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There
are two types of senses operating within man along with all the demands and emotions
of life. One type of sense operates during the state of dreaming and the other
during the wakeful state. If we gather both of these senses together they
amount to eleven thousand states and demands in total. There always remains a
dominant Name on these eleven thousand states or demands. It could be said that
Allah’s Names which are operating in human life are approximately eleven
thousand in total and the Name which is controlling these eleven thousand Names
is the Ism-e-Azam. Out of these eleven thousand Names, five and a half thousand
Names function during the state of dreaming. Because man is the best of all
Allah's creation, according to Allah’s laws, every Name that operates within a
human holds the rank of being an Ism-e-Azam for another species. It is these
Names that Allah taught the knowledge of to Hażrat Adam. The ones who direct or
manage Allah’s administration possess knowledge of these Names according to
their ranks and responsibilities.
Each
Name of Allah represents an attribute of Allah. Each attribute contains
creative laws within it as well as its entire forms. All laws that function in
the system of creation are Allah's laws.
اَللّٰہُ
نُوْرُ السَّمٰوٰاتِ وَالْاَرْضِ
‘Allah is the Light of the Heavens and the Earth’
(Sūrah
Noor, 35)
It
is this Noor of Allah’s that produces life and all the movements pertaining to
life in vegetation, minerals, animals, humans, jinns and angels in the form of
waves. It is nature’s ceaseless benevolence that every individual of the
universe is connected and related to one another through these waves of Noor.
There
is a very strong relationship between the galactic systems and ourselves. All
the thoughts that enter our minds one after another are related to other
systems and habitats. These waves of Noor take on the form of light within no
time at all. These short and long waves of light come to us bringing lots of
picture galleries. It is these picture galleries that we have named impression,
thought, imagination and reflection.
Allah has declared:-
‘People! Call to Me, I will listen.
Ask from Me, I will give’
To
call someone or to ask from someone it is important that we are introduced to
or know this being. It is also important for us to know whether this being to
whom we are presenting our needs and wants can fulfil them or not. To have
faith regarding this point we must understand and recognise an entity from whom
we can hope for the fulfilment of our wants, needs, desires and wishes, even if
we asked for more than a million a day. Obviously, this entity is none but
Allah. Allah has mentioned His attributes using His Names. Allah declares in Sārah Arāf:-
‘And Allah has Great Names. Invoke
Him by them’
(Surah
Araf, 180)
In Sūrah Ahzāb Allah declares:-
‘O ye who believe! Remember Allah
with much remembrance. And glorify Him day and night’
(Surah Ahzāb, 41)
Each
Name of Allah is a hidden treasure. When the ones who are familiar with these
treasures mention Allah’s name by their tongue, they are showered with a rain
of blessings and grace. Generally there are ninety-nine Names Of Allah that are
popular. Each name has a different effect. To benefit from this precious
treasure, there exists a separate method to recite each Name.
By
the consistent repetition of a Name the brain becomes flourished with the
divine Lights of that Name. As Allah’s divine Lights become stored in the
brain, depending on the amount of lights, matters that are unresolved are
solved and the desired results are manifested.
Just
as these beneficial effects are accumulated, similarly the darkness resulting
from sinning causes the light within one to become faint and vague. Negligence,
carelessness and errors draw one closer to darkness and impurity and distant
one from Allah’s Noor.
When
a person knowingly settles his life upon sin and errors, he becomes an example
of the following Quranic verse:-
‘Allah hath sealeth their hearts and
their hearing, and put a covering on their eyes. Theirs will be an awful doom’
(Surah Baqara, 7)
Allah’s
every Name is an attribute of Allah and Allah’s every attribute is active and
mobile and in accordance to the laws of nature. Every attribute contains
strength and life within it. When we mention or recite a Name the effect and
strength of the Name is manifested. If the desired effects are not achieved we
should examine and review our sinful actions, negligence and disobedience.
We
are all familiar with the fact that during treatment as well as taking medicine
it is important to abstain from certain matters. Without abstention the
medicine becomes ineffective. To treat the disease of disobedience and sinning
it is important to abstain from certain things and have a virtuous character:
Lawful earning, hatred of lying and love for the truth, compassion for Allah’s
creation, uniformity in the outer and inner self, hatred of hypocrisy,
avoidance of arguments and sin, avoidance of pride and arrogance. A person who
is a hypocrite, hard-hearted and thinks of Allah's creation as inferior to him,
and himself as superior to others cannot achieve benefit from the qualities and
virtues of Allah’s divine Names.
Before
starting the recitation of any Name it is necessary for the aforementioned
qualities and characteristics to be produced within one.
Acting
upon the forthcoming stated cures, and the avoidance of the aforementioned
characteristics will definitely cause one to benefit from the fruits of Allah’s
divine Names, just as our saints have been seeking favours and still are
benefiting from them.
KHWAJA SHAMSUDDIN AZEEMI
Mehrāj means to enter the world of the unseen. When a believer attains Mehrāj through prayer, Angels appear in front of him. He travels through the Heavens, and through the blessings of the Holy Prophet (pbuh) he comes to know his Lord.
