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Man can learn knowledge in two ways, by
learning from others and spiritually. The knowledge that can be learnt is also
of various types but for learning any science its terminology; signs, symbols
and alphabets are required to be learnt in the onset. The more one learns
various sciences the more strengthened become his conscious and the conscious
capacity enlarges to an extent that he can delve upon the prevailing sciences
of the world. With the added capacity of the concentrative abilities and the
development of the conscious it comes to his knowledge that there exists another
conscious from where these sciences are transferring and the psychologists name
that Conscious as the Unconscious.
Unconscious is that Conscious, which is far beyond the
ordinary conscious of the people. Both the Conscious and the Unconscious encompass
all those sciences, which deal with the creative factors like discoveries and
inventions. This could be said that the scientists of the present era in his
attempt to reach the core of the facts have managed to get to the Unconscious
remaining in their Conscious state of mind. This thing has resulted in an
unending chain of all types of inventions and discoveries. And, this all
happened within the limits of the Acquired Knowledge.
When the heavenly knowledge is taken into consideration
and compared with the worldly sciences, it is noticed with amazement that this
world was blessed with people who did not learn any knowledge from others in
their lives but still they proved to be the beacon of light for the others.
And, they handed down those sciences to their fellow beings that helped in the
evolution of the conscious mind. These people were the prophets of God. Amongst
all those prophets, the holy prophet of Islam disclosed that knowledge which
was not disclosed by the prophets before him.
When the Unconscious is mentioned generally, it refers
to the Third Conscious. All the discoveries and inventions like radio, T.V.,
computer, atom and the spacecrafts are the wonderworking of this Conscious, which
according to the scholars and scientist, is the Unconscious. Important thing to
note here is that no invention of the world is beyond the limits of the
resources of the world. If the resources are not there no invention can be made
possible. Every form of advancement is indigent of resources, whether it is the
atomic bomb, aeroplane or some other invention, if the resources are not there
the invention is not possible.
Moreover, the prophets of God
bear witness to the fact that any supernatural activity, performed on their
part, never needed any involvement of material resources. As reported in the
holy books, the Christ could cure a blind or a lepers or a bald person merely
by run his hand over the person. Similarly, the miracles ascribable to the prophets
are considered miracles because they did not involve any use of material
resources or any known technique to perform that feat.
In context of determining the ranks of various prophets
different levels of heavens are mentioned and it is said that Adam is stationed
on the first heaven and such and such prophet is stationed at the third, fourth
or sixth heaven, in fact, this refers to the level of activation of the Second
Conscious. Heavenly limits are not determined on the basis of any direction or
boundary as such, but it actually refers to the active level of the
Unconscious.
When we look at the celestial bodies, stars and
planets, the peripheries of our Conscious and the Unconscious become adjoining,
or to say, our conscious is influenced by the Third Conscious. Witnessing the stars,
feeling the cool pleasantness of the moonlight and the heat of the sun are
evident upon this reality that our conscious is capable of entering the limits
of the unconscious and can benefit itself from that those things that are found
in the Unconscious and, after penetrating deep into the available resources can
have an access to the root of the things. This is the law that helped man to
explore the powers hidden in the atom.
When we look towards the sky, we see stars over there,
which means that the silhouette of the stars touches our Unconscious. What is a
planet, what a star is, what are the details of the ingredients and components
of these celestial bodies; these thing remain obscure from our Conscious but
are clearly known by the Unconscious.
Keeping this formula in view when the Unconscious of a
prophet becomes his Conscious, his senses, after becoming under the control of
the Unconscious, start to observe, know, hear and feel the internal and
external conditions of the celestial bodies. And, when the Conscious
(Knowledge) of a prophet transfers to a vali and starts feeding his
Conscious, the senses of the vali also become capable of witnessing the
celestial bodies just as a common person witnesses the nearby things.
Just as there are various methods for developing and
training the conscious abilities similarly the Unconscious can also be trained
in many ways i.e., one can enter the limits of his Unconscious in different
ways.
It is our common observation that a person with a more
organized and arranged conscious is more aware of the global situations an can
comment upon them in a much better way than a person who does not possess a
developed Conscious. Let us take the example of a peasant who spent his sixty
years of life in a limited area and his interests remained confined to
cultivating the land etc. He is an elder for his family being the grand father
and enjoys a status of a seasoned person in his community but he has no knowledge
about the atomic theory. If such a person is asked about atomic sub-particles,
he would not be able to tell anything in this regard. But, contrary to this if
the atomic theory is described before a person who has developed his Conscious
by learning physical sciences will not feel any difficulty in understanding the
atomic theory.
A spiritual person is versed with the four consciouses.
One of them is the conscious that helps us to understand the life of the
physical world and which is in the knowledge of almost every sane person. This
conscious deals with the external stimuli of life. This Conscious in spiritual
terms is known as the Fourth Conscious and, in general terms, merely the
Conscious.
When the conscious is mentioned that side of the
conscious automatically attracts our attention from where the information is
supplied to the conscious. This is generally called the Unconscious and
according to the spiritual science it is the Third Conscious. Common person
remains oblivious of this Conscious but the people who have the habit of
contemplating and pondering get to know it. This is the conscious that helps us
discovering the laws of nature and inventing new things. All the advancement
and progress made by the sciences of present era is attributable to this
Conscious.
There are two more Consciouses beside the two mentioned
above, which become activated in a spiritual person called vali or the prophets
of God.
As a matter of law, when some
change takes place in the lights permeating the universe, this change is
incorporated in all the four consciouses. This very light that is permeating
the universe is the source of interaction between the individuals of the universe. If this lights is extinguished all
these four consciouses will cease to exist and if the change takes place in the
any one of the first three consciouses then the fourth conscious is bound to
display that change in its features.
Change in the conscious set up or the alteration in the
lights of the universe is related to with the different angles of light. This
light is named as Nasma. Nasma is the name of those rays of light
that weave the fabric of creation. These waves are neither at a distance from
one another nor are they infused into one another and in spite of that these
bright rays keep on changing their angles.
This thing has been explained at length that God has
created this universe with four consciouses or one Conscious and three
unconsciouses. When the structural formation of the universe is mentioned in
descending order, the fourth level of the unconscious is named as the First
Conscious.
When the Elohistic Appellations have to display them in
the form of the Attributes of God, a movement is produced in them and they take
the tone of a command, this state in terms of spiritual science is called Germination
(Bida’at), which is a sort of biological pressure that commences from
the First Conscious and exerts itself effectively up to the Fourth Conscious.
When this pressure descends in the Second Conscious it takes the form of
Elohistic Behest.
Basis of the universe is the Attributes of God that
manifest through Commands of God. This is continuing eternally and will last
forever. Stimulation in the Attributes gives rise to form and features, which
become material manifestations after passing through three stages.
One form of the existence of the universe is that the
universe exists as a whole along with its each and every particle infused into
one another just as God had created it. When the universe is sighted
collectively in this form it appears to be having all the forms in one place.
All the plants, animals and planets are infused into one another. Universe, in
fact, is such a Realm where every species appear to be infused in the other
species.
This thing must be very carefully noted that Universe
is nothing but the Knowledge. If the Knowledge is not there the universe is not
there and Knowledge is the Attributes of God (Elohistic Appellations).
First Conscious is the Simple Noor, Second one
is the Compound Noor, Third one is the Simple Nasma and the
Fourth Conscious is the Compound Nasma. The Exalted angels are the
creation of the Simple Noor, other angels are the creation of the Compound Noor,
jinns are the creation of the Simple Nasma and, the creatures composed
of elements including this planet earth are the creation of the Compound Nasma.
First Conscious---Simple Noor---Exalted Angels
Second Conscious---Compound Noor---Angels of lower’ ranks
Third Conscious---Simple Nasma---Jinns
Fourth Conscious---Compound Nasma---Man, Animals, plants and inanimate things.
Life is another name of the stream of thoughts. If the
chain of thought is discontinued, all the urges, all the senses and feeling
will also abolish. There does not exist even a single movement, which is
independent of thoughts. No activity or urge could take place out of the sphere
of thoughts. Before undertaking any activity, first we receive a thought about
that activity. Nothing can take the form of a manifestation if thought about that
thing is not conceived and it is not allowed to be deepened. Leaving the state
of Fantasy aside, when this thing is understood that thoughts are responsible
for the urges of life, it becomes necessary to explore that from where the
thought come to us?
The features of the Preserved Scripturum transform into
light waves and these light waves disperse in the mind after striking against
it. If the waves do not strike against the human mind, man cannot have the
Fantasy, thought or ideas. And, if the fantasy and thoughts are not received,
the urges cannot be there. We remain occupied with thoughts coming to our mind
the daylong. Certain thoughts are considered as related to our life and most of
them are ignored considering them as insignificant.
Whenever a thought comes to our
mind, as a matter of law, it has to be associated with one or the other section
of the universe. Occurrence of thought by itself is evident upon the fact that
it originated somewhere else and from there it come to our mind and generated a
movement in the screen of the mind. Since we do not perceive that movement or we fail to interpret it, we tend to ignore it. But,
this movement is related to those strings of the universe, which are
responsible for controlling the operational system of the universe.
We are familiar with the breeze and normally we do not
take notice of its blowing but when it changes to a windy flurry we cannot
ignore it. The wind is against the routine blowing of air and is an indication
that some change has taken place in the system responsible for the blowing of
air or wind. Similarly, a movement taking place in the human mind, in the form
of occurrence of thought, means that some movement has taken place in the
Unconscious. What is the origin of this movement, how does the system of these
movements is working? All these things depend upon the quest of a person. The
more one becomes familiar with his/her Unconscious by striving and meditating,
the easier it becomes for him/her to explore these things.
There does not exist anything that does not have two
sides or aspects. We see the form and features of corporeal things and at the
same time this also is in our knowledge that someone is holding the very being
of those objects.
One aspect is dominant and the other aspect is the
dominated. One is the manifested side and the other is the obscure or hidden
and these two together form the life, which is the perception. This sensing or
perceiving too has components. One is the thing or the object to be observed
and the other is the observing force, which remains obscure. Unless both the
aspects of the sense are united, we cannot observe anything whether it is the
corporeal or incorporeal. The object exists before us but the thing responsible
for the existence of that object remains obscure from our sight. The physical
eyes witness the corporeal things only and the spiritual eye observes both the
corporeal and the incorporeal things.
When a blackboard is sighted we observe it as a board
that is painted in black, which means that the board and the color are
considered two things and the union of these two things is known as a
blackboard.
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.