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Qalander Baba Auliya was a beacon of light in the darkness of the material age and source of inspiration and solace for the distressed hearts. It is   not very far that the treasure of his teachings would come before the masses and they would be surprised to notice that they wasted their time and money in unsuccessful attempts of reaching the      stars and moon and remained deprived of the blessing of the one who knew the secrets of the    nature, who had been among them and they didn't    pay attention to him. They could have found what   they were looking for. How unfortunate of man groping in the darkness of the material lights.

The Roohani Digest is a blessing in an age when the abundance of material resources has   become the standard of life. This magazine is a   source of quenching the thirst of spiritual knowledge. It is my honor that I am presenting an article of Qalander Baba Auliya for the readers of Roohani Digest.

Water has the ability of moving and transmitting waves.

When a pebble is thrown into the water, waves start emerging provided that water is enough to express its inner.

Collision of a pebble makes the water to express its inner.

Anything that is happening; happens only because it existed in the manifestations of nature, though there is a way of its happening.

Pebble is a similitude of Intention' and it collision is that of 'Attention'. That is to say,  when there is repetition of Intention, the  Attention comes into action. Attention is the repetition of Intention. Usually the Intention is repeated unconsciously and so the   Attention is also Unconscious and   involuntary. But, it does bear results. In both the cases results are significant and effective too, i.e. in the world of manifestations both   are same as far as the effects are concerned. This is valid for the dreams and the various states through which man passes.

The pebble, that is Unconscious, is the Intention of the Cosmic Mind and same is the Behest of God. Repetition keeps on taking place in the Cosmic Mind. It is never without repetition. Repetition in the Behest                    of God is. Kitabul Mobeen (the Book Open and Manifested). Repetition in this Book results in the manifestations of nature or is the cosmos. Repetition takes place in Kitabul Mobeen and its results are termed as                the Kitabul Murcioom (The Written Book). In fact the cosmos is the Written Book. This repetition never takes place on the surface of                the mind, it occurs in the depths of the mind When the pebble reaches the depth of the water, the waves generate, i.e. the inner of                    the water starts taking the form of the manifestation that always existed in the water but there was no repetition. The inner                 that is devoid of repetition, is a simple movement and is termed as unseen. And, when repetition takes place, it becomes the  manifestation of nature. Attention of a Sufi cause repetition in the Unseen. And, when a Sufi pays Attention, it takes the form of that

desired thing, which already existed in the mind of the Sufi. The form present in the Unseen or the Cosmic Mind was simple and     achromatic but when Sufi's Attention enters into it takes the form that the Sufi desired. If the Attention of the Percipient is not                   partaking, the properties of the water remain in action, which are independent of any connection with any creature. Properties of water let a person drown and let the other one swim.

Repetition of Intention is the Will Power. It is not necessary that an Intention must be repeated for hundred thousand times, if it is backed by the power, its movement for once    is enough to produce the results. Sometime, and in the present age usually, 999 out of    1000 times, an Intention repeated for hundred thousand times fail to generate the power of even one repetition. Actually, the Intention is not repeated at all because the words through which the repetition of  Intention is attempted do not have any picture in them or to say, meaningful features are not created.

Actually Intentions have a form and shape. The purpose, for which an Intention is made, must be there in the Intention with all its form and features. No Intention can be called an Intention if it has no form and   shape.

(Contributed by Professor Sheikh Faqir Mohammad)

Man's Conscious Experience

Auliya and Percipients of God have the faculties of Intuition and through Muraqba (Meditation the ways of intuition become so firm that they start comprehending the facts operative in the      background of the manifestations. Their mind sees and understands the Will of God directly and clearly and they become knower of secrets of nature. There comes a stage in these spiritual stages when the mind, life and each and every act of their life is subjugated to the Will of God.

Their speech is full of knowledge and no word uttered is without meanings. Their sayings are the torches for other wayfarers of spiritualism. If their words are taken into consideration and are pondered upon, such facts are revealed that acquaints man with that Elohistic Trust, which the heavens, the earth and the mountains had             refused to accept saying that they would crush under its burden.

One of those distinct people is Qalander Baba Auliya. Those who have                  seen Qalander Baba Auliya and have listened to his words full of wisdom know it well that how much reach and access he had in the matters of Nature. He used to expound those basic points in his talks, which were related to with the basis of the laws of Nature and listener had a clear cut idea of the principles and laws operative in the            Universe. When would comment on a topic, one would feel that his mind is a limitless ocean of knowledge, which is being pouring              out in words of his mouth. His audience often felt amazement and acknowledged that so simple worded explanation of so                   profound facts is possible only from him.

Purpose of presenting his sayings and teachings is to make masses aware of his thinking approach and that they may come to know that how do he used to think and how did he spend his days and nights.

 Time is the Past

In one sitting, throwing light from the spiritual point of view, on Time and Space, Qalander Baba Auliya said, "Every creation is dihedral and exists in the form and shape of two sides. Thus, life also has                two aspects. One is its wider aspect or the   Unconscious and the other is the limited or the Conscious aspect."

"The wider aspect; Unconscious is the Time and Eternity is its limit whereas the limited aspect; the Conscious is the Space, which, in fact, is division or part only. Now the question is what the Time is actually?                And, what is the division of Time or the Space is and how does it come into being?"

"Normally it is considered that Time is passing whereas, in actual effect, time is a record (Past). Present and Future do not exist separately rather these are the components of the Past."

"It is the statement of Holy Prophet (PBUH), "Pen dried after writing what was to happen."

Then explaining this quotation of Holy Prophet (PBUH) Qalander Baba                               Auliya said:

"There is book that has been written i.e. the Past is a record. There are different ways to study that .book. If the book is read from beginning to its end, word after word, line after line and page after page, in                 sequence and order. Now this manner of  studying the book is that of wakefulness or  the Conscious. Man's conscious experience is that one moment is followed by another, one day is lived then the next and thus days become weeks, weeks become months,  months become years and years take the form of centuries that pass in an order and       sequence. Thursday cannot come after Tuesday unless the Wednesday is not lived  by, Similarly, March cannot come if the preceding months are not live by. This very way of living is the Conscious way of life.   In Spiritualism this way of living is termed as Serial Time or the Wakefulness."

Then mentioning the dreams, he  said, "Other way of studying the book is that works during sleep or dreaming. A man sees in a dream that he is in London and the very  next moment he sees himself in Karachi. This manner of living is termed as Non-serial Time or the Time of Unconscious, which is that manner of studying the book in         which the order and sequence are ignored. During dreaming, the speed of the human senses increases to that extent whence he                        enters into the Unconscious and all that is witnessed in the dreams is mostly related to with the Future."

Sometimes man is warned, in his dreams, about the accidents and mishaps which are about to take place in the Future and after adopting the precautionary measures one can avoid the accidents or the                  mishaps. Sometime, during wakefulness, one’s sixth sense warns him about the future accidents. Such events are quite common for                  people at large. And, these all have only one explanation that mind enters into the Non-serial Time (Unconscious) momentarily                         leaving the Serial Time (Conscious) and perceives that is about to happen. But this happens involuntarily and, if this activity                        could be controlled and associated with will  using the Muraqba Technology then, one can observe and study the events that are yet                          to happen, even during one's wakefulness. Because, all that will happen tomorrow (in the confines of Serial Time) already exists                       today (in the Non-serial time) and as it existed yesterday (in the past). Thus it becomes clear that Time is only the Past. Present and Future come into being only due to the difference of the ways.of the study of the Book."

"It is just as if a person is watching a  movie in a cinema hall. Scenes of the movie are appearing before him in a sequence. He   considers the scenes that are before his eyes as Present and the scenes that have passed his vision as Past and the scenes that would  come later as Future, though the entire movie is the Past. Since the past and Future are not present before his Conscious he   thinks time is passing. It means that Time is  Past (A Recorded Film). Difference is only that of the ways of perusing the Time. In the                       first way, there is an order and is sequential  and is called Serial Time. In the second way moments do not take place in a sequence,                            one after the other rather the mind jumps and enters a moment skipping the mediatory moments. This is termed as Non-serial                              Time. As I have stated that entire Time from Eternity to Eternity is Past (Record) and the moment that encompasses the Time in its                         entirety, Spiritualists term it Real Time. This very Time has been referred to in the statement of Holy Prophet (PBUH); 'The                             Pen has dried after writing all that is to happen.' That means everything has happened in Timelessness or the Real                              Moment and all that is happening is a part of the Past."

What the senses are?

Qalander Baba Auliya knew what others didn't. He stated the hidden and obscure facts. Once in a sitting he said:

There are few things that one ignores considering them unreal, whims, dreams or just a passing thought whereas there is nothing in the universe that is superfluous, extra or unreal. Each and every thought and fantasy has one or the other cosmic fact in its background.

This is worth considering. What is Fantasy? From where does a thought come? If these questions are ignored, many facts would remain obscure and the chain of facts that entirely depend upon understanding these things would remain incomplete.                           When a thought comes into our mind, it has to have some cosmic reason. Inception of a thought is the proof of the fact that some                    movement has taken place on the screen of the mind. This movement is not minds own movement, it relates to those cosmic strings                          that move the cosmic system in a particular sequence. For instance, a gust of air is the result of a change in atmospheric sphere.                      Similarly, when something comes into the mind that means some movement has taken place in the Unconscious: Understanding of this movement depends upon the human mind's pursuit.

Human mind has two planes. One; that associates the movement of the individual's mind with the cosmic movement i.e. this movement associates the intentions and feelings of an individual mind with the                        overall cosmic intentions and feelings and the other one brings the individual intentions and feelings to the mind of an individual.                             Both these planes generate two types of senses; the positive senses and the negative senses. The positive senses, in a way, are the                                          division of the senses that takes place in the state of wakefulness and the same is the Serial Time. Regions of this division are                          organs of the physical body. Thus, our physical functions are performed because of this division. Different organs and limbs                        performs different functions simultaneously i.e. eyes are viewing something, ears are hearing some sounds, hands are occupied                            with another thing and feet are having the realization of yet another thing, the tongue is enjoying the taste of something and the nose                          is busy in detecting the smells. All these things are done and handled simultaneously and mind, at the same time, is occupied with                   thoughts of altogether different things. This is the way of functioning of the positive senses. The stimuli of the negative senses, in                      contrast to them, are not related to with the human intentions.

For instance; although all the senses referred above actively participate in the state of dreaming, the static position of the                        limbs and organs indicates accumulation of these senses in one single point of the mind. The movement occurring in this point during                   dreaming is divided and distributed in the body organs in the state of wakefulness.

These senses before their distribution in the organs and limbs could be named as Negative senses but, after these are                            distributed, it would be appropriate to call them positive senses. It demands careful consideration that both the positive and                         negative senses cannot rally on the same one plane. We have to acknowledge their existence in two different planes of the                          mind. In terms of Sufism, the plane of negative senses is called Simple Nasma and the positive plane is known as Compound                         Nasma.

Compound Nasma is the name of such a movement, which is regular in its occurrence i.e. the movement occurs moment by moment. Spatiality of this movement is the moments of time that have

such a sequence, which constructs Space.    Every moment is a Space, or to say, the  entire Space is in the grip of the moments.                     Moments surround the Space in such a way that the Space finds itself confined among them and is constrained to revolve in the                            cycle of moments to keep its presence available in the Cosmic Conscious.

Original moments exist in the knowledge of God. The universe is the                             detailed exhibition of that knowledge which is captioned by these moments. God has stated in the holy Quran, "I created                          everything with two sides." Thus, creation, too, is no exception. One aspect of the creation is the moments, that is, the inner of                         the moments or their Conscious is monochromatic and the other aspect of the moments is their manifestation or the Omni-                 chromatic Conscious. On one hand, the universe is in the grip of the moments and, on the other, individuals of the universe are                           the clutches of these moments. The moments move simultaneously on two planes. Movement of one plane occurs in every object of the universe separately. This movement constructs that Conscious which                 keeps that object in the sphere of its individual entity. Movements from the second plane flow through all the objects of the universe simultaneously, and construct that conscious which keeps all the objects present in one single circle. In one plane,                       individuals of the universe exist separately. That is, the every individual has a distinct and separate Conscious. In the other plane of                       the moments, conscious of all the individuals is concentric. Thus, both these planes of moments are two Conscious, one that is Individual Conscious and the other is Collective Conscious. This central                           Conscious, in general terminology is known as the Unconscious.

Self Realization

Self-realization opens the doors of cognition of God and for acquiring self- realization, the first stage, which a Sufi has to pass, is that of negation. That is, first of all one has to negate one's conscious                         knowledge and traditional information. One who is steadfast on this path ultimately reaches a stage when his own reality is                        revealed upon him, that is, he manages to have the self-realization. A spiritual associate needs a teacher or the mentor to guide him through this particular path. With this viewpoint we wish to present Qalander

Baba Auliya's thoughts for the - discerning readers.

In order to comprehend a thing properly, we have to forget all that is pre­-existing in our mind. Let's take this thing, what the man is? Man is the name of accumulation of thought waves in an arranged form only, nothing else. One type of these thoughts is as if a river is flowing.                        Man does not realize what is flowing in its water as long as it flows in its two banks but becomes aware when it is flooded and water                      starts spilling over the banks. Now, the man feels that some thoughts that are disarrayed, almost meaningless are attacking him. Man                    does not try to understand the meanings of all those thoughts and lets them pass only because that he cannot put them in an                          arranged order.

There is another type of thoughts. It is like picking a few things from the flowing water of the river and arranges them into a                     particular pattern. He declares the meanings of that pattern a work of his authorship. This is what every intelligent and wise man                                 names as knowledge or invention.

Purpose is not to discuss the types of thoughts so leaving the other types out we would delve into these two types of                               thoughts.

The thoughts that overflow when the river is flooded.

The thoughts that man's conscious picks up selectively for one or the                      other purpose.

What is the source of the river? Why it floods? Why human conscious picks up some of the things that come into its hands.                        Science has yet to know all this. Though, in the field of psychology, they are wandering in search of answers to these questions, for                           so many centuries. The answers to these questions can be found in the heavenly books.

When on the basis of the two types of thoughts man is divided into two units. One, that is a larger unit and the same can                         reach the source of the river whereas .the other unit is limited, confined to know the past and bear the past in the mind. This very                         unit encompasses the human conscious.

In the above text Qalander Baba  Auliya has named the Unconscious as the larger unit and the conscious as the limited unit and have expounded that Unconscious has access to the source of the river and this very source is feeding the entire universe  with the stimuli of life. Basis of this very source is the Behest of God.

(Contributed by: Qadri Alazeerni)

Knower of the Mysteries of Nature

Qalander Baba Auliya unlike typical saints was a very simple person. No one could guess his geniuses by his appearance. Each and every word that he uttered was a treasure of knowledge for me so whenever I  had an interview with him I would pen down was he would tell me. I wish to share with you some of the excerpts of noting.

Once I asked Qalander Baba Auliya to give me some written testimony of my induction in. the Silsala. He said, "My words are more authentic than any writing."

I felt sorry for my disrespectful behavior but at the same time I still wanted to be blessed with something from him, which he could notice easily and the next day he gave it to me and told me to wear it                        on my arm.

Once I asked Qalander Baba Auliya  that how many have the authority to induct people into. Silsila Azeemia and that who they are? He said, "Other than me, Khwaja Sahib, Dr Qadir Sahib and Badar Sahib and                       Ubaidullah whom you haven't met."

Then I asked. "And, besides you, is anyone of them associated with                          Administrative duties too." He replied in affirmative saying, "Yes." And explain the word 'Khanwada' and said,"The difference                      between Khlifa and Khanwada is that the latter one is a replication of Imam-e-Silsila  as Imam transfers his mind to him."

One day I submitted to him that I saw Holy Prophet in my dream but his face wasn't clearly seen."

Qalander l3aba Auliya said, "Who can withstand the radiant face of the                               Beloved of God, when the veil drawn upon your mind will be lifted then you will be able see him clearly according to your                                ability."

One he talking about the holy Quran Qalander Baba Auliya said, "Those who say that few of the verses of the holy Quran stand annulled, is not right because' if you accept even one verse as cancelled, it would                      make the entire Quran as dubious therefore  it would have been better to compare and consider the verses that appears to be                                  annulled and the verses that are canceling them to reach some conclusion."

Later I had quite a debate on this topic with Maulana. Anwar Shah and he couldn't has any sound arguments so he concluded saying that this is what people before us used to think so we have accept                     it.(Gulam Rasol Qadri)

Once I inquired about the beard as what does Quran and Hadiths say about this and what was the size and shape of the beard                        of Holy Prophet (PBUH) and those of his companions.

Qalander Baba Auliya said, "there hasn't been said anything about the beard in the holy Quran and we find only one Hadith                      about, rest everything is a conjecture only." After that he said, "I have to be present in the court of the Holy Prophet (PBUH), at                         least twice a week. All the four Caliphs are also present there. When I see is that the beard of Holy Prophet is thick, curly and is a                      finger-long and looks very pretty on him. Abu Bhakar (RA) has a small beard, beards of Umar Farooq (R.A) and Usman are                    comparatively longer than his whereas, beard of Hazart Ali (KW) is even shorter."

This also is indicated that he is one of the attendants of the Court as an office bearer; Diwan-us-Saleheen.

In his last sickness when he completed the course of electro-therapy,                        referring to the pain suffered Qalander Baba Auliya told me, "I had submitted to God that you blessed me and appointed me the chief                           of Abdals and then put me into such an agony? If my life is over then send the death so that I be released of the pain. God told me                          to shut up and said, "We make our special people, too, to suffer like a commoner." And then He inquired, "Do you want to live?" I                       said, "Not for my sake."

God said, "Ask Owais." And when I asked Owais Qarni, he did say anything so I also kept quite because once Junaid                         Bughdadi was suffering from fever badly. Seeing his state of agony he asked him to pray for the health. He had said I did request                        Him but He had replied, "Quite! Junain and fever both belong to Me, who are you to interfere?"

(Contributed by Qadri Alazeerni)

Be! And it was Describing  'Kun         Fayakoon',

Qalander Baba Auliya said, "God said, *Be and it happened' does not mean that it became a part of the past nor that it is                        happening and is incomplete But, it actually mean that it is complete and is being enforced, that is, it completed in                           Timelessness and is being enforced  in Time."Continuing with the topic Qalander Baba Auliya said, "There is only one                                     second, which is real and the Existence from Eternity to Eternity is enforced by the division and distribution of the same one                         second, that is, the real one second (or the smallest unit of time) is divided and is exhibited in the form of inestimable units of                      Time. Exhibition of the stages of happenings depend upon the process of its division into inestimable forms of units. This form is                          named as manifestations of the universe or the material world (Nasoot), Angelic Realm (Malakoot) and Realms of Omni-potency                      (Jabaroot) and Divinity (Lahoot). "In another sitting, shedding light on '                           Kun Fayakoon', Qalander Baba Auliya said, "There are four Administrative Sections of 'Kun'. First of them is called Abdaa (Innovation), which means the sources for the existence were not there but the existents were formulated and completed without                           them. The second Section of the Administration is Khalq (Formation), which means that formats of motion and rest were initiated in all that appeared in the form of existents and various stages of life started                        taking place one after the other, that is the  existents started functioning. Third Section is named as Tadbeer (Policy) and concerns                             with the affairs regarding arrangements and situational occurrence of the functions of existents' life. Fourth section is called                            Tadalla (Inclination) where regulatory decisions concerning the fates and predestinations are finalized and compiled.

(Contributed by Farrukh Azam)