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Things that we know and the feelings and emotions, with
which we are familiar, are known as the Conscious and the things and thoughts,
which are not known to us are termed as the Unconscious. This knowing and not
knowing are coexisting in us. The ways that we have not comprehended so far are
known as La. We have to negate the approach of Illa in order to
know the ways of La. We can find our way to the knowledge of La
only after negating the life of the material world, the life of Spatio-temporal
constraints, which we have imposed upon ourselves in such a way that now we
have got it established in our beliefs that there is no way out from the
confines of this material limitations. Having the knowledge of La is the
intuition.
Intuition is of four types, which are called descents.
First descent is that the universe was displayed as it was there in the mind of
God. This display is known as the Knowledge of the Pen. In the second descent the
secrets and the mysteries of God appear in the form of Beatific Visions, which
fully cover the Will of God. In the third descent, the secrets and mysteries of
creation take the shape of inscriptions of the Preserved Scripturum. These very
impressions of the Preserved Scripturum are known as the Ultimate Fate. After
the third descent, when the creation is adored with spatiality and takes on the
physical body to live in this material world, it is called the fourth descent.
It seems necessary to clear this point that all the
inventions, innovations and discoveries taking place in every era; since the
very Beginning till the last Ending of the universe, are all predestined and
are not beyond the limits of the Era of Eternity. Manifestation of every
possible happening ad infinitum, are all confined within the limits of
Eternity. Therefore, whatsoever is taking place or will ever happen resulting
the descent of the secrets of the Knowledge of the Pen is a display of the
Knowledge of the Pen.
God has stated in the holy Quran that He is the Master
of the Preserved Scripturum, whichever command He likes, He retains and,
whichever He likes, He revokes.
“ Every promise is inscribed, God
doth blot out or confirm what He pleaseth and with Him is the Real Book.”
There is a projector, which is being operated by an
operator. The projector has a film in it. The images of the film, after passing
through various lenses and the empty space, are carried on to the screen by
means of light waves. A person sitting in cinema hall is watching the pictures
moving upon the screen before him. Although he is not witnessing the operator,
projector, film, lenses or the light waves that are carrying the images through
the empty space onto the screen, yet the spectator sees the pictures.
Keeping this example in view, as long as the creatures
were in the Mind of God, they were faceless, without any features but after
passing through the Lens of the Incumbent when they entered the realm of
the Preserved Scripturum, features were produced in them and the pictures were
completed in the Illustrative Realm but thy were still devoid of the physical
body. Unless the pictures wear the physical body they cannot feel or perceive
anything sensually.
1.
In the first stage of the Intuition, the
existents existed in the Knowledge of God and they were without any features.
2. In
the second stage, the pictures of the Edicts got the features when these were
inscribed upon the Preserved Scripturum.
3. When
these Edicts reached the Erebus after passing through the phase of the
Preserved Scripturum, body of lights
is produced for the pictures.
4. When
the pictures wear the physical body of matter, they have the realization of
time and space and they find themselves confined in the Spatio-temporal limits.
This is the fourth stage of Intuition.
As described earlier knowledge is of two types,
Acquired and the Presented. The knowledge that is acquired remaining in the conscious
limits of time and space, it is known as the Acquired knowledge. All the
worldly sciences and bookish knowledge falls in this category. Whereas the
Presented knowledge is free from the Spatio-temporal constraints. The students
of the Presented knowledge can be broadly classified in two categories of Rapt
Associates and the Associate Enrapt.
Spiritual Associate or simply the
Associate (salik) is a person who gets to his inner by means of
supererogatory worshipping rites and austere exercises. If a person despite
practicing the rites and performing exercises is not acquainted with the inner self then, in spite of wearing any
typical robe or dress, he cannot be called an associate. Salik is a
person who follows the teachings of his religion without involving into
hypocrisy and the worshipping rites help him to have first the cognition of his
own self and then of God.
‘One who recognizes his self,
cognizes the Lord, God.’
It is necessary for an associate that all his acts and
deeds must be in consonance with the attributes of God and his subtleties are
toned with the love of God. Some people call him an associate who is studying
spiritualism or learning spirituality but this is not the right thing because
an associate is a person whose subtleties have been toned up, that is, he has
taken himself away from the worldly thinking approach, which is founded upon
fictional and hypothetical senses.
Some people call that person a shaikh or
sahib-e-wilayat, who is journeying on the paths of spiritualism. This is
also not correct because only a person whose subtleties have been toned up can
undertake spiritual journey. And, shaikh or sahib-e-wilayat is a person
who enters into the Attributive Unity after progressing from the stage of
Functional Unity.
According to my findings a large number of Shaikhs
are such people, who even do not know about the scientific values of dreams and
what to say of the other spiritual abilities. Some even do not know the abc of
spiritual sciences. And, this is the reason that spiritual sciences have been
mystified and are used only to attract the people, mostly for fun sake.
Obviously, a person, who does not know anything, cannot teach others.
Once Qalander Baba Auliya had said to me that 25%
people in the era of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) were spiritual persons but
nowadays only one out of 1.15 million people turns out to be a spiritual person
for the obvious reason that those who are claiming to the Spiritual Associates
and sheikhs are actually working against the norms of spiritual sciences.
Another thing, which is commonly
misunderstood, regarding the definition of Associate Enrapt, is that the people
who are insane and mentally ill are called majzoob (Rapt). How can a
person, who is the heir of the spiritual knowledge, be mad or insane? People
debate that majzoob is superior to salik but then how this would
be decided that who is the salik and who is the salik majzoob (Associate Enrapt)? Majzoob,
in actual fact, is the person whom God has attracted towards Himself.
We have mentioned the obligatory and supererogatory
worshipping rites, which includes all the religious and social laws prevalent
in a society and which are binding upon every individual of the society. When
the subtleties of a person are toned up because of his efforts and observance
of the supererogatory rite, he is called salik or Spiritual Associate.
But in order to get to the level of the Unity of the Being, one has to have
that thinking approach activated in him, which is the thinking pattern of God and
a majzoob enjoys the thinking pattern in which he is in close affinity
with the will of God. It has been stated in the holy Quran that those who are
firm in their knowledge, know that knowledge which is the personal knowledge of
God and they say that they believe that everything is from God.
It must be remembered that certitude is directly
related with the observation. One cannot believe anything unless it is in one’s
personal observation. A person with natural tendency of having firmness of
knowledge gets into the observations of the underlying invisible and unseen
world. He fully comprehends this fact that there is a Reality that is
functioning in the background of every unseen phenomenon, and this unseen world
is established because of that Reality. The movements that are taking place in
that unseen world are causing the universe to be. Where this thing has been
mentioned in the holy Quran that God pick them towards them, actually, the
reference is made to a Rapt, or to say, a majzoob is hinted there who is pulled
towards God.
KHWAJA SHAMS-UD-DEEN AZEEMI
The book Loh-o-Qalum (The Pen and The Scripturum) was written by His Divine Grace, Qalander Baba Auliya at the behest of the Holy
Prophet; the Prophet
of Islam, (Peace
and Blessings of God
be upon him). This auspicious command was given
to him by the Holy
Prophet directly, in a manner, which is known as the Owaisian Manner.
Possessor of the
Insinuated Knowledge, Knower
of the Secrets
of the Command, “Be!” Proclaimer
of the Reality, the Kind Preceptor, His Divine Grace,
Hassan Ukhra Mohammad
Azeem Burkhiya Qalander Baba Auliya (May the blessings
of God be upon him),
whose saying is the saying
of God though uttered
through the human mouth, narrated
the contents, which
were inscribed on the
screen of my mind, by his strong Spiritual Influence, word by word ……. And, thus, this inspired
writing, stated by Qalander Baba Auliya and penned down by me took the form of Loh-o-Qalum
(The Pen and the Scripturum).
This knowledge of the Spiritual Science is the heritage of mankind and jinns. I, hereby, deliver this trust onto the present and the future generations of man and the jinns.