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It is the gracious statement of Allah, the Most
High; “Has there not been over man a long period of time, when he was nothing –
not even mentioned?” (Surah 76 Verse
1)
No. 1. Eternal time (Dahar) is the Timelessness
and we can call it the Elohistic Perception. It is the Boundlessness.
No. 2. Temporal Time is the period of the
universe and is encompassing the universe, stretching from Eternity to Infinity. Saying of the Holy Prophet (Peace and
blessing of Allah be upon him), “I share Time with Allah”. is indicative of cosmic Time (the total
period of time between eternity and infinity).
The plane which is ultra-cosmic has been termed
as Eternal Time (Command) by Allah, the Most High and the same is the
Timelessness . Holy Prophet (PBUH) has termed the very same
plane, when it is within the limits of the cosmos, as Time (Heen); the Period
of Time for the individuals of the universe. This plane itself is not the manifestation
rather it provides the basis for the manifestations. The above Verse is suggestive of the same
meanings.
1.
“Created the man from the sounding hard dust”(Surah 55 Verse 14)
2.
“Has there not been over man a long period of time when he was
nothing – not even mentioned?” (Surah 76 Verse 1)
3.
“Created thou from the dust and then from a droplet” (Surah 18,
Verse 37)
4.
“Verily, We created man out of droplet of mingled sperm, turned and
gave the gifts of hearing and sight” (Surah 76, Verse 2)
Allah, the Most High has declared the
dust as sounding and echoing, that is, the emptiness is the nature of every
particle of the dust. This very
emptiness (Void) has been termed as the Period of Time (Heen). “Gave him Hearing and Sight” Means
production of the senses in this empty space. These senses are the ‘droplet’ which have been
called the sperm (nutfa). Void is
the Non-Serial Time and the droplet is the Serial Time . Void is the Light (nor) and the droplet is the
Nasma . The droplet
does not signify any embodiment rather it is the focal point in which the
concepts concentrate. The word,
“Turned” or “Kept on turning” indicates that the concept which were supplied to
the Void from the source of informations; the Eternal Time (dahar), were given
an arrangement. This
arrangement finally took the form of the Senses or the Manifestations .
‘Kitab-ul-mubeen’ (the Open and clear
Book) have been mentioned in the Holy Quran. This Open and Clear Book is the Unseen which we
call the Future. It is the
Complete picture of all time since Eternity to Infinity and the Secret Plan
since (origin) of the manifestations. When the
word ‘Eternal’ is pronounced. This one
single word is collection of all the concepts from Eternity to infinity.
A word is the manifestation and the
meanings (its related concepts) are the Unseen . Word is a movement of the mind in which three
types of rays are concentrating O
1.
Rays of the Senses.
2.
Rays of the Beliefs.
3.
Rays of the Variations.
The rays of Senses are uncompounded (simple)
and the rays of Beliefs are compounded. Both the
Compounded and the uncompounded rays combine to form the rays of Variations
and, the Manifestation of the universe is another name of these rays.
Secret of Creation has been stated in the Holy
Quran, “Verily, when He intends a thing, His Command is, Be! And it is” (Surah
36 Verse 82)
Secrets contained therein in the ‘word’ and the
activities of these secrets are revealed if the above verse is pondered upon O
When ‘kun’ is Commanded by Allah, the Most Exalted, He addresses something
which has not yet been manifested O But, when it is commanded to be manifested
this command becomes a mechanical movement in that thing . it demands considered deliberation that
what was the style and structure of the manifestation of the object. The structure is the concepts which are
present in the Will (Intention) of Allah. But there
was no order of arrangement in them. Absence
of arrangement means something is pervading in the Boundlessness. When the Will picked up the concept of an
object from the Boundlessness, it took a form. Now, the form of the object became the
knowledge and knowledge is the ‘word’. That is,
when the collective concepts of the object are moulded into knowledge, they are
called the words. And the
existence of the object was grasped by the words and he words pulled it out of
the screen of the Open and Clear Book.
The words are type of three types, two types of
the words are nominal words these are used after manifestation, for instance,
good or bad. ‘Good’ is
a word which corroborates and affirms and the ‘Bad’ is a word that negates. Such a collection of concepts is hidden
in both the words which have been manifested and there are no more concepts in
the Will to be manifested in that regard, that is, there is no room for any
more concepts in it. These
both types of words are called the Creation or the Universe. Both these are separate from the section
of the Command.
It has been stated in the Holy Quran,
“Verily He is the one who is the First, the
Last, the Manifested (Expressed), The Immanent (Hidden)” .
According to these meanings Allah, the Most
High, is All-0encompassing and the Perceptive Being. Manifested is seen by us but not the
Immanent. Whatsoever
is seen, we see but do not bother to see that through what are we seeing . We perceive without Perceiving that
with what do we perceive. If we
could perceive the source of our perception then we would be able to perceive
the Almighty Allah. This is
the reason that out understanding remains operative only in the created one and
fails to have access to the Command.
The words, we use are either to accept
something or to negation contains the negated concepts. The word used for expressing our
acceptance comprises the approved concepts. Both
these types of words are the Creation as they have come into being after being
saturated with the concepts.
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.
