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All the
six subtleties, the Latent, obscure, the Arcanum, the Spirit, the Heart and the
Self are the names of six movements. Each of these movements has a specific
length in every species. Three of these six movements are ascending movements
and other three are the descending ones. Corresponding to the three descending
movements three ascending movements takes place on the other side at the same
time. The Latent (Akhfa), the first movement of every species is the
movement of the Descend or the Aversion. This movement emerges from the depth
and rises towards the surface. The surface where this movement reaches after
covering its fixed length (distance) is known as the Arcanum (Sirr). This
movement was achromatic (colorless) in the Latent but when it enters the Arcanum
(the Illustrated Realm) a color is produced in it, making it monochromatic. The
colorlessness of the Latent (Akhfa) was the source (origin) of all the
colors and now the unicolorness of the Arcanum holds all the color in it. After
Acranum, this movement covers another Length. As soon as this length is
completely covered all the colors present in the unicolorness are scattered and
dispersed. One side of the limits where these colors disperse is in the Heart
or the idea (Conception) and the other side is the Self or the Sensation
(Feelings) This very combination of the colors is the Manifestation or the
Body, whatever 'species' it may be. In this voyage, upto this stage, the Unconcoius
i.e. time had been on the surface and space i.e. the Concious remains in the
depth. But after becoming the Manifestation Time goes down on the depth and
Space become surfaced. The movement which travelled from the Latent (Akhfa)
to the Manifestation is known as the Descending Movement but Space is surfaced
movement becomes the ascending one. This movement ascends from the Manifestation
(the Subtlety of the Self) towards the Spirit and from there it further ascends
to the obscure (Khafi). Akhfa (the Latent) is the Preserved Scripturum. The
Arcanum is the Illustrated Realm. The combinative form of the subtelities of
the Heart and the Self, the Manifestation is the Phenominal World or Body. The
Subtlety of the Spirit (Latifa-e-Roohi) is religious terminnology is
called the Limbo (Araaf) or the Erebus (Purgatory). The Obscure (Khafi)
is the Written Book, the stage of Resurrection and the Judgement. As mentioned
earlier, these are seven steps of human life. These seven steps are the seven
ages. These seven ages have been sub-grouped into Two. One of them is named as
the Realm of Colors of the Phenomenal World, that is, the present world, the
other is the Resurrection and Judgement. There are two more stages between
these two. The intermediatory phase occuring between the Preserved Scripturum
and the Phenominal World is the Realm of Illustartive forms and the other
intermediary phase which comes between the Phenominal World and the
Resurrection and Judgement is known as the Purgatory (Alam-e-Burzakh). This
is that phase which comes during the Ascending Movement.
Explanation
The Pen i.e.
the Knowledge of the Divine Pen and the Tablet i.e Preserved Scripturum. Both these
two sides of the Point of Unity. The side facing the Supreme Being of Allah is
called Knowledge of the Pen. The very same side is also known as the Beatific
Vision of the Being and the same could be called, in general terminology, the
Ultra-Achromatic or the Extra-Unconscious.
There
are twenty three sections (departments) of the Pen and the Scripturum. Here we
would ignore the twenty three sections of the Pen (The Ultra-Achromatic) and
discuss only that section of the Scripturum (the achromatic) which has been
referred in the above cited verse of the Holy Quran. This section is related to
that point of Scripturum or the Unconscious whose one side (plane) is the
Memory and the other side is the Thinking. Both these planes are the two sides
of the same one movement. One side is the plane of the Memory and the other
side is the plane of the Thinking. The plane of the Memory is the vast, deep
and engulfing Void of Light. The Thinking plane is mere Light (Noor) which
descends from the Void of Light: from the infiniteness towards the finitude. The
very same movement has been mentioned by Allah the Most Exalted in the first
part of the above referred verse, "Whatever is in the heavens and on the
earth declares and celebrates the Praises Glory of Allah…." Thus,
everything after coming into finitude from the infiniteness makes it
acknowledged that the Supreme Being of Allah, the Most Exalted is Holy,
Inerrant and Unlimited and this very limitlessness is the faculty of the
Holiness and the Glory of Allah. If the Invariant and the Variable is required
to be discriminatively and distinctly understood than the Invariant would have
to be termed as the Limitlessness and the variation as the Limitude. When
Variation occurs in something, first of all the demarcative limits come into
being, that is, nothing can exhibit variation without peripheries and limits. Variation
is another name of Movement. And the movement cannot take place unless the
limits for something are determined. To be free of variation is to be free from
and above every want, need, restriction and frequency. The Limitlessness and
Infinitude have been termed in the Holy Quran, as the Creator and the Limitude
and Finitude as the creatures.
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.
