A Letter

(Qalander Baba Auliya's letter, which he wrote in response to few quarries)

In the Name of Anan, the most Beneficent, the most Merciful

Dear brother,

With lots of prayers I am writing the  following in reply to your questions that you have asked in your letter. Apparently the                       questions are brief and simple but their   answer demand profound thinking and details. If you find any difficulty in                       understanding, read my words again and again and let the meanings of the words sink deeper into your memory. It is not enough to let such things remain written on the paper but their firm memorization is also                             necessary.

A noor (Light) spreads from Loh-e­ Mehfooz (The Preserved Scripturum), which spreads in such a manner that the entire                        universe is in its grip. It does not spread in any one direction but it spreads in, all directions. In other words, it's spreading has    no direction. Now you have to understand  that what is actually meant by its spreading  in all directions and it's having no direction?

God has stated all these things in the  holy Quran very emphatically. It is very sad that all these things have been ignored    terming them (Mutashabehat) similitude. There is not much room to write all but would like to give you just one example.                              Just consider it.

Few astronauts have been in space. They say that at an altitude of over 100 miles they experienced weightlessness and that the earth appeared round like a ball. You have also observed that it is like papaya fruit. Now the correct situation is that 3.5 billion (Now it's over 6 Billion) human beings and quadrupeds are clinging to its                         surface by their feet, or, in other words they are hanging upside down. Every man

Considers that he is walking on the earth on his feet. See!. How wrong is he, in his approach! All those who are ignorant of the                            reality say the same. Just consider, how a man, who is hanging by his feet, can walk or move around? Hanging upside down is a                          state of compulsion, so the statement that   am walking is totally incorrect. In the state of compulsion, his will has no meanings. It                             is very close to fact that the strings with which his feet are tied, are moving and movement of the strings is causing the                          movement of his feet. How can the will of a man have any effect upon the strings about which he is entirely oblivious? Despite all                          these glaring mistakes he claims that his head is upwards and his feet are downwards and that I am walking. Fact is that he has                         made himself a made-up thing and claims that the made-up thing is the reality.

Actually there is no direction as such nor does man have any power to move around. Yes, he can just have an intention. Thus, he has accumulated so many tall claims in his intention. You can easily                          adjudge the rest of all his claims. God  Almighty, in the holy Quran, has rejected every observation of man. Time and again it has been stated, 'ye do not understand', 'it is so but ye see not'. At one place it is stated,

"You see the mountains and think that they are firmly established. No, they are not." All that has been called the unseen, is unseen for man, it is not unseen for God. It is obvious that which is not unseen for God, is present before God and that which is present before God is the reality, which, is obscure from man, so it is wrong as it is not the observation of the reality. Therefore God has rejected every observation of man. Now the ultimate reality is (Ilm-e-Hazoori) the Presented Knowledge. This knowledge is gifted to man from God, to whom He may                          wish. God has elaborated this thing .as well in the holy Quran. "We make our ways open' for those who strive in Our ways." And, the                         holy Quran gives many examples in this regard.

In the story of Queen of Sheba, when Solomon asked his courtiers, who can bring her throne quickly, one of the jinns said, "I                         can bring it here before you would adjourn your court." In the very next verse God says, "A man said, I will bring it here before you                        could wink your eye", and the throne came there. God says that man possessed the knowledge of the book. God calls all the                       heavenly books including the holy Quran as Book. Those who do not understand Quran, they may say whatever they may wish, who can hold their tongues but the holy Quran rejects them. Therefore, it is necessary that you learn Arabic and understand the Quran                             in the words of the holy Quran, without being influence by any explanation or justification impartially, just to understand                        what God actually wants to tell. As far as the understanding is concerned, God has promised, "I have made it easy for you to                    understand the holy Quran, is there anyone who wants to understand it?" This general invitation is repeated four times, in Surah                            Qamar.

Corning back to the topic, you must have understood that direction is nothing. It is only a supposition and a conjectural thing.                          As I stated above, there does not exist any knowledge except Ilm-e-Hazoori. Man's memory does not have the capacity of                   accommodating any one of the ways. of Ilm e-Hazoori, therefore, the Noor disseminating from the Preserved Scripturum provides                     information to man and, man using his discretion and objectives rejects 999 out of every 1000 and the one which he accepts, is                   placed in, the memory after distortions. These very distorted and disfigured features become the molds of his experiences,                      observations, habits and acts and movements. Now, all the information, which

he conceives keeps on molding into these molds and, this is the achievement of man; his supposed and appointed directions,                            formulae and principles .and for these very absurd things he claims that this is his experience, his observation and the physical knowledge.

Now it has come to your knowledge that the Noon disseminating the entire universe contains information of all sort and types that are supplied to each and every particle of the cosmos. Taste, hearing,                          sighting, feeling, thinking, fantasizing and imagining etc, every section of life, every movement and every state of mind exists in                        these information in their complete form. There is only one method to perceive this, information in correct form. That man has to                    have the complete state of detachment in every situation, state and manner. His expediencies are the only distorting factor.                            Detachment and impartiality is there where there is no expedience. And where there is no attachment it is the way of. God. And, any movement that takes place in such a state of mind permeates and encompasses the entire cosmos. Just understand this thing once                           'again. This isn't very difficult. You just have to pay attention.

Man's personal likings make these Nooric waves limited. These limited waves cannot abandon their cosmic role, that continues. Now a false concept that one has associated with these waves takes the form                       of false hopes. This is what the failure is. This is what the trouble is. Straight thing is that how that noor, which is for the entire                      cosmos, can be confined to one individual only? If a man is not confined to his personal interests, he sees and understands                          these waves encompassing the entire universe, which makes him to be                              harmonious with these waves. This harmony, according to the Laws of God, causes these waves to concentrate upon that man and guard his interests. This means that if he would say, "Day!" These rays have to                       enforce the day and if commands, "Night!" These waves are duty bound to create night.

Ways of God make it mandatory for these waves to;

Act for the Universe, and,

Act in favor of that person who is in harmony with these waves.

When Umar Farooq (RA) met Owais Qarni (RA) and requested him for an advice. He asked him two things.

Do you know God, Umer? His reply was, "Yes, I know Him."

Does God, too, know you, Umer?

He had replied, "Yes, God, too, knows me."

It is very clear from these two questions that it is not enough that man                             strives in the path of Allah and the work is completed, it is also necessary to see that the step taken is only for the sake of God or                           some other interests are also involved. Paradise and other good deeds are also interests. God does not acknowledge anyone                      unless the ultimate purpose is God. If a man's objective is Paradise, the Paradise knows him and says, "Welcome, come!"  This must be remembered that in spiritualism, enjoining any purpose or                                reason with God is infidelity.

The dream that you have written about that you are crying while you are sitting in my feet and are saying, "Baba Jee!  Where is my mother? Get me my mother."

This information has three parts. One part is my face, the second is your face and the third part is your mother and she is not                          present. The information is revealed from this point that you are at one place, a place where you are an embodiment of a question,                            a question, which is a collection of many questions. Name of this collection is 'mother' because she is the point from where the life commences. The life at this point has innumerable paths and man does not know which path is to be followed. Man thinks that the path, which he would follow, may be proved wrong and he would face the                         failures. He seeks guidance of his soul and sees the soul in a form because he is in the habit of seeing things in forms and features.

When you saw this dream, in those days, you had a rush of such thoughts. The above referred dream was seen on 19th June                           and your mind had remained in that state for weeks. Your soul had already responded to this question in your dream of 7th June,                             which you reported in these words: "Someone comes and tells me that                             Badar Sahib wants to see me so I proceed immediately. Then I enter a house and see a lady at door. She tells me that Badar Sahib is                        waiting in his room for me. I enter the room and see Badar Sahib sitting on a table doing something. He gets up upon seeing me. I                          greet him and he embraces me and takes my tongue in his mouth and presses it. I awake at this."

Complete answer to the referred questions is there in this dream, that is, in future, God will arrange for your guidance. Such a program is its offing, which would ensure success in your future life; everything                               would be taking place at its appointed time. All things are clearly indicated in this dream; your invitation, guidance on the way                        and, in the last stage, completion of the inspiration. All these ingredients are present in the dream separately. As far as the                              worldly things are concerned they are the sources of these very links and their timely availability is sure. You have reported the following

Muraqba:

During the lessons at night my body rises from the ground but when I try to move ahead I stumble.

When I think of you, you and thehouse in Nazimabad are before me but I can't make it that whether I am in Nazimabad or Nazimabad and you have come to me.

God has stated in the holy Quran "Hudallil Mutageen, alazina yomenoona bilghaib" (It guide them who fear God and                         believe in the unseen)

It means that this Book guides them who have a taste for Allah. Ghaib means all those facts that are beyond man's                               observation and they all belong to the cognition of God. Emaan (Certitude) means taste. Taste is such a habit that remains in                        pursuit. Mutaqi is a person, who takes every care to understand a thing and does not allow any misunderstanding to find its way                       into his thoughts. He recognizes God distinctively and knows His works                           specifically. His taste is the reason for the correct recognition. Please don't take that everyone doesn't have this taste. In fact, this                       very taste is the life stream and is the basis of life. Whether man uses it or not, this is his own prerogative. This very taste resides in                         man otherwise he is an empty void.

Just as God has stated in the holy Quran, "I created man from the resounding clay."

Here the nature of clay has been mentioned, which is empty and void,

Now it becomes easy for you to understand that tastefulness do not have any weight, nor any distance has any                                 significance for it. It is not bound by the limitations of the earth and heavens, nor can the time confine it. This very taste is that makes man move around. It's just the matter of acquainting with it. Once one gets                           acquainted with it, one comes to know that this tastefulness is the man; he is free in the universe, is the head of angels, is the best of                   creations of God and is the vicegerent of God. He is not obliged to hold things with, his hands, nor is he dependent upon his eyes                           and ears for sighting or hearing. Man has created all the absurdities and is crying that he is all constrained. You might be thinking                            that there are many people who succeeded in cognizing God but they are still not liberated in every manner. That's right they are free:                       but at the same time they are tied down with the rope of human society and this is weakness which makes there liberty                          incomplete.

A man by the name Tom is a pattern of this very tastefulness. No pattern is a deaf and dumb cage; it is the man that talks,                            walks around, eats and drinks, thinks and understands. And, from the earth to heavens distance is just a step for him. Distances                              from one star to another, the space an eye of the needle or the open space of skies are one and the same for him. Nothing can stop or                          hamper him. Alas, he doesn't know himself or the universe around him. The greatest of all the favors of Holy Prophet (PBUH) for

the mankind is that he expounded all these secrets for man. Don't think that he expounded them at his own. No, God                            revealed them to him and he recorded them as it is in the form of the holy Quran. He handed over this trust to man with great                          ordeal. How much man valued it that is but obvious.

This very knowledge is that God has termed as the Knowledge of the Book and every man can take advantage of it, be he                           Tom, Dick or Harry.

You have written that when you try                         to walk, you stumble. The reason of this is that you are not yet familiar with the real                            man in you.

You read this letter carefully and if you find any word or narration difficult, understand it after repeated readings of that                      portion. Copy down the contents of this letter in your own hand, word by word, at night when you are free and save it in a file.                        Copying this letter is very much necessary for you so that the words and their meaning could transfer into your memory. Then read                        the copied text again and again.

You will find it easy to read you own hand-writing and would be able to focus your mind upon the meanings of the text. This would save you from exerting your attention to comprehend my writing.

Greetings from all brethren and sisters of Silsila, My regards to you, Praying for you,

Hassan Ukhra Mohammad Azeem           

1.00 a.m. 19 Aug. 1963

An Other Letter

A reader of the daily Hurriyat, Karachi had objected upon my articles                           ridiculing and using an abusive language. The reply to .that letter which published in my column, "Spiritual Treatment" of 7th July                       1978, was thus dictated to me by my august mentor, Qalander Baba Auliya:

"How limited is the way of man's communication, and how many mistakes are there, we seldom bother to think. It is                           possible that our species does not consider it important or when they heed in this direction, they just glance in the emptiness                            and considering it of no use they opt to ignore it altogether.

Example: We often come across statements like this in stories. We were going through a very thick and huge jungle. The jungle was full of dark shadows. We were hearing the cries of the blowing wind.                   When the air would stop in the dark nights, the jungle would turn into horrifying wilderness and death.

Please read these sentences a few times and consider did the narrator say anything exact and specific, or, has just thrown his readers into the darkness?

The narrator did not specify what trees were there in the jungle. what did they look like, what was their size and shape, what types of their leaves and flowers were, what birds and animals related to those trees                   were there, how did this animals look like, what were the contours of land in the jungle and what types of terrains were there. What                     was the state of bushes and shrubs and the grass grown over there, what was the situation of water. Was there any sand                     beneath or was it hard and rocky? How many waterfalls, hills and mounds and sandy lands were there?

Readers seldom take notice that absurd and meaningless things have been narrated to them. They did not understand inspite of reading the text except that an image of jungle emerged in their mind and their                       mind embrace that image and sleep over it and in a second or in a split of a second it awakened in the hope what would be happen                   next, what would the story teller would say ahead. Readers after reaching this state get absorbed and start praising the writer or the                speaker. These sorts of labyrinths are common in the fields of knowledge. Millions and billions of books have been                       written about such labyrinths and billions and trillions of talks are given.

Now let's see what the history tells us? The history that is the custodian of man's knowledge so far discovered.

In the age of moon and stars worshipping it was said, the earth is stationary and the sun revolves around it. These were the old times, very old thousands of years ago. In the era next to that, man who was scared of unknown powers started saying that all my revolution are happening due to the powers of gods. Man of that era also said, somewhere there is a center of the souls and fate of man, stars, mountains, trees, rivers and animals is associated with that center. Winds and lights are provided from that very center.                             Gradually forms and figures were given to those souls, statues of gods were made and idol worshipping became the way of life. In                   the era of Pythagoras and Thais they asked what these stars are, what this matter is, and what this universe is. And said, these all are                       a collection of small particles of matter.

Now man started talking in philosophically and in terms of physical                   sciences. They thought some lights come out of human eyes and we see things. Millions of philosophers, astrologists, scholars,                    physicists and doctors said different things.

They had differences why? Because of the fact that no one had                            the exact idea of the true reality, reality can be only one. There cannot hundreds and thousands of realities. If they had known the                  reality, they couldn't have any difference, not even that of opinions.

Then comes the era of sun- worshipping, Copernicus was a heliolater;                          he said sun is the center not the earth. This thing was said earlier but he presented his case more emphatically and changed the                     map of astronomy. Then, the era of Isaac Newton dawned. He said mechanism and the force of gravitation are the ways of                   nature that is working on Newtonians Mechanics. Before the century was over the scientists started saying all that Newton had                     said, is not true and his force of attraction and gravitation became under discussion.

What Democritus, Lucretius and Leucippus had said about 22 centuries ago that the last particle of matter is indivisible;                  returned, but the time made this theory redundant.

Scientists said the, nuclear system is acceptable but what could be its last stage. In order to know and race began to break                   into the atom.

In the first half of the 20th century, man fled from all the fields. He gave the verdict that ether does not exit it was just a                     hypothesis of the past people.

Scientists of this age were despised of soul and spirit it scared them lest it may take the place of ether. Theories that lights                  emitted from eyes cause sighting were already ignored. Newer theories suggested that lights entering into our eyes causing the                images and reflections upon the screen of mind. Thus it continues.

Psychologists started using the crunches of stimuli of sight, touch and                         hearing. Freud prepared a web tied upon the ideas from the past and a cage was made from the chains of Darwinian Evolution and                   placed libido transferred from the ancestors in it, which contained all the sinful wishes in it. When he also feared the soul, he said,                         "This is Unconscious only."

When the contemporaries of Einstein started discussing the outcome of though developed over centuries, they classified the wave, magnet and biological manifestations separately: Now nucleus has been broken down and the theory of Einstein formulated about Time and Space has been spread. He has stated that the taking Time and Space as two separate concepts is wrong because Space is oblique. It was said that the function of nature which is operative in the                   universe is not flowing vertically but is oblique. This thing rendered Attraction, speed of light and planets uncertain. The era is named as era of Relativity and Quantization.

Just consider, if the speed of light is accepted to be 300,000 km/sec, how the curvature of space and its measurement can be determined when we measure distances using straight lines and not by means of                  arches and semicircles. Parapsychology does not support Einstein and people like him.

Parapsychology describes that our ways of narration is full, of mistakes. When keep on uttering things without having any                    idea as to what we are saying. We say relics of past, our earth is billions of years old and the cosmos might be trillions of years in age.                 What does this all mean, what does lead to? Let's consider it.

Meanings of these words are quite clear i.e. the time of trillions of years froze to take the form of Space, which we call                       Cosmos. There was no Observer and Observed before the freezing of Time. There was no Cosmos, nor were there anyone to call it Cosmos. That was the same Time, which we cannot see or touch, nor can we                     feel it in or out, but still cannot deny it or the Timelessness.

This makes it clear that whether it is dreaming or wakefulness, we just refer to time, time is something which is extrasensory.

Now, coming to your question that during the nocturnal senses the time is not ignored like space, it is only a reference to the classification of conscious and unconscious determining. If the conscious is                attentive towards Time, that is, if the conscious is aware of the passing of the moments one after the other then this determinant would strengthen the grip of Time but if the conscious is not heedful of             passing of time, this determinant would make the time of moments, hours, days and weeks gather into One single moment.

Thing to be pointed out is that time is considered to be because of its speed of passing. In actual effect, we cannot see, touch or feel a thing unless the time is frozen. The speed of freezing of time rolls                and gathers the space. For example, we try to recall something in an age of fiftieth year, which had happened 4, 5 years back. The              entire feelings of that incident are relived For seconds or minutes we forget that our age is fifty years. This very thing is termed as freezing of time.

As far knowing and understanding of the senses is concerned we can only say that the human conscious is still nothing more than an infant sucking upon his thumb. No equivocal opinion can be formed about the senses since the day of the beginning of the universe.

The main difference between psychology and the parapsychology is that the psychologists despite the fact that they do not know the source and formulae of Conscious and Senses, accept the Senses                       and this understanding is no different than the babbling of a two-year child, which he utters mimicking his parents. Whereas,     parapsychology and all its allied sciences elaborate that what, in fact, are the senses, if they .are. If Time and Space exist, what is               their relation with Senses and the Conscious and what, in fact, is their source.