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The cosmos travels in three spheres.
The first one is of the soul.
The second one is the dress of the souls known
as nasma. the third one is the material body made of nasma. All the three
circles move simultaneously.
The dress made of the soul has two sides. One
is composed of a single layer and the other one is composed of compound layers.
The single and the compound sides are separated at the same time they are
integrated.
The active life is conscious whereas the life
of dreams is unconscious. Both the mind and the memory work in active life.
Likewise they work in unconscious life. The needs of the life, be they
conscious or unconscious, are dependant on the information. Conscious is
dependant and limited. Unconscious Iife comparatively has a greater freedom.
The Quran
and the all other related books describe the alternation of the conscious and unconscious as day and night.
At the first day after the birth of a baby, the
unconscious dominates. The page of unconscious remains blank. As time passes,
the imprints of the parents, family and the environment get imprinted on the
conscious. By the age of 12 the conscious becomes so enlightened that the unconscious
part becomes blurred. Yet the imprints are not erased altogether. If the
conscious becomes so enlightened that nothing can be I separated from the
unconscious then the hypothetical senses overcome, and the unconscious part becomes
obscure. Thus, after puberty, individual becomes unaware of his unconscious.
Being unaware of the unconscious does not
mean the obliteration of the imprints
of the unconscious. If the unconscious becomes obliterated, life will become
disintegrated. Nature has divided the senses into two halves of the conscious
senses and unconscious senses to maintain her integrity. When an individual
enters the realm of night s/he enters the realm of the unconscious. And when she
enters the realm of the day, in fact s/he goes two steps into the conscious
word.
A human being passes his whole life, (till his
death) half in conscious and other half in the unconscious.
Conscious and unconscious keep alternating in
the life. The conscious has a very slow and limited speed whereas; the
unconscious has a great speed. The mystics, who are aware of the creative
formula, say that man can nowhere be free from time and space. Freedom means
that the feeling of the break up of the limitation becoming prominent.
In the realm of unconscious the speed of human
senses becomes sixty thousand times more. This increase in speed is called the
freedom from the realm of time and space. A man walks (on foot), the other is
riding a bicycle, the_ third one by car, and the fourth one is flying in the
plane. In these instances the speed is different. ·
When man exiting from a day enters the senses
of night, it appears that he has got free from time and space. In fact, he is
not in every moment both the conscious and unconscious work together. The
dominance of unconscious is called freedom.
The Quran says .
"O' mankind and jinns! Can you go beyond
the limits of the sky and the earth? You can't but the orders of (sultan)
power."
(Surah Rehman: Verse 33)
The word sultan here means "consol on the
unconscious."
The realm from which man comes into this world
is called past. When a person grows young his childhood goes into the past.
When he grows old his youth goes into the past. Similarly, when he dies his
whole life becomes a part of the past record.
The philosophy of the unification of being is a
much discussed area. Different religious scholars and the researchers have commented
or written a great deal on the topic. Many families related to mysticism have been the supporters of this philosophy specially; Ibn- e- Arabi
has influenced the Islamic world by representing this philosophy. His disciples
have also written noteworthy books on this philosophy. Then Arabic presented
the theory of unity of being but the misled mystics of Akbar's region competed
this theory by adding misconception of hallol-o-irtihad. They told the people
that whatever is in the word is God. The earth, the sky, the flora and fauna,
the darkness and light, the good and evil, the Islam and disbelief in Islam,
everything exists by virtue of God.
Hazrat Majaddid Alif Sani fought against this
misleading theory. He said these people are misinterpreting the theory of
"unity of being" he gave the concept of "unity of
observation" to check the growth of these derivations.
What unity is being explained in the light of
the theory of "color and light" the example of a mirror is presented.
A man looks into a mirror. He says that he is
looking at a mirror, in fact he is looking at a mirror rather he is watching
the action of mirror. When we ponder over the looking action of the mirror, it
dawns upon us that we are looking at our shadow reflected through the mirror.
It's a common thing to say that we are the mirror. The same is the case with
all the fields of life. We think that we are looking out with our eyes but,
insightful man says that what we are not looking outside rather outside is
being reflected in our mind. We are just looking at this shadow. If a man does
not know the reality of the phenomenon of watching, he thinks that he is
looking outside. But a man who does know the reality of phenomenon of watching
is aware of the fact that everyone is not looking outside but inside.
When our sight sees something indirectly, it
feels itself imprisoned in the limitation of time and space. The more our ways
of seeing something become profound, the more grades are created (in
abundance).
Observation is constrained (limited within time
and space because the activities are descended. God says in the Holy Quran that
every thing is created with two prospects i.e. every descendent has two sides.
On the very first day when man saw and listened
to Allah Almighty, he entered the second descent and in this descent gained
discernment (awareness) of sight, shape and form, speaking and listening,
beauty (colorfulness), scene of attraction and touch. The first descent i.e. to
see God is the first stage of unification and the second descent has five
stages. In this way there are six descents. The first descent is called descent
of subtlety and other descent in term of sufis (mystics) is called subtleties
of abundance.
According to the theory of color and light, the
realm which is
called unification, is nothing but the
innovation of human mind whatever man says with his limited intellect
(understanding) or according to limited thing capability is nothing but his own
limited vision.
It is not altogether correct to say that the
realm of unification is ·
the unification of Allah Almighty because human
mind is unable to describe Allah Almighty or any of His attributes.
When we describe oneness of Allah Almighty, it
is in fact, the description of our own thinking facilities. It is impossible to
cover attributes of Allah Almighty by means of any word. Man mentions the
attributes of limitlessness of Allah Almighty. Actually he mentions his own
limitation, i.e. the extent to which Allah's attributes are absorbed
(contained) in man's limited thinking is called limitlessness by man. It means
that when we mention the oneness of God, we want to say that we understood the
attribute of God to some extent.
Man talks about god according to the status he
gives to G d (Him), or he shows his activities or actions to understand Him.
Since man's insight is limited, though he thinks it to be unlimited, he can't
see his limits. Man calls the realm, he can't understand, realm of Unification
or realm of observation. The last prophet of God (S.A.W) said, "We can't
understand as you deserve to be recognized."
This saying of the Holy Prophet guides and
tells us that no one can recognize God fully. Man recognizes and understands
God to the extent with which he observes the beautiful vision and attributes of
God with the grace of God.
Scholar of the Right path, Father of the Monks
& Saints (QALANDAR) says
When I was bestowed with the chance of visiting
the real of soul, I thought to see the souls of the saints of Allah to discover
how many sufis or saints have seen the face of Allah in form or in His quality.
I chose those saints of Allah whose souls were one lakh years old and asked
them if they had seen Allah. No one admitted that he had never seen Allah in
one form. Every sufi has observed Allah in different forms and different light.
KHWAJA SHAMS-UD-DEEN AZEEMI
Many a scholar has written a lot about
spiritualism and pantheism. One school of thought is of the view that as saints
often used to wear wooly dresses therefore people would call them sufis. Wool
is called sauf in Arabic. They used to wear such a dress, for it had been the
habit of many a prophet, saints and pious people. According to some people, as
they have been associated with the Ashaab-e-suffa that is why they are called sufis;
whereas according to yet another school of thought the word sufi is linked with
suf a.... but all these explanations are not satisfactory.
In fact, the terminological meaning of Sufi'ism
(tasawaf) is self cleansing. It is the name of a true spirit that is related
to conscience and the light of conscience is always inherent. A sufi always
thinks in the context of Allah. His talk moves around Allah. He lives with
Allah and dies in the name of Allah. He recites His words and always praises
Him and remains enmeshed in His love. He sacrifices everything in order to see
and meet Allah.