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Everyone is an indivisible entity and a perception
in himself. When we want to understand it in terms of its activity, we would call
it sight.
Man is sight, rest is flesh apiece,
Sight is only sighting of the Friend.
(Roomi)
Man, who
is perception in unity and sight in plurality, has been mention in this stanza by
Maulana Roomi.
We are looking at our reflection formed in a mirror
and we say that we are looking at ourselves. This is, in fact, indirect narration.
the direct narration would be that the mirror is looking at us. 0r, we are viewing
that thing which is being observed by the mirror. This is the direct approach. Its
explanation would be that when we look at something initially, the image of that
thing is there in our mind. In the second stage that thing is sighted through our
eyesight. If, we have never had an idea, never thought about that thing or never
had any prior knowledge about that particular thing then that thing cannot be sighted
at all.
Example
A person
has a paralyzed hand which has lost its sensation. When stealthily pricked and asked
what has been done to his paralyzed limb. His reply would certainly be, “I do not
know".
Why has he
responded in the negative?
Simply because he could not feel the pin-prick,
that is, he did not have the knowledge of pin-pricking would have been the first
stage of perception. If his eyes had been open he would have seen the act of Pin-pricking.
In this case his sight could have given him the knowledge of Pin-pricking. Therefore,
in any case, this sight.
knowledge would have been the first stage of First
of all, knowledge about something is acquired by man and this is the first stage
of Perception. Then he sees it/ This is the second stage of perception. Then he
hears it. This is the third stage of perception. Then he smells it. This is the
fourth stage of perception. Lastly, he touches it. This is the fifth stage of perception.
The right
name, in fact, for perception is the sight and it has five stages in all. In the
first stage its name is idea. h the second stage, the sight. In the third, the hearing.
In the fourth, it is smelling. And, in the fifth stage it is touch. Every stage
is an additional form of knowledge. Idea, in its own stage is a primary knowledge.
Sight in its own stage becomes an additional knowledge. Hearing in its own stage
becomes a detailed knowledge. Smelling becomes an extended knowledge. And, in the
final stage touch becomes a sensual knowledge. 0nly knowledge has priority which
in actuality is the sight, and every sense is a classification of the same only.
Meanings of sight have been explained comprehensively
and now we shall dwell on its angles and reality.
KHWAJA SHAMS-UD-DEEN AZEEMI
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.
