocation of Allah does not continue in every hair of the body and in the inward, neither gnosis of Allah and Faqr can be attained which are the real achievements nor union with Divine Unity is possible even if the person strikes his head with stones while doing mystic struggles, becomes a hunchback due to excessive worships and his existence becomes thin like hair by performing pious deeds. He will remain separated from Allah due to the veils and disintegration because he is friend of the world and enemy of Allah.

“The Sultan of Faqr”. Sultan Bahoo has mentioned seven Sultan-ul-Faqr souls in his mystic treatise Risala Roohi Sharif. Six of which are: Fatimah daughter of Prophet Mohammad, Hassan of Basra, Ghaus-ul-Azam Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani, his son Shaikh Abdul Razzaq, Sultan Bahoo himself and Sultan Mohammad Asghar Ali. Sultan-ul-Faqr also refers to the Universal Divine Man (the Insan-e-Kamil) of an era who is the heir of the Divine Trust of Faqr and is appointed on the throne of Divine guidance and persuasion as the perfect spiritual guide to guide the seekers on the path of Faqr. He is Sultan-ul-Faqr because he has complete authority over Faqr. 56

Meaning: You have adopted silence and wear tattered dress only for the sake of worldly wealth, why it is so?

Meaning: Why, only for the sake of wealth, you claim to be the source of knowledge of Allah and let yourself be called the Dervish?

Meaning: You just wish worldly wealth, only for this purpose you pretend to be weeping in the remembrance of Allah and have made sad face, why?

Meaning: Why, for the sake of wealth, have you adopted seclusion and live in the world of dreams?

Meaning: Why do you make so much noise for the sake of wealth and even try to sell God?

Meaning: Why do you make talismans and charms for the sake of wealth and rotate chaplet pretending to glorify Allah?

50 Meaning: Why do you acquire excellence and knowledge only for the sake of worldly wealth and make this worldly life a source to earn money (instead of earning closeness of Allah)?

Meaning: You want high ranks only for the sake of wealth, even you glorify Allah for the sake of wealth, why is it so?

Meaning: Why are you always seeking wealth and disgracing yourself door to door for it?

Meaning: Bahoo not at all needs this mortal wealth as he is drowned in the gnosis of Allah and Divine union. Keep in mind, this world is mortal, at last one has to return to Allah. You must understand that world is the asset of Satan, one who renounces it, attains the levels of Divine knowledge. Engrossing oneself in invocation of Allah is better than thousand worldly emperorships. Once, the companions and friends of Holy Prophet asked him, “O‟ Prophet of Allah! What is the best source of having closeness of Allah in the world and hereafter, and which thing keeps away from Allah in the world and hereafter and is a source of disgrace in both? The Holy Prophet replied, “Acquire Faqr and gnosis of Allah, as these two blessings ennoble one with honour and exaltation in both the worlds and do not look towards the world but with hatred as it is the asset of Satan.”

51 Meaning: Except the malicious, ignorant, mean and dogs, who would be inclined towards the carrion!

Meaning: The seeker of carrion world is worse than the dog, no matter how wise and honoured he seems to be apparently.

Meaning: His inward is polluted with arrogance and his dog like mean attributes always reflect from his behaviour.

Meaning: Although, he looks like a human but possess bestial qualities like rage, lust, greed and appetite.

Meaning: The main aim of his life is to earn wealth and luxuries and his job is just to eat and sleep like cattle.

Meaning: His days and nights are spent in oblivion and his heart is entangled in the love of his family.

Meaning: Indeed, he has forgotten death and its agonies, and is careless and distracted from the path of salvation.

Meaning: He is trapped in the common attribute of â&#x20AC;&#x153;me and youâ&#x20AC;? i.e. duality. He sees multiplicity everywhere and remains stuck in it (i.e. neither he is inclined towards Oneness of Allah nor tries to attain it).

Meaning: Darkness of his inward reflects from his face, he knows nothing about the cleanliness of inward.

Meaning: Your life is based on a single breath, and you wish to have the whole world for that breath.

Meaning: What a pity! You are mean, arrogant, hypocrite, greedy and follow sensual desires just for the single breath.

Meaning: Only for that single breath you commit all the evil and raise turmoil to attain high worldly and religious ranks.

Meaning: Shame on your so-called wisdom and self-made rules which have turned you blind from the reality.

53 Meaning: This world is despicable and should be reacted despicably. That is why, it is cursed in the view of Mystics having insight.

Meaning: Due to the love of world, heart is captured in sensual desires. The heart of Mystics is freed from the love of the world. You must know that only the immodest, hypocrites, disobedient, liars and the cruel seek the world because only such mean people are brought up by the world. The very foundation of the world is meanness and the seeker of world is the follower of his inciting innerself and companion of Satan. That is why, he remains worried day and night due to his greed and jealousy. The path of Faqr, indigence, independence from worldly desires and inclination towards gnosis of Allah Almighty is the Sunna of Holy Prophet while accumulating wealth and taking pride init is the way of cursed infidels, pagans and followers of Pharaoh. How can such a person be considered a faithful or a Muslim who leaves the Faqr of Prophet Mohammad feeling ashamed upon it and adopts the worldly wealth taking pride in it. Certainly, the world keeps pursuing its seeker until he reaches hell. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: Worldly life is preparation for the hereafter. Further, whoever seeks food for more than a day, his destiny is surely hell. Faqr and gnosis of Allah keeps pursuing the seeker of Allah until he attains vision and union of Allah and reaches the heaven. It is strict obligation and the greatest Sunna to acquire Faqr of Prophet Mohammad. Only that person can properly step into the arena of Faqr who eliminates love of the world completely from his heart.

EXPLANATION OF THE MOHAMMADAN ASSEMBLY AND DISCUSSION ABOUT MEDITATION, INVOCATION, CONCENTRATION, UNVEILING, SELFACCOUNTABILITY, LEVELS AND RANKS You must know that engrossment in gnosis and Tauheed and presence of the Mohammadan Assembly gained by contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat are proved and verified by the verses of Quran and Hadiths. The light of theophanies emitted by Ism-e-Allah Zaat does not let falsehood enter the inward. Hence, the distracting thoughts, satanic apprehensions, illusions of the innerself, worries of accidents of life are erased completely from the inward and then such immodest and distracting thoughts never appear. In this spiritual way of kindness of Allah, the method of engrossment in Divine deeds by reciting the words of testimony with sincerity and devotion is that when the seeker starts the meditation57, he closes his eyes and contemplates the Ism-e-Allah Zaat. Firstly, he must close the satanic way inwardly as well as outwardly and separate himself from the distracting thoughts of innerself. For this, he should recite; (a) (“Bismillah Al-Rehman Al-Raheem” meaning “In the name of Allah the Most Merciful the Most Beneficent”) (b) Darood58 (c)The Ayat-al-Kursi59 (c) (“Salamun qaulam mir’r Rab-eRaheem” meaning “Peace, a word from the Merciful Lord”60) 57

Meditation is English word for the Arabic word Muraqbah. Literally, Muraqbah means to focus upon a point. Mystically, it is to meditate upon Allah by focusing upon Ism-e-Allah Zaat. Its main aim is to have gnosis of Allah and protect the inward from everything other than Allah. 58 Blessings and salutations upon the Holy Prophet. 59 255th verse of Surah Baqarah.

55 (d) (“Wallahul musta’an alaa maa tasifun” meaning “And Allah is the One sought for help against that which you describe”61) (e) The four Quls62 (f) Surah Fatiha63 (g) The creed of glorification64 (“Subhan Allahi wal Hamdullilahi wa la illaha ilAllahoo waAllahoo Akbar wa la Hawla wa la Quwwata illa billah-al’alii-al Azeem” meaning “Glory be to Allah and all praise is for Allah and there is none worthy of worship but Allah, Allah is the Greatest. There is no might or any power except with Allah, the Exalted, the Great) He should recite each of the mentioned verses thrice and then recite; (h) The prayer for seeking forgiveness for one‟s sins (“Astagfirullahi Rabi min kulli zambiu’n wa aatubu alayah” meaning “I seek forgiveness from Allah for all my sins and I repent unto Him”) thousand times (i) The creed of testimony65 (Ash-hadu an-la illaha ilAllahoo wahdahoo la shareeka Lahoo wa ash-hadu anna Muhammadan Abduhoo wa Rasooluhoo” meaning “I bear witness that there is none worthy of worship except Allah, He is One and has no partners and I bear witness that Mohammad is His beloved slave and Messenger”) three times

Verse 58 of Surah Ya-Seen Verse 18 of Surah Yusuf Four Quls are; Surah Kafirun, Surah Ikhlaas, Surah Falaq and Surah An-Nas of the Holy Quran. 63 First Surah of the Holy Quran 64 The third Kalma 65 The second Kalma 61 62

56 (j) The Islamic creed (“La illaha ilAllahoo Mohammad-ur-Rasoolullah” meaning “None is worthy of worship except Allah and Mohammad is His Messenger”) three times 66

After completing the recitation he should blow upon himself. Afterwards, he should contemplate Ism-e-Allah Zaat and the sacred name „Mohammad‟ and keep both in front of his eyes, then dive in the ocean of gnosis of Divine Oneness by the dominating effects of invocation of Allah‟s grand name and immerse in Divinity forgetting himself, as said in Quran;

Meaning: Do the invocation of your Lord when you forget (everything). (Al-Kahf-24) Unless the being of the seeker becomes spiritually mature by doing four kinds of invocation, four kinds of meditation and four kinds of concentration, he does not qualify for the presence of the Mohammadan Assembly. First is the declining invocation; on the commencement of this invocation, all the major and minor creations are inclined towards the reciter. A lot of disciples and seekers adopt this invocation but when it reaches its peak, most of the disciples and seekers leave it being spiritually demoted and repulsed(as they cannot bear its effects and are depraved by the Satan) and say, “We repent thousand times from such invocation”. Only that true seeker remains steadfast who purely desires to have ultimate gnosis and union of Allah. Second is the eternal invocation which is called the invocation of marvels. On starting this invocation, all the angels are attracted towards the reciter and armies of angels gather around him. The twin recording angels Kiramun Katibeen give him inspirations about every good and bad and keep him away from sins. When this invocation reaches its peak (i.e. the seeker accomplishes in it), the third invocation 66

The first Kalma

57 begins which is called the invocation of Divine union. This invocation takes the seeker to the assembly of Prophets and Saints inwardly and he is blessed with Divine union. When the seeker united with Allah becomes accomplished in this invocation, the fourth invocation starts which is called the invocation of spiritual states. While doing this invocation, the seeker is blessed with the theophanies of light of the Divine Essence and is raised to the level of annihilation in Allah and becoming immortal with Him. After crossing these four levels of invocation, the seeker becomes eligible for the presence of the Mohammadan Assembly. True Sarwari Qadri spiritual guide qualified for guidance on the right path is one who reveals the finality upon the seeker in the very beginning by the spiritual invocation of Ism-e Allah Zaat and makes him reach all the inward levels, stages and assembly of all Prophets and Saints complying with the intention and objective of the seeker. And, if he engrosses the seeker in Divinity taking him to the boundless levels of annihilation in Allah and immortality with Him by the extreme effects of invocation then the seeker becomes so much absorbed in it that neither he remembers himself nor levels and stages. These spiritual ranks are bound in the gnosis of â&#x20AC;&#x153;none but Allahâ&#x20AC;? and the unparalleled, unprecedented and unmatchable Tauheed which is absolute light of Allah. When the seeker reaches ultimacy of this level, he becomes accomplished in contemplation, concentration, authority, invocation, meditation, unveiling of states of hearts and unveiling of states of graves. Empowered with these, he becomes permanent member of the Mohammadan Assembly and converses with souls of all the Prophets, sacred companions of the Holy Prophet and Saints present there and discusses his knowledge about the verses of Quran, Hadiths, Divine presence and the knowledge of speech, hence gains excellence in all kinds of knowledge. He can enter or leave the assembly whenever he wants and beholds Allah without any veil as there are no more satanic curtains left between Allah and him. He crosses the three levels of certainty i.e.

58 knowledge of certainty, vision of certainty and the final level of certainty gained through experience and approaches the level of immortal Faqeer Mystic blessed with union of Allah. Then, such a man of inward and immortal Faqeer Mystic does not need to read anything. He becomes independent of all desires as he has found the esoteric and exoteric reality of everything. The truth is permeated in him and he becomes pure of falsehood forever. The Faqeer is blessed with insight and vision, the way of gnosis of Allah is not hidden from him, inwardly as well as outwardly. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: Nothing remains hidden from the one who recognizes Allah. You must know that the special Mohammadan Assembly is held at nine places according to respective levels and stations. At every station, it is perfect and complete in itself. These stations are; 1. 2. 3. 4.

5. 6. 7.

The station of pre-existence The station of eternal end At the sacred tomb of Holy Prophet in Madina In the sanctuary of Kaaba inside the Holy Kaaba or in the plain of mount Arafat where the prayers of hajj are accepted Above the Throne At the station of Qab-Qausain67 In the paradise. If the seeker eats or drinks something from here, he never feels hunger or thirst or the need to sleep in his life again At the heavenly pond of Kauther, where, if the seeker is blessed to have the holy beverage from the sacred hands

The station of extreme nearness to Allah. Qab-Qausain is a Quranic term. In Surah Al-Najm verse 9, Allah has used the term Qab Qausain while referring to the station of ultimate nearness between Him and His beloved Prophet Mohammad. It was a proverbial term used in Arab for the friendship and union of two tribes. They announced their union by joining their bows and shooting an arrow, hence declaring that from that time onwards they should be considered one and the same, oneâ&#x20AC;&#x;s enemy is the enemy of other and oneâ&#x20AC;&#x;s friend is otherâ&#x20AC;&#x;s friend.

59 of the Holy Prophet, his whole being is purified and he acquires the attributes of renunciation of the world and complete trust upon Allah. Then, crossing the levels of inward solitude and negation of self by the Favour of Allah, he reaches the station of Tauheed where he is blessed with the Divine company 9. At the level of complete immersion in the Divine light of Lordship after having the privilege of Divine vision. The seeker who annihilates himself, reaches the final level of gnosis, Faqr and immortality with Allah. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: One who recognizes his Holy Lord, adopts silence. If the seeker presents his worldly request or an issue related with worldly people at any of these nine stations of the special Mohammadan Assembly, he is driven out of the assembly and is dropped from the level of a beloved to the level of a reprobate.

Meaning: My body is in this world but soul is blessed with the Divine presence. The Mystics attain this status due to the special Divine light. When the Mystics immortal with Allah reach this level, their soul finds eternal bliss and the inciting innerself dies completely becoming naught. One must understand that the way of spiritual travellers, accomplished ones and the knowers of the Truth is that their origin and extremity is the same. Similarly, their hunger and satiation are the same as eating is just like an endeavor to them. Moreover, their sleep is the special state of Divine presence and observation, so, their ecstasy is vigilance and sleep is awakening. Some people dream what they think, hence, their dreams are just thoughts while dreams of some people are from Divinity,

60 hence, their dreams lead to Divine union. How can the people with dead soul and evil attributes understand these levels and states! On the path of gnosis of Allah, remaining in the state of ecstasy is sheer imperfection while remaining in the state of servility, obedience and worships is accomplishment. True man is one who remains conscious even in the state of ecstasy and sleep and keeps doing the invocation of Allah. The Holy Prophet said:

Meaning: My eyes sleep but my heart does not. The perfect spiritual guide who is a man of contemplation and authority, confers the way of Divine presence, gnosis of “none but Allah” and all the nine stations of the Mohammadan Assembly as well as their observation and presence through the invocation and concentration by the power of Ism-e-Allah Zaat and benediction of the Ism-e-Azam and also reveals the hidden meanings of all the holy verses of Quran by the key of Islamic creed . Every path which is based on outward physical deeds is like the lamp, while the way of Divine presence gained through Ism-e-Allah Zaat is the sun. When this sun shines and spreads the light of Divine Oneness, the soul of the seeker is fully enlightened. When the light of Ism-e-Allah Zaat falls upon the tablet of mind, the knowledge of gnosis of Allah is exposed upon the seeker and he becomes a man of knowledge of the Hayee68 and Qayyum69. He comes to know the inner meanings of all the realities of gnosis of Tauheed and all its stations become obvious upon him. Complete knowledge written upon the Guarded Tablet is reflected upon the tablet of his mind. By the benediction of presence of the Mohammadan Assembly, every knowledge and reality inscribed upon the Guarded Tablet is written on the tablet of his mind including the complete knowledge of sacred words of Allah. He compares the words of Allah written upon the 68 69

Attributive name of Allah meaning “The Eternally Alive”. Attributive name of Allah meaning “The Forever Sustained”.

61 tablet of his mind with those written upon the Guarded Tablet, if both are same inwardly as well as outwardly then they are verified. Every word inscribed on the tablet of Faqeer‟s mind is honoured and graced by Allah as compared to that written on the Guarded Tablet because Allah‟s attention is not towards the Throne, Chair or Guarded Tablet but towards the tablet of mind of the Faqeer who is ruler upon the innerself and spends every moment in obedience and servitude, as life is a sheer embarrassment without obedience to Allah. Allah says:

Meaning: And I created the jinns and human beings solely to adopt My servitude. (Al- Zaariyat 56) (Ayee Li-Yarifun) meaning: “i.e. for His gnosis and recognition”. The heart which beats with the invocation of Allah and observes the light of Allah is blessed with the Divine presence and the gnosis of Allah is revealed upon it. Either, such a heart keeps circumambulating the Kaaba and the Throne or the Kaaba and the Throne keep revolving around it, complying with the verse; 70

Meaning: (This Quran) has been revealed by (Allah) Who created the earth and lofty heavens. (He is) the Rehman Who settled (i.e. manifested) on the Throne (of heart of faithful). (So) whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the earth and whatever is in between the two and whatever is beneath the soil to its bed, all are His. And if, during invocation and prayer, you raise your voice (or keep it low, He will listen as), He knows even the secrets (of hearts) and also the most 70

Abdullah Ibn-e-Abbas, the sacred companion of the Holy Prophet and the first exegetist of Quran, added these words while explaining the verse 56 of Surah AlZaariyat.

62 hidden mysteries. Allah is (His personal name) besides Whom there is no one to be worshipped. There are (also) many other beautiful names for Him. (Ta-Ha 4-8) Whoever adopts the contemplation and attribute of any one of the ninety-nine beautiful names of Allah, the efficacy of that Divine name removes darkness of evil attributes and rust (of oblivion) from his inward. Such an inward is enlightened with the light of gnosis of Allah and everything is revealed upon it. The inward which has been sanctified and enlightened by the Divine light of invocation of Allah is blessed with the attention of Allah. The status of the possessor of such inward is;

Meaning: When Faqr is accomplished that is Allah. Faqeer is one who gets inspirations and answers of all his questions directly from Allah. However, this is just the initial level. Oâ&#x20AC;&#x; imperfect! Do not be arrogant upon attaining this level. I am amazed at the people who claim to be at the level of annihilation in the spiritual guide but are actually at the level of annihilation in Satan i.e. they are engrossed in worshipping the physical countenance of their spiritual guide. Superficial beauty and music keep them ecstatic, they hold their breath while invocation as imitators. The breath which passes in the affirmative invocation (i.e. the invocation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat which leads to the affirmation of Divinity) that breath and invocation lead to the Divine presence and observation of Divine Oneness and drown the seeker completely in Tauheed. The imitators who listen music can never attain this level whether they do invocation of breath, invocation of inward, invocation of soul, invocation of core71, invocation of the most Arcane72, invocation of the Divine Essence, the kingly invocation, the sacrificial invocation, the overpowering invocation, the fragrant invocation, the enlightening invocation, the ecstatic 71,72

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63 invocation, the invocation of immersion, the invocation of passion, the wrathful invocation, the compassionate invocation, the invocation of observation, the invocation of presence, the invocation of closeness, the invocation of annihilation, the invocation of immortality, invocation of Hayee (the Eternal) or invocation of Qayyum (the Forever Sustained). None of these invocations prove to be effective unless the seeker finds the reality of gnosis of “none but Allah” and presence of the Mohammadan Assembly through the Divine presence and closeness. The real invocation purifies the existence of the reciter and grants him salvation from the filth of innerself, evil of Satan and distractions of accidents of life and carries him to the Divine presence conferring upon him boundless pleasure of observation of the Lord. The reciter who is deprived of these attributes is just an emulator, liar and an absolute hypocrite. The true reciter has nothing to do with music and hypocrisy. People who take Allah‟s holy name disrespectfully with music and clapping are infidels. True spiritual guide is the man of sharia as it is said;

Meaning: The spiritual guide vivifies the Sunnas and ends the wrong innovations.

Meaning: The spiritual guide enlivens the soul and kills the inciting innerself. I am surprised at the people who claim to be at the level of annihilation in the sacred name of Mohammad but are dead hearted and trapped in the desires of carrion world. I am also surprised at the people who claim to be at the level of annihilation in Ism-e-Allah Zaat and independent of desires but are men of wrong innovations and tribulations, creating turmoil is their job. Actually, the level of annihilation in the spiritual guide is that when the seeker of Allah contemplates the countenance of spiritual guide in his inward, the spiritual

64 being of the spiritual guide appears at once, holds the hand of the seeker and takes him to the Mohammadan Assembly or grant him gnosis of Allah. Such a spiritual guide is called the giver of life and death. The level of annihilation in the sacred name of Mohammad is that when the seeker contemplates the sacred name of the Holy Prophet, undoubtedly, the sacred soul of the Holy Prophet along with the souls of his sacred companions bless the seeker with their kind presence. The Holy Prophet says to the contemplator with his pearl divulging sacred tongue, “Hold my hand.” On holding the hand of Holy Prophet, the inward eyes of the seeker get enlightened by gnosis of Allah and the Divine secrets are revealed upon him. Then, the seeker becomes eligible to give guidance about the right path to people. Hence, the Holy Prophet orders the man of contemplation to help and guide the people on the path to Allah. In obedience to the order of the Holy Prophet, he takes oath of allegiance from the seekers of Allah and grants them spiritual persuasion and education. Allah says;

Meaning: Allah‟s Hand is upon their hands. (Al-Fateh 10) I am really surprised at the people who are unaware of the inward pleasure of experiencing the Divine light of gnosis of Allah and have misunderstood

(Fa-firru ilAllahi)

meaning: “Run towards Allah” as (Fa-firru minAllahi) meaning: “Run away from Allah”. The level of annihilation in Ism-e-Allah Zaat is that; whoever does the contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat, its efficacy bestows the gnosis of “none but Allah” and erases everything other than Allah from the inward of the seeker. The seeker who reaches this level, drinks the goblet of gnosis of Allah from the ocean of Tauheed. Then, he wraps the cover of sharia and works hard to follow all the orders of sharia. He never discloses the secrets about gnosis of Allah which are revealed upon him before the foolish people, neither he shows off (his status of closeness with Allah) nor try to earn anything from it.

Meaning: Hide yourself from people as much as possible. How can those be considered Mystics who sell themselves (i.e. use their power and prestige to earn wealth and fame). The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: One who recognizes Allah, finds no pleasure in the company of people.

Meaning: Faqr is my pride and Faqr is from me. Often, the infidels, liars and the hypocrites taunted the Holy Prophet loudly, “O‟ Mohammad! Have you turned a Faqeer?” The Holy Prophet used to reply, “Faqr of Mohammad is the pride of Mohammad as it grants Oneness with Allah and separation from the people trapped in the desires of innerself.”

Meaning: One who is liked by Allah does not care whether people like him or not.

Meaning: Whoever is recognized in the court of Allah, is also recognized by all the angels and Prophets as well as all the Saints and sanctified scholars.

66 Meaning: It does not matter if the ignorant and people trapped in the desires of innerself do not recognize him. How can the blind captured in hypocrisy and bribery recognize such a prestigious one?

Meaning: Allah has honoured Faqr with His closeness. The Dervishes who are lovers of Allah gain beneficence from Faqr day and night. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: Faqr needs nothing from anyone but Allah.

Meaning: Faqr feels ashamed of having relations with worldly people and from the desires of wealth. As, the worldly people are either greedy like dogs or insensible like the bear. Even if the Faqeer Saints are starving to death, they would never go to worldly people for help as they are independent of desires. They would prefer to die in seclusion rather than going to the door of any worldly person. However, if on the order of Allah and by the permission of Holy Prophet, they have to go to meet some worldly person for the sake of benefitting common Muslims and to please Allah, they grant him peace of heart and convert him into a Godfearing person from a cruel one. None of the acts of a Faqeer is without the Divine wisdom, as, Faqeer is the supreme sage. Sage is one who first acquires knowledge and becomes a scholar. Real scholar is one who can differentiate between right and wrong through knowledge, while sage is one who adopts the right and leaves the wrong. Right means the path of Truth and

67 wrong means the path of falsehood. To say, Faqr is the Truth and worldliness is the falsehood. The person who claims that I offer inward prayer of presence so I do not need to offer outward prayer, says an absolute lie. When it is time to say the obligatory prayer, the Mystics are ordered from the Mohammadan Assembly to go and offer the prayer otherwise their presence of holy assembly will be confiscated.

Meaning: I behold Kaaba in my inward and sacrifice my life upon it. I am perpetually blessed with sacred company of the Holy Prophet in Madina.

Meaning: People think I am with them but I always remain with the Holy Prophet inwardly. Listen! This is the way of the Mystics and men of Divine union. The seeker of Allah must be a learned person and should be aware of entire esoteric and exoteric knowledge. Only such a seeker is qualified for the presence of the Mohammadan Assembly and gnosis of Allah. Otherwise, it is not at all difficult to make thousands of ignorant crazy with a single glance. The fact is that it is impossible to find Faqr without knowledge, while without Faqr, knowledge is just a nuisance. The seeker never becomes obedient to the spiritual guide without spiritual and physical trials, neither becomes a true seeker of Allah. If he is blessed by the spiritual guide with the felicity of presence of the Mohammadan Assembly and level of immersion in the Divine light of gnosis along with ultimate closeness of Allah, he becomes superior to all the other seekers of Allah who are men of faith.

EXPLANATION OF THE PERFECT ASSEMBLY, INVOCATION AND GLORIFICATION One must know that the Holy Prophet is munificent for all his common and special followers and grants them the treasures of beneficence from the ocean of gnosis of Allah owing to his universal kindness and compassion. Having the privilege of beholding him is a great blessing and a felicity for faith. Allah sent the Holy Prophet for the right guidance of His creation. The cursed Satan can never deserve to be called the right guide. He fears from the right guidance gained from Ism-e-Allah Zaat, sacred name of Prophet Mohammad, Islamic creed , recitation of Quran, laws of Islam, exegesis of Quran and the compassion of Allah whose source is the spiritually powerful sight of Mystics, and runs away by reciting the prayer of La-Hawl73 (“La Hawla wa la Quwwata illa billahal’alii-al Azeem” meaning “There is no might or any power except with Allah, the Exalted, the Great) just as the infidels run away from Islam. It is evident that the people who do not feel happy on hearing the sacred name of the Holy Prophet are utterly irreligious, cursed, hypocrites and faithless. They do not believe in the eternal life of Holy Prophet as they are the wretched ones whose belief has been snatched by the Satan. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: If I fear, I fear only for the weak belief of my nation. How can such a person be considered a faithful, Muslim or follower of the Holy Prophet who does not believe that the Holy Prophet is alive! No doubt, such a person is lair, faithless and a hypocrite, whoever is he apparently. The Holy Prophet said; 73

A prayer for safety from the Satan

69 Meaning: A liar does not belong to my nation. O‟ malicious, faithless, obedient of the cursed Satan! Learn to believe in the eternal life of the Prophet from the Arabs. They implore to the Holy Prophet at the door of his sacred tomb, “O‟ living Prophet, the leader of all the pious! Let our prayers be answered from the holy court of Lord and our job be accomplished.” Not only they get answer of their prayers but their job is also done due to their perfect belief in the alive presence of the Holy Prophet. Whoever does not believe in the life of Holy Prophet, is disgraced in both the worlds. Only that person denies the eternal life of the Prophet and considers him dead whose faith has been confiscated by Satan and whose soul has died. Further, the explanation and verification of the Mohammadan Assembly is that there are seven signs of the sacred company of Prophet Mohammad. First, the existence of the Holy Prophet is more fragrant than musk. The secret of Allah behind it is that there is no inciting innerself in the being of the Holy Prophet and he is absolutely pure of greed, lust, jealousy and other sensual desires. He is eternally immersed and annihilated in Allah and endlessly with Him. Prophet Mohammad was not born of the human semen, rather, the arch angel Gabriel brought a fruit for his mother Amina from heaven which was called the fruit of the tree of Divine light. The fragrance of the sacred existence of the Holy Prophet is due to that fruit. The fragrance emits from his body from head to toe and spreads in the universe. No other being can have fragrance similar to the fragrance of the Holy Prophet even if he remains in his sacred company, spiritually and physically, for whole life. Second sign of the efficacy of sacred company of the Holy Prophet is that whoever perpetually remains present in his assembly becomes contented, outwardly and inwardly. Thirdly, he says everything according to Quran and Hadith. Fourthly, he follows sharia perfectly. Fifth sign is that he

70 makes it compulsory for himself to follow the Sunni sect of Muslims. Sixth, he becomes beneficent for other Muslims. Seventh, he becomes unprecedently generous. Outwardly, he appears to be talking with people but inwardly, he is always drowned in the state of annihilation in Allah. 74

Other features of the Mohammadan Assembly are that the Holy Prophet outwardly talks to worldly people with his physical body while inwardly his soul keeps conversing with the spiritual people. When he moves his lips to talk, the learned people are amazed, as, the worldly people think that he is talking to them while the spiritual people consider that he is talking to them. However, the reality is that he converses with Allah-the Compassionate. His sacred being is pure of the inciting innerself which has worried Satan who is the friend of inciting innerself. The Saint Bayazid Bastami said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have been talking to Allah for thirty years but the worldly people think I am talking to them while the spiritual ones think I am addressing them.â&#x20AC;?

Meaning: There is a spiritual being hidden in the physical being which is a secret. Each being has its own reality and voice. The Mysticsâ&#x20AC;&#x; existence can be likened to snake. The snake develops another skin inside its outer slough and when the inner skin gets matured, the snake casts off the old slough. So, if you observe that the Mystics and Saints of nation of Prophet Mohammad are present at every station and level, it is because of their being of Divine light which can reach everywhere. This is not the way of evil tricks, satanism or ignorance but the way of jamiat and compassion gained by the benediction of the Mohammadan Assembly through the kindness, favour and sacred company of the Holy Prophet. 74

The section of Muslims who follow the Sunnas of the Holy Prophet completely. All the four schools of thought are included in this section i.e. Hanafi, Maliki, Shafii and Hanbali.

71 The Divine presence acquired by the contemplation of Ism-eAllah Zaat is the source of gaining the benediction of verses of Quran, Hadiths and the Ism-e-Azam. The verses of Holy Quran and the Divine key of Islamic creed open the lock of inward, enlighten the soul and show the right path with verification. These favours are conferred by the perfect and accomplished Sarwari Qadri spiritual guide who has been chosen to bestow the jewels of invocation and treasures of spiritual reflection since the day of Divine covenant75 when the command of “Be and it Becomes” was decreed. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: It is the same now as it was in eternity. O‟ imperfect and perplexed men of sensual desires, listen carefully! These are the levels of the permanent members of the Mohammadan Assembly. The beautiful features of the physical appearance of the Holy Prophet verified by seeing him with perfect faith in his holy assembly are described below;

Meaning: In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful the Most Beneficent His complexion was fairly wheatish, forehead was broad, teeth were wide and ears were appropriate. He had high nose, black eyes, charming countenance and thick beard. His hands were long and had thin fingers. His stature was gracefully medium. He had no hair on his body except a line of fine hair that started from chest and went to the sacred navel. At his back, there was the stamp of Prophethood in the middle of sacred shoulders. The impression of the stamp is like this; STAMP OF PROPHETHOOD 75

In pre-existence, Allah took the promise from the souls to always consider Him their Lord and Master by asking, “Am I not your Creator and Provident?” and the souls replied, “Yes! You are.” (verse 172 surah A‟raf)

The Holy Prophet said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whoever beheld me, no doubt, he actually beheld me because Satan can never take my form, neither can he take the form of Holy Kaaba i.e. whoever saw me in dream, verily he saw me (not anyone else).â&#x20AC;? As, Satan is not able to adopt the form of the Holy Prophet or the perfect spiritual guide. If someone denies that the Holy Prophet can be beheld in the mentioned appearance, he denies the Hadith of the Holy Prophet and whoever denies the Hadith of the Prophet, in fact denies the Holy Prophet and whoever denies the Prophet, turns infidel. The honour of beholding the Holy Prophet is also conferred from the Mohammadan Assembly.

Meaning: The vigilant Mystics are immersed in the light of Divine Oneness, so they are eternally united with the Holy Prophet and perpetually present in his holy assembly.

Meaning: This is the ultimate station of Faqr. Whoever reaches here, becomes perfect Mystic.

73 Meaning: The perfect spiritual guide takes the seekers to Allah and the Holy Prophet.

Meaning: Only that spiritual guide is eligible to give righteous guidance who is completely immersed in Divine light. Such a spiritual guide is the man of Divine presence.

Meaning: It is a great honour for him to be chosen by the Holy Prophet for guidance of the seekers of Allah. He ennobles the seekers with success on the path to Allah.

Meaning: One deprived of these abilities, is an imperfect guide and a man of wrong innovations who depraves from the true religion.

Meaning: The powerful spiritual guide is well aware of the path of Divine presence and bestow it upon the seekers of Allah by just his single spiritual sight76.

Meaning: If you wish to achieve these blessings, become a humble servant of the perfect Mystics with complete faith

The Persian word Nazar is translated as the spiritual sight. It is specific for the effective sight of the perfect spiritual guide with which he cleanses and purifies the soul and inward of his disciples as well as imparts the inner knowledge. It is not bounded by time and space. If the spiritual guide is perfect, his sight can affect his disciple wherever he is.

74 and save yourself from the wrong innovator guides as they are like the cursed Satan. Firstly, a seeker of Allah should acquire sagacity and awareness through knowledge as these are the mediums to gain the knowledge of closeness and gnosis of Allah and the Divine presence.

Meaning: Dervishes observe the entire universe on their nail and view the spectacle of everything with their eyes. However, this is the level of knowledge of spheres. One must approach the level of knowledge of the Divine Essence.

Meaning: The seeker must gain knowledge of Allah which makes one a man of insight. It is acquired through the knowledge of Ism-e-Azam (i.e. Ism-e-Allah Zaat) that enlightens the inward.

Meaning: Seek this knowledge from the Holy Prophet, it is the fountainhead of secrets of Divine Oneness.

Meaning: Where the boundaries of knowledge end, that is the point of clemency. The Mystic becomes perfect on accomplishment in both. The imperfect spiritual guide is like the seeker (as he seeks money and assistance from his disciples) while the imperfect seeker is like the spiritual guide (as he tries to guide the

75 spiritual guide and wants him to follow his will). If both are imperfect and unaware of the secrets of inward and gnosis of Allah, then the spiritual guide can be likened to a cow (due to his ignorance) and the disciple to a donkey (due to his foolishness).

Meaning: The imperfect spiritual guide is like a widow who is continuously asking for money.

Meaning: His attention is always towards worldly wealth and goods and he keeps waiting to have them.

Meaning: He advises and persuades his disciples against hoarding worldly wealth but does the same himself i.e. does not practise what he preaches.

Meaning: Imperfect spiritual guide is cruel like a butcher who sucks up the marrow from the bones of his disciples and sells it for money.

Meaning: I seek refuge of Allah from the butcher spiritual guides who eat the meat of men and consider it a rewarding deed.

Meaning: I have researched upon the spiritual guides of all the mystic ways, they all are mean and love their disciples only for money.

Meaning: Their inward is evil while the tongue is glibly reciting Hadiths. How can these impotent find the closeness and company of Allah!

Meaning: Only the perfect spiritual guide of Sarwari Qadri order is the true spiritual guide who shows the path of Truth. The spiritual guide who does not know this way is surely trapped in desires of innerself. Being a spiritual guide and true seeker of Allah are great levels as there are secrets of Divinity and gnosis of Allah in them. Know that, nobody can approach the below mentioned six spiritual levels. If anyone claims so, he is surely a liar, conjurer, infidel, fraud and an apostate. These levels are: 1. The verses of the Holy Quran are never revealed upon anyone except the Holy Prophet. 2. Prophet Mohammad is the seal of Prophets. No revelation can descend upon anybody else after him. 3. Nobody can approach the extreme level of gnosis of Allah where the Holy Prophet reached. 4. Nobody can reach the station of extreme Divine nearness (Qab Qausain) and have ascension to Allah77 like the

English phrase for the Arabic word Meraj. The Holy Prophet Mohammad is blessed with the ultimate Meraj where he beheld Allah directly without any veil and enjoyed His absolute union.

77 Holy Prophet, neither anyone can behold Allah with physical eyes like he did. 5. No one can reach the level of any sacred companion of the Holy Prophet i.e. the companions of Sufah78, companions of Badar79, the great companions or any other companion. 6. Nobody can attain level of perfection in interpretation of religious law80and knowledge of traditions except the four leaders of the four interpreted religions (i.e. Imam Abu Hanifa, Imam Shafii, Imam Malik and Imam Ahmad Bin Humble), and all these four religions are rightful. I follow Imam Abu Hanifa who was a Mystic with pure inward and ever remained free of polytheism, infidelity and schism of music. Except these six levels, there are many other levels which can be achieved by the chosen ones i.e. the levels of sainthood, righteousness, endless contentment, ultimacy in invocation, meditation, recitals, recitations, immersion in gnosis, closeness and union of Allah, observation of theophanies of Divine light, passion and thirst for closeness of Allah, Dawat, knowledge of excellence, dervishism, Faqeerism, becoming Abdal81, Autad82, Ghaus83, Qutb84 and the levels of annihilation and immortality. These ranks will be transferred from one chosen individual to the other according to the respective levels and this chain will continue till the Doomsday. Know that there are three levels of Ghaus and Qutbs; first are the ignorant (so called) Ghaus and Qutbs who can exercise their power within a limited area of twelve The platform in Holy Prophetâ&#x20AC;&#x;s mosque which served as the first Islamic university. Some companions resided there who are called the companions of Sufah. 79 Companions who participated in the battle of Badar. 80 Derived from the Arabic word Ijtihad which is a technical term of Islamic law that describes the process of making a legal decision by independent interpretation of the legal sources, the Quran and the Sunna. The person authorized to make the interpretation is called as Mujtahid. He is accepted as an original authority in Islamic law. Such authorities continue in the Shia, but the Sunni Muslims accord this status only to the great lawmakers of early Islam. 81,82, 83, 84 spiritual ranks of Saints, among these Ghaus is the highest rank. 78

78 parasangs. Second are the spiritual Ghaus and Qutbs whose inciting innerself is annihilated and soul is immortal. They have been ecstatically immersed in Divinity since eternity as they have drunk the goblet of passion for Allah from the hands of the Holy Prophet who makes the lovers of Allah drink the wine of Divine Oneness. They are ever sobbing due to the eternal pain of spiritual ecstasy. They have no desire to make disciples or attract seekers as they are drowned in Tauheed. The Ghaus and Qutb of this level are the men of inward solitude and negation of self. Third are the Ghaus and Qutb of Divine Oneness as was Ghaus-ul-Azam Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani-the beloved of Allah, the Divine secret and the Ghaus of all jinns, humans and angels. This level can be achieved only by the seekers and followers of the Sarwari Qadri order who are men of sight and passionate for the vision of Allah. They are drowned in the gnosis of Allah and happily occupied in the Divine deeds. Felicitations to them on perfect gnosis of “none but Allah” and eternal presence of the Mohammadan Assembly! The perfect Qadri spiritual guide is one who does not seek any spiritual way except the way of gnosis of “none but Allah” and the presence of the Mohammadan Assembly. As, in the way of recitals and invocations, there are many dangers such as demotion caused due to inciting innerself, evil of egoism created by Satan, distractions caused by inclination of the creation and worldly accidents. These are like the brigands of the way that may cause confiscation of the soul or keep the seeker stuck in the inner states of spiritual contraction85, expansion86, spiritual

Spiritual contraction is translated from the Arabic word Qabd. It is the state of soul which results from the theophany of Allah‟s majestic name Al-Qabid meaning “The Constrictor”. When the seeker experiences this state, his inward and soul are firmly gripped and the wrathful effects of the theophanies burn a veil between him and Allah. This state is followed by the state of spiritual expansion (Busst). 86 Spiritual expansion is translated from the Arabic word Busst. It is the state of soul which results from the theophany of Allah‟s beautiful name Al-Bassit meaning “The Expander”. When the seeker experiences this state, his soul is engulfed with ineffable joy.

79 intoxication or returning to the state of sobriety87. While, for the people of Divine presence, ecstasy is vigilance and sleeping is awakening. Whoever has not acquired gnosis of Allah and presence of the Mohammadan Assembly and is not engrossed in Divine observations, will remain deprived of union with Allah and his struggles will not bear any fruit. He is the seeker who has still not understood the matter of fact. Such people are born blind spiritually and will remain so till death. Allah says;

Meaning: Whoever is blind (to the vision of Allah) here (in this world) will remain blind in the hereafter as well.(BaniIsrail-72)

EXPLANATION OF THE MOHAMMADAN ASSEMBLY Explanation of the spiritual way of being blessed with the presence of the Mohammadan Assembly is that when the Ism-e-Allah Zaat is engraved upon the heart and soul of the seeker of Allah due to Its excessive contemplation and gains stability in his being, the seeker can observe it clearly. When Ism-e-Allah Zaat shines in his inward, it spreads light like the rising sun and the theophanies of Divine light of gnosis of Allah enlighten the inward of the seeker so much that all the darkness of satanism and desires of innerself are removed. Then the spiritual guide should ask him to observe the Divine name

in his inward through concentration and

tell what he sees. If, on beholding the name in his inward, the seeker drowns in It and becomes unconscious of everything spiritually, then certainly he has got engrossed in the Divine light of gnosis of Allah. However, if he remains 87

Literally, sobriety is the translation for Arabic word Sahw. Mystically, it is the state of soul experienced on returning from the state of spiritual intoxication. It is the vigilant state in which the seeker consciously understands and cognates whatever he experienced and gained during the state of spiritual intoxication.

80 conscious spiritually, he tells that he can see a vast plain (through contemplation) around the name in his inward which is infinitely vast and boundless, and then he again gets attentive towards his inward and the Divine name . When he comes out of the state of meditation, he tells that in the plain, there is a dome of a tomb on whose door is written. The door of the tomb opens on reciting the Islamic creed

Meaning: The source of salvation for every soul and the key of all locks is

Meaning: Whoever recites by heart and soul, has no fear of hell fire or the tricks of cursed Satan.

Meaning: was present even when neither the blue sky existed nor both the worlds. When the seeker enters the tomb, he observes a special assembly being held inside it, in which the invocation of Allah and discussion about Quran and Hadith is going on. He comes to know that this is the Mohammadan Assembly. This holy assembly takes the seeker to seven stations; the station of pre-existence, station of eternal end, four stations related to the created worlds, of which two are in the physical world i.e. the tomb of Holy Prophet in Madina and the Holy Kaaba where this assembly is held, while two stations are above the heavens i.e. the Divine Throne and the deepest oceans of

81 absolute Divine Oneness whose waves are all light of gnosis of Allah and is unprecedent. Seventh station where the Mohammadan Assembly is held is the station beyond all stations called the La-Makan which can neither be described nor exemplified with anything. The invocation of is always going on in this holy assembly wherever it is held.

Meaning: Eliminate all the distractive thoughts from your inward (and focus only upon Allah) so that you find Oneness with the Divine Essence.

Meaning: The heart which is oblivious of the secrets of Allah is not the real heart, it is just an organ made of soil. The invocation of Divine name and spiritual meditation grant the presence of the Mohammadan Assembly to the seeker who possesses the contemplation of and take him spiritually wherever the assembly is being held just like a soul flies away from the body on death. This way of entering the holy assembly is for the seeker at initial level. When his outward and inward become the same, he becomes the perfect Mystic immortal with Allah and reaches the final level. For the perfect ones, the Mohammadan Assembly is going on everywhere just as the light of sun reaches everywhere, and the true seeker is always present in this assembly just as every particle is associated with the sun and is enlightened by its light. It must be clarified that a seeker can never reach the Mohammadan Assembly by the physical prayers, daily recital rounds or other outwardly pious deeds even if he spends his whole life in hard mystic exercises. Its real spiritual way can be learned and acquired only from the

82 perfect spiritual guide who possesses authority over the inward world. He can bless the true seeker of Allah with the presence of the Mohammadan Assembly and Divine union in just a moment. You must know that nation is that which follows the leader, so the true Muslim is one who follows his Prophet Mohammad completely and reaches his holy assembly following his every step. I am surprised at the people who do not know the way to have the presence of the Mohammadan Assembly and do not even seek it from the perfect Mystics due to their conceit, immodesty, arrogance and egoism. The foolish people get jealous from the seeker blessed with presence of the Mohammadan Assembly and cannot even see him out of jealousy, such people are absolutely animals. Whosoever is not approved by the Holy Prophet cannot be called a faithful or even a Muslim. He can never be a Faqeer, Dervish or a religious scholar and should not be considered a follower of Prophet Mohammad. The spiritual company of Holy Prophet is the secret of righteousness and this secret can be gained by returning to the origin88. Hadith:

Meaning: Returning to the origin is the final level. The Holy Prophet said:

Meaning: Whoever beheld me, no doubt, he actually beheld me because Satan can never take my form. If the true seeker who has been blessed with the presence and service of the Mohammadan Assembly requests for the solution of any of his worldly or religious problem and the Holy Prophet orders to resolve that issue, the sacred companions also pray for him, even then if that problem is 88

The origin of every faithful is the Divine light of Prophet Mohammad as he said, (Ana min Noor Allahi wal mominoona minni) meaning: I am from the light of Allah and all the faithfuls are from my light.

83 not resolved, then what could be the reason? That seeker of Allah must know that he has not reached the level of perfection yet and is still progressing spiritually. He is still not liberated from his desires which are creating hurdles for him. However, he is granted an inward blessing as a substitute of his request which makes him happy. Congratulations to him on his progress towards the closeness of Allah. If the seeker is ignorant or has desires of this carcass world, then either he is banished and driven out of the assembly or his spiritual ranks are confiscated. When the inward and outward of a seeker become one, he is raised to such a level which is beyond all levels and above progress. The reality of Mohammadan Assembly is revealed only upon the seekers who have reached the Divine Oneness and have become one with The One. The writer says that it is not difficult to have the privilege of presence of the Mohammadan Assembly by the power and contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat or through the powerful inward attention of the spiritual guide gained by invocation and meditation or by reciting Dawat at the shrines of Saints, but it is very difficult to steadfastly follow the entire Sunnas and sharia of the Holy Prophet and perfectly adopt his beautiful attributes of Divine knowledge, clemency, courteous nature, authority, submission to Allah, inward purity and generosity. The true Mystic immortal with Allah is one who sincerely and whole heartedly follows all the Sunnas of the Holy Prophet, acquires presence of his holy assembly and does not disobey even a single order of the Prophet. Presence of the Mohammadan Assembly is like a touchstone. Whoever beholds the Holy Prophet on entering the assembly, keeps perfect belief in whatever he sees in the assembly and is grateful on having the privilege of presence before the Holy Prophet, his innerself is eventually purged, inward is vivified and soul is engrossed in the desirable invocation. Whoever beholds the Holy Prophet on having presence of the assembly but does not believe in what he sees, becomes apostate and reprobate. You must know that seven kinds of

84 people remain deprived of beholding the Holy Prophet and having presence of his holy assembly; the renouncers of prayer, the renouncers of community, the drunkards, those who make wrong innovations in the religion, opponent of the practitioner religious scholars, opponent of the perfect Fuqara, lovers of music and apparent beauty of stranger women and men. Whoever considers that the perfect Fuqara who are true followers of sharia and are the men of inward, have no worth or wisdom, is utterly foolish and unwise, as, the authority over the whole world from east to west is granted by the order of Allah and permission of the Holy Prophet to these sanctified Dervishes whose inward is replete. Each word that is uttered by the Fuqara is based on some Divine wisdom as the Faqeer himself is one of the wisdoms of Allah. It is an established fact that;

Meaning: The tongue of Fuqara is the sword of Rehman89. That Faqeerâ&#x20AC;&#x;s tongue is the sword of Rehman who is perpetually engrossed in invocation, meditation and recitation of Quran. He is independent of all desires owing to his perfect gnosis of Allah and the Divine union, so, he never asks anyone for anything. If he takes something from someone, he lets him have it ten times from Allah in return. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: A Faqeer neither covets nor gathers or refuses. What is the sign to recognize the Faqeer blessed with company of the Holy Prophet and presence of his holy assembly? It is that whatever such a Faqeer says, is about gnosis of Oneness of Allah and based upon Islamic law, Quran, Hadiths and their exegesis. Only Allah! Everything other than Allah is lust! The Faqeer does not need to make charms by drawing lines or circles, neither he needs to recite 89

Attributive name of Allah, meaning â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Most Compassionateâ&#x20AC;?.

85 Dawat. The level of annihilation in the spiritual guide is the initial level where the seeker experiences different spiritual states. Next level of Divine presence is annihilation in Allah which is attained by contemplation and power of Ism-e-Allah Zaat that reveals the theophanies of Divine light and their observation. The blaze of Ism-e-Allah Zaat and warmth of Divine light burn the spiritual and physical being of the seeker from head to toe just like fire burns the wood. This fire does not cool down till the Doomsday until the seeker enters the heaven and is blessed with the vision and closeness of Allah. Qudsi Hadith90;

Meaning: When they will behold Allah, they will forget all the other blessings. Allah says;

Meaning: (Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Beloved)! You did not stone the enemy in the battle field but Allah did, (so) that He confers upon the faithfuls great favours from him. (Al-Anfal 17) The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: Certainly! A person will not enter heaven on the basis of excessive prayers and fasting but due to four special attributes; (1) Generosity of hands (2) Perfection of inward (3) Honouring the orders of Allah (4) Kindness towards the creation of Allah. Allah says;

Words of Allah stated by the Holy Prophet.

Meaning: Would any of you like to eat the flesh of his dead brother? You would hate it. And fear Allah. Indeed, Allah is the Acceptor of repentance and Ever-Merciful. (Al-Hujrat-12)

Meaning: When that Day comes, not a soul will be able to speak without His permission. Then some of them will be unfortunate and others fortunate. (Hud-105) One who commits backbiting of a faithful or a true Muslim is considered adulterer and sinner. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: Backbiting is severe than adultery. He is an adulterer and eats the flesh of his brother. The contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat is the eternal mystic devotion which purifies the existence from head to toe, no other devotion is harder or better than it. It creates the fire which is more intense than the hell fire, to the extent that it seems as if the hell fire is lit by its spark. If the Fuqara annihilated in Allah, who possess this fire, cast a wrathful glance upon the earth, it would burn from east to west. Commendable is the sacred existence that bears this fire but does not annoy the creation. If a person continues adopting forty-day seclusion for forty years for any worldly or religious purpose, contemplating Ism-e-Allah Zaat for a moment is better than it. As, the people of contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat solve all their issues in a moment by this spiritual act. The Faqeer who can spiritually meet all the sacred souls in just a moment by having presence of the Mohammadan Assembly, does not need to say the prayer for augury, as he can view the spectacle of both the worlds on the back of his nail. He is the man of insight and can show whatever he views with his inward eyes by manifesting it outwardly. This is just the primary level of a Faqeer and his

87 initial lesson, like the lesson of kids. I am surprised at the people who are not sincere to the Fuqara for the sake of Allah and hurt them by displaying hypocritical behaviour.

Meaning: Do not be oblivious of the retribution of this world, here one gets what one gives.

Meaning: Oâ&#x20AC;&#x; Bahoo! What is Faqr? Please tell us its truth. It is something beyond perception and intellect. This is because Faqr is one of the secrets of Allah and it belongs purely to Allah. Whoever acquires Faqr, puts a cross upon everything other than Allah. Faqr is the ultimate station of heaven where one is bestowed the absolute felicity of vision of Allah and which is pure of the filth of worldliness and worldly people. Faqr is the spring of gnosis of Allah. Worldly mortal beauty is worthless in the eyes of Faqr, hence the people of Faqr are vigilant against it. In their view, the worldly people who are oblivious of the reality of world are disgraced. I do not say wrong that the Fuqara sacrifice their life for the name of Allah and keep their innerself under control. Their inward eyes have been awoken from preexistence till eternal end. The people of Faqr are the men of perfect faith and trust upon Allah. The tongue of Fuqara is like the Zulfiqar91, it is better if it remains in the sheath of their mouth. If they are forced to take this sword out, its wrath manifests like the wrath of Allah and can destroy the whole world, as said;

Meaning: The tongue of Fuqara is the sword of Rehman. 91

The sacred sword of Ali ibn Abi Talib given by the Holy Prophet with which he won all the battles.

88 It is because the eternal ink, with which the destinies were written, is spread on their tongue. Whoever rejects them or denies their grand status, is disgraced in both the worlds and remains perplexed.

Meaning: Certainty means to reach the Reality. Whoever reaches the Reality, finds union with Allah. The level of union depicts that there is still farness (as union occurs between two entities). One who drowns completely in Tauheed, becoming One with the One, finds eternal bliss. Then he ever remains Divinely ecstatic without any pretense. This is the level of distinguished men of Allah. Do not indulge in superficial ornamentation as it is the job of women, not men.

Meaning: Be a man and generously spend in the way of Allah, as women use the gold for adornment while men use it for generosity. Listen Oâ&#x20AC;&#x; seeker of Allah and the man of Divine love! The levels of Oneness with Allah are gained by the invocation that continues in flesh and bones. Allah says:

Meaning: Do the invocation of your Holy Lord when you forget (everything). (Al-Kahf 24) Every word and deed of the men of Divine presence manifest their closeness with Allah, gnosis and Divine union. Their every act is from Divinity because they are completely immersed in the Divine light and spiritual observations. Their inward is replete with closeness of Allah, hence are forgiven and the favourites of Allah. That is to say, the possessors of the level of annihilation in Allah are always in

89 the state of Divine presence as they are perpetually doing the invocation of Allah. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: Being perpetually engrossed in the invocation of Allah is superior than fighting in the way of Allah with sword.

Meaning: Nothing can distract them from the invocation of Allah even for a moment. Invocation means reciting the name of Allah. The seeker upon whom the reality of name of Allah is revealed by the command of Allah, becomes an excellent scholar of esoteric and exoteric knowledge by the efficacy of the Divine name . Hence, it is evident that the invocation of is the medium to have Divine presence. Whoever is blessed with the efficacy of invocation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat , it grants him gnosis of Allah and takes him to the Mohammadan Assembly purifying him from the filth of falsehood, distracting thoughts and misapprehensions. Real invocation is that which grants the Divine observations and presence. The invocation which does not confer these blessings is not the real invocation. Those who do invocation as emulation are regressed and trapped in egoism and arrogance. Invocation means to immerse in Divinity which enlightens oneâ&#x20AC;&#x;s tablet of mind where one can read the books about the Divine Oneness i.e. the inspirational and hidden knowledge is revealed by the invocation of Ism-eAllah Zaat and exposed by the effects of veritable recitation of Islamic creed . Those who do this particular invocation have powerful breath like Christ92 and are on the step of Khidr. They are annihilated in Allah and free of worries of the world and hereafter. I am surprised at 92

Christ brought dead back to life by blowing his breath.

90 the foolish people who do invocation with music as emulation and take the name of Allah while clapping, they turn absolute infidel by doing so. Their reality is evident that they perform austerities just for the despicable worldly ranks and honour. There is a Persian proverb;

Meaning: One who has no access to the sin, cunningly claims to be pious. The invocation of emulators is a useless effort, one must repent from it. Their ecstatic state is self-created illusion, their claim of bearing various spiritual effects depicts their impotence and their crying and trembling on hearing the mystic songs are satanic states. Actually, these foolish, crazy and evil people are at the level of Dajjal93 because they are deprived of gnosis of Allah and inward Divine presence. Only the spiritual guide who is man of Tauheed is true and can take to the Truth. However, one ought to have the desire to reach the Truth. Leave the ways of emulation and falsehood and come towards Tauheed, closeness of Allah and gnosis of “none but Allah” by vigilantly adopting sharia. It is the mystic way of invocation(of Ism-e-Allah Zaat) which leads to Tauheed. Get to know that the foundation of gnosis of Tauheed, inward solitude, negation of self and mystic endeavors is drowning in the ocean of Divine observations. While, the foundation of real invocation, meditation and engrossment in unveiling is the life of soul. Attaining the power of seeing into hearts is the level of regressed ones who have turned crazy and lunatic due to excessive mystic struggles. Meditation is the foundation of self-accountability. The power of seeing into the graves is an imperfect level rejected by Allah. The foundation of inward states of spiritual contraction and expansion and the foundation of

The word “Dajjal” in Hebrew teachings mean “enemy of God”. Dajjal is the evil figure in Islamic eschatology. He is to appear, pretending to be the Messiah, before the Doomsday. 93

91 inspirations, waham94 and thoughts is travelling from separation towards the Divine union. The Divine knowledge and reaching the station of the Eternally Alive and Forever Sustained is the foundation of gnosis. The levels of Ghaus and Qutbs who can have spiritual flight of all the spheres are based on the desires of their innerself. They are totally unaware of immersion in the state of annihilation in Allah which is the station beyond all stations. Which is the real knowledge of mysticism and Tauheed? Mysticism means purgation of the inward. The person whose inward is purged, becomes capable for gnosis, vision and union of Allah. Then, he ever remains under the kind attention of Allah and blessed with presence of the Mohammadan Assembly. He renounces the levels of Ghaus and Qutb which are related with the spiritual flight of spheres and desires of innerself, and reaches the level of Faqeer about whom it is said;

Meaning: When Faqr is accomplished that is Allah. The Faqeer has perfectly purged inward and is the scholar of mysticism. Whoever objects against him is disgraced in both the worlds as Faqeer is the most eminent in the Divine court. He is upon the right path and knows every reality. One who opposes a Faqeer is struck by illness and spiritual demotion. Only the depraved ones who are not guided by any spiritual guide or the callous and immodest oppose the Faqeer. The enemy of Fuqara does not know anything about Allah and is deprived of the intercession of the Holy Prophet. The Fuqara are neither Allah nor other than Allah. Oâ&#x20AC;&#x; seeker the formula to achieve all the objectives is that whatever you have to ask, ask the Fuqara. The enemies of Fuqara are none but the dogs in the guise of humans.

Waham is the inward state of esoteric connection and spiritual conversation with Allah which is possible only through the perfect spiritual guide.

Meaning: Our independent nature is not enslaved by anyone, neither we like to ask anything from anyone.

Meaning: Although, we are humble but our manners are elegant. The bird like us always sits upon the branch of flowers. Know that there are seventy three crore, eighty three lac and twenty one stations sphere after sphere in the earth and skies from up above the Throne till deep down the earth. The highest station is called Sirâ&#x20AC;&#x;r-ul-Ummi. The station beyond all the stations is the Lamakan which cannot be likened to anything in the six dimensions or the entire cosmos. The Faqeer considers these stations worthless just like the wing of a mosquito. All praise to Allah Almighty! By the kindness and blessings of the Holy Prophet, what a great level is possessed by the Faqeer who always remains in his company! A seeker can attain this level only by the favour of true spiritual guide. If the spiritual guide cannot grant the true seeker of Allah the knowledge of Tauheed and Faqr taking him to the station beyond all stations on the very first day and blessing him with Divine Oneness, then it is evident that such a person is deprived of the skill of being a spiritual guide and is ignorant of Faqeerism. When the inciting innerself dies and the soul is enlivened, then the physical body of the seeker remains in this material world but his soul approaches the station beyond all stations where he is conferred the secrets of Divinity, engrossment in Divine light and the observation of Divine Nature. These marvelous levels and greatest blessings are revealed by the perfect spiritual guide on the first day through the Divine presence gained by the contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat and the benedictions of Ism-e-Azam, sharia, verses of Quran, Hadiths

93 and the key of Islamic creed . This is the verified way of spirituality, whoever doubts it is hypocrite and infidel.

Meaning: I am the bird that flies beyond all stations, I never stay anywhere below it. I found Faqr and the level of annihilation in Allah from there. The seeker whose innerself is headstrong in the beginning and is at the level of inciting innerself, improves by the contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat and becomes the repenting innerself and then gradually elevates to the inspiring innerself. By doing continuous exercise of contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat, it becomes the peaceful innerself. The existence of the seeker who has risen to the level of peaceful innerself converts to Divine light from head to toe by the invocation of Allah and attains Tauheed. This level is also acquired by the powerful effects of contemplation of Ism-eAllah Zaat and the key of Islamic creed . Whatever is gained by Ism-e-Allah Zaat and Islamic creed is justified and verified. The powerful effects of Ism-e-Allah Zaat and the Divine presence gained through it let the seeker cross all the hidden and obvious levels of creation in just one moment and one step and have spiritual flight of all the spheres in the blink of an eye. Through the Divine way of Isme-Allah Zaat, the seeker achieves all his objectives quickly. This way grants the Divine presence and observations and drowns the seeker in the theophanies of light of the Divine Essence. Only that seeker understands this way who inwardly learns its lessons directly from the Holy Prophet in dream or meditation. The Divine presence exposes each and every station upon the seeker and grants him the entire knowledge. By doing the exercise of contemplation of Ism-eAllah Zaat, the inciting innerself of the seeker gets severely ill just like a person gets ill with measles. The contemplation

94 of Ism-e-Allah Zaat keeps the inciting innerself in pain and restlessness so much so that it loses its existence and becomes obedient. Then it always obeys the orders like a slave. The contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat and efficacy of Islamic creed consumes the inciting innerself just like the fire consumes the wood. Believe it! If the spiritual guide is man of Divine closeness and immersed in Divinity and Divine observations but the seeker is ignorant, no fruitful results can be gained. Similarly, if the seeker is sage, intelligent and conscious but the spiritual guide is imperfect and deprived of Divine presence, nothing can be achieved. However, if the spiritual guide who is man of Divine presence and knows the way of Ism-e-Allah Zaat, and the seeker who is wise and does the invocation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat, join together, none of the levels of closeness of the Divine Essence and the levels of Divine attributes will remain hidden from the seeker, everything will be exposed upon him.

Meaning: I have drowned in the ocean of Divinity in such a way that I have forgotten everything from pre-existence till the eternal end. Whoever immerses in Divinity reaching the station beyond all stations, forgets everything except Allah. The Faqeer possessing the level of annihilation in Allah is drowned in Tauheed just like fish survives only in water, like salt dissolves in food, like spark loses its existence in fire and water mixes in milk. The status of Fuqara annihilated in Allah is that they are neither Allah nor other than Allah. Only Allah! Other than Allah is lust. Such Fuqara behold Allah without any veil with perfect faith. How can the irreligious and cursed men of wrong innovations understand these facts! Allah says;

95 Meaning: I am within you, can‟t you see. (Al-Zariyat21) O‟ dear! (If you wish to behold Allah within yourself) Let your inner eyes be enlightened and eliminate the filth of malice and enmity from your inward. Allah says;

Meaning: And I am nearer to you than your jugular vein. (Qaf-16)

Meaning: If you become an enlightened Mystic blessed with the Divine union, you will behold Allah nearer to your jugular vein.

Meaning: When you will find Him closer to your jugular vein, you will be blessed with the Divine presence and will get inspirations every moment by the power of Divine light of the Essence.

Meaning: Behold His beautiful countenance with your inner eyes, whatever you see except the Divine Reality is idol. Allah says;

Meaning: Never will you attain to Al-Barr95 until you spend (in the way of Allah) from that which you love. (Aal-e-Imran 92)

Attributive name of Allah, meaning; “The source of all goodness and kindness”.

Meaning: If you want to know the secret of the Divine covenant, sacrifice your life, wealth and everything in the way of Allah.

Meaning: Whoever annihilates in Allah, becomes One with Him. Whoever loses himself, finds Allah.

Meaning: Whoever denies the (vision and union of) Divinity, becomes reprobate, while, whosoever engrosses in Divinity, becomes laudable.

Meaning: Bahoo found all the distinguished levels by following sharia, he made sharia his guide. Allah says;

Meaning: Whoever is blind (to the vision of Allah) here (in this world) will remain blind in the hereafter as well. (BaniIsrail 72)

Meaning: Wherever you turn, you will observe the Divine Face. (Al-Baqarah-115)

97 Meaning: Oâ&#x20AC;&#x; Bahoo! Each and every blade of the grass is remembering the Divine Unity. His invocation is done by the inward and the outward being, rather each cell of the body.

Meaning: Wherever Bahoo turns, he listens the invocation of Divine Essence. One who finds the Divine Essence through the Divine Essence, gets salvation. Allah says;

Meaning: (Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Beloved) have you seen the person who has made his desires his god! (Al-Furqan 43)

Meaning: There are two gods in your existence, you must recognize them; (one is the true god i.e. Allah and second is your innerself which rules over a person by enslaving him in desires). Get rid of this duality and find the One Allah.

Meaning: Kill all the desires of your innerself so you are left with the true god only i.e. Allah. This blessing of inward purification is found from the presence of holy assembly of Prophet Mohammad. Allah says;

Meaning: Peace upon him who followed the guidance. (Taha47)

How does one reach the final level of Faqeer annihilated and immortal with Allah? There are three levels of closeness

98 to Allah which are named after three levels of contemplation i.e. contemplation of annihilation in the spiritual guide, contemplation of annihilation in Ism-e-Allah Zaat and contemplation of sacred name of Mohammad. Understand that entire creation is created from the Divine light of Mohammad while the light of Mohammad manifested from the light of Allah. If the spiritual guide cannot elevate the spiritual form of light of the seeker back to the light of Mohammad and then immerse the merged light of seeker and the light of Mohammad into the ocean of Divine light of Oneness, then such a guide should not be called a spiritual guide. The true spiritual guide sanctifies the innerself of the seeker by the contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat making it all Divine light, similarly he purifies the inward and converts it into Divine light, enlightens the soul and the core and turns them to Divine light. When all four turn to Divine light and merge with each other becoming one, they return to their origin i.e. the Divine light of Mohammad. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: Everything returns to its origin.

Meaning: Love of the homeland96 is part of faith. Faith itself is the light of Allah and soul is also a form of Divine light. The assembly of spiritual people is also Divine light and is pure of the fire of materialistic aspects of this physical world made of four elements. The spiritual people of Divine light and the materialistic people of inciting innerself which is fire, do not like company of each other. Whoever seeks the pure light of Divine presence, reaches the Divine Oneness and the light of Prophet Mohammad which are the original as well as the ultimate stations. Spiritual company of Prophet Mohammad is the ultimate level while 96

The realm of Divine Unity (LaHoot) is like a homeland for the seeker because his existence originated from there.

99 drowning in the state of annihilation in Allah is the original level. It is narrated in the Hadith;

Meaning: Returning to the origin is the final level.

Meaning: If your soul is occupied by the love of Divinity, death can never take over it. The Holy prophet said;

Meaning: Die before your death. For the Mystics, this worldly life is just a veil. This world is like the hell for the faithfuls and they live in it like they are imprisoned. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: World is like a prison for faithfuls and paradise for the infidels.

Meaning: Oâ&#x20AC;&#x; Allah! If You are in the heart, it is like mosque but without you it is an idol temple. With You, it is heaven, without You, it is hell. I am amazed at the foolish scholars who do not practise what they preach and are unaware of gnosis of Allah, they are certainly the slaves of their inciting innerself. In the existence, the inciting innerself rules like the king while Satan is its vizier. Satan prevents the slaves of inciting innerself from the inward way of gnosis of Allah and indulges them in hypocrisy, pretense and lust for fame and honour. Most of these scholars deprave the common Muslims by saying that there are no Saints and true spiritual

100 guides in this age who are capable to give the Divine guidance so one should use the medium of knowledge and the books of religion as the spiritual guide. What they say is absolutely false. Knowledge is just the light of the way while spiritual guide is like the custodian and companion of the way who saves the seeker from the trap of inciting innerself, Satan and distracting accidents of life with the powerful army and provisions of invocation and meditation. Don‟t you know that Satan was also a great scholar of exoteric knowledge while Prophet Adam had no exoteric knowledge. Satan‟s knowledge was just verbal but Prophet Adam had the esoteric knowledge of gnosis of Allah which made him honourable and exalted among all the angels. Allah says:

Meaning: And Adam was taught the Divine knowledge of all the beautiful names of Allah. (Al-Baqarah31) Hence, the exoteric knowledge is useful just to negate the depraving arguments of Satan and get rid of him, as Allah says;

Meaning: O‟ children of Adam! Did I not take this covenant from you not to worship Satan, no doubt he is your open enemy! (Yasin 60) While, the esoteric knowledge is the source of gnosis of Tauheed and closeness of Allah. Allah says about this knowledge;

Meaning: He taught man what he did not know. (Al-Alaq 5) The perfect and accomplished spiritual guides are, in fact, a continuous series of mediums to ultimately take oath of allegiance at the sacred hands of the Holy Prophet like the great companions did. This series of perfect spiritual guides who are the Faqeer Saints and the guides towards

101 righteousness, will continue till the Doomsday and they will keep coming one after the other. This is a verified fact, whoever doubts it, is a hypocrite and depraves people from the right path.

Meaning: Whosoever is not guided by the perfect spiritual guide on the right path, gets trapped in desires of innerself. Only the true spiritual guide can take the seeker to the court of the Holy Prophet.

Meaning: Whoever does not follow a spiritual guide, is verily the disciple of Satan. One blessed with the guidance and company of perfect spiritual guide is like the great Saint Bayazid Bastami.

Meaning: Without the spiritual guide, a person becomes conceited and arrogant. The true spiritual guide takes the seeker to Divine Oneness keeping him humble. None of the Islamic jurists were without the spiritual guide. They got the knowledge of relating the holy traditions by the education, guidance and spiritual persuasion of perfect spiritual guides. Hence, it should be known that the traditions are related for right guidance so that one gets rid of oneâ&#x20AC;&#x;s inciting innerself. Whosoever denies the eternal life of the Holy Prophet, presence of his holy assembly and oath of allegiance to the righteous spiritual guide, turns infidel. May Allah protect us from this! Allah has ordered;

102 Meaning: O' Believers! Fear Allah persistently and find medium to get close to Him. (Al-Maidah35)

LEVELS OF ANNIHILATION IN THE SACRED NAME OF MOHAMMAD AND THE DIVINE PRESENCE GAINED THROUGH IT Whoever becomes accomplished in the contemplation of sacred name of Mohammad, the spiritual form of the Holy Prophet comes to him as soon as he starts the contemplation and guides and educates him. It is evident that true spiritual guide is one who acquaints the seeker with the knowledge of Quran, as recitation of Quran is the greatest of all the worships, and makes him friend with the true scholars, as the ultimate scholar is the Holy Prophet himself. He also ennobles the seeker with the Divine presence through Ism-eAllah Zaat. Seek the extremity of the inward way from the spiritual guide, do not spy upon his (apparent) faults. Keep in view the incident of Prophet Moses and Khidr narrated in Surah Al-Kahf. Whosoever becomes oblivious of the path of Allah, gets indulged in (inward illnesses like) love of the world, lust, jealousy etc. and remains ignorant. Whoever engrosses in the love of Allah, gains the gnosis of â&#x20AC;&#x153;none but Allahâ&#x20AC;?, then he always remains present in the Mohammadan Assembly being vigilant inwardly. Only such a person can be Faqeer and practitioner scholar. The twin recording angels Kiramun Katibeen have no authority to record his sins. One who is annihilated in Allah and has reached the original and ultimate stations, all his sins are obliterated. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: Whoever loves the Divine knowledge and its scholars, his sins are not recorded.

103 This is the level of the Faqeer who is empowered as meaning: “Giver of life to the soul and death to the inciting innerself”. This power is gained after crossing the levels of annihilation in the spiritual guide, annihilation in Allah and annihilation in Muhammad the Prophet of Allah as well as annihilating oneself in the great morals of the Prophet about which Allah Almighty said;

Meaning: (O’ Esteemed Beloved) And assuredly you have the most glorious and exalted character. (Al-Qalam 4) One must also acquire the knowledge and clemency of the Holy Prophet. Hence, the spiritual guide should have two witnesses; one is that he should possess great morals of the Holy Prophet. These great morals can be acquired through the efficacy of the Ism-e-Azam (i.e. Ism-e-Allah Zaat). Second is that he should have the attributes of kindness and compassion of Allah which are acquired by the efficacy of the pure soul. The seeker must also present two witnesses; first is that he should only seek Allah and this attribute is acquired by the efficacy of presence of the Mohammadan Assembly and company of great Saints, other is that his heart is replete with the love, passion and pain for Allah.

Meaning: Bahoo can recognize the true seekers of Allah in a single glance even if the seeker is at the level of Khidr.

Meaning: Only a half sight of the men of Allah is enough to be blessed with the presence of the Mohammadan Assembly. Know that true spiritual guide is one who is completely aware of all the states, words, deeds, acts, level of gnosis and

104 closeness to Allah, thoughts, arguments, considerations and waham of the seeker. Spiritual guide should be so much vigilant that he ever keeps his hold upon the seeker to the extent that the seeker speaks his words and breathes with his breath. Such a spiritual guide has a thriving inward and his seekers find him omnipresent, inwardly as well as outwardly, by the power of Ism-e-Allah Zaat and keep perfect faith in him. The knowledge of poets and intellectuals is based upon wisdom but the Fuqara and Mystics have inspirational knowledge which is based upon their Divine closeness and presence. Hence, whoever keeps studying the books of Saints, none of his words are without the wisdom of AllWise. By the benediction of these Divine books, the eternal invocation continues in his being and his soul becomes alive. The judge of Truth asks the invocation to present two witnesses; firstly, it should engross the invoker in the gnosis of â&#x20AC;&#x153;none but Allahâ&#x20AC;?, secondly, it should grant presence of the Mohammadan Assembly. The judge of Truth asks the ultimate meditation to present two witnesses; firstly, it should annihilate the innerself, secondly, it should grant eternal bliss to the soul by immortalizing it. How foolish are the people who are unaware of the reality of inward, heart, innerself and soul! They misunderstand the heart as the piece of flesh and hold it at the place of physical heart with breath while doing meditation and claim that this is the invocation of heart. They take this piece of flesh with breath by concentration to the chest and say that this is the sacrificial invocation. Then, they keep this piece of flesh before their eyes by concentration and claim that they are doing the invocation of Divine light and Divine presence. Similarly, they take it to their brain with breath by concentration and say that this is the spiritual and kingly invocation. All their claims are wrong and their observations are just misapprehensions and illusions created in their existence by the Satan. Real invocation is not related with emulation and majority, rather, it is the key of Divine Oneness which opens the lock of

105 inward world. As a result, every kind of invocation and all the spiritual levels are revealed without any meditation or concentration. Hence, the seeker observes all the spiritual states by the contemplation and efficacy of Ism-e-Allah Zaat, verses of Quran, ninety-nine beautiful names of Allah, sacred name of Mohammad and the benediction of Islamic creed . Know that by the effects of contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat and spiritual sight of the spiritual guide, bleeding starts from nine organs of the seeker. It bleeds from the holes of two ears, two eyes, two nostrils, mouth and the two holes from where the urine and stool excrete. When the seeker is besmeared with blood, his entire existence is sanctified. This is the efficacy of real invocation which is comprehensive of the sacrificial invocation, kingly invocation, invocation of soul, invocation of the Hidden, invocation of the most Arcane, invocation of Divine light and the invocation of Divine presence. This is, in fact, the eternal invocation which is desirable in the court of Allah. The invoker of this secret invocation perpetually remains in the state of Divine observations in the seclusion of his inward with perfect faith.

Meaning: The secret invocation grants closeness of Allah with every breath and drowns the seeker in Divinity revealing the secret of kindness of Allah.

Meaning: The innerself of the people of this invocation is annihilated and they are blessed with the pleasure of Divine Oneness due to their pure soul. It should be evident that by doing the invocation of Ism-eAllah Zaat along with the practice of inscribing Allahâ&#x20AC;&#x;s name

106 on body97, one finds eternal salvation in this world as well as in the hereafter and presence of the Mohammadan Assembly. By the Divine presence gained through the Ism-e-Allah Zaat, the existence of the seeker becomes pure inwardly as well as outwardly complying with the injunctions of Quran and the Hadiths. His tongue becomes the sword of Allah and he comes in the protection of Allah as said;

Meaning: An indigent98 is under the protection of Allah. Such an invoker is the treasure of Allah, his secret is Allah‟s secret. He is pure of polytheism, infidelity, wrong innovations in the religion and the desires of innerself. His eyes view the Truth so he is disgusted of the worldly people who are irreligious and false. His inward is replete with the knowledge and gnosis of Tauheed. He is sincere, free of emulation, kind, steadfast upon sharia and the straight path99 and ever determined to practise Divine deeds and fight against his inciting innerself. Such a true invoker has no desires of innerself in his existence but only Allah, as his existence has reached its origin by the contemplation of Isme-Allah Zaat. Whatever he views is the secret of gnosis of Allah, theophanies of Divine light of the Essence and observation of Divine presence and union. The invocation of Allah envelops the entire being of the invoker in Ism-e-Allah Zaat and converts it into Divine light that is why such an invoker ever remains under the kind attention of Allah. With every glance of Allah, boundless light of Compassion of Allah descends upon him. His inward is illuminated with the 97

The mystic exercise Mashq Marqoom-e-Wajudia is translated for the convenience of the English readers as the practise of inscribing Allah‟s name on body. It is the mystic exercise in which Allah‟s name is inscribed on body with the index finger in a particular manner. The powerful theophanies of Allah‟s name purify the soul of the inscriber. However, this practice is effective only when performed after taking oath of allegiance of the perfect spiritual guide and having his permission. 98 He is indigent because he possesses nothing. 99 The Quranic term Sirat-e-Mustqeem is referred to as the straight path. The first Surah of Quran Al-Fatiha defines the straight path as the path of those special men of Allah upon whom He bestowed His favour. It is the path which leads directly to Allah.

107 light of Allah, so, he remains restless and anxious in this world. He is forgiven forever and always remains present in the assembly of Prophets and Saints.

Meaning: Implore your spiritual guide to grant you the perfect invocation i.e. the spiritual invocation which is eternal and cannot be seized.

Meaning: Even after death, the soul which has been enlivened by this invocation keeps on doing the invocation enthusiastically, though the body is dead.

Meaning: Without invocation, the soul remains dead and the person remains ignorant (of gnosis of Allah).Misapprehensions and distractive thoughts created due to lack of invocation turn him into Satan.

Meaning: Whoever invokes the name of Allah, finds Allah and makes His sacred name his custodian and companion.

Meaning: When a person with dead soul invokes the name of Allah sincerely, eternal salvation and consent of Allah are conferred upon him.

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Meaning: O‟ Bahoo! When the inward is completely enveloped in the light of Divine name “Allah”, it becomes the kingdom of Islam and the seeker is promised a peaceful end.

Meaning: The invoker whose real existence (i.e. the inward) is united with Allah, his union is real. Such an invoker remains immersed in Divine passion without any disturbance or distraction. Eternal invoker is the Qalandar100 who keeps tormenting his inciting innerself. His level is superior than the king Solomon and Alexander. The person who wishes to gain control over his innerself even if he eats delicious foods and wears expensive dresses, wants to be safe from the accidents of life, wishes to get rid of the Satan so that the devilish whispers, depraving obsessions, evil suggestions, misapprehensions and distracting thoughts come to naught in his existence, then he should do the contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat and inscribe it on his inward by contemplation. No doubt, he will gain contentment of heart and will be blessed with the presence of the Mohammadan Assembly. Cursed Satan has no authority to enter the holy assembly so he can never deprave him from the right path. Whoever perpetually does the contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat, ever remains in pain (of love of Allah) and becomes weaker day by day. His eyes bleed and soul burns (in fire of love). By the effects of contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat, some people experience such blaze in their existence which burns them to death. If they are strong enough to survive, they become ruler upon the innerself, enlightened men of spiritual efficacy, accomplished in gnosis and unprecedent exegetists. Such accomplishment is the 100

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109 speciality of the perfect and supreme spiritual guide of the Sarwari Qadri order whose status is like the great rider of lion. The spiritual guides of other orders are like the fox, how a fox can dare before the lion! The ultimacy of disciples of all the other orders remains inferior to the beginning of the true Qadri disciple even if they practise hardest mystic exercises for their whole life. Sarwari Qadri spiritual guide is comprehensive and complete. He is such a book, inwardly as well as outwardly, which has the status of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Book of all the booksâ&#x20AC;?. By reading this book, the seeker annihilates in Allah in such a way that there remains no veil before him.

Meaning: The seekers who read this book with complete faith, sincerity and purity of heart, all their objectives are achieved easily.

Meaning: Within one week, they are conferred with infinite spiritual wealth and all their wishes are fulfilled by the Holy Lord.

Meaning: All the blessings of world and hereafter are showered upon them and the reality of every sphere is exposed to them.

Meaning: Whoever wants to have the gnosis of Allah within one week, can gain it by the beneficence and grace of perfect Sarwari Qadri spiritual guide.

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Meaning: He grants the knowledge of spiritual alchemy and augmentation through which all the angels and supernatural beings come under the authority of the seeker.

Meaning: Ism-e-Allah Zaat carries the seeker to every level and he can verify his entire knowledge through the Divine presence gained by Ism-e-Allah Zaat.

Meaning: Ism-e-Allah Zaat is sufficient to make you independent of all needs. It blesses with the presence of the Mohammadan Assembly.

Meaning: You can implore the Holy Prophet to fulfill all your wishes so that you become independent of all desires and a man of sainthood.

Meaning: Curse the one who does not believe in the Holy Prophet, may he be humiliated.

Meaning: Oâ&#x20AC;&#x; Prophet of Allah; You are Allahâ&#x20AC;&#x;s Compassion for all the worlds. The Divine union can only be attained by the sight of Holy Prophet.

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Meaning: Do not be worried for the world, it disgraces one more than a donkey. One glance of the Holy Prophet is far better than gold and silver.

Meaning: The sight of Bahoo is blessed with the sight of the Holy Prophet. Whoever does not believe it, is surely a wretched one.

Meaning: Sacrifice your life and every asset upon the Holy Prophet and become confidant of the secret of the Divine covenant.

Meaning: This secret is revealed on reaching the core of the Divine call of “Be” that when a phoenix achieves holy life (after sacrificing its original life) it turns to falcon (i.e. when a true seeker sacrifices himself to attain Divine union, he is exalted to the level of a Divine man by the command of “Be”).

Meaning: The destination of falcon is beyond the Throne, the flies neither have this power nor ability.

112 Meaning: My body is in this world but soul is blessed with presence before Allah, as I have immersed in the light of Divine Oneness by the invocation of Allah.

Meaning: This reality can be understood only by those whose soul has reached the Beloved, common people have no access there.

Meaning: One whose sight can view both the worlds in a single glance, is better than Khidr as the inward guide.

Meaning: Bahoo is the Faqeer annihilated in Allah and inward guide for the nation of Prophet Mohammad, he has the honour of taking oath of allegiance at the sacred hand of the Holy Prophet. What is against the inciting innerself? The invocation of death. What is the invocation of death? It is to experience the phases of death during life. Allah says;

Meaning: (On the Doomsday, the impact of Allahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mighty Power will be such that) none will dare converse with Him. That Day, Gabriel and all angels will stand in ranks, none able to speak except he whom the most Kind Lord would already have awarded sanction (to intercede) and who also said the right thing (during his worldly life). That is the Day of Truth. (An-Naba 37-39) Oâ&#x20AC;&#x; oblivious! Beware! Allah says;

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Meaning: Today We shall seal their mouths, and their hands will speak to Us and their feet will bear witness to the deeds which they used to earn. (Ya-Sin 65)

Meaning: Pack your luggage and get ready to leave this mortal world as you will not live here forever.

Meaning: It is destined to destroy whether your age is ten years or hundred thousand years. Answer of the writer;

Meaning: Those who have found Divine Oneness by immersing themselves in Divinity, never die.

Meaning: Bahoo is drowned in the ocean of light of Divinity. One who gains such perfect Divine presence, can never die. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: Verily! The Friends of Allah do not die, they just shift from one home to another. However, no sound comes from the graves of the Saints neither they talk to anyone, so how can it be known that they have shifted to the other world and are alive? The answer is

114 that they are sleeping in their grave like a bride sleeps in her room. Only some great rider of the graves can wake them up by the stroke of Dawat and can talk to them.

Meaning: Only a Saint can dominate another Saint by the benediction of power granted from the Holy Prophet.

Meaning: The physically alive Saint converses spiritually with the soul of the Saint in grave. The enthusiasm of invocation going on in his inward can be likened to the Noahâ&#x20AC;&#x;s deluge.

Meaning: The imperfect ones are unaware of the secret and amazed at the fact that the people of Divine stations can do whatever they want.

Meaning: The detail of this matter become known when one is honoured with presence of the Mohammadan Assembly. How can the one blessed with Divine union be demoted spiritually!

Meaning: The grave can be an abode of treasures and kindness or a house of pains, however the rider of graves has no worries about it.

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Meaning: The grave of spiritually conscious men is a place of seclusion for them, you can get answers of all your questions from them.

Meaning: The Saints are in their grave like a lion in its den, that is why the imperfect ones are afraid of it. Only the greatest Mystic of the world can ride it.

Meaning: All the problems are solved by reciting Dawat at the grave of a Saint, as it exposes every station of heavens and earths and enlightens the reciter by showing him every reality.

Meaning: Oâ&#x20AC;&#x; Bahoo! The practice of reciting Dawat at the sacred graves of Saints honour the reciter with the Divine presence on the very first day. You must know that accomplishment in renunciation of the world, trust upon Allah, invocation of Divine union and perfection in Dawat which is never declined or demoted and every level of eternal beginning till the eternal end can be attained in the blink of an eye by the Divine presence gained through Ism-e-Allah Zaat and the Islamic creed . This is the first day lesson of the perfect Sarwari Qadri spiritual guide. The Qadri spiritual guide and disciple are honoured with these spiritual triumphs

116 because they belong to the Qadri101 order. If a Qadri disciple inclines towards some other order, it is considered a sin. Verily, he gets depraved and all his ranks and blessings are confiscated.

Meaning: Oâ&#x20AC;&#x; dear! Whoever leaves the court of Sarwari Qadri spiritual guide cannot find respect anywhere. As compared to the Qadri order, all the other orders are imperfect, only the Qadri order is perfect. The perfect ones have nothing to do with imperfects.

Meaning: Whosoeverâ&#x20AC;&#x;s thoughts you are engrossed in, you become the same at that moment. Just as, when gold is put in fire, it becomes ember.

Meaning: When I annihilated in Allah, nothing remained in me except Allah. Now, I converse and read only about Allah. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: Whatever is contained in the vessel, only that comes out of it.

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As it is the order of the greatest of all the Saints Ghaus-ul-Azam Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani.

117 Meaning: O‟ hypocrite! Apparently, you look good but your inward is evil. You claim verbally that you believe but your heart denies.

Meaning: Your hypocritical behaviour has made the religion double faced. Your tongue recites the holy scriptures but your soul is chained in cross threads.

Meaning: A dark face is better than a dark inward. The inward is darkened by the love of world which is the fountain head of all sins.

Meaning: Your tongue discusses the exegesis of Quran but your inward is completely unaware of it. Isn‟t it sheer hypocrisy!

Meaning: One becomes truthful only after inward verification, so you must seek sincerity and inward verification from the spiritual guide.

Meaning: Whoever is not guided by the spiritual guide, remains indulged in desires of innerself. One‟s inward can never be sanctified without a spiritual guide.

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Meaning: The Holy Prophet has said about the person who is apparently a scholar but ignorant inwardly;

Meaning: “Beware of an ignorant scholar”. It was asked, “Who is an ignorant scholar?” He explained, “One who is scholar by tongue but ignorant by heart.”

Meaning: True scholar is one whose inward is blessed with the company of Allah and involved in the Divine deeds while his tongue is discussing exegesis of verses of Quran and Hadiths.

Meaning: Such a scholar is the Mystic who gets answers of his questions directly from the Holy Prophet.

Meaning: The scholar, who does not believe in having inward connection with the Holy Prophet, is surely hypocrite and a wretched infidel.

Meaning: It is incumbent upon the scholars to first have spiritual persuasion from the perfect spiritual guide then guide the common people towards Allah.

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Meaning: One who is blessed with the closeness of Allah is the scholar of Allah and is ever present before the Holy Prophet.

Meaning: Without the Divine presence, knowledge becomes a great veil and is used just for argument. The scholar without gnosis of Allah is certainly Satan. It was the knowledge of (La-Sajadah ti leghair Allah) meaning: “None can be prostrated except Allah” and the self-conceit that prevented Satan to obey the order of Allah to prostrate Adam. He had arrogance of;

Meaning: “I am better than he, You have created me from fire and You have made him from clay”. (Al-A’raf 12) Hence, it is the arrogance and conceit which disgraces a person in both the worlds. The life of the creation of everything of the earth and skies before the occurrence of Doomsday is fifty thousand years. These fifty thousand years are considered one night of the world. The Day of Requital is also fifty thousand years long according to earth‟s time. Hence, it makes one lac years of the physical and spiritual world collectively. The night of the world (i.e. the fifty thousand years that the creation will spend on the earth) is in cover (so the Reality is hidden here) while the day (i.e. the fifty thousand years of the Doomsday) is related with earning livelihood (i.e. getting the results of the deeds which people have been doing in the world). The cover of night is for the servitude of the Lord while earning needs trade. For earning the best livelihood on the Doomsday, the real trade is to invest one's life in the invocation, meditation and gnosis of

120 Allah and earn the Lordship. The scholars are men of servitude while Fuqara are the men of Lordship. Allah says:

Meaning: And We (have) made the night a cover. And We (have) made the day (a time) for (earning) livelihood. (AnNaba 10, 11)

People who are trapped in this world are in the darkness of night, all their deeds are superficial and meant for the world only. While, those who look forward to the Doomsday are in the brightness of the day. They invest for Allah and earn (closeness of) Allah only. The difference between scholars and Fuqara is that at the time of wrath, strong feelings of anger are aroused in scholars due to ego of their innerself and pride over their knowledge but the Fuqara are prevented from ego and pride at the time of wrath because of the kindness produced by gnosis of “none but Allah”. The true religious scholar who practises what he preaches, eventually becomes the perfect Faqeer and Dervish. It is to say that Allah created man for His worship, recognition and gnosis, as He says;

Meaning: And I created the jinns and human beings solely to adopt My servitude. (Al- Zaariyat 56) (Ayee Li-Yarifun) meaning: “i.e. for His gnosis and recognition”. When the Doomsday would occur and the entire creation would be gathered for the requital, the particular place on the earth where the true scholars would have worshipped Allah or gained knowledge for the sake of Allah or the place where the Fuqara would have sat being engrossed in Allah and Divine deeds, that place would shine bright like the sun and would be honoured with the title

121 “Baab-ul-Masakeen102”. That place would pick those scholars and Fuqara who are the true and perfect men of Allah, like the heavenly Pegasus and would take them to the heaven crossing the Sirat bridge103. Allah says;

Meaning: (On that day) The disbelievers will say, “Would that we were dust”. (An-Naba-40) i.e. the disbelievers will say, “Would that we were dust of the feet of true scholars and Fuqara so that we could have entered the heaven through their medium and got salvation from the torment of hell.” That day, you will acknowledge the worth of the practitioner scholars and the perfect Fuqara. They are the most elevated groups, whoever holds to them is relieved from all the worries in the world and hereafter. One should acquire knowledge just to seek Allah, as seeking Allah is the base to get ultimate closeness of Allah. The desire for Allah is also a bestowal of the spiritual guide.

Meaning: How can we dare to declare ourselves innocent when Allah tormented even His Prophet Adam on disobedience, whose title is Safiullah i.e. God‟s Elect. The Quran tells; Meaning: Both of them submitted, “O‟ our Lord! We have wronged our souls.” (Al-A’raf 23)

“The door/house of the Masakeen. Masakeen is the plural of Miskeen. Literary “Miskeen” means indigent or meek person but mystically it refers to the Faqeer who stays with Allah permanently, as “Miskeen” is derived from the word “Sakin” which literally means “stationary” or “staying at one place”. 103 Sirat in Arabic means a way or a road; according to traditions, it is a bridge or road which passes from the top of hell. In a Hadith, it is stated that the Sirat bridge is thinner than a hair, sharper than a sword and hotter than fire. In the hereafter, every human would be made to cross it, the faithfuls will pass over it quickly, some will cross it with difficulty while others will slip and fall down in the pits of hell. 102

122 The Arabic and Persian word for „innerself‟ is Nafs written as . It has three letters (N) (F), (S). The letter (N) refers to the fact that the „Neeyat‟ i.e. intention of the inciting innerself is always evil, it is good for nothing, runs after food, killer of faith, imperfect and undesirable. Letter (F) means that it is Fraud, trouble maker, ignominious and sinful. By the letter (S), it is meant that it is hard like Stone, friend of Satan and opponent of Allah. This is the reality of inciting innerself which is possessed by the infidels, hypocrites and the worldly people who are cruel and liars. The Nafs which has elevated to the level of peaceful innerself also has three letters (N), (F), (S). Its letter (N) tells that it laments day and night with the fear of Allah, leaves the forbidden and follows the commands of Allah, eats the legitimate food, keeps the faith perfect by true obedience. It is helped by the Divine favour and engrossed in the Divine deeds like invocation, reflection, gnosis, meditation and Divine observations. When the innerself reaches the Divine light, it becomes the peaceful innerself and its possessor is completely forgiven. Verily, Allah is the most Forgiving and the most Compassionate. By the letter (F) the peaceful innerself is Faith‟s pride and distinguishes the true religion Islam from infidelity. Allah says;

Meaning: That is because Allah is the Protector of those who believe and for sure the disbelievers do not have any protector. (Mohammad 11) The possessor of peaceful innerself is at the final level of certainty gained through experience. It is the level where one is immersed in truth and never looks towards falsehood.

Meaning: Islam is the truth and infidelity is falsehood.

123 Faqr and gnosis of Allah are the foundation of Islam while worldly wealth is the foundation of infidelity. The foundation of wrong innovations in religion is love of the world while foundation of right guidance is the love of Allah. The letter (S) of the Nafs which has elevated to the level of peaceful innerself means that it is the Secret of righteousness, engrossed in Divinity, outwardly busy in worships while inwardly annihilated and drowned in Allah. These attributes of peaceful innerself are possessed by the Prophets, Fuqara and a few Saints.

Meaning: The innerself of common people can be recognized by its lustful desires. The innerself of special ones has the attribute of guiding towards the Truth.

Meaning: The characteristic of innerself of common people is that it wants to sate itself with delicious foods but the innerself of special ones is happy in starvation.

Meaning: Had there been no inciting innerself, the common would have no lustful desires. Had there been no peaceful innerself, the special ones would not have reached Allah.

Meaning: The peaceful innerself is the medium to reach the secret of Divinity, it takes to the Truth and grants the vision of Tauheed.

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Meaning: Whoever is obedient to the inciting innerself and trapped in its desires remains away from Allah, as they prevent him from travelling towards Allah.

Meaning: Duality results in confusion between two options. One who crosses the duality becomes the king.

Meaning: The desires of inciting innerself are eviler than infidelity and polytheism. So, you must set your innerself right. The perfect spiritual guide first of all checks the inward existence of the seeker that whether it is mature and capable for the blessing of gnosis and Oneness of the Divine Essence or not, whether it can tolerate the effects of theophanies of Divine light and observation of Divine presence or not, whether it has the courage to leave the desires of innerself and falsehood or not and whether the seeker has high morale and spirit or not. He tests the seeker by bestowing the Divine presence upon him through contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat that whether the seeker has capacity to absorb the ocean of gnosis of Allah or will lose his senses just on having a drop.

Meaning: The seeker of world remains occupied in the desires of innerself while the seeker of hereafter only wants the pleasure and honour of heaven.

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Meaning: The seeker of Allah forgets himself as well as the pleasures of world and hereafter and drowns in the Divine light.

Meaning: Such a true seeker of Allah has pure inward and he ever seeks to attain to the Holy Lord.

Meaning: The disciple who runs after his own desires is a braggart while the disciple who spies upon his spiritual guide is a brigand.

Meaning: Whoever claims to be the seeker of Allah ought to leave his worldly wishes and evil practices.

Meaning: One who has been the seeker of Allah since eternity, is the real seeker. Only he can sacrifice his life for Allah.

126 Meaning: If such a true seeker joins Faqr-the path of Divine secrets, the perfect spiritual guide takes him to Allah by his single spiritual glance104.

Meaning: The true spiritual guide who can lead towards Allah is waiting for the seekers but there are not any true seekers of Allah in this age.

Meaning: One who is apparently human but has qualities of dogs cannot be the seeker of Allah or traveller of the mystic way. Only the real man is blessed with the inward company of Allah.

Meaning: Oâ&#x20AC;&#x; wise! Do not put the pearls of wisdom in the mouth of dogs, I have found that only the true men deserve them. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: Do not put pearls in the mouth of dogs.

Meaning: Allah has conferred the rule of kingdom of Faqr and Divinity upon the Faqeer Saints which is so powerful

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The Persian word Nigah is translated as the spiritual glance. It refers to the powerful glance of the perfect spiritual guide with which he can change the states of hearts and elevate the souls. It is beyond the limitations and boundaries and can affect the seeker wherever he is.

127 that they can subdue the king of seven kingdoms, hence their authority and grandeur is proclaimed in the seven climes. Perfect spiritual guide is one who grants the authority upon both the worlds to the true seeker of Allah on the very first day through the Divine presence gained by the contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat, so that the seeker attains inward powers and satisfaction and retains his state (of Divine love). You must know that such a powerful and comprehensive spiritual guide is only the Sarwari Qadri. His true seekers have four levels; some are perfect, some are complete, some are accomplished and some are One with Allah and a medium for others to reach this level. The comprehensive spiritual guide is one who, by his single glance, can grant entire knowledge to the ignorant, complete gnosis of Allah to the true scholars and accomplishment in Faqr to the Mystics. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: When Faqr is accomplished that is Allah. The true seekers attain the aforementioned four levels by four glances of the perfect spiritual guide. The comprehensive spiritual guide reveals the Guarded Tablet by his glance upon the tablet of mind of the true seeker, hence he can read what is written on the Guarded Tablet from the tablet of his mind. The comprehensive spiritual guide is the „Whole‟ while both the worlds are just a small „part‟ in his view. How can a „part‟ dare before the „Whole‟! One should be aware that there are five rights upon the seeker of Allah; right of his parents, right of his teachers, right of his mentor, right of his spiritual guide and the right of his wife. Among these, the right of his spiritual guide is the supreme because the spiritual guide grants him the gnosis of Allah and focuses his attention upon the Truth. When attention of the seeker is focused upon the Truth, he becomes enlightened and effective scholar of every knowledge as well as ruler upon both the worlds. Then, he can fulfill rights of all other with money. Those having right upon him become

128 pleased with him and pray for him. The so called guides who have greed for wealth are not the spiritual guides, they are worse than animals. Since, it is obligatory upon the spiritual guide to know the intentions of the seeker, so the spiritual guide first of all asks from his seeker and the mentor from his disciple that which of the three ranks he desires; the rank of world, the rank of hereafter or the rank of gnosis of Allah and the honour of meeting the Holy Prophet in his holy assembly. The disciple says the truth to the spiritual guide and tells him complying with his inward state what he desires, whether it is the depraved world, the houries, castles and honour of the hereafter or the gnosis and closeness of Allah and presence of the Mohammadan Assembly. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: The seeker of the world is a eunuch, the seeker of hereafter is a woman and the seeker of Allah is the man. The spiritual guide who has authority over all the three ranks is eligible for guidance and persuasion. The powerless and imperfect guide who has no authority is just a trouble maker and a cause of tribulation, he wastes the life of his disciples. At the time of death, they regret as the time passed is gone forever just like an arrow never returns to the bow. There are many practitioner scholars in the world and the ascetic scholars are also many who use their name and fame to earn money but the Fuqara annihilated and immortal with Allah are only a few who are men of closeness to Allah. It is said;

Meaning: Time is a sword which cuts (the life). The declining spiritual guide is a nuisance for the disciples. The perfect spiritual guide bestows all the three ranks of the world, hereafter and gnosis of Allah as well as presence of the Mohammadan Assembly upon the seeker in just three

129 days and nights by the power of Ism-e-Allah Zaat or the verses of Quran or Islamic creed

Meaning: Faqr is an ocean of light of Divine Oneness, every creation manifested from that Divine light.

Meaning: When I drowned myself in the ocean of Divine Oneness, I found that it is the origin of my existence.

Meaning: Faqr is the distinguished level of Tauheed of the Divine Essence. Whoever joins it, finds salvation.

Meaning: One who has made Faqr his life, is saved from all worries but such men of Faqr annihilated in Allah are rare in the world.

Meaning: Faqr does not mean to be disgraced from door to door, it is to keep check upon oneâ&#x20AC;&#x;s innerself.

Meaning: Faqr needs nothing from the wealthy people as its one glance is better than all the worldly treasures.

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Meaning: Do not consider Faqr helpless, it has got the eternal sovereignty.

Meaning: Oâ&#x20AC;&#x; Bahoo! For Godâ&#x20AC;&#x;s sake show the way of Faqr which leads to the closeness of Allah and Holy Prophet, and ultimately grants Divine Oneness. All these levels of being blessed with the kind attention of Allah and becoming a Faqeer who is perpetually present in the Mohammadan Assembly are gained by the powerful effects of contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat and by the benediction of Ism-e-Azam, Hadiths and recitation of verses of Quran. The key of Islamic creed opens the lock of inward world and reveals all the levels of closeness to the Divine Essence and getting attributed with all the Divine attributes with perfect verification. Whoever doubts it, is surely a liar and hypocrite. All these felicities can be acquired only through the Sarwari Qadri way.

Meaning: The spiritual guide should be like my spiritual guide Ghaus-ul-Azam Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani who always comes to help at the time of trouble along with his group.

Meaning: The powerful spiritual guide always keeps his disciples under his view and at once comes to them at the time of need like Khidr.

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Meaning: Why should not Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani be considered the life giver to the religion! He is the vizier of the Holy Prophet and the trusted soul.

Meaning: Shah Abdul Qadir Jilani is the guide towards Allah, his sacred soul is eternally blessed with the company of the Holy Prophet.

Meaning: Bahoo is his slave and disciple and the dust of his feet, as this status is superior than the Ghaus and Qutbs. I am surprised at the people who secretly acquire spiritual persuasion, mystic education and blessings of Allah from the Fuqara but feel embarrassed to openly acquire Faqr. They defame their spiritual guide by inclining towards the world and considering falsehood legitimate. They advertise their piety among people and sell themselves to earn fame. Due to their faithlessness, the light of Ism-e-Allah Zaat which is brighter than sunlight is seized for them under the cloud of their ego. Hence, their soul dies and inciting innerself remains alive. Oâ&#x20AC;&#x; dear! Be wise and beware! Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani and his seekers and disciples are eternally immersed in the light of Divine Oneness, spiritual observations, gnosis of Allah and Divine presence and union. The Ghaus and Qutbs are inferior and indigent as compared to his disciples and are the implorers in the court of Ghaus-ul-Azam. One who seeks his beneficence, gets blessed with high spiritual levels. Whoever found any level in mysticism, found it by his benediction. The denier of Ghaus-ul-Azam Shaikh Abdul

132 Qadir Jilani and his seekers is a reprobate, perplexed, rejected by Allah, regressed and disgraced in both the worlds. The sacred status of Ghaus-ul-Azam is like a fathomless ocean. One who gets even a drop from it, is sated. Whoever tries to seize the powers of any of his disciples, is seized himself and dies within a few days getting severely ill. The enemy of Ghaus-ul-Azam is either the cursed dissenter Satan or the wretched kharijite105 or a hypocrite evil who is deprived of Faqr and gnosis of Allah and unaware of the status of Dervishes. Enemy of Ghaus-ul-Azam is the enemy of Allah and the enemy of Holy Prophet and his four greatest companions106. Ghaus-ul-Azam Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani is the friend of the four greatest companions and the deputy of Holy Prophet. He belonged to the Sunni sect of Muslims and spent every moment of his life in the servitude of Allah, outwardly as well as inwardly. Only Allah! Everything other than Allah is lust. You must know that even the lowest levelled and the most minor disciple and seeker of Ghaus-ul-Azam has elevated spiritual status as compared to the Ghaus and Qutbs of other orders because he grants the eternal Divine presence and the presence of Mohammadan Assembly to his seekers and disciples who are counted among the sincere ones. He makes them desirable in the court of Allah by taking them to the arena of everlasting Divine Oneness by his inward and outward authority and the power of contemplation of Ism-eAllah Zaat or by the spiritual attraction of invocation of Islamic creed . He keeps his disciples and seekers ever blessed with the Divine presence. All the perfect Saints, Mystics and those united with Allah know them. However, those who are not the men of inward do not know their status. When it‟s time of death of his disciples and seekers, Ghaus-ul-Azam grants them the Divine presence and The word Kharijite means “those who defected from the group”, referring to the groups that rebelled against the third and fourth Muslim Caliphs, Uthman ibn Affan and Ali ibn Abi Talib. 106 Four greatest companions are Abu Bakr Siddique, Umar ibn Al-Khattab, Uthman ibn Affan and Ali ibn Abi Talib. 105

133 with its power they recite , or, the invocation of Allah‟s name continues in their existence or their whole being is enveloped in the love of Allah.

Meaning: O‟ brother! If you wish to have exaltation in the hereafter, join the spiritual order of Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani in this worldly life. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: One who dies in the love of Allah, dies as a martyr. The person deprived of this attribute cannot be considered a Qadri. Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani said;

Meaning: My disciple cannot die without perfect faith.

Meaning: O‟ Bahoo! Whoever calls the name of Ghaus-ulAzam Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani, has no fear of the hell fire or evil of Satan. The primary level of Sarwari Qadri disciples and seekers is that they are the lion riders. The true disciple should have seven attributes; faith, belief, certainty, truthfulness, trust, desire and love. The seeker does not acquire these seven attributes by his personal efforts but the spiritual guide confers them upon him by his spiritual attention and attraction. When the seeker gets stability upon these seven attributes by the grace of spiritual guide, a form of Divine light is born in his being due to his certainty. That form of light always presents his requests in the court of the spiritual guide and keeps the spiritual guide informed of the states of

134 the seeker, hence, keeps the spiritual guide and the seeker connected and united. Had the seekers not been blessed with annihilation in the spiritual guide, none of them could have achieved the objective, neither inwardly nor outwardly. Strange and foolish are the people who claim to be the seekers of Allah but are imprisoned by their inciting innerself and are the seekers of their own desires, neither they know the reality and grandeur of the spiritual guide nor have faith in him. Such disciples are unaware of the soul which is like the Saint Bayazid107 in the existence and are trapped by their inciting innerself which is like the Satan Yazid108. The true and powerful disciple is one who sacrifices his wealth and life for his spiritual guide. Such a seeker becomes the man of wisdom and enlightened conscience.

Meaning: O‟ Bahoo! The real and basic thing is certainty. It is the special Divine light which carries to the Mohammadan Assembly and grants its eternal presence. Only Allah! Everything other than Allah is lust.

EXPLANATION OF SPIRITUAL GUIDE AND SEEKER The Arabic word for spiritual guide is

transliterated as

Murshid and has four letters; (M), (R), (Sh), (D). Its first letter (M) refers to the fact that spiritual guide gives life to the Murda (dead) soul and carries it to the Mohammadan Assembly and shows the Divinity of “none but Allah” in a single round of meditation. By its second letter (R), it is meant that he Relieves the seeker from austerities and Reveals the Divine secret upon him. The third 107

A great Saint The reprobate whose army martyred Hussain ibn Ali and his companions in Karbala 108

135 letter (Sh) means that the spiritual guide prevents the seeker from the Shr i.e. evil of the inciting innerself, Satan and the people, and liberates him from the evil of worldliness, inward darkness and every other evil which has bound his existence. Then every vein and hair, flesh and bone rather the entire existence of the seeker starts invoking the name of Allah. The invocation of Allah continues automatically in the inward and outward being of the seeker like the flow of river and his every organ recites (Allahoo, Allahoo) while his lips keep quiet and he remains drowned in Divine company. The fourth letter (D) of the word Murshid refers to the fact that by the glance of the spiritual guide, the Dil i.e. heart and Dum i.e. breath of the seeker drown in the Divine Essence and he reaches the level of annihilation in Allah by affirming the Eternal Essence. Hence he is blessed with everlasting life in both the worlds. The spiritual guide having these attributes is the comprehensive spiritual guide who guides towards Allah and grants the level of jamiat to the seeker. The spiritual guide deprived of these attributes is imperfect and is like a brigand and Satan for the disciples. The powerful spiritual guide is the man of Divine favour, inwardly as well as outwardly. He is the companion and guide of the seekers on the path to Allah. The wrong innovators in the religion cannot be called spiritual guides, they are seekers of the world and liars. The Arabic word for the word â&#x20AC;&#x153;seekerâ&#x20AC;? is transliterated as Talib, it also has four letters; (T), (A), (L), (B). Its first letter (T) means that the true seeker of Allah gives three Talaqs (Divorce) at a time to the desires and pleasures of the inciting innerself, to the world which is like an old witch and a bandit as well as to the evil of Satan which is the enemy of humans. When he gets rid of all the evil attributes and hurdles of worldly relations by repenting from them, he becomes pure. The letter (T) also means that the seeker only has Talab (desire) of Allah, he is determined to achieve his objectives and is capable to have gnosis of

136 Allah. The second letter (A) means that the seeker has true Arada i.e. objective, he is verily truthful, does not rest from the inward and outward worships even for a moment and remains engrossed in meditation of Divinity. He never inclines towards the wrong path and sacrifices his life in the way of Allah. The third letter (L) refers to the fact that he is Laiq i.e. capable and modest, has shunned arrogance and lusts, his inciting innerself has annihilated and soul has become immortal. Welcome to such a seeker towards Allah! Fourth letter (B) means that the seeker bears the Truth and leaves the falsehood, he is obedient and saintly, vigilantly follows the orders of the spiritual guide and foregoes his own will. The Holy Prophet has said about such a seeker;

Meaning: True disciple has no desires.

Meaning: The true spiritual guide takes the seeker to the Truth. Whatever he does, is done by Allah.

Meaning: It is hard to find the seeker who is adventurous and loves to bear hardships in the way of Allah. The seekers of world are like dogs, they can never become the men of soul.

Meaning: One can find thousands of disciples who are spies and enemies but the true seekers of Allah are only one or two.

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Meaning: Oâ&#x20AC;&#x; Bahoo! The true seekers are rare but the so called spiritual guides who take away from Allah are many.

Meaning: The imperfect spiritual guides always want to increase the number of their disciples. The true seekers are so modest that they die out of embarrassment on committing any mistake.

Meaning: In fact, most of the disciples are mean and selfish, they seek the world. Very few seek Allah.

Meaning: My soul left my body and drowned in the Divine light. This state can be understood only by the one who himself has reached the Divine presence.

Meaning: The Mystics are drowned in the Oneness of Divinity, how can this eternal state be explained and exemplified with anything!

Meaning: Ism-e-Allah Zaat is not just a word to be spoken during discussions. It is the unprecedent Essence Itself Who takes to the Divine Essence.

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Meaning: Divinity is concealed in me and I am concealed in Divinity. The Truth is manifested by the Truth and grants enlightenment. I am surprised at the people who neither are aware of the rules and regulations of being a seeker nor have reached even the status of a true seeker of Allah but claim to be a spiritual guide towards Allah, they have no fear of Allah. These fools do not even know the importance and requirements of taking oath of allegiance. When a seeker gives his hand in the hand of a spiritual guide, the Hand of Allah is upon their hands. The spiritual guide who cannot let the seeker recognize the Hand of Allah by granting His gnosis after taking oath of allegiance, is the enemy of Allah and ruins the seeker in the world and hereafter. He is embarrassed and disgraced in eighteen thousand worlds. Allah says:

Meaning: Allah‟s Hand is upon their hands. (Al-Fateh 10) Discussed below is the explanation of sacred journey to the Holy Kaaba under the guidance of spiritual guide, visiting the tomb and holy assembly of Prophet Mohammad, circumambulating around the Kaaba, listening the prayer and sermon of Hajj at the mount Arafat, kissing the sacred Black Stone109 during the circumambulation, offering two units of prayer at the end of circumambulation and putting the chain of sincere repentance around one‟s neck inside the Kaaba to get salvation from the evil of sins, as Allah says; meaning: “Whoever enters it, is safe” (Aal-e-Imran 97). Then, reverently kissing the four pillars inside the walls of the Holy Kaaba. 109

The Black Stone called Hajr-e-Aswad in Arabic is a rock fixed on the southeast wall of Kaaba near the footprints of Prophet Adam.

139 If the seeker gets inspiration through meditation, dream or directly in his heart from the Divine Nature and he goes to the sacred journey by the order of Allah, or, he gets the privilege of meeting the Holy Prophet in dream or meditation and he orders him to go for circumambulation of Kaaba or gives him inspiration to do so which is verified by reciting Islamic creed , or, if the seeker goes to the reverent journey by the permission of the perfect spiritual guide to meet the Holy Prophet who is, no doubt, eternally alive and intercessor of his nation in the world and hereafter, then, the seeker should engross himself in the invocation of Allah and meditation during circumambulation as well as at every step and stage of the journey. When he reaches there he should offer the prayer and perform every worship with perfection of inward and purity of soul and should take every step with passion and love for Allah. Congratulations to him on this felicity! Certainly! The Holy Kaaba and the sacred tomb of Holy Prophet are the holy sanctuaries. So, before having the honour of entering these sanctuaries, the seeker should keep praying for forgiveness of his sins day and night and ought to repent from his major and minor sins. So that when he reaches the Holy Kaaba, he prostrates Allah with pure being. He should turn his infidel innerself into Muslim, hence it leaves the evil attributes of disbelievers and the seeker achieves his objective. Whoever circumambulates Kaaba in this pure inward state, becomes enlightened and all veils are removed for him. He can behold theophanies of the Divine Essence showering in the entire sanctuary of Kaaba. The angels tell him in loud voice that his circumambulation has been accepted in the court of Allah. When he offers prayer in the sanctuary, he gets the inspiration from Allah while prostrating, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oâ&#x20AC;&#x; My fortunate slave! I am here for you, ask Me whatever you wish so that I bestow it upon youâ&#x20AC;?. This is the status about which Allah said;

140 Meaning: Whoever enters it, is safe. (Aal-e-Imran-97) These blessings are also the bestowel of the perfect spiritual guide which he confers through the contemplation of Ism-eAllah Zaat and are a source of enlivening the soul. When the seeker listens the sermon of Hajj at the mount Arafat while sitting in the rows of pilgrims and when he says the prayer;

Meaning: “Here I am O‟ Lord! Here I am. You are One and there is no partner with You, Here I am O’ Lord”, The angels clearly give him the good news, “O‟ so and so person! Your Hajj has been accepted and you are esteemed as the favourite and desirable in the court of Allah.” When he goes to the sanctuary of Madina, he is honoured with meeting and greeting the Holy Prophet and his sacred companions. The Holy Prophet takes oath of allegiance from him and grants him spiritual persuasion and education as well as ennobles him with high levels and ranks of sainthood, righteous guidance and contentment of heart. Then, the Holy Prophet allows him to leave with the permission that he can come to his holy assembly whenever he wishes through meditation, with devotion and faith, and can present his requests and get answers of all his queries. This grand privilege takes him to the stage where he speaks every word in the state of presence before the Holy Prophet rather than his own will. As says Allah;

Meaning: He does not say anything by his own will.

(Al-Najm

When the seeker returns to his homeland and comes to his house, he first of all performs the greatest Sunna i.e. he spends his every possession and property in the way of Allah, as says Allah;

141 Meaning: Never will you attain to Al-Barr110 until you spend (in the way of Allah) from that which you love. (Aal-e-Imran 92) Such a pilgrim is desirable in the Divine sanctuary, he is the man of kindness and the conqueror over innerself. His existence neither has desires of innerself nor lust or greed, neither he possesses worldly wealth nor worries about the requital on the Doomsday. One whose existence has been purified by the invocation of , why should he fear from the accountability of the Day of Resurrection. It is said;

Meaning: An indigent is under the protection of Allah. Worldly people are imprisoned by the cursed Satan.

Meaning: The true pilgrims who are blessed with Divine union perform the veritable Hajj which is to have presence before Allah and the Holy Prophet. Such veritable Hajj, circumambulation and presence of Mohammadan Assembly is only the honour of the men of alive soul.

Meaning: I wished to go to Kaaba for its circumambulation, Kaaba told me to come to it with sanctified inward.

Meaning: Kaaba itself comes to circumambulate the alive inward. It is the inward which is purged by going against the inciting innerself.

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Attributive name of Allah, meaning; â&#x20AC;&#x153;The source of all goodness and kindnessâ&#x20AC;?.

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Meaning: O‟ Bahoo! I am the slave of Holy Prophet and always present before him. I do not separate from him even for a moment. Most of the pilgrims are superficial and pilgrims just by name. The true pilgrim who beholds Allah unveiled is one who is accomplished in “Only Allah! Everything other than Allah is lust.”

FURTHER EXPLANATION OF SPIRITUAL GUIDE AND SEEKER Know that the spiritual guide must have such grand spiritual levels that he does not remain unaware of the state of his every seeker even for a moment. The sign of true spiritual guide is that if the seeker commits any major or minor sin or fault, the spiritual guide comes to know through unveiling and at once takes him to the Mohammadan Assembly diving spiritually in his existence and requests the Holy Prophet to forgive the seeker. In this way, the powerful and comprehensive spiritual guide takes the spiritual form of seeker to the Mohammadan Assembly by his authority and spiritual attention, day and night for years and years. The Holy Prophet bestows Divine persuasion and education upon the seeker. Hence, the seeker repents from all his sins, becomes pure and one of those united with Allah. You must know that it is incumbent upon the comprehensive and powerful spiritual guide who is man of inward, to take the seeker to the Mohammadan Assembly on the very first day by the contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat and Islamic creed and do not interfere himself, so that the Holy Prophet personally takes the oath of allegiance from the seeker and grants him spiritual persuasion and education. It is up to the will of the Holy Prophet whom he chooses and

143 whom he rejects. That is to say, the Mohammadan Assembly is like the touchstone which checks the truthfulness of a seeker. On entering this assembly, the true seekers have the privilege of seeing and meeting Prophet Mohammad which fulfills all their desires. So, they renounce everything other than Allah and adopt complete trust upon Allah, hence their inward is perfectly purified and they drown in the Divine light of Tauheed. Then, they ever remain present in the Mohammadan Assembly respectfully with perfect belief. Some seekers, when enter this assembly where invocation of Allah, recitation of Quran and discussion about Hadiths is going on, they do not believe that this is the Mohammadan Assembly due to their hypocritical inward. Thus, they apostatize, as a result they are cursed and demoted from their spiritual rank. I seek Allahâ&#x20AC;&#x;s refuge from this.

Meaning: The spiritual guide should be such a perfect leader and companion that he leads the seekers towards the Divine Oneness and drowns them in it.

Meaning: He removes the falsehood from the existence of the seeker and purifies his inward by the invocation of Allah.

Meaning: Knowledge should be acquired and invocation should be done only for the gnosis of Allah. The Mystics gain inward purity from knowledge.

144 Meaning: Without knowledge, the way to the Divine secret cannot be found. That is why the ignorant remain deprived of Oneness with Allah. It is said;

Meaning: Knowledge results from clemency. By the benediction of presence of Mohammadan Assembly, the marvelous and desirable attributes are produced in the existence of the seeker such as the Mohammadan passion and fervour, Mohammadan gnosis and union, Mohammadan power and compassion. These attributes convert the baser existence of the seeker into elixir. When the Mohammadan morals envelop and occupy the whole being of the seeker, he is purged from all kinds of undesirable behaviours, hence he gains the consent of the Holy Prophet. Then, all the hidden and evident stations are unveiled upon him and he becomes aware of everything. When a Mystic reaches this level, he feels embarrassed to pray good or bad for anything, as the men of Divine presence have nothing to do with imploration. Acceptance of good or bad prayers displays the spiritual powers and is considered a miracle, the men of Divine presence repent from it thousand times. The will of Allah is exposed upon them because their eyes are focused on the Ism-e-Allah Zaat. The men of Divine presence get inspirations through waham which comes from Divinity. As soon as they enter the state of waham, solution of their problem is revealed upon them and it is solved at once. Reality of every hidden and evident thing is exposed upon them through waham. Owing to their gnosis and closeness of Allah, the thought of the men of Divine presence is perfect and significant to the extent that whatever they think is done immediately. Their wish and reasoning arise from the inward which is drowned in the Divine light of invocation of Allah. Due to the Divine presence, their inward and wish both are One with the Magnificent Lord. That is why whatever they wish for, is accomplished instantly. The

145 man of inward Mystic who is immortal with Allah passionately and ecstatically remains engrossed in invocation and conversation with Allah every moment through the spiritual way of Divine presence. His initial level is that of a faithful about whom it is said;

Meaning: A faithful is the mirror of other faithful. His middle level is that of a faithful lover of Allah. It is said about the love of Allah;

Meaning: Divine love is a fire that burns everything other than the Beloved. His final level is of the faithful Mystic immortal with Allah. All these three levels are below the initial level of a faithful Faqeer, as the level of a Faqeer is beyond the levels gained through invocation. It is because the Faqeer is completely drowned in the Divine Oneness and his existence is light immersed in the Divine light. This is the level of annihilation in Allah and immersion in Divinity. Only the Sarwari Qadri Faqeer is comprehensive of all the primary and supreme, heavenly and earthly, physical and spiritual, major and minor levels as he is the beloved of Allah and the closest to Him. Sarwari Qadri is one who is taught by Allah Himself and is the man of piety111. The foundation of his piety and righteousness was set in the pre-existence. Allah says;

Meaning: (This Quran is the glorious Book in which) there is no chance of doubt. (It is) a guidance for those who possess piety. Those who believe in the unseen. (Al-Baqarah2, 3)

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Piety is translated from the Quranic word Taqwa which literally means to have fear of Allah, abstain from sins and adopt pious deeds, but in reality Taqwa is the state of heartâ&#x20AC;&#x;s closeness to Allah. Taqwa refers to inward purity of a person which ultimately leads him to have the vision of Allah.

146 Whoever is gracious and pious since eternity, is the embodiment of Allah‟s Mercy, Compassion and Beneficence. Know that, one whose soul was taught in pre-existence by the Holy Prophet, is the true Mohammadan. When that blessed soul comes in the womb of mother, the Holy prophet again grants it persuasion and education. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: A person becomes wretched or fortunate inside the womb of his mother. When that fortunate and felicitous soul educated by the Holy Prophet comes out of the womb of mother, the Holy Prophet himself instantly says the call of Azan112 in his ear and further educates and persuades him. Such a person becomes the real seeker of Allah, true follower of the Prophet and the Saint of highest rank. Only the pious deeds manifest from him. If ever he commits a wrong deed by mistake, he at once repents and fears Allah in every condition. When he reaches the mature age, the Holy Prophet once again confers the spiritual education and persuasion upon him in dream and says to him with utmost kindness, “Hold my hand, I allow you to take oath of allegiance at my hand so that you may help and guide people of Allah.” After ennobling him with spiritual rank, he hands him over to Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani who makes him his disciple and further dignifies him with the blessings of Allah. Then he never keeps him away from his kind attention ever in life or after death. For these reasons, such a seeker is called Sarwari Qadri. These words of mine are according to my own experience. The Sarwari Qadri seekers are recognized by four signs; firstly, they are the riders of the graves and can meet the souls, secondly, they are the eternal favourites of Allah, thirdly, they are always present in the Mohammadan Assembly with their forgiven existence, fourthly, they always converse about the words of Allah and the Holy 112

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147 Prophet and about the injunctions of Quran, Hadiths and their exegesis. By the favour of a Sarwari Qadri spiritual guide, the seeker of Allah attains such high levels of gnosis and union of Allah without any hard work or pain which never decline or revert. O‟ imperfect fool! These are the honours of the Sarwari Qadri seekers. For a Sarwari Qadri, the knowledge of his own spiritual experiences is enough. My words depict my experience. Only Allah! Everything other than Allah is lust. Know that there are two kinds of spiritual guides. One, who cut seven hairs of the disciple with scissors. By its effect, seventy thousand stations from the Throne till deep down the earth are exposed upon the disciple and he can read the Guarded Tablet with his physical eyes. The efficacy of his sight can convert dust into gold and silver. Everything from the past, present and future is revealed upon him. If he mounts an earthen wall or a hill or a tree, he makes them run faster than wind. If he visits a graveyard, all the spirits come to meet him. If he looks towards a withered plant, it blooms at once and yields ready to eat fruits. If he orders the earth to give water, it obeys immediately. If he looks towards the sky, it becomes cloudy and it rains as much as needed. If he looks towards water, it turns into pure edible oil and if he puts a glance upon sand, it turns into sugar. Hence, he gains many spiritual powers like these. However, this level is far away from the Faqr of the Holy Prophet and deprived of the true gnosis of Allah. Such spiritual guides are like the barbers who cut the hair of their disciples. Spiritual guide should be the man of spiritual insight like my spiritual guide Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani who could lead thousands of seekers to the level of absorption in the gnosis of “none but Allah” and bless thousands of them with the presence of the Mohammadan Assembly with his single glance. Such a perfect and comprehensive spiritual guide grants the spiritual treasures to his disciples without putting them in hard mystic struggle. Spiritual guide must be like my spiritual guide whose effective sight can give pain (of love of Allah) to the heart,

148 annihilate the inciting innerself and sanctify the soul of the seeker by the invocation of . Then the seeker becomes perfectly obedient to Allah and against the Satan.

Meaning: Bahoo is the disciple of Ghaus-ul-Azam and a humble slave of his court. His beneficence graces his disciples with the beneficence of Allah.

Meaning: Bahoo! It is a matter of great pride to be the slave of the court of Ghaus-ul-Azam. All the Ghaus and Qutbs feel honoured to serve him. Mohiyyuddin Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani stated;

Meaning: My step is over the necks of all the Saints.

Meaning: My disciple will not die without perfect faith. The benedictions of Divine presence, gnosis of Allah, absorption in Divine light and presence of the Mohammadan Assembly are found only in the Sarwari Qadri order. These benedictions will continue in this order till the Doomsday like the river continues and will be transferred spiritually from one perfect inward to the other, one effective sight to the other, one Divine attention to the other, invocation to invocation and gnosis to gnosis.

149 Meaning: Whoever takes the name of Ghaus-ul-Azam (i.e. follows him), death is good news for him because after death he would be blessed with ultimate union of Allah.

Meaning: Death is a guide for the Qadri disciple which takes him to the presence of the Divine Oneness.

Meaning: His body is buried in the soil but soul gets engrossed in the Divine secrets quietly and reverently.

Meaning: My body is under the soil but soul is beyond all stations, my pure existence does not need shrine.

Meaning: I have taken my existence beyond all stations along with my soul, that‟s why my grave, body and all traces are lost.

Meaning: Bahoo has joined Hoo113 which is the Ism-e-Azam, how can the men of Ism-e-Azam remain under the soil!

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The Divine Essence. In the way of Faqr, its invocation is the fourth and final stage and is called the king of invocations. The prior three being „AllaHoo‟, „Lillah‟, and „LaHoo‟. The invocation of Hoo raises the spiritual levels of the seeker most quickly, provided it has been granted by the perfect Sarwari Qadri spiritual guide.

150 Meaning: I am perfectly immersed in Divine light and view everything unveiled, I do not need to manifest myself.

Meaning: I converse with the Prophets and the true Saints. Everyone who is accomplished in the inward, knows me.

Meaning: I do not care if the wretched people do not know me, how the ignorant can recognize the heavenly faces! A Qadri seeker is never ignorant, he has the knowledge which grants him jamiat114 outwardly as well as inwardly.

Meaning: He has the privilege of beholding the Divine beauty of Prophet Mohammad which blesses him with the knowledge of jamiat. You must know that the perfect scholars and their students have the privilege of beholding the Holy Prophet every night or every Friday night or every month or every year. Some know and some do not. Dear Friend! Always respect the perfect scholars who practise what they preach and those who have learnt the Holy Quran by heart. As, it is the way of men of gnosis who are blessed with closeness of Allah and are the Saints drowned in the observation of Divine light and Divine presence. It is unlawful and a major sin for the Faqeer Saint who practises the writing exercise of Ism-e-Allah Zaat, whose level is above creation and who ever remains present in the Mohammadan Assembly, to incline towards anyone 114

Jamiat is a mystic term having multiple meanings. It may refer to spiritual powers, stability, peace, accumulation or satisfaction. It is also the highest spiritual level whereby all the preceding levels accumulate in the being of the seeker.

151 other than Allah, indulge in desires of innerself, attract creation by showing miracles, connect with angels or supernatural beings, have the spiritual flight of spheres or engross in seeing their spectacle. If he does any of these, his status is confiscated. Forego these attributes of the ignorant Ghaus and Qutbs and be attentive towards Allah completely turning your face towards Him, as stated in Quran;

Meaning: Indeed, I have turned my face towards His Face Who created the heavens and the earth, inclining towards Truth, and I am not of those who make partners with Allah. (Al-Inam 79)

Seeking anyone or anything except Allah Almighty or engrossing in it is sheer falsehood and arouses wrath of Allah. It is prayed in surah Fatiha;

Meaning: Not (the path of those) who have been afflicted with wrath and nor of those who have gone astray. (Al-Fatiha 7)

Meaning: The Hayee (Eternally Alive) and Qayyum (Forever Sustained) is in front of you but you are trapped by the carcass world. For the immortal Faqeer Mystics, only Allah is sufficient. As Quran teaches;

Meaning: (Say) Sufficient for me is Allah. (Taubah-129) Listen Oâ&#x20AC;&#x; fool! Turn your attention away from everything other than Allah, as it is related with desires of the inciting innerself. Allah says;

152 Meaning: The sight (of your Prophet) did not incline aside, nor did it transgress (its limit). (Al-Najm 17)

Meaning: Leave polytheism, infidelity and hypocrisy and become One with Allah by annihilating in Him. The level of eternal Divine Oneness and immersion in Divine union is attained by following the order;

Meaning: Leave your innerself and be exalted. It is the status of the Sarwari Qadri who is outwardly steadfast upon sharia and laws of religion while inwardly he is the companion of the Holy Prophet. Oâ&#x20AC;&#x; Sarwari Qadri disciple! Bravo and welcome to you on this status, may Allah bless you with goodness in both the worlds.

Meaning: Abandon the falsehood and adopt the path of Divine Oneness so that you become one of the Faqeer Saints. Qadri order has two off shoots; Sarwari Qadri and Zahidi Qadri. Sarwari Qadri spiritual guide has perfect command over contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat. When he blesses the seeker with the spiritual education and Divine guidance through Ism-e-Allah Zaat, he grants him the status equal to his own on the very first day. The seeker becomes indifferent and independent of all needs, his attention remains focused only on the Truth. Hence, gold and soil become equal for him. On the contrary, the follower of Zahidi Qadri order has to devote at least twelve years to very hard mystic struggles, so much so that his stomach remains empty. After twelve years, he becomes eligible to be present before Shaikh Abdul

153 Qadir Jilani and attains the status of a spiritually lost115 devotee, while the status of a Sarwari Qadri is that of a beloved devotee.

Meaning: The Ism-e-Allah Zaat has conferred such Divine presence and gnosis of Allah upon me that I find Ism-eAzam from every verse of Quran.

Meaning: Whosoever comes to know the secret of Allah, remains quiet obediently.

Meaning: His beginning and finality both are Divine presence and immersion in Divine light.

Meaning: Without the Divine presence, even Divine light converts to fire and becomes a depraver. With Divine presence, Divine light is a source of peace and safety for the Mystic.

Meaning: The way of mysticism and spirituality is difficult but only it has the solution of all problems. This way is the destiny of the Mystics with pure inward.

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Meaning: The people having dead inward cannot progress on this way as their guide is the world which is an idol home.

Meaning: The true guides towards Divinity are the Mystics whose body is in this world but soul is with Allah. Know that the foundation of gnosis, ascension to Allah, Divine love, source of meeting with souls, getting blessed with the Divine closeness, observations, secrets of Allah, reaching the level of Faqeer annihilated and immortal with Allah and traversing all the initial and final levels of Tauheed are possible by the contemplation, meditation, authority, attention, trust and writing practice of Ism-e-Allah Zaat. Isme-Allah Zaat includes all kinds of invocation and knowledge of all the verses of Allah which are inspired to the seeker by the efficacy of writing practice of Ism-e-Allah Zaat that is done by engraving Ism-e-Allah Zaat upon the inward with finger through contemplation. It reveals the knowledges about which Allah says;

Meaning: And Adam was taught the Divine knowledge of all the beautiful names of Allah. (Al-Baqarah 31)

Meaning: Read with the name of Allah , Who has created (everything). He created man from hanging mass (clinging) like a leech (in motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s womb). Read and your Lord is most Generous, Who taught man by the Pen, Who taught man (all that) which he did not know. (Al-Alaq 1-5)

155 Meaning: The most Compassionate (is He) Who (Himself) taught the Quran (to the Holy Prophet). He is the One Who created (this absolutely perfect) man. He alone taught him the art of expression and communication.116(Al-Rehman 1-4)

Meaning: And We have indeed honoured the children of Adam. (Bani-Israil 10)

Meaning: I am about to place My representative on the earth. (Al-Baqrah30)

Meaning: And do the invocation of name of your Holy Lord devoted completely to Him alone (in your heart and soul), broken away from everyone else. (Al-Muzzamil 8)

Meaning: The one who does the invocation of name of his Lord

and offers prayer. (Al-Ala 15)

Hadith;

Meaning: There are two kinds of knowledge, the knowledge related to exoteric matters (which is gained through outward sources) and the inspired knowledge (which is revealed by Allah). Since the inspired knowledge is gained as the result of gnosis of Allah (which encompasses all kinds of esoteric as well exoteric knowledge) so the knowledge related to The leading exegetists have explained the Arabic term (“Alla’mahulBayan” literal meaning; “Art of expression and communication”) used in this verse as the knowledge of (Ma kaana wama Yakoon) i.e. the knowledge of whatever existed and whatever will come into existence. 116

156 exoteric matters is also included in it. By doing the exercise of contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat devotedly, the Book of all the books is revealed upon the seeker and he gains all kinds of esoteric and exoteric knowledge as well as the actual knowledge of the words of Allah. Quran says;

Meaning: Say, “If the seas were ink for (writing) the words of my Lord, all the seas would be exhausted before the words of my Lord were exhausted, even if We brought the like of it as a supplement”. (Al-Kahf 109) The knowledge gained by the contemplation of Ism-eAllah Zaat purifies the innerself, sanctifies the inward, enlightens the soul and the core. Whoever attains this level, his body is dominated by his inward, inward is dominated by the soul and soul is dominated by the core. When all these become one, his existence is purified of all the evil attributes and his spiritual senses dominate his physical senses. Then, his soul acquires the knowledge of Allah‟s words;

Meaning: And I breathed My Soul into him.(Al-Hijr29) When the Divine Soul entered the sacred existence of Adam, it first of all recited the Divine name . All the veils between Allah and His slave were raised till the Doomsday just by taking the Divine name, even then no one has yet reached the essence of Ism-e-Allah Zaat.

Meaning: Get whatever knowledge you want by reciting Isme-Allah Zaat. Ism-e-Allah Zaat will remain with you forever. The Faqeer who is not conversant with the exoteric knowledge cannot have place in the assembly of Prophets. While, the scholar who neither seeks Divine knowledge nor

157 the invocation, outwardly as well as inwardly from the perfect Faqeer, remains deprived of gnosis of Allah. As, without acquiring the invocation of Allah from a Faqeer spiritual guide, the love of world is not removed from the inward and without doing the contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat, the inward is not purified of the darkness, filth and rust of evil thoughts of infidelity and polytheism.

Meaning: Remove the jungle of evil thoughts from your inward so that you find Oneness with the Divine Essence. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: Verily! Allah neither observes your physical appearance nor the deeds rather He observes your inward and intentions. Meaning: The intention of a faithful is better than his action.

Meaning: The inward is the centre of Divine attention; how can you call the home of devil the centre of Divine attention! Without the exercise of contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat, the inward never gets rid of the satanic whispers, depraving obsessions and evil thoughts, even if the person keeps getting knowledge of Arabic and Islamic jurisprudence for his entire life or spends his whole life in physical prayers and servitude or becomes a hunchback while doing devotional exercises and his body becomes thin like hair. None of his hard work will bear fruit and his inward will remain as black and filthy as it was, even if he strikes his head with the stone of

158 struggles. Without the contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat, it is impossible to escape the wile of Satan. The seeker who does the exercise of contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat becomes the beloved of Allah without any struggle. This is the desirable level where one is blessed with enlightened insight and becomes the beloved of all hearts. Due to the contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat, the seeker gains spiritual authorities by the Kindness and Graciousness of Allah which he must utilize for the beneficence of men of Allah because, if the treasure remains buried at its place, it is useless unless spent.

Meaning: The grill does not know the taste of the roast; similarly the bottle is unaware of the fragrance of rose water. Yes! That is true! The flowers bloom on the branch of a plant but their fragrance is not for the plant. Same is the condition of Saints in the kingdom of their sainthood. Real man is one who is aware of the fact that he came out of his motherâ&#x20AC;&#x;s womb empty handed and will leave this world empty handed. However, the seeker of Allah comes with the Truth and takes the Truth with him. He never inclines towards the false world or anyone other than Allah. The Saints with enlivened soul never die, people think that they have died but they remain alive due to their alive soul, as Allah says;

Meaning: And verily (on the Day of Resurrection) you will come to Us all alone as We created you (all alone) the first time. (Al-Inam 94) The inward is not purified by the outward deeds; it requires the inward deeds such as contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat which is the source of kind attention of Allah. The physical devotions like the invocation of tongue, superficial reflection,

159 rounds of recitals and supererogatory prayers may grant the power of spiritual flight of all the spheres from the Throne till deep down the earth. However, in them there are the states of spiritual contraction, expansion and intoxication which make the person commit mistakes and are like the brigands as well as there are dangers of attacks of inciting innerself and Satan and the distractions caused by the worries of worldly accidents. So, how can one trust the ranks which have the fear of confiscation! True man is one who is drowned in the Divine Essence at the level of annihilation in Allah, beholds the exact Essence with his eyes and has become immortal with Allah. Oâ&#x20AC;&#x; good for nothing imperfect one! This is the way of real men that they are outwardly vigilant in following the sharia and inwardly sacrifice themselves for Allah by killing their inciting innerself. Allah says;

Meaning: And peace be on him, the day he was born, the day he dies and the day he will be raised up alive. (Marriam 15) The exercise of contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat cleanses the spiritual and physical being of the seeker from head to toe just like the dirty cloth is cleansed by soap and water. By its practice, the dead soul is enlivened just as the dehydrated land and plants are revitalized by the blessing of rain and the earth starts producing plants. The frequent practice of contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat grants the power of speech to every cell of the body of seeker and it starts reciting the name of Allah , (Ya-AllaHoo YaAllaHoo). The contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat becomes the safest refuge for him from the evil of Satan and its followers forever. The practitioner of contemplation of Isme-Allah Zaat also gets salvation from the hell fire. The grave of the contemplator of Ism-e-Allah Zaat is a place of seclusion for him just like a bride's room. When the cross questioning angels (Munkar and Nakeer) enter his grave, they are surprised (at his grandeur) and do not dare to ask

160 him any question, they just welcome and praise him respectfully. The contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat shortens the mystic way of Divine secrets i.e. Faqr for its practitioner. He is perpetually honoured with the privilege of spiritual meetings with the sacred souls of all the Prophets and Saints, among whom some are known to him while some are unknown. Those, whom he knows are the Saints who have become known in the world due to their overwhelming and dominating ecstatic spiritual states caused by the majesty of invocation of Allah. While those, whom he does not know are the ones who have kept themselves hidden according to the words of Allah:

Meaning: Certainly! There are some of My Saints who are hidden beneath My Robe. No one knows them except Me. The hell remains at a distance of seventy years from the contemplator of Ism-e-Allah Zaat and the heaven comes forward to welcome him travelling a distance of seventy years. There are six stages of exercise of contemplation of Ism-eAllah Zaat i.e. contemplation of the Divine name (AllahHoo), contemplation of the Divine name (Lillah), contemplation of the Divine name (LaHoo), contemplation of the Divine name name

(Hoo), contemplation of the sacred

(Mohammad) and the contemplation of Islamic creed

. When the seeker is engrossed in contemplation of any stage of Ism-e-Allah Zaat or the sacred name â&#x20AC;&#x17E;Mohammadâ&#x20AC;&#x; or the Islamic creed, all his sins are concealed under the cover of Divine light of Ism-e-Allah Zaat. It also leads him to the final level of Faqr which is;

Meaning: When Faqr is accomplished that is Allah.

161 This level is gained only by the guidance of a comprehensive Sarwari Qadri spiritual guide who has the authority upon meaning: “Death before dying”. He takes the seeker to the level of “When Faqr is accomplished that is Allah” letting him cross the level of “Death before dying” on the very first day and makes him an immortal Mystic. “Death before dying” actually means to experience all the stages of death while being alive. What are the stages of death and life? The stages of death are; to pass through the tough states of accountability at the time of seizing the soul, face the punishment for sins and be blessed with rewards for good deeds, cross the bridge of Sirat, enter the heaven, reach the fountain of Kauther and have a goblet of the pure beverage of heaven from the sacred hands of Holy Prophet, then remain bowed before the Holy Lord for five hundred years and then prostrate Him for another five hundred years. Then, the seeker joins the row of the perfect followers of the Holy Prophet where their souls are engrossed in the vision of Allah and busy in reciting (La illaha ilAllahoo Mohammad-urRasoolullah). He is also honoured by having the vision of Allah with his physical eyes. Afterwards he remains blessed with the vision of Allah forever, inwardly and secretly. These are the spiritual levels of “When Faqr is accomplished that is Allah” and “Death before dying” which are revealed and bestowed by the perfect and comprehensive spiritual guide through the Divine presence gained by the contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat and Islamic creed .The Sarwari Qadri spiritual guide should be a man of sharia and his spiritual way should be verily based upon Islamic creed . Whoever suspects such a spiritual guide is a hypocrite and infidel. Further, the level of “Death before dying” depicts that the inciting innerself has died and the fire of its desires is extinguished, hence, the soul is enlivened and turned to Divine light by the invocation of Allah. That person is considered to be at the level of “Death

162 before dyingâ&#x20AC;? who can terminate the infidelity of an infidel by his powerful inward attention and let him completely embrace the Mohammadan religion, such that he never returns to infidelity ever again. It is the level of Saints only. Allah says;

Meaning: Verily, the Friends of Allah will not have any fear, nor will they grieve. (Yunus 62) You must know that the Divine presence of Tauheed is gained through Ism-e-Allah Zaat and Islamic creed which are Divine and pure. Pure is one who drowns in the light of Divine Essence and the theophanies of Divine observations through these two pure mediums. His innerself dies and soul becomes eternally alive. Hence, he drowns in Divinity in such a way that his existence and the Divine name become one and the same, his inward is replete with Divine light and he is forgiven completely.

Meaning: When the existence (of seeker) traverses the spiritual path reaching the essence of Ism-e-Allah Zaat, it drowns in Divinity and becomes eternally alive being blessed with the secret of Kindness of Allah.

Meaning: Such an existence becomes so mature and everlasting that the seeker can take himself to the Creator and come back whenever he wishes.

163 Meaning: He becomes omnipresent with that mature existence and comes to know the secret of Divine command “Be”. Hence, becomes eligible for Divine Oneness and accomplished in Faqr.

Meaning: The seeker who knows the way of traversing the spiritual path is relieved from all worries, this is also the bestowal of the kind and comprehensive spiritual guide.

Meaning: When the seeker drowns in the Divine Oneness through the medium of contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat, he clearly beholds the Creator in every creation.

Meaning: His existence becomes Divine light by the efficacy of Divine light of Ism-e-Allah Zaat, this is the ultimacy of Faqr and Divine presence. Know that, in the spiritual way of Faqr and gnosis of Allah which leads to the level of “When Faqr is accomplished that is Allah”, only that spiritual guide is considered perfect and accomplished Mystic, comprehensive of all the Divine secrets and the excellent scholar of the inward knowledge of Tauheed who can let the seeker traverse all the levels of closeness to the Divine Essence and acquiring the Divine attributes from beginning till end by the Divinity of Ism-eAllah Zaat in just one step and one moment without indulging him in any kind of mystic struggle, invocation or meditation. Hence, fulfills all his objectives and takes him to the ultimate destination. This is the marvel of the spiritual guide who has authority over all the spiritual ways. Know that, there are ninety nine spiritual ways and ninety nine kinds of contemplation complying with ninety nine beautiful

164 names of Allah, thirty spiritual ways and thirty kinds of contemplation complying with thirty Arabic alphabets. Similarly, there are four spiritual ways, four kinds of contemplation and four authorities complying with the four stages of invocation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat which are (AllaHoo), (Lillah), (LaHoo) and (Hoo). One spiritual way, contemplation and authority complies with the sacred name (Mohammad) while twenty four spiritual ways, twenty four kinds of contemplation and authorities comply with the twenty four alphabets of the Islamic creed . This arrangement is according to Quran and Hadith, whoever doubts it is a wretched hypocrite. The comprehensive spiritual guide unfolds this arrangement of the talisman of spiritual ways concealed in the existence of the seeker with the key of Tauheed i.e. Islamic creed in just a blink of an eye and reveals each one of them upon him. The spiritual guide should be a perfect Mystic and a man of Divine union, otherwise he must not be called a spiritual guide, as he is imperfect and useless. Whoever loves music and wrong innovations in the religion is an evil figure. I have found all the great ranks and grand felicities by the benediction of sharia and also got the honour of presence of Mohammadan Assembly by following it. Whoever suspects it is hypocrite and depraved.

Meaning: The Guarded Tablet is inscribed on the inward tablet, only the Mystics can read it and have its complete knowledge.

165 Meaning: The seeker whose heart and soul are engrossed in the invocation of Allah, every kind of ignorance is exterminated from his existence.

Meaning: The ignorant do not have any knowledge about Allah. They are evilly trapped in the desires of innerself.

Meaning: The ignorant is worse than the worm of dung. He is unaware of the fact that his own deeds are harming and killing him.

Meaning: The seeker of Allah also seeks His knowledge. The scholars of Divine knowledge have no worries.

Meaning: Since they are aware of the tricks of Satan and the way of killing the inciting innerself, their destiny is heaven.

Meaning: Do you know what knowledge is? It is the heavenly blessing. If the existence is likened to a mine, knowledge is the gem in it.

166 Meaning: Knowledge is the sympathizing friend. For the scholars, it is better than gold and silver. What is the ultimate level of gnosis of Allah for a scholar Faqeer and which is the highest rank of a Faqeer? Is it to possess authority upon every common and special creation of eighteen thousand worlds? No! I do not say wrong that this is an imperfect level. The extremity of Faqr is to surpass the desires of innerself, annihilate in Allah becoming immortal with Him and immerse in the Divine vision and observations which make the inward replete with Divine light. This is the rank of the Faqeer who has approached the final level of certainty gained through experience and blessed with ultimate station of Divine presence and closeness. The irreligious seekers who are men of inciting innerself know nothing about these levels.

Meaning: How can the one who has even lost himself see anything else! His inner light has returned to the light of Allah, but you are ignorant of it, Oâ&#x20AC;&#x; silly person!

Meaning: One who has lost himself has actually annihilated his existence and found immortality with Allah becoming One with Him.

Meaning: What could have been left in the person who has lost himself, he is immersed in the eternal Oneness.

167 Meaning: Only this clue is sufficient for the wise that Faqr is the way which leads to the core of Divine command â&#x20AC;&#x153;Beâ&#x20AC;?.

Meaning: The heart which contains Faqr is desirable in the court of Allah and is blessed with His kind attention. Such a heart is broken due to the pain of Divine love.

Meaning: The pain of Divine love keeps the heart sobbing and the soul burning but the true lover never complains.

Meaning: For the people of Faqr, every day is the Doomsday. They always keep in view the requital of the Last Day.

Meaning: The man of Faqr can be recognized by three signs; he is drowned in the Divine Oneness, has forgotten himself and hidden from others.

Meaning: Faqr is the grandest and everlasting trust. Only the one whose soul is blessed with Faqr eternally i.e. the Faqeer has courage to bear it.

168 Meaning: One who bears this burden becomes the beloved of Allah. The ignorant and foolish people know nothing about Faqr.

Meaning: The reprehensions of the creation enhance power and morality in the people of Faqr.

Meaning: Oâ&#x20AC;&#x; Bahoo! If you remain submissive and contented at the will of Allah in all the conditions, your inward will become pure, perfect and eligible for presence before the Holy Prophet. The spiritual way of contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat may reveal the entire gnosis from beginning till end in just a moment or it may not reveal it till the end of life. However, contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat is such a worship of Allah that if one keeps doing its exercise devotedly, at last reaches the extreme level of gnosis and is surely blessed with the union of Allah at the time of death. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: Death is a bridge which unites the lover with the Beloved.

Meaning: One who dies in the love of Allah, dies as a martyr. You must know that every rank has a title and different levels such as levels of scholars, levels of Saints, levels of invokers, levels of men of meditation, unveiling, accountability and inward fight, levels of Mystics, levels of men of Divine union, levels of closeness to Allah, levels of Divine observations, levels of Divine light, levels of Divine

169 presence, levels of Dawat, levels of Abdals117, levels of Autads118, levels of Akhiyars119, levels of Ghaus120, levels of Qutbs121 and the levels of Dervishes. All these levels are related with the spiritual flight of different spheres and the desires of innerself. None of these levels is equivalent to even the initial level of a Faqeer, as Faqeer surpasses all these levels of desires of innerself and drowns in the Divine Oneness. This level is attained by the beneficence of the effective spiritual sight of the Mystic immortal with Allah. The actual level of Faqr is known only to those who have acquired the Mohammadan Faqr and have drowned in the extremity of Divinity. Immersion in every level can be attained by only one letter (Alif122 of Ism-e-Allah Zaat).

Meaning: That letter grants the honour of presence before the Holy Prophet. The Divine secrets are engraved upon my heart by the effect of that letter.

Meaning: The heart neither has pages nor ink, it is the abode of Divine light of Kindness of Allah. The Kindness and Grace of Allah can be contained in the heart but the heart cannot be bounded in them, so the heart is vaster than the Kindness and Grace of Allah. The piece of flesh filled with dirty blood is not the real heart. Real heart is that which is aware of the conditions of both the worlds and possesses the power of cognition.

117,118,119,120, 121 122

All are different ranks of Saints.

Alif is the first Arabic alphabet and it refers to Ism-e-Allah Alif.

which starts with

170

Meaning: Whoever is the seeker of the most elevated Prophet Mohammad, finds the Divine Truth. Then the entire creation kisses his feet.

Meaning: Bahoo found everything from the court of Prophet Mohammad as he had sacrificed his life for him since eternity.

Meaning: True spiritual guide is one who can take his disciples to the Mohammadan Assembly. The arrogant mentors cannot be considered spiritual guides. Beware and be wise! Erase everything other than Allah from your heart. All the initial and final levels of the way of Divine presence are covered by remaining focused on the Divine Truth. Without Divine presence, the spiritual way is full of fears and distractions because the Satan and inciting innerself dominate the seeker and make him oblivious of the Divine path. The Divine path leads to the Divine presence and grants the treasure of jamiat. During his life, Ghaus-ul-Azam Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilanithe beloved of Allah, had been granting spiritual beneficence and Divine benedictions to his five thousand disciples and seekers everyday by elevating them to the level of immortal Mystic after purifying from infidelity and misbelief. He blessed three thousand among them with the Divine presence drowning in the observation of Oneness of “None but Allah” such that these three thousand seekers reached the level of meaning: “When Faqr is accomplished that is Allah”, and blessed the remaining two thousand with the

171 presence of the Mohammadan Assembly. This kind of spiritual beneficence is found only in the Qadri way in which the perfect spiritual guide blesses the seeker with the Divine presence by his spiritual attention and through the invocation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat and Islamic creed. Such passion, generosity, contemplation and authority are found only in the Qadri way. It will be transferred from one Qadri spiritual guide to another and will never stop until the Doomsday. It is like the brightest sun which benefits and enlightens the whole world.

Meaning: Bahoo has become the disciple of Ghaus-ul-Azam from his heart and soul and feels proud to be his humble slave. One must know that in every spiritual order there are some outward and some inward deeds. In the Qadri order, all the inward and outward deeds are based upon the Divine closeness, gnosis of â&#x20AC;&#x153;none but Allahâ&#x20AC;? and presence of the Mohammadan Assembly along with the Divine union. In this order, oneâ&#x20AC;&#x;s outward self gets guidance from the outward self (of the spiritual guide), heart gets guidance from the heart, inward from the inward, soul from the soul, core from the core, observation from the observation, gnosis from the gnosis, Divine light from the Divine light, closeness from the closeness, jamiat from the jamiat and presence from the presence. Such strong connection between the Qadri spiritual guide and the seeker is like an eternal key of Tauheed in their hands. A Qadri disciple repents thousand times from emulation as there is no space for emulation and emulators in the Qadri order. How can sparrows dare to join the falcons! It is easy for the seeker of Allah to get the gnosis and vision of the unparalleled Divine Essence and acquire the entire knowledge from beginning till end but it is very difficult to drown in the ocean of gnosis of Tauheed annihilating oneself and becoming immortal with Allah.

172

Meaning: Which title may suit to the one who is drowned in the ocean of Divine love? When a bubble loses its existence, it becomes water. The comprehensive and perfect Faqeer spiritual guide who is the immortal Mystic possessing the light of guidance is the one who has complete authority over five levels of intellect and five kinds of knowledge such that each knowledge contains fifty thousand kinds of knowledge, five kinds of wisdom such that each wisdom contains fifty lac wisdoms, five kinds of invocation such that each invocation contains fifty crore kinds of invocation, five treasures such that each treasure contains forty thousand treasures and the five stations. The spiritual guide lets the seeker travel all the five stations from beginning till end and fulfils all his objectives in just a moment without indulging him in any struggle or pain by the efficacy and power of Ism-e-Allah Zaat, verses of Quran, ninety nine beautiful names of Allah, the Ism-eAzam, the sacred name of Mohammad and the Islamic creed . He shows him all the five stations i.e. the station of pre-existence, station of eternal end, station of physical world, station of hereafter and the station of gnosis of Allah. By visiting these stations, some seekers are blessed with the laudable level, some become lunatic and crazy, some are spiritually demoted and become reprobate while some achieve the power of knowing the states of dead in the graves. The Sarwari Qadri spiritual guide grants the gnosis of Allah to the seeker on the very first day and prevents him from the sins and desires of innerself. The spiritual guide must be accomplished in these attributes. It is unlawful to take guidance from the imperfect spiritual guide. Being a true spiritual guide is only the level of Mystics, Oâ&#x20AC;&#x; imperfect! Let me tell you that seven Divine doors open in the inward of the seeker having alive soul. From each door seventy

173 thousand theophanies of Divine beneficence appear and enlighten the soul of the seeker. This enlightenment is realized only by those who believe in it and derive beneficence from it. At this level, the seeker needs to remain steadfast and prevent himself from escaping, so that he is not disgraced by the confiscation of his ranks. There are four kinds of theophanies i.e. theophanies of the Divine Essence, theophanies of the Divine names, theophanies which appear from the alphabets and the theophanies of Lordliness. All four of these are collectively called the Divine Grace and Beneficence. The theophanies which appear from Ism-eAllah Zaat are absolute Divinity and Tauheed of Allah and are called the Divine light of gnosis and closeness of Allah. The theophanies which appear from the Divine names are neither merely related with the Divine Essence nor merely with the Divine attributes, rather are related with both. The theophanies which appear from the verses of Quran and Hadiths are related with the greatest Jihad against the innerself. The theophanies which appear from the thirty alphabets are called the unveiler of the inward. All these theophanies appear from the contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat and by concentrating upon It with certainty, and give vision of The Absolute, as He is. If the seeker closes his eyes from the vision of the theophanies, he remains imperfect. Which is the ultimate destination? To surpass oneâ&#x20AC;&#x;s own self and reach the Divine Reality i.e. to drink the goblet of Divine light and attain the final level of jamiat. Only Allah! Everything other than Allah is lust. The spiritual guide who cannot carry his disciples to the final level of gnosis of Allah and does not teach and reveal its reality through the Divine presence, is a liar and an imperfect spiritual guide.

Meaning: I became the Divine secret myself by annihilating in the theophanies of the Divine Essence. These are the theophanies which guide towards Allah.

174

Meaning: I am immersed in the Divine light and blessed with the Divine Presence from pre-existence till the eternal end.

Meaning: Since pre-existence, I have been united with Allah and will perpetually enjoy this ecstatic state till the eternal end.

Meaning: I have been with Allah since pre-existence detached from my ownself and will remain so till the eternal end.

Meaning: The separate existence of body, inward and soul is just an illusion of common people. The reality of life is hidden in the Divine life which is the secret of Holy Lord.

Meaning: In my spiritual way, every sin is considered a virtue. Whoever travels this way, comes to know my majestic status.

Meaning: My spiritual way is pure of sins, it is the way that drowns the Mystics in Divinity.

175 Meaning: Oâ&#x20AC;&#x; Bahoo! My sigh burns all the sins of the travellers of my spiritual way. Whoever is oblivious of the Truth is a brigand. It is a felicity that one remains inwardly vigilant even while offering physical worships. Being oblivious and unwise is sheer sin in the spiritual way. The seeker of Allah must follow all the orders of Quran, Hadith and sharia of Prophet Mohammad. Every way that is rejected by sharia is infidelity while every way that is allowed by sharia and Quran is the way of Islam. The way of Islam is found through patience, as Allah says:

Meaning: Certainly, Allah is (always) with those who observe patience. (Al-Baqarah 153)

Meaning: Have patience, except patience there is no way out. What can you do except surrendering before the will of Allah!

Meaning: Oâ&#x20AC;&#x; my Lord! Whosoever is grabbed in the clutches of Your intense love, his soul is enveloped in the pain of love. Allah says;

Meaning: So, those who adopt patience will certainly be given their reward without measure. (Az-Zumar 10) Those who prevented themselves from the veils of innerself i.e. covetousness, greed, jealousy, arrogance, lustful desires and other evils like them, they beheld Allah unveiled and

176 immersed in the words of Allah without any argument, as if pearls are beaded in a string. The spiritual practices of Quran, Dawat, Divine presence gained through Ism-e-Allah Zaat and annihilation in the sacred name of Mohammad are the sources of forgiveness and the best part of sharia which are not explained by the imperfect and incapable scholars. This is the essence and inward of sharia while the outward aspect of sharia is its skin. What is the outward sharia and what is the inward sharia? Outward sharia is that about which the Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: One who recognizes his Holy Lord talks more. That is, he keeps talking about the knowledge of gnosis, Islamic jurisprudence, Hadiths, traditions and remains exhorting others. The Holy Prophet said about the inward sharia;

Meaning: One who recognizes his Holy Lord becomes silent. That is, he engrosses in the hidden invocation about which Allah says; Meaning: Do the invocation of your Lord most submissively and secretly. (Al-Aâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;raf 55) He is immersed in the gnosis of Allah, observation of Divine light and the Divine Oneness, as Allah says:

Meaning: Do the invocation of your Holy Lord when you forget (everything). (Al-Kahf-24) Due to the Divine presence gained by the Ism-e-Allah Zaat, he beholds the theophanies of Ism-e-Allah wherever he sees, according to the words of Allah;

177 Meaning: Wherever you will turn, you will behold the Countenance of Allah. (Al-Baqarah115) His inward becomes a Divine theophany from head to toe, as said by Allah;

Meaning: I am within you, canâ&#x20AC;&#x;t you see. (Al-Zariyat21) If one follows the outward sharia perfectly, it leads to the inward sharia. The inward sharia is not out of the context of the outward sharia. Both of them are like two wings or two feet for an immortal Mystic. The Mystics get awareness from the way of spiritual reasoning, reasoning comes from inspiration and the source of inspiration is a piece of flesh about which the Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: In the body of human being there is a lump of flesh which is in the subtle heart. Heart is in the inward, inward is in the soul, soul is in the core, core is in the Hidden and Hidden is in the Essence. These are the supreme inner levels which are the essence of strength of faith and are a shield against the decline of faith. Allah says;

Meaning: Verily, the Friends of Allah will not have any fear, nor will they grieve. (Yunus 62) Congratulations to one whose end is peaceful! Know that Faqeer is one who has five treasures of the physical powers and five treasures of spiritual powers which make him independent of all needs, as said;

Meaning: Faqr needs nothing except Allah.

178 Even the worldly king needs favour of such powerful Faqeer. The five treasures of physical powers are; firstly, he possesses the power of delivering Dawat at shrines. The man of Dawat of shrines is so powerful by the command of Allah and permission of the Holy Prophet due to the Divine closeness and presence of the Mohammadan Assembly that he has authority over the whole world from east to west. Secondly, he has the power of practical application of verses of Quran, Ism-e-Azam and Islamic creed . The effect of practice of verses of Quran continues till the Doomsday. Thirdly, he possesses authority over the angels, supernatural beings and the entire creation by the power of Ism-e-Allah Zaat. He can summon them and order them to bring any required thing such as the knowledge of alchemy or other hidden things. Fourth is the power of meeting all the souls of Prophets and Saints by the efficacy of ninety nine beautiful names of Allah. Whatever he needs, he can ask and get from the souls of Prophets and Saints. Fifth physical power gained by the exercise of contemplation of Ism-eAllah Zaat is that he can visit all the spheres from the Throne till deep down the earth. These physical levels are called “Itraf-ul-Tay” and are acquired by the efficacy of Ism-eAllah Zaat, sacred name of Mohammad and Islamic creed which are the key of Tauheed. When this key is put in the lock of inward, it opens the door to all the levels and solves all the problems. Whoever knows the reality of key of Islamic creed and recites it as desired, all the inward and outward levels and stations are revealed upon him and nothing remains hidden. Five levels of authority over five kinds of treasures and five dimensions of time are gained by five levels of contemplation and five levels of Divine presence. If one‟s intentions are true while performing meditation and contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat, whichever level he attains, whichever dimension of time and space he reaches, whichever assembly he attends and whatever he speaks is pure of interference of innerself and Satan. Wherever such a seeker wishes to reach, he can

179 by diving into the meditation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat, It will carry him to the destination like lightening. The way of Isme-Allah Zaat is the way of men of Divine presence which grants them the secrets of Allah without struggle, Divine observations without austerities, love of Allah without hard work and the strength of servitude without asking. This is the mystic way of veritable servitude blessed with Divine favour. Allah says;

Meaning: You remember Me, I shall remember you.

(Al-

Baqarah 152)

Listen Oâ&#x20AC;&#x; imperfect miser! The way of perfect ones which leads to the magnificent Lord is that they get inspirations from Divine inspiration, awareness from the Divine awareness and reasoning from the Divine reasoning. This way is verified by the Islamic creed and Ism-e-Allah Zaat . Whoever doubts the Islamic creed and ism-e-Allah Zaat is hypocrite and infidel. The hypocrites and jealous are totally unaware of the inward and outward five treasures and five authorities because they are blind of the insight and deprived of gnosis of Allah and mysticism, esoterically as well as exoterically. One must have the spiritual eyes; the physical eyes are even possessed by the cattle. The cattle (i.e. the humans deprived of spiritual eyes) cannot be considered Mystics. Allah says;

Meaning: They are like cattle, rather they are more astray. (Al-Aâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;raf 179)

The initial level of faithfuls, Muslims and scholars is servitude. The perfect spiritual guide reveals the gnosis of Allah and the observations of Lordship through veritable servitude. Whoever is a practitioner scholar in the beginning, eventually becomes a perfect Faqeer. All the major and minor levels of presence of the Mohammadan Assembly, gnosis and closeness of Allah are gained by the benediction of

180 verses of Quran, Hadiths, following the sacred sharia and by the powerful efficacy of Ism-e-Allah Zaat and the key of Islamic creed .However, the superficial reciters of Islamic creed are numerous but the true reciters who recite it in the spiritual company of Holy Prophet are few. Perfect spiritual guide is one who can reveal and grant all the spiritual levels to the true seeker of Allah, which is a process of years, on the very first day through the exercise of contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat and the Divine presence gained through Islamic creed , which matures his existence. If the spiritual guide decides to bless the seeker, he grants him the entire hidden gnosis of Allah. The Holy Prophet said:

Meaning: One who recognizes his Holy Lord becomes silent. This is the status of men of Tauheed. The emulators are far away from it. Only Allah! Everything other than Allah is lust. Perfect Faqeer is one who is the man of treasures, man of contemplation and the man of authority, outwardly as well as inwardly. He is all powerful but never gives pain to the creation, rather, bears their burden and reprehensions.

Meaning: Disgrace your innerself by becoming a beggar and begging from door to door for the sake of Allah. Whatever one does for the sake of Allah, never goes wasted. Allah says;

Meaning: Surely, Allah does not let the reward of the men of spiritual excellence go waste. (Hud 115) The Holy Prophet said;

181 Meaning: Had the Fuqara not been there, the rich would have been destroyed.

Meaning: Had the Fuqara not been there, the rich would have been afflicted with leprosy. If the Fuqara were not there, all the beauty and charms of the worldly people would have been ruined. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: The tongue of Fuqara is the sword of Rehman. That Faqeer‟s tongue is the sword of Rehman who always follows the sharia of Prophet Mohammad and is perpetually engrossed in the overpowering invocation which is acquired through the practice of Ism-e-Allah Zaat and by the spiritual sight of the accomplished Faqeer. It is the invocation which envelops and dominates the existence of the seeker in such a way that even if he forgets to do the invocation, the invocation continues by itself without his effort. Once continued, this invocation never leaves the invoker and its effect keeps on increasing. The soul enlivened by the overpowering invocation is never seized in any way, even if the invoker eats delicious foods and wears expensive dresses. He is always having the goblet of gnosis of Allah. The Judge of Truth asks the eternal invocation and accomplished meditation to present two witnesses; one is that they should engross the invoker completely in the gnosis of “none but Allah”. Even if he is outwardly talking with people, inwardly he remains immersed in Divinity. Other is that they should grant presence of the Mohammadan Assembly to the invoker. If the invoker is not blessed with these attributes then his holding the breath and shaking the heart while doing the invocation is out of desire of his innerself. Undoubtedly, he is unaware of the real invocation which grants the gnosis of Allah. The secret invocation is neither related with shaking of

182 heart nor with the movement of tongue, it is to drown in the gnosis of Allah and the light of Divine secrets. Invocation is to recite the name of Allah , the power of name of Allah liberates the invoker from everything other than Allah because the veritable invoker is always blessed with the kind attention of Allah and Divine presence. The invoker having this attribute always remains with Allah. While, invocation of the invoker deprived of this attribute, arouses his ego and the desires of his innerself. That is to say, existence of the true invoker becomes pure of covetousness, greed, jealousy, conceit, arrogance and other desires of innerself. He gains authority over the whole creation. Such an invoker is accomplished in every field and is the Faqeer bearing all kinds of invocation i.e. the sacrificial invocation, the kingly invocation, the overpowering invocation. However, his desire is “Only Allah! Everything other than Allah is lust.”

Meaning: I know the Truth, behold the Truth and tell the Truth. Truth is in me, I am in Truth and Truth is my way. Allah says;

Meaning: Inquire (of them); “Is there any of your (so called) partner-gods that may lead to the Truth?” Say; “Allah alone guides to the Truth. Then, who has greater right to be obeyed; He who guides to the Truth or he who himself does not find the way unless he is shown the way? So, what has gone wrong with you? How do you decide? (Yunus 35) Whoever attains the Truth, reaches the final level of certainty and is relieved from falsehood, wrong innovations and disbelief. The seeker, who is ever engrossed in Ism-e-

183 Allah Zaat, immerses in the eternal pleasure of the state of annihilation in Allah. The levels of closeness to the Divine Essence are revealed upon the seeker who foregoes the spiritual flight of the spheres of universe. It is easy to bear the burden of mountain of Caucasus and all the spheres from the Throne till deep down the earth but it is very difficult to bear the Trust of Ism-e-Allah Zaat. That is why, Allah has blessed the Faqeer Saints with such powers that they can travel the fourteen spheres in just one glance as if they are placed on their hand like the seed of rue; it is not at all difficult for them. When they experience the state of annihilation in Allah during the contemplation of Ism-eAllah Zaat, bleeding starts from their eyes due to the magnificent effects of Ism-e-Allah Zaat. This state is verified by the experience of my mother whose eyes bled due to the extremity of passion for Allah. Allah says;

Meaning: We presented Our trust before the skies, earth and mountains. Everyone refused to bear it, but man (the Universal Divine Man) picked it up. No doubt, he is cruel (towards his innerself) and ignorant (of his highest rank near Allah). (Al-Ahzab 72) It is easy to get the entire knowledge of fourteen fields from the beginning till end and become their excellent scholar but it is very difficult to become a truly pious scholar by adopting perfect servitude and God fearingness and leaving the sins completely. It is easy to become an invoker having alive soul by doing the secret invocation but it is very difficult to kill the innerself by a single stroke of sword of contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat. It is easy to have Divine presence by gaining gnosis of Allah through the Divine inspirations but it is very difficult to be magnanimous after having the gnosis and protecting the (secrets of) gnosis in oneâ&#x20AC;&#x;s existence. It is easy to be honoured with the presence and service of the Mohammadan Assembly, be blessed with

184 the vision of Allah by His Kindness and sacrificing oneself for the Holy Prophet but it is very difficult to adopt the sainthood and righteousness of Prophet Mohammad, his beautiful morals and authority, his attributes of mercy and kindness, his etiquettes and manners, perfect inward and the attribute of submission towards Allah like him, passion of following his sharia, renunciation of the world and complete trust upon Allah like him. In short, it is very difficult to acquire the comprehensive Mohammadan Faqr and remain steadfast upon it. It is easy to become the king of the entire world from east to west and hold authority over the whole Solomon empire in just one step and in one moment by reciting Dawat at the shrine of a Saint by the power of Islamic creed recited by reaching its core and by the contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat but it is too difficult to adopt justice and kindness towards the creation. It is easy to become a spiritual guide and give spiritual education and persuasion to the disciples and seekers of Allah but it is very difficult to grant them the gnosis of Allah and presence of the Mohammadan Assembly without indulging them in mystic struggles. It is said;

Meaning: The seeker should handover himself to the spiritual guide like a corpse in the hands of the corpse washer. You must know that some ascetics spend twelve years in one fast or perform hard mystic exercises for forty years. These austerities make them capable to read the Divine Tablet, reach the Throne rather thousands of stations above than that by flying in the air. Hence, they acquire high ranks of Ghaus and Qutb and earn worldly blessings, fame and respect by having a large number of disciples and devotees. They also get the power of miracles and unveiling and gain authority over the jinns and supernatural beings, and wrongly consider these levels as gnosis of Allah. Some of them become capable of reading the tablet of mind and gain the ability of getting inspiration by doing excessive invocation of

185 heart. They misunderstand it as the complete gnosis of Tauheed. There are also some people who practise the invocation of soul, by this practice the Divine light is reflected from their soul which enlightens their brain. On observing this Divine light, they think that they have acquired the gnosis and Tauheed of Allah. However, all these levels are related to the creation and are the ranks of emulators. Possessors of such ranks and levels are far away from the Faqr of the Holy Prophet and gnosis of Tauheed of Allah. Hence, it is concluded that no one among them knows the beginning of (gnosis of) Allah neither they can ever reach His ultimacy. So, what do we mean by the gnosis of Allah, Tauheed and observation of Divine closeness? Listen O‟ dear! The real mystic way to have the gnosis of Allah, His closeness, Divine presence and knowledge of Tauheed is that the seeker of Allah gets absorbed in the contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat alongwith the contemplation of Islamic creed . From each holy letter of Ism-e-Allah Zaat and Islamic creed, theophanies of Divine light emit which envelop the seeker and take him to the Mohammadan Assembly held at the station beyond all stations. The station beyond all stations always remains under the sight and authority of the Holy Prophet where there is the ocean of Divine Oneness and various waves of this ocean are calling out loudly ( WahdaHoo, WahdaHoo meaning: “He is The One, He is The One”). Whoever reaches the bank of this ocean of Divine light and observes it, becomes the immortal Mystic. The fortunate one, whom the Holy Prophet himself drowns in the ocean of Divine Oneness, becomes the Divine diver and reaches the level of annihilation in Allah. Some of these divers become the travellers who are lost spiritually while some become the spiritual travellers who are lost (in Divinity) and the men of Oneness with the Divine Essence. The possessors of ranks are veiled from the Divine Essence and the level of Divine Oneness. Whoever reaches the ocean of Divine light of Oneness, which is in the station beyond all stations, cannot

186 resemble it with anything, because the station beyond all the stations is non creation and cannot be likened with anything. It is called the station beyond all stations because neither there is the filth of world nor any kind of undesirable wishes of the innerself. There is only the eternal absorption in servitude of Allah. It is impossible for the Satan to reach there. Viewing it is not like viewing this physical world. The physical world can be seen with the physical eyes while the station beyond all stations can only be seen if the inward eyes are open, for which one needs to be free from the illusions of innerself, evil thoughts, misapprehensions and worldly worries. The immortal Mystic Faqeer blessed with the specific uniqueness with Allah beholds light of the Divine Essence wherever he turns. He surpasses all the levels related with six dimensions and drowns in the Divine Essence. Becoming Divine light (by drowning in the light of Allah) is the blessing of admirable Faqr, while acquiring the levels of worldly fame and honour is the job of reprobates.

Meaning: Leave the desire of ranks and levels so that you become strong, hence honoured with presence before the Holy Prophet by drowning in Tauheed. Faqr which takes to the Divine Oneness is revealed by the contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat. Precisely, contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat is of two kinds; one is the contemplation of Divine light i.e. the meditation, as the reality of Beloved is gained during the meditation. Other is the contemplation which grants Divine observations. The Divine observations are the source of closeness, gnosis and vision of light of Allah. For the lover of Allah, contemplation is the way to become beloved and desirable in the court of Allah. This way is only known to the Qadri followers as they acquire it truly. Gnosis of the Divine Essence begins when the seeker approaches the station beyond all stations and candidly beholds Tauheed and the light of Divinity by the

187 contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat. Gnosis of Allah cannot be found and bound in time and space as the Divine light of Essence is beyond time and space. Whoever says that gnosis of Allah and His Tauheed can be found in any dimension of time and space, is deprived of the inward reality and is an ignorant and perplexed animal. At the station beyond all stations, wherever you see, you behold the Divine light of Tauheed, as says Allah;

Meaning: Wherever you will turn, you will behold the Countenance of Allah. (Al-Baqarah 115) These levels are gained by the benevolence of the spiritual company of Holy Prophet as well as by following the sharia completely and by the grace of Islamic creed . This is the verified mystic way to reach the station beyond all stations. Whoever suspects it, is surely a liar and disbeliever. By following this way, the true seeker of Allah becomes Mystic while the Faqeer seeker reaches the final level of Faqr on the very first day. They renounce the world and dive in the ocean of Divine Oneness becoming free of inciting innerself and Satan. These are the levels of the faithfuls and true Muslims who are the Friends of Allah, Allah says about them;

Meaning: Allah is the Friend of the faithfuls. He brings them out of (all kinds of) darkness and takes them towards the Divine light.(Al-Baqarah-257)

Meaning: Verily, the Friends of Allah will not have any fear, nor will they grieve. (Yunus-62) Whoever attains this level, is relieved from fear and grief. He becomes independent of all desires and the man of eternal union with Allah. Only Allah! Everything other than Allah is lust.

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Meaning: Whoever reaches here, becomes the Friend of Allah and is blessed with eternal presence before the Holy Prophet. Among thousand seekers, only one becomes the Mystic immortal with Allah and if all the Mystics gather together, they collectively cannot approach the level of a Faqeer. The Ghaus, Qutbs and Mystics can never dare before the Faqeer. The men of Divine Essence dominate the men of levels and ranks. The Ghaus, Qutbs and Mystics are the men of levels and ranks. There are three kinds of Ghaus, Qutbs and Mystics; (a) the ignorant men of inciting innerself (b) the spiritual ones (c) people of Faqr who are men of Divine secrets.

Meaning: Initially I was four (me, my spiritual guide, the Holy Prophet and Allah).When I annihilated in the spiritual guide, we were left three. Then I annihilated in the Holy Prophet and we remained two. At last I surpassed duality and became One with Allah. Answer of the writer;

Meaning: Surpassing the four (levels) and five (senses), I reached the finality and then leaving behind the duality, I reached the Holy Prophet. The five senses comply with the undesirable traits while the four elements i.e. soil, air, water and fire comply with the four metaphorical birds i.e. the cock of lust, pigeon of sensual desires, peacock of apparent beauty and the crow of

189 greed which empower the inciting innerself. Whoever slaughters these four birds, becomes eligible for the gnosis of Allah. All veils are removed and the way of gnosis is exposed upon him. There are three kinds of common veils i.e. the inciting innerself, world and Satan, and three kinds of special veils i.e. wish of physical worships, wish of reward and the wish of ranks. The writer says; only that seeker is liberated from all kinds of common and special veils who gains gnosis of Oneness of Allah. Rather, the fact is that every wish is a veil.

Meaning: One who becomes free of all wishes, never faces the grief of disappointment. The existence of a human being is like a cave while the inciting innerself is like a snake which permanently lives inside that cave. If one keeps hitting the cave outwardly, it would make no difference to the snake. Similarly, the physical worships do not affect the innerself. Unless one burns the snake of inciting innerself present inside the cave of existence with the fire of Ism-e-Allah Zaat, which is the inward and spiritual worship, it is not destroyed. The Holy Prophet said about this fight against the innerself;

Meaning: We return from the minor Jihad towards the major one. The sign of the Mystic having alive soul is that he never indulges in the worldly affairs. If he does, it is only for the betterment of the people, not out of desires of his innerself. The two attributes of a Mystic are that he prevents his tongue from useless talk and remains engaged in the Divine secrets.

190 Meaning: Leave the desires of this world so that you gain the gnosis of Divinity and become a Mystic annihilated in the Divine Essence. You cannot find any good friend like Him. I am amazed at the so called Muslims who are like the infidels. Just as the infidels worship the idols made by their own hands, these people make wrong innovators and music lovers their guides and follow them. Allah says;

Meaning: Do they make partners with Him those who create nothing and are (themselves) created. (Al-Aâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;raf 191) The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: Such obedience of the creation is not right which is based on disobedience to the Creator. One must adopt the right and leave the wrong. One should seek the invocation of Allah only from the people of invocation. Being a true seeker of Allah is also a special rank. If a true seeker takes oath of allegiance at the hand of the perfect spiritual guide and gets spiritual persuasion from him, he quickly reaches the final level of certainty in the gnosis of Allah following the persuasion. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: The best desire is the desire of Allah and the best invocation is the invocation of Allah. Allah says;

Meaning: So, ask the people of invocation if you do not know. (An-Nahl 43)

191 Meaning: The invocation takes the invokers to the Divine presence and Oneness, and produces a special Divine light in their existence. You must know that every blessing, pleasure, kindness, benediction, compassion and treasure of Allah is present in the existence of a human being. Entire knowledge and wisdom, all kinds of invocation and meditation, whole fervour and passion, complete Divine observations and beneficence, theophanies of light of the Divine Essence and Divine attributes, all the spheres and levels, the light of faith, verification, righteousness, eternal union with Allah, Divine presence and closeness, rather each and everything is present inside a human. You do not know that the existence of a human is a wonderland and all the things mentioned above are treasured inside the inward. The inward is also a talisman, what should one do to explore this talisman? There are two ways to break the talisman of inward, as, unless it is broken, the Divine treasures present there cannot be accessed. Only the perfect spiritual guide can break the talisman of inward. Either he opens it with the key of Islamic creed and lets the seeker explore all the Divine treasures present inside his existence. Or, he burns the inciting innerself which is like the beast present in the wonderland of existence with fire of Ism-e-Allah Zaat.

Meaning: Oâ&#x20AC;&#x; Mystic! Consider the inciting innerself as a spell cast upon the inward treasures.

Meaning: Treasures cannot be gained without taking pain, hence, struggle so much that the blood of your heart turns to water.

192 Entire treasures of Allah divulge from the existence of the seeker. Other way to break the talisman of inward and get the treasures is to recite the verses of Quran with the Ism-eAzam. The spiritual way to approach the hidden treasures is not related with verbal exhortation, rather with the beneficence and bestowal of Allah. However, they cannot be gained unless the spiritual eyes are enlightened and the seeker is engrossed in observing the light of Divine presence, gnosis of â&#x20AC;&#x153;none but Allahâ&#x20AC;? and presence of the Mohammadan Assembly which are the secret of Compassion of Allah. Whoever is blessed with the Divine Oneness by the (invocation and contemplation of) Ism-e-Allah Zaat, each and everything present on the earth and in the skies from the Throne till deep down the earth come under his authority by the command of Allah and he can have spiritual flight of all the spheres of the cosmos. Every common and special person, the kings and the elite, rather the whole world become his obedient slave. It is because the perfect spiritual guide grants such power to his true seeker through the aforementioned spiritual way that the seven climes, the seven kingdoms and the entire inhabited portion of the earth from east to west are subdued by him. By the order of Allah and authority and permission of the Holy Prophet, these services are due upon the Faqeer who is man of contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat that he remains present in the Mohammadan Assembly and humbly presents the requests related with factual realities. He is obedient, modest, perpetually blessed with the Divine presence and never considers even a penny of worldly money lawful upon him. He is all powerful, man of authority and eternally present in the Mohammadan Assembly. He repents thousand times from wrong innovations and always follows the sharia which makes him the man of exegesis of entire knowledge possessing spiritual efficacy and the ruler upon innerself. This is the honourable rank of the Faqeer annihilated in Allah who is the man of renunciation, trust upon Allah, inward solitude, negation of self and the confidant of secrets of Divinity and Tauheed. This is the Faqr which is called the

193 chosen Faqr and is disgusted of the constrained Faqr which is just a disgrace.

Meaning: I am an enlightened and perfect Mystic and my ranks are far above the worldly king. Khaqani the true man of Allah says:

Meaning: After thirty years, Khaqani realized that a moment in the company of Allah is better than possessing the Solomon empire. Answer of the writer Faqeer Bahoo:

Meaning: Drown in the ocean of Divinity in such a way that there remains nothing of you in yourself. Even the time is unaware of the point where the Divine secret lies. The existence eternally immersed in the light of Divinity is present everywhere in the universe, outwardly as well as inwardly. His conversation is comprehensive for every entity, its sign is that the creation think that he is talking to us while he is inwardly talking to the Creator engrossed in the observation of light of Divinity through invocation. Allah says;

Meaning: You remember Me, I shall remember you.

(Al-

Baqarah152)

In the Mohammadan Assembly, it is considered that he is conversing with the Holy Prophet and presenting his requests while the souls of all the Prophets, Saints, faithfuls, Muslims

194 of every rank and the true reciters of Islamic creed think that he is talking to them.

Meaning: The arrogant never think about their end even if the sword of naught reaches their throat. All the chosen angels and the bearers of Throne think that he is talking to them. This attribute is possessed by the one whose inciting innerself is dead and inward is alive. The people of inciting innerself do not believe in the life of inward neither they like the words of people of alive inward. While, the people of alive inward do not like the words of people of inciting innerself. The alive inward is the vizier of the sacred soul while the sacred soul is the ruler of the kingdom of existence and all the parts of such existence are like the peaceful citizens. If the inciting innerself rules the existence and Satan is its vizier, all the organs in the kingdom of existence are disturbed and endangered. Most scholars say that there are no more true and eligible spiritual guides in this age who can take the seeker to Allah by their spiritual persuasion so one should make the Islamic law oneâ&#x20AC;&#x;s guide. However, the fact is that the inward is never purified of the filth, darkness and spiritual diseases by gaining the knowledge of Islamic law. Without the inward invocation, the inward is never sanctified to attain truthfulness and verification. Without sanctification and truthfulness, a person can never become a faithful or a true Muslim even if he keeps reading the Islamic jurisprudence for his whole life or gains knowledge of all laws of Islam. Those who forbid to take guidance from the spiritual guide and reach Allah through his medium are certainly slaves of their inciting innerself and perplexed due to their greed and jealousy. All the sacred companions of the Prophet also had the spiritual guide, so who are others to forbid from a spiritual guide! It is evident that whoever stops from a spiritual guide is deprived of love and

195 desire for closeness and gnosis of Allah. He is surely a dead hearted person whose inciting innerself has prevented him from the gnosis of Allah and presence of the Mohammadan Assembly. The truth is that the series of getting spiritual persuasion and education after taking oath of allegiance at the hand of a perfect spiritual guide as well as the guidance and sainthood of Prophet Mohammad is still continued from the four spiritual leaders123 and fourteen spiritual orders and will never end till the Doomsday.

Meaning: If the whole world is blown away with wind, the lamp of favourites of Allah will not be extinguished.

Meaning: One who tries to blow out the lamp lit by Allah, burns his own beard. One who prevents from the spiritual guide who is man of sharia, is deprived of righteousness. The spiritual guide shows the way of invocation of Allah and a person can never become a true Muslim without the invocation of Allah even if he spends his whole life in reciting the Quran, reading its exegesis, offering prayer or gaining knowledge of Islamic jurisprudence. That is because the foundation of being a Muslim, from beginning till end, is the invocation of Allah. The loud invocation is for affirmation of faith with the tongue while the secret invocation is for verification of faith from the heart. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: The greatest invocation is the invocation of (â&#x20AC;&#x153;La illaha ilAllahoo Mohammad-ur123

The four spiritual leaders are Abu Bakr Siddique, Umar ibn Al-Khattab, Uthman ibn Affan and Ali ibn Abi Talib.

196 Rasoolullah” meaning “None is worthy of worship except Allah and Mohammad is His Messenger”). Allah says in Quran; Meaning: Do the invocation of your Lord most submissively and secretly. (Al-A’raf 55) When the inward becomes alive and gains the power of speech then the seeker does the invocation with the inward tongue which recites , , (YaAllahoo Ya-Allahoo La illaha ilAllahoo Mohammad-urRasoolullah). Hence, both the requirements i.e. affirmation with tongue and the inward verification are fulfilled. When the invoker‟s inward is busy in doing the invocation, his inciting innerself is subdued and tongue is prevented from indecent talk. Unless there is the name of Allah , the invokers of name of Allah , the Fuqara and Dervishes or even one of them present on the earth, the Doomsday would not occur. The Holy Prophet said; Meaning: Doomsday would not occur until there is even a single person present on earth who does the invocation of name of Allah . By the benediction of contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat and affirmation and verification of Islamic creed, the twin recording angels do not write any major or minor sin of the invoker. It should be known that the knowledge of tradition is meant for inward sanctification through invocation and righteousness. The honourable knowledge relates the traditions and gives the verdict to kill the obnoxious inciting innerself, end the friendship with the world and beware of the closeness of Satan. The purpose of gaining excellence in knowledge should be to seek gnosis of Allah. Hence, one must seek gnosis of Allah through the medium of spiritual guide. The perfect spiritual guide is the medium to salvation, he enlivens the dead soul of the seeker by the invocation of

197 Allah which is the source of eternal life and drowns him in the state of annihilation in Allah by the power of Ism-e-Allah Zaat. That is to say, the humans get levels and ranks through humans, humansâ&#x20AC;&#x; destiny is related with the humans, humans get guidance through humans, humans learn wisdom through humans, humans attain level of sainthood and ghinayat124 through humans and the humans gain jamiat through humans. Jamiat is of two kinds; the inward jamiat and the outward jamiat. The outward jamiat is found in two kinds of knowledge which grant accomplishment in two levels of jamiat. First is the knowledge of marvellous Dawat-eTakseer125(Dawat of augmentation) recited at the shrines. This knowledge grants authority over the eighteen thousand worlds by the command of Allah. Other is the knowledge of alchemical panacea which can be practised only after learning it veritably from the practitioner of this knowledge. While, the knowledge of Dawat of augmentation is gained from the sacred souls of the shrines. Both these knowledges grant jamiat to the seeker making him contented, independent of desires and strong. Although, apparently people consider him indigent, weak and perplexed. The inward jamiat is also found in two kinds of knowledge which grant two other levels. One is the knowledge of annihilation in Allah which is gained by the contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat that enlightens the entire existence of the contemplator with the light of theophanies of Divine Oneness. Then, he beholds Tauheed only, every word that he speaks is about Tauheed and gnosis of Allah and whatever he listens, gives him gnosis of Allah and Tauheed. Hence, he is salvaged from the world, Satan, inciting innerself, deceit of people, hypocrisy and emulation. Other is the knowledge of annihilation in the contemplation of sacred name of 124

Ghinayat is a mystic term which refers to the spiritual level where the seeker is sated of all desires, becomes contented and independent of all wishes and greatly generous. 125 Takseer means augmentation. Dawat is the spiritual act to meet sacred souls to seek their help and beneficence. Dawat-e-Takseer is the Dawat in which the seeker progresses by meeting the sacred souls one by one in each Dawat and eventually reaches Allah through their guidance.

198 Mohammad whose efficacy fills the existence of the seeker from head to toe with the Divine light of Prophet Mohammad. His spiritual eyes are opened and he is blessed with eternal presence of the Mohammadan Assembly where he remains obediently engrossed in invocation and imploration. However, the knowledge preceding these two knowledges is the knowledge of annihilation in the spiritual guide. When a seeker contemplates the countenance of his spiritual guide, the way of sharia and its knowledge is opened upon him and ignorance and wrong innovations are exterminated from his existence. Allah orders;

Meaning: Oâ&#x20AC;&#x; believers! Fear Allah persistently and keep looking for the medium to (approach and get closer to) Him. (Al-Maidah 35)

Meaning: The true and powerful spiritual guide takes the seeker to the Divine Oneness. Without the spiritual guide, one remains trapped in arrogance and lusts. According to the Hadiths, verses of Quran and their exegesis, wherever the enlightened scholars who practise their knowledge and seek the love and gnosis of Allah are present, the perfect Fuqara having spiritual efficacy, insight and enlightenment are also present to persuade and guide them on the path of Prophet Mohammad. Do you know that the love and passion for Allah took out the dog of companions of cave126 from the class of dogs and raised it to the class of humans. While, disobedience and impudence threw Satan away from the knowledge of Divine presence and declined him to the reproaching level where he was titled as cursed, Allah said;

126

The incident of companions of cave is mentioned in Surah Al-Kahf.

199 Meaning: And surely My curse is on you till the Day of Resurrection. (Sad-78) Listen! The guidance and gnosis of Allah gained from the invocation of Ism-e-Allah and Islamic creed is the same as is gained from the Quran because they are from the Quran. The religious teacher also gives education from the Quran. Without the teacher, the student is never acquainted with the knowledge of Quran. Similarly, without the spiritual guide who is the inward guide, the seeker can never gain gnosis of Allah and presence of the Mohammadan Assembly. Without the spiritual guide, a person may achieve high ranks by reciting Quran, performing recital rounds, gaining knowledge of Islamic jurisprudence, offering obligatory and supererogatory prayers, spending his whole life in mystic struggles or remaining awake at nights to say the Tahajud127 prayer. He may get honourable ranks outwardly through these physical prayers and may achieve the level where he can read the Guarded Tablet with his physical eyes, traverse the distance from the Throne till deep down the earth and become a man of high ranks, as all these are levels and ranks. However, without the spiritual guide who is man of inward, such men of ranks remain unaware of gnosis of Allah, Tauheed and presence of the Mohammadan Assembly. Seek the gnosis of Allah and presence of holy assembly of Prophet Mohammad from the man of inward perfect spiritual guide. Only the man of inward can open the lock of inward world and reveal its reality by his spiritual attention or by the contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat or Islamic creed . It is impossible to gain gnosis of Allah, Divine union and compassion of presence of Mohammadan Assembly without the spiritual guide, only he can grant these blessings in just a blink of an eye. The honourable knowledge advises to beware of the inciting innerself, Satan and the world because when they join together, they prevent the person from the 127

The prayer offered after midnight having great importance and reward.

200 worship of Allah, presence of the Mohammadan Assembly, gnosis and union of Allah. I am surprised at the unwise people who claim to be at the level of annihilation in the spiritual guide but are hypocrites who worship idols and remain aggrieved for the worldly wealth. They are not at the level of annihilation in the spiritual guide, rather are annihilated in Satan and are the perplexed seekers of the world. I am also amazed at the foolish people who claim to be honoured with the presence of Mohammadan Assembly and annihilation in the praise worthy Divine light of Mohammad but are actually imprisoned by their inciting innerself and are the reprobate seekers of the world trapped in worldly desires. Those foolish people are also strange who claim to be annihilated in Allah but worship their own selves and desires, hence commit infidelity and polytheism. They verbally accept that there is no one to be worshipped except Allah but their inner condition is as;

Meaning: Have you seen he who has taken as his god his (own) desires. (Al-Jasiya 23)

Meaning: When you will have friendship with greed and covetousness, your soul will die and become the slave of your desires.

Meaning: When your innerself will start worshipping your desires, your desires and innerself will become your worst enemy. Allah says:

201

Meaning: And he calls Allah to witness as to what is in his inward, yet he is the fiercest of opponents. (Al-Baqarah 204) You must abstain from such infidelity and polytheism.

Meaning: Eliminate everything other than Allah from your inward and let your tongue coordinate with your heart i.e. you become one by body and soul. This book is a touchstone for the scholars, Fuqara, jurists, men of Tauheed and the emulators. Whoever will keep this book under his study day and night having faith in it, will surely be blessed with the presence of Mohammadan Assembly and the Divine secrets will be revealed upon him. Nothing of the earth and the skies will remain hidden from him. Reader of this book becomes true Mystic and the guide of people by gaining the enlightened insight. None of the Divine secrets are hidden from such an immortal Mystic. If a needy person will read it, he will become a Saint independent of all needs. If an indigent will read this book, he will become generous. If a worried person will read it, he will gain peace of heart. If a perplexed one will read it, he will become honourable. If a person with dead soul will read it, his soul will become alive by the invocation of Allah. If an ignorant will read it, he will become a knowledgeable person upon whom all the Divine states as well as the past, present and future are revealed. When the invocation of Islamic creed affects the inward, one becomes an enlightened Mystic due to the sanctification of inward. If an excellent scholar will read it, he will become beneficent for the people. If a man of servitude will read it, he will be raised to the level of Lordship. If a man of mystic struggles will read it, he will become a man of Divine observations. If a man of mystic austerities will read it, he will become a man

202 of secrets. If a man of jurisprudence will read it, his innerself will annihilate and he will attain the level of meaning: â&#x20AC;&#x153;When Faqr is accomplished, that is Allah.â&#x20AC;? If a man of Hadiths will read it, he will be blessed with the company of the Holy Lord by annihilating in Him, hence will be relieved from the misapprehensions created by the Satan. An imperfect person will become perfect, perfect one will become accomplished, accomplished one will attain supreme level and the supreme one will reach the level of Sultan of Faqr by reading this Divine book. If a king will read it, he will not need any vizier as the supernatural beings will give him inspirations to accomplish his worldly and religious, esoteric and exoteric tasks. If the student of alchemy will read it, the entire knowledge of alchemy will be conferred upon him. The person who will read this book from beginning till end, will not need to take oath of allegiance physically at the hand of a spiritual guide. If a person who is demoted from his spiritual level will read it, he will be relieved from demotion. A sick will become healthy, oblivious will become vigilant, veiled will become beloved by reading this book. As, this book is such an enlightened and beneficent mirror which shows the blessings of both the worlds. All the mentioned levels are achieved by reading this book due to the Divine presence gained by the contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat, contemplation of sacred name of Mohammad and the contemplation of Islamic creed . Finding the Ism-e-Azam from the ninety nine beautiful names of Allah is a trail. The sign of this Divine name is that when it is contemplated, its Divine light shines brighter than the flame or lightening or the sun amongst the other Divine names. Its light shows both the worlds to the contemplator on his finger nail. Or, it can also be found by reciting the verses of Quran in a specific order and the desired way. The Ism-e-Azam fulfills all the objectives and shows the reality of past, present and future. This is the verified inward mystic way of Prophet Mohammad. Whoever suspects it, is surely a hypocrite,

203 jealous, reprobate, infidel and a lair. You should know what is the felicity for pre-existence? It is to make the Divine covenant. What is the felicity for world? It is to utilize the blessings of world and become sated of them. What is the felicity for eternal end? It is to believe that world is not a place to stay. What is the felicity for hereafter? It is to leave all the sins and repent from them. What is the felicity for gnosis of Allah? It is to annihilate oneself and become immortal with Allah sacrificing the life for Him.

Meaning: I am not like a kebab which cries while being roasted. I am like a paper which smiles on burning. When the Mystic immortal with Allah gets hold of the aforementioned five felicities, he becomes eligible for the vision of Allah, vigilant in following the sharia, disgusted of infidelity and wrong innovations in the religion and condemns the people of wrong innovations.

Meaning: When the inward adopts seclusion from everyone other than Allah, it becomes alive. Then, the seekerâ&#x20AC;&#x;s body remains in this world but the soul reaches the station beyond all stations.

Meaning: Why do you commit infidelity by using evil language and darken the record of your deeds.

204 Meaning: Allah likes you to do His invocation silently, why your heart is captivated by the charm of this despicable world!

Meaning: Every word you speak should be about Allah, do not worry if people are jealous of it. If you learn to recite the Islamic creed in the desired way, your sight will gain such power that if you will look towards a stone, wall or earth, each of them would convert into gold and silver.

Meaning: Who needs mercury when one can make gold with oneâ&#x20AC;&#x;s sight! So, my indigence is far better than affluence. Because it helps me to understand the spiritual way of Faqr, intrinsically as well as extrinsically. This book contains perfect guidance for all seekers whether at initial or final level. If an excellent scholar and exegetist will read it, he will gain four knowledges from it i.e. knowledge of the alchemical panacea, knowledge of Dawat-e-Takseer, the enlightening knowledge of invocation of Allah and the knowledge of Divine engrossment which makes one man of effective spiritual sight and ruler upon innerself. This book is criterion for the true disciples and seekers, the verified Mystics, those blessed with Divine union, scholars blessed with Divine favour and the Fuqara who are annihilated in Allah and drowned in the deepest ocean of Oneness. If someone cannot find the Ism-e-Azam and the spiritual treasures from this book, which need no physical struggle, then the burden of his failure is upon himself. The worldly and religious authorities and other such great authorities cannot be found from any other source. People reached the

205 mouth of death while struggling for these powers but could not find them, even though these are the powers of common people. All such authorities can be found from this book by the one accomplished in wisdom and conscience. As, this book is written by the order and kindness of Allah and by the permission of the Holy Prophet. It is written in the state of Divine presence and is accepted in the court of Allah. Each word of this book grants Divine observation and its every line contains Divine secrets and light of theophanies of the Divine Essence which are revealed by the benediction of the Divine name , Hadiths, verses of Quran and sharia of the beloved Prophet Mohammad. This book takes its reader out of the falsehood and carries him to the Truth. He is blessed with the sight to behold the exact Divinity and drowns in the state of annihilation in Allah. The imperfect spiritual guide indulges his disciples in physical prayers and mystic struggles. It should be known that the basic purpose of physical prayers and mystic struggle is to fight against the inward infidels and enemies of Allah i.e. Satan and the inciting innerself, continuously day and night in the battlefield of oneâ&#x20AC;&#x;s inward. When a person is busy in the outward prayers and struggles (and is oblivious of his inward), the Satan and inciting innerself make fun of him that we will ruin his inward by indulging it in evil thoughts, misapprehensions, love of the world, covetousness, greed, jealousy, hypocrisy, arrogance and lust.

Meaning: Your inciting innerself is the enemy of your faith and is hidden in your being. How would you cope with this powerful enemy?

206 Meaning: Fight against this infidel innerself with the sword of invocation and arrows of reflection and kill it with the Zulfiqar.

Meaning: Satan is also a hidden brigand, no one is safe from his enmity.

Meaning: The remedy against every enemy is that you immerse in the state of annihilation in Allah with perfect certainty.

Meaning: The Mystics who are the great riders, gain this favour by the closeness and friendship of Allah. The writer says; I do not say wrong that fighting against the inciting innerself and Satan day and night is an easy job done by the weak and impotent. The real and toughest war against innerself and Satan is fought by the true men of Allah who are the winning soldiers, they kill the inciting innerself by a single stroke of contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat and throw the Satan far away. Hence, their soul drowns in the state of annihilation in Allah and reaches the station beyond all stations where their innerself is turned to Divine light and they become immortal with Allah by immersing in Tauheed. Satan can never reach this level or enter the station beyond all stations. Whoever reaches this level in the beginning, beheads everything other than Allah with the sword of Ism-eAllah Zaat and becomes safe from the combat. That is to say, perseverance is better than miracles and high ranks. The eternal contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat blesses the man of Divine immersion in such a way that his body remains in this

207 world and he talks to the people but inwardly he lives in the other world drowned completely in the Divine light of gnosis. This is the bestowal of the perfect spiritual guide which he confers upon the seeker by the Favour and Grace of Allah. Allah grants this favour to whomsoever He wills. It is stated in the Holy Quran;

Meaning: And I am favoured by none but Allah. (Hud 88) Such a Mystic Faqeer is considered the excellent and beneficent scholar of gnosis of Allah. Allah says;

Meaning: The noblest amongst you near Allah is the one who is the most pious. (Al-Hujrat 13) All favours, beneficences and graces are the bestowal of Allah. Achievement of this bestowal is called the comprehensive of all goodness. If all the pious men of the universe are gathered, their collective rank cannot be equal to the level of annihilated in Allah Faqeer who is the closest to Allah. The Holy Prophet said:

Meaning: The virtues of the pious are sins near the ones closest to Allah. One must know that the rank of the scholars and exegetists of jurisprudence, Quranic injunctions and Hadiths is different from that of men of recitals, invocations and effective reflection. Reflection upon the blessings of Allah increases the love of Allah, reflection upon the favours of Allah increases modesty, reflection upon the promises and warnings of Allah increases the fear of Allah, reflection upon the gnosis of Allah enhances the Divine light of Tauheed in the inward, reflection upon the knowledge of Quran increases the passion for good deeds in the heart, reflection upon the worldly matters darkens the inward and indulges it in evil plannings. Nothing is worse than the world and worldly

208 people. Strange are the people who consider this worst thing better than the name of Allah and the faith and Faqr of Prophet Mohammad. True Muslim and faithful is the one who fulfills the greatest obligation which is to always consider Allah Omnipresent and Omnipotent. This is the greatest of all the obligations while the greatest of all the Sunnas of Prophet Mohammad is to spend oneâ&#x20AC;&#x;s all belongings in the way of Allah. This greatest obligation and Sunna is offered only by the true men of Allah (i.e. the Fuqara). The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: Allah likes the wailing of the sinners more than the glorification of angels. Whoever separates from the worldly people whose souls are dead, gains inward sanctification and his inciting innerself dies. The inciting innerself is considered dead when one completely leaves polytheism, infidelity, arrogance, lust and other evil attributes. That is to say, death of inciting innerself means that it is sanctified by adopting good deeds and the seeker has repented from the pleasures of world and company of worldly people. He is inclined towards the pure hearts and sacred souls and is engrossed in the real worship i.e. gnosis of Allah. Hence, the inciting innerself elevates to the level of peaceful innerself. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: The world is like a bow and its accidents are like arrows. Run towards Allah so that you get salvation.

Meaning: World is like the pond, humans are like the fish in it, illness is like the net and death is like the hunter. O dear! Take out the buds of negligence from your inward ears and keep in mind that Allah has declared:

209 Meaning: Everyone will taste death. (Aal-e-Imran185) At the end, only your good deeds will prove to be useful and your sole companion. The favour conferred upon the seeker to do good deeds is the real Divine company. The more anything gives you pleasure in the world, the more bitter it would feel at the time of death, except the name of Allah

and Islamic creed

Qudsi Hadith:

Meaning: Live in this world like a stranger or a traveller and count your innerself among the dead. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: Eyes do not cry due to the callousness of heart, callousness of heart is due to earning illegitimate livelihood, illegitimate earning is due to the excess of sins, excess of sins is due to the extra hopes, the reason of extra hopes is forgetting the death, one forgets death due to the love of world and love of world is the root cause of all sins while renunciation of the world is the base of all worships. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: Death and separation are near but meeting (with Beloved Allah) depends on fate. The person whose tongue is dead because it does not recite and discuss the words of Allah and the Holy Prophet, whose inward is dead due to love of the world and hypocrisy, soul is dead due to the dominance of inciting innerself and the core

210 is dead because the veils of misapprehensions, devilish whispers and depraving obsessions are put upon it, then such a person should be considered dead even if he is alive because he is like the dog who is running after the carcass world. If a personâ&#x20AC;&#x;s tongue has become alive by discussing the knowledge of exegesis of verses of Quran and Hadiths, inward has been enlivened and the conscience has been enlightened by the invocation of Allah , soul is vivified and become dominant upon the innerself and the core has gained life by drowning in the observation of Allah, how can such a veritably alive person die?

Meaning: Remember the day when your soul will be separated from your body. That day, no one will hear your pleas but only Allah.

Meaning: Oâ&#x20AC;&#x; Bahoo! The people of alive inward never die. For me, death is like a guide towards the union of Allah.

Meaning: I had committed much wrong but now I am very happy that my Beloved Allah has summoned me for His union.

Meaning: I made the passion for Allah my companion and found Him before death.

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Meaning: Whoever is conferred the eternal life from Divinity, becomes the Divine Mystic. The spiritually dead reprobates remain trapped in the desires of innerself.

Meaning: The Divine light of Prophet Mohammad carries to the light of the Divine Essence. When the seekerâ&#x20AC;&#x;s essence becomes One with the Divine Essence, he gains eternal life.

Meaning: My grave is a place of seclusion where I am completely immersed in the Divine light of Tauheed.

Meaning: How can the spiritually blind know the secrets of Allah! If you have the spiritual sight, you can surely become the man of certainty (by beholding Allah).

Meaning: The span of this worldly life is just a moment, it is better to spend that moment in obedience of Allah. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: Worldâ&#x20AC;&#x;s existence is just for a moment and in that moment we have to obey Allah.

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Meaning: Whatever keeps you away from Allah is the contemptible world and whatever takes you towards Allah is fruitful in the hereafter. You must know that;

Meaning: This world is a preparation for the hereafter. Only those moments of life would be fruitful in the hereafter which are spent in the worship and invocation of Allah. The worldly wealth, gold and silver would not be of any use in the hereafter as they are the pride of Pharaoh, asset of Satan and idol gods for the worldly people.

Meaning: An ascetic said; â&#x20AC;&#x153;This world is a satanic wine, one who lost his senses by drinking it never regained his senses. The contented man is rich even if he does not possess a penny, while a greedy man is indigent even if he possesses the whole world.â&#x20AC;? The writer says that the perfect Faqeer is one who first of all gets hold upon the whole worldly wealth and utilizes it so much so that his heart becomes fully sated of it, no regrets about the world remain in his heart and he becomes generous. That is to say, first he gets hold of the world and then renounces it. The Faqeer who makes complaints about the world is either a seeker of the world but is deprived of worldly wealth that is why he is worried and angry upon the world and makes complaints against it. Or, is a true seeker and Friend of Allah, spends his days and nights in servility and purity, so he intensely feels the filth, impurity and evilness of the carcass world because he has seen the

213 despicable face of the world clearly, that is why he makes complaints against it.

Meaning: The world is meant to serve the true men of Allah. The men of this world are the disciples of Satan and slaves of the desires of innerself. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: If Fuqara were not there, the rich would have been destroyed. The worldly people must present their requests before the Fuqara but it is a sin for the Faqeer to request the worldly people except for the sake of Allah. The Faqeer who keeps the company of worldly people and joins them for eating and drinking is worse than them. The Holy Prophet said:

Meaning: Do not eat the food of cruel rich and the rulers indulged in wrong innovations in the religion because it is kneaded with the blood of poor. First, a person should make his earnings lawful then step into Faqr and gain gnosis and union of Allah. Unless the innerself of a seeker finds more pleasure in indigence and starvation than the worldly luxuries, the way of gnosis of Allah is not revealed upon him. The Faqeer is sated of worldly wealth to the extent that he does not take even a penny from it, even when he is so powerful that he holds inward as well as outward authority upon all the hidden Divine treasures. Oâ&#x20AC;&#x; imperfect! These are the attributes of the Mystics who are ruler upon time.

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Meaning: Unless you annihilate your innerself, how can you approach the station beyond all stations! The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: For the Fuqara, the night of starvation is the night of ascension to Allah.

Meaning: When the stomach is empty, that is the time of ascension to Allah. The writer says; for the perfect spiritual guide and the true seeker of Allah, eating is struggle and sleeping is observation in which they view thousands and thousands of theophanies of the Divine Essence as well as the spiritual levels separately, in a moment. At the initial stage, the perfect spiritual guide reveals the levels of gnosis and union of Allah upon the true seeker of Allah by the contemplation of Ism-eAllah Zaat. At the middle stage, he lets him experience them through spiritual states and finally grants him these eternal levels. However, there is a condition that the seeker must act upon the order of Allah;

Meaning: And do not incline towards those who do wrong, lest you be touched by the fire (of Hell). (Hud 113) The aforementioned levels are possessed by the man of sainthood and alive inward who has crossed the level of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Death before dyingâ&#x20AC;?. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: Death is a blessing, sins are disaster, Faqr is peace and affluence is a torment.

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Meaning: Oâ&#x20AC;&#x; Bahoo! Death is the best news for us as it brings the message of final union with Allah. Know that the inward is like a house of Divine light which ever remains under the kind attention of Allah. The inward has seven Divine treasures of light of gnosis which are; the treasure of true faith, the treasure of knowledge, the treasure of veracity, the treasure of Divine favour, the treasure of Divine love, the treasure of Faqr and the treasure of gnosis of Tauheed of Allah. There are seven forts surrounding the inward to guard these seven treasures. In each fort, there are seventy thousand armies of light of Allah which have got authoritative command. These forts are built in just seven days and safeguard the invoker in the world as well as hereafter during all the phases of life and death from his enemies like the evil thoughts, sensual desires, dellusions, misapprehensions, worldly accidents etc. and provide him the shelter of Allah. This blessing is specific for the annihilated in Allah and immortal Mystic Fuqara who are the observers of Divinity. These forts are built around the inward by doing the contemplation of seven stages of Ism-e-Allah Zaat properly just for a week. First fort is built by contemplation of the Divine name

(AllahHoo), second fort is built by

contemplation of the Divine name by contemplation of the Divine name

(Lillah), third fort is built (LaHoo), fourth fort is

built by contemplation of the Divine name

(Hoo), fifth fort

is built by contemplation of the sacred name (Mohammad), sixth fort is built by contemplation of the holy name (Faqr)and seventh fort is built by contemplation of the Islamic creed . The veritable invoker of inward is one who enters the kingdom of inward through the seven forts and gets hold of the seven treasures without

216 any struggle or discomfort. Such a person is called the ruler of kingdom of inward. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: True faith lies between fear and hope. There are three spiritual stations i.e. the station of fear which is the station of innerself; the station of hope which is the station of soul and the special station of inward. One who is at the station of fear repents on his sins and keeps reciting (“Rabbana zalamna infusana” meaning: “O’ our Holy Lord! We have done wrong to ourselves”). When he reaches the station of hope, he is inclined towards devotions and obedience to Allah which are a source of pleasure for the soul, as the station of hope is the station of soul since eternity. The inward lies between the innerself and the soul. When the seeker drowns in the station of inward, his physical body converts into spiritual being and the seven parts128 of his body wear seven dresses of Divine light. When he reaches this level, the stations of fear as well as hope come under his view simultaneously and he becomes a true Saint. Allah says:

Meaning: Verily, the Friends of Allah will not have any fear, nor will they grieve. (Yunus62) True Saints are ones who are the embodiment of the Compassion of Allah. Four things are the foundation of perfect faith;(a) true belief (b) veracity (c) verified certainty (d) invocation of name of Allah

and Islamic creed

. These four are the source of Divine Compassion which is gained by the true believers and results in peaceful life hereafter.

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The seven parts of physical body are head, chest, belly, and four limbs, while the seven spiritual parts are Nafs i.e. the innerself, Qalb i.e. the inward, Rooh i.e. the soul, Sir‟r i.e. the core, Khafi i.e. the Hidden, Yakhfa i.e. the most Arcane-the Divine Soul and Ana i.e. the Divine Essence.

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Meaning: Whoever dies in the state of true belief, carries thousand Divine treasures with him while the disbelievers leave the world empty handed. One must know what is meant by mystic travelling? What are mystic struggles and the Divine Observations? Which is the mystic struggle for gaining Divine secrets? What exactly do we mean by the Divine closeness and union, love and passion for Allah, jamiat, gnosis and the levels of annihilation in Allah and immortality with Him? All these are found in Faqr which is the ultimate beneficence and confers the entire blessings, majesty, honour, vision of Prophet Mohammad and knowledge of all the creations of eighteen thousand worlds upon the seeker at once and fulfills all his objectives. Then, the seeker drowns in the Divine light of Oneness whenever he wishes and gets blessed with the presence of the Mohammadan Assembly, beholds the celestial countenance of Prophet Mohammad and sacrifices himself upon his sacred entity. This way of Divine light and Divine presence opens through the beneficence gained from the sacred souls of Prophets, Saints and martyrs by visiting their shrines. The seeker meets all the sacred souls at their shrines and gains inward and outward jamiat from them during the meeting. The perfect spiritual guide not only bestows the blessings mentioned above upon the seeker but also the high levels of gnosis of Divine Oneness, immersion in the Divine light and presence of the Mohammadan Assembly where he meets all the sacred souls, in just one step and in one moment by the contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat, contemplation of sacred name of Mohammad, contemplation of Islamic creed , contemplation of ninety nine beautiful names of Allah and by the benediction of Ism-e-Azam and verses of Quran which reveal the observation of theophanies.

218 It should be understood that no one can have ranks higher than the Prophets, even then, they kept requesting Allah for Faqr and implored for its distinguished level. Our beloved Prophet Mohammad who is the reason of creation, also sought only Faqr from Allah. The spiritual guide who has not achieved accomplishment in Faqr, is verily imperfect. Although, he does mystic struggles but is unaware of the secret of Faqr, performs extra devotions but is deprived of the spiritual observations which are found in Faqr only. Although, he recites Dawat but is ignorant of the eternal life of Faqr, views the hidden things through the power of unveiling but knows nothing about the revelations of Faqr, possesses the power of supernatural acts but is deprived of the favours of Faqr. The writer says that it is very difficult, rather almost impossible to attain the final level of Faqr, as it is beyond the level of Divine closeness and union. It is to become absolute Divine light annihilating in Allah. Faqr is always desirable in the court of Allah and ever present in the Mohammadan Assembly. Only that fortunate seeker reaches the final level of Faqr whom the Holy Prophet himself blesses with spiritual education, persuasion and guidance after taking oath of allegiance from him and confers Faqr upon him. Even then, it is not easy to achieve ultimacy in Faqr. There are great secrets of Divinity and gnosis in Faqr. I am surprised at the foolish people who are actually at the level of brawl but claim to be at the level of beneficent Faqr. Know that the Arabic word Faqr

has three letters

according to the Arabic alphabets (F), (Q), (R). The letter (F) means that it grants Fana (annihilation) to the innerself, (Q) refers to the fact that it gives Quwat (power) to the soul and (R) means that it makes the seeker kind hearted by the Divine attribute Raheem (the Most Merciful). Or, the letter (F) refers to Fakhar i.e. pride, (Q) refers to Qurb i.e. closeness and (R) refers to Rehmat i.e. kindness and mercy. For the one who joins the great Faqr and then leaves it returning towards the contemptible world, the letter (F) means Fazeehat (disgrace and brawl), (Q) means

219 Qahar (torment and wrath of Allah) and (R)means that he is Rejected. You must know that only that seeker remains steadfast upon Faqr who considers the hidden Divine treasures better than the treasures of the worldly king. He may apparently ask the worldly people for financial help but inwardly he is the man of gnosis and union with Allah. This is the state of Faqeer who is outwardly indigent but inwardly rich and content, and is ever present in the Mohammadan Assembly.

Meaning: Bahoo recognizes Faqr with a single glance like the goldsmith recognizes gold and silver just by having a look.

Meaning: How can the beggars, who keep the company of worldly people and are trapped in the desires of innerself, follow the path of Faqr! This is an undoubted fact that every deed of Faqeer is based upon righteousness even if it is a sin in the view of people. The incident of prophet Moses and Khidr mentioned in Surah Al-Kahf is its example in which Khidr damaged the boat, built the falling wall and killed the child. There are many who appear to be the men of union with Allah but actually are men of innerself and its desires and are far away from Allah.

Meaning: To expect repentance from the sinners is another sin. A washerman never washes his own dress cleanly. The Holy prophet said;

220 Meaning: Foolish are the people who follow the desires of their innerself and wish forgiveness from Allah. It is a fact that gaining excessive knowledge is not incumbent upon a person except the knowledge of religious obligations, Sunnas and desirable acts. However, fearing Allah, leaving sins and renouncing the evil attributes like greed, jealousy, arrogance and covetousness are the foremost obligations. I am surprised at the people who are apparently religious scholars and give sermons to advise others but their innerself is evil and a chaos. They are deprived of the gnosis of Allah and the Divine secrets and are indulged in the evil of inciting innerself and worldly desires. Allah says;

Meaning: Do you order righteousness to the people and forget yourselves. (Al-Baqarah 44)

Meaning: He entered his paradise and he is cruel towards his innerself. (Al-Kahf-35)

Meaning: For him who forbade (his inciting) innerself its sensual desires and lusts, paradise will surely be (his) abode. (Al-Naziat 40, 41)

The inciting innerself is one with the world like the soul and body and Satan is amongst them like the heart of the body. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: Life of this world is like a sleep and its pleasures are like wet dreams.

Meaning: The worldly desires eat up the faith like the fire eats the wood.

221 Meaning: This world is a shadow which has to vanish. Allah says;

Meaning: O‟ children of Adam! Did I not take this covenant from you not to worship Satan, no doubt he is your open enemy. (Yasin 60) Beware and be wise! By the contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat, the darkness of all the sins and worldly love is removed from the inward.

Meaning: Keep reciting La-Hawl129 (There is no might or any power except with Allah, the Exalted, the Great) by tongue and (La-illaha meaning: “No one is worthy of worship but Allah”) by heart. The inward is enlightened by the invocation of Allah. Contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat is the way which leads to the Divine presence, immerses in the state of annihilation in Allah and fills the inward with the Divine light of Tauheed. The seeker who contemplates Ism-e-Allah Zaat is liberated from all evils and everything other than Allah, hence achieves peaceful end.

Meaning: The closeness of Divine Essence is found through the invocation of Divine Essence i.e. Ism-e-Allah Zaat. For that, you have to surpass the levels of Divine attributes. The closeness of Divine Essence is the source of eternal salvation.

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A prayer for safety from the Satan

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Meaning: When you will consider it a sin to stay at the level of Divine attributes, then you will achieve Oneness with the Divine Essence. Or, you should seek all your objectives from the sacred souls of Prophets and Saints. When a seeker meets a sacred soul, it takes him out of both the worlds and carries him spiritually to the station beyond all stations. If, by the sight of the spiritual guide, the disciple becomes lunatic or spiritually lost, starts liking music and apparent beauty, indulges in wrong innovations, forgets his knowledge, becomes negligent towards physical worships, inwardly remains deprived of the presence of Mohammadan Assembly, stops doing glorification rounds or reciting Dawat, does not find peace while recitation of Quran or does not incline towards the knowledge of jurisprudence, it shows that the spiritual guide is tormented by the Divine wrath, he is perplexed and deprived of jamiat. One must not keep the company of such an imperfect spiritual guide. The perfect spiritual guide makes his disciples perfect as well and both remain happily occupied in the passion for Allah. Those people cannot be considered spiritually eminent who are arrogant upon the miracles of their ancestors but disobey sharia and possess no spiritual or physical powers. The spiritual guide who neither knows the mystic path nor the way to travel it, has neither the knowledge of Divine presence nor the power of meeting the souls of shrines, is verily a slave of his innerself and one of those tormented by Allah. When the perfect spiritual guide blesses any true seeker, he instantly elevates his spiritual level equal to his own without putting him in any pain or struggle, as, only one miraculous glance of the perfect spiritual guide is sufficient. The spiritual attention of the perfect ones is better than the sight of Khidr because their glance can convert dust into gold and silver. The Faqeer possessing the final level of certainty gained through

223 experience is fair-minded and godly. He is the custodian of both the worlds, as, he is trusted by Allah, Friend of Allah and the man of Allah. Such an immortal Mystic is so powerful that he can bend the eastern and western corners of the earth and turn the earth into a bow, then fix the arrow of fate in this bow and shoot the arrow by the Divine power which could give such a wound to the whole world that it would face sudden death due to drought or any other calamity. The Faqeer is dominant upon the whole world as he possesses following twelve keys; (1) Key of health (2) Key of solving troubles (3) Key of increasing the livelihood (4) Key of decreasing the livelihood (5) Key to accomplish the ventures to conquer the Solomon empire of seven climes and the entire inhabited quarter of the earth (6) Key of meeting the sacred souls of Prophets, Saints, Ghaus, Qutbs, men of rank Muslims and faithfuls (7) Key to capture the angels, supernatural beings, all creatures, jinns, demons, beasts and birds (8) Key of the station of pre-existence (9) Key of the station of eternal end (10) Key of the station of hereafter (11) Key of the levels of gnosis of Allah and the level of annihilation in Allah (12) Key of the station beyond all stations. In addition to these twelve keys, he also possesses twelve kinds of knowledge, twelve kinds of wisdoms, twelve special kinds of knowledge about which it is said â&#x20AC;&#x153;Knowledge results from clemencyâ&#x20AC;?, twelve kinds of invocation and reflection, twelve kinds of inward states of spiritual contraction and expansion, twelve kinds of inward states of spiritual intoxication and sobriety, twelve kinds of Dawat which

224 fulfill the objective in just a moment, twelve kinds of Divine observations, twelve mystic paths which instantly take to the assembly of Prophets and Saints, twelve kinds of unveiling, twelve kinds of accountability, twelve kinds of spiritual attention, twelve kind of reasoning, twelve kinds of waham, twelve kinds of gnosis of Divine union, twelve kinds of inspirations, twelve kinds of theophanies, twelve kinds of immersion and twelve kinds of levels of annihilation in Allah. He gains all these blessings through the Divine presence gained by the contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat and Islamic creed , and gets hold of all the keys by the order of Allah and permission of the Holy Prophet. So, he can open the lock of every station using the respective key and by performing the spiritual deed of Dawat recited with the verses of Quran and the Ism-e-Azam. Such a Faqeer who possesses the keys of all the Divine treasures is the real Mystic immortal with Allah and the man of Divine closeness and Tauheed. One deprived of these authorities cannot be considered a Faqeer, he is powerless and an emulator. It is not easy to be a Faqeer. There are great secrets of Divinity and observations of gnosis in Faqr.

Meaning: You get every message from your inward voice, but only the men of Divine secret can make you listen this voice.

Meaning: The imperfect spiritual guide knows nothing about the secret of inward voice. Whoever comes to know it, becomes indifferent to everything.

225 Meaning: O‟ Bahoo! That voice is a secret found in the core, whoever reaches it, achieves accomplishment. Know that the secret voice comes from a point in the bone of skull. That point is vaster than the distance between the Throne and the lowest layer of earth. The souls are seized from that point and it is the realm of secrets of souls. Only the spiritual guide who can take the seeker to that great realm of souls is eligible to give spiritual persuasion and guidance. His disciples are independent of death even if people consider them dead, as, they keep changing their old dresses (of physical body) and wear new ones. No doubt! One can find many people trapped in their ego, lusts and desires of innerself but the Fuqara who are true men of Allah are rare. Such Fuqara are so tolerant and clement that they bear the rapprochements, backbiting, cruelty, rage and pains inflicted by the hypocrites, infidels and polytheists but never annoy the people in return, as, it is the way of Prophets. People give pain to others due to their ego and innerself. The perfect Faqeer is magnanimous because he is always present in the Mohammadan Assembly. If the Faqeer wishes, he keeps the seeker involved in the mystic struggles for years but if he decides to bestow the Divine secret upon the seeker, he grants him the gnosis and union of Allah in an instant. The Faqeer has both the authorities. The state of spiritual intoxication is just a temporary state, it does not mean immersion in the state of annihilation in Allah or observation of Divine Beauty.

Meaning: Ism-e-Azam ultimately takes one to Hoo130, so, Bahoo keeps doing invocation of Ya-Hoo131 day and night. Only the Prophets, Saints, faithfuls and true Muslims can find the Ism-e-Azam and have its beneficence. When they 130

The Divine Essence. Invocation of “Ya-Hoo” is Sultan-ul-Azkar i.e. the. king of invocations. It is the most powerful invocation of Allah which takes close to Him most quickly. When the lover is annihilated in Hoo, there remains no duality. 131

226 recite and practise it, it continues in their existence, purifies it and makes the reciter independent of all desires. The Ism-eAzam never sustains in the existence of men of greed, arrogance and lusts whose soul is dead. One, who practises Ism-e-Azam, knows that this worldâ&#x20AC;&#x;s existence is only for a moment and the wise Mystic is one who spends this one moment of life in servitude of Allah. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: Worldâ&#x20AC;&#x;s existence is just for a moment and in that moment we have to obey Allah. The servitude of common is to pray and send messages (of their requests) to Allah which are conveyed to the court of Allah by the angels. While, servitude of the special is to drown in the state of annihilation in Allah through the invocation of Allah and immerse in the Divine Oneness in such a way that there does not remain space even for the angels. So, by the grace of the Holy Prophet, they do not need anyone to convey their prayers and messages to Allah.

Meaning: Although the angels are close to Allah but they have no access to the level of Divine closeness about which the Holy Prophet said:

Meaning: There are times of my such closeness to Allah when neither any Prophet nor angel can come between us. Allah says; Meaning: Do the invocation of your Holy Lord when you forget (everything). (Al-Kahf 24)

227 Meaning: The common perform worship by their physical being while the special ones perform worship by renouncing their being. The servitude blessed with Divine favour is a hidden and unhypocritical act which grants engrossment in Allah and annihilation in Tauheed. The worships which are not hidden from the people or performed to show off are absolutely egoistic and based on the desires of innerself. Allah tells about the conceit of Satan; Meaning: He said, “I am better than him.” (Al-A’raf12)

Meaning: One who indulged in conceit, ended up in the hell. While, the humble man became eligible for the vision of Allah. O‟ dear! Beware! The fountainhead of all the major sins is arrogance. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: The person whose inward contains even a peck of arrogance, will not enter the heaven.

Meaning: O‟ seeker of Allah! Surpass your own self and drown in the light of Allah so that you gain such perfect Divine presence that there remains no need of further union.

Meaning: It is polytheism and disrespectful to have desire of union while being in the state of Divine presence. O‟ seeker you should repent from this desire and polytheism.

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Meaning: One who drowns in Allah, finds the Divine secrets. Then, the Throne, the Chair and all the spheres of universe come under his feet.

Meaning: The perfect spiritual guide is one who prevents the seekers from the lusts of innerself and guides them towards Allah.

Meaning: The disciple who follows his own desires is certainly a liar and boaster.

Meaning: I am here for the true seekers of Allah and can take them to the Mohammadan Assembly.

Meaning: Oâ&#x20AC;&#x; Bahoo! I could not find any true seeker in the world, so, I am myself the spiritual guide as well as the sacrificing seeker. Just as people search for a true spiritual guide day and night, similarly I search for a true seeker. You must know that it is easy to possess command of both the worlds, grant every disciple the high ranks of worldly honour which are in fact the common and contemptible levels or grant an ignorant the power to read the Guarded Tablet but it is very difficult to have control over the innerself and perpetually keep check upon it. Whoever wants to recognize Allah, have His gnosis

229 and closeness, find Him nearer to oneâ&#x20AC;&#x;s jugular vein, become a man of insight by having inspirations and messages directly from Allah, behold Allah without any veil, find the Divine secrets, get correct answers of his questions by having the revealed inspirational knowledge and have the doubtless hidden knowledge directly from Allah by conversing with Him, should first of all search the perfect spiritual guide. He must also recognize the innerself in his existence, talk to it and try to understand its reality, then he should always go against his inciting innerself. You do not know that when the inciting innerself was created in the pre-existence by the eternal power, it adorned its head with a seven-coloured crown. Those were the colours of covetousness, greed, polytheism, infidelity, hypocrisy, arrogance and lust. It wore the dress of jealousy, pretense and worldly beauty, adopted the company of Satan and made him the vizier. Put the collyrium of immodesty and disobedience in its arrogant eyes, hence became blind from the gnosis of Allah. In this condition, the inciting innerself was presented in the court of Allah, but it could not get the kind attention of Allah. Whoever gains the gnosis, kindness and union of Allah, gets rid of the inciting innerself. This is the state of the Mystics who follow the order of Allah;

Meaning: Leave your innerself and be exalted. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: One who recognized his innerself, he recognized his Holy Lord. One who recognized his innerself by annihilating it, he recognized his Holy Lord by becoming immortal with Him. One who does not make his innerself righteous and obedient, can ever access the gnosis of Allah. No one can become an immortal Mystic unless one fastens the evil and

230 giant inciting innerself which is the fountainhead of all sinful desires, with the chains of passion for Allah and put it in the prison of annihilation in Allah, destroying it completely. You do not know that the inciting innerself is a man eating bloody beast which is never ashamed of its acts. One who does not instantly cut off from the inciting innerself, can never achieve the perfectly pure inward, consent of Allah and presence of the Mohammadan Assembly. The perfect spiritual guide first of all teaches the seeker of Allah to purify his innerself of its desires so that he becomes eligible to meet the sacred souls of Prophets and Saints. He also acquaints the seeker with the place of innerself, soul, inward and core in the existence. When these four merge with each other becoming subtle after purification, the theophanies of Divine light emit from them which take a form that is called the form of Divine favour. This form helps him recognize the four by their signs. For example, the sign of man of inciting innerself is that he is rude, evil attributed and a show off. His every word shows his arrogance, whether he is an ignorant or a scholar and his conversation would neither have efficacy nor weight. The sign of man of inward is that his every word is based on love and invocation of Allah. The man of soul can be recognized by the sign that he always talks about the verses of Quran, Hadiths, words of Allah and the Holy Prophet. While, the man of core is recognized by the sign that his words are based on the Divine observations, gnosis of Allah and vision of theophanies of the Divine Essence. The sign of the form of light of Divine favour is that the person blessed with it always talks about the forms of Divine favour, Divine light of observations of theophanies of the Essence and the closeness of Allah.

Meaning: When the innerself, inward and soul become one, the seeker is forgiven and considered eligible for presence in the court of Allah.

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Meaning: The initial level of true seeker of Allah is that he is liberated from the bounds of earthen body and desires of innerself.

Meaning: When the Friends of Allah open their inward eye, they find themselves in the state of Divine presence. They are dominant upon the souls in the graves.

Meaning: They are the great lion riders. Whoever claims to be their peer is a cunning fox and will be embarrassed.

Meaning: I am a Sarwari Qadri and know the worth of Sarwari Qadri followers. My spiritual guide always keeps me under his kind attention.

Meaning: I can recognize every common and special by my spiritual sight. I am blessed with the level about which Allah says; “They neither fear nor grieve.”

Meaning: O‟ Bahoo! Be passionate for Allah keeping yourself in the limitations of sharia. This is the attribute of the Faqeer annihilated in Allah.

232 Annihilated in Allah Faqeer is one who rules upon the innerself and is stationed at the level of (meaning; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Verily, Allah is dominant over everything.â&#x20AC;?AleImran26) by the benediction of Quran. The person who does not subdue his inciting innerself and gains control over it, can never approach the aforementioned levels even if he spends his entire life while doing physical worships and struggles, it would not benefit him the least. Allah says;

Meaning: For him who forbade (his inciting)innerself its sensual desires and lusts, paradise will surely be (his) abode. (Al-Naziat 40, 41)

Meaning: All the evil thoughts, misapprehensions and delusions are created by the innerself. The nutrition and power of inciting innerself lies in lust and greed.

Meaning: The people with dead soul and breath who worship idols (i.e. who have made their desires, worldly wealth and relations their god) can never recognize the inciting innerself and its tricks.

Meaning: How can the common recognize the innerself! Whoever finds its reality, becomes the perfect Mystic.

233 Meaning: The arrogant are also unaware of the reality of innerself. Only the men of Divine presence kill the inciting innerself.

Meaning: I understood the reality of innerself by the favour of Allah and got knowledge about it from the Holy Prophet.

Meaning: When the innerself is sanctified, its fire turns into Divine light. Then, the entire existence of the seeker is forgiven.

Meaning: Whoever is liberated from the infidel innerself and has crossed the levels of invocation and reflection, gains the Divine presence and drowns in Divine light.

Meaning: The innerself of Prophets is also a Prophet and the innerself of Saints is also a Saint.

Meaning: The innerself of infidels is also infidel which has the cross thread of curse around its neck.

Meaning: The inciting innerself is a donkey, pig or a crazy dog which has no knowledge of Allah and the Holy Prophet.

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Meaning: The innerself of people having dead inward is a demon or devil even if their tongue keeps reciting the verses of Quran and Hadiths.

Meaning: Innerself is eviler and more despicable than the Satan. Due to it, Adam was expelled from Jannah.

Meaning: If you wish that your innerself becomes a good companion, drown yourself in the deepest ocean of Divine Oneness. When the possessor of peaceful innerself engrosses in the state of meditation closing his eyes, he experiences the pangs of pain of heart. Such a meditation and unveiling can be experienced only by drowning in the ocean of Divinity. Unless a person attains this level, his innerself cannot become an obedient Muslim and he cannot be considered a faithful, as, faithful is one who remains engrossed in the gnosis of Allah annihilating his cursed innerself. The Holy Prophet said; Meaning: One, who recognizes his innerself by annihilating it, recognizes his Holy Lord by becoming immortal with Him. The men of inciting innerself guise themselves before people as pious, their closing of eyes while performing meditation is just a show off to earn respect from people. Their state of self-forgetfulness is a pretense, they are the emulators who have nothing to do with Tauheed. The sign of perfect spiritual guide is that he confers eight things upon the true

235 seeker of Allah so that he is saved from mistakes, and even if he commits any, he is not reproved. Four things of the eight are related with the outward i.e. truthfulness, earning lawfully, servitude and the Divine favour of courage. Courage is needed to renounce all the desires of innerself and Divine favour means to abstain from disobeying Allah and from everything forbidden by sharia. Four things related with the inward are; the declining invocation, the marvelous invocation, invocation of spiritual states and the invocation of spiritual experiences. The declining invocation is the invocation by doing which the entire common and special creation from east to west gets inclined towards the invoker, all the people of the world become his devotee and the kings and aristocrats become his obedient slave. As regards Faqr, this is a very low and minor level. Possessor of this level is the friend of creation not the Friend of Allah. The marvellous invocation is the invocation whose effects attract all the angels of the world and the heavens i.e. the angels who keep glorifying Allah, the angels who have borne the Throne and the four closest angels of Allah. All the supernatural beings also come under the command of invoker and help him accomplish all his ventures by giving him inspirations. When he sees through inward attention, he views infinite armies of angels around him. However, this level is also inferior in the way of Faqr, as, such a person is the friend of angels not Allah. Third is the invocation of spiritual states which lets the invoker meet and shake hand with the souls of all Prophets, Saints, faithfuls and Muslims from pre-existence till the eternal end. This is also an inferior level as he becomes the friend of souls not Allah. Fourth is the invocation of spiritual experiences which makes the invoker drown in the Divine light of Tauheed and takes him to the never declining levels. The existence of the seeker who attains this level is perfectly purified and he becomes capable to have the gnosis of Allah and presence of the Mohammadan Assembly. The perfect spiritual guide educates and persuades the true seeker of Allah on the very first day about the Divine secrets which are hidden in his inward and immerses him in the Divine

236 observations taking him beyond all stations. This is the level of annihilated in Allah Mystic Saints and immortal Fuqara who are eternally united with Allah. The final level of any mystic way cannot even touch the initial level of the Sarwari Qadri way. What is the initial level of Sarwari Qadri? It is that the perfect Qadri spiritual guide drowns the true seeker of Allah in the Divine light of gnosis of Allah and grants him the presence of Mohammadan Assembly just by his glance or by the contemplation of Isme-Allah Zaat or by the invocation of Islamic creed or by his spiritual attention. This is the first day lesson of the Qadri followers. The spiritual guide who neither knows this lesson nor takes his disciples to the holy assembly is not the perfect Qadri spiritual guide. His state of spiritual ecstasy is just his vain thought. The true Qadri disciples are eternally drowned in the Divine light of gnosis and union with Allah. There are two levels of Divine union; first is the union with the inspirational theophanies and second is to completely drown in these theophanies. The spiritual guide who can neither take his disciples to these levels nor grant them ranks higher than the Ghaus and Qutbs, is not the perfect Qadri spiritual guide. The perfect Qadri spiritual guide is the great rider and like the lion. How can the embarrassed jackals, fox or dogs dare before the lion!

EXPLANATION OF PRE-EXISTENCE, ETERNAL END AND THE ENTIRE CREATION ACCORDING TO RESPECTIVE LEVELS

Meaning: The level of Divine Oneness which I have attained, none else has access to that level. I am falcon of the station beyond all stations, the flies can never reach there.

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Meaning: The Guarded Tablet, Pen, Throne, even both the worlds cannot find their way till here. Neither the angels nor the desires of world can stay here. Such an accomplished gnosis of Tauheed is the essence of Divine secrets. It is the extremity of the invocation of spiritual ecstasy and the foundation of sharia. It is gained by the help of the Holy Prophet and practising upon the injunctions of Quran and Hadiths. When Allah Almighty decided to reveal the secret of the Divine command “Be and It Becomes”, He said:

Meaning: I was a hidden treasure, I desired to be recognized so I created the creation for My recognition. Thereafter, He looked towards left with Divine Wrath and Majesty which created the fire of Satan, then He looked towards right with Divine Compassion, Kindness, Affection and Mercy which manifested the Divine light of Mohammad that was brighter than the sun. Afterwards, Allah created souls of all the creatures by saying “Be”. All these souls lined up humbly before Allah in groups according to their levels and ranks to get further command from Allah. Allah asked them;

Meaning: Am I not your Creator and Provident? (Al-A’raf-172) All the superior and inferior souls replied instantly:

Meaning: They said, “Yes! You are!” (Al-A’raf-172) On accepting Allah as their God, some souls at once regretted and denied their words. Those were the souls of infidels, non-believers, the hypocrites and liars but some

238 souls were very happy on making this promise. Then Allah asked the souls, “O‟ souls! Ask me anything you want. I shall grant you.” The souls replied, “O‟ Allah! We seek only You from You.” Then Allah presented all the beauties, charms and luxuries of the world (as he had planned to create them) on the left side of the souls. First of all, the cursed Satan entered the world with the help of inciting innerself and raised twenty four calls (or it can be said that he created twenty four fields of lust in the world to attract the souls towards the world). On listening these calls, ninety percent of the souls responded to Satan and followed his way. These twenty four calls (or fields) are: (1) Music and dance (2) Loving the apparent beauty (3) Egoism and following the desires of innerself (4) Addiction of wine and other things (5) Satanic innovations and inventions (6) Leaving prayer (7) Developing new devices for musical instruments such as tambourine, fiddle, flute, drum etc. (8) Leaving the congregation (of Muslim brethren) (9) Malice (10) Oblivion (11) Conceit (12) Hypocrisy (13) Greed (14) Jealousy (15) Arrogance and vanity (16) Discord and schism (17) Backbiting

239 (18) Polytheism (19) Infidelity (20) Ignorance (21) Lie (22) Distrust and suspicion (23) Evil eye (24) Covetousness Whoever adopted any one or more of these attributes, listening to the calls of Satan in the spiritual world, belongs to the same group in the material world, as the Holy Prophet said:

Meaning: It is the same now as it was in eternity. Allah says;

Meaning: (Lord!) You disgrace whom You will. (Ale-Imran 26)

Meaning: Satan frightens you from Faqr and orders you to commit indecent acts. (Al-Baqarah 268) Those who joined and followed the Satan, stuck in the world. They were charmed and trapped by the world, hence, drowned into it. The remaining ten percent of the souls kept standing before Allah humbly. Allah again asked them with kindness, “O‟ souls! Ask me whatever you want, so I shall grant you.” The souls replied “O‟ Allah! We demand only You from You.” Then, Allah presented the paradise on the right side with all its pleasures and beauties i.e. houries, castles, delicious foods etc. Nine percent out of the remaining ten percent souls were attracted towards the paradise. The souls who first of all entered the paradise were the souls of pious people who raised the call of piety while

240 entering it. On listening to this call, the souls of all the pious such as Islamic scholars, practitioners of piety, ascetics and God-fearing people etc. followed them and entered the paradise. They got perseverance upon the sharia of Prophet Mohammad. The remaining one percent souls kept standing before Allah respectfully. Allah again asked them kindly, “O‟ (steadfast) souls! Ask me whatever you want, so I shall grant you.” They remain persevered on their previous answer, “O‟ Allah! We seek only You from You.” These truly sincere souls neither put their glance upon the world nor looked towards paradise even for a moment. Neither they heard the call of Satan nor of paradise because they were drowned in the Divine love being annihilated in Allah and becoming immortal. These were the souls of immortal Mystic Fuqara who are the true followers of the Holy Prophet and eternally present in his holy assembly. The Holy Prophet said about them: Meaning: Faqr is my pride and Faqr is from me.

Meaning: The pleasures of the world are forbidden for the seekers of paradise, pleasures of paradise are forbidden for the seekers of the world; whereas the pleasures of the world and the hereafter both are forbidden for the seekers of Allah. The Holy Prophet said:

Meaning: One who finds Allah, finds everything. The spiritual guide who does not teach the reality of the three levels to the seekers of Allah and make them their possessor by the power of contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat, the sacred name of Mohammad and Islamic creed , cannot be considered a spiritual guide. His disciples remain perplexed and deprived of jamiat.

241 What do we mean by jamiat? Infinite books are required to explain the jamiat. However, its essence can be understood through a simple example; when a small amount of curd is added in the milk, it converts into curd after a while. It can be said that when milk got jamiat, it converted into curd, (as, curd is a strong, stable and more useful form of milk). When the curd is churned, it gives butter, when butter is heated, it converts to ghee. The eternal Divine Essence is comprehensively present in the existence of the Mystics. I do not say wrong that jamiat is a subtle cover or dress of Kindness and Power of Allah made of gnosis of Allah and Divine light of Tauheed. Only the seeker who is always desirable in the court of Allah and perpetually present in the Mohammadan Assembly wears the dress of jamiat. This subtle dress of gnosis and Divine light grants Divine presence and absolute forgiveness to the one who wears it. The seeker who has become pure of the filth of carcass world and has adopted perfect servitude is made to wear this dress. Perfect servitude can be adopted by doing the invocation (of Ism-e-Allah Zaat) which is the source of life of the inward. People having dead inward remain surrounded by the satanic thoughts, they are not the men of servitude but the embarrassed ones. World is the station of desires of innerself while hereafter is the station of lust, the men of jamiat are not related to any of them. Only Allah! Everything other than Allah is lust. Further explanation of jamiat is that it is the key of totality while the eighteen thousand worlds and their creations are the „part‟ which is like a lock. When jamiat‟s key of totality is put in the lock of „part‟, all the levels and stations are opened. It should be evident that jamiat is found in Ism-eAllah Zaat. Whoever reaches the core of Ism-e-Allah Zaat, does not need to observe different levels of acquiring the Divine attributes, closeness of the Divine Essence or unveiling and miracles. Jamiat is the rarest Divine light that is dominant over both the worlds. The man of jamiat is actually the annihilated in Allah Faqeer who rules the innerself and possesses enlightened conscience. Both the

242 worlds are the captive of Fuqara. They are ever discussing the exegesis of Quran and Hadiths, and their exegesis contains spiritual efficacy. Jamiat is a Divine light whose origin lies in achieving the verification of the essence of gnosis and Tauheed by the Kindness of Allah. The hidden Divine light of jamiat raises from the inward like the sun of beneficence and spreads its light so brightly that the spectacle of both the worlds can be seen on the finger nail. Jamiat may also be explained by its letters. Jamiat has five letters (in Arabic text i.e. ). Its every letter corresponds to a particular spiritual level and grants the blessings of its contemplation, authority and spectacle. The man of jamiat gains authority over the five spiritual levels, hence all his desires are fulfilled and worries are over. He practically finds everything that he knew theoretically. The final level of jamiat is comprehensive of all the knowledges because it bestows the verified knowledge of the Hayee (The Eternal) and Qayyum (Forever Sustained).Five Divine treasures and five inward stations which are the ultimate blessing and contain complete authority are: (1) The station of pre-existence and authority over its treasures and blessings. (2) The station of eternal end and authority over its treasures and blessings. (3) The station of world and authority over its treasures and blessings. (4) The station of hereafter and authority over its treasures and blessings. (5) The highest station of Divine closeness, annihilation and immortality with Allah and authority over all the Divine treasures and blessings. Here jamiat is perfected and accomplished. The spiritual guide who takes the true seekers of Allah to the final level of Jamiat crossing all the way stations by the benedictions of Ism-e-Allah Zaat, sacred name of Mohammad and Islamic creed on the very first day is verily perfect, while the spiritual guide who cannot do this is imperfect, liar and untrustworthy. Only Allah! Everything other than Allah is lust.

243 Do you know how the efficacy of Divine deeds differs from the deeds of humans and Satan and what is the difference of reason behind their respite and delay? I am amazed at the nation whose all common and special members apparently recite Allah's name or have learnt the whole Quran by heart or are scholars of Islamic law and jurisprudence, even then they tell lies and their spiritual self is not cured of the inner diseases like hypocrisy, greed, arrogance, jealousy etc. The reason is that neither they remember Allah sincerely nor they learn the Quran or gain religious knowledge for the sake of Allah. Their tongue keeps reciting , (Allahoo, Allahoo) just as a ritual or habit, that is why it does not affect them. The true seeker of Allah who reaches the essence of the name of Allah as well as the knowledge of words of Allah and recognizes Allah, his innerself annihilates, inward is sanctified and soul becomes immortal. He is blessed with the eternal presence of the Mohammadan Assembly and views both the worlds on his thumb nail. Whoever recognizes the grandeur and magnificent effects of the Divine name and invokes It with utmost sincerity, wins gnosis of Allah from the field of both the worlds with the help of truthfulness. The name is so grand and majestic that It includes the beginning and end of everything. Its true invoker observes the Divine light of Allah in It and gains perfect gnosis of Allah as well as the Divine presence through It. Invoking Allah's name with true heart and drowning in Its Essence, like the scholars are ever engrossed in reading books, are like the two wings of Mystics.

Meaning: If you want to achieve all your goals then visit a Dervish day and night.

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Meaning: Do not object even if he treats you harshly, you must entrust to him whatever you own.

Meaning: You will be blessed with the eternal life by sacrificing your every possession for the Dervish. His one glance can make you the king of the world.

Meaning: Whoever becomes favourite of a Dervish, his levels are raised above the Throne. Do you know what is the difference between the level of a Dervish and a Faqeer? The level of Dervish is that he can read the Guarded Tablet with his physical eyes. The Fuqara consider the Dervishes as astrologers i.e. the level of Dervish is that of astrologer. While, the level of Faqeer annihilated in Allah is that he is always immersed in the Divine Oneness and is eternally alive and forever sustained. Dervishes are like patients and Fuqara are like physicians. By the effect of sight of a Dervish, stupidity is created in a person. Stupidity is to turn a fisherman into a king. By the effect of sight of a Faqeer, the seeker gains enlightenment, becomes the ruler of both the worlds and drowns in the observation of Divine light and gnosis of Allah in such a way that if he is offered the rule of Solomon empire, he never accepts it. He becomes a strong man inwardly who is indifferent to the world, worldly people and wealth. Do you know when the scholars gain excessive knowledge without the medium of spiritual guide, the emotions of wrath and anger are heightened in them. While, the Fuqara gain knowledge of gnosis of Allah and the light of insight by the contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat. The men

245 of insight do not like the company of men of wrath. Whoever gets over with wrath and anger, attains insight and gnosis of Allah. Similarly, one who leaves verbosity attains the Divine union and gnosis of Allah. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: One, who recognizes his Holy Lord, adopts silence. That is to say, whoever says (Ya Allah) only once with perfect faith, sincerity and truthfulness, all the stations of pre-existence, eternal end, world, hereafter and gnosis of Allah are revealed upon him and he gets hold of all the everlasting blessings just by taking this holy name. I am surprised at the callous people who loudly keep reciting (Ya Allah Ya Allah) but are unaware of the essence of Ism-e-Allah Zaat, which results in their spiritual demotion (instead of elevation). They are the perplexed ones indulged in wrong innovations and find pleasure only in fulfilling the desires of innerself. It is evident that their seclusion in a closet is a hidden snare set to trap people and is actually full of distractions and inward veils. They seclude themselves to show off their piety in order to attract kings and aristocrats and make them their disciple, or to gain useless triumphs. It should be known that Ism-e-Allah Zaat is grand and holy, hence, does not sustain but in the holy and grand existence. It does not affect and benefit unless conferred by the perfect spiritual guide and invoked with utmost sincerity. The perfect Faqeer is one who holds the level of all-seeing as everything is evident upon his eyes. Both the worlds love him ardently and remain anxious to behold his sacred countenance. Strange are the people who consider each other spiritual guide and disciple but are totally unaware of the reality of being a spiritual guide and a disciple. All of them are foolish and unwise. The perfect spiritual guide should be on the footsteps of Prophet Mohammad the beloved of Allah, while the disciples and seekers should be like his sacred companions who sacrificed their life for the Prophet. They

246 found their strength and nutrition only by beholding the sacred countenance of the Prophet and had repented from infidelity, polytheism and wrong innovations completely. The person, who goes against the sharia of Prophet Mohammad and the way of his great companions, is certainly cursed. How can such a person become a spiritual guide! The mystic way of being a spiritual guide is based on the teachings of Quran and sharia, it is extracted from the Quran and sharia and leads towards them eventually. It is the way of observation of Divinity acquired through Ism-e-Allah Zaat and verses of Quran and is called the way of annihilation in Allah.

Meaning: The seeker who has surpassed his own self and annihilated in Allah, views everything rightly.

Meaning: Intellect and knowledge have no access to the Divine Beauty. The true gnosis of vision of Allah is considered his exact union (i.e. His union is gained when the seeker becomes accomplished in the gnosis of His vision).

Meaning: The Mystics seek nothing except Allahâ&#x20AC;&#x;s vision and gnosis. They do not like to talk about anyone but Allah.

Meaning: Although, the Mystics seem to be quiet apparently but they are always conversing with Allah inwardly.

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Meaning: Whoever is not blessed with the vision of Allah in this world, has verily a dark inward. His inward has blackened due to the love of world which is the origin of all sins. The Holy Prophet said: Meaning: One, who recognizes his Holy Lord, adopts silence. Allah says;

Meaning: Whoever is blind (to the vision of Allah) here (in this world) will remain blind in the hereafter as well. (BaniIsrail72)

Meaning: Allah cannot be beheld by the physical eyes which are full of lust. Only the spiritual eyes are capable to have the sacred vision of Allah. When an immortal Mystic is engrossed in meditation and unveiling, it is as if his soul has left his body.

Meaning: The tongue pure enough to glorify Allah is not this physical tongue which is indulged in telling lies and other undesirable talks. The Holy Prophet said:

248 Meaning: Silence is the crown of faithfuls and the source of having consent of Allah. The writer says;

Meaning: Silence is the key of all worships. Silence is the home at the station beyond all stations. Silence is the Kindness of Allah. Silence is the fortification against the Satan. Silence makes one the best of all humans. Silence is the way of Prophets. Silence gives salvation from the hell fire. Silence grants closeness of Allah. Silence immerses in the Divine light of Tauheed. The appreciable silence is that which is adopted while being in the eternal state of observation of Divinity. Such a man of silence resides beyond all stations. Real silence means that the seeker leaves his body and soul and drowns in Divinity at the station beyond all stations. The silence adopted without immersion in Divinity is just a cunning act to attract people. It is a satanic ruse and a deceit of the inciting innerself. The Satan tries to trap the immortal Faqeer Mystic through seven tricks; (1) Tries to make him adopt silence without engrossing in Divine deeds. (2) Tries to make him adopt seclusion in some desert or far away place so that he is prevented from offering prayer in congregation with Muslim brethren. (3) Tries to make him gather wealth with the ruse that he is not gathering it out of greed or covetousness but to spend upon the deserving people, Dervishes, Fuqara, widows,

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249 orphans and the indigent. It is just a satanic trick, when enough wealth is gathered, usually people refuse even to give the zakat. Tries to make him proud upon his praise so that he becomes arrogant and indulges in showing miracles and supernatural acts. Tries to make him go against the knowledge and scholars. Tries to make the seeker believe that his spiritual level has become higher than his spiritual guide‟s level. When the seeker looks towards his level, Satan shows him satanic spectacles which make him believe the Satan. Hence, the Satan keeps him away from his spiritual guide and degrades him to the cursed level. Tries to make the seeker believe that he has become One with Allah by saying, “I am you and you are me, now you do not need to perform any worship or contemplate the Ism-e-Allah Zaat, as Ism-e-Allah Zaat is just the name which is invoked to have the vision of Allah which you have already got.”

If the seeker is true and has taken oath of allegiance at the hand of the perfect spiritual guide, he understands the tricks of the cursed Satan and gets rid of it by reciting (“La Hawla wa la Quwwata illa billah-al’alii-al Azeem” meaning “There is no might or any power except with Allah, the Exalted, the Great). In the mystic way, the spiritual guide should be a man of Divine favour and the spiritual companion of the seeker. He should be so well aware that he knows each and every inward and outward state, word, act and deed of his disciples. He should submit all his matters to Allah and then must not interfere.

Meaning: If everything in the world happens according to your will, you will never believe in the existence of God.

250 Allah says; Meaning: Allah does whatever He wills. (Ibrahim 27)

Meaning: Allah ordains whatever He wills. (Al-Maidah1) In the existence of man, the inciting innerself is like the cursed Yazid132 while soul is like Bayazid133. If the person is man of soul, he remains engrossed in Allah and keeps the sword of invocation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat and Islamic creed in his hand as if he is killing the cursed Infidels (i.e. the evil attributes) like Shaddad134, Namrood135, Qarun136, Pharaoh and Haman137 with the invocation of Allah. If the Yazid innerself is dominant in the existence of the person, his inward remains dead and he remains oblivious of Allah. The oblivion is like a sword in his hand with which he is killing the Prophets of Allah (i.e. the holy attributes). The people of Bayazid soul and the people of Yazid innerself do not like each other‟s company. Check yourself, which of the two groups do you belong? The way of gnosis and closeness of Allah is travelled headlong, rather by forgetting one‟s existence. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: (The travellers of path of Faqr) progress towards Allah headlong instead of walking on steps.

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The reprobate whose army martyred Imam Hussain and his sacred companions in Karbala 133 An eminent Saint 134 The king who created an imitation of paradise 135 The king of Babylon who put Prophet Abraham in fire 136 Croesus, well known for his treasure 137 Also known as Haman the Agagite, a vizier in the Persian empire under King Ahasuerus (Xerxes), who plotted to destroy all the Mordecia‟s people.

251 Meaning: The man of secrets is without the head, he keeps discussing the Divine secrets with Allah with his spiritual head instead of the physical one.

Meaning: The head of common people is full of sensual desires. The head blessed with the closeness and conversation with Allah is hidden.

Meaning: If I discuss the secret of Divine secrets, it would need books, as its origin lies in the pre-existence.

Meaning: Oâ&#x20AC;&#x; Bahoo! For Godâ&#x20AC;&#x;s sake, reveal the secret that one must exterminate everything other than Allah from the inward, only then one becomes capable to travel the path of Divine secrets. One has to suffer from pains and sorrows while travelling this path. In the mystic way, the person without pain and sorrows is considered impotent. For the men of pain, the remedy for the pain of heart is the pain itself.

STATES OF GNOSIS OF DIVINE UNION, ANNIHILATION OF INNERSELF, LIFE OF INWARD AND IMMOTALITY OF SOUL Let us discuss the detail of states of gnosis of Divine union, annihilation of innerself, life of inward and immortality of soul. You must know that the inward darkness and filth are

252 interrelated with the inward enlightenment and purity and they replace each other. Quran says;

Meaning: (Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Allah!)You cause the night to enter the day, and You cause the day to enter the night. (Aal-e-Imran 27) The darkness of night hides the sun but then the sun rises and hides the darkness. Similarly, the sun of soul does not remain hidden in the darkness of innerself. The traveller of the spiritual way knows its traditions and waystations. Committing sins is the job of humans while forgiving is the attribute of Allah. Whoever repents from sins, is purified of sins. The human is like a drop of water and is created from a drop of water i.e. semen. Presence of that drop of water creates lust in the existence of human which destroys his wisdom and turns him into an animal. Only the perfect spiritual guide can help and save him from the destruction caused due to the lust and appetites of innerself. The Mysticsâ&#x20AC;&#x; appetite is only for the Divine presence and light of Allah. By the benediction of closeness of Allah, they can control the lust. Unless you crush your desires under your feet, you cannot step on the grand Throne.

Meaning: If you wish to enjoy the pleasures of paradise, do not follow the desires of your innerself. Whoever controls the appetites of his innerself, becomes the truthful Mystic. There are four levels, titles and existences of Mystics based on their gnosis which has four levels as well; Mystic having gnosis of pre-existence, Mystic having gnosis of eternal end, Mystic having gnosis of the world, Mystic having gnosis of hereafter. However, these four levels are great veils for the true Mystic. The real and special gnosis is to drown in Divinity and the ultimate Mystic

253 is one who achieves this gnosis crossing the four preceding levels.

Meaning: Real man is the one who is immersed in Divine light. How can the arrogant reach the Divine light!

Meaning: They are the dogs ever chasing the carcass world and creating chaos to get its luxuries.

Meaning: They claim to have alive inward but, in fact, their inward is dead like the dogs. They should not be considered among the Mystics.

Meaning: Oâ&#x20AC;&#x; Bahoo! For Allahâ&#x20AC;&#x;s sake show the way to become the true Mystic and disclose the secret that the real gnosis of Allah is gained directly from the Holy Prophet. All the spiritual levels are gained by the help of real men of Allah who are the true followers of sharia. The seekers of world are like dogs and are not at all eligible for the vision of Allah. The levels of inward solitude and negation of self are achieved by the one who can cross seventy-three crores, ten lacs and three thousand levels, rather infinite levels, in a day and night or at the most in one week. If one follows the perfect spiritual guide, then he can let the seeker cross all the levels in just one moment and one step through spiritual flight and makes him immortal in both the worlds. By the contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat, ten lacs, rather more than the number of hair on body i.e. infinite forms of Divine light

254 appear before the seeker by the Divine power. The vigilant seeker immerses in the Divine light of each of them and engrosses in its gnosis. When he matures in gnosis, he becomes eligible for guiding people. This level of viewing the forms of Divine light and theophanies of the Essence is the initial lesson of the knowledge of gnosis of Allah and Faqr. One who does not learn this initial lesson of Faqr, cannot achieve accomplishment in gnosis of Allah. Whoever learns this initial lesson properly, afterwards achieves the levels of renunciation (of everything other than Allah), complete trust upon Allah, total submission towards the will of Allah, Oneness, inward solitude, negation of self, Tauheed, annihilation, immortality and perfect sanctification. He meets the Prophets, Saints and the Sultan-ul-Faqr in dream or meditation. Sultan-ul-Faqr is the Divine light which is ever present in the Mohammadan Assembly. Or, he views the highest level of the Mohammadan Assembly138 and is blessed with its presence. Inward solitude means that the seeker has experienced all the levels, got rid of Satan and inciting innerself, become desirable in the court of Allah, perpetually remains in the state of Divine presence and his innerself has become obedient raising to the level of peaceful innerself. Satan cannot reach this desirable level of Divine presence. Negation of self means that the seeker has become spiritually alone. Although, apparently, he remains among people but inwardly he is drowned in Divinity being cut off from everyone. This Divine path is not related with words rather with experiences and observations. It is the bestowal of perfect spiritual guide and the beneficence of Allah. Allah confers it upon whomsoever He wills. As Allah says;

Meaning: You cannot guide whom you please, It is Allah who guides whom He wills. (Al-Qasas 56)

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255 It is said;

Meaning: My task is to make efforts, accomplishment comes from Allah. When the Mystic gains complete knowledge of Faqr, gnosis, Tauheed, inward solitude and negation of self, he is relieved from all needs, inwardly as well as outwardly. He gains authority over all the spiritual states and levels of acquiring the Divine attributes and the closeness of Divine Essence. This is the essence of jamiat. There are two signs of gaining the essence of jamiat; outwardly the seeker follows the sharia vigilantly, while inwardly he remains so much engrossed in the state of meditation as if he is dead but actually he is drowned in beholding the Divinity and observing the theophanies of Divine light. Whoever suspects it, turns infidel and ends up in the hell fire. If you come, you will find the doors open, otherwise Allah needs none. One who enters this open door, becomes the seeker of vision of Allah and the falcon Mystic. One who refuses to enter, becomes the seeker of world and the vulture full of greed and covetousness.

Meaning: Real eyes are those which are capable of the vision of Allah, not those which are ever pursuing the carrion pleasures of the world.

Meaning: How could a blind person see the bright sun. For him the sun is hidden behind hundred veils. Real eyes are possessed by the men of soul while the spiritually blind are the men of inciting innerself. The sacred men of soul and the filthy men of inciting innerself do not

256 like each otherâ&#x20AC;&#x;s company. You must know that nothing is worse and disgraced in the world than ignorance. That is to say, knowledge must be practised upon. Without practise, knowledge is like the infertile woman. Believe that it is easy to gain authority over the fourteen kinds of knowledge from the beginning till end and become accomplished in them but it is very difficult to become a practitioner scholar and a man of servitude and piety. The alive inward is possessed by the secret invokers who kill the inciting innerself day and night with the sword of invocation. It is easy to become a secret invoker but it is very difficult to become the man of Divinity and inspirations drowning in the spiritual company of Allah and the state of Divine presence. That may also be easy but it is more difficult to get the perfect gnosis of Allah. Gnosis of Allah may by easy to achieve but it is very difficult to be magnanimous after achieving the gnosis and protecting the (secrets of) gnosis in oneâ&#x20AC;&#x;s existence. It is easy to be honoured with the presence and service of the Mohammadan Assembly, be blessed with the vision of Allah by the light and kindness of Prophet Mohammad but it is very difficult to adopt the sainthood and righteousness of Prophet Mohammad, his beautiful morals and manners, attributes and authority, renunciation of the world, complete trust upon Allah and submission towards Allah like him. In short, it is very difficult to acquire the comprehensive Mohammadan Faqr. It is easy to become the king of the world and gain authority over the Solomon empire from east to west but it is very difficult to do justice and be kind with all the Muslims and give them their right. It is easy to become the spiritual guide but it is very difficult to fulfill all the objectives of the disciples and seekers as well as make them accomplished in gnosis of Allah, immerse them in the light of Divine Oneness and grant them presence of the Mohammadan Assembly. It is easy to become a disciple but it is very difficult to be obedient and modest and entrust oneself completely to the spiritual guide. It is easy to be a guide and cut the hair of the disciples but it is very difficult to

257 spiritually reach the disciple at the time of trouble to help him and to renounce the carcass (i.e. the world and its pleasures). The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: True disciple has no desires. It is the saying of spiritual leaders;

Meaning: The seeker should handover himself to the spiritual guide like a corpse in the hands of the corpse washer. When a seeker enters the Mohammadan Assembly, first of all his being is blessed with four kinds of efficacy through the spiritual attention of four sacred personalities. By the efficacy of spiritual attention of Abu Bakr Siddique, the seeker is blessed with the attribute of veracity, as a result, hypocrisy and lie are removed from his being. By the spiritual attention of Umar ibn Al-Khattab, the seeker adopts the attributes of justice and self-accountability, hence the sensual desires and satanic apprehensions are eliminated from his inward. By the efficacy of spiritual sight of Uthman ibn Affan, he becomes modest and obedient, and gets rid of immodesty and disobedience. By the spiritual attention of Ali ibn Abi Talib, the seeker is blessed with the Divine knowledge, righteousness and Faqr, as a result he is relieved from ignorance and love of the world. Thereupon, the seeker becomes eligible for spiritual persuasion. The Holy Prophet takes oath of allegiance from him personally and grants him the eternal and non-declining rank of the perfect spiritual guide which is the level where there is no fear or grief. That spiritual guide should not be considered true spiritual guide who cannot grant the presence of Mohammadan Assembly to the seeker of Allah on the very first day, neither lets him have the blessing of efficacy of the spiritual attention of the great companions and honour of taking oath of allegiance at the sacred hand of the Holy Prophet nor grants him sainthood

258 and righteousness in one moment without any struggle or devotion just by the contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat. If the inward way had been without the honour of presence of holy assembly and the great levels of Divine closeness and annihilation in Allah, all the travellers of this way would have gone astray. Inward is considered right when whatever is seen inwardly manifests outwardly as well and perfectly complies with the teachings of Quran, Hadith and sharia, otherwise it is false, as, sharia is actually the manifestation of inward. You must know that if during dream or meditation or in the inward, someone orders you to perform any good deed or forbids you from bad deed or commands you to execute any worldly or religious venture and then recites the Islamic creed

, sends blessings and salutations

upon the Holy Prophet, recites (“La Hawla wa la Quwwata illa billah-al’alii-al Azeem” meaning “There is no might or any power except with Allah, the Exalted, the Great) and says Fatiha139 for the sacred souls, then undoubtedly, he is someone from the Prophets, sacred companions, jurists, Saints, Fuqara, the pure Dervishes or angels. Otherwise, he is a Satan or jinn. Meditation is related with four things which are the four Ms. First is the M of Mohabbat (the Divine love) which reveals the Divine secrets. Its meditation is performed through the contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat . Second is the M of Marifa (gnosis) of Allah which manifests the light of Divine Oneness. Its meditation is done through the contemplation of the Divine name (Lillah). Third is the M of Meraj-us-Salat (ascension to Allah during prayer) which blesses the inward of the meditator with the Divine vision and an ineffable pleasure, as a result, invocation continues in his whole body and every cell becomes alive and starts 139

Islamic ritual of sending blessings to the dead by reciting Surah Fatiha the first surah of Quran once and Surah Ikhlas the 112 th Surah of Quran thrice and then saying the Darood.

259 reciting (Ya Allah).This meditation is performed with the contemplation of the Divine name (LaHoo). Fourth is the M of Majmoa-tul-wajood (comprehensiveness of the entire existence) which immerses the entire existence of the meditator in the observation of beautiful light of Allah. He subdues the inciting innerself and Satan and unless he meets all the Prophets and Saints, he does not come out of the state of meditation. Although, he spiritually spends seventy years in the state of meditation but to the common beholders it seems as if only a moment equal to the blink of an eye has passed. All the seven inward and outward parts of the meditator annihilate at the extreme level of meditation. Rather, from each part, seventy thousand similar parts appear in the form of Divine light engrossed in the invocation of Allah. When the meditator returns to the state of vigilance, all these forms of Divine light go back in his body. Some possessors of such meditation are aware of this and some are not. This meditation is performed with the contemplation of Divine name

(Hoo). From the contemplation of the Divine

name , four of the highest levels of invocation start which are called absolute immersion in the light of Divine presence. First is the overpowering invocation which can be acquired only from a perfect spiritual guide. Second is the kingly invocation which takes the invoker to the station of Divinity beyond all stations liberating him from the desires of innerself. Third is the sacrificial invocation which grants salvation from the satanic thoughts. Fourth is the secret invocation which grants eternal presence of the Mohammadan Assembly. One who has not done all the four kinds of invocation, his meditation is verily rejected because he is doing it just to fulfill his worldly desires. His inward is surely darkened by the evilness of his sensual wishes. It is impossible for the worldly people to have closeness of Allah, even if they have attained the highest worldly ranks and are respected as superiors of shrines and tombs. Those who are concerned about their life hereafter are never trapped in the clutches of inciting innerself, Satan and worldly desires as

260 they are blessed with the desirable attributes. Only Allah! Everything other than Allah is lust. The following knowledges are collectively the source of righteousness; (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (g) (h) (i)

Knowledge of Gospel Knowledge of Psalms Knowledge of Taurah Knowledge of Quran Knowledge of Qudsi Hadiths Knowledge of Hadiths of the Holy Prophet Knowledge of the Eeman-e-Mujjammal140 Knowledge of the Eeman-e-Muffassal141 Knowledge of the verses;

(“Subhana zil Mulki wal Malakuti Subhana zil Izzati wal Azmati wal Haibati wal Qudrati wal Kibriyaee wal Jabarooti Subhan al-Malikil Hayee Allazi la Yanaamo wa la Yamooto Suboohun Qudoosun Rabbana wa Rabbul Malaikati wr Roohi” meaning; “Glory be to the Master of all kingdoms, physical or spiritual. Glory be to the Master of respect, magnificence, majesty, power, greatness, and might. Glory be to that King who is forever Alive, He neither sleeps nor dies. He is the Most Praised One, the Most Holy. He is the Lord of the angels and the souls.”)

(“Subhan Allahi wal Hamdullilahi wa la illaha ilAllahoo waAllahoo Akbar wa la Hawla wa la Quwwata illa billahThe creed meaning: “I believe in Allah (as He is) with all His names and attributes and I accept all His commands, by pledging to do them with my tongue and confirm them with all my heart.” 141 The creed meaning: “I believe in Allah and in His angels and in His books and in His Messengers and in the Last day and in the fact that everything, good or bad is decided by Allah the Almighty, and in the life after death.” 140

261 al’alii-al Azeem” meaning: “Glory be to Allah and all praise is for Allah and there is none worthy of worship but Allah, Allah is the Greatest. There is no might or any power except with Allah, the Exalted, the Great) (j) Knowledge of Islamic creed (“La illaha ilAllahoo Mohammad-ur-Rasoolullah” meaning: “None is worthy of worship except Allah and Mohammad is His Messenger”). (k) Knowledge of the creed of testimony (Ashhadu an-la illaha ilAllahoo wahdahoo la shareeka Lahoo wa ash-hadu anna Muhammadan Abduhoo wa Rasooluhoo” meaning: “I bear witness that there is none worthy of worship except Allah, He is One and has no partners and I bear witness that Mohammad is His beloved slave and Messenger”) The knowledge of both the creeds is related with affirmation by tongue and confirmation by heart. (l) Knowledge of science of making impressions by numbers, letters, lines and circles. (m) The hidden and inspirational knowledge which is gained only by the spiritual company of the Holy Prophet. The Divine Power inspires this knowledge closer than the jugular vein and the true Mohammadan is blessed with Divine presence and vision of Divine light of theophanies which is better than that was granted to Prophet Moses at the mount Sinai. Hence, he converses with Allah and gets blessed with His company. Which knowledge is possessed by Satan that gives him the power to subdue the scholars, Fuqara, Dervishes, Mystics and Saints? The writer answers that there is a path in each hair of a human through which Satan enters and leaves his body seventy times. So, Satan enters the body of the person having dead inward and teaches his inciting innerself the lesson of covetousness. Covetousness enlivens the evils of devilish whispers, depraving obsessions, misapprehensions

262 and satanic thoughts in his existence. Hence, through the knowledge of covetousness, the Satan subdues people and they become his obedient. Then, they never get rid of greed and covetoueness, so, Satan‟s key is covetousness. Satan cannot enter the body of three particular persons; (1) The person whose faith is in the form of Divine light because he always recites the Islamic creed with inward verification. The fire of Divine light of Islamic creed either burns the Satan or turns it out of the body. (2) The person upon whose heart Ism-e-Allah Zaat engraved.

(3) The person whose every cell keeps reciting (La Hawla wa la Quwwata illa billah-al’alii-al Azeem) as it is the sword which kills seventy Satans with one stroke. These attributes are found in two groups i.e. the practitioner scholars and the perfect Fuqara. Satan cannot subdue them with any knowledge, trick or ruse because they perpetually remain in the Divine company with complete sincerity. It is stated in a Hadith;

Meaning: There is a source of destruction for everything and the destruction of knowledge lies in covetousness. Allah says;

Meaning: Indeed you (Satan) would not have authority over My (true) men. (O’ men) sufficient is your Lord as Disposer of your affairs. (Bani Israil 65) Just like the shepherd has command over his goats, Satan has command over the common people who are seekers of the world and run after the desires of world. Allah warns in the Quran;

263 Meaning: Oâ&#x20AC;&#x; children of Adam! Did I not take this covenant from you not to worship Satan, no doubt he is your open enemy. (Yasin60) The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: Satan in the human form is more dangerous than the Satan in the form of jinn. The verse of Quran;

Meaning: And (I seek refuge in the Holy Lord) from the evil of an envier when he envies. (Al-Falaq 5) The knowledge of Divine words and secrets, Divine observations and closeness, authority over both the worlds, spiritual flight from the Throne till the nether regions, rule over every country of the earth, power to subdue the jinns, humans, angels and all the supernatural beings, the kingdom of Solomon, all the levels of acquiring the Divine attributes and closeness of the Divine Essence, entire knowledge of all the spheres and stations, privilege of meeting the sacred souls of all the Prophets and Saints, the eternal vision, observation of the station of pre-existence and everything related to it, observation of eternal end and everything related to it, observation of the world and hereafter and everything related to them, observation of gnosis of Allah and all the minor and major levels of annihilation in Allah and immortality with Him and closeness of Allah as well as observation of each and everything related to the creation and the Creator can be gained by the power and efficacy of contemplation of Ism-eAllah Zaat, contemplation of sacred name of Mohammad, contemplation of Islamic creed along with reciting the Ism-eAzam, verses of Quran and the contemplation of ninety nine beautiful names of Allah, all of which grant the absolute Divine Oneness. Allah says;

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Meaning: The pure words ascend to Him alone and He is the One Who elevates (the grades of) a pious deed. (Al-Fatir 10)

Meaning: Allah made them firm on the words of piety. And they were most entitled to it and (also) worthy of it. And Allah knows everything fully well. (Al-Fateh 26) The Divine light of faith, jamiat, gnosis of Allah, veracity and veritable invocation of Islamic creed are comprehensively centered in the inward. When the comprehensive light of all of them brightens the inward like the sun, it blooms like a flower and gives a blissful fragrance while the tongue delightfully affirms the faith â&#x20AC;&#x153;None is worthy of worship except Allah and Mohammad is His Messengerâ&#x20AC;?. Hence, the centre of verification of faith is the inward. Allah says;

Meaning: And the faith has not yet entered into your inward. If you obey Allah and His Messenger, He will not decrease anything (in reward) for your deeds. Surely, Allah is Most Forgiving, Ever Merciful. (Al-Hujrat 14) Knowledge is of two kinds; the conventional knowledge of exoteric matters related with reading the words and discussing the issues with tongue. Allah says about this knowledge;

Meaning: Allah will raise those in ranks who are given knowledge. (Al-Mujadila11) Other is the esoteric knowledge of gnosis of Allah-The Hayee and Qayyum, which is related with the inward verification. Allah says about this knowledge;

265 Meaning: We had endowed upon him Our inspirational knowledge. (Al-Kahf-65)

Meaning: The conventional knowledge is useless for the pure ones. As, when the mirror is fully bright, it does not need any device for burnishing. Unless one has got the exoteric knowledge, one cannot gain beneficence from the esoteric knowledge. Exoteric knowledge is the beginning while esoteric knowledge is the conclusion. Without both kinds of knowledge, one cannot approach the level of vision of Divinity. Knowledge is the best companion. The ascetic without knowledge is a Satan. Know that, in pre-existence, when Allah asked all the souls, (“Alastu bi Rabbikum” meaning;“Am I not your Creator and Provident?”) the souls instantly replied, (“Qaloo Bala” meaning; “They said “Yes! You are”). Listening to the call, some souls ran towards the Divine voice, reached the Divine presence and tasted the Divine ecstasy by knowing the secret of this voice. There were also some souls who knew the Divine secret and were ecstatically drowned in the Divine light and vision of Allah even before listening to this call, they said;

Meaning: We are Your passionate lovers, is there something more? These souls had separated themselves from everything other than Allah even before pre-existence. The physical body of these blessed souls is one of the Divine secrets as they are ever drowned in Lordship and vision of Divinity. They are the Mystics with alive inward who vigilantly follow the sharia of Prophet Mohammad. They never indulge in

266 wrong innovations, infidelity or polytheism and never disobey Allah. They are the beloveds of Allah, neither they seek anything but the vision, gnosis and observation of light of Divinity and the theophanies of the Essence nor utter any word but the truth. This is the final level of certainty gained through experience after crossing the levels of knowledge of certainty and vision of certainty. Certainty is gained when one annihilates in Allah and one annihilates in Allah on reaching the level of immortality with Allah which means â&#x20AC;&#x153;Death before dyingâ&#x20AC;?. Whoever was blessed with the vision of Allah in the pre-existence, remains engrossed in it in his worldly life as well, disgusted of the carrion world. These are the born Saints. One who remains engrossed in the vision of Allah in the world, his inward is alive by the invocation of Allah and his eyes can see everything from pre-existence till the eternal end. Achieving this level is easy but it is very difficult to spiritually remain drowned in the light of Divine vision and at the same time gain knowledge by reading the books outwardly while being engrossed in gnosis of annihilation in Allah. Hence, exoterically some Saints seem to be spiritually lost to the people but esoterically they are the beloveds of Allah. One who is neither spiritually lost nor the beloved of Allah, is verily blind and veiled inwardly. How can the one deprived of spiritual sight gain the insight of gnosis of Allah! Allah declares;

Meaning: Whoever is blind (to the vision of Allah) here (in this world) will remain blind in the hereafter as well. (BaniIsrail 72)

Meaning: The Mysticsâ&#x20AC;&#x; eyes have been blessed with the vision of Allah and are united with Him since pre-existence. The eternal blinds can see nothing and are ever declining spiritually.

267 The possessor of final level of certainty gained through experience, who attained this level of perfect faith in eternity, attains it in the world as well. He is blessed with four attributes, two of which are related with outward i.e. obedience of Allah by His favour and following the sharia of the Holy Prophet steadfastly. While, the other two are related with the inward i.e. immersion in the Divine light of gnosis of Allah and eternal presence of the Mohammadan Assembly-the most exalted of all men. This is the final level of certainty which makes the inward replete. The way of gnosis, Tauheed and Faqr is a difficult way. If some emulator, like son of a landlord or brother of a farmer pretends to adopt Faqr and shows off himself as a pious and virtuous Faqeer, then his aim is just to win the trust of his father and brothers so that he can deceitfully kill them and usurp their wealth to enjoy the worldly pleasures. If any government servant or soldier adopts Faqr, his objective is only to gain higher ranks of his job by showing his virtuosity or to make other office holders of government his disciples. If an office holder becomes Faqeer, he just wants to become a powerful aristocrat and make other aristocrats his disciple. If an aristocrat adopts Faqr, his aim is to become the vizier and the closest to the king. If a vizier becomes a Faqeer, his wish is to become the king himself or make the king his obedient. However, if a king truly adopts Faqr for the sake of Allah, his objective is to gain the gnosis of Allah and presence of the Mohammadan Assembly. He achieves the levels of renunciation of the world and perfect trust upon Allah and becomes an immortal Mystic. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: Indeed, Allah loves the generous Fuqara. The writer tells that the sign of the perfect spiritual guide is that he grants the authority and kingdom of the whole world to the seeker of Allah on the very first day so that he becomes contented and his heart is sated of the world and worldly people. In the way of gnosis of Allah, the seeker

268 who achieves complete contentment, becomes accomplished in righteousness. The real strong man is one who gains the worldly knowledge from one hand and gives it away with the other hand. The worldly knowledge granted by the spiritual guide for the contentment of the seekerâ&#x20AC;&#x;s heart and for his guidance, consists of four things; (1) The knowledge of Paras stone which turns iron into gold on rubbing. This makes the Faqeer independent of all needs in the world. (2) Knowledge of all the treasures of Allah hidden beneath the earth. Through this knowledge, the seeker can get as much treasure as he wishes. This knowledge also makes him independent of all desires in the world. (3) Knowledge of alchemy which is taught to him by the angles through inspirations. When he learns it correctly, he practises it. It also makes him independent in the world. (4) The knowledge with which he can turn dust into gold by his glance. When that gold is brought to the goldsmith, it does not turn back into dust. He can use that gold as much as he wishes. These knowledges make the Faqeer independent of all needs in the world by the benediction of Ism-e-Azam. The spiritual guide grants them to the seeker of Allah by the power and efficacy of Ism-e-Allah Zaat in the very beginning of his spiritual journey so that his innerself is satisfied and he is salvaged from its desires. Oâ&#x20AC;&#x; seeker! Do not feel proud on achieving this minor level, seek higher levels of gnosis and closeness of Allah from your spiritual guide so that you become desirable in the court of Allah and drown in the Divine light being annihilated in Allah. Request him to grant you the eternal presence of the Mohammadan Assembly where you can listen to the words of the Prophet directly and present your requests to him. Those people cannot be considered Fuqara who seek the evil worldly wealth and trap other people for its sake. The Holy Prophet said;

269 Meaning: Some people renounce the world for the world. Such people adopt Faqr to earn fame and honour and attract the creation towards themselves as well as to gather wealth. Some of such so called Fuqara say that they are bestowed with the religiousness and worldliness together. It is just the deceit of their innerself, a satanic ruse and wrongness on their part. Renouncing the world is the fountainhead of all the devotions and bestowals, while love of the world is the root cause of all dangers and wrongness. These fools consider the wrongness as a bestowal. The Holy Prophet said; Meaning: Renunciation of the world is foundation of all devotions while the love of world is the root cause of every evil. Allah says; Meaning: (O Beloved Prophet!) Tell them the worldly gains are a trifle. (An-Nisa 77) Worldly ranks are possessed by the hypocrites and misers who are deprived of gnosis of the Magnificent Allah. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: The love of world and religion cannot sustain together in the inward of a faithful just like fire and water cannot be contained in one utensil. Love of the world is a fire and exists in the body like a disease. Allah says;

Meaning: In their inwards is disease, so Allah has increased their disease. (Al-Baqarah 10)

270 Trust upon Allah is a Divine light and is like water which sates the Fuqara and grants perfect health and strength to their entire existence. Allah says;

Meaning: And whoever trusts upon Allah, then He is sufficient for him. (Aal-e-Imran 37)

Meaning: The lovers of Allah have no fear. They are not at all afraid of anyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x;s reprehensions. The worldly people are hypocrites and infidels as they worship their innerself and offer prayer just for pretense.

Meaning: Oâ&#x20AC;&#x; Bahoo! If the innerself is filthy than what is the use of wearing clean clothes! If the inward is filled with infidelity and polytheism then prostrating on ground is of no benefit. You must know that three kinds of people can never be purified because they perpetually live in filth. Unless they come out of that filth, they cannot be purified. First is the cuckold who possesses the quality (of shamelessness) of a bear. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: A cuckold will not enter the paradise. Second is the seeker of the world who is like the dog. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: The world is a carrion and its seekers are dogs.

271 Third are the liars and hypocrites who are like the infidels, Allah says about them;

Meaning: Wavering between (belief and disbelief).

(An-

Nisa143)

Meaning: Now they believe, then they disbelieve. (An-Nisa137) The gnosis and union of Allah can never be gained by the polytheists, reprobates, those who make wrong innovations in religion, those who do not offer prayer, those who leave offering prayer in congregation, worshippers of apparent beauty, lovers of music and those who go against sharia.

Meaning: Music is a curse and arouses the desire of sins. Whoever says that music is allowed in Islam is verily Satan.

Meaning: The melodious voice that recites the eulogy of the Holy Prophet is not included in music, as the men united with Allah kill their innerself by listening to it. You must know that music is paganism because it is the ritual of pagans to sing before the idols. Satan will also sing and raise various slogans at the door of hell. All the music lovers will be intoxicated on listening to his voice and will run towards it. Satan will take that group to the hell with him. The sound of music feels worse than the voice of donkey to the Mystics. The Muslims, faithfuls, Prophets and Saints like the sound of recitation of Quran, voice of reading books of Hadiths and recitation of Islamic creed extending the sound of . On the door of heaven, first of all the Holy Prophet will recite the Islamic creed loudly with his

272 pearl divulging sacred tongue, along with the sacred companions. On listening to that beautiful voice, all the faithfuls and Muslims will ecstatically run towards the Holy Prophet and all the veritable reciters of Islamic creed will gather around him. The Divine call will come from the heaven;

Meaning: Oâ&#x20AC;&#x; peaceful innerself! Return to your Lord in such a state that you are pleased with Him and He is pleased with you. So, join My (perfect) slaves. And enter the heaven (of My nearness). (Al-Fajr, 27-30) The Holy Prophet will enter the heaven with the special men of his nation. Congratulations to the true Muslims and faithfuls on entering the heaven! Only those like and incline towards music who have rebelled from the Mohammadan faith, Quran and the Islamic creed. Whatever the Faqeer says, says after calculations not out of jealousy. Whoever does invocation or takes the name of Allah with music and clapping, disgraces the name of Allah. As, music is sheer disgrace while the name of Allah is highly respectable and holy. One, who takes the holy name of Allah with unholy music, turns pagan. Hence, the name of Allah and Its invocation, whether secret or loud, is a source of purity and life of inward and is an eternal obligation and devotion. While, music is filth, immodesty and an evil of Satan whose lovers end up in evil and filth. The people of devotions and the people of filth do not like company of each other.

Meaning: What is the inward invocation? It is the special Divine light which grants the eternal Divine presence to the invoker.

273

Meaning: Without Divine presence, the invocation further provokes the desires of innerself in the invoker. With the Divine presence, the invocation takes the invoker to the Holy Prophet.

Meaning: Whoever remains engrossed in the inward invocation day and night, has safe and peaceful end.

Meaning: People think that those who do perpetual inward invocation are crazy, but in fact, those who are oblivious of the inward invocation have dead souls and are ignorant of the Truth.

Meaning: One who does the invocation of Allah crazily, forgetting everything else, all the layers of earth and skies, the Throne and the Chair come under his feet.

Meaning: The ultimacy of the true invokers is that they perpetually remain immersed in the light of Allah.

Meaning: Whoever is oblivious of the invocation of Allah, his innerself gets stronger due to infidelity and hypocrisy.

274 It is said;

Meaning: Pretense is worse than infidelity. The invocation of the invoker is not perfected unless he gets hold of the key of the ultimate invocation which is the contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat. By the contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat, such boundless invocation is conferred upon the invoker that every cell of his body starts invocation of the Divine name Allah . Hence, his flesh, bones, skin, brain, veins and every part of his body from head to toe gets enthusiastically absorbed in the invocation of Allah. Such a person is the man of contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat and his status is that his outward and inward self has nothing but Allah. Moreover, invocation is not perfected and sustained without four things. Firstly, observation and absorption in the state of annihilation in Allah. Secondly, having presence in the Mohammadan Assembly. Thirdly, leaving everything except Allah. Fourthly, approaching the ultimate level of immortality with Allah. These four correspond to four levels of the Divine invocation which are: (a) The secret invocation which enlightens the inner eye (b) The overpowering invocation which kills the inciting innerself. (c) The kingly invocation which delights the soul. (d) The sacrificial invocation which gives life to the soul. The invocation which is comprehensive of all these levels and knowledges is the invocation of Hayee and Qayyum which reveals all the hidden Divine secrets. The invoker who approaches this level of invocation, gains boundless Divine observations and infinite knowledge of words of Allah by the contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat. As Allah says;

Meaning: Say, â&#x20AC;&#x153;If the seas were ink for (writing) the words of my Lord, all the seas would be exhausted before the words

275 of my Lord were exhausted, even if We brought the like of it as a supplement”. (Al-Kahf 109) These levels comply with the following Qudsi Hadith;

Meaning: Whoever seeks Me, undoubtedly finds Me. Whoever finds Me, recognizes Me. Whoever recognizes Me, begins to love Me. Whoever loves Me, becomes My ardent lover. Whoever loves Me ardently, I kill him. Whomsoever I kill, his compensation is due on Me and I am Myself his compensation. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: One who finds Allah, finds everything.

Meaning: O‟ Bahoo! Those killed by the vision of Allah, remain in never-ending state of Divine union and vision of His Beauty. Whoever reaches this level, accomplishes in Faqr. Then five attributes are bestowed upon him. First attribute complies with the verse;

Meaning: Never will you attain to Al-Barr142 until you spend (in the way of Allah) from that which you love. (Aal-e-Imran 92) Hence, he adopts the attribute of kindness. Second attribute complies with the verse;

Meaning: Run towards Allah. (Al-Zaariyat 50) 142

Attributive name of Allah, meaning; “The source of all goodness and kindness”.

276 He becomes God-fearing, sometimes he experiences the state of hope and sometimes the state of fear. Third attribute is that he finds Allah nearer to his jugular vein by the contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat according to the verse;

Meaning: And I am nearer to you than your jugular vein. (Qaf-16)

He views the entire theophanies and gets messages from Divinity through inspirations, waham and thoughts. It is the honour of the Saints of nation of Prophet Mohammad that their existence is like the mount Sinai. Just as Prophet Moses went to mount Sinai to talk to Allah, these Saints talk to Allah in their existence. Such Fuqara are called the practitioner scholars. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: The (true) scholars of my nation are superior to the Prophets of Children of Israel143. Fourth attribute complies with the verse;

Meaning: I am within you, canâ&#x20AC;&#x;t you see. (Al-Zariyat 21)

Meaning: Open your inward eyes and behold with the light of Divine name

, It will take you to the Divine presence.

Allah says;

Meaning: Do the invocation of your Holy Lord when you forget (everything). (Al-Kahf-24)

143

Israel is the appellation of Prophet Jacob.

277 The inner state of the seeker who is crazily doing the invocation forgetting himself, can be judged by touching him. If his body is hotter than fire like an ember, then he is drowned in acquiring the gnosis of â&#x20AC;&#x153;none but Allahâ&#x20AC;?. If his body is colder than ice like a corpse then he must be having the privilege of spiritual meeting with the Prophets and Saints. These are the levels of perfect Tauheed. If his body is neither hot nor cold and he cries and sobs a lot, then he is still a follower. Fifth attribute complies with the verse;

Meaning: The sight (of the Prophet) did not incline aside, nor did it transgress (its limit). (Al-Najm17)

Meaning: Those blessed with the sight to behold Allah never look towards both the worlds. Worlds are beheld by those trapped in the desires of innerself.

Meaning: One whose sight is blessed with the Divine vision is the enlightened one. He never becomes arrogant as he has seen the majesty of The Magnificent. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: When Faqr is accomplished that is Allah. All these Divine levels and the levels of vision of light of Divine theophanies are found by the key of Islamic creed . This is the verified and justified way which shows the Reality. Whoever suspects it, turns infidel. Rather, by the key of Islamic creed and the Divine presence gained through Ism-e-Allah Zaat, entire knowledge is

278 revealed upon the seeker. He gains the knowledge about which Allah says;

Meaning: And Adam was taught the Divine knowledge of all the beautiful names of Allah. (Al-Baqarah 31)

Meaning: He taught man what he did not know. (Al-Alaq1)

Meaning: He knows the hidden and the seen. (Al-Hasher 22) Hence, he gains awareness about everything through this knowledge and his existence becomes pure of polytheism, infidelity, ignorance and depravity. He follows sharia perfectly and tries hard to obey each and every order given by sharia as well as inwardly drinks the ocean of gnosis of Allah. These are the attributes of the vigilant and courageous seeker who is drowned in the gnosis of â&#x20AC;&#x153;none but Allahâ&#x20AC;? and ever present in the Mohammadan Assembly. You must know that there are three kinds of spiritual guides and disciples; (1) The worldly spiritual guide whose disciples seek the world and its pleasures and honours. Both of them are depraved. (2) The spiritual guide of hereafter whose disciples seek the pleasures of hereafter and adopt piety for this purpose, they are ever sobbing and struggling. (3) The immortal Mystic spiritual guide whose disciples seek only Allah and are ever drowned in the light of Divinity. The special seeker of Allah is one who practises upon his knowledge, adopts pious deeds only for the sake of Allah and remains engrossed in seeking the gnosis and union of Allah. While, the perfect spiritual guide is one who never indulges

279 his disciples in lengthy recitals, invocations and reflections, as, in them there are infinite dangers and boundless pains of spiritual demotion, committing mistakes due to spiritual intoxication, getting stuck in the inward states of spiritual contraction and expansion and other absurdities as well as the accidents caused due to the inclination of creations, worldly worries, lusts of innerself and satanic thoughts. The powerful spiritual guide is one who salvages the seeker of Allah from all these dangers and pains and immerses him in the gnosis of “none but Allah” instantly by the efficacy of Ism-e-Allah Zaat and makes him eternally desirable in the court of Allah by bestowing upon him the engrossment in the light of annihilation in Allah and perpetual presence of the Mohammadan Assembly. The sign of perfect spiritual guide is that he knows no spiritual way other than the gnosis of “none but Allah” and presence of the Mohammadan Assembly while the sign of true seeker is that he seeks nothing from his spiritual guide except the gnosis of “none but Allah” and presence of the holy assembly. Some people hold their breath while doing invocation and declare that this is the invocation of holding breath. In fact, it is not the invocation of holding breath, rather a ritual of infidels and a useless exercise. According to the way of Muslim Saints, the real invocation of holding the breath is that when the invoker does this particular invocation, his soul vivifies and the inciting innerself dies. It takes the invoker to the Mohammadan Assembly and drowns him in the Divine light of Oneness. It is the specific invocation which does not leave ego, any kind of wrongness or worldly worries in the existence of the seeker. Such true invokers are rare and anonymous in this world. It is the ultimate invocation of the Divine name which is like the sun. When it rises in the existence, it spreads its light which ends the darkness created by the inciting innerself and Satan. Some people say that Faqr is peace for all and dear to all hearts, but these fools do not know what is exactly the meaning of their words, as they cannot verily differentiate between Islam and infidelity,

280 lawful and unlawful, knowledge and ignorance. The peace for all is the Islamic creed which is the key of eighteen thousand worlds. Whoever gets hold of this key through the Divine presence gained by Ism-e-Allah Zaat complying with the verses of Quran and Hadiths, both the worlds come under his authority by the benediction of sharia of Prophet Mohammad. The source of peace for all are the annihilated in Allah Fuqara who are men of Divine favour and blessed with the Divine company, not the liars indulged in wrong innovations. It is said;

Meaning: Lair is one who hides his infidelity. Some people say that although their spiritual guide is imperfect, but their faith is perfect. They are wrong. There are three levels of spiritual guides; common, special and the distinguished. Unless the spiritual guide is perfect and accomplished in gnosis of Allah and Faqr and holds the distinguished level, his disciples can never attain perfection in faith. Often people say that going for Hajj is like sight-seeing, keeping non-obligatory fasts is just saving the food and offering the supererogatory prayers is the job of widows while the job of true men is to gain control over the inward. The writer says that all such people have dead souls and are unaware of the real inward life gained by the gnosis of Allah. Not every inward is eligible for the Divine treasure of light of gnosis and union of Allah, just as all stones are not gems. Similarly, everyone is not capable to have the vision of Divine Beauty and immersion in the observation of Divinity. Neither everyone can have the attribute of delivering the words of Allah effectively nor can everyone become the annihilated in Allah enlightened Faqeer who is ruler upon the innerself. My words are equally applicable on past, present and future. Listen Oâ&#x20AC;&#x; fool! Going for Hajj is the asset of faith and source of its perfection, keeping non-obligatory fasts purifies the soul and offering supererogatory prayers pleases

281 Allah. Whoever prevents from worshipping Allah, is verily the wretched devil and a brigand Satan. The writer says; gaining control over others‟ inwards is the job of perplexed ones, remaining stuck in supernatural acts and unveiling is the job of unaccomplished ones, becoming happy on inclination of the creation towards oneself is the job of unwise, making charms and impressions and summoning the kings through spiritual powers is the job of imperfects, annihilating oneself to become one with The One and attain the level of annihilation in Allah and immortality with Him is the job of true men of Allah. The man of Divine secrets is one who can read every letter of the thirty alphabets engraved around the Throne such that every letter grants him the power of unveiling and miracles. He can view each and everything on his nail or palm in an instant and remains steadfast on the path of Allah for his entire life by the Kindness of Allah. Such a spiritual guide who is the man of Divine secrets, observations and love, does not at all need to struggle or perform mystic exercises. The perfect Mystic who is accomplished in Faqr and gnosis does not need to get inspirations from jinns or supernatural beings. Listen O‟ imperfects! The perfect and immortal Mystic spiritual guide can grant all the initial and final levels of gnosis of “none but Allah” and presence of the Mohammadan Assembly in a moment without any pain or devotions and bestow eternal strength and satisfaction upon his seekers, as, the man of Divine treasures is absolved of the need to do struggle or take pain. He can fulfill all the extrinsic and intrinsic objectives of the seekers within a week and can make them independent of all desires. The spiritual guide who involves the seekers in hard work for more than a week, is verily unaware of the inward way of gnosis which grants the Divine presence through the contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat. Certainly, he is imperfect and has no knowledge of gnosis and union of Allah. Whoever denies the powerful efficacy of Ism-e-Allah Zaat and does not believe in the way of gnosis of “none but Allah” and presence of Mohammadan Assembly, turns reprobate and infidel. This way of presence

282 of the Mohammadan Assembly is absolutely verified. Only the hypocrites and liars doubt it. The Mystic immortal with Allah is a man of enlightened sight, he is neither blind nor unwise, and nothing is hidden from him. It is a fact that whoever doubts the way of Prophet Mohammad, is unwise, blind, wrathful, jealous, covetous and deprived of insight. The Mystics do not need augury to check good or evil. Seek the Truth from them as they hold the levels of Truth and are disgusted of the falsehood. Whoever pleases them and gains their consent, becomes a man of insight. Both the worlds remain under his sight and he views everything. His heart is repelled from everyone other than Allah and the world becomes as worthless for him as a stone or thorn. Know that the Arabic word for „knowledge‟ is transliterated as Ilm,

has three letters (according to Arabic

script). The Arabic word for „deed‟ is

transliterated as

Amal, also has three letters. Similarly, the words transliterated as Faqr, transliterated as Fiqah (meaning; Islamic jurisprudence), Beneficence),

transliterated as Faiz (meaning;

transliterated as Fazal (meaning; Grace) ,

transliterated as Rehm (meaning; Mercy), as Hilm (meaning; Clemency),

transliterated

transliterated as Nafs

(meaning; the innerself), transliterated as Qalb (meaning; the inward), transliterated as Rooh (meaning; soul), transliterated as Raz (meaning; the secret), transliterated as Noor (meaning; the Divine light),

transliterated as

Garq (meaning; absorption), transliterated as Fana (meaning; annihilation) and transliterated as Baqa (meaning; immortality) have three letters each. These are total forty-eight letters, each of which reveals seventy-three thousand knowledges and seventy-three thousand levels. The spiritual guide who cannot let the seeker observe, verify and

283 gain all these knowledges and levels on the very first day by the contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat and key of Islamic creed and does not grant him the attributes discussed in the verses of Quran and Hadiths, is certainly imperfect. Rather, the knowledge and persuasion about Faqr is found only in one letter.

Meaning: Knowledge is just a point, if you understand that point, you will become a knowledgeable and honourable Mystic.

Meaning: I found that point from the Holy Prophet and became aware of the Divine secrets.

Meaning: The ignorant have no place in the court of Allah, while the Divine scholars find all the spheres under their feet.

Meaning: I eternally remain immersed in the Divine company whether I am at the skies or on the earth or sleeping in my room. Do you know which is the spiritual way that salvages from the Satan forever, keeps the innerself busy in outward and inward devotions and makes the world and worldly people one‟s slave? Don‟t you know that the tongue of a Mystic Faqeer is the naked sword of Allah! Don‟t you know that the spiritual attention and prayer of the Faqeer is like the breath of Christ which can give eternal life to a near to death

284 person! Donâ&#x20AC;&#x;t you know that the Faqeer gets the inspired knowledge through waham which is just in accordance with the Quran and Hadiths and gives him the true information about the hidden things. It is said that;

Meaning: Infusing a virtuous thought in someoneâ&#x20AC;&#x;s inward without effort is called inspiration. Inspiration takes one closer to Allah and away from Satan. It is the inspiration that is inculcated in the inward by the contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat, invocation of negation (of everything other than Allah) and affirmation (of Allah only), and the Islamic creed . When this inspiration transforms into words and spoken by the tongue, it reveals the past, present and future. You do not know that by the inculcation of a Faqeer, the gnosis of Allah enhances in the inward of the seeker and he talks about the words of Allah and Prophet Mohammad. The Faqeer conjoins the words with the words, spiritual states with the spiritual states and Divine union with the eternal Divine union. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: Whatever is contained in the vessel, only that comes out of it. Which is the mystic way that makes the seeker desirable in the court of Allah and grants him eternal presence of the Mohammadan Assembly where he vigilantly remains engrossed in the invocation of Divinity? It is the way of fighting against the infidel innerself and killing it with the sword of Ism-e-Allah Zaat which lets the seeker gain the consent of Allah. This is the verified way which fulfills all the objectives of both the worlds and bestows the entire levels through the Divine presence gained by the contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat

and the sacred name

285 â&#x20AC;&#x17E;Mohammadâ&#x20AC;&#x; , and it opens with the key of Islamic creed. Whoever suspects it, is a cursed liar. You must know that there are neither any mountains or walls nor a long distance between Allah and His slave. Rather, there is only a thin veil of innerself which can easily be removed by the contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat and the spiritual attention of the spiritual guide who is man of Divine secrets. If you come, you will find the doors open for you and if you do not, then Allah needs none. You must know that the rank of Faqr and gnosis of Allah is higher and greater than all the other ranks and levels. Those people cannot be called Fuqara who beg at every door like the greedy dogs. They are irreligious, indulged in wrong innovations, evil eyed, renouncers of prayer, second to Satan and the wine drinkers which is the mother of all evils. They have no gnosis of Allah, whoever becomes their friend, in fact becomes friend of the Satan. Their friendship means enmity with Allah and the Holy Prophet. The men of wrong innovations in the religion belong to the group of the worshippers of innerself indulged in lusts. Allah says;

Meaning: Satan frightens you from Faqr and orders you to commit indecent acts. (Al-Baqarah 268) The Holy Prophet ordered;

Meaning: Do not join the company of wrong innovators in the religion. Shaikh Saadi Sherazi said;

Meaning: Whoever will adopt the way opposite to the way of Holy Prophet, will never reach the destination.

286

Meaning: Whoever goes against the sharia, becomes blind because the Divine light of the Prophet does not reach him and he dies in the same state. Faqr is a form of Divine light which is eternally blessed with the company of the Holy Prophet and its name is Sultan-ul-Faqr. It is the eternal source of beneficence, as the Divine light of Sultan-ul-Faqr is brighter than the sun and its scent is more fragrant than the scent of rose and ambergris. Whoever is blessed with the privilege to behold the Sultanul-Faqr in dream, becomes independent of all desires. The Holy Prophet takes oath of allegiance from him and guides and educates him inwardly. My words are according to my experience. One who accomplishes in Faqr, the whole world and the hereafter come under his feet.

Meaning: I remember the advice of my spiritual guide that everything except the remembrance of Allah is a total waste.

Meaning: Wealth is granted to the greedy dogs and luxuries to the donkeys. We are saved from these things, so we watch their spectacle sitting peacefully. Know that there are twenty-four letters in Islamic creed and twenty-four hours in a day and night and a person breathes twenty-four thousand times in twenty-four hours. When a Faqeer veritably recites the Islamic creed in a special state of Divine presence, its each letter burns his sins of every hour like the fire burns the dry sticks. Moreover, from each letter of Islamic creed,

287 thousand kinds of knowledge reveal. From each knowledge, thousand deeds appear which are desirable in the court of Allah. All these deeds combined together make the veritable reciter of Islamic creed an immortal Mystic. He becomes a trustworthy Friend of Allah and Divinity is unveiled upon him. I am surprised at the foolish and unwise people who themselves have dead soul and their innerself has made them arrogant but they give spiritual persuasion and education to the disciples without the permission of the Holy Prophet. They neither have the privilege of taking oath of allegiance at the sacred hand of the Holy Prophet nor gaining spiritual persuasion and education from him, neither have they any spiritual power or knowledge nor they know the essence of Islamic creed. They know nothing about the inward way and are just emulators. That is why, when they persuade their disciples to do the invocation, it does not affect them. Their innerself remains involved in lusts and sins as before, and the way of Tauheed and gnosis of Allah does not open for them. When the perfect spiritual guide grants the real and basic invocation of Tauheed to the seeker, he first of all lets him dive in the ocean of Divine secrets by his spiritual attention and the contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat. This ocean is the goblet of Tauheed, the seeker‟s existence becomes pure by diving into it. Afterwards, the spiritual guide allows him to do the contemplation of Islamic creed and the seeker veritably recites (“La illaha ilAllahoo Mohammad-ur-Rasoolullah” meaning “None is worthy of worship except Allah and Mohammad is His Messenger”). When the seeker recites the Islamic creed in this way, his spiritual eyes open and he attains to the level of gnosis of Divine secrets. Hence, nothing of the world and the hereafter, Divine levels and stations remain hidden from him. This is the real way of reciting the Islamic creed, otherwise, the cruel, hypocrites and dead hearted also recite the creed but are unaware of its reality and essence. The spiritual efficacy of Islamic creed is acquired only when one follows the

288 sharia. Without following the sharia, the contemplation of creed further demotes and disgraces the reciter.

Meaning: I ought to follow the way of my Holy Prophet. Whoever followed any other way became reprobate. You must know that the knowledge of Taurah, Gospel, Psalms, Quran, knowledge of Qudsi Hadiths, Hadiths of the Prophet, every knowledge about the religion, knowledge of the Divine secrets, knowledge of Divine light, knowledge of ascension to Allah and the Divine presence, knowledge of the hidden and the evident, knowledge of Divine observations, the sacred knowledge and the entire knowledge of the creation and the Creator is found in the core of Islamic creed. When the core and essence of Islamic creed unveils upon the seeker, he gains the reality and detail of every kind of knowledge. Whoever considers the Saint who recites the Islamic creed reaching its essence and knows every kind of knowledge as an ignorant and prevents others from reciting the creed following his way, turns infidel. As, only the infidels become worried and feel like dying on listening the Islamic creed. The infidels, hypocrites and the jealous having dark and dead inwards do not like the sound of Islamic creed. While, when the faithfuls, Muslims and the truthfuls listen the Islamic creed, their heart finds bliss, spiritual pleasure and satisfaction. It enhances their passion for Allah and grants them spiritual elevation and honour. May Allah bestow these blessings of invocation of Allah upon all the true Muslims and faithful! The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: First of all the obligations is to do the invocation of Allah Allah says;

289 Meaning: The invocation of Allah is the greatest.

(Al- Ankabut

45)

The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning:

One

who

recites

the

Islamic

creed

veritably only once, all his sins are obliterated.

Meaning: One, who recites sincerely, will enter the paradise without any accountability or punishment.

Meaning: There are many who recite verbally but only a few say it sincerely. The writer says; when a person recites the Islamic creed sincerely, his entire existence as well as all his possessions are purified due to the sanctity of Islamic creed. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: The greatest invocation is the invocation of . The real invocation of Islamic creed is only the destiny of the Saints of the nation of Prophet Mohammad who recite it veritably. Allah says;

Meaning: Verily, the Friends of Allah will not have any fear, nor will they grieve. (Yunus62)

Meaning: And soon your Lord shall bestow upon you (so mush) that you will be pleased. (Ad-Duha 5)

290

Meaning: The salvation of people lies in saying by soul “La illaha ilAllahoo” i.e. “No one is worthy of worship but Allah”. It is the key of heaven.

Meaning: One who say “La illaha ilAllahoo” by heart and soul has no fear of the hell fire or the cursed devil.

Meaning: The time when there were neither the worlds nor the angels or skies, was the peaceful time of illaha ilAllahoo”.

“La

The reciter of Islamic creed must keep in mind four things; (a) One who recites the creed without inward verification, is a hypocrite (b) One who is not sanctified by reciting the creed is a sinner (c) One who does not find pleasure, satisfaction and sincerity of heart by reciting the creed is a pretender (d) One who does not honour the creed is a wrong innovator in the religion. Do you know why Islamic creed was named Kalma Tayyab (the pure words)? It is because it describes the Holiness and Majesty of Allah and also because, owing to its ultimate purity, it overpowers the impure polytheists, infidels, hypocrites, jealous, the oblivious and the people having dead soul. The Holy Prophet said;

291 Meaning: Verily, there are ten benefits of loud invocation; (1) Sanctification of the inward (2) Warning to the oblivious (3) Physical health (4) Power to fight against the enemies of Allah (5) Expression of faith (6) Negation of satanic thoughts (7) Negation of the apprehensions of innerself (8) Attention towards Allah (9) Separation from everything other than Allah (10) Removal of veils between man and Allah. The writer discusses a dialogue between spiritual guide and a seeker; the spiritual guide says to the seeker;

Meaning: You are dearer to me than my family, ask me anything you want. The seeker says;

Meaning: If you are the true Divine spiritual guide and possess the power to fulfill all the objectives, please show me both the worlds in my inward and their spectacle on the back of my nail. The spiritual guide Bahoo replies;

Meaning: It is a very minor level, do not seek it. Let me take you to the final level of certainty and annihilate you in Allah, so that you forget everything other than Allah. You must seek only Allah and eliminate everyone other than Allah from your heart. Whoever attains Faqr, never indulges in wrong innovations and depravity. This is the level of inward verification and truthfulness. Allah says;

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Meaning: Verily, they are on the way of truthfulness near their Lord. The disbelievers say, “Indeed, this person is an evident magician.” (Yunus 2) Meaning: The Holy Prophet said, “Do the invocation of name of Allah so excessively that people may consider you crazy.” The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: People will be requited for their deeds. Whoever did good will find good, whoever did evil will get evil. Allah says;

Meaning: Then he who will have done even an atom‟s weight of good will see it. And he who will have done even an atom‟s weight of evil will (also) see it. (Al-Zilzal 7, 8)

Meaning: Whoever does pious deeds, does it for (the benefit of) his own self. (Ha-Meem as-Sajdah 46) The infidels, hypocrites and the jealous are ancient enemies of the Prophets and Saints. Allah says;

Meaning: And observe patience with what the disbelievers utter and avoid them in a fine manner. And leave Me (to deal) with the denying rich money-mongers. And give them a little respite. (Al-Muzzamil 10-11)

293 Meaning: Would that the faithfuls, both men and women, think good of their own people and say, “This is obviously a fabricated accusation.” (Al-Noor 12) The Holy Prophet said; Meaning: The faithfuls always think well.

Meaning: Whoever thinks badly about the faithfuls, is worse than infidels. Faithful is the one whose inward is pure. Allah says; Meaning: And peace be upon him who followed the guidance. (Taha 47)

As it is mentioned before that by reciting the Islamic creed with true faith and inward verification, one becomes pure of polytheism, infidelity and lie forever. Know that the creed starts with

(La meaning; “No”) because the shape of

is like

the scissor. This scissor of cuts the sins like the scissor cuts the cloth. Or, its shape resembles the shape of a sword which kills the infidel innerself. makes everything naught and non-existent. When everything other than Allah becomes naught by

, then one reaches the

(“Illaha” meaning:

“The Worshipped”) and confirms

(“IlAllahoo”

meaning: “Only Allah”). On the affirmation of “only Allah”, one gains strength upon faith and confirms (“Mohammad-ur-Rasoolullah” meaning: “Mohammad is the Messenger of Allah”).Hence his soul complies with the right faith and makes it the companion. The inciting innerself dies on the confirmation of faith. One who does not confirm the faith by heart, is a hypocrite. To

294 become a Muslim, one has to declare the faith by saying the Islamic creed by tongue. One who does not declare faith by tongue is considered infidel. The declarer of faith by tongue needs to present two witnesses; (a) He always speaks truth whether he is facing hard conditions or easy (b) He always earns lawfully. Even if it is too simple and tasteless, it is better than the delicious but unlawfully earned sustenance. Inward verification also has two conditions; (a) One must have love of Allah (b) One must seek gnosis of Allah. Such a man of verification never faces confiscation. The basic creeds of Islam are discussed in Eman-e-Mujamal144, Eman-e-Mufasal145 and the creed of testimony146. One who fulfills all the conditions mentioned in them, accomplishes his faith and is blessed with peaceful end. You do not know that the man of verification is approved in the court of Allah and Allah looks towards him with kindness seventy thousand times. The inward verification has three layers; (a) Divine light of faith (b) Piety of soul (c) Invocation by heart. Heart is a piece of flesh like the tongue. The inward verification by heart is possible when the tongue of heart enlivens and recites . The heart and soul are inter-related, when the heart connects with the soul, it is enveloped with verification. Then the heart loudly says and confirms, “I accept all the commands of Allah.” Do you want to know whether faith lies in verification or verification lies in faith, verification is found by the Kindness of Allah or Kindness of Allah is found by verification, verification is gained by the Favour of Allah or Favour of Allah is gained by verification, gnosis of Tauheed The creed that states, “I believe in Allah (as He is) with all His names and attributes and I accept all His commands, by pledging with my tongue to do them and confirming with all my heart.” 145 The creed that states, “I believe in Allah and in His angels and in His books and in His Messengers and in the Last Day and in the fact that everything, good or bad is decided by Allah the Almighty, and in the life after death.” 146 The creed that states, “I bear witness that there is no one to be worshipped but Allah, He is One and has no partner and I bear witness that Mohammad is His beloved slave and Messenger.” 144

295 of Allah lies in verification or verification lies in gnosis of Tauheed of Allah? In fact, verification of heart is in the inward, inward is in the soul, soul is in the core, core is in the Hidden, Hidden is in the most Arcane which is the point of (“la-Tahzn” meaning: “Where there is no grief”)and is in the point of (“la-Takhf” meaning: “Where there is no fear”). Whoever becomes the man of verification, attains the point of (“la-Takhf wa la-Tahzn” meaning: “Where there is no fear or grief”). His inward is replete with Divinity, he remains delightfully passionate for Allah and meets with all the sacred souls. Blessed with the kind attention and favour of Allah, he eternally remains present in the Mohammadan Assembly. Hence, he is completely forgiven and his inward becomes the heavenly Kaaba. When the man of verification attains this level, the verification acquires the form of Divine light and he perpetually remains immersed in the contemplation, authority and efficacy of Ism-e-Allah Zaat and engrossed in observing the theophanies of the Lord. The Islamic creed builds a fortification around him and he is saved from the dangers of devilish whispers, depraving obsessions, misapprehensions and evil thoughts. His heart perpetually verifies that there is none worthy of worship but Allah and Mohammad is His Messenger. One, who attains this level of inward verification, is the true Muslim and faithful according to the verified spiritual way. Those who doubt it, are hypocrites and liars. The spiritual guide who cannot take the true seeker of Allah spiritually to this level of verification on the very first day by the inward invocation is verily an impotent and imperfect spiritual guide. I am amazed at the people who have no knowledge of verification, gnosis of Allah and the Divine favour, neither they keep check upon their innerself intrinsically and extrinsically nor adopt servitude towards Allah and always remain swamped in the filth of worldly desires like the dung-worms, they are the filthy men drenched in the nuisance of world, still they

296 consider themselves wise and men of insight due to the deceit of their innerself. It is evident that such people are spiritually declined due to their superficial knowledge and are running after money, luxuries and pleasures. That is why, they do not turn towards the Mohammadan Faqr nor entrust their matters to Allah. The true practitioner scholars never go to the door of worldly people for help even if they are starving to death because they are themselves the generous kings. These Saints are the heirs of the Holy Prophet, they are independent of all needs and the creation is their obedient slave. The true scholars are the fortunate ones who do not worry for the worldly wealth. Whatever the Faqeer says, says after calculations not out of jealousy. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: Gaining knowledge is obligatory upon all Muslim men and women.

Meaning: Do you know what knowledge is? It is the true guide and the source of inward sanctification.

Meaning: Ilm147 (knowledge)has three letters; (I), (L), (M) (in Arabic script) and it shows the straight path.

Meaning: Ilm (knowledge) originated from the exact Essence, so one gains the vision of Divine Essence through knowledge and becomes the knower of Allah and a man of certainty. 147

Ilm is Arabic word for knowledge.

297

Meaning: Respect the knowledge and obediently follow it. Leave ignorance, infidelity, polytheism and arrogance.

Meaning: Knowledge is the Divine light of Allah, place it in your eyes. It is the knowledge that shows the way of the Prophet.

Meaning: Bahoo gained every knowledge from the Divine presence. It removed wrath and arrogance from his existence.

Meaning: Knowledge is subsidiary to the invocation, so you must do the invocation passionately. By the invocation, oneâ&#x20AC;&#x;s inner eyes get enlightened and show him the Reality. None is worthy of worship except Allah and Mohammad is His Messenger. Invocation is the Divine command and is related to the soul, knowledge is the Divine obedience and is related to the peaceful innerself. The sacred companions of the Holy Prophet did not get the exoteric knowledge but by the love and efficacy of invocation of Islamic creed as well as by the secret invocation and invocation of the inward, soul and core, they got the beneficence of inspired knowledge and the enlightenment about every detail along with the effectiveness. Whenever they said anything, they started their conversation with the name of Allah or the Islamic creed. The Holy Prophet said;

298 Meaning: Nothing remains hidden from the one who recognizes Allah. Invocation is the totality and whole, while knowledge is its part. The part is included in the whole but whole cannot be acquired through the part. Unless one gets hold of the key of â&#x20AC;&#x153;wholeâ&#x20AC;?, the lock of gnosis of Tauheed is very difficult to open. Through the totality, two kinds of knowledge reveal; the knowledge of felicity and the knowledge of devotions. Both of them are related with the inward verification and are the observation of Divine light and gnosis of union with Allah. They are the esoteric and hidden knowledges, about which Allah says;

Meaning: (Quran is) Guidance for the people of piety. They are those who believe in the hidden. (Al-Baqarah 2, 3) Three kinds of knowledge are related with tongue only; the conventional knowledge, the permitted knowledge and the superficial knowledge of worships. These knowledges are just related with verbosity. Whoever acts upon the entire knowledge of the totality and the part, becomes the practitioner scholar and the perfect Faqeer. The perfect Faqeer is one who has reached the level of annihilation in Allah and has attained its complete gnosis. While, the Mystic immortal with Allah is one who is drowned in the light of Divinity. Life and death are the same for such perfect Fuqara.

Meaning: If one meets death in the state of true faith, his death becomes life for him. Whoever left the world in this state, got salvation.

299 Meaning: The body of Mystics is in this world but the soul is in the other world where they meet the sacred souls.

Meaning: I am the Mystic annihilated in Allah and blessed with Divine union. I have surpassed my own existence and become eternal.

Meaning: I always know my status beforehand as I am perpetually present in the Mohammadan Assembly. It is stated in Quran;

Meaning: Indeed, I am in need of whatever good you would send down to me. (Al-Qasass 24) The Holy prophet said;

Meaning: The key to heaven is the love of Fuqara.

Meaning: Love of Fuqara is, in fact, the love of Rehman. Believe it, an ignorant never became a Mystic or a Saint. One ought to have knowledge, whether it is the esoteric knowledge or the exoteric. A scholar never became wretched except the Satan.

Meaning: The esoteric knowledge is like butter while the exoteric knowledge is like milk. Butter cannot be produced without milk and no one can gain eminence without following a spiritual guide.

300 The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: There is no difference between an animal and a human except knowledge.

Meaning: There are two kinds of knowledge, the knowledge related to exoteric matters (which is gained through outward sources) and the inspired knowledge (which is revealed by Allah).

Meaning: If the scholars were not there, all humans would have turned animals. The writer says, some people are physically humans but animals by nature. The real humans must have five qualities; knowledge, obedience, modesty, veracity and certainty. Allah says;

Meaning: And worship your Lord till you attain the final level of certainty. (Al-Hijar 99)

Meaning: The seeker must have certainty about his spiritual guide just as a son is certain about his father. He must not let his heart incline towards anyone else.

Meaning: One must protect oneâ&#x20AC;&#x;s certainty till death because it is the certainty that keeps one devoted till the end of life.

301 Meaning: It is the certainty that unfolds the Divine secrets in the inward and obliterates everything from the inward except Allah.

Meaning: Certainty is the Divine favour and help which bestows the beneficence of Allah and the blessing of awareness.

Meaning: Certainty immerses the seeker in Allah, prevents him from inclining towards anyone other than Allah and lets him join the company of Saints.

Meaning: One must prostrate before Allah and perform all the devotions with certainty. Such prostration grants the true remembrance of the Essence.

Meaning: The person who does not follow sharia, remains deprived of certainty. Do not believe him if he claims to follow the mysticism.

Meaning: Certainty means to be with the Manifested and become His manifestation, and to perpetually worship Him.

302 Meaning: Keep worshiping and obeying Allah till the end of your life. Your certainty will become your servitude towards your Beloved Allah.

Meaning: Without certainty, you may involve in atheism, wrong innovations and infidelity. You are afraid because you are deprived of certainty.

Meaning: They do not offer prayer and prostrate before Allah because they are the friends of Satan.

Meaning: Curse upon these cruel, as they make fun of the true scholars. The atheists who are inclined towards falsehood often say that devotions like offering prayer and keeping fasts are obligatory to attain the higher levels of certainty. When one achieves them, one does not need to offer them anymore. This is a satanic trick and ruse of the inciting innerself adopted by the irreligious. Certainty is related with the five basic pillars of Islam. Other requirements of certainty are that you must respect the knowledge and the religious scholars, even when you see their picture on a wall and you should always obey the commands of the Fuqara, as, whoever disobeys the Fuqara, is disgraced in both the worlds. These two groups are the holy Mohammadans.

303 Meaning: Beware! Don‟t laugh at the true mystics as their inwards are pure and pellucid like mirror. One, who laughs at the mirror, actually laughs at himself. It is a fact that the Fuqara have themselves adopted indigence, even though, the whole world is under their authority. The world worriedly requests the Fuqara to accept it but they reject it saying, “O‟ filthy woman, we have divorced you”, as, they are the men of Divine union. The worldliness is accepted only by the unwise and ignorant and is gathered in the houses of infidels and ignorant abundantly. It never stays in the houses of true men of Allah and the kings who are like the shadow of God upon their subject, because they spend their wealth for the betterment of Muslims, like the sacred companions Uthman bin Affan and Noman did. Hadith;

Meaning: This world is a preparation for the hereafter. Whatever they got in the morning, spent it before the night and whatever they got in the night, spent it before the next morning. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: The Faqeer neither covets nor gathers or refuses. Outwardly, the Faqeer possesses authority over all the treasures but inwardly he is alone with Allah.

Meaning: The Faqeer disgraces his innerself by becoming a beggar and begging from door to door for the sake of Allah. Do not be arrogant upon your knowledge! Real knowledge is that which carries you to the Divine presence and you find yourself in the company of the Divine Essence inspirationally. There are five kinds of knowledge and their scholars. Whoever gains these five kinds of knowledge, becomes the excellent, distinguished and trustworthy scholar.

304 The five kinds of knowledge are; the knowledge and scholar of tongue, the knowledge and scholar of inward, the knowledge and scholar of soul, the knowledge and scholar of core and the knowledge and scholar of the most Arcane (Yakhfa). All these kinds of knowledge not only make one affirm the faith by tongue but also enlighten one with the Divine light of gnosis of Tauheed. The innerself is annihilated in a moment by gaining them. There is the guiding knowledge which leads towards the Divine presence and bless with the observation of Divine light of the Majestic Lord. There are the knowledges which vivify the inward, brighten the soul like sun with their rewarding beneficence, remove the veils of inward darkness, show the theophanies of Divine secrets and bless with the observation of Divine presence and the secrets of Divinity. There is a secret knowledge which bestows the presence of the Mohammadan Assembly. Whoever gains this secret knowledge from the Universal Divine Man who is superior to all humans, nothing remains hidden from him. All these knowledges are the part of knowledge of Tauheed and are acquired by the efficacy of the Divine presence gained through Ism-e-Allah Zaat and the Islamic creed which is the key to Divinity. How can the emulators know about these ultimate knowledges and the spiritual way to the Divine presence!

Meaning: When my self and my identity perished, the Ism-eAllah Zaat drowned me in the Divine Oneness.

Meaning: Only the pure and perfect inward can attain this level. Then, it becomes the ocean of Divine Oneness. The Holy Prophet said;

305

Meaning: “Beware of the ignorant scholar.” He was asked, “Who is the ignorant scholar?” He replied, “One who is scholar by tongue but ignorant by heart.” Know that the Mohammadan religion is the way of enlightenment while the wrong innovations in it are the darkness. The wrong innovators have the dark inward as there is blackness of hypocrisy in their inward just like the poppy flower has a black dot in it.

Meaning: The dew drops cannot wash away the black dot of poppy. Similarly tears cannot erase whatever is written in the destiny.

Meaning: Do not turn away from your destiny, nor try to evade it. Fire does not care for the pain of the rug when it is burning. The writer says:

Meaning: O‟ Bahoo! When submission to the will of Allah becomes dominant upon the destiny, one not at all fears from what Allah has written in the destiny.

Meaning: Why would the one, who has got the ultimate closeness of Allah, fear from anything. Fearing from

306 anything other than Allah is the attribute of imperfects and the commoners.

Meaning: Submission to the will of Allah is like the judge while destiny is its subordinate. Without its order, destiny can do nothing. You must understand that man is not born out of his own will, so how can everything happen according to his will and desire! Ali ibn Abi Talib said;

Meaning: I recognized my Holy Lord when it happened against my will. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: Every act of the Wise is based upon wisdom. So, it is better to entrust all the matters to Allah and remove oneself from in between. Quran teaches;

Meaning: And I consign all my affairs to Allah. Surely, Allah is Ever Watchful of the servants. (Momin 44) Know that Allah is Unprecedent and Incomparable. He is the Eternally Alive and Forever Sustained Entity Who is only One of His Form, as His Form is non-creation. Whoever beholds Allah in dream or meditation which is overpowering than the dream, becomes spiritually lost and if he is awake, he becomes vigilant. On beholding the light of Tauheed of Divinity, such fire is produced in the existence that either he is burnt to death or becomes silent as said;

Meaning: One who recognizes his Holy Lord becomes silent.

307 Or, he remains in the state of prostration day and night, wears the coverlet of sharia and ever follows it. The Unparalleled Entity cannot be resembled to anything. When the Mystic immortal with Allah is honoured with the Divine presence and vision of Allah, so much blessings are conferred upon him that are beyond imagination. This honour is also gained by the efficacy of Ism-e-Allah Zaat and the key of Islamic creed . The way of Islamic creed is verified, whoever doubts it, is a hypocrite. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: Meditate upon His signs not upon His Essence. The voice of innerself, station of innerself, desires of innerself and states of innerself are different from the voice of inward, secret of inward, station of inward, desires of the inward and states of inward, while the voice, secret, station, desires and states of the soul are entirely different. The innerself talks about the worldly knowledge and is trapped in sensual desires while the voice of inward is the invocation of Allah, its knowledge is about the love of Allah and its station is the pure inner being. The soul talks about the words of Allah, injunctions of Quran and Hadiths and is stationed at the level where the whole knowledge is accumulated. According to it, you can recognize different groups of people i.e. people of innerself, people of inward and people of soul and judge their level. The Holy Prophet said;

308

Meaning: There are ten kinds of fire in the existence of human beings; the fire of lust, the fire of covetousness, the fire of jealousy, the fire of sight, the fire of oblivion, the fire of ignorance, the fire of hunger, the fire of verbosity, the fire of sins and the fire of sexual desires. The fire of lust is not extinguished without fasting, the fire of covetousness is not extinguished without remembering death, the fire of jealousy is not extinguished without sanctification of inward, the fire of sight is not extinguished without the invocation of inward, the fire of oblivion is not extinguished without the invocation of Allah, the fire of ignorance is not extinguished without gaining the knowledge, the fire of hunger is not extinguished without earning the sustenance lawfully, the fire of verbosity is not extinguished without recitation of Quran, the fire of sins is not extinguished without true repentance and the fire of sexual desires is not extinguished without having the legitimate matrimony.

Meaning: What benefits a man can gain from the world and the religion? Leave the lust of benefits and surpass them all.

309 Meaning: The lust of benefits darkens the face and disgraces a person in both the worlds. However, your pious behaviour will brighten it. Some Fuqara are liked by Allah while some are liked by the creation.

Meaning: One who is liked by Allah does not care whether people like him or not. By gaining the exoteric knowledge of jurisprudence, learning Arabic or performing physical worships and devotional exercises, the innerself of a person becomes haughtier. He becomes famous among people for his piety and knowledge which apparently makes him happy but actually he gets trapped in ego and sensual desires and starts showing off himself as a very virtuous person. On the contrary, by gaining the knowledge of spirituality and gnosis of Tauheed of Allah, the innerself of a person becomes embarrassed. When he does the secret invocation, he passes through inward pains and cries his heart out due to the fear of Allah. This hidden and unhypocritical mystic devotion ever keeps him in pain which makes the innerself weaker day by day, it leaves its lusts and eventually annihilates becoming naught, hence the person attains the level of annihilation in Allah. Acquiring the mystic knowledge is a strict obligation and the Sunna of Prophets. This knowledge is must for the seeker to elevate spiritually to the levels of sainthood and gain the presence of Mohammadan Assembly. If a jurist or a scholar keeps learning the exoteric knowledge for his entire life, the darkness, rust, evil thoughts and the filth created by the love of the world will not be exterminated from his inward and it will not be enlivened unless he gains the mystic knowledge which cleanses the inward and does the secret invocation which vivifies the inward by the key of Islamic creed .

310 Even if the person having dead inward gains the entire knowledge of Taurah, Gospel, Psalms and Quran, his inward will not be enlivened. His life will be wasted because his soul will remain perplexed and the innerself will remain happy as before. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: There is a burnisher for everything and the burnisher of inward is the invocation of Allah. None is worthy of worship except Allah and Mohammad is His Messenger. How can the person who is not even a true Muslim or faithful, become the immortal Mystic Faqeer or annihilated in Allah Dervish! The Persian word for Muslim is transliterated as “Musalman”. The word has six alphabets; (M), (S), (L), (M), (A), (N) according to Persian script. By the letter (M), the Muslim Moulds himself complying with the commands of Allah and against the Satan, complying with the knowledge and against the ignorance, complying with the soul and against the innerself, complying with the sharia and against the wrong innovations, complying with Faqr and against the world and worldly people and leaves the lust, greed, covetousness and other such evils. By the letter (S), he possesses the Saleem Qalb i.e. the pure and perfect inward which always submits to the will of Allah and remains virtuous towards the creation. By the letter (L), he keeps reciting the Islamic creed “La illaha ilAllahoo Mohammad-ur-Rasoolullah”. By the second (M), he is always Motivated to talk about the knowledge of verses of Quran, Hadiths, Islamic laws and the mystic knowledge of Tauheed. By the letter (A), his Aim is veracious and he is veritably truthful. By the letter (N), his Neeyat i.e. intention is always good. These are the attributes of true Muslims; may Allah keep them in peace. Whoever possesses these attributes, is the veritable and truthful Muslim who sacrifices himself for the Truth and is

311 disgusted of the falsehood. The Arabic word for a faithful is transliterated as Momin. The word has four letters; (M), (O), (M), (N)according to Arabic script. By the letter (M), the faithful Minuses the hypocrisy from his being and verifies the faith by heart, he seeks only Maula (Allah) and ever progresses in His love. These are the attributes of an obedient and modest faithful having pure inward. By the letter (O), a faithful is One with Allah and ever drowned in Divine Oneness. He keeps distance from the people having dead soul and everything other than Allah. He is a man of Tauheed, renunciation, trust upon Allah, inward solitude and negation of self. He is sincere to his saintly soul and is the enemy of his evil innerself. The true faithful neither seeks nor acquires anything except the gnosis of Allah.

Meaning: Gather gnosis of Allah instead of gold and silver. It is a precious asset that you can carry with yourself to the hereafter. Worldly wealth is the asset of worldly people. Answer of the writer

Meaning: A person needs gnosis of Allah more than the precious dresses. Look at the shell which is not beautiful outwardly but has pearls inside it.

Meaning: Mystics are immersed in the gnosis of Allah just like fish are drowned in water.

312 Meaning: Whoever claims to be a Mystic, is a liar. As, the Mystics keep quiet outwardly and converse with Allah inwardly.

Meaning: Whoever claims to be a Mystic, is trapped in the lusts of innerself. True Mystics are always drowned in the state of annihilation in Allah.

Meaning: However, I am the true Mystic blessed with the union of Allah. I have found this blessing by the kindness of the Holy Prophet. By the second (M) of the word Momin, the faithful never fulfills the Murad i.e. desire of his moron innerself. By the letter (N), the Neeyat i.e. intention of faithful is always better than his acts, as said;

Meaning: The intention of a faithful is better than his action. He always adopts good morals and virtuosity. These are the attributes of true faithfuls, may Allah bless them with peace. The heart of a faithful is full of Divine light and Kindness of Allah due to the eternal righteousness bestowed upon him. In the worldly life also, he lives as a Friend of Allah and a man of beneficence and kindness. There are two signs of a faithful; he forgives othersâ&#x20AC;&#x; mistakes and keeps his anger in control. Allah says;

Meaning: And who restrain anger and who pardon the people- and Allah loves the doers of good. (Aal-e-Imran 134)

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Meaning: Faithful is the strong man who controls his anger, he is independent and indifferent to the world.

Meaning: Faithfuls always keep their attention towards Allah. It is a great sin if they keep even a penny in their possession.

Meaning: If someone claims to be a faithful, check this claim by the fact that the faithfuls have the attribute of sacrificing their life for Allah. It is not easy to become a true Muslim and faithful. The veritable Muslim and faithful is one who is blessed with the observation of great secrets of Divinity. He never inclines towards the carrion world even if he has to starve for a long period. Do not consider the seekers of the world faithfuls or Muslims, as worldliness is the destiny of hypocrites and infidels. When the inward is enlivened by the contemplation of Isme-Allah Zaat and the Divine name Allah is perfectly engraved on the heart of the possessor of alive inward, he observes the Divine light radiating from every letter of Isme-Allah Zaat like the sunlight which envelops his inward. The inward is enlightened completely by the theophanies of the Divine light of Essence and starts reciting (Ya-Allah Ya-Allah La illaha ilAllahoo Mohammad-ur-Rasoolullah). Every time his inward invokes the name of Allah along with Islamic creed, he gets reward of reciting the complete Quran seventy thousand times, rather infinite reward. When such an invoker having alive

314 soul gets attentive towards his inward with closed eyes, absorbing himself in deep meditation by the contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat and drowns in the theophanies of Divine light of the Essence, he is blessed with the Divine observation and presence. Thus, his sins of eighty years are obliterated from the record of the recording angels by the command of Allah, benedictions of the Divine light, grace of Ism-e-Allah Zaat and Islamic creed . This holy act is always acceptable in the court of Allah because it is hidden and hence, free from hypocrisy and pretense. Allah always beholds the inward of His men. When the possessor of contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat gets blessed with the presence of the holy assembly of the beloved of AllahProphet Mohammad by the contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat and Islamic creed and starts the meditation with closed eyes, he holds the sword of contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat in his hands and kills all the major and minor sins of his whole life with it. He also kills his innerself, Satan, devilish whispers, depraving obsessions, evil thoughts, rather all his enemies on the earth with this sword. The Holy Prophet said:

Meaning: Meditating for a while is better than the devotions of both the worlds. The Holy Prophet has declared the eternal invocation (of Ism-e-Allah Zaat) and its perfect concentration and meditation as the collection of all the pious deeds according to the holy verses:

Meaning: Surely good deeds delete the evil ones. This (reward) is for the true invokers of invocation (of Ism-eAllah Zaat). (Hud 14)

315 Meaning: And do the invocation of the Divine name Allah on known days over what He has provided for them of (sacrificial) animals. So, eat of them and feed the miserable and poor. (Al-Hajj 28) When the invoker of secret invocation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat gets attentive towards his inward with closed eyes and absorbs himself in deep state of meditation, firstly he says out loudly La illaha ilAllahoo Mohammad-ur-Rasoolullah extending his voice. The Holy Prophet said to Ali ibn Abi Talib while telling him the desired method of saying the Islamic creed:

Meaning: Oâ&#x20AC;&#x; Ali! Close your eyes and listen your heart saying La illaha ilAllahoo Mohammad-ur-Rasoolullah. Whoever attains this state and is blessed with this grand blessing is the Divine invoker who has learned complete Divine knowledge by heart. Whoever is deprived of this blessing is a black hearted person surrounded by satanic thoughts. A human is differentiated from an animal on the basis of inward. If the inward of a person is purified, enlightened and busy in the continuous invocation of Allah then he is a human otherwise an animal. Real human is the one whose outward self is busy in servitude of Allah while his inward self is engrossed in gaining gnosis of Allah observing the Divine light of Lordliness. Outward servitude is related with physical devotions while the Lordliness is related with observing the secrets of Divinity in oneâ&#x20AC;&#x;s inward. Servitude and Lordliness both are essential and like the wings for the faithful Mystic. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: One who does not offer eternal obligatory prayer, his occasional obligatory prayers are also not accepted by Allah. And the one who does not offer the occasional

316 obligatory prayers, his eternal obligatory prayer is also not accepted by Allah. The occasional obligatory prayer refers to the prayer which is physically offered five times a day while the eternal obligatory prayer is to perpetually keep the inward engrossed in the secret invocation such that it loudly says Allah Ya-Allah. Allah says;

Ya-

Meaning: So (Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Muslims), when you have completed your (obligatory) prayer, do the invocation of Allah (in all postures) standing, sitting and (laying down) on your sides. (An-Nisa 103)

The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: No Prayer without the Divine presence. The Divine presence means that the inward is completely free of the satanic thoughts, ever attentive towards Allah through His invocation and surrounded by the theophanies of Divine light of the Essence. Possessor of such an inward always meets with the Prophets and Saints spiritually. This shows that the men of meditation, who also are the inward invokers, perpetually offer prayer in their inward. They are salvaged from polytheism, infidelity and hypocrisy forever and have got eternal life in the world and hereafter. Their grandeur is stated in the Hadith;

Meaning: They are eternally offering prayer in their inward. Their soul is satisfied and the innerself is perplexed. It is also said about them;

Meaning: Their bodies are in this world but inwards are in the hereafter.

317 Their way is the way of acting upon Islamic creed, offering physical prayer five times a day and the spiritual prayer eternally, spending generously for the benefit of the Muslims i.e. for guiding them upon the right path. These three acts are their sign and are always accepted in the court of Allah. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: The prayer, Islamic creed and generosity omit the sins. It should be known that meditation is of two kinds; (a) The desirable meditation of men of Divine presence. (b) The satanic meditation of the men of evil thoughts. There are three levels of the desirable meditation; at the initial level, when the person drowns in the state of meditation, he views everything present in the six dimensions of the world. If someone performs this meditation continuously for seven days with an intention to gain the kingdom of seven climes, the whole world from east to west comes under his authority. At the middle level, the seeker is blessed with the presence of the Mohammadan Assembly while performing meditation where he spiritually meets the sacred souls of Prophets, Messengers and Saints. If the seeker performs this meditation for seven days continuously and drowns in the state of meditation, his entire existence is purified of sins just like a new born baby is pure of sins. The final level of meditation is to drown in the Divine light of Tauheed. Such a seeker may appear to be unaware outwardly but is inwardly blessed with the Divine presence and is prudently meditating being drowned in the Essence. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: Meditating for a while is better than the devotions of both the worlds. The writer prays that Allah may bless all the faithful and Muslim brothers with this great blessing and grand felicity.

318 This spiritual way of gnosis of Tauheed of Allah and Mohammadan Faqr is verified, only the infidels and hypocrites suspect it. The person who has not even reached the level of a faithful, how can he be considered a Faqeer or a Mystic! The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: One who recognizes Allah finds no pleasure in the company of people. Mohiyyuddin148 Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani said;

Meaning: One who loves Allah becomes disgusted of everyone other than Allah. The invocation and knowledge are the blessings of Allah while ignorance and worldliness are the evils full of satanic thoughts. The men of blessings and the men of evils do not feel comfortable in each other‟s company. Just as mercury cannot be converted into an oxide and used without an expert, similarly, the levels of Faqr, gnosis of Allah and immersion in the state of Divine presence cannot be gained without the perfect Mystic spiritual guide. There are two kinds of Mystics; the Mystic of spiritual levels tangled in amazement and the Mystic immersed in the state of annihilation in Allah and Divine presence. The Mystic of Divine presence has four witnesses; inward solitude, negation of self, renunciation of the world with complete trust upon Allah and Tauheed. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: Tauheed and trust upon Allah are twins. Allah says;

Meaning: The faithfuls truly trust upon Allah. (Aal-e-Imran 122) 148

Appellation of Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani, meaning: “Life giver to the religion”.

319 The perfect spiritual guide knows the spiritual way of Divine presence and never involves his disciples in lengthy recitals, invocations and physical devotions. The spiritual guide of Divine presence grants the Divine presence to the seeker of Allah on the very first day. The beginning of this way to the Divine presence is the level of annihilation in the spiritual guide, middle level is annihilation in Allah and the final level is annihilation in Prophet Mohammad. Whoever steps out of the Mohammadan way of Divine presence, goes against the sharia of Prophet Mohammad or disobeys the orders given in the Quran and Hadith is a reprobate and cursed Satan, spiritually as well as physically. He is a wrong innovator, lover of music and dance, worshipper of apparent beauty and indulges in the lusts of innerself on seeing apparently beautiful features. He can never approach any spiritual destination or station because his inward is verily false. If he displays his supernatural powers before you, then they are just devilish and a deceit. It is said;

Meaning: Deceptive miracles are far away from the Kindness of Allah. Allah says;

Meaning: Those who deny Our Revelations, We shall soon lead them gradually towards catastrophe in such an imperceptible manner that they will not even notice it. (Al-Aâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;raf-82) You must know that at the initial level of annihilation in the spiritual guide, when the seeker contemplates the countenance of his spiritual guide, then, if the spiritual guide is perfect, he gives life to the inward of the seeker and death to his inciting innerself. Hence, the seekerâ&#x20AC;&#x;s existence is purified of all the evil attributes. If the spiritual guide is imperfect, he gives death to the inward of the seeker and life to his inciting innerself which arouses the desires of the carrion world in his existence. The seeker of carrion is a dog.

320 It is evident that the disciples of the perfect spiritual guide reach and experience the actual level of annihilation in the spiritual guide. Whomsoever the perfect spiritual guide blesses, elevates his rank equal to his own at once and that fortunate seeker is actually annihilated in the spiritual guide. While, when the disciples of the imperfect spiritual guide contemplate his face, Satan appears in the form of spiritual guide and the disciple annihilates in Satan instead of his guide dropping to the level of annihilation in Satan. Beware and be wise! When a beginner seeker does the contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat, the Divine name is engraved on his subtle heart. When he gets attentive towards his heart, a flame resembling to the Divine light is lit around it. In fact, that is the satanic fire, which is misunderstood by the seeker as the theophany of Divine presence. From that fire, the Satan calls the seeker and says to him, “We are friends now, you should now repent from further physical and spiritual servitude and just observe me in this light.” Then, the Satan appears in the form of a child, grows into a young man and then to an old man and deceptively tells the seeker that this (growing up) depicts the secret of elevation of the levels of a Faqeer. Then the satanic form informs him intrinsically about everything and shows him the hidden past, present and future. People think that he possesses the power of miracles and unveiling, but in fact, this is just a deception created by the inner satanic voice. O‟ seeker! When the satanic form talks to you acquiring the form of a Saint, you should recite the Islamic creed (La illahail Allahoo Mohammad-ur-Rasoolullah) and the Lahawl (la Hawla wa la Quwwata illa billah-al’alii-al Azeem) with inward attention. By reciting it, the satanic form will run away. Afterwards, Divine light and theophanies will emit from the letters of Ism-e-Allah Zaat . Whatever the theophanies of Divine light will show you, will be right and true according to the Quran and Hadith. You should accept it saying

(“Aamenna

321 wa Sadaqna” meaning; “We believe and verify it”). Any inward or spiritual act which does not correlate outwardly with sharia and Quran, and is not gained from Ism-e-Allah Zaat is verily false. A Hadith tells:

Meaning: Every inward which is opposite to the outward is false. The spiritual level of annihilation in the spiritual guide is achieved by Ism-e-Allah Zaat and grants the observation of the Divine light and theophanies of the Divine Essence as well as the presence of the Mohammadan Assembly. Whereas, the level of annihilation in Satan surrounds the seeker with misapprehensions, delusions and satanic thoughts. It is the level of the disciples of imperfect spiritual guide who are arrogant, egoistic and worshippers of their innerself. One can find many such imperfect disciples who are the seekers of the world but the true and enlightened seekers of Allah who vigilantly follow sharia and reach the level of annihilation in the spiritual guide are a few. They are the ones who truly deserve the gnosis of “none but Allah” and presence of the Mohammadan Assembly.

EXPLANATION OF CONTEMPLATION OF ANNIHILATION IN THE PERFECT MYSTIC SPIRITUAL GUIDE By the excessive contemplation of the spiritual guide (gained from the contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat) a beautiful face of Divine light appears in the being of the seeker from the hidden. That beautiful face either remains engrossed in the invocation of Allah reciting or keeps reciting the verses of Quran day and night and lets the seeker memorize them. At times, that face teaches the seeker the knowledge of excellence which includes the knowledge of Quranic verses, Hadiths, exegesis of Quran, jurisprudence,

322 obligatory and desirable prayers, Sunnas of the Holy Prophet, the desirable way of practising them and the etiquettes of presence before Allah. Sometimes that face engrosses in the invocation of Allah and loudly invokes the name of Allah such that the seeker hears the voice of (“Sir’r-e-Hoo Sir’r-e-Hoo Hoowal Haq laisa fi daraini illa Hoo” meaning, “Secret of Hoo, secret of Hoo, Hoo is the Reality, nothing is present in the universe but Hoo”).Often that face immediately informs the seeker about the hidden facts of past, present and future. It also often remains busy in offering prayers and in the servitude of Allah. That face makes the seeker follow the sharia and never lets him go against it. If anything against sharia is done by the seeker by mistake or any word that is related to infidelity, misbelief or is heretical and sinful is uttered by him, then that Divine face immediately reproaches the seeker and asks him to check the innerself. It forbids the inciting innerself from all wrong deeds and orders it to recite i.e. there is no one to be worshipped except Allah and Mohammad is His Prophet. Hadith:

Meaning: Whoever recognizes his innerself, recognizes his Lord. One who recognized his innerself by annihilating it, recognized his Holy Lord by gaining immortality with Him. The innerself recognizes Allah only on approaching the level of annihilation in the spiritual guide. When that Divine face vanishes in the being of the seeker, his existence perfectly repents from sins. This face appears in the being of the seeker only after the purification of his innerself by the contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat. Allah manifested Himself for the first time in the form of this Divine face in eternity when He addressed the souls (“Alastu bi Rabbikum” meaning; “Am I not your Creator and Provident?”) and the

323 souls replied (“Qaloo Bala” meaning; “They said “Yes! You are”). This face reprimands the inciting innerself so that it leaves sins and waywardness and becomes righteous. However, recognizing the innerself and acquiring trust upon the inspirations and inward messages conveyed esoterically by the perfect spiritual guide are just the initial levels. The seeker should not get proud on achieving this level as it does not grant the complete gnosis of Allah and Faqr. The way to the closeness of Allah and light of Divine presence which makes the seeker replete with the love of Allah and grants him eternal bliss by making him desirable in the court of Allah, is far away from it. The Holy Prophet said:

Meaning: First one annihilates in the spiritual guide then annihilates in Allah.

Meaning: One who has no spiritual guide, has no faith.

Meaning: One who has no spiritual guide is verily surrounded by the Satan.

Meaning: Whoever does not follow the perfect spiritual guide, is the disciple of Satan. Whoever is guided by the spiritual guide, attains the level of the great Saint Bayazid Bastami. One must follow the perfect and strong spiritual guide. The imperfect spiritual guides are weak like the women spiritually and look like the she-males physically, hence, are good for nothing. They do not follow the sharia properly and are heretics. If the seeker, who has reached the level of

324 annihilation in the spiritual guide and has been blessed with the contemplation of the Divine form of spiritual guide, gets inclined towards sin then this form prevents him from the sin with spiritual authority and dominates the sensual desires crushing them with power. When such a seeker sleeps, this Divine form becomes his companion by the Grace of Allah and drowns him in the gnosis of “none but Allah” and Tauheed. When he enters the state of meditation, that beautiful Divine form holds his hand and takes him to the Mohammadan Assembly in its company and lets him be ennobled with high mystic ranks. This is the actual level of annihilation in the spiritual guide which is attained only by the seekers having pure inward.

Meaning: And peace will be upon him who follows the right guidance. (Taha 47) That Divine form is always glorifying Allah by reciting:

(Subhan Allahi wal Hamdullilahi wa la illaha ilAllahoo waAllahoo Akbar wa la Hawla wa la Quwwata illa billahal’alii-al Azeem. Subhana zil Mulki wal Malakuti Subhana zil Izzati wal Azmati wal Haibati wal Qudrati wal Kibriyaee wal Jabarooti Subhan al-Malikil Hayee Allazi la Yanaamo wa la Yamooto Suboohun Qudoosun Rabbana wa Rabbul Malaikati wr Roohi.” Meaning: “Glory be to Allah and all praise is for Allah and there is none worthy of worship but Allah, Allah is the Greatest. There is no might or any power except with Allah, the Exalted, the Great. Glory be to the Master of all kingdoms, physical or spiritual. Glory be to the Master of respect, magnificence, majesty, power, greatness, and might. Glory be to that King who is forever Alive, He

325 neither sleeps nor dies. He is the Most Praised One, the Most Holy. He is the Lord of the angels and the souls.â&#x20AC;?) That Divine form is more generous than Hatim149 and more powerful then king Solomon as it holds authority over the entire earth from east to west. All the jinns and humans, beasts and birds, water and soil, air and fire are under its command. This powerful Divine form of annihilation in the spiritual guide takes the seeker to all stations and levels in just a blink of an eye and ennobles him with high ranks. The level of annihilation in the spiritual guide is the honour of the seeker who has pure inward.

Meaning: The perfect spiritual guide is virtuous, kind and pure. His existence is the centre of kindness and generosity and whatever he does, is based on the Divine wisdom.

Meaning: He is the guide of people towards Allah and can take them to the destination with his one glance. The seekers of Allah gain the Reality from him but the self-conceited have no place here.

Meaning: Bahoo has annihilated in Allah, he always remains with the Holy Prophet and in the company of the Prophets, Messengers and Sufis.

Name of a pre-Islamic Arab chief of â&#x20AC;&#x17E;Taiâ&#x20AC;&#x; tribe who was famous for his generosity 149

326 Meaning: I have killed my inciting innerself and got rid of all the desires of innerself. O‟ Bahoo! This eternal devotion is sufficient for you. The seeker of Allah, who is traveller of the way of gnosis of Allah and Divine union, has no worldly wishes or the desire of worldly respect and honour. The Persian word for a seeker is transliterated as „Talib‟. The word has four letters according to Persian script. Its first letter (T) means that the true seeker of Allah gives Talaq (Divorce) to the world considering it a whore. The second letter (A) means that he has no Aim of fulfilling the wishes of his innerself. The third letter (L) refers to the fact that he is “Laiq” (eligible) for the Divine vision, La-Yahtaj (independent of all desires) and never tells lies. Fourth letter (B) means that he is Ba-Adab (obedient), Be-Ikhtiar (leaves all his powers and authorities), entrusts his authorities to his spiritual guide and seeks the love of Allah. The seeker who is deprived of these attributes is not the true seeker of Allah. He does not give Talaq to the world by the letter (T), Aims at fulfilling the wishes of his innerself by the letter (A), is La-Deen (irreligious) by the letter (L) and has Bad nature and intentions by the letter (B). The spiritual guide should not give guidance and spiritual persuasion to such a disciple as he is a liar and quarrelsome. The untruthful seeker is deprived of the favour of Allah. There are three types of true seekers; (a) like the nightingale (b) like the moth (c) like the phoenix.

Meaning: I am not like a nightingale which cries and gives headache to others. I am like a moth which burns but never complains.

327

Meaning: I am also not like a moth which burns to death merely by a flame. I am like the phoenix which lives in the fire. The writer says; that spiritual guide is also imperfect who carries the seeker to the final level of gnosis and declares that entire Faqr lies in this level of gnosis. The perfect spiritual guide is one who takes the seeker beyond the levels of gnosis to the Divine light of Tauheed and drowns him in the Divine light in such a way that neither he remembers the name nor body, neither stations nor levels. The seeker immerses in the Divine Essence and annihilates in Allah. This is the everlasting level which takes the seeker even beyond the Divine union, as, for the men of Divine immersion, union is also an imperfect level. Believe it, when the true seeker and the perfect and accomplished Faqeer spiritual guide who is man of authority, join together truthfully, the spiritual guide grants the seeker the contemplation and inward authority over the entire earth from east to west and all the humans, blesses him with the presence of the Mohammadan Assembly and ennobles him with high levels of gnosis and Faqr. Do not consider it strange or wrong as the inward blessings cannot be gained without the man of inward. However, the seeker ought to be truthful. This is the particular meditation and authority which is better than the devotion of both the worlds, as the Holy prophet said;

Meaning: Meditation for a while is better than the devotions of both the worlds.

328 Meaning: The perfect and strong spiritual guide carries the seekers to the accomplished level while the impotent and imperfect spiritual guide keeps them unaccomplished. Oâ&#x20AC;&#x; Dear! Whatever you see in the way of Faqr other than Allah, is a brigand. Allah tells about the Holy Prophet;

Meaning: His eyes neither inclined aside nor overstepped the limit (it gazed in ecstasy at whom it was to gaze). (Al-Najm17) Allah says:

Meaning: And peace will be upon him who follows the right guidance. (Taha 47) The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: The world and hereafter are for you, for me there is only Allah. Quran teaches;

Meaning: (Say) Sufficient for me is Allah. (Taubah129)

Meaning: Allah is Sufficient (for His men). (Al-Ahzaab39) Only Allah! Everything other than Allah is lust. The seeker must desire Allah only, otherwise he will get depraved. Allah says;

329

Meaning: And the (favourite) servants of the Most Kind (Lord) are those who walk gently on the earth and when the ignorant address them (harshly), they say (words of) peace. And (these) are the ones who spend their nights prostrating themselves and standing (in prayer) before their Lord (submissively). And (these) are the people who pray, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oâ&#x20AC;&#x; our Lord, avert from us the torment of hell. Indeed, its torment is most injurious (and everlasting)â&#x20AC;?. Indeed, it is an evil lodging (for temporary lodgers) and an evil abode (for permanent dwellers). And (these) are the people who are neither extravagant nor miserly when they spend but are (justly) moderate. And these are the people who do not invoke any other god apart from Allah, nor do they kill the soul whose killing without any just cause Allah has forbidden, and nor do they commit adultery. And whoever does this, will receive the punishment due for the sin. His punishment will be doubled on the Day of Resurrection and humiliated he will live in it forever. But whoever repents and believes and does righteous deeds, so these are the people whose evil deeds Allah will replace with good ones. And Allah is Most Forgiving, Ever Merciful. And whoever repents and executes good, so he returns to Allah (the way) returning is due. And these are the people who do not testify to falsehood, and when they pass by evil activities, they pass

330 on (observing caution) with utmost nobility and dignity. And these are the people who, when reminded of the verses of their Lord, do not fall upon them deaf and blind (but reflect on them). And these are the people who submit, “O‟ our Lord, grant us from among our wives and our children comfort to our eyes and make us the leaders of the righteous.” They will be rewarded with lofty palaces (in paradise) as recompense for their patience and steadfastness and will be welcomed therein with greetings and salutations of peace. They will live therein forever. Those are the most excellent lodgings and abodes. (Al-Furqan 63-76) You must know that the foundation and essence of all worships, devotions, servitude, recitation of Quran, glorification rounds, invocation, reflection, Faqr, gnosis of “none but Allah”, presence of Mohammadan Assembly, Tauheed and passion for Allah is to earn lawfully. Whoever eats legitimate food, quickly covers the levels of gnosis, closeness and union of Allah. The illegitimate or suspicious earnings are easily available these days but it is very difficult to earn a lawful sustenance. However, it is the promise of Allah that the unlawfully earned food can never go down the throat of true practitioner scholars and the perfect Fuqara. Even if it does, it will not sustain in their stomach neither it will have any effect on their body. Maulana Rome said;

Meaning: The person whose sustenance is the light of Divine Majesty, whatever he eats, is lawful. Answer of the writer;

Meaning: Only the lawful food enters the throat of the Mystics because they are blessed with eternal union of Allah.

331

Meaning: The being of the Mystics is all fire. Even if unlawful food enters their stomach, it is burnt due to the fire of invocation of Allah. Just as the Prophets have right upon their nation and its earnings, similarly the perfect Fuqara and practitioner scholars have right upon people. Whatever they take from people, fulfills their right which is due upon people because whatever is present on the earth, is sustained only by the benediction of presence of these two groups on earth. Practitioner scholars are those who are not only accomplished in the entire knowledge but also practise upon all the teachings of Quran. Their knowledge has inwardly granted them the gnosis of “none but Allah” and presence of the Mohammadan Assembly. They are allowed to be present in the holy assembly whenever they wish and can submit their requests. The perfect Fuqara are those who are the favourite men of Allah and perpetually present in the Mohammadan Assembly. They do not separate from Allah and Prophet Mohammad even for a moment. Although, they apparently talk to common people but inwardly they are in the company of Holy Prophet. Tradition: Once, a Saint saw the Satan who was sitting peacefully. The Saint asked him, “O‟ cursed! Why are you oblivious of the people today?” The Satan replied, “There are many scholars in this age who do not practise what they preach as well as the covetous, greedy, jealous, lustful and wrong innovator Fuqara who are the enemies of Allah. Both these groups are my disciples and are depraving the progeny of Adam from the right path. So, I do not need to travel here and there, that is why I am sitting peacefully. As regards the practitioner scholars and the perfect Fuqara, they are steadfast upon the Mohammadan religion and are the strong Mystics immortal with Allah who are ever present in the

332 Mohammadan Assembly, so I cannot dominate them or make them follow my commands.â&#x20AC;? Allah says,

Meaning: Indeed you (Satan) would not have authority over My (true) men. (Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; men) sufficient is your Lord as Disposer of your affairs. (Bani Israil 65) It becomes evident that a person is troubled only due to his own innerself while the Satan is subordinate and obedient slave of the inciting innerself. The possessor of inciting innerself behaves like Pharaoh when he is sated, becomes a crazy dog when hungry, a wild beast when dominated by lust and Qarun when showing off his generosity.

Meaning: You have to confront with the infidel innerself. Just capture it, it is a very rare prey.

Meaning: If you have a snake hidden in your sleeves, it is better than having the inciting innerself with you. The Mystics possess peaceful innerself which is grateful to Allah when sated, observes patience when hungry, conscious when dominated by the sexual desire and keeps away from women, while kind and compassionate at the time of generosity. Allah says;

Meaning: For him who forbade (his inciting) innerself its sensual desires and lusts, paradise will surely be (his) abode. (Al-Naziat 40, 41)

333 It is the job of Sultan-ul-Faqr Mystics to put the chain of teachings of Quran, Hadiths and injunctions of Islam around the neck of the devil innerself and the king Satan and put them in the prison of annihilation in Allah, hence keep them under control and then enlighten the person with gnosis of Allah. They do this job by the benediction and power of verses of Quran, sharia, righteousness, sainthood and bestowals gained from the Mohammadan Assembly. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: Indeed, Allah loves the generous Faqeer.

Meaning: Faqr is one of the greatest treasures of Allah. Righteousness does not sustain in the existence unless the innerself is sated of all the worldly desires. Innerself is neither satisfied nor is it inclined towards servility even for a moment in the state of hunger. First, the innerself should be fed to full, then it will happily adopt servitude and do the contemplation of Rehman

You must know that the true men of Allah are those who live in this world but do the work of other world. Their end is surely peaceful, as Allah says;

Meaning: And peace will be upon him who follows the right guidance. (Taha 47)

Meaning: Useless is the prayer in which the inward is not attentive towards Allah, rather is perplexed due to worldly worries. There is a particular source of satisfaction and fulfillment for all the objectives of both the worlds e.g. the common

334 people find satisfaction when their off springs are sated while the satisfaction and strength of Mystic Fuqara lies in complete engrossment in Divinity. Know that it is easy to watch the spectacle of both the worlds and every nook and cranny on oneâ&#x20AC;&#x;s palm or nail by the benediction and power of Ism-eAllah Zaat but very difficult to surpass the levels of gnosis, perish oneself drowning in the state of annihilation in Allah becoming exactly One with the Essence, keep burning in the theophanies of light of Allah day and night and have various Divine observations in a single moment. These are the distinguished levels of annihilation in Allah and Divine union which are possessed only by the men of Divine knowledge and sharia, not by the reprobates who are ignorant, evil, worshippers of innerself and indulged in egoism.

Meaning: Crush the inciting innerself with one foot and its desires with the other. When you will abstain from all the wishes of innerself, then you will become the true man of Allah.

Meaning: Although, the men of Allah are not Allah but they are also not other than Allah.

Meaning: If you come to them for guidance, you will find the doors open for you, but if you do not then Allah does not need anyone. It is said;

335 Meaning: The seeker should handover himself to the spiritual guide like a corpse in the hands of the corpse washer. The seeker whose innerself dies in life, does three things against his innerself. Firstly, when he eats, he reminds it the words of Allah;

Meaning: Everyone will taste death. (Aal-e-Imran185) And tells the innerself, “Eat whatever you want but remember that at the time of death, the taste of every delicious food that you would have eaten during life will feel bitter due to the bitterness of death.” While wearing a dress, he says to it, “Although, you are wearing the dress of satin and silk now but consider it your shroud.” Wherever he sits or whenever he stays in a beautiful building, he warns his innerself, “Watch out! This building will be ruined one day, your real home is your grave.” The inward of a man is polluted and darkened with the evils like hypocrisy, misapprehensions, lust, delusions, satanic sins, greed, jealousy, covetousness, malice, conceit and other such evil attributes which make him oblivious and a liar having dead inward. When all these evils are eliminated from one‟s existence, one‟s inward and tongue comply with each other and the person becomes truthful. When the soul and core of the person become one, he becomes the verified Mystic. Hence, the basic level of a Mystic is truthfulness while the final level is verification of gnosis of Allah. However, Faqr is far ahead of both these levels. The initial level of Faqr is to gain the Divine power and favour inwardly and outwardly, while the final level of Faqr is to annihilate in Allah, be immortal with Him, adopt Divine company and drown completely in Tauheed of the Divine Essence. Hence, the existence of the seeker who approaches this level is purified of the filths of rage, wrath, backbiting, impurity, dishonesty, hypocrisy, oblivion, griefs and falsehood. Ultimacy of Faqr is to become all alone and remain perpetually engrossed and drowned in

336 Divine Oneness and vision. These are the levels of Faqr which make the inward replete with the closeness of Allah.

Meaning: And peace will be upon him who follows the right guidance. (Taha 47) You must know that the Mystics gain all the levels of truthfulness and verification by the favour and persuasion of the Fuqara and by following their way. Whenever a Mystic faces any problem, the Faqeer helps him and becomes his companion and problem solver. The primary level of Faqeer is annihilation and final level is immortality. It should be known that a Mystic seeker attains the level of truthfulness and verification on the very first day without any struggle, while the Faqeer seeker attains the level of annihilation in Allah without any struggle on the very first day and then attains immortality surpassing annihilation. Their grandeur is;

Meaning: Everyday His glory manifests a new. (Al-Rehman 29) It is a fact that the Doomsday would be equal to fifty thousand earth days. The creation would be gathered in the plain of requital for accountability and the record of their every good and bad deed would be checked. Everyone would be accountable for the lawful earnings and punished for the unlawful. You must know that a human being breathes twenty four thousand times in the twenty four hours of a day. Beware! With every breath fourteen theophanies, fourteen inspirations and fourteen kinds of knowledge descend upon the seeker, some of which are Divine and some are satanic, some are sensual and some are related with the worries of worldly accidents. They are sometimes from the jinns, sometimes from the angels and sometimes from the inner being i.e. the inward, the soul or the core. If the seeker is blessed with the favour of Allah and guidance of the spiritual guide, he can understand and differentiate between them. If he does, he is saved, if not, he is confiscated. Thousands of

337 seekers got depraved at this point and went against the sharia, hence their soul died and they were demoted from their rank. Hadith

Meaning: Take what is pure and leave the impure.

Meaning: Except the malicious, ignorant, mean and dogs, who would be inclined towards the carrion!

Meaning: The seeker of carrion world is worse than the dog, no matter how wise and honoured he seems to be apparently.

Meaning: His inward is polluted with arrogance and his dog like mean attributes always reflect from his behaviour.

Meaning: Although, he looks like a human but possess bestial qualities like rage, lust, greed and appetite.

Meaning: The main aim of his life is to earn wealth and luxuries and his job is just to eat and sleep like cattle.

338 Meaning: His days and nights are spent in oblivion and his heart is entangled in the love of his family.

Meaning: Indeed, he has forgotten death and its agonies, and is careless and distracted from the path of salvation.

Meaning: Darkness of his inward reflects from his face, he knows nothing about the cleanliness of inward.

Meaning: Your life is based on a single breath, and you wish to have the whole world for that breath.

Meaning: What a pity! You are mean, arrogant, hypocrite, greedy and follow sensual desires just for the single breath.

Meaning: Only for that single breath you commit all the evil and raise turmoil to attain high worldly and religious ranks.

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Meaning: Shame on your so-called wisdom and self-made rules which have turned you blind from the reality.

Meaning: This world is despicable and should be reacted more despicably. That is why, it is cursed in the view of Mystics having insight.

Meaning: Due to the love of world, heart is captured in pretence and hypocrisy. When the love of world is exterminated from the inward, one becomes the knower of Allah. Know that the world makes its seeker drink the wine of satanic egoism, he remains in its intoxication for his entire life and is never liberated from self-conceit and ecstasy of lustful desires. The world displays its possessions in a beautiful form before its seeker, makes the gold and silver fascinating for him and attracts him towards variety of delicious foods, hence, traps his innerself in these pleasures and snatches his faith. The world claims that whoever gets hold of its possessions becomes the brother of Satan because he first renounces his faith and then becomes a cruel maneater. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: The world ruinsthe faith just like fire burns the wood.

Meaning: Oâ&#x20AC;&#x; my Holy Lord! Make me the oppressed not the oppressor.

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Meaning: Eyes do not cry due to the callousness of heart, callousness of heart is due to earning illegitimate livelihood, illegitimate earning is due to excess of sins, the excess of sins is due to extra hopes, the reason of extra hopes is forgetting the death, one forgets death due to the love of world and love of world is the root cause of all sins while renunciation of world is the fountainhead of all virtues. Only that person seeks the world who has no trust upon Allah. No doubt! The foundation and reality of trust upon Allah is His gnosis, Mohammadan Faqr and strong faith. While, the foundation of world is Pharaohism and Satanism. True faith is that if a person does not have food even for the night and someone gives him one lac gold coins and asks him to remark against Islam or adopt his wrong innovation in the religion, then the person does not change his Mohammadan faith for the sake of cursed worldly wealth. This would prove that the person is man of strong faith and will never accept irreligiousness. That is to say, if all the troubles, pains, tribulations, discords and the entire worldliness which is the satanic asset, is gathered in a room then its key is this cursed world. Faqeer is one who, if gets the entire wealth of the world and the gold and silver, gathers it and keeps it beside him and asks everyone who meets him that this worldly asset has become a trouble for me, take it as much as you wish so that I may get rid of it. However, such a Faqeer is also a liar as he has kept the wealth beside him because his heart is inclined towards it. Faqeer is one who, if asked to take the wealth otherwise he will be beheaded, never takes it even if his head is cut. This is also not the perfect Faqeer rather the Faqeer at the middle level. Perfect Faqeer is one who gathers the entire wealth and immediately

341 spends it in the way of Allah among the people and his innerself is not at all worried at it. Spending in the way of Allah is the greatest Sunna of the Holy Prophet.

Meaning: The world, its castles and buildings are temporary and are like the clod of the Mohammadan way. Those who have drunk the elixir of Divine love, use this clod for istinja150. Keep in mind that the root of world is ignorance, arrogance, polytheism and infidelity as world is the heritage, pride and honour of the infidels. The world, Satan and the inciting innerself have sincerely united and collaborated with each other to deprave the humans. All three are the cursed reprobates. The world adorns itself as a beautiful and delicate maiden and fascinates people with its fake charm. Most of them are trapped by it. Whoever is imprisoned by the world, his being is captured by the satanic thoughts, misapprehensions, delusions of innerself, greed, jealousy, covetousness, arrogance and other such evils. Egoism envelops him and he is depraved from the right path. Then he always searches the satanic ruses and arguments from every knowledge to prove that the medium of spiritual guide is not required for guidance towards Allah, even when Allah has commanded;

Meaning: Oâ&#x20AC;&#x; believers! Fear Allah persistently and keep looking for the medium to (approach and get closer to) Him. (Al-Maidah 35)

Most people say that in this verse medium refers to knowledge, but it is wrong. Knowledge is not the medium rather it is the highway of sharia while the spiritual guide is the medium and guide on this way who protects the convoy with his inward army from the Satan. He has the provisions 150

Istinja means cleaning away after passing the urine or stool with water. If water is not available then it is allowed in Islam to use earthen clods.

342 and the skill required to travel the path safely, so only he can carry the seeker to the destinations of gnosis of “none but Allah” and presence of the Mohammadan Assembly peacefully. One can find many spiritual guides who order righteousness just verbally but the possessors of sainthood and spiritual traditions are a few. The spiritual guide who possesses spiritual traditions is one who has acquired Divine knowledge and the beneficence of Divine guidance from the previous perfect spiritual guide. Without the guidance of perfect spiritual guide, one turns Satan who is cursed to remain perplexed till the Doomsday. So, one should never remain without the spiritual guide. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: If knowledge had excellence without piety, Satan would have been superior to all the creation. Hence, right guidance is meant for the knowledgeable (the pious), the ignorant just waste it. In this age, knowledge is buried in books while the true scholars and seekers of Allah are buried in graves. The so-called scholars are imprisoned by their inciting innerself as they seek high ranks through nearness of the kings, struggle to earn more and more wealth and wish to satiate their appetite with delicious foods. They worship Allah and say prayer for augury only to have high worldly ranks and never wish to have gnosis of “none but Allah” and presence of the Mohammadan Assembly, as their desires are mean and stuck in worldly gains and benefits. Alas! The world has taken away the scholars and common people. O‟ depraved! Seeking the world is the root of all wrong innovations while seeking only Allah is the fountainhead of righteousness. The men of wrong innovations and the men of righteousness do not like each other‟s company. Allah has clearly warned people in the Holy Quran that Satan is your enemy, beware of it! Do not seek the world and do not follow the inciting innerself. The person, who goes against the commands of Quran, is neither the practitioner scholar nor the heir of Prophets or the perfect Faqeer having pure

343 inward. What is the sign of true practitioner scholars? They always talk about the words of Allah and the Holy Prophet, exegesis of Quran and the laws of Islam. The scholars who are true heirs of the Prophets are those who are ever weeping due to the fear of Allah and are the men of inward pain.

Meaning: If you have even a minute pain of love for Allah in your inward, it is better than possessing both the worlds. It is a fact that whoever is initially a true practitioner scholar, eventually becomes the perfect Faqeer if he truly seeks Allah and gets guidance from the perfect spiritual guide. The scholars who do not practise upon the knowledge, their knowledge is just a burden on them, Allah says about them;

Meaning: Their example is like that of a donkey who carries volumes (of books). (Al-Jumaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;a 5) The perfect Mystic Faqeer immortal with Allah can be recognized by seven signs; (1) He is not an emulator but the man of Tauheed. He holds the key to solve every problem. Whenever he uses that key, every problem is solved by the Grace of Allah. (2) Can convert a handful of grains into a heap. (3) Possesses the power of all-seeing. (4) He is the man of sharia. (5) He is independent of all desires. Even if he is indigent, he fulfills all the desires of his disciples and makes them independent of desires. (6) He is truthful, steadfast, obedient to Allah and against the falsehood and wrong innovations in the religion.

344 Meaning: Oâ&#x20AC;&#x; our Holy Lord! Show us the right as right and false as false. (7) He possesses the best morals. He is the man of jamiat and is stationed at the ultimate inward level i.e. One with Allah. Allah says; Meaning: And peace will be upon him who follows the right guidance. (Taha47) If you come, you will certainly attain the gnosis of â&#x20AC;&#x153;none but Allahâ&#x20AC;? and presence of the Mohammadan Assembly which are the secret of kindness, but if you do not then Allah needs none. It is narrated that two disciples went in the service of a pure Dervish, each with his own objective, and stayed with him. One of them believed that one only gets the livelihood written in the destiny, while the other believed in the miraculous powers of Dervishes. One day the Dervish felt kind for the disciple who believed in the power of Dervishes to grant livelihood. He ordered one of his servants to make a watermelon hollow and fill it with pearls. The servant quickly followed the order and presented the watermelon to the Dervish. The Dervish granted it to that disciple. Since the disciple was unaware of the reality, he sold the watermelon to a green-grocer on the way only for one penny due to his poverty. At the same time, the other disciple who believed in destiny came there and bought the watermelon and went back. The servant who knew the secret of watermelon, went to the first disciple to reveal on him the reality about the secret bestowal of the Dervish so that he could get reward from him. The disciple became angry just on seeing the servant and irritably told him that the Dervish gave him a watermelon which he sold to the green-grocer only for a penny. The servant was surprised and revealed the secret

345 which was useless now. On knowing the secret, the disciple regretted too much and went to the green-grocer and demanded the watermelon back. The green-grocer said, “The watermelon was not a trust which I had to return, I bought it from you and sold it to someone else.” The disciple went to the other disciple who had bought the watermelon and asked him to give it to him. He said, “It was my destiny which I received.” Both of them started fighting and the matter was presented before the Dervish. The Dervish was amazed to hear the matter and gave the verdict in the favour of the disciple who bought the watermelon accepting that Allah blesses whomsoever He wishes.

Meaning: Although one gains livelihood through different mediums and causes, but the fact is that the mediums and causes were also created in eternity by Allah-the Causer.

Meaning: Everyone has placed his hopes and expectations in the causes, only a few keep true faith in the Causer. Answer of the writer;

Meaning: Just as Allah has not created any human without head, similarly there is not any creation whose sustenance and status is not already fixed. Whoever empties his head from the desires of innerself, Allah fills it with the treasures of Divine secrets. Then, wherever he sits and sees, converts the dust into gold by his sight. There is a Persian proverb which literally means “Take the dust from the biggest heap” while its veritable meaning is

346 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Try to learn at least small things from big words of the Saintsâ&#x20AC;?. Any born indigent who keeps struggling to earn livelihood never reaches Allah as the one who has disgraced himself due to poverty can never become the lover of Allah. It should be known that the common people get their sustenance through hard work but the sustenance of the distinguished ones lies in the everlasting gnosis of Allah-the Eternal. One who truly trusts upon Allah, neither waits for his daily livelihood nor annual sustenance because he knows that once every personâ&#x20AC;&#x;s sustenance was fixed and written in the destiny, the book of destiny was closed forever. The sustenance of a person having dead soul lies in covetousness and covetousness does not have stomach that can be filled, so, a covetous is never contented as he is on the wrong path. The sustenance of Mystics is the absolute union with Allah for which they perpetually remain engrossed in Divinity, while their livelihood pursues them worriedly day and night. How can this reality be understood by the irreligious and indecent ignorant who are utterly deprived of good deeds and sagacity, neither they have trust upon Allah nor His gnosis! The food of the dung-worm is dung, so he lives in it happily, while the food of pure people is also pure and aromatic. Whoever seeks Allah, livelihood seeks him, as told in Hadith; Meaning: One who finds Allah, finds everything. The true Mystics, those blessed with Divine union, the lovers of Allah and the ones having complete trust upon Allah are conferred anew livelihood every day. Hence, their saintly soul finds bliss and the wretched innerself remains perplexed. The sustenance of a person is nearer to his jugular vein like death. Just as death reaches a person wherever he is, similarly sustenance reaches him.

347 Meaning: Had sustenance not the adorer of man, why would the wheat grain have come out of the earth tearing its surface. Allah says;

Meaning: And there is no moving creation (living being) on the earth but (that) its sustenance is (a bountiful obligation) upon Allah. (Hud 6) The writer says that if a person keeps remembering sustenance, faith, certainty and inward verification but forgets to do the invocation of Allah, all the four blessings get away from him. However, if one keeps remembering Allah by doing His invocation, the sustenance, faith, certainty and inward verification come towards him and then never separate from him making him blissful. Sustenance seeks the man like Azrael-the angel of death seeks the soul. Just as Azrael does not spare the person whose time of death has approached, whether he is at land or water, similarly the sustenance persues the person who is destined to receive it. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: Livelihood seeks a person more intensely than his death. Sustenance depends upon oneâ&#x20AC;&#x;s intentions. The virtuous ones get the lawful sustenance while the evils get the unlawful. How can a person recognize the innerself, the inward, the soul and the core in his existence? By the excessive contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat, the spiritual being of the seeker flourishes and a form of Divine light appears in his spiritual being by the Divine favour which keeps him occupied in different spiritual matters, devotions and the accountability of innerself. It is said;

348 Meaning: One who recognizes his innerself, recognizes his Holy Lord. That form of Divine light is sometimes passionately engaged in the invocation of and reflecting upon it while sometimes in the glorification rounds and recitation of Quran. When such a seeker goes to sleep, the form of Divine light drowns him in the gnosis of Allah and makes him acceptable in the court of Allah. When he immerses in the state of meditation, it takes him to the Mohammadan Assembly. If the seeker gets inclined towards sin, that form prevents him, sometimes by reminding him the knowledge of exegesis of Quran, sometimes by advising him and telling him the Islamic laws about the obligations, compulsions, Sunnas and the desirable acts. Hence, does not let the seeker be oblivious of Allah in any state and occupies his body and soul completely. This form is the scholar of tongue, the inward verifier, sanctifier of soul, the secret of Mystics, medium to cover the spiritual levels, complies with Allah and is against the Satan. If the seeker goes to sleep physically, it does not let him sleep spiritually. If he indulges in music and dance, wrong innovations, drinking or renunciation of prayer, this form keeps him worried and restless. Meaning: One who recognizes his innerself by annihilating it, recognizes his Holy Lord by gaining immortality with Him. This form is the Divine secret.

Meaning: This form is one of the secrets of Allah and the Divine Oneness. It confers the Divine presence upon the obedient ones and converts them to Divine light.

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Meaning: That form is the inward while body is its cover. Only the sagacious Mystics recognize the inward. If the seeker seeks anything other than Allah, it warns and punishes him. So, this form becomes the guide of the seeker. What can you know about this form! This is also the initial stage of the spiritual states. Even if that form talks to you and lets you know the realities of past, present and future, still it is an imperfect level. You must seek further levels of gnosis and union of Allah. How does one attain these levels? Listen O‟ animal! The levels of gnosis and Divine presence are related with “Death before dying”. The seeker experiences the state of death during meditation or dream and passes through all the after-death phases i.e. he faces the accountability of Doomsday, crosses the Sirat bridge, enters the heaven, gets blessed with the vision of Almighty Allah and gains eternal life. Afterwards, whenever he performs the Divine meditation, it lets him cross all the levels and blesses him with the vision of Allah. The state of spiritual ecstasy overcomes him and makes him forget himself. He wraps the cover of sharia and follows the sharia strictly. Inwardly, he remains in the state of spiritual ecstasy but outwardly remains vigilant. Such a seeker is eligible for the vision of Allah and is called the Mystic of Allah‟s vision. He is disgusted of the carrion world and the worldly people having dead soul. Whoever reaches this level, becomes capable to behold Allah. When he comes out of the state of meditation and dream, he cannot explain what he beheld and got to know during the Divine presence neither can he exemplify the theophanies of Divine light with anything. That is why, it is said;

Meaning: One who recognizes his Holy Lord becomes silent.

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Meaning: Whoever reaches here, becomes the accomplished Mystic. Bahoo is the humble slave of such Mystics. The falsehood and the false cannot enter this way and the spiritually blind can never gain the gnosis of Allah. The Divine levels are the destiny of men of Tauheed, the embarrassed emulators cannot comprehend them. The men of Tauheed and the emulators do not like to join each otherâ&#x20AC;&#x;s company. Only Allah! Everything other than Allah is lust. This is the ultimacy of inward purity.

Meaning: And peace will be upon him who follows the right guidance. (Taha 47) You are welcomed on this way. If the imperfect performs mystic struggles for his entire life, it would be useless and he would gain nothing from the treasure of gnosis and union of Allah except the pain of struggle. You should know that the way of gnosis of Allah can be covered in just two and a half steps without any struggle or pain. First step is to cross the desires of innerself, second step is to reach the Mohammadan Assembly while the half step is to become immortal with Allah annihilating in Him and drowning in Divinity. The spiritual guide who cannot let the true seeker cover these two and a half steps in just two and a half moments and take him from the beginning till end, is minor than the women rather the she-males. The male spiritual guide is one who is so strong and powerful that he can cover all the spiritual levels in a moment, reach the Divine presence and accomplish all the objectives by the power of Ism-e-Allah Zaat. The spiritual guide who neither knows the way to Divine presence nor is aware of the Divine secrets, it is unlawful upon him to take anyone as his disciple.

351 Once a disciple asked his spiritual guide that the Divine Essence is Self-Sustained, Immortal and is manifested in everything but nothing can access It. The creation of everything of this world is from soil and water but its movement owes to the presence of Divine Essence in it. So, what is the actual source of creation of the world and its dwellers? The spiritual guide replied, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everything which has a beginning and an end has no permanent existence or no existence at all that can be trusted. If you ask about the reality of the world we see, then understand that this world is just illusionary which can be seen even when it is not present actually, just like you watch your face in the mirror but in fact it is not there. The material world has existence in the eyes of humans because of their lack of wisdom. Just as different articles are created from gold but no one calls them gold (rather calls them earrings, necklace etc.), similarly the Divine Essence is merged and hidden in the material body of everything in such a way that the Reality has disappeared from the peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x;s eyes and they cannot see anything but the physical bodies. Certainly, this temporary existence led to the concept of life and death and the illusionary world took the form of real world. However, when the Divine Essence appears in the inward of a person, neither the body remains nor the senses, neither the world nor the human, like the fire rises from the wood and burns the wood.

Meaning: The body is like wood while the Divine love is fire in it. If the fire is not strong, it does not ignite.

Meaning: However, when this fire lits, the wood exhausts just in a moment by its blaze.

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Meaning: The Mystics kill the innerself by a single glance like water extinguishes the fire. Answer of the writer: The existence of the human is like a vessel and his inner being is like milk. Just like curd, lassi151, butter and ghee are contained in the milk (as they all are obtained after processing the milk), similarly the innerself, the inward, the soul, the core, the Divine secrets and infinite theophanies of Divine light are present in the inner being of humans. The spiritual guide should not be lesser than a woman, as, when the woman adds a little sour lassi in the milk, the milk converts into curd. She churns that curd and produces butter which comes up and lassi is left below. Then she heats the butter on fire, which removes the impurities from butter and pure ghee is obtained. The Mystic spiritual guide should also show the seeker everything of his inner being separately and reveal upon him their points and stations so that he comes to know and recognize that this is my innerself and its level, this is my inward and its level, this is my soul and its level, this is my core and its level. The blessing that lets the seeker recognize, specify and justify all these in his existence automatically, is the Favour of Allah and this awareness is conferred by the spiritual guide. In fact, the point of beginning and the end is same. Unless the seeker achieves that point, he remains in duality which has two states; either one is in the state of decline i.e. he is trapped in verbosity or is in the state of union which is absolute observation of Divine Beauty.

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The milky drink which is obtained on churning the curd.

353 Meaning: When would that blessed time approach when the eyes would have the honour of the Divine vision just as ears have heard about it. Hence, seeing is different from hearing. Those blessed with seeing are delighted and blissful. Those who have just heard are unaccomplished, imperfect and amazed.

Meaning: There is amazement after amazement in this way, what actually is amazement? If the amazed are blessed with the Divine presence, they become the dear ones. These are the grand levels of the station beyond all stations. On approaching here, one attains immortality leaving behind annihilation. Only Allah! Everything other than Allah is lust. I am surprised at the people who prefer the desires of innerself and lusts upon Allah. They are like the blindfolded cattle that keep revolving around a point and consider that a large distance has been covered. Similarly, they have not approached any station but consider themselves blessed with the Divine presence. They are occupied by illusions, miser towards the rights of the creation and have friendship with falsehood. One who keeps friendship with the truth, Allah blesses him with His company. If the perfect spiritual guide decides to indulge the seeker in mystic struggle, he may keep him struggling for years, and if he wishes, he can let the seeker pass through the spiritual states in just a moment. Both ways of spiritual instruction are justified. Three things are like conveyance for the human; first is the conveyance of fear of Allah which is related with life, when he travels the span of life on this conveyance and reaches death, he leaves the fears about enmities and friendships. Then, he rides the conveyance of hope which takes him to the hereafter. The men of gnosis and love of Allah do not restrict themselves to the hereafter, rather they ride the conveyance of passion and start their journey towards the vision of Allah. Whoever seeks anything other than the vision of Allah, in fact seeks the

354 carrion. The men of Divine vision have nothing to do with the carrion. The worshiper is distracted while worshipping because his inward is disturbed due to attention towards various matters. You will find peace and contentment while worshipping only when you will turn your attention away from all other matters and engross in the observation of One Divine Reality. Most people consider that contentment lies in accumulating the resources, all such people remain in discord till the eternal end. While, there is a group of people who believe that the accumulation of resources is the actual cause of discord, so they have quitted all of them.

Meaning: Oâ&#x20AC;&#x; my heart! Seek the ultimacy. Till when you will remain indulged in acquiring the basic knowledges of grammar, medicine, mathematics etc.?

Meaning: Consider every thought a delusion except the invocation of Allah. When such thoughts occur in your mind, feel ashamed before Allah. The inward purity and safety from all kinds of evil thoughts are conferred by the spiritual guide through the contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat. The perfect spiritual guide grant excellence to his seekers in four things; (a) He blesses some of them with perfection in sight and make their sight alchemic (b) Makes the attention of some seekers perfect so much so that they gain authority over the six dimensions through their powerful attention (c) Bestows perfection of tongue upon some seekers so that whatever they order to be done, is immediately done by the command of Allah (e) Makes the steps of some seekers perfect and sacred, so that the place where they put their step becomes honoured, as said;

355 Meaning: Honour of the place is due to its dwellers. The feet of perfect spiritual guides are sacred like the hands. Whoever kisses their feet and holds their hand, his inward becomes alive and then never dies in the worldly life or in the life hereafter. Do you know why it is so that whenever one is inclined to offer the prayer, do the invocation or perform any virtuous deed, too much evil thoughts, distractions and misapprehensions start arousing in oneâ&#x20AC;&#x;s mind? It is because whenever a person intends to perform any devotion, the cursed Satan whispers the calls of greed, lust and other such indecencies in his ears and prevents him from true servitude by drenching him in the filth of extreme covetousness, greed, jealousy, backbiting, lust, discord etc. The inward of a man is like a holy home, the invocation of Allah is like the pure angel while the evil thoughts are like the dog. When a dog enters a home, the angels leave that home, but if the person locks his holy home from inside, the dog of evil thoughts will not enter it. A Hadith tells;

Meaning: Angels do not enter the house where a dog is kept. The remedy to end the evil thoughts is that the seeker should fix his eyes upon the Ism-e-Allah Zaat. Evil thoughts have no power to dominate the Zaat (Divine Essence). The people involved in gaining the knowledge of Divine attributes have thousands of veils before them. Their aim is to earn reward for their virtues so their inward is deprived of the gnosis of Allah and the felicity of gaining inspirations and answers from Divinity.

Meaning: I have annihilated in the Essence, why should I look towards the attributes.

356 When the possessor of contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat drowns in the holy letters of

, he views that every letter

of is vaster than the seven layers of earth, the skies, the Divine Throne, Chair, Tablet and Pen, rather it is vaster than both the worlds. Whoever enters that vast station, gains perfect gnosis of Tauheed and reaches the level of annihilation and immortality with Allah after crossing the stages of inward solitude and negation of self. One who becomes acquainted to the letters of , his being is absolutely purified and he becomes the man of Divine Essence. So, why should the seeker who is completely absorbed in the contemplation of holy letters of Ism-e-Allah Zaat says:

, fear from the Doomsday or accountability. Allah

Meaning: Verily, the Friends of Allah will not have any fear, nor will they grieve. (Yunus-62) The seeker who gains complete knowledge of the letters of the Divine name , everything of both the worlds is revealed upon him and he becomes a knowledgeable Mystic who knows the hidden. Outwardly, he is looked down upon by the people but inwardly he is vigilant and the beloved of souls of all Prophets and Saints as well as the dwellers of heaven. Such a Mystic is also called the scholar of Divine letters. Verily, every act of the Mystic immortal with Allah is according to the order of Allah and by the permission of the Holy Prophet. All his deeds, whether worldly or religious, are based on wisdom, as said:

Meaning: Every act of the Wise is based upon wisdom. Every state, word and deed of the Faqeer Mystics immortal with Allah is just to gain the gnosis and union of Allah as their reality is based on the contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat. Their action may seem to be a sin to the common

357 people but for Allah it is an absolute virtue and a pious deed because whatever they do is ordered to them by Allah as they are ever united with Him. Like the incident of Prophet Moses and Khidr which proves that their way and concept of sin were different from each other. This incident is mentioned in Surah Al-Kahf. When Khidr damaged the boat, built the falling wall and killed the child, Prophet Moses raised objections on these acts of Khidr, as a result their ways were separated, as mentioned in Quran: Meaning: (Khidr) said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is the parting (time) between me and you.â&#x20AC;? (Al-Kahf78) You must know that the verses of Holy Quran encompass everything about Tauheed as well as the creation, whether it is related to the earth or skies, land or water, Allah says;

Meaning: And with Him are the keys of the unseen, none knows them except Him. And He knows what is on the land and in the sea. Not a leaf falls but that He knows it. And no grain is there within the darkness of the earth and no moist or dry (thing) but that it is (written) in the enlightening Book. (Al-Inam 59)

Each and every verse of the Quran has a special efficacy and wisdom and it grants spiritual levels by the order of Allah. Every verse contains complete knowledge, wisdom, jamiat, bestowal, sainthood and guidance. Only the immortal Mystic can derive these beneficences from the Quran entirely. The imperfect ones who are deprived of the gnosis of Allah have no knowledge about the real meaning of verses of Quran. Allah says;

358 Meaning: (Allah sent a glorious Messenger among them) who recites to them His verses and purifies them and teaches them the book and wisdom, indeed they were in open error before. (Al-Jumma 2) All the spiritual levels and states that can be gained from the verses of Quran are related with the basic pillars of faith, one of which is the veritable affirmation of the Islamic creed (“La illaha ilAllahoo Mohammad-urRasoolullah” meaning “None is worthy of worship except Allah and Mohammad is His Messenger”) and the other is its verification by heart gained through the inward invocation and glorification of Allah. Quran states;

Meaning: They are those upon whose hearts He has inscribed faith and supported them with His Own Soul.(Al-Mujadala22)

Meaning: The Bedouins say, “We have believed.” Say, “You have not (yet) believed; rather say, „We have accepted Islam‟, for faith has not yet entered your hearts. And if you obey Allah and His Messenger, He will not decrease anything (in reward) for your deeds. Indeed, Allah is the Most Forgiving and Merciful.” (Al-Hujrat 14) The inward (qalb) is of three kinds which have different names; the inward returned to Allah (qalb-e-muneeb), the witnessing inward (qalb-e-shaheed) and the purified inward (qalb-e-saleem) complying with the following three verses of Quran respectively;

359 Meaning: Who feared the Most Merciful unseen and came with the inward returning in repentance, enter it in peace. This is the Day of Eternity. (Qaaf 33, 34)

Meaning: Indeed, in that is a reminder for whoever has the inward that listens attentively and is witnessing. (Qaaf 37)

Meaning: The Day when wealth or progeny will not benefit (anyone). But only the one who comes to Allah with the perfect and pure inward. (Al-Shuara-88, 89) There are many other verses about the heart and inward, some of which are mentioned;

Meaning: Allah has not made for any man two hearts inside his breast chamber. (Al-Ahzab 4)

Meaning: And indeed, this Quran has been revealed by the Lord of all the worlds. The Trusted Spirit has descended with it, upon your (most illuminated) inward (Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Mohammad) so that you may be the Warner (to the disobedient). (It is sent down) in the clear Arabic language. And indeed, it is (also mentioned) in the scriptures of former communities. And is it not a (sufficient) proof (of the truth of Quran and the truth of Mohammadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Prophethood) that the learned scholars of children of Israel (also) recognize it? And if We had revealed it to any of the non-Arabs, and he had recited it to these people, (even then) they would not have believed it. (AshShuara 192-199)

360 The dead inwards are ever surrounded by darkness while the alive inwards are ever immersed in the gnosis of Allah which is the source of eternal life. Allah says;

Meaning: Allah is the Friend of faithfuls; He brings them out of darkness and takes them towards the light of Allah. And those who are disbelievers, their supporters are Satans who take them out of the light into the darkness (of evil).(AlBaqarah 257)

The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: The inward is of three kinds, the inward returned to Allah, the witnessing inward and the purified inward. The inward returned to Allah is the inward which is always engrossed in the servitude of Allah, the witnessing inward is the inward which is ever drowned in the gnosis of secrets of the worlds and the purified inward is the inward which has nothing except Allah. The writer says that there are two basic kinds of the inward; the filthy inward which is surrounded by satanic thoughts, sensual desires, worries of worldly accidents and is ill with different spiritual diseases. It is incurable and remains deprived of the gnosis and Kindness of Allah unless it returns towards Allah with perfect sincerity and refers to the spiritual guide who is the spiritual physician, for the treatment of its diseases. Whoever does not go to the spiritual physician, blackness of his inward increases day by day due to the spiritual diseases, eventually it is seized. Allah says;

361 Meaning: In their inwards is disease, so Allah has increased their disease. (Al-Baqarah 10) You should seek excellence in knowledge for the sake of gnosis of Allah whose medium is the perfect spiritual guide. The spiritual guide who is the possessor of contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat is the source of salvation during life as well as after death. It is said about the spiritual guide;

Meaning: The spiritual guide gives life to the inward and death to the innerself. The other kind of inward is that which has been purified by the invocation of Allah and has become sacred and desirable in the court of Allah. It is blessed with the Divine secrets of gnosis and is filled with the light of Allah. The possessor of such an alive inward is eternally blessed with the Divine presence.

Meaning: The inward is the centre of Divine attention; how can you call the home of devil the centre of Divine attention! Allah says; Meaning: And whoever believes in Allah, He will guide his inward. (At-Taghabun 11)

Meaning: Remove the jungle of evil thoughts from your inward so that you find Oneness with the Divine Essence. The men of invocation and the men of inward who have gnosis of Allah, consider the states of spiritual intoxication and ecstasy as fault and imperfection which make the person scholar by tongue but ignorant by heart.

362

Meaning: The pure inward is filled with the light of Allah and the Divine secrets. The men of pure inward perpetually remain in the state of prayer. Faqeer Bahoo says;

Meaning: The ecstasy of the imperfects is just their illusion. The real ecstasy which is gained after union with the Beloved makes one vigilant. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: “Beware of the ignorant scholar”. He was asked, “Who is the ignorant scholar?” He explained, “One who is scholar by tongue but ignorant by heart.” Basically, there are four kinds of knowledge, one who accomplishes in all four of them is the man of excellence and capable for guiding on the right path. The spiritual guide who is ignorant of these knowledges is imperfect and the cause of chaos. The four kinds of knowledge are; the knowledge of tongue, the knowledge of inward, the knowledge of soul and the knowledge of core. One who gains perfect command on these four, the entire knowledge inscribed on the tablet of mind is revealed upon him and he can study it easily. In each knowledge, there are seventy thousand veils related to the innerself, physical body, inward, soul, core and the station beyond all stations, as it is said;

Meaning: Knowledge is the greatest veil.

363 The seeker who acquires the gnosis of Allah after accomplishing in all the knowledges, becomes the veritable descendant of Prophet Adam and achieves the distinguished level of humanity, as Allah says;

Meaning: And We have indeed honoured the children of Adam. (Bani-Israil 70) All spiritual levels and stations are centered in the heart152 and reveal from the heart. Heart is not the piece of flesh filled with impure blood, rather real heart is full of the light of Allah and its reality is out of the bounds of imagination and intellect. Recognizing the heart is itself a great level, if you achieve that then it is a matter of honour, but you must not be arrogant upon it because the levels of gnosis and closeness of Allah, Divine presence and immersion in the state of annihilation in Allah are beyond it. Allah says;

Meaning: And I am nearer to you than your jugular vein. (Qaf 16) That means, the Divine inspirations, closeness of Allah, observation of theophanies of the Essence, the Divine presence and gnosis of Allah can be found nearer than oneâ&#x20AC;&#x;s jugular vein. Prophet Moses used to go to mount Sinai to converse with Allah but for the true followers of Prophet Mohammad, their own being is like mount Sinai. They converse with Allah nearer to their jugular vein and get the answers from their Holy Lord through invocation and Divine presence. Certainly, the followers of Prophet Mohammad are courageous, as Prophet Moses fainted just on beholding a particle of the Divine theophany. When he returned to his senses after three days, he submitted;

Meaning: Exalted are You! I turn to You in repentance and I am the first of the faithfuls. (Al-Aâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;raf 143) 152

Here heart actually refers to the inward or the subtle heart.

364 While, seventy thousand theophanies of the Essence descend upon the hearts of Faqeer Mystics every second by the Kindness of Allah but their state does not change a bit and they keep themselves composed. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: The (true) scholars of my nation are superior to the Prophets of the Children of Israel. True scholars are the Faqeer Mystics who practise upon the esoteric and the exoteric knowledge. Perfect Fuqara are the practitioner scholars, not just the bearers of burden of knowledge. Allah says about the superficial scholars;

Meaning: Their example is like that of a donkey who carries volumes (of books). (Al-Jumaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;a 5) The inward of Mystics is so pure and vast due to the dominance of Divine theophanies and the pain of love of Allah created by the invocation that the fourteen spheres of earth and skies can disappear in it and would feel like a particle as the dot in .

Meaning: Oâ&#x20AC;&#x; Allah! Your secret is concealed in the inward of every possessor of the Divine secret. The door of Your Kindness is always open for everyone.

Meaning: Whoever comes to Your Court with humility never returns empty handed. The inward of Mystics is vaster than the Rehmat (Kindness and Mercy) of Allah because the Rehmat of Allah can be contained in the inward but the inward cannot be bounded by the Rehmat. As, Rehmat is the kind attention of Allah while

365 inward is the centre of attention of Allah. The Mystics are verily aware of all the aspects of reality of inward and their inward is the center of righteous guidance. Allah says:

Meaning: So, he whom Allah intends to give guidance, He broadens his breast (i.e. inward) for Islam and he for whom He wills persistence in error, He tightens his breast with (such a) fierce constriction as if he were ascending up hard into the sky. In the same way Allah sends torment upon those who do not come to believe. (Al-Inam 125)

Meaning: Well, he whose breast Allah has opened for Islam is (stationed) in the light from his Lord. (But on the contrary) they, whose hearts are hardened for (being deprived of the bounty of) invocation of Allah are destined to ruin. It is they who are in open error. (Az-Zumar 22)

Meaning: Have We not broadened your breast for you (for the light of knowledge and gnosis)? And We have taken off the burden (of grief of the nation) from you. (Al-Inshirah 1-2)

Meaning: Invocation of Allah is the greatest. (Al-Ankabut 45) The Holy Prophet said:

Meaning: The invocation of Allah is the foremost of all the obligations

366 Allah says;

Meaning: (Do not take) anything upon which the Divine name Allah has not been recited, it is verily a sin (to have it). (Al-Inam 121)

Meaning: And turn to your Lord earnestly. (Al-Inshirah8) Whoever claims to be one of the truthfuls, martyrs and pious, complying with the following verse, should truthfully drown in the state of annihilation in Allah and adopt truthfulness perfectly;

Meaning: The Prophets, the truthful, the martyrs and the most pious. And how excellent these companions are! (AnNisa 69)

The ultimate level of spiritual immersion of immortal Mystics and Faqeer Dervishes is that they do not see anything except the light of Allah. They drown in the theophanies of the Divine Essence to such an extent that they annihilate themselves and find immortality through the gnosis of Allah. It is the station where one neither remembers the rituals nor passion and love, neither remembers the body and essence nor the invocation and reflection. The Mystic is so much immersed in the invocation of Divine presence that neither he remembers patience nor gratitude. Allah says;

Meaning: Do the invocation of your Holy Lord when you forget (everything). (Al-Kahf24) The levels of certainty are gained by the one who goes against the desires of innerself, does justice to the innerself and is righteous and trustworthy. Whoever acquires these attributes, his innerself is separated from the company of

367 cursed Satan and his inward becomes the guide and vizier of the sacred soul with veracity and certainty. You do not know that inciting innerself is the king in the existence and Satan is its vizier who are always conspiring and planning to arouse ego and conceit. The signs of truthfulness in seeking the gnosis of Allah are mentioned in the following conversation which took place between Rabia of Basra and some other Saints on the topic of truthfulness. One of the Saints said, “The person who is not thankful to Allah upon the pain given by Him is not true to his claim of love with Allah.” The other Saint said, “One who does not observe patience upon the pain inflicted by Allah is not true to his claim of love with Allah”. Third Saint said, “That person is not true to his claim of love with Allah who does not enjoy the pain given by Allah.” Rabia of Basra said, “Such truthfulness is immature, it depicts separation from Allah and is metaphorical.” She defined truthfulness as, “One must be so much engrossed in the observation of his Beloved Allah that he forgets all the pains, otherwise he is not true to his claim of love with Allah.” The writer says, “One who does not annihilate in Allah with truthfulness when Allah inflicts pain upon him, is not true to his claim of love with Allah.” Truthfulness means certainty and certainty is gained from the certainty. Certainty is the speciality of Mohammadan faith and is gained by prostrating before Allah humbly. Whoever renounces prostrating before Allah, is the cursed Satan.

EXPLANATION OF CERTAINTY Allah says;

Meaning: And worship your Lord till you attain the final level of certainty. (Al-Hijr 99)

368 Meaning: Worship the Lord till the end of your life and attain certainty because certainty guarantees perfection in faith.

Meaning: Certainty means to follow the entire teachings of Quran and entrust oneself to Allah.

Meaning: Certainty is the asset and light of faith, it grants the gnosis and closeness of Allah.

Meaning: Certainty should be as strong as a son is certain about his father. Such certainty ends the evil duality from the inward.

Meaning: Certainty is gained when one beholds Allah with oneâ&#x20AC;&#x;s own eyes. This felicity is obtained by the company of Mystics.

Meaning: Certainty about Allah leads to the Divine secrets. To gain certainty, exterminate everything from the inward except Allah.

Meaning: Certainty carries one to the Divine presence without any struggle. It can be acquired only from the man of certainty i.e. the perfect spiritual guide.

369

Meaning: Whoever is blessed with certainty, acquires the truth and becomes the Mystic united with Allah reaching the final level of certainty gained through experience. Know that the infidels, enemies of Islam, dissenters, Kharijites and hypocrites are deprived of certainty. Certainty is the purity and is related with the Truth while these wretcheds are against the Quran, its injunctions, Hadiths and the Sunni way. Their belief is based on falsehood because they trust the false and filthy carrion world. While, the true followers of the Holy Prophet who belong to the Sunni sect are so certain about their faith that if they do not have sustenance even for a day and someone offers them one lac gold coins, they would never retreat from their faith because their certainty about the Mohammadan faith blesses them with gnosis and closeness of Allah. The Persian word for „Certainty‟ is transliterated as „Yaqeen‟ which has four letters; (Y), (Q), (Y), (N).By the letter (Y), Yaqeen makes “Yagana” i.e. unique with Allah. By the letter (Q), Yaqeen grants “Qurb” i.e. closeness of Allah. By the second (Y), Yaqeen makes “Yakta” i.e. One with Allah. By the letter (N), Yaqeen annihilates the Nafs i.e. the inciting innerself making it naught and purifying it from the lust and sensual desires. Certainty makes one completely resigned to the will of Allah conforming to the verses;

Meaning: (Say) Sufficient for me is Allah. (Taubah 129)

Meaning: Allah is Sufficient (for His men). (Al-Ahzaab 39) Mystically, the term „Certainty‟ means to be certain in every condition and while doing every act that Allah is Omnipresent and Omnipotent. Certainty is one of the highest

370 levels of righteousness. Certainty of the truthful and righteous about the friendship of Allah and His religion is strong like mountain which never breaks or shakes. The certainty of the hypocrites and irreligious who are obedient to the cursed Satan is like the sand which never stays at a place.

Meaning: Certainty means the inward verification and fulfilling the eternal promise. It leads to the beneficence and Grace of Allah.

Meaning: Certainty is related with the sanctity of soul. When the soul is sanctified, certainty assimilates in it.

Meaning: Certainty is gained by going against the innerself and is maintained by having the enlivened inward.

Meaning: Certainty engraves the Truth in heart and shows the vision of Allah in it which makes the person enlightened.

Meaning: Oâ&#x20AC;&#x; Bahoo! Certainty is accomplished by achieving three levels and stations of certainty. When all three become one, certainty is perfected. The three levels are; knowledge of certainty, vision of certainty and the final level of certainty gained through experience. These three enlighten the inward of the seeker

371 like the sun with the light of verification and end all the darkness created by disbelief. Certainty means that the seeker follows Allah and the Holy Prophet in every condition, whether he is ill or healthy, facing hardships or ease and never returns to the lusts of innerself. Such certainty is the medium to reach Allah and is gained by the invocation of . Get to know that certainty is the foundation of love, gnosis and desire for Allah as well as of all the levels of invocation, reflection, Divine presence, inward inspirations, closeness of Allah, annihilation and immortality.

Meaning: Certainty is the basic requirement, if you have it, your matter will surpass the seven skies. The writer says that if the imperfects claim that their certainty has carried them towards the Throne, Chair, Guarded Tablet and the Pen, then they are wrong. Their certainty carries them away from the gnosis and Oneness of Allah. The certainty of the truthfuls and Mystics engrosses them in the observation and gnosis of Allah and confers the eternal presence of Mohammadan Assembly upon them. The seeker whom the spiritual guide blesses with the contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat, the invocation of Allah continues in his entire existence and his flesh and bones, skin and veins, soul and core, rather each and every hair gets the power of speech and excitedly invokes , YaAllahoo, Ya-Allahoo. By the contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat and the invocation of Allah , all the stations are revealed upon him from pre-existence till the eternal end, from the world till life hereafter and from the life hereafter till he is blessed with the vision of Allah. This is initial stage of the invocation that grants the Divine union. If invocation of the Divine name Allah does not grant these felicities to the invoker neither affects his inward, then his

372 invocation is imperfect and illusionary. Veritable invocation is done in the inward. Do not consider it wrong, as the veritable invocation grants such deep engrossment to the invoker as if he has died. This complies with the Hadith;

Meaning: Die before your death. Whatever the soul of the dead sees, is right. However, to sustain Ism-e-Allah Zaat in the existence, there is a condition stated by the Holy Prophet;

Meaning: The Divine name of Allah in the pure and holy existence.

does not sustain but

By the efficacy of invocation of the Divine name , the seeker of Allah gains authority over the inward and the outward on the very first day. It is mandatory upon the spiritual guide to carry at least a few seekers to the finality of gnosis of Allah. If he does not find any capable and courageous seeker of Allah who is eligible for gnosis of Allah and righteousness then he should grant these blessings to the kind king who is like the shadow of God for his subject, as the worth of generous is recognized by the generous. Those who acquire the constrained Faqr which brings disgrace, can never travel on the way of gnosis of Allah. For the perfect spiritual guide, only one true seeker is enough who wishes nothing but Allah, otherwise thousands of seekers come to him with their personal wishes. Only Allah! Everything other than Allah is lust. Perfect spiritual guide is one who grants four levels to the true seeker of Allah; either he grants him the elevated level of inward through which he is always honoured with meeting with the Saints and men of inward spiritually or the elevated level of soul through which he perpetually enjoys the spiritual company of sacred souls of Prophets and Saints. Or, he may grant him the elevated level of core through which the secrets

373 of gnosis of Allah are revealed upon him. Or, he bestows the elevated level of the Hidden upon him, after achieving which, nothing remains covert from the invoker of secret invocation. Whoever does not know this verified way, cannot be called the true Mystic spiritual guide. You must know that when the Divine knowledge of gnosis of Allah-the Hayee and Qayyum enters the existence of the seeker, the conventional knowledge is eliminated from it. Whoever conjoins the esoteric and the exoteric knowledge and acts upon them, is capable for guidance on the right path and is the man of gnosis and Divine union. Know that there was only one knowledge which was not possessed by the Holy Prophet i.e. the knowledge of covetousness, jealousy, conceit and arrogance. It is the shameful knowledge and Satan is its learned scholar. Satan is ignorant of the knowledge of righteousness and gnosis of Allah and is deprived of the knowledge of engrossment in Divine union. Knowledge descends upon the soul of the practitioner scholars and the perfect Fuqara which perplexes and destroys their inciting innerself, while, it descends upon the inciting innerself of the non-practitioner scholars and the imperfect Fuqara which perplexes and destroys their inward. The men of soul and the men of inciting innerself never like each other‟s company. The Persian word for knowledge is

transliterated as Ilm

which means “to know”. It has three letters; , , . Ilm starts with the letter 153 which is pronounced as “Ain” and Ain means “the Exact Essence”. Whoever comes to know the “Ain”, is blessed with exact bestowal, exact sainthood, exact righteousness, exact Divine union as well as the three levels of certainty i.e. knowledge of certainty, vision of certainty and the final level of certainty gained through experience. The Ain of Ilm takes to the Truth liberating from falsehood. The middle letter of Ilm is “La” meaning “no” or “naught”, so the 153

The Arabic alphabet „

(L) which stands for (L) of Ilm makes

‟ gives sound of all vowels a, e, i, o, u.

374 the seeker La-yahtaj i.e. having no desires and annihilates the inciting innerself making it naught. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: Whoever recognizes his innerself, recognizes his Lord. One, who recognized his innerself by annihilating it, recognized his Holy Lord by gaining immortality with Him. Whoever understood the reality of annihilation, immortality and gnosis of Allah, understood it through knowledge and became the Friend of Allah. An ignorant never ever became a Mystic. The last letter of Ilm is (M) which stands for the Mohammadan Assembly. Whoever reaches the finality of Ilm, gets blessed with the honour of meeting with the sacred souls in the Mohammadan Assembly. One who does not follow the commands of knowledge, goes against the knowledge and follows his innerself and its lusts, neither keeps in view the honour of scholars who are considered the heirs of Prophets, for such a person, the (A) of Ilm depicts that he is â&#x20AC;&#x153;Aaqâ&#x20AC;? i.e. disinherited from the heirship, the (L) of Ilm depicts that he is La-deen i.e. irreligious and the (M) of Ilm means that he is Murdar i.e. dead spiritually, disgraced and is ever trapped in the lustful desires of innerself. The asset of faith and honour is the knowledge of Quranic injunctions, Hadiths, Islamic laws and the laws of spirituality. Islamic laws are the Quran. Faqr is based on the Islamic laws and the Islamic laws are based on the Tauheed and gnosis of Allah, while the base of laws of spirituality is the invocation of Allah and other Divine deeds. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: Nothing can divert the attention of the men of invocation from Allah even for a moment. I am amazed at the people who do everything to impress other people and to get respect from them, they want tombs

375 and monasteries but never do anything to please Allah neither they ever turn towards His gnosis. Make it sure that for the perfect and distinguished ones, gaining the power of spiritual flight of the spheres, achieving the rank of Ghaus and Qutb and reaching seventy thousand stations above the Throne is the job of imperfects. Gaining the knowledge of alchemy, earning fame and honour, getting all the creation including the jinns, humans, beasts and birds inclined towards oneself and achieving high worldly ranks by showing miracles and supernatural acts is the job of unaccomplished ones. Gaining the knowledge of panacea alchemy, knowledge of Dawat-e-Takseer154, knowledge of making impressions by filling twenty circles with Allah‟s attributive name „Budduho‟, knowledge of science of numbers, letters and impressions, gaining the power of summoning the kings and aristocrats by capturing them spiritually is the job of unwise. The real job of men is to annihilate themselves, achieve the exact gnosis of “none but Allah” and perpetually remain present in the Mohammadan Assembly being blessed with the Divine presence.

Meaning: One who is liked by Allah does not care whether people like him or not. As you know, nothing is softer than butter, it melts just by a little heat. Similarly, the heart of Dervishes, Fuqara and faithfuls melts by heat of another kind, that is, on seeing their faithful brethren in pain.

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Takseer means augmentation. Dawat is the spiritual act to meet sacred souls to seek their help and beneficence. Dawat-e-Takseer is the Dawat in which the seeker progresses by meeting the sacred souls one by one in each Dawat and eventually reaches Allah through their guidance.

376 Meaning: True heart is that which melts on otherâ&#x20AC;&#x;s pain, otherwise it is just a piece of flesh made out of soil and water. Answer of the writer;

Meaning: The heart of the real men of inward is hurt on seeing anyone in pain, as they cannot tolerate anyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x;s discomfort and grief.

Meaning: The callous heart is dark and embarrassed; how can it be considered eligible for gnosis or union with Allah.

Meaning: My broken heart can be treated only by the one who has already treated his own broken heart.

Meaning: The broken heart can be treated only by love and care. Who has ever treated the broken heart by breaking it more? Save your soul from being dead by engaging yourself with Allah as it is the source of life of soul. Alive soul is that which is drowned in the Ism-e-Allah Zaat and annihilated in the Divine Essence.

377 Meaning: If you approach the greatest Throne of Divine light, then this is the level of imperfects deprived of the Divine presence.

Meaning: If you can read the Guarded Tablet day and night, then this is the level of the imperfects who are disobedient.

Meaning: Approaching any station of the Throne, Chair, Guarded Tablet or Pen is the level of imperfects and unaccomplished ones.

Meaning: Allahâ&#x20AC;&#x;s attention is towards the heart, so search Him in your heart (i.e. inward) by eliminating everything other than Allah from it. The heart must be replete with the Divine light of Allah. The heart made of soil and water and placed in the breast chamber which remains full of satanic apprehensions is not the true heart. Such ignorant heart is dead and perplexed.

Meaning: Why donâ&#x20AC;&#x;t you try to enliven your heart and drink the sweet drink of eternal life?

Meaning: The alive heart never dies and the awake heart never sleeps.

378 It complies with the verse;

Meaning: And (also recall the event) when Abraham said, “My Lord, show me how you bring the dead to life”. Allah said, “Do you not have faith?” He submitted, “Why not! (I do believe), but (I wish) my heart is blessed with gratifying calm”. Allah ordained, “Well, take four birds and tame them to feel attached to you; then (slaughter them and) place a piece of each of them on each hill, then call them. They will come to you at high speed. And know that surely Allah is All-Mighty, All-Wise.” (Al-Baqarah-260) You must know that the foundation of servitude, Lordship, devotions, matters related with life, the Divine presence, presence of the Mohammadan Assembly, engrossment in the Divine Essence, annihilation in Allah and immortality with Allah is to act upon the esoteric and exoteric knowledge. Whoever loves the knowledge of Alif155 and reaches its essence, this knowledge reveals upon him the knowledge of Divine love because nothing is out of the bounds of knowledge of Alif. That is to say, by the efficacy and contemplation of the knowledge of Alif, the seeker can certainly see the spectacle of both the worlds equal to the size of seed of wild rue on his finger nail or palm. One who achieves this level does not need to read or write.

155

Alif is the first Arabic alphabet and it refers to Ism-e-Allah Alif.

which starts with

379 Meaning: Why the thought of reading too many books has obsessed you! If you understand, then only the knowledge of Alif is enough for you. The spiritual way is of two kinds; one is related with the spiritual travelling of all the spheres from the Throne till deep down the earth. The spiritual journey of all the spheres from beginning till end is based upon the desires of innerself. The men of these desires perform mystic struggles for years and years then they reach the end of journey but they still remain unaware of the real closeness of Allah. Allah‟s sight is not upon the spheres and levels but on the sanctified inward, and the sanctified inward is possessed by the pure men who are perpetually blessed with the presence of the Mohammadan Assembly. This is the light of Divine presence which is at the station beyond all stations. Whoever reaches here, complies with Allah and opposes the Satan. The levels of Sharia156, Tareeqa157, Haqeeqa158 and Marifa159 are related with the stations of physical world, the angelic realm, the realm of power and the realm of absolute Unity respectively. All these stations are related with the desires of innerself and are far away from the Mohammadan Faqr which is beyond all stations and related with Divine Oneness being annihilated in Allah. The company of men of desires and spheres does not suit to the men of Divine immersion who are annihilated in Allah. Even if the Faqeer inwardly reaches the ultimate level of Divinity, he never commits any act against the sharia. If he does, his rank of Divine presence is confiscated and he is considered liar and boaster. The Holy Prophet always keeps the Faqeer whose inward has been enlivened by engrossment in the invocation of Allah and 156

The initial level of spiritual journey travelled by following the Islamic law perfectly and sincerely for Allah. 157 The second level of spiritual journey called mysticism and related with the inward purgation for the closeness of Allah. 158 Haqeeqa means the Reality. It is the third level of spiritual journey whereby one finds the Reality after gaining inward perfection. 159 Marifa means gnosis of Allah. On approaching this level, the seeker starts to gain the veritable gnosis of Allah. The Holy Prophet said about these four levels; “Sharia is my words, Tareeqa is my actions, Haqeeqa is my inward states and Marifa is my secrets”.

380 gnosis of “none but Allah”, under his kind view and never looks towards the slaves of innerself and the worldly people, complying with the following command of Allah;

Meaning: (O’ Beloved!) Stay tenaciously in the company of those who invoke their Lord morning and evening, ardently seeking (vision of) His countenance. And do not turn your eyes away from them. Do you seek the charms of worldly life (turning your attention away from these self-denying devotees)? And (also) do not follow him whose heart We have made neglectful of Our remembrance and who follows the desires of his innerself, he is the one who exceeds all bounds. (Al-Kahf28) Know that the contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat cleanses the entire existence of the seeker in just seven days like the soap cleans the dirty cloth. This inward way of gnosis is the destiny of the knowledgeable, the ignorant cannot travel this way. Even if an ignorant spends his whole life in hardest mystic struggles and devotions, he can never attain the gnosis of Allah.

Meaning: I have known after complete research that knowledge of gnosis and Faqr is the best and pride of all knowledges.

Meaning: O‟ Bahoo! Knowledge is the guide of scholars and acquaints the Mystics with Allah.

381 It is evident that the seeker of knowledge cannot be considered the seeker of Allah without trial. If he succeeds in the trail, he quickly attains the level of the man of vision. When a seeker of knowledge becomes the seeker of Allah, his spiritual levels raise swiftly. The seeker of Allah must be a knowledgeable person and should be conversant with all kinds of knowledge. Through knowledge, he should gain information about the spiritual way and the common and special things about the inward world. He can gain the difficult knowledge of Reality directly from its scholars and researchers and understand its fine points. Such a learned and intelligent seeker is eligible for guidance on the path of Allah, as he vigilantly follows the path as well as sharia, esoterically and exoterically. Otherwise, it is not at all difficult to make thousands of ignorant crazy in an instant. The ignorant must not be counted among the Mystics and Saints, as an ignorant is the big brother of a donkey. Thousand repentances from the company of ignorant! No, I do not say wrong that the donkeys are better than the ignorant as the donkeys carry the burden and are far better than the ignorant who are burden upon the people. Hence, it becomes evident that the practitioner scholars become the perfect Fuqara and the immortal Mystics.

Meaning: First you must gain knowledge then travel the path to Allah. The ignorant have no place near Allah Almighty.

Meaning: The Divine knowledge is the light of gnosis, seek it from heart. In order to gain it truly, eliminate everything other than Allah from your heart. The Holy Prophet said;

382 Meaning: There are two kinds of knowledge, the knowledge related to exoteric matters (which is gained through outward sources) and the inspired knowledge (which is revealed by Allah). There are two groups of people; first are the people of heaven who are the men of knowledge and the seekers of gnosis and vision of Allah. It is said about them;

Meaning: When they will behold Allah, they will forget all the other blessings. The greatest pleasure and the biggest felicity is to be honoured with the vision of Allah which is the destiny of Prophets, Saints, faithfuls, true Muslims and the veritable reciters of the Islamic creed the group of people of hell fire i.e. the infidels.

. Other is

Meaning: My heart is gripped by the fear that which of the two ways would be my destination! The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: True faith lies between fear and hope. Allah says;

Meaning: A group will be in the heaven and the other in hell. (Ash-Shura7)

The following two verses contain good news for the believers and warning for the disbelievers from Allah;

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Meaning: And those who have disbelieved will be driven to hell in groups until, when they approach it, its gates will be opened and its keepers will say to them, “Did Messengers not come to you from among yourselves who recited to you the verses of your Lord and warned you of this Day‟s appearance?” They will say, “Yes (they came).” But the command of torment would have been carried out against the disbelievers. It will be said to them, “Enter the gates of hell. (You) will live in it for ever. So how evil is the abode of the arrogant.” And those who persisted in fear of Allah will be conducted to paradise in groups, until when they approach it, its doors will have been opened for them (well before) and the keepers of paradise will say (greeting them), “Peace be upon you! Be you glad and rejoicing, so enter it to live here forever.” And they will say, “All praise belongs to Allah alone Who has fulfilled His promise to us and has made us inheritors of the land of paradise that we may reside in paradise wherever we desire.” So how excellent is the reward of those who put piousness to work! And, (O’ Beloved) you will see the angels all around the Throne in circles glorifying the Lord with His praise and the judgment will be given among (all) the people with the truth and justice and it will be announced, “All praise belongs to Allah alone, the Sustainer of all the worlds.” (Az-Zumar71-75)

384 Meaning: That is because Allah is the Protector of those who believe and for sure the disbelievers do not have any protector. (Mohammad 11) The infidels have the infidel innerself, infidel inward and infidel soul. The hypocrites have the hypocrite innerself, hypocrite inward and hypocrite soul. The Prophets have the prophet innerself, prophet inward and prophet soul. The Mystics immortal with Allah have the mystic innerself, enlightened and mystic inward and their soul and core are also mystic. When a Mystic immortal with Allah gains the gnosis of Allah, he becomes the companion of Allah by the Divine favour. His innerself, inward, soul and core acquire the form of Divine light and converse with Allah and he gets blessed with the Divine secrets. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: One who recognizes his Holy Lord, adopts silence. It is because, he feels disgusted of the people. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: One who recognizes Allah finds no pleasure in the company of people. I am amazed at the oblivious people having dead inwards who have no sense of gnosis and invocation of Allah but declare themselves the invokers and others also consider them so. The true invoker is one who is blessed with the company of Prophets and the state of immersion in the observation of Divinity which are related with the Divine presence and closeness. The Divine company is a secret and is not at all related with the loud invocation or declaration by tongue. Allah says in a Qudsi Hadith;

385 Meaning: I am his Companion who remembers Me (by doing My invocation). The companion of Allah is the secret invoker. Allah says;

Meaning: Invoke your Lord in humility and secretly.

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Know that the true invoker has two witnesses; his invocation is continued perpetually and he is accomplished in reflection. The perpetual invocation further has two witnesses; it grants the eternal presence of the Mohammadan Assembly and it engrosses in gnosis and closeness of Allah. The accomplished reflection also has two witnesses; it annihilates the innerself and blesses the soul with eternal bliss. Invocation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat is from the Divine presence and is another name for the Divine presence. When the Ism-e-Allah Zaat affects the existence of the invoker. It occupies and envelops his whole being, perishes his dense impure being and carries his pure subtle and spiritual being to the Divine presence. I am surprised at the people who hold their breath while doing the invocation and contemplate the face of their carrion-eater imperfect spiritual guide and consider it as the state of annihilation in the spiritual guide, when actually they are in the state of annihilation in Satan. The real state of annihilation in the spiritual guide is that the sacred countenance of the perfect spiritual guide takes the seeker to the Mohammadan Assembly in an instant and grants him the gnosis of â&#x20AC;&#x153;none but Allahâ&#x20AC;?. The veritable invocation is related with jamiat and jamiat means that while performing the meditation, the seeker covers thousands of stations and observes the theophanies of the Divine light. This is the real virtuosity. Whoever approaches this level of virtuosity, needs to be generous. He ever remains in the state of prayer and keeps killing his major and minor sins with the sword of Islamic creed and eventually becomes the salvaged Mystic and Saint. The Holy Prophet said;

386

Meaning: The prayer, Islamic creed and generosity omit the sins. Allah says;

Meaning: And establish prayer at the two ends of the day and at the approach of the night. Indeed, good deeds delete the misdeeds. That is a reminder for those who do invocation. (Hud 114)

An attribute of the Faqeer Mystic immortal with Allah is stated by Maulana Rome in these words;

Meaning: The person whose sustenance is the Divine light of Majesty, whatever he eats, is lawful.

Meaning: Whoever does not work hard to progress, achieves the destination very late. Answer of the writer;

Meaning: Only the lawful food enters the throat of the Mystics because they are blessed with eternal union of Allah.

387 Meaning: The being of the Mystics is all fire. Even if unlawful food enters their stomach, it is burnt due to the fire of invocation of Allah.

Meaning: Divine Oneness is the ocean and the Mystic is the water of lake. When the water of lake falls in the ocean, it becomes the ocean.

Meaning: Fish lives in water but does not feel it around. However, it dies on separation from water.

Meaning: Many people claim to be Mystic, but how can these men of worldly concerns attain the gnosis of Allah.

Meaning: Gnosis is the Divine light and the fountainhead of light of Divine secrets. The whole cosmos originated from this Divine light. The Faqeer is the master of the worlds. He is the immortal Mystic and the man of Divine favour and Divine Essence who is assigned by Allah the eternal authority that he can enthrone or dethrone anyone by the command of Allah. If a king is fighting in the battlefield for the cause of Allah, the Saints must help him with their inward army and make him the world conqueror. If the Muslim king has got the help and company of Faqeer, he can conquer the whole world.

388 Meaning: The favour and protection gained by the benediction of an old dress of Dervish is far better than thousand bronze walls built by Alexander against the Tarter. One, who always keeps check upon his innerself and never becomes oblivious of the invocation of Allah, is entitled to be a Dervish. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: Every person has counted breaths. Each breath which passes without the invocation of Allah is dead. Dervish is also the one who always reads the Guarded Tablet with his physical eyes, but the Fuqara consider these levels as those of the astrologers. The true Fuqara are those who do not even look towards the levels of creation, rather their attention is always towards the gnosis of Allah and His Tauheed. The Fuqara blessed with Faqr and gnosis of Allah may appear to be followers or emulators to the people but their real status is that they are completely absorbed in Tauheed inwardly. On the other hand, some people appear to be men of Tauheed to the people and earn false respect from them but near Allah they are the emulators having dead soul. Know that there are four kinds or levels of invocation; the invocation of tongue, invocation of inward, invocation of soul and the invocation of core. The tongue of those accomplished in the invocation of tongue becomes the sword. The inward of those accomplished in the invocation of inward is blessed so much with the love of Allah that they do not incline towards anyone but Allah, their inward enlivens by the veritable invocation of Allah and then never dies even after the physical death. The soul of those accomplished in the invocation of soul eternally remains in the company of Prophets and Saints. They never like the company of people of innerself. Those accomplished in the invocation of core always observe the theophanies of the Divine Essence in their inward and outward, like the raindrops are falling upon them. When all four kinds of

389 invocation continue in the existence of the seeker simultaneously, he at once becomes the Mystic immortal with Allah and a humble Faqeer.

Meaning: Do not look down upon the humble people. One does not know that a great rider may be hidden behind the raising dust.

Meaning: I am a humble slave of Allah and sacrifice my life for Him. I am the annihilated Mystic immersed in Oneness with Allah. Annihilation in Allah means to immerse in Divinity like the flame in fire, salt in food and water in milk. Such Oneness is the honour of annihilated in Allah Faqeer who is ruler upon innerself and has enlightened conscience. Get to know that Faqr was dear to the Holy Prophet because he loved the gnosis of Tauheed. So, he said about Faqr;

Meaning: Faqr is my pride and Faqr is from me. He honoured the Fuqara by saying;

Meaning: The leaders of a nation are the servants of Fuqara. He honoured Faqr and declared it his pride because Faqr is directly from Allah and has the name of Allah upon it. The enemy of Faqr is either jealous and hypocrite or trapped by his innerself and a backbiter. It is said;

Meaning: Backbiting is worse than adultery.

390 Faqr is like a bright and pellucid mirror which shows the condition of one‟s inward purity. Whoever looks into the mirror, it shows him his reality. No doubt! Everyone is proud of oneself. Someone is at the level of knowledge of words of Allah while someone is blessed with union of Allah and gnosis of “none but Allah”. One elevates from the knowledge of words of Allah towards the union of Allah. Without the knowledge of words of Allah and Faqr, union of Allah is just ignorance and an ignorant is in everlasting decline. The scholar of knowledge of words of Allah feels proud upon his knowledge while the Faqeer blessed with the union of Allah kills his inciting innerself with the sword of invocation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat and feels proud upon it. O‟ scholar! Seek the gnosis of Allah from your knowledge and do not be arrogant upon your knowledge indulging in pride and lust, as, the ultimacy of every knowledge is the gnosis of Allah and absorption in Divinity. The scholars talk too much because they are at the level of words but the Faqeer remains silent as he is at the level of Totality, as said;

Meaning: One who finds Allah, finds everything. When the heart gains the power of speech and starts invoking the name of Allah , the tongue stops talking. Then the immortal Mystic remains engrossed in the state of meditation and gets inspirations from Allah every moment. Whoever is perpetually doing the invocation of Allah prefers to remain quiet and does not talk about the worldly matters or desires. Mystics are silent and there are seventy thousand wisdoms in silence, and in every wisdom, there are further seventy thousand wisdoms. Wisdom means gnosis of “none but Allah” and the command of Allah. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: Do not say the words of wisdom before the ignorant.

391 Meaning: One who recognizes his Holy Lord becomes silent. Some people with dead soul adopt silence out of cunningness and pretense while the Mystics are silent due to their gnosis of “none but Allah” and Tauheed. They can be distinguished from each other through their conversation, wisdom, insight, purity and by the effect of their company. You must know that some Mystics are indigent as regards the worldly wealth but generous as regards the religious matters and are always present in the Mohammadan Assembly. They seem to be indigent and involved with people outwardly but inwardly they are with Allah only. When curd is made out of milk and churned, it gives butter, then the butter does not mix back with milk or curd. Similarly, the men of Allah who love Him truly never mix back into the world. One who understands, will understand. Know that the men of meditation are eternally blessed with the Divine presence. What is meditation? Meditation leads to great spiritual ranks on the straight path of righteousness and is the inward way of Prophet Mohammad since eternity. The meditation of the seeker is not proved right unless he does it through the contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat. Meditation is the foundation of the distinguished level of Divine union. The real meditation is done by reflecting upon Ism-e-Allah Zaat along with its invocation and glorification. Whatever the possessor of true meditation watches in his inward or in dream, grants him gnosis of Allah and leads him to the Mohammadan Assembly where he meets the Prophets and Saints. Whoever does not gain these two blessings from his meditation as the proof of his meditation, his meditation is wrong; actually he does not even know what the real meditation is! Meditation is a guard against the inciting innerself, Satan, evil thoughts and the perplexities of the world. It takes the seeker to the final gnosis of “none but Allah” and Mohammadan Assembly, elevating him spiritually step by step and immerses him in Divinity after crossing all

392 the spiritual stations. The seeker who performs meditation according to this verified method is blessed with the Divine presence whenever he wishes. Meditation of an immortal Mystic is accomplished and blesses him with a peaceful end. Congratulations to him on flourishing inward!! Three things can never remain hidden even if someone hides them under thousands of covers i.e. the sun, the fragrant and blessed effects of the religion of Prophet Mohammad and the immortal Mystic who has attained the gnosis of â&#x20AC;&#x153;none but Allahâ&#x20AC;?. If a person enters heaven during his dream or meditation and eats heavenly food, drinks from the canal of heaven and views the houries and castles of the heaven, then he does not need to drink or eat ever in his life. His thirst and hunger are satiated forever. He never sleeps for his whole life even if he appears to be sleeping and stays in a single ablution throughout his life. He is blessed with such Divine favour to worship Allah that he is always absorbed in prostrating before Allah and becomes stronger and healthier day by day. He eats merely to show people so that his reality remains hidden from them and is saved from their criticism. For him, winter and summer are the same and he does not enjoy any season. Though, this level is still an inferior level possessed by an unaccomplished Dervish. The true Faqeer is ashamed to stay at this level, because it is far away from the Mohammadan Faqr and belongs to the appetites of innerself. The final level is that the seeker is blessed with the vision of Allah during his dream or meditation, which cannot be explained in words or exemplified with anything. Such fire is blazed in the existence of the seeker due to the gnosis of Tauheed, invocation and contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat and the Divine love that he keeps worshipping Allah and admonishing his innerself day and night due to their majestic effects. Hence, he covers himself in sharia, follows it perfectly and recites:

393 Meaning: Meditate upon His blessings, not upon His Essence. Gnosis of Tauheed of Allah is the greatest blessing. The true seeker does not meditate upon the Essence or Form of Allah as He is Unprecedent and Transcendent. The existence of the Faqeer is like the stove in which his organs keep burning in the fire blazed by the invocation (of Ism-e-Allah Zaat) like the dry sticks burn in fire. If he looks towards the earth or sky with a minor spark of this fire, it can burn everything. Commendable is the existence which burns in this fire every moment but never objects and does not even want to get salvation from it till the Doomsday. No mystic struggle is harder than this. When some imperfect seekers reach this level, they either convert to infidels and disbelievers or become mad or spiritually lost. However, the true seekers who bear this fire and adopt the sharia more vigilantly, never annoy people. Thousands of spiritually lost ones were consumed by this fire. Out of thousands, only one true lover of Allah finds eternal bliss by gaining the true gnosis of Allah and reaches the level of a beloved. My words are just in accordance with my own condition. Only Allah! Everything other than Allah is lust. You must know that all the layers of earth and skies stand firm at their place without any pillar or support only in respect of Ism-e-Allah Zaat and will remain attentive towards Ism-e-Allah Zaat till the Doomsday. Allah has declared that everything of the earth and skies glorifies the name of Allah:

Meaning: Everything that is in the earth or the skies glorifies the name of Allah, He is The All Mighty, The All Wise.(AlHadeed 1)

394 Meaning: We presented Our Trust before the skies, earth and mountains. Everyone refused to bear it but man picked it up. No doubt, he is cruel and ignorant (of the importance of that Trust). (Al-Ahzab 72)

Meaning: Ism-e-Allah is the priceless and grandest holy treasure. Its reality is known only to the Holy Prophet. Although, the states of dream and meditation are almost similar but meditation is stronger and overpowering. A person comes out of the state of dreaming on a loud sound but the one immersed in the state of meditation is so much engrossed in observing the light of Oneness of the Divine Essence that if someone beheads him in this state, he will not even feel or know it. Hence, it becomes evident that meditation is like death. In the state of deep death like meditation, the seeker gets answers of all his questions spiritually while staying vigilant. Allah confers the elevated levels of meditation and gnosis upon the Mystics honouring them with His Divine light, such that Allah is pleased with them and they are pleased with Allah according to the verse:

Meaning: Allah is pleased with them and they are pleased with Allah. (Al-Bayyinah 8) This is the secret of gaining consent of Allah. Allah says to them:

Meaning: Return to your Lord in such a state that He is pleased with you and you are pleased with Him. (He will say) So, join My (perfect) Servants. And enter the heaven (of My nearness and vision). (Al-Fajr, 28-30)

395 Meditation acquaints the seeker with the Divine secrets. The proficient of meditation remains in dreaming state while awakening and vigilant while sleeping. He beholds nothing except Allah in his meditation. Such high level meditation which grants the gnosis, meeting and love of Allah as well as presence of the Mohammadan Assembly is only the destiny of true lovers and knowers of Allah. The reprobates having dead inward are deprived of these levels of meditation. For the faithfuls, meditation means remaining in the company of the Holy Prophet forever. In fact, for them it is ascension to Allah, as the Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: The prayer of faithfuls is ascension to Allah.

Meaning: No prayer without the Divine presence. Meditation and gnosis are the two wings of the immortal Mystics who always seek the gnosis of Allah.

Meaning: The men of sight always keep their attention towards Allah and curse the worldly wealth and honour. The level of world is;

Meaning: (Lord!) You disgrace whom You will. (Ale-Imran 26) While the level of Fuqara who are men of meditation, is;

Meaning: You honour whom You will. (Ale-Imran 26) The dreams and meditation can be of six kinds; some people dream and meditate under the effect of contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat, their dreams and meditations are from Allah and grant them the gnosis of Allah-the Rehman. Some

396 people‟s dreams and meditations are under the influence of recitation of Quran and glorification rounds of beautiful names of Allah, they are spiritual and let them meet the sacred souls of the Prophets and Saints. Some people dream and meditate under the influence of music, dance and alcohol. Such dreams and meditations are satanic and lead them to depravity. Some people‟s dreams and meditations are under the influence of their evil attributes like greed, jealousy, backbiting, conceit, arrogance and pretense, they are related to the world and its worries. Some people‟s dreams and meditations are influenced by their rage, anger and filthy desires, they are related to the lusts of innerself. Some people‟s dreams and meditations are from the angels, jinns or supernatural beings in which they inform them about hidden circumstances, it is just foolishness. Basically, there are two types of meditation and dreams; (a) The meditations and dreams of people with dead and dark inward who are trapped in the physical world. Their dreams and meditations are just illusions. They watch different animals and birds like peacock, snake, cattle etc. in their dreams and meditations. This shows that their inwards are darkened due to the love of world and are deprived of the gnosis of Allah. (b)The dreams and meditations of the men of invocation, reflection, recitation, devotions and the men of Divine engrossment who are annihilated in Allah and immortal with Him. Their dreams and meditations are based on gnosis and union with Allah. Some people watch beautiful lakes, gardens, houries and castles, or see themselves offering prayer or visiting the sanctuaries of Kaaba and Madina in their dreams and meditations. They are the pious ones and the practitioner scholars who are destined to go to heaven. Some people see themselves swimming in the river in their dream or meditation. After crossing the river, they start spiritual flight and reach the Mohammadan Assembly by doing the invocation and reflection and get blessed with its eternal presence. Then they dive into the ocean of Divine light of gnosis and Tauheed. They are the perfect Faqeer Mystics immortal with Allah. The truth of dream depends on its

397 interpretation while the truth of meditation depends on spiritual enlightenment. The Mystics neither need meditation nor the dreams, as, they get thousands of inspirations directly from Allah, messages from the Holy Prophet and answers of their questions from the Divine presence every moment. The men of pure inward not at all need to take help from meditation, dream or augury because when their inciting innerself is killed, both the worlds come under their sight. The Mystics immortal with Allah always keep in view the Divine words; “No one is worthy of worship but Allah” under their view and are perpetually present in the Mohammadan Assembly. Such Divine closeness is gained by the benediction and honour of Ism-e-Allah Zaat. There are five other levels and stations of meditation; some people are proficient and accomplished in all five while some are totally unaware of them and are imperfect. These five stations and levels are; (1) The station of pre-existence. The level of man of preexistence is “hope”. Whatever he sees in meditation and dream is from spirituality and is by the benediction of invocation of soul. (2) The station of eternal end. The level of man of eternal end is “fear”. Whatever he sees in his dream and meditation is related with eternal end and is by the benediction of mystic struggles, recital rounds and excess of devotions. (3) The station of physical world. Whatever the man of physical world sees in his dream and meditation is the evilness of his innerself and dead inward and is all worldly. (4) The station of hereafter. Whatever the man of hereafter sees in his dream and meditation is related with hereafter and is by the benediction of inward invocation. (5) The station of gnosis of Allah. The man of gnosis of Allah possesses elevated levels. Whatever he sees in his dream and meditation is from Tauheed that is the station beyond all stations. His dreams and meditations bless him with the Divine secrets, gnosis, closeness, Divine

398 presence, kindness, righteousness and the jamiat which is comprehensive of all knowledges. He views all this by the benediction of eternal invocation of The Hayee and Qayyum done by the core. Mystic immortal with Allah is the one who unveils all five stations upon the seeker of Allah by the contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat in just one step and one moment and bestows the five treasures upon him without indulging him in any struggle or pain. The spiritual guide must be perfect in these attributes. It is unlawful for the seeker to have oath of allegiance at the hand of an imperfect spiritual guide and take guidance from him.

Meaning: Hold the hand of a true man (i.e. perfect spiritual guide) so that you also become a true man of Allah. Except the true men, no one knows the exact path to Allah and the proper way of guiding others on this path

Meaning: The perfect and strong spiritual guide can take the seeker to any level while the imperfect and impotent spiritual guide keeps demanding money from his disciples. If you come, you will find the doors open but if you do not, then Allah needs none.

Meaning: If you wish a blissful life, behead your inciting innerself. Either please your Beloved Allah or fulfill your own desires. Get to know that the inciting innerself has three hundred and sixty heads and each head contains three hundred and

399 sixty desires which keep the person deprived of the gnosis of Allah and makes Allah angry with him. Each desire contains seventy thousand ecstasies and egos which intoxicate the person far more than the alcohol. If all the devils and Satans are gathered and educated about craziness by the inciting innerself, they all will turn mad, as the teacher and guide of all the devils and Satans is the inciting innerself. To cut three hundred and sixty heads of the inciting innerself, one needs to perform three hundred and sixty kinds of mystic struggles for three hundred and sixty days i.e. the whole year and cut its one head every day. After cutting all the heads, the seeker of Allah becomes obedient and eligible for guidance on the right path and approaches the initial level of gnosis. However, the immortal Mystic spiritual guide is one who cuts all the heads of the inciting innerself of the seeker at once by the sword of contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat and makes him safe from the fight against innerself.

Meaning: Behead the inciting innerself by the sword of Isme-Allah Zaat. Once killed, the inciting innerself cannot become alive again. The practitioner scholar, perfect Faqeer and the wise man is one who first of all harnesses the rebellious horse of innerself with the reins of Divine vision and then makes it run in the field of Divine education controlling it with the stick of courage. Or, educates the innerself like a child in the school of gnosis in such a way that it never turns away from the Truth till death. You must know that the biggest of all the calamities and the worst of all the enemies is hidden in the existence of man and that is his inciting innerself which is the enemy of his life and faith. Hence, the hidden enemy should be recognized through the hidden way. Without the immortal Mystic spiritual guide, the inciting innerself can never be killed by the physical devotions and struggles. It is easy to identify the innerself but it is very difficult to make it

400 a kind friend blessed with the Divine favour. When the innerself is blessed with the Divine favour, it becomes the true friend. Then, the innerself merges with the inward, the inward merges with the soul and the soul merges with the core. Hence, the Reality is One. The immortal Mystic spiritual guide, who is man of Oneness, confers four things upon the true seeker of Allah on the very first day; (a) The invocation for purgation of inward (b) Gnosis of Allah for His closeness (c) Dawat to reach the ultimate level (d) Presence of the Mohammadan Assembly. Oâ&#x20AC;&#x; seeker! Do not feel proud on attaining the initial level of Divine presence; the closeness and union of Allah is far ahead. At the initial level, some seekers are surrounded by illusions, apprehensions and satanic thoughts due to their misconception. To evade them, the seeker should engross himself in the invocation and reflection and in observing the Divine theophanies and should find strength and safety from the Ism-e-Allah Zaat. I am surprised at the people who are declining but misunderstand themselves to be elevating towards the Divine union. Gnosis neither lies in invocation or reflection nor in the Divine presence, it only lies in immersion in Divinity which is far ahead of the Divine presence. The point to understand is that Divine presence means duality and separation while immersion means annihilation in the Divine light of Tauheed.

Meaning: The state of Divine immersion is understood only by those who experience it. Whoever attains it, separates from all other.

401 Meaning: How can those behold the Divine Beauty who are close to all but separate from Allah. To view the Divine Beauty, one must immerse in Divinity. Whoever reaches this level, obeys the honourable sharia and becomes disgusted of the evil innovations. Strong is one who fights in the field of gnosis and wins over the other strong men. You do not know that there were four armies with the Holy Prophet. Whoever does not have these armies, cannot conquer the seven climes. Two of them were the outward armies while two were the inward armies. The two outward armies were; the army of brave companions and the army of beautiful morals of the Holy Prophet. The two inward armies were; the army of souls of Prophets and martyrs and the army of angels and the souls of Fuqara having pure inward. These four armies are always ready to help the men of Allah and pious kings of Muslims by the order of Allah and permission of the Holy Prophet. The entire earth is sustained by the benediction of presence of Dervishes. Whoever denies their grand status, remains worried in both the worlds. However, a Dervish should not run after the worldly gains. This book is a maze to recognize the man of Divine Essence from the Divine name , or this book is the reflection of Reality or is the talisman of Ism-eAllah Zaat. The mystery of this book can only be solved by the man of mysteries i.e. the perfect spiritual guide. Just as mercury cannot be converted to its oxide but only by its proficient, similarly Dawat of a disciple can never start without the permission and supervision of the perfect spiritual guide. Oâ&#x20AC;&#x; wise! Real man is the one who is capable to have the gnosis and vision of Allah.

Meaning: Neither every head is eligible to be adorned with the crown of a king nor every inward can be considered the treasure of Allah.

402

Meaning: The esoteric knowledge is like butter while the exoteric knowledge is like milk. Butter cannot be produced without milk and no one can gain eminence without following a spiritual guide. Be friends with the Truth and remain happily occupied with the Truth!

Meaning: I remember the advice of my spiritual guide that everything except the remembrance of Allah is a total waste. O‟ seeker of the Truth! Adopt righteousness and leave the filthy falsehood. Inward of some people is false but outward appears to be right as they are busy in devotions and glorification rounds. Some people‟s outward appears to be false as they seem to be indulged in conceit and pretense, it is said;

Meaning: Pretense is worse than infidelity. But their inward is right as they are immersed in the gnosis of “none but Allah” and presence of the Mohammadan Assembly. Some people‟s inward and outward both are right while some people‟s inward and outward both are false. Those having both right are the men of meditation immersed in Divinity and pure of the twelve undesirable things i.e. (1) Falsehood (2) Malice (3) Hypocrisy (4) Filth (5) Backbiting (6) Ego (7) Wrath (8) Anger (9) Other than Allah (10) Impurity (11) Oblivion (12) Dominance of inciting innerself. The existence of the man of Divine immersion is purged of all these undesirable things. He becomes pure and

403 approaches the Divine Essence, becomes One with Him and achieves the level of;

Meaning: Allah is pleased with them and they are pleased with Allah. (Al-Bayyinah 8) And

Meaning: Allah loves them and they love Allah. (Al-Maidah 54) Afterwards, he drowns in the ocean of Divinity within his own existence. His state of Divine immersion is so deep that he does not even feel the passing of entire worldly time and only in a moment hears the blow of trumpet of angel Israfil and the Doomsday starts. Such a man of immersion is so powerful that he spiritually covers stations after stations and reaches the destinations of pre-existence and eternal end but at the time to offer obligatory, compulsory, Sunna or desirable prayer, he at once comes out of the state of meditation. He is blessed with the Divine favour inwardly as well as outwardly because he always remains in the company of Allah, as said;

Meaning: He (Allah) is with you wherever you are. (Al-Hadeed 4)

When he attains this level, his peaceful innerself converts to inward, inward converts to the sacred soul which is the Divine command and the soul merges into the core. Then, the contemplation of Allah is continued in his flesh and bones, skin and soul rather each and every cell. Hence, he reaches the level where he is neither Allah nor other than Allah. Four sacred entities will be presented as an example to four groups of people when they will give the excuses on the Doomsday. The Dervishes will be given the example of Jesus Christ, the worldly people will be given the example of Prophet Solomon, the ill will be given the example of Prophet Job and the slaves will be given the example of Prophet Joseph.

404

FORTY AUTHENTIC HADITHS ABOUT THE FUQARA

Meaning: Shaikh Al-Wahid Zahid Abu Saeed Ahmad bin Hussain Toosi informed us, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have collected forty authentic Hadiths of the Holy Prophet about the excellence and splendour of Fuqara and Sufis. I hereby confirm their authenticity so that the listeners and learners feel convenient. In the beginning of first Hadith, the names of Shaikhs who related the Hadith are given for benediction. This Hadith is related from Abu Saeed Abdullah bin Mohammad bin Ahmad Faqri who says that he heard it from Shaikh Abu Bakr Ahmad bin Abdullah Sairi, he relates it to Abu Aslam bin Ali Al-Razi who says that he heard it from Naseer Mohammad bin Ismail bin Yosef bin Yaqoob Al-Saqfi who further relates it to Abdul Momin Khalaf bin Saeed, he says that he heard it from Mohiyyuddin Al-Minqad who relates it to Wahab bin Jaffer bin Umar who further relates it to Habban bin Marwan Al-Jamai, he says that he heard it from Harris bin Nomaan who says that he heard from Saeed bin Jabeer:

405 1st HADITH

Meaning: He says that he heard from Anas bin Malik that the Holy Prophet said, “Allah sent revelation to Prophet Moses the son of Imran, O‟ Moses! If My true slaves would ask Me for Jannah I would surely grant them and they will live in it forever but if they would ask Me for the rule of the world I would not grant their wish as the world is not for My true men rather it is a source of humiliation and disgrace for them. I seek best hereafter life for My men as it is benefitting for them. Hereafter is one of My bestowals and My real kindness is to save My men from all the pleasures and evils of the world just like a shepherd is kind to his herd and saves it from any kind of trouble and affliction. I love the Fuqara more than the rich because the rich seize the sustenance of Fuqara, and My kindness is not for such rich people. I have fixed a portion for the Fuqara in the sustenance of the rich and want them to convey it to the Fuqara. I test the rich by giving them wealth and blessings that whether they give the fixed portion of Fuqara to them or not. O‟ Moses if they do the required, I would bless them infinitely and reward them ten times in the world. O‟ Moses! Be the friend of Fuqara in

406 the time of worry, sympathize with them when they are alone and serve them day and night.” 2nd HADITH

Meaning: The Holy Prophet said, “There is a key for everything and the key of paradise is the love of Fuqara and Miskeens160. On the Doomsday, there will be no sin upon them and they will be seated with Allah.” 3rd HADITH

Meaning: The Holy Prophet said to Abu Zar Ghaffari, “O‟ Abu Zar! Fuqara are those whose smile is prayer, whose humour is like glorification and whose sleep is charity. Allah looks towards them three hundred times a day. If one takes seventy steps to visit a Faqeer, Allah grants him reward of seventy accepted Hajj161 for each step. If one gives food to a Faqeer in the time of need, that food will be added in his reward on the Doomsday in the form of Divine light.” 4th HADITH

Literally “Miskeen” means indigent or meek person but mystically it refers to the Faqeer who stays with Allah permanently, as “Miskeen” is derived from the word “Sakin” which literally means “stationary” or “staying at one place”. 161 Pilgrimage to Makkah performed in fixed days i.e. 9th to 13thof the Islamic month of Zilhaj. 160

407 Meaning: The Holy Prophet said, “On the Doomsday, when Allah would gather the Fuqara and Masakeen162, He would allow them to let all those people be forgiven who had given them anything in the world to eat, drink or wear or had helped them during trouble. Allah would say; Hold their hand and enter the Jannah.” 5th HADITH

Meaning: The Holy Prophet said, “Serve the Fuqara (financially as well) before your wealth exhausts.” 6th HADITH

Meaning: The Holy Prophet said, “The love of Fuqara and Masakeen is one of the attributes of Prophets, attending their gatherings is the attribute of the pious while keeping away from them is the way of hypocrites.” 7th HADITH

Meaning: The Holy Prophet said, “O‟ Bilal! Live like the Fuqara not like the rich”. Bilal asked, “O‟ Prophet of Allah! Is such a person (i.e. the Faqeer) like me?” The Holy Prophet replied, “Yes! If not, he would go to hell.”

162

Plural of mikeen

408 8th HADITH

Meaning: It is related from the Holy Prophet that he said while explaining the verse: meaning:“O‟ believers! Fear Allah persistently and search a medium to get close to Allah163” that the medium to get close to Allah is the love of Fuqara. 9th HADITH

Meaning: The Holy Prophet said, “The Fuqara of My nation will enter the Jannah half a day before the rich and that half day would be equal to five hundred years.” 10th HADITH

Meaning: The Holy Prophet narrated that once Jesus Christ saw a man while passing through a desert who was worshipping an idol. Christ broke that idol and said to the idol worshipper, “O‟ slave of Allah! Worship the Holy Lord Who is superior to the idol whom you are worshipping. The idol worshipper asked, “What are His attributes?” Christ replied, “He is the Lord and Sustainer of the whole creation.” Christ related that the idol worshipper understood his advice.

163

Surah Al-Maidah verse 35

409 11th HADITH

Meaning: The Holy Prophet said, “Serve the Fuqara! Certainly, Allah has grand treasures for them.” 12th HADITH

Meaning: The Holy Prophet said, “O‟ seeker of the world! You must perform virtuous deeds, renouncing them is a great sin.” 13th HADITH

Meaning: The Holy Prophet said, “One who wants the company of Allah, must acquire the company of Mystics.” 14th HADITH

Meaning: The Holy Prophet said to Ayesha bint Abu Bakr, “O‟ Ayesha! If you adopt the company of Fuqara and Masakeen in this world, you will be blessed with their company in the hereafter as well. Verily, their prayers will be accepted in the hereafter, they will enter the Jannah without accountability and you will also meet them in the hereafter.”

410 15th HADITH

Meaning: The Holy Prophet said, “No doubt! Allah will bless five groups with His Kindness; the angels, the Muslim soldiers, the Fuqara, the martyrs and those who weep and implore in solitude due to fear of Allah.” 16th HADITH

Meaning: The Holy Prophet said, “Do not show arrogance and impudence to the Mystics who are men of miracles. Verily, their morals are the morals of Prophets and their attire is the attire of pious ones.” 17th HADITH

Meaning: The Holy Prophet said, “Seek good wishes from the Mystics as they endure hunger and thirst (for the sake of Allah). Certainly, Allah keeps them under His kind attention and accepts their prayers.” 18th HADITH

Meaning: As‟hal bin Saeed relates that once a man came to the Holy Prophet and requested, “O‟ Prophet of Allah! Teach me such a knowledge that I find success and prosperity by acting upon it.” The Holy Prophet said, “Fear Allah, love His

411 creation, keep away from the world, hold on to the rope of Allah, acquire abstinence while living among the people and love the men (of Truth i.e. the Fuqara).” 19th HADITH

Meaning: The Holy Prophet said, “Faqr is worthless near the worldly people but on the Doomsday it would be the worthiest and most elevated near Allah.” 20th HADITH

Meaning: The Holy Prophet said, “Two units of prayer offered by an enduring Faqeer in the state of indigence are better than seventy units offered by a rich in the state of affluence, and the two units offered by the grateful rich is dear to Allah than everything in the world”. 21st HADITH

Meaning: The Holy Prophet said, “Whoever follows the mannerism of a particular nation would belong to that nation and whatever one likes would be given to him in the hereafter.” 22nd HADITH

412

Meaning: The Holy Prophet said to Anas, “The servant of Faqeer is rewarded equal to those who fast in the day and keep standing in the night for prayer. Further, the servant of Faqeer is rewarded equal to the Muslim soldiers who fight in the way of Allah and whose prayers are never rejected. He is blessed with requital same as the pilgrims who perform Hajj and Umrah164 and the ascetics. The reward fixed for him would be equal to all the (spiritual) falcons on the earth. Doomsday would be a day of glad tidings for him and his intercession would be accepted in the favour of a large number of people.”Anas asked the Holy Prophet, “O‟ Prophet of Allah! Even if the servant is a sinner?” The Holy Prophet replied, “O‟ Anas! Near Allah, such a sinful servant is better than thousand worshippers and jurists who pass verdict on religious matters and the judges. Rather, the servant will be rewarded equal to his master and nothing would lessen his reward. 23rd HADITH

Meaning: It is related that the Holy Prophet said, “Three things are superior to everything; knowledge, Faqr and piety.”

164

The pilgrimage performed in Makkah in days other than the Hajj days.

413 24th HADITH

Meaning: It is said that once a man came to the Holy Prophet and asked him, “What is Faqr?” The Holy Prophet said, “Faqr is a treasure among the treasures of Allah.” The man asked the same question again. The Holy Prophet replied this time, “Faqr is magnanimity from the magnanimities of Allah which He does not bestow upon anyone but the Prophets and the true Saints. The reward of such magnanimous people is due upon Allah.” 25th HADITH

Meaning: The Holy Prophet said, “The words of Fuqara are the words of Allah. Whoever rejects (or insults) their words, in fact rejects Allah‟s words. If anyone would keep enmity against them, Allah would save them from his enmity.” 26th HADITH

Meaning: The Holy Prophet said, “Fuqara are superior to the rich just as I am superior to the entire creation. Faqeer is one who is never inclined towards the people even during hunger or illness.”

414 27th HADITH

Meaning: The Holy Prophet said, “Allah created every creation with the soil of earth but the Prophets and Fuqara were created with the soil of Jannah. One who wants to become the true slave of Allah must honour the Fuqara.” 28th HADITH

Meaning: The Holy Prophet said, “The rich are wealthy only in the world, they would be indigent in the hereafter. If Fuqara were not there, the rich would have been destroyed.” 29th HADITH

Meaning: The Holy Prophet said, “Fuqara are to the rich just as stick is to the blind.” 30th HADITH

Meaning: The Holy Prophet declared, “Those are cursed by Allah who respect the rich due to their affluence and those are also cursed by Allah who insult the Fuqara due to their Faqr. Such people are considered the enemy of Allah and Prophets on the skies. Neither any of their prayer is accepted nor any wish is fulfilled.”

415 31st HADITH

Meaning: The Holy Prophet said, “Certainly, the angels keep asking forgiveness for the Fuqara and will be their intercessor on the Doomsday. How lucky would be the one whose intercessor would be the angels!” 32nd HADITH

Meaning: The Holy Prophet said, “No doubt! Allah looks towards the Fuqara (with kindness) five hundred times a day and forgives their seven mistakes every time.” 33rd HADITH

Meaning: The Holy Prophet said, “Faqr may bring disgrace in the world but would surely honour on the Doomsday.” 34th HADITH

Meaning: The Holy Prophet said, “One who unjustly annoyed any faithful Faqeer, it is as if he demolished the Holy Kaaba and killed thousand exalted angels.” 35th HADITH

416 Meaning: The Holy Prophet said, “For Allah, the honour of a faithful Faqeer is higher than the seven skies, seven earths, mountains and whatever is in between them and the most exalted angels.” 36th HADITH

Meaning: The Holy Prophet said, “There are eight gates to Jannah, seven are for the Fuqara and only one is for the rich.” 37th HADITH

Meaning: The Holy Prophet said, “Verily, Allah blesses my nation due to the veritable scholars and the Fuqara because the scholars are my heirs and the Fuqara are my friends.” 38th HADITH

Meaning: The Holy Prophet said, “The love of Fuqara is the source of enlightenment for the rich in the world and the hereafter.” 39th HADITH

Meaning: The Holy Prophet said, “The wealth of rich is mortal while the wealth of Fuqara will sustain till the Doomsday.”

417 40th HADITH

Meaning: The Holy Prophet said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Faqr is my pride and I am distinguished among all the Prophets due to Faqr.â&#x20AC;?

Meaning: The pride of Holy Prophet is the Faqr which bestows the Divine beneficence and carries the seekers to Allah by a single glance.

418

Meaning: The Holy Prophet said to Abu Zar Ghaffari, “O Abu Zar! Walk alone! Allah is alone in the heavens so you also become alone on the earth. O Abu Zar! Almighty Allah is beautiful and appreciates beauty.” The Holy Prophet said, “O Abu Zar! Do you know what makes me worried and sad and what do I wish?” Abu Zar replied, “Holy Prophet please tell me about it.” The Holy Prophet heaved a sigh and said, “I am worried and anxious to meet my brothers who will come after me. Their dignity will be like that of Prophets and their

419 rank near Allah will be that of martyrs. They will separate from their parents, brothers, sisters and children for the sake of Allah and will sacrifice all their wealth and possessions in His way. They will convert their pride into humility and will never incline towards worldly pleasures and lusts. They will gather in the houses of Allah165 and will suffer pain and sorrow just for the sake of Divine love. Their hearts will be attentive towards Allah, their souls will be with Allah and their deeds will be for Allah only. If anyone of them will fall ill, his illness will be rewarded by Allah more than the reward of worship of thousand years. May I tell you more about them?” Abu Zar replied, “Sure”. The Holy Prophet proceeded, “When anyone of them will die, it would be like someone from the heavens has died, his death will be honoured by Allah. If you say, shall I tell you some more about them?” Abu Zar said, “Do tell me O‟ Prophet of Allah.” The Holy Prophet said, “Even if a louse will enter their clothes and harm them, Allah will reward this minor pain equal to the reward of seventy Hajj and seventy Umrahs and will also grant them the reward equal to the reward of setting free forty slaves from the tribe of Prophet Ismail such that each slave had price of twelve thousand dinars166. Should I add something more to explain their honour?” Abu Zar replied, “Please do”. The Holy Prophet added, “When any of them will mention the lovers of Allah, he will be conferred thousand times reward with each breath he would take during that time. Shall I tell you more?” Abu Zar replied, “Yes, my lord”. The Holy Prophet said, “If any of them will offer two units of prayer at the mountain of Arafat167, its reward will be equal to the reward of thousand years‟ prayers of the whole life of Prophet Noah. May I add more!” Abu Zar said, “Sure O‟ lord!” The Holy Prophet proceeded, “If anyone of them will glorify Allah, his glorification will benefit him much more than the mountains of gold and silver walking along Here “houses of Allah” refer to the “Khanqah” i.e. the place where a spiritual guide persuades and guides the seekers of Allah to travel on the path of Allah. 166 Currency of Arab. 167 A plain fifteen miles to the east of Makkah. 165

420 with him on the Doomsday. Let me say some more about them.” Abu Zar submitted, “Why not my beloved Prophet.” The Holy Prophet said, “If someone will look towards any of them with love, Allah would appreciate it more than his looking towards Holy Kaaba with reverence. Whoever will see them, will actually behold Allah. If someone will offer them clothes to wear, it would be as if he has presented them to Allah. If someone will offer them food to eat, it would be as if he has presented it to Allah. If you like I can further explain their splendour.” Abu Zar said, “Please do my lord.” The Holy Prophet added, “If a chronic sinner will join their assembly, he will be forgiven before he leaves the assembly. You must know that people of pure inward sometimes observe the secrets of the spiritual worlds in their true dreams and sometimes with open eyes while awakening and everything is exposed upon them. This is one of the highest spiritual levels and is among the ranks of the Prophets. Certainly! The true dreams are the forty sixth part of Prophethood. If you commit anything wrong with them that would be due to your lack of knowledge. If you transgress your limits, you have the chance to repent but if you do not then it will put you into destruction. Ignorance is better than the intellect which inclines one to deny their grand status. One who denies the honour of the Friends of Allah, also denies the honour of the Prophets (because Prophets are first the Friends of Allah then Prophets) and he is completely excluded from the religion.” A person is not absolved of Allah‟s right of servitude unless someone engrosses him in Divinity and makes him annihilated in Allah by drowning him in the ocean of Divine light of Tauheed and gnosis. At the initial stage of gaining the gnosis, the Mystic is like the bubble on the ocean of gnosis. When he immerses in the ocean of gnosis which is called the essence of Tauheed, and annihilates in Allah completely, he becomes the immortal Mystic. When, in the state of spiritual unveiling, such a Mystic dives into the ocean of gnosis, he finds the eternal treasures of gnosis

421 whose pleasure is far more delightful than all the other eternal pleasures. Other pleasures satisfy the innerself but the pleasure of gnosis of the Essence pleases the soul. It is the ultimate blessing of Allah which bestows His beneficence, kindness and grace.

Meaning: If you liberate yourself from your own bounds, you will become independent of your own self.

Meaning: When you will lose your existence like the bubble and dissolve in the ocean, you will become the ocean. This is also one of the final levels of Faqr. Some people just know the name of Faqr, some just reach the level of inspiration of Faqr, some approach only the initial level of Faqr, some use Faqr to earn worldly progress and honour, make disciples, build monasteries and become popular. Among thousands, only one accomplishes in Faqr by the grace and help of the Holy Prophet. My words are according to my experience that perfect Faqeer scholar accomplished in all fields is one who has authority over the eighteen thousand worlds and who possesses the attributes of kindness and mercy. Allah says;

Meaning: The noblest amongst you near Allah is the one who is the most pious. (Al-Hujrat 13) Know that the word Faqr has three letters according to Arabic alphabets (F), (Q), (R). The letter (F) means that it makes the seeker Free from the worries of both the worlds i.e. grants Fana (annihilation) to the inciting innerself, (Q) refers to the fact that it gives Qurb

422 (closeness)of Allah tormenting the inciting innerself and (R) means that it shows the Right path and grants eternal engrossment in Allah. For the one who achieves these levels of Faqr but again returns towards the contemptible world leaving the Mohammadan Faqr, the letter (F) means Fazeehat (disgrace and brawl), (Q) means Qahar (torment and wrath)of Allah and (R)means that he is Rejected and cursed like Satan. You must know that by the physical and outward devotions, the inciting innerself becomes stronger even if a person spends his entire life in mystic struggles. The inciting innerself dies only by the inward deeds even if apparently it seems to be strong. The Faqr of Prophet Mohammad and gnosis of Tauheed of Allah are the veritable servitude and devotion while the worldly levels and honours are all filth and carrion. Dervishism and Faqeerism is the Sunna of Prophets. TRADITION: It is related that Jesus Christ spent his entire life without a permanent residence. One day he was running bare feet, some of his followers came to him and requested, “O‟ Jesus! Today we have come to request you to teach us the laws and requirements of our religion. For that, we want to build a house for you.” Jesus said, “I will accept your request on the condition that I will decide the place for the house.” They agreed. Jesus pointed towards the deepest place in the river where it was flowing the hardest. The followers were surprised that how can a house be built on the flowing river! Jesus said, “O‟ unwise! Do you consider the river of death lesser than it?” Answer of the writer; The nation of Prophet Mohammad can build a house on the flowing river and make it a place of residence by constructing a bridge over the river joining the planks. Further, those with alive inward have no fear of death, rather, the angel of death Izrail fears the Saints having alive inward.

423 If they put a glance of spiritual absorption upon Izrail from the station of Divine Oneness, it would burn his wings. Moreover, the deepest river is the inward. The Holy Prophet has called it the ocean. It is the ocean of Tauheed which has no shore. You must know that the true followers of Prophet Mohammad adorn the building of Divine light of gnosis of Allah upon the ocean of their inward by the contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat, reside in it and gain the spiritual benefits from it. They are blessed with such an ocean of inward by the Divine favour. The dead whom the Christ gave life by saying, (Qum Bi-Iznillah meaning: “Rise by the command of Allah”) gained life only for two and a half moments but the true followers of Prophet Mohammad whose inwards are enlivened by the sight of perfect Fuqara of his nation, do not die even after the eternal end.

Meaning: The blow of Christ could not give life to the inward. Whoever‟s inward is enlivened, gains immortal life. Know that the Saints of the nation of Prophet Mohammad do not die rather they meet Allah, as they are annihilated in Allah and annihilated in the Divine Essence. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: Verily, the Friends of Allah do not die, they just shift from one abode to another.

Meaning: Allah is nearer to your jugular vein, why do you consider Him away from you? I can take you to the Divine Oneness just in a moment.

424 Whoever immerses in the Divine presence and drowns in Tauheed and light of gnosis of Allah, becomes spiritually as well as physically alive, even when he is buried under the soil and people think that he is dead. Their death veils their life and their life lies in their unveiled rewarded death.

Meaning: I am not like a kebab which cries while being roasted. I am like a paper which smiles on burning.

Meaning: Oâ&#x20AC;&#x; Bahoo! Why should not I smile as I am blessed with the vision of Allah, and why should not he cry who is with the carrion. The vision of Allah is proved by the verses of Quran and Hadiths, whoever suspects it, is infidel and Satan. Allah says;

Meaning: Certainly! The Saints of Allah have nothing to fear nor will they grieve. (Yunus62) Fear and grief result due to the death of inward. Salvation from them is gained by the eternal life of inward which is related with the contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat. The Holy Prophet said;

Meaning: Die before your death. He further said;

Meaning: Death is a bridge which unites the lover with the Beloved. Listen Oâ&#x20AC;&#x; person having dead soul and inwardly unaware of the gnosis of Tauheed of Allah! Meditation is dominant

425 than the dream. The explanation of vision of Allah is that when the seeker is immersed in the state of meditation, his spiritual being leaves his physical being (and reaches the Divine presence). These blessings are bestowed by the perfect and magnanimous spiritual guide through the contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat by the beneficence and Grace of Allah. That is to say, the seeker who has achieved the level of “Death before dying” reaches Allah by drowning in the Ism-e-Allah Zaat. When a true seeker, engrossed in Allah, concentrates upon the contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat with closed eyes, lowered head and sitting with folded legs and enters the state of meditation, his soul flies towards the hereafter by the effects of contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat and his being is inwardly shifted from this mortal world to the eternal world, just like death occurs to a person. The eternal realities as well as the reality of soul become evident upon his enlightened inner eyes. By the efficacy of Ism-eAllah Zaat, the man of spiritual engrossment experiences the phases of seizure of his soul and agonies of death, as if he is actually dead. Then he observes that a corpse washer has come and given funeral bath to his body, people gather and say his funeral prayer. Then the soul of the seeker is taken to a spiritual point in his brain where there is a bone called “Willayat-ul-Ibn” and is vaster than the earth and skies. At this point the angels ask him seventy thousand questions which he answers just in a moment. Then he is taken to his grave which is more spacious than the whole universe. In the grave, the Munkar168 and Nakeer169 let him sit before them and cross question him. After the cross questioning is completed they say to him, “Now you sleeplike bride sleeps in her chamber”. From this bridal sleep, an angel awakes him and writes the record of his deeds on his shroud using the fingers as pen, saliva as ink and mouth as inkpot. After writing the record, the angel takes his signature on it, hangs it in his neck like a talisman and vanishes. He spends thousands 168, 169

The angels who cross question the dead in the grave.

426 and thousands of years lying in the grave. Then he hears the sound of trumpet of Israfil. On this call, all the dead at once rise from their graves like the grass rises from soil, and all the creations of the eighteen thousand worlds gather in the plain of Doomsday for accountability. The record of their deeds is given in their hands and their good and bad deeds are checked on the pair of scales. After accountability, he crosses the bridge of Sirat and enters the heaven on the Divine permission:

Meaning: (Allah will say to His true men) So, join My (perfect) servants. And enter the heaven (of My nearness and vision). (Al-Fajr 29, 30) In the heaven, the Holy Prophet makes him drink the goblet of heavenly beverage from his sacred hands. While drinking it, he recites the Islamic creed . Then he remains in bowing state before Allah for five hundred years and in prostrating state for another five hundred years. After raising his head from prostration, he joins the company of the Holy Prophet and stands in the row behind the sacred companions of the Holy Prophet to have the privilege of vision of Allah. When the seeker returns back to consciousness from the state of meditation after having the ultimate honour and blessing of the verified vision of Allah, he cannot explain the vision of Allah in words because he beholds Allah in a Form which cannot be exemplified or resembled to anything or anyone, as He is Unprecedent, Transcendent and Non-Creation. After this spiritual experience, he can have the pleasure of vision of Allah whenever he is engrossed and attentive towards his inward. Then he never remains without the observation of Divine theophanies and vision even for a moment. Although, outwardly he appears to be talking with people but inwardly he is perpetually enjoying the Divine presence. Oâ&#x20AC;&#x; Imperfect! These are the phases of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Death before dyingâ&#x20AC;? which leads an immortal Mystic to the ultimate level of Faqr about which it

427 is said, “When Faqr is accomplished that is Allah”. This station is attained by the benediction of verses of Allah and following the sharia of Prophet Mohammad. The Holy Prophet said: Meaning: One who recognizes his Holy Lord becomes silent. Allah says:

Meaning: And whoever remains blind (to the vision of Allah) in this (world) will remain blind in the hereafter as well. (Bani Israil 72)

These levels are attained by the true practitioner scholars who have taken oath of allegiance at the hand of the perfect Faqeer and become his disciple.

Meaning: Beware! Don‟t laugh at the true mystics as their inwards are pure and pellucid like mirror. One who laughs at the mirror, actually laughs at himself. Hadith: Meaning: The leaders of a nation are the servants of the Fuqara. Hence, how the common people can dare before them! If anyone does, he is ruined and disgraced in both the worlds.

Meaning: The Mystics recognize Faqr by a single glance. The sight of Faqr is better than gold and silver.

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Meaning: The disgraced ones who run worriedly after the pale gold do not turn towards Faqr.

Meaning: One whose heart is trapped in the greed of gold is destined to decline. How can such a blind find the vision and union of Allah!

Meaning: Oâ&#x20AC;&#x; Bahoo! For the sake of Allah, show us the way to the Divine union which is acquired only by the grace of the Holy Prophet. Oâ&#x20AC;&#x; dear! There is a very thin veil between man and Allah. If you come towards Allah, you will find the doors open, but if you do not, then Allah does not need anyone. Only Allah! Everything other than Allah is lust. The spiritual guide who does not reveal all the initial and final levels of Divine presence by the power of contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat, cannot be considered a spiritual guide. He is imperfect and it is unlawful to get guidance and spiritual persuasion from the imperfect spiritual guide. Thousand books can be written upon one point but that point cannot be contained in thousand books as that point is not related with the conventional knowledge of hows and whats. The Divine beneficence and grace are meant for the life of inward so the inward is magnificent than the Divine beneficence and grace. The grandeur of real and pure inward is that the Throne and Kaaba revolve around it.

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The FOURTH TREASUREEXPLANATION OF DAWAT The perfect and accomplished spiritual guide is the great rider with a naked sword in his hand just like the Zulfiqar170, with which he beheads the infidels by the command of Allah. There are five kinds of Dawat. First is the Dawat which leads to the station of pre-existence, second is the Dawat which leads to the station of eternal end, third is the Dawat which grants the rule over the whole earth from east to west and leads to perfection in the world, fourth is the Dawat which leads to the hereafter, fifth is the Dawat which grants the gnosis of Allah and presence of the Mohammadan Assembly and leads to the station of eternal observation of the boundless light of Allah and His Tauheed. Only the perfect and accomplished Mystic immortal with Allah is eligible for reciting Dawat as he is the true scholar and practitioner of religion and is blessed with never declining closeness and union of Allah. Know that reciting Dawat and remaining safe from spiritual demotion is the job of dominant Saints, not the arrogant ones who are trapped in the sensual desires. When a Mystic recites Dawat by the method that he offers two units of prayer with one ablution and recites the whole Quran during the prayer in one night and continues this practice for three consecutive days, then the effect of his Dawat sustains till the Doomsday. Such Mystics are the Saints who have authority over both the worlds. However, Dawat is not effective unless recited after permission of the perfect practitioner spiritual guide. If the seeker recites surah Muzzamil171 during Dawat for a whole week twice a day, he will become perfect in reciting Dawat. Whether Dawat is of initial level or final level, it is just the recitation of Quran which is the most trust worthy guide and reliable medium in both the worlds. The Holy Quran includes 170

Zulfiqar is the name of the sword of Hazrat Ali awarded to him by the Holy Prophet. 171 The 73rd surah of Quran

430 all the esoteric and exoteric treasures of Allah, knowledge of the lands, waters, all the creations and whatever is included in the six dimensions. Detail of all the Divine attributes and Tauheed of the Divine Essence is also included in the Holy Quran, as Allah says:

Meaning: There is not anything green or dry but (has been recorded) in the enlightening Book (Quran). (Al-Inam 59) However, the seeker should know that there are different verses of Quran for different worldly or religious purposes. They have various effects and are recited in different numbers of time to have different results. Hence, there are verses which order piety and gnosis, verses which forbid sin, verses which narrate traditions of the earlier Prophets, verses which give glad tidings, verses which give warnings as well as the verses which cancel earlier orders and the verses having the orders which were cancelled172. Some people are themselves proficient in reciting Dawat, while some need the permission of perfect and proficient spiritual guide. However, it is better that one should be proficient in reciting Dawat as well as have its permission. Reciting Dawat for solution of worldly or religious problems is the job of perfect Saints who have reached the nondeclining and everlasting levels. As soon as they start their Dawat by reciting Quran, it is ordered from the Mohammadan Assembly to solve the problem. There are two verified ways of reciting such Dawat; firstly by gaining Divine presence through contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat, secondly by sitting beside the grave of a Saint. The person For example; the order given in surah Al-Nisa verse 15 meaning; “And those of your women who commit adultery, call in from your men four witnesses against them. Then if they produce evidence, confine those women to their houses till death completes their term of life or Allah ordains a way (i.e. new injunction) for them” was cancelled when the new order was given in surah Al-Noor verse 2 meaning; “The (unmarried) woman or (unmarried) man found guilty of adultery – whip each one of them with a hundred lashes and do not be taken by pity for them in the religion of Allah, if you should believe in Allah and the Last Day. And let a group of the faithfuls witness this punishment.” 172

431 who is not aware of these two methods, is not eligible for reciting Dawat. The knowledge of spiritual augmentation and its scholars are dominant upon all the other knowledges and their scholars. You must know that the knowledge of spiritual augmentation is the Dawat. Dawat is written as in Arabic script and it has four letters; (D), (I), (W), (T).Its each letter grants honour, eminence and beneficence; but only if Dawat is recited according to the mentioned conditions and after permission of the perfect spiritual guide. The first letter (D) refers to the Daira (enclosure) of heart (i.e. inward) which should be cleansed by the eternal invocation. This invocation is gained only from the Holy Prophet. The letter (I) refers to Ilm (knowledge) of the Hidden which is doubtless and revealed in detail by Divinity. The angels bring this knowledge from the hidden world and grant it to the true reciter of Dawat through inspiration. The letter (W) refers to Wird and Wazaaif i.e. glorification rounds and recitation of Quran with devotion, respect and perfect faith. The letter (T) refers to Turk (renunciation) and teaches the reciter of Dawat to renounce everything that the Holy Prophet and his companions renounced. This is the initial level of perfect Dawat. Just as no one can convert mercury into oxide except an expert chemist, similarly Dawat of a disciple can never start without the permission and supervision of the perfect practitioner spiritual guide who possesses authority over the graves. For the imperfect ones, Dawat results only in eternal demotion and pain. While for the perfect ones, Dawat is a medium to have eternal presence of the Mohammadan Assembly and being blessed with the treasure of Jamiat. The proficient of Dawat does not need to give charity (required for a spiritual act),open the spiritual locks, perform recital rounds, give or seek donations, check the auspicious and ominous timings or sanctity of the place where he is reciting Dawat, neither he needs to keep account of good and

432 bad numbers nor stop eating the meet of wild or mild animals. Such superstitions and lurking fears create distractions among the imperfect ones who are unaware of the proper way of reciting primary and ultimate Dawat and do not use the mediation of the beautiful Divine names.

Meaning: It is the job of the imperfect ones to get information through supernatural agents, drawing circles or numerology and astrology. All these things and knowledges are inferior and subordinate to man, and real man is one who gets inspirations directly from the Divine presence. Such a true man is neither demoted nor worried. The Dawat of Divinity and creation, Dawat of invocation, Dawat of reflection, Dawat of theophanies of light of Allah and Dawat of the highest spiritual level, all are recited with the Ism-e-Azam and are related with the following verses:

Meaning: Run towards Allah. (Al-Zariat 50)

Meaning: Allah is the Friend of the faithfuls. He brings them out of (all kinds of) darkness and takes them towards the light. (Al-Baqarah 257) Every problem of the reciter of Dawat is solved when his attention, thoughts and concentration are completely diverted towards the union of Allah by the benediction of these two verses. The station of pre-existence, station of eternal end, station of physical world and the station of hereafter, all four are the stations of darkness. Although, one can find the vital water of life from these dark stations, even then one has to die at last except those who have got the gnosis of â&#x20AC;&#x153;none but Allahâ&#x20AC;?.

433 Mystic is one who first renounces all the pleasures of these dark stations, then he is blessed with the pleasure of drowning in Oneness of the Divine Essence. This level is attained only by the special ones who are enlightened by the Divine light of gnosis of Allah. Nothing is better for a person than to entrust all his worldly as well as religious matters to Allah and turn his attention completely towards Him, as taught in a holy verse:

Meaning: And I consign all my affairs to Allah. Surely Allah is Ever Watchful of the servants. (Al-Momin 44) The immortal Mystic acquires gnosis of Allah in seven steps or levels. First is the level of negation of everything i.e. (“La Illaha” meaning; “No one is to be worshipped”). Second is the level of affirmation i.e. (“ilAllahoo” meaning; “but only Allah”). Third is the level of verification of (“Mohammad-ur-Rasoolullah” meaning; “Mohammad is the Messenger of Allah”). Fourth is the level of gaining gnosis from verses of the Holy Quran. Fifth is the level of reciting Saifi dua173. Sixth step is to gain knowledge about the Ism-e-Azam from all the beautiful names of Allah. Final level is to drown in the Divine Essence through Ism-eAllah Zaat. These are the seven Divine treasures and each one of them grants seventy more treasures. (“Aamana wa Sadaqna” meaning; “We believe and verify it”). Having faith upon anything or anyone other than Allah is certainly infidelity. Whoever reaches the final level of reciting Dawat, becomes the perfect Mystic immortal with Allah. His glance and inward attention become perfectly Divine and his words become the sword of Allah. Whatever he wishes, is granted by Allah even before he asks it verbally. The Holy Prophet said:

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An Arabic prayer for spiritual assistance

434 Meaning: The tongue of Fuqara is the sword of Rehman. The tongue of Mystics cannot become the sword of Allah unless they learn the proper way of delivering the Dawat and recite the Saifi dua in Dawat sitting beside the grave of a Saint. Only the accomplished Saint is empowered to recite Dawat riding the grave of a Ghaus or Qutb. When such an accomplished Saint recites Dawat riding a grave with all his wrath and spiritual attraction, his objective is fulfilled immediately by the Grace of Allah, whether it is worldly or religious. Without any delay, he attains the level of a Mystic immortal with Allah and is blessed with the Divine union. You must know that reciting Dawat to capture supernatural beings and jinns or to know the hidden is the job of imperfect ones and the way to deliver it is different from the Dawat recited to spiritually meet the sacred souls of Prophets, Saints like the Ghaus and Qutbs, the martyrs, Faqeer Mystics immortal with Allah and the Dervishes. To deliver such Dawat, when the seeker goes to the graveyard and recites (“Uhdhuru lil musakharati be haq-e-malikil arwahil muqaddasi” meaning;“Come O’ sacred souls to help achieve the objective for the sake of the Master of all souls”), all the souls of the graves come to him. The way of every kind of Dawat is opened only when it is recited after having permission from the Holy Prophet. Although, the authority to grant this permission will be transferred from one perfect spiritual guide who is man of Divine secrets to the other till the Doomsday.

Meaning: Whoever does not follow a spiritual guide, is verily the disciple of Satan. One blessed with the guidance and company of perfect spiritual guide is like the great Saint Bayazid Bastami.

435 No Dawat is harsher than the Dawat of Divine presence and the Dawat of shrines. However, it is compulsory to keep in view the honour of the shrines of Saints. If there is fire on one side and grave on the other, it is better to step into the fire rather than stepping on the grave. Because, if someone steps into the fire and his foot is burnt, it will be recovered in a few days but if a man of inciting innerself steps on the grave of a sacred soul, it will haunt him and put him in such spiritual decline that he will become mad and die eventually. Since the sacred souls are dominant upon the men of inciting innerself, only the spiritually dominant Saint who has crossed the level of â&#x20AC;&#x153;death before dyingâ&#x20AC;? is eligible to recite Dawat on their grave. Rather, the sacred souls are so powerful that they are present everywhere in the nine skies and the seven layers of earth simultaneously. When the Saint recites Fatiha on the shrine, the sacred soul gains such power by its reward that it becomes dominant over each and everything of the earth and skies. As, for the sacred souls, every alive thing of the world is mortal and dead, while for the alive people of the world, the soul under the soil is mortal and dead. However, the real life is the life of the Mystics having alive inward which they spend in the desire of Allah. It is stated;

Meaning: Certainly, the Saints of Allah do not die. The seeker who gains elevated spiritual levels during his life, becomes capable to recite Dawat at the grave of an alive soul, rather it becomes compulsory for him.

Meaning: The perfect Faqeer rides the grave as he is dominant not only on the graves but on the whole world.

436 Meaning: The proficient of Dawat who is blessed with the Divine presence is dominant over the graves.

Meaning: Whoever acquires the knowledge of Dawat recited at graves, the reality of everything is revealed upon him.

Meaning: Dawat is like a naked sword in the hand of Faqeer annihilated in Allah with which he beheads the tormentors. When the reciter of Dawat rides a grave and reads the Quran, the spiritual level of the soul inside the grave is raised by the benediction of verses of Quran. Do not find it strange, as by reciting Quran on the grave, the soul feels honoured because the Quran is superior to the soul and the grave. Quran is non-creation while the soul and the grave are creation. The Mystic who rides the grave of an eminent Saint and reads the Quran while delivering the Dawat, his Dawat continues like the flowing river and never stops till the Doomsday. One should ride the grave and recite Quran for three purposes; (1) For the victory of the king of Muslims who is fighting against the infidels (2) To benefit all the common and special Muslims (3) To suppress the heretics and atheists. If the proficient of Dawat wants to recite Dawat for any of these three religious purposes, he should visit the majestic grave of any great Saint, Ghaus, Qutb or martyr alone in the night. First, he should set up an enclosure around himself and then call the complete Azan around the grave. Just on saying the Azan at the grave, the soul of the Saint blesses the reciter with its presence, comes under his spiritual authority and talks to him inwardly or through inspiration. If the reciterâ&#x20AC;&#x;s spiritual level is higher than the soul of the Saint, then he hits the grave with his foot and orders the soul, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rise by the command of Allahâ&#x20AC;?, and engrosses himself in the invocation becoming unconscious of everything. The soul

437 answers all his questions and carries out all his orders immediately. If the soul of the Saint neither comes out of the grave nor answers the reciter or comes under his spiritual authority even by saying the Azan and giving the command of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rise by the command of Allahâ&#x20AC;?, then surely that soul is dominant over the reciter and possesses higher levels than him. Or maybe, the soul is getting the pleasure and beneficence from the recitation of Quran and is engrossed in it, that is why, it is not coming out of the grave and delaying the order of the reciter. If the reciter is proficient of Dawat then he should enslave the soul by reciting the Holy Quran while riding the grave and then at the footside of the grave. As soon as he performs these two powerful acts, the soul goes to the Holy Prophet and complains. Thereafter, the soul is ordered by Allah and the Holy Prophet to become the obedient companion of the reciter and remove all the obstacles of his way. Hence, the soul at once fulfills all his objectives as a Hadith tells:

Meaning: When you are worried about your matters, seek help from the souls of shrines. Reciting such a Dawat is the job of the great riders. Only the ones permitted by the Holy Prophet can recite it.

Meaning: Whoever is not permitted by the Holy Prophet to deliver Dawat, finds nothing by reciting it.

Meaning: How can the sacred souls elevate the one to high levels who is not permitted by the Holy Prophet to recite Dawat.

438 There is another higher level of Dawat which grants the reciter the rule over everything of the eighteen thousand worlds from above the Divine Throne till deep below the earth. This grand and magnificent Dawat requires that the reciter should have complete knowledge and perfect faith upon the Holy Quran and should make Quran his guide and intercessor. When the reciter drowns in the ocean of knowledge of Quran while reciting such a Dawat, the four angels who are the bearers of the Divine Throne and the special angels Gabriel, Michael, Israfil and Izrail are tempted to turn the earth upside down due to the majestic effects of Dawat. All the sacred souls get amazed and pray “O‟ Allah! Grant all the wishes of this reciter as soon as possible so that we are released from the wrathful effects of his Dawat.” No Dawat is harsher than this one.

Meaning: Bahoo! For the sake of Allah and His Prophet, do not reveal the secret of men of Divine union upon anyone. No one knows the exact way to recite Dawat except those who are perpetually present in the Mohammadan Assembly. The status of proficient practitioners of Dawat who are men of sight is like that of Khidr and Prophet Moses. Moses kept check upon the sins while Khidr kept in view the way of virtuosity. Their incident is mentioned in surah Kahf;

Meaning: (Khidr) said, “This is the parting (time) between me and you.” (Al-Kahf 78) The perfect spiritual guide who is proficient practitioner of Dawat is one whose disciples also become proficient in Dawat on the very first day. He is brave like lion and the great rider of graves. He knows the reality of everything present in between the earth and skies and up and below them. Know that the Holy Quran should be recited with purity, only an inwardly sanctified person is eligible to recite

439 the Quran. If an impure and filthy person will recite the Quran, he will turn mad and perplexed. Who is veritably pure and who is impure? The inciting innerself is impure and is the king of Satan. Filthy Satan is in agreement with the carrion world and the seeker of carrion is a dog. Pure is the inward which has been eternally sanctified by the invocation of Allah, its extreme purity affects the soul and makes it pure as well. Ism-e-Allah Zaat is the purest which purifies the inward and soul and envelops the entire existence in the light of Allah granting it the eternal life. Only such a pure existence is qualified to ride the grave and recite Dawat and only that spiritual guide is eligible to be followed who takes the seeker to the gnosis of Allah.

Meaning: If an impure and imperfect person recites Dawat, he is ruined and declined. If a pure and perfect seeker recites Dawat, all his objectives are fulfilled.

Meaning: One who becomes acquainted to the sacred souls, his being is purified and converts to a special Divine light.

Meaning: Bahoo! Dawat recited at the shrines solves all the problems and blesses the reciter with the Divine light of purification. It should be understood that the spiritual being of the dead in the grave is always riding its grave like someone rides the horse, as if the grave is its conveyance. If the dead has left the world in the state of right faith, he is auspicious and his

440 abode is Illiyeen174. His level, sight and jamiat are beyond the Throne and he remains in the company of Prophets and Saints. If he is ominous, his abode is Sijjeen175. His level is below the lowest point of earth, the hell fire is burning under his feet and he is tormented continuously by burning in the hell fire like the cauldron on fire. When the reciter of Dawat rides the grave sitting with the spiritual being of the dead who is being punished and reads the Holy Quran, the dead is salvaged from the perdition by the benediction of the recitation of Quran. Hence, he helps the reciter and gets his job done. If the grave is of some eminent Saint and the reciter of Dawat rides the grave and reads Quran, the soul of Saint also recites the Quran with him. By the benediction of recitation of Quran, the spiritual level of the reciter elevates. He is exalted and honoured, hence the soul of Saint takes him to the assembly of Prophets and Saints. If someone objects that riding a grave is disrespectful and the honour of the graves of Saints must be kept in view, then such a person is surely unaware of the states of souls and is a man of inciting innerself. Ask him, whether the Holy Quran is superior or the grave? If compared, grave is inferior to the Quran, so, reciting the superior Quran upon the inferior grave is not at all wrong. By the benediction of recitation of Quran, the inferior elevates to superior level. Hence, the reciter of Quran is also elevated. While reciting Dawat, the reciter gets right answers of his questions from the spiritual being of the dead in the grave through inspiration. Either this answer is in the language of Holy Quran or in a hidden language. Sometimes the answer reaches from inward to inward, or the thought reaches from soul to soul, or the waham reaches from core to core. The Holy Prophet said;

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The dignified place where the souls of the pious will be kept before sending them to heaven on the Doomsday. 175 The disgraced place where the sinners will be kept before sending them to hell on the Doomsday.

441 Meaning: When you are worried about your matters, seek help from the souls of shrines. The inner states of graves are known only to the one who is blessed with the presence of the Mohammadan Assembly, has met the souls of the Saints in the holy assembly and has got the permission to recite Dawat on the graves from the holy assembly. His spiritual act is based on Divine presence and he is well known among the souls of Prophets and Saints.

Meaning: The grave of the Saints is like body for the soul, consider them sleeping in their graves.

Meaning: Awake the sleeping Saints from their graves, talk to them and be friends with them.

Meaning: Your heart will converse to their heart and this conversation is inspirational.

Meaning: When your heart starts listening the words of the soul in the grave, understand that it is the grave of an alive Saint.

Meaning: Whenever you are in trouble, call them and remind them their promise. They will come to help you instantly.

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Meaning: Dawat recited at shrines is so effective that thousands of angels gather around the reciter.

Meaning: O‟ men of certainty! Let me tell you that the sacred souls of Saints have no fear in their graves.

Meaning: Although, the bodies of the Saints are in the graves but their sacred souls are beyond the Throne. They do not need shrines or tombs for their pure existence.

Meaning: They are the men of vision who have taken their existence with them. They do not care if their grave remains unnoticed and they remain anonymous.

Meaning: O‟ Bahoo! Only one letter i.e. „ ‟ (Alif) of Allah is enough for you as no honour is better than It. Know that there are three kinds of authorities; the authority upon the world which is considered a great treasure by the common people, the authority upon the hereafter which is also considered a treasure by people but the immortal Faqeer Mystic considers both of them a trouble because inclining towards anyone other than Allah is the cause of decline and spiritual demotion. None of the disciples of an immortal Mystic spiritual guide, who is the man of Divine union, can

443 achieve his objective unless the spiritual guide blesses him with his spiritual attention. If the spiritual guide is not perfect yet, it takes him a week to fulfill the objective of the seeker by his spiritual attention. If the spiritual guide is perfect, his spiritual attention of three days and nights is sufficient. If he is accomplished, only one day and night‟s attention is enough. If he is supreme, his one hour‟s attention will do the required and if the spiritual guide is Sarwari Qadri comprehensive spiritual guide, his one moment‟s spiritual attention is powerful enough to fulfill all the objectives of the seeker. The effect of spiritual attention of the man of Divine presence spiritual guide and the Dawat recited at the shrines does not end till the Doomsday. Get to know that the first condition for the reciter of Dawat at the shrines is that he should be a man of alive and thriving inward. The reciter is blessed with the gnosis and closeness of Allah through the shrines. There are seven treasures in Dawat which can be acquired only by the order of Allah and permission of the Holy Prophet. First treasure is that by reciting Dawat with the Holy Quran and Saifi dua, the baser existence of the seeker becomes precious and honourable, while some of them gain the alchemic sight. Second treasure is that the reciter‟s inward is blessed with jamiat through the pearls of knowledge gained from the shrine. Third treasure is that his soul is delighted by the beneficence of knowledge gained from the shrine. Fourth treasure is that his innerself becomes pure and sanctified. Fifth treasure is that the hidden knowledge is revealed upon him. Sixth treasure is that oblivion is eliminated from his existence forever. Seventh treasure is that he gains the Divine favour. However, one should beware of four causes of spiritual demotion; the scholars are demoted when they act against the knowledge, the Fuqara face demotion if they go against the Ism-e-Allah Zaat, they should always take the name of Allah before saying anything. The ignorant are demoted due to the darkness of inward and the rich face decline due to affluence. If someone recites Dawat to gain worldly ranks and meet the kings and aristocrats instead of reciting it truly for Allah,

444 although he achieves the objective but his Dawat loses its effect and its spiritual way is closed for him in future. Whoever recites it by the order of Allah and for the sake of Allah only, is the righteous one and the spiritual way is never closed upon him. All his issues are resolved by reciting Dawat, whether he recites it for worldly purpose or religious. During all his ventures, Dawat proves to be of great help. Reciting the Quran for one night at the grave of a Saint is better than the mystic struggle of forty rounds of forty-day secluded devotion. If a seeker wants to have the spiritual wealth and blessings, desires to be blessed with eminence and grandeur, wishes to have the worldly as well as religious treasures of Allah without any hard work or taking pain, wants to imprison the inciting innerself and get rid of the Satan, gain authority over all the worlds, conquer the entire creation, find Ism-e-Azam from the Quran, acquire the detailed knowledge of augmentation, knowledge of spiritual efficacy, knowledge of enlightenment and the knowledge of alchemy from the angels through inspiration, wants to learn the knowledge and method of writing talismans for solution of different problems, wishes to be blessed with the presence of Mohammadan Assembly and have beneficence from the sacred companions then he should have great courage to keep the secrets of Allah which will be revealed upon him and should never tell them to anyone. Then, his spiritual guide will show him the path of righteousness and Divine presence, hence the entire Divine treasures and the treasures hidden beneath the earth or present on the surface of earth will be exposed upon him and will come under his authority by the command of Allah. Whoever reaches this level of Faqr, his heart becomes contented and is blessed with eternal presence of the Mohammadan Assembly. He attains the level of (“Al Faqru Layahtaj” meaning; “Faqr needs nothing”). Apparently, he seems to be a needy person but inwardly he is man of gnosis and One with Allah. These levels are gained by reciting Dawat in the company of souls of Saints sitting beside their grave. Dawat is like a naked

445 sword. If an imperfect recites it, it is like a sword in the hands of an unskilled person which can hurt anyone but if the perfect will recite it, it will kill only the harmful, the hypocrites and the enemies of Mohammadan religion. Get to know that the foundation of purity of existence is to engrave the name of Allah on the inward by concentrating upon Ism-e-Allah Zaat which grants perfect purity in life and after death. When, the inward gains eternal life by writing the name of Allah excessively upon it, the voice of Ya-Hayee176 Ya-Qayyum177 raises from the inward. Afterwards, the seeker should engrave the sacred name „Mohammad‟ upon the inward, only then he becomes qualified to recite Dawat at the shrines. Dawat recited at the shrines may also result in four ways; either the reciter is demoted spiritually, or the one for whom Dawat is being recited is blessed with spiritual elevation, jamiat and eternal wealth, or he faces spiritual decline and perplexed states, or the reciter as well as the one for whom Dawat is being recited both are demoted and ruined. The sign of perfect reciter of Dawat is that when he recites Dawat, he as well as the one for whom he is reciting Dawat both are blessed with jamiat and progress in the world and hereafter. Dawat is effective only when the seeker with alive breath and inward recites it after permission from the Holy Prophet. Whoever recites Dawat without the permission of Holy Prophet, is disgraced and declined. One who recites Dawat in the desired manner by the permission of Holy Prophet, reaches the ultimacy of waham. The spiritual attention and waham of the Faqeer envelop the whole world. When the perfect man of Dawat completes reciting Dawat, four inward armies under the supervision of the Holy Prophet gather around him to protect him, although he cannot see them with physical eyes. First army is the power of becoming favourite of Allah, second army is the power of becoming favourite of the Holy Prophet, third is the army of angels, supernatural 176 177

Attributive name of Allah, meaning “The Eternally Alive”. Attributive name of Allah, meaning “Forever Sustained”.

446 beings and their subordinate jinns and fourth is the army of souls of martyrs. Such a Saint has all the weapons around him in the air like the naked swords, spears, bows and arrows, knives, daggers, guns and all other kinds of weapons. Only he can see them hanging in the air. If he gets angry with anyone, that person gets such a wound from the hidden which never heals and he dies at last. However, it is better that one should be tolerant and must not harm people, rather pray for them like the Holy Prophet did;

Meaning: Oâ&#x20AC;&#x; Allah! My nation is unaware, please bless it with guidance.

No one is worthy of worship but only Allah and Mohammad is His Messenger.

Meaning: This book containing endless treasures of Allah, ends. The blessed person will derive the treasures from it.

EXPLANATION OF TERMINOLOGIES AHL-E-BAIT English phrase for the Arabic phrase “Ahl-e-Bait” which means “people of the Prophet‟s house” and refer to the five most sacred entities; the Holy Prophet himself, his loving daughter Fatima, her husband Ali ibn Abi Talib and their beloved sons Hassan and Hussain. They are titled as the people of cloak because once the Holy Prophet took them under his holy cloak and recited the verse 33 of surah Ahzab for them, meaning “Allah intends to remove from you (every kind of ) impurity, O‟ people of the (Prophet’s) household, and to purify you with (extensive) purification”. SPIRITUAL GUIDE Spiritual guide is English term for the Arabic word Murshid. Murshid is Quranic term and is also one of the attributive names of Allah. Murshid is not only the spiritual guide of the seekers of Allah but also their spiritual doctor who treats their spiritual diseases and trains them spiritually as a spiritual instructor. No one has ever reached Allah without the guidance of a perfect Murshid. OATH OF ALLEGIANCE Oath of allegiance refers to mystic term Bayat. When a person takes bayat, he becomes disciple and hands over himself to his spiritual guide in exchange of spiritual guidance after Bayat. This in fact is a pact between Allah and His slave which eternally bonds the spiritual guide with his disciple. INVOCATION Invocation is translated from Arabic/Quranic term Zikr which means to remember Allah through repeated recitation

448 of His name. In the Sarwari Qadri order, invocation is done with breaths instead of tongue. CONTEMPLATION Mystically, contemplation refers to spiritual practice of Tasawur which is to contemplate the name of Allah in a particular manner after taking oath of allegiance at the hand of perfect spiritual guide and having his permission. When the seeker elevates spiritually, his contemplation also elevates and become stronger. GNOSIS The Arabic word Marifa is translated in English as gnosis of Allah. It is the vastest term of mysticism that gives a new meaning at every spiritual level. Basically, it refers to the knowledge and recognition of Allah which keeps on increasing as the lover of Allah progresses towards His closeness, hence reveals new dimensions at every stage. It includes vision of Allah, knowledge of His Essence and attributes, acquiring the attributes, annihilating in Him and finally becoming One with the Essence having His ultimate gnosis. Since Allah is Infinite, His Marifa is also endless. The invocation and contemplation of Allah‟s personal name are the foundation of Marifa. It can be gained from the inward sources like the intuitive and inspired knowledge as well as the outward sources like the spiritually effective Sufi teachings and the words of the perfect spiritual guide. ISLAMIC CREED Declaration of Islamic faith by saying La illaha ilAllahoo Mohammad-ur-Rasoolullah, meaning: “There is no one to be worshipped but Allah and Prophet Mohammad is His Messenger”.

449 CREED OF TESTIMONY The creed that states, “I bear witness that there is no one to be worshipped but Allah, He is One and has no partner and I bear witness that Mohammad is His beloved slave and Messenger.” REFLECTION Mystic term Fikr is translated as reflection which means to ponder over the spiritual matters. According to Sultan Bahoo, reflection is must along with invocation to have the gnosis of Allah. MEDITATION Meditation is English word for the Arabic word Muraqbah. Literally, Muraqbah means to focus upon a point. Mystically, it is to meditate upon Allah by focusing upon Ism-e-Allah Zaat. Its main aim is to have gnosis of Allah and protect the inward from everything other than Allah. INSCRIBING ALLAH’S NAME ON BODY The mystic exercise Mashq Marqoom-e-Wajudia is translated for the convenience of the English readers as the practise of inscribing Allah‟s name on body. It is the mystic exercise in which Allah‟s name is inscribed on body with the index finger in a particular manner. The powerful theophanies of Allah‟s name purify the soul of the inscriber. However, this practice is effective when performed after taking oath of allegiance of the perfect spiritual guide and having his permission. STRAIGHT PATH The Quranic term Sirat-e-Mustqeem is referred to as the straight path. The first Surah of Quran Al-Fatiha defines the straight path as the path of those special men of Allah upon whom He bestowed His favour. It is the path which leads directly to Allah.

450 PIETY Piety is translated from the Quranic word Taqwa which literally means to have fear of Allah, abstain from sins and adopt pious deeds, but in reality Taqwa is the state of heart‟s closeness to Allah. Taqwa refers to inward purity of a person which ultimately leads him to have the vision of Allah. DIVINE LIGHT The Divine light is specific for Quranic word Noor. The Unknowable and Transcendent Divine Essence first of all manifested Himself in the form of Noor and that was the Noor of Mohammad which is the foundation of creation and is concealed in everything of the cosmos. Whoever reaches that Noor in his inward by following the spiritual path, comes in light from darkness and finds the Reality. DIVINE LOVE OR LOVE FOR ALLAH The Persian mystic term „Ishq‟ is translated as the Divine Love or love of Allah. It is not the love of Allah amongst other loves i.e. love of family, wealth, world, hereafter etc. rather it is specific to that intense love for Allah which dominates or removes the love for all other things except Him. Only the Divine love is true love. TRUST UPON ALLAH Arabic word Tawakkal is translated as trust upon Allah. However, Tawakkal is specific for Allah. It is to trust only upon Allah in all matters and in all states. FAITHFUL The Arabic word Momin is translated as the faithful. A Momin can be distinguished from a common Muslim as a Muslim accepts Islam just verbally or just because he is born in a Muslim family. He follows Islam only outwardly but the Momin reaches the essence of Islam following the spiritual path and worships Allah while beholding Him with perfect

451 faith. Refer to surah Hujrat verse 14 to understand the difference. DIVINE COVENANT In pre-existence, Allah took the promise from the souls to always consider Him their Lord and Master by asking, “Am I not your Creator and Provident?” and the souls replied, “Yes! You are.” (verse 172 surah A‟raf) BE AND IT BECOMES “Be! And it Becomes” is the command of Allah and is mentioned several times in the Quran. It is transliterated as Kun Fa-Yakun. The command by Allah when He decides upon a thing is “Kun” meaning “Be” and “it Becomes” immediately which is from the Quranic word Fa-Yakun. ASCENSION TO ALLAH English phrase for the Arabic word Meraj. The Holy Prophet Mohammad is blessed with the ultimate Meraj where he beheld Allah directly without any veil and enjoyed His absolute union. THE ANGELIC REALM Refers to Malakut, the realm where everything is in an intangible form like that we see in dreams. During the ascending journey of soul, Malakut comes after the physical world. THE REALM OF POWER Refers to Jabrut which is above Malakut and is the realm where angels were created along with the human souls. REALM OF ABSOLUTE UNITY Refers to LaHoot which is above Jabrut. Here the Divine Essence is present in the form of Divine Soul, the Soul of Mohammad which is the origin of all souls. When the soul of

452 the true seeker ascends to this realm by the kindness of spiritual guide, it achieves the origin and Unity and becomes Divine. INNERSELF Innerself is translated from the Arabic word “Nafs”. It has four layers. Each layer annihilates into the next upon its purgation. The first layer incites man to commit sin. On purification, it elevates to next layer which repents. The third layer inspires before committing sin. Whereas, fourth layer is pure of sins and is at peace. THE SPIRITUAL OR INNER BEING OF HUMANS The Mystics have revealed that the spiritual or inner being of humans has seven layers; a) The Nafs i.e. the innerself (already explained) b) The Qalb i.e. the inward (can also be understood as the subtle heart). c) The Rooh i.e. the soul. d) The Sir‟r i.e. the core which contains the Divine secret. e) The Khafi i.e. the Hidden which is the Divine Soul. f) The Yakhfa i.e. the most Arcane which is the light of Mohammad. g) Ana i.e. the Divine Essence. The spiritual journey of human starts from Nafs and accomplishes when he reaches Ana i.e. finds the Divine Essence within himself. SPIRITUAL DEMOTION Translation for the Arabic/Persian word Rujjat. The spiritual journey is in fact the ascension journey of the soul. If the seeker disobeys the spiritual guide, goes against the laws of spirituality, breaks the laws of sharia or commits any undesirable act, he is descended to a lower level which is considered Rujjat. If he repents sincerely, he is elevated back to his level otherwise not. If he remains stubborn upon his sin, his demotion manifests physically as well.

453 SPIRITUAL CONTRACTION Spiritual contraction is translated from the Arabic word Qabd. It is the state of soul which results from the theophany of Allah‟s majestic name Al-Qabid meaning “The Constrictor”. When the seeker experiences this state, his inward and soul are firmly gripped and the wrathful effects of the theophanies burn a veil between him and Allah. This state is followed by the state of spiritual expansion (Busst). SPIRITUAL EXPANSION Spiritual expansion is translated from the Arabic word Busst. It is the state of soul which results from the theophany of Allah‟s beautiful name Al-Bassit meaning “The Expander”. When the seeker experiences this state, his soul is engulfed with ineffable joy. SPIRITUAL ECSTASY The Persian mystic term Masti is translated as the spiritual ecstasy. It is the state of soul when it is deeply immersed in the intense love of the Beloved by the invocation and contemplation of Ism-e-Allah Zaat or on beholding the Beloved. The lover remembers none but the Beloved. SPIRITUAL INTOXICATION Spiritual intoxication is translated from mystic term Sukr. It is the state of absence of self-awareness brought about through a powerful spiritual influence such as immersion in the invocation of Allah, attention of the perfect spiritual guide, deep emotions of love for the Divine Beloved. SOBRIETY Literally, sobriety is the translation for Arabic word Sahw. Mystically, it is the state of soul experienced on returning from the state of spiritual intoxication. It is the vigilant state in which the seeker consciously understands and cognates

454 whatever he experienced and gained during the state of spiritual intoxication. SPIRITUAL SIGHT The Persian word Nazar is translated as the spiritual sight. It is specific for the effective sight of the perfect spiritual guide with which he cleanses and purifies the soul and inward of his disciples as well as imparts the inner knowledge. It is not bounded by time and space. If the spiritual guide is perfect, his sight can affect his disciple wherever he is. SPIRITUAL GLANCE The Persian word Nigah is translated as the spiritual glance. It refers to the powerful glance of the perfect spiritual guide with which he can change the states of hearts and elevate the souls. It is beyond the limitations and boundaries and can affect the seeker wherever he is. SPIRITUAL LOST The term is English translation for the Persian word Majzoob which is used for the one who cannot tolerate the effects of theophanies and loses his senses. Hence, due to his lost and absorbed state, does not follow sharia properly, neither progress on the spiritual journey PATH OF SHARIA The initial level of spiritual journey travelled by following the Islamic law perfectly and sincerely for Allah. PATH OF TAREEQA The second level of spiritual journey called mysticism and related with the inward purgation for the closeness of Allah.

455 PATH OF HAQEEQA Haqeeqa means the Reality. It is the third level of spiritual journey whereby one finds the Reality after gaining inward perfection. PATH OF MARIFA Marifa means gnosis of Allah. On approaching this level, the seeker starts to gain the veritable gnosis of Allah. The Holy Prophet said about these four levels; “Sharia is my words, Tareeqa is my actions, Haqeeqa is my inward states and Marifa is my secrets”. INWARD SOLITUDE The mystic term Tajreed is translated as inward solitude. This mystic level is gained by negating everyone other than Allah. NEGATION OF SELF The mystic term Tafreed is translated as negation of self. This mystic level is attained by negating one‟s own self. Inward solitude and negation of self are two basic levels before reaching the level of Tauheed i.e. Oneness with Allah. LEVELS OF CERTAINTY There are three levels of certainty; a) The knowledge of certainty gained by listening or reading about any fact or knowing about it from any other source. b) The vision of certainty gained by seeing or observing the fact whose knowledge was gained. c) The final level of certainty gained by personally experiencing the known and observed fact. A simple example to explain the concept could be that “fire burns” is certainty gained by knowledge. Witnessing something being burnt is certainty gained through vision. If one‟s finger is burnt and one experiences how fire burns then

456 this is final level of certainty gained by experience. The same is spirituality which is more experienced than knowledge, though without a doubt knowledge plays an important part. COMPANIONS OF SUFAH Sufah was the platform in Holy Prophetâ&#x20AC;&#x;s mosque which served as the first Islamic university. Some companions resided there who are called the companions of Sufah. COMPANIONS OF BADAR Companions who participated in the battle of Badar. INTERPRETATION OF RELIGIOUS LAW Derived from the Arabic word Ijtihad which is a technical term of Islamic law that describes the process of making a legal decision by independent interpretation of the legal sources, the Quran and the Sunna. The person authorized to make the interpretation is called as Mujtahid. He is accepted as an original authority in Islamic law. Such authorities continue in the Shia, but the Sunni Muslims accord this status only to the great lawmakers of early Islam. SIRAT BRIDGE Sirat in Arabic means a way or a road; according to traditions, it is a bridge or road which passes from the top of hell. In a Hadith, it is stated that the Sirat bridge is thinner than a hair, sharper than a sword and hotter than fire. In the hereafter, every human would be made to cross it, the faithfuls will pass over it quickly, some will cross it with difficulty while others will slip and fall down in the pits of hell. BLACK STONE The Black Stone called Hajr-e-Aswad in Arabic is a rock fixed on the southeast wall of Kaaba near the footprints of Prophet Adam.

457 KHARIJITE The word Kharijite means “those who defected from the group”, referring to the groups that rebelled against the third and fourth Muslim Caliphs, Uthman ibn Affan and Ali ibn Abi Talib. NOTES 1- The word “inward” is used in the book in two meanings; it refers to the subtle heart or Qalb as well as the inner and spiritual self. 2- The Hadith is also translated in two ways in the book. Where it refers to the words and command of the Holy Prophet, it is translated as “Die before your death” while where it refers to the spiritual level, it is translated as “Death before dying”. 3- The verse 72 of Surah Ahzab is translated in two ways as well, where it refers to the Universal Divine Man, it is translated as, “We presented Our trust before the skies, earth and mountains. Everyone refused to bear it, but man (the Universal Divine Man) picked it up. No doubt, he is cruel (towards his innerself) and ignorant (of his highest rank near Allah). While, where it refers to the common man it is translated as “We presented Our Trust befor the skies, earth and mountains. Everyone refused to bear it but man picked it up. No doubt, he is cruel and ignorant (of the importance of that Trust).

GLOSSARY Abdal

Spiritual rank of Saints

Al-Barr

Attributive name of Allah, meaning; “The source of all goodness and kindness”.

Alif

Alif is the first Arabic alphabet and it refers to the Divine name Allah with Alif.

which starts

Arafat

A plain fifteen miles to the east of Makkah.

Autad

Spiritual rank of Saints

Azan

Islamic call for prayer

Baab-ul-Masakeen

“The door/house of Maskaeen”. Masakeen is the plural of Miskeen. Literary “Miskeen” means indigent or meek person but mystically it refers to the Faqeer who stays with Allah permanently, as “Miskeen” is derived from the word “Sakin” which literally means “stationary” or “staying at one place”.

Dajjal

The word “Dajjal” in Hebrew teachings mean “enemy of God”. Dajjal is the evil figure in Islamic eschatology. He is to appear, pretending to be the Messiah, before the Doomsday

Dawat

Dawat is a spiritual act of communicating inwardly with the sacred souls of shrines.

Dawat-e-Takseer

Dinar

Currency of Arab

Eeman-e-Muffassal

The creed meaning: “I believe in Allah and in His angels and in His books and in His Messengers and in the Last day and in the fact that everything, good or bad is decided by Allah the Almighty, and in the life after death.”

459 Eeman-e-Mujjammal

The creed meaning: “I believe in Allah (as He is) with all His names and attributes and I accept all His commands, by pledging to do them with my tongue and confirm them with all my heart.”

Faqeer

The Saint of highest level who travels the path of Faqr i.e. the path to vision and union of Allah, and accomplishes in it reaching its final level stated in the Hadith, “When Faqr is accomplished that is Allah.”

Faqr

Fatiha

Islamic ritual of sending blessings to the dead by reciting Surah Fatiha the first surah of Quran once and Surah Ikhlas the 112th Surah of Quran thrice and then saying the Darood.

Fuqara

Plural of Faqeer

Ghaus

Spiritual rank of Saints

Ghinayat

Ghinayat is a mystic term which refers to the spiritual level where the seeker is sated of all desires, becomes contented and independent of all wishes and greatly generous.

Hajj

Pilgrimage to Makkah performed in fixed days i.e. 9th to 13th of the Islamic month of Zilhaj.

Hayee

Attributive name of Allah meaning “The Eternally Alive”

Hoo

460 Illiyeen

The dignified place where the souls of the pious will be kept before sending them to heaven on the Doomsday.

Ilm-e-Dawat

Knowledge of communicating spiritually with the souls of Saints.

Ishq

Intense Divine love

Ism-e-Allah Zaat

Ism-e-Allah Zaat is translated literally as “the personal name of Allah” and it refers to the name . It represents all the Divine attributes and the Essence. It is the most powerful name of Allah as it includes the powers of all other attributive names of Allah.

Ism-e-Azam

Ism-e-Azam literally means the greatest name of Allah amongst His ninety nine beautiful names. It is the name which contains all His powers and whose recitation solves all the problems. Mystics confirm that Ism-e-Azam refers to Ism-e-Allah Zaat because no other name of Allah is more powerful than the Divine name

Istinja

Istinja means cleaning away after passing the urine or stool with water. If water is not available then it is allowed in Islam to use earthen clods.

Jamiat

Lahaul

A prayer for safety from the Satan.

Masakeen

Plural of miskeen.

Miskeen

461 Mohiyyuddin

The title of Ghaus-ul-Azam Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani. Mohiyyuddin means “One who enlivened the religion”.

Mujaddid

Munkar and Nakeer

The angels who cross question the dead in the grave.

Qab Qausain

The station of extreme nearness to Allah. Qab-Qausain is a Quranic term. In Surah AlNajm verse 9, Allah has used the term Qab Qausain while referring to the station of ultimate nearness between Him and His beloved Prophet Mohammad. It was a proverbial term used in Arab for the friendship and union of two tribes. They announced their union by joining their bows and shooting an arrow, hence declaring that from that time onwards they should be considered one and the same, one‟s enemy is the enemy of other and one‟s friend is other‟s friend.

Qalandar

Unconventional mystic

Qayyum

Attributive name of Allah meaning “The Forever Sustained”.

Qudsi Hadith

Words of Allah stated by the Holy Prophet

Qutb

Spiritual rank of Saints

Rehman

Attributive name of Allah, meaning “The Most Compassionate”

Saifi dua

An Arabic prayer for spiritual assistance

Sarwari Qadri

Sarwari Qadri is the spiritual order of Hazrat Sultan Bahoo which starts from the Holy Prophet and reaches Sultan Bahoo through Ghaus-ul-Azam Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani. Sarwar means the leader, Sarwari means related to Sarware-e-Alam (Leader of the worlds) Prophet Mohammad. Qadir means All-Powerful, Qadri means related to Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani.

462 Sharia

Sharia is the set of Islamic laws which include obligations like the prayer offered at fixed five times a day, fasting in the month of Ramadan, paying zakat, performing Hajj as well as virtues like telling the truth, fulfilling the promises, veiling of women from strangers, helping the needy etc. Sharia also forbids evils like making partners with Allah, cheating or lying, theft, adultery, backbiting, blaming others wrongly etc.

Sijjeen

The disgraced place where the sinners will be kept before sending them to hell on the Doomsday.

Sultan-ul-Faqr

â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Sultan of Faqrâ&#x20AC;?. Sultan Bahoo has mentioned seven Sultan-ul-Faqr souls in his mystic treatise Risala Roohi Sharif. Six of which are: Fatimah daughter of Prophet Mohammad, Hassan of Basra, Ghaus-ulAzam Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani, his son Shaikh Abdul Razzaq, Sultan Bahoo himself and Sultan Mohammad Asghar Ali. Sultanul-Faqr also refers to the Universal Divine Man (the Insan-e-Kamil) of an era who is the heir of the Divine Trust of Faqr and is appointed on the throne of Divine guidance and persuasion as the perfect spiritual guide to guide the seekers on the path of Faqr. He is Sultan-ul-Faqr because he has complete authority over Faqr.

Sunna

The ways and manners of the Holy Prophet

Sunni

The section of Muslims who follow the Sunnas of the Holy Prophet completely. All the four schools of thought are included in this section i.e. Hanafi, Maliki, Shafii and Hanbali.

Tahajud

The prayer offered after midnight having great importance and reward.

Tauheed

Oneness of Allah. For common Muslims Tauheed means that Allah is One, He is the sole Creator, Master and Sustainer but for the Mystics Tauheed means that only Allah exists and none else. They become one with The One and see Divine Oneness

463 everywhere, which is actual Tauheed for the Mystics. Umrah

The pilgrimage performed in Makkah in days other than the Hajj days.

Waham

Waham is the inward state of esoteric connection and spiritual conversation with Allah which is possible only through the perfect spiritual guide.

Ya-Hoo

Invocation of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ya-Hooâ&#x20AC;?is Sultan-ul-Azkar i.e. the king of invocations. It is the most powerful invocation of Allah which takes close to Him most quickly. When the lover is annihilated in Hoo, there remains no duality.

Zakat

Obligatory charity

Zulfiqar

The sacred sword of Ali ibn Abi Talib given by the Holy Prophet with which he won all the battles.