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“Say,
the soul is the Edict of My Lord.”
(Quran)
Soul has been declared as the Edict of the
Lord therefore it is also the Realm of Behest. But this Realm of Behest is
altogether a different thing from that Realm of Behest which was made to come
into being by the utterance of the World, ‘Kun’ (Be!).
Had
both these Realm of Behest been one and the same, Allah would never have
mentioned that I breathed My soul into the body of Adam. It is expressedly
depicted from these words that the Realm of Behest enlisted above at NO. 2. is
the General Command and that at No. 3. is the Specified Command.
From
here the Knowledge and the Manifestations are subdivided into two categories,
which have been termed as the Knowledge of the Divine Scripturum and the
Knowledge of the Divine Pen, that is the Pen and the Scripturum by the Holy
Quran.
Now the arrangement would be as follows:-
No. 1.
The Self of Allah (The God-Head)
No. 2. The Realm of Specified Behest, Beatific Vision of the
Godhood (The Indispensable Being),
No. 3. The Realm of Behest, The Command in General or the Beatific
Vision of the Attributes.
And
after these three stages the fourth is that of the Created Realm.
Six
subtleties have been mentioned earlier. With the exception of the God-head; the
Self of Allah, rest of the three stages have six sides in total i.e. every stage
is di-hedral. One side of the Realm of Specified Behest; the Beatific Vision of
the God-head or the indispensable Being is towards the Supreme Being of the
God-head and its other side is facing the General Realm of Behest. This makes
them two subtleties. First one of them is known as the ‘Latent’ and the other
one is called the ‘Obscure’. First side of the Realm of General Behest is
towards the Realm of the Specified Behest and its other side is facing the
Created Realm. The first one is known as the ‘Arcanum’ and the other one is
called Spiritic”.
One
side of the Created Realm (the Phenomenal world) is facing the Realm of the
General Behest and the other side is towards the Cosmos (Matter). The first of
these two is called the Subtlety of Heart and the other is known as the
Subtlety of the Self.
Cognition
of the Realm of Nasma, in Sufism, is termed as the True Knowledge (Ilm-ul-Yaqeen).
Cognition of the Realm of General Behest is called the Exact Truth (Ain-ul-Yaqeen)
and the cognition of the Realm of the Specified Behest is known as the True
Reality (Haq-ul-Yaqeen) and this is that stage which is the cognition of
the Supreme Being or the God-head, the rest are the stages of the cognition of
the Attributes.
Human body is a shell. This shell has two sides -- the body and the mind. Mind is facing the Realm of the General Behest and the same is called the Nasma. But this mind or the body is not the man. Man who could be called a point of the Beatific Vision of the Being, in fact, lives in both of them. This point which is the human self is a particle of the Fabric woven from the Light. This particle has a shell (cover) which is known as the Body and the same is the manifestation.
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.
