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In our daily observations light is the
substitution of mirror. This light acts as a mirror betwixt the observer and
the observed. We sub divide the act of viewing in four circles which, in
sufism, are called the four dimensions. These circles have been already
discussed, in the previous pages, by the name of channels. The first circle is
dominated as the 'Black Draft' (Tasweed). The very same circle is also known as
void of light. Spacelessness, Time are the other names of the same circle. The
same circle is the basis of the beatific vision of the Being or the universe. The
very same circle has been termed as 'Tadallah' (inclination) in the Holy Quran.
There are two saying of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) that could be referred in this regard.
1. " I share time with Allah".
2. "Don't condemn time, time is
Allah".
Thevery same circle is the invariant. This
is the circle whose area is extended from eternity (The Remotest Beginning) to
infinity.
(The
Remotest). The gracious command of Allah, 'Kun' (Be!) is encompassing the
prevailing upon the very same circle. This is the circle that has been
mentioned in the Quranic verse, " Allah is the light of the heavens and the
earth". This is the circle that is the first dimension
an dwe can termed it as sight. The other
three circles, extraction (Tajreed), evidence (tasheed)
and manifestation (tazheer) are spaces.
Dimension No 1 = Sight (Nazar)
Dimension No 2 = Seen (Nazara)
Dimension No 3 = Spectator (Nazir)
Dimension No 4 = Seen (Manzar)
All these four are also known as
observation (N) (Shahood), act of observation (V) (Mushahida), observer
(Shahid) and the observed (Mashood) respectively. The sight, or the
observation, or the Black Draft or time is the basis or the foundation of the
observation, structural formation of the universe. No variation had ever taken
place in it nor is it ever likely to take place. At its own place it is the
principal reality upon which the edifice of the other three spaces is staying. This
principal reality is the spacelessness and this the reality of all three spaces.
The first space following this, called the abstraction, exist in the form of
seeing or observing. The second space or the evidence is known as the spectator
of the observer. The third space, the manifestation is called the observed or
the seen. This space is the fathomless ocean of light.
Abstraction (Tajreed) or the first space
is the light (Noor). Evidence (Tasheed) or the second space is the uncompounded
(Simple) Nasma. The very simple Nasma is known as the Cosmic rays. The
compounded Nasma or the manifestation (Tazheer), and the third space consists
of all the lights (rays) other than the cosmic rays. The concentration of the
rays of the manifestation causes the e light formation of all the bodies of the
universe. The lights of the manifestation are a sort of colored mirror.
In fact, all the four dimensions are the
four mirrors. The first stationary and invariant mirror is the Sight or the
Spacelessness. The Second kinetic or the variable mirror is the seeing. The
third kinetic mirror is the spectator and the fourth kinetic mirror is the
scene.
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.
