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The
hills which according to the geologists were formed in billions of years were
destroyed within a second without leaving any trace of their existence. Who
could deny that one second of extermination swallowed up the survival of
billions of years. The hills were the representation of billions of years'
survival and the perishment of the hills represent one second.
Similarly, one femto-second (1 X 10-12 Second) of the Black Point is encompassing the
total temporal period of Time i.e., Time between Eternity to Infinity. The
perception which we usually exercise cannot observe the femto-second; the
trillionth part of the second but the perception which can do so has been
indicated in the Sura Qadr, of the Holy Quran.
“We
have indeed revealed this message in the Night of Power, And what will explain
to thee what the Night of Power is? The Night of Power is better than a
thousand months, therein come down the angels and the Spirit by Allah's Permission
on every errand. Peace.. .. . This is until the rise of Morn!".
The
Night of Power is that night in which the Perception of the Black Point
descends. This Perception is seventy thousand or more times greater than the
ordinary perception as one night has been proportioned to one thousand months
which equals to seventy thousand times. Man, with the help of this perception
can observe the Cosmic Soul, angels and the Affairs which are secrets of
creation.
This
Perception in Sufism is called the 'Openness' (Fathah). Man in this state of
the Openness observes and understands the Eternal affairs in the state of
wakefulness. Witnesses the formation and creation of heavenly bodies located at
the Remotest distances of the universe and watches them fading out on
completion of their lives. Incalculable systems of galaxies are fashioned
before his eyes and he witnesses them expiring after living through immeasurable
ages. Sometimes, One second of Openness circumscribes the total period from Eternity
to Infinity.
What is perception?
Tom says, I read the newspaper; I wrote a letter;
I had my meal; Who said it? Who read the newspaper ? Who write the letter? Who has
his meal?
Tom did all this but it is the mind of Tom which
is stating and comprehending all this. What Tom did is only known to the mind of
Tom. Knowing is nothing more than the information received. Reading newspaper, writing
letter etc. etc are information. When these informations are ignored, what Tom did;
who he is; all becomes meaningless. The fact is that the mind of Tom received informations.
Two agencies are worth mentioning here, the informations and the mind. The informer
of the information is the mind and the recipient of the information is also the
mind.
Unit is only one which has two sides. Mind informs
that the age of the hills that were destroyed was two billion years. Considering
one year as one unit, the information pertains to two billion units which means
that the perception divided a feeling into two billion parts. It is an information
regarding the duration of two billion years. The mind of the listener of this information
practically felt the duration or length of two billion years, this means that a
scale for two billion years is present in one second of perception. How, when and
by whom were these two billion years spent, nobody, can tell this. It is merely
an information – an information whose perceptual duration is not more than one second.
In our knowledge, mind is the only agency which is called the universe. Christ has
stated, “God said, light!’ and there is was”. In the Quranic Words,
“Be! and it is”.
When we cast a glance over the words of a book,
it is as if the light falls upon them because we cannot see anything other than
the light. When we study a book, we study the light and whatever we understand is
the understanding of the light. Because, when we would be studying light, obviously,
we would be understanding the light only. And whatever we are understanding is only
an information. Thus, we have to conclude that both; the information and the light,
are one and the same. Now the thing to see is that what is the location of the information.
If we could find out the location of the information then we would be able to understand
time and space.
According to the astronomers, there Is no solar
system whose light could reach us in less than four years’ time. They also tell
us about the stars whose light reaches us after ten million years; even more. It
means that the star which we are witnessing in this present moment is an existence
of ten million years ago. It also means that
the present moment is a moment of ten million years ago. It invites us to
deliberate as to where the intermediatory ten million years have gone.
Be it known, that these ten million years’ Time
is only a way to perception which has divided one single moment into ten million
years. The way perception sees the past ten million years in the present moment,
similarly, it can observe the ten million years henceforth in the same present moment.
Thus, this is also provided that the whole temporal time – the period of time from
eternity to infinity – is only one single moment which has been sub-divided into
different phases. This very division is called Space, that is, the total period
between Eternity to infinity is Space and all the incidences witnessed by the universe
are incarcerated within the divisions of one single moment. It is the wonder-working
of the perception which has made one single moment to have the form of Eternity
to infinity.
Where did perception come from?
As mentioned earlier, it is merely an information.
From where is this information received?
It has been graciously stated by Allah, the Most
High, “I granted the sight, I granted the Hearing”. This means, He granted us the
information.
What is the ratio of the ordinarily received informations
with that of the given ones?
Perhaps, something around cipher. The information
actually received are negligibly limited and meager in numbers.
If we
are desirous of having information of larger vista and greater magnitude, there
is no alternate for the purpose except the spiritual sciences and for the spiritual
sciences we have to seek guidance of the Holy Books.
Qalandar Baba Auliay (R.A)
Alshaikh Khwaja
Shamsuddin Azeemi, Chief Editor of the monthly Roohani Digest, the renowned
spiritual scholar, founder of the chain of Muraqba Halls the world over has had
the honour of learning the spiritual sciences from his spiritual mentor, His
Divine Grace Qalander Baba Auliya, the sage of this age. In order to teach him
the spiritual sciences Qalander Baba Auliya made Alshaikh Azeemi to pen down
the words that he used to narrate. Alshaikh Azeemi being a devoted disciple not
only noted the contents but also did his best to understand what he was taught.
The eventual out come of his dedicated work took the form of the ‘Loh-o-Qalum’,
the first ever book that comprises the whole syllabus of the spiritual science.
Who else was more suitable to explain the contents of this document but
Alshaikh Azeemi, the very able student of Qalander Baba Auliya. Dissemination
of that knowledge, which is the legacy of prophets and had reached him in
disciplic succession, has become an obsession for Alshaikh Azeemi because, according
to him, this knowledge is the only elixir and the antidote for the ailing
humanity in present times.
