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the light of the Subtlety of Self, first step of Istarkha, is the activation of
audibility. At this step the inner thoughts of a person or a living thing, in
the form of voice, are carried to the hearing of the one who is having the
power of Observation. During the lessons of Discernment to vitalize this form
of observation many material things are also used. One of them is the powdered
peppers. This powder, after applying on a swab cotton with a drop or two of
water, is placed in the ears at time of performance of Muraqbah and
Istarkha.
Second
step of Istarkha is that the lights of the Subtlety of Self can arrange
themselves into smell and touch. And, one who has power of Observation can
smell and touch anything even if it is at a distance of millions of light year
- the speed of light is about three hundred thousand kilometers per second Many
forms of contemplations are used in increasing the lights of Subtlety of Self. It
will not be out of place to give one or two examples of Contemplation and
Cogitation.
Alpha-luminescences
which are the main theme of this chapter is such an Attribute of Allah which
could be studied analytically in the human self. The very same Attribute is the
Unconscious of man. The Unconscious, according to ordinary approach, is
considered to be those basis of activities about which human intellect remains
ignorant. If such a basis is taken into consideration deeply then either it is
not properly understood by us or if understood, its meanings and significance
remain equal to a naught i.e. Only its non-existence comes to our mind.
The
law governing every beginning, according to the text of the Preserved
Scripturum, is only one and that is, when significance of the beginning is
debated or try to conceive the commencement of something in our mind, at that moment,
only the tenor of nothingness (La) is there in the depths of our concept. It
means that in the first phase of a beginning we are only introduced with
nothingness. Al though the common standards of intellect have not tried to
understand this thing the law of the Preserved Scripturum demands that we
understand and analyze this fact comprehensively. Without having this La
(nothingness, naught, an adverb of negation) analyzed we would remain at a loss
to understand this thing.
Every fact which somehow or the other, whether fanciedly, ideologically or imaginatively is known to us, is an entity whether it is a negating entity (La) or an affirmative one. After having understanding of the modes of laws of the Preserved Scripturum we would be looking at n act, whether it is negating or affirming, affirmation (positivity) is called ‘Is’ that is we acknowledge its existence as an entity then the negation (negativity) is stated as ‘Is not', id est, we consider this, too, an entity of whose existence we do not have any knowledge. In other words, we term nescience as negativity and knowledge as affirmation. That which is called knowledge or affirmation cannot be identified by us unless the nescience is known to us, that is, first we recognized the nescience only then the knowledge was cognized.
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.
