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Allah, the Most High has united all the four
Realms in the Nucleus of the Human Self. (Here Knowledge is to be taken as the
Knowledge of Reality or the Presented Knowledge only).
No. 1. The Realm of Light (Noor).
No. 2. The Realm of Sub-Conscious or the Realm
of the Intimates Angels.
No. 3. The Realm of Behest.
No. 4. The Created Realm. (Aalem-e-Khalq).
To explain the Realm of Behest it could be said
that our universe is a conglomeration of the celestial bodies, tripartite and
many other creatures and existents etc. All the components and the individuals
of the universe admittedly have an affinity with one another, whether this
infinity could be observed by the material eye or not yet the existence of the
same has to be acknowledged.
It is a
routine that when we caste the glance towards something we see at. Human mind
considers as an ordinary thing and does not pay heed to it as to why it occurs
after all. In Sufism and spiritualism we have to look for the cause and reason
of a thing no matter how unimportant and insufficient it may appear. When we
see a thing could be cognize it, we comprehend it properties properly. The
comprehension is related with the intensity of the concentrative use of the
mind. To explicate this thing we can say that when an observer looks at
something its ability of cognition of the object transfers into the sight as if
the observer cognizes the observed object, after becoming the same thing. This
is the law of the Realm of Behest.
We see a
rose flower, At that moment we have to transform ourselves into the properties
of the rose, only then we can understand the rose. Thence we have the cognition
of a rose flower.
Each and every individual of the Created Realm
has this intrinsic ability of transforming the core of his self into the
nucleus of any other thing and thus can capture anything of his choice, as and
when, and many times, as it may deemed fit to him. Nucleus of the self of every
individual, according to this law is the collection of properties of the entire
universe.
Yet another quality of the Realm of behest is
that when we happen to hear the name of something, for instance, we hear the name,
Mr. Jones. Now, the word Mr. Jones or its spellings would not occur to our mind
rather the person and the personality of Jones will come to our mind. The
personality which is the collection of various qualities and properties. The
nature and the features of Mr. Jones will both be found associated with the
qualities of Mr. Jones which are known to us. This is the second Law regarding
the understanding of the Realm of Behest. This law has two parts. Comprehension
of one part is regulated by the Conscious. The total personality of Mr. Jones
which has evolved since Eternity to Infinity and the conscious had been at a
loss to grasp it, remain in the comprehension of the Unconscious. Unconscious
is a responsible for the comprehension of this remaining part of Mr. Jones. If
a percipient wants to cognize the whole property of Mr. Jones since Eternity to
Infinity he has to focus his conscious in the Unconscious thus causing the
transfer of the Unconscious into the conscious. This is only possible when one
has the cognition of One’s Ego because it is the movement of the Ego which
after focusing Unconscious transform the proceedings of the Unconscious
activities into the form of imagination. This state has been given the name of
‘The Memory’ by Khwaja Baha-o-Din Naqshband (May Allah be Merciful to him).
It seems necessary to mention few things about
the religions of the world during the course of our discussion regarding the
Realm of Behest.
Those who happened to have knowledge regarding
the mysterious hidden forces and mystical powers in the early ages, keeping
certain beliefs in view, had evolved a system of education concerning the soul
and spirit. The World has seen many such systems so far.
In the primary ages of the world when the
population of the inhabitations and their respective needs and requirements had
not out grown, these spiritual teachings could not take the form of a widely
spread global movements.
In the primeval era many people used to
observing the metaphysical unseen things which pretend to the Realm of Behest. Those
people interpreted their observations in the limited perspective of their
tribal ways of life. Since life pattern of various classes of human race and
the wide scenario of the world has not been present them, therefore, their interpretation
of the facts of the Realm of Behest revealed upon them involved only few
components of the human senses ensuing their followers and disciples indulge in
the misconceived and vague thoughts after the life of these mystic people… All
the idolatrous and paganistic religions originated in this way. The followers
who contributed and shared the preparation of the outlines of religions of that
era themselves were not familiar with the facts of the Realm of Behest had laid
the foundations of the wrong believes sorcery and monkism during the course of
relaying the things learnt from their leaders on to others. They never
hesitated in declaring the manifestation as the sources of the original lights.
Examples of this type of religions are the religions originating in Babylon,
Jainism and among the Aryan religions many religions influenced by the Hindu
Vedantism. Buddhism too finally resulted in monkism because of the similar
attitude of the followers of Gautma Buddha.
Mongoloid religions are devoid of the shade of
Oneness (Unity) because of the same factors. Almost the same factors caused the
Taoism associated with witchcrafts and delusions. The Heliolators, the
moon-worshippers and the believers of Zoroastrianism, the Mongoloid religions
had either considered the Realm of Behest based upon the two principals of Good
(Divine) and Bad (Evil) or declared the Realm of Behest centralized in the
Manifestations. These attitudes and trends gradually established the
development of the Fetishism, Idolatry and Paganistic beliefs and human nature
started developing an aversion for the material life altogether. This fact
cannot be ignored that the material life is, anyhow, half of the total life. If
any religious system has no place for this half of the life, the whole structure
of the economic life would fall to the ground. In the event of this type of
situation, religion is to be considered as something idealistic and
impracticable. When the infrastructure of life is released and liberated from
the clutches of the religious bands confusion and astraying in the beliefs
would be inevitable.
In this way deviation from moderation made so
many religions unacquainted and non-familiar with the facts of the Realm of
Behest and that of the Created World. Consequently, mankind and humanity was
left with no other way but to retaliate and express its relation because of the
demands of the Created World. And, in the period of last five thousand years
such religions started to come into being which aimed only for the State, its
government and the material life. Confucianism, Shintoism and the doctrines of
the Greek Philosophers especially the teachings of Plato and his Contemporaries
and Communism of the present age are significant amongst such beliefs. All of
these were founded because the prevailing religions had ignored the wants and
demands of the Created World and the reaction of the same resulted in atheism
and general irreligiousness. In the Holy Quran at various places such
immoderations and transgression have been pointed out.
Collection of those beliefs which caused the
actions and deeds come into being is known as Religion.
Many religions are there which are devoid of
the concept of Allah e. g. Jainism and Communistic religions that have been
existing since the past millennia till date.
Human intellect is by-faceted and di-hedral Its
one aspect thinks about the outside and the other thinks about the inner self. The
first side after observing the manifestations establishes and ascertains the
limits of the experiences and the sensations regarding them. The second side
contemplates about the self and cognizes these facts that are revealed in the
depths of the manifestations. The first side is used very commonly, all its
styles and ways of thinking are altogether different from the Revelation and
the Inspirations. Whereas the second side which is enveloping the first side is
connected with the Revelation and the Inspiration. Thus, the second side i. e. the
Realm of Behest is encompassing the first side i.e. the Created Realm.
The
first side attempts to comprehend the materialism by conducting a search into
the Objects and the things, and the second side reveals the facts and the
realities by following the paths of the prophetic knowledge. All the religions
that have been founded on the basis of the first side of the human mind mostly
consisting of the values of atheism, idolatry, fetishism, materialism and the
philosophical doctrines. All such religions determine their goals in strict
accordance with the Material or the Acquired Knowledge. With the exception of
the Middle east these are mostly practiced the world over. Thousands of such
religions have been annihilated yet many are still surviving. None of them
provide any facility for the Realm of Behest, that is, the hereafter life of
the self, rather they create such complications of perception and experience
which simply result in the Eternal sufferings of the soul.
Middle East, the most ancient abode of the
Semitic nations, had always been a center of those religions which originated
under the influence of the Revelation and were practiced according to the
definitions of the laws of the Realm of Behest i. e. the Knowledge of the Self.
Most popular and established religions amongst there are Judaism, Christianity
and Islam. All these three were originated and practiced by the Semitic nations.
Last of them is Islam as, with its coming the prophet hood has come to an end.
[Note: I am writing this book under the
auspicious command of the Holy Prophet, the Prophet of Islam (Peace and
blessing of Allah be upon him). This command has been received from him in the
Owaisian Style. Part of the same ‘Directive’ is forbidding me from commenting
on any religion, therefore, I cannot discuss the Semitic and Non-Semitic
Religions any more. (Author)]
The Realm of Behest according to the Knowledge
of the Self can be exemplified by a rose that have ever been viewed by our eyes
and the image of the same is preserved forever in our mind. And thus, whenever
we intent, that rose can be brought back in the Created Realm from the Realm of
Behest, that is, its image can be brought back in our mind and the same could
be considered as an individual of the Rose Family as it has features and shared
of colors. The features belong to the Realm of Behest and the colors are
associative with the Created Realm. In fact, the features of the species are
the essence of the thing (herein rose). They remain in the Realm of Behest
constantly, and permanently. Existence of its features in the Realm of Behest
is a composition of the ingredients of Time. This depends upon the creative
ability of our Self to color the features as and when we may wish to do so. In
the Realm of Behest, we and the rose are both just one Self. Those properties
of Single Self which are common in the rose and our Self causes the rose to
enter into our imagination after producing colors in the rose according to our
Will and determination. These psychic potentialities of the Realm of Behest are
enjoyed by our man in general. On trying to make these psychic potentialities
extra ordinary the ‘Commanding Will of the Self’ induces the rose into the
limits of the cosmos and that rose appears in the world after becoming solid
and concrete spatial reality.
This law could be analyzed in the following manner.
Reality ------------à Ultra-Reality ------------à Extra Ultra-Reality.
The Extra Ultra-Reality is the Supreme Being of
Allah.
The Ultra-Reality is the Beatific Visions of
Allah, the Most Exalted.
The Reality is the Attribute of Allah, the Most
High.
The Ultra-Reality is also denominated as the
Indispensable Being (Wajeb-ul-Wajood) and is a state of Beatific Visions of
Allah. After that is the Reality itself which is also called the ‘Realm of
Light’ (Aalam-e-Noor). The very same Realm of Light has been referred to in the
Holy Quran, “Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth …”
It would be wrong to consider that
Indispensable Being is the Supreme Being of Allah. The Indispensable Being
could only be considered as the Beatific Vision at the most. This Beatific
Vision is the Basis of the Attributes and is associated with the Supreme Being.
Next to the Indispensable Being are the Attributes called the Reality and are
associated with the Beatific Visions of the Supreme Being.
Three degrees of the cognition of Allah have
been stated in the Holy Quran;
No. 1. The Supreme Being of the Almighty,
No. 2. The Realm of Behest which was brought
into existence by uttering ‘Kun’ (Be!).
“Verily when He intends a thing, He Commands it
to Be and there it is” (Sura 36 Verse 82, Quran) and
No. 3. The Real of Specified Behest. It is the
state about which it is stated, ‘I breathed My Spirit into Adam’s moulded form’.
The Supreme Lord Creator
(The God Head)
The Realm of Beatific Vision of the Supreme
Lord Creator the Indispensable Being----Latent and Obscure Subtleties.
The Realm of General Behest ------- The
Beatific Visions of attributes ------------- Arcanum and Spiritic Subtleties.
The Creative Realm --------- The Subtleties of Heart and Self.
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.