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Things that we
know and the feelings and emotions, with which we are familiar, are known as
the Conscious and the things and thoughts, which are not known to us are termed
as the Unconscious. This knowing and not knowing are coexisting in us. The ways
that we have not comprehended so far are known as La. We have to negate the
approach of Illa in order to know the ways of La. We can find our way to the
knowledge of La only after negating the life of the material world, the life of
spatio-temporal constraints, which we have imposed upon ourselves in such a way
that now we have got it established in our beliefs that there is no way out
from the confines of this material limitations. Having the knowledge of La is the intuition.
Intuition is
of four types, which are called descents. First descent is that the universe
was displayed as it was there in the mind of God. This display is known as the
Knowledge of the Pen. In the second descent the secrets and the mysteries of
God appear in the form of Beatific Visions, which fully cover the Will of God.
In the third descent, the secrets and mysteries of creation take the shape of
inscriptions of the Preserved Scripturum. These very impressions of the
Preserved Scripturum are known as the Ultimate Fate. After the third descent,
when the creation is adored with spatiality and takes on the physical body to
live in this material world, it is called the fourth descent.
It seems
necessary to clear this point that all the inventions, innovations and
discoveries taking place in every era; since the very Beginning till the last
Ending of the universe, are all predestined and are not beyond the limits of
the Era of Eternity. Manifestation of every possible happening ad infinitum,
are all confined within the limits of Eternity. Therefore, whatsoever is taking
place or will ever happen resulting the descent of the secrets of the Knowledge
of the Pen is a display of the Knowledge of the Pen.
God has stated
in the holy Quran that He is the Master of the Preserved Scripturum, whichever
command He likes, He retains and, whichever He likes, He revokes.
“ Every promise is inscribed, God doth blot out
or confirm what He pleaseth and with Him is the Real Book.”
Example:
There is a projector,
which is being operated by an operator. The projector has a film in it. The
images of the film, after passing through various lenses and the empty space,
are carried on to the screen by means of light waves. A person sitting in
cinema hall is watching the pictures moving upon the screen before him.
Although he is not witnessing the operator, projector, film, lenses or the
light waves that are carrying the images through the empty space onto the
screen, yet the spectator sees the pictures.
Keeping this
example in view, as long as the creatures were in the Mind of God, they were
faceless, without any features but after passing through the Lens of the
Incumbent when they entered the realm of the Preserved Scripturum, features
were produced in them and the pictures were completed in the
Illustrative Realm but thy were still devoid of
the physical body. Unless the pictures wear the physical body they cannot feel.
1. In the first stage of the Intuition, the
existents existed in the Knowledge of God and they were without any features.
2. In the second stage, the pictures of the
Edicts got the features when these were inscribed upon the Preserved Scripturum.
3. When these Edicts reached the Erebus after
passing through the phase of the Preserved Scripturum, body of lights is
produced for the pictures.
4. When the pictures wear the physical body of
matter, they have the realization of time and space and they find themselves
confined in the spatio-temporal limits. This is the fourth stage of Intuition.
RAPT ASSOCIATE, THE ASSOCIATE ENRAPT
As described
earlier knowledge is of two types, Acquired and the Presented. The knowledge
that is acquired remaining in the conscious limits of time and space is known
as the Acquired knowledge. All the worldly sciences and bookish knowledge falls
in this category. Whereas the Presented knowledge is free from the
spatio-temporal constraints. The students of the Presented knowledge can be
broadly classified in two categories of Rapt Associates and the Associate Enrapt.
Spiritual
Associate or simply the Associate (salik) is a person who gets to his inner by
means of supererogatory worshipping rites and austere exercises. If a person
despite practicing the rites and performing exercises is not acquainted with
the inner self then, in spite of wearing any typical robe or dress, he cannot
be called an associate. Salik is a person who follows the teachings of his
religion without involving into hypocrisy and the worshipping rites help him to
have first the cognition of his own self and then of God.
‘One who recognizes his self, cognizes the Lord,
God.’
It is
necessary for an associate that all his acts and deeds must be in consonance
with the attributes of God and his subtleties are toned with the love of God.
Some people call him an associate who is studying spiritualism or learning
spirituality but this is not the right thing because an associate is a person
whose subtleties have been toned up, that is, he has taken himself away from
the worldly thinking approach, which is founded upon fictional and hypothetical
senses.
Some people
call that person a shaikh or sahib-e-wilayat, who is journeying on the paths of
spiritualism. This is also not correct because only a person whose subtleties
have been toned up can undertake spiritual journey. And, shaikh or
sahib-e-wilayat is a person who enters into the Attributive Unity after
progressing from the stage of Functional Unity. According to my findings a
large number of Shaikhs are such people,
who even do not know about the
scientific values of dreams and what to say of
the other spiritual abilities. Some even do not know the abc of spiritual
sciences. And, this is the reason that spiritual sciences have been mystified
and are used only to attract the people, mostly for fun sake. Obviously, a
person, who does not know anything, cannot teach others.
Once Qalander
Baba Auliya had said to me that 25% people in the era of the Holy Prophet
(PBUH) were spiritual persons but nowadays only one out of
1.15 million people turns out to be a spiritual person
for the obvious reason that those who are claiming to the Spiritual Associates
and sheikhs are actually working against the norms of spiritual sciences.
Another thing,
which is commonly misunderstood, regarding the definition of Associate Enrapt,
is that the people who are insane and mentally ill are called majzoob (Rapt).
How can a person, who is the heir of the spiritual knowledge, be mad or insane?
People debate that majzoob is superior to salik but then how this would be
decided that who is the salik and who is the salik majzoob (Associate Enrapt)?
Majzoob, in actual fact, is the person whom God has attracted towards Himself.
We have
mentioned the obligatory and supererogatory worshipping rites, which includes
all the religious and social laws prevalent in a society and which are binding
upon every individual of the society. When the subtleties of a person are toned
up because of his efforts and observance of the supererogatory rite, he is
called salik or Spiritual Associate. But in order to get to the level of the
Unity of the Being, one has to have that thinking approach activated in him,
which is the thinking pattern of God and a majzoob enjoys the thinking pattern
in which he is in close affinity with the will of God. It has been stated in
the holy Quran that those who are firm in their knowledge, know that knowledge
which is the personal knowledge of God and they say that they believe that
everything is from God.
It must be
remembered that certitude is directly related with the observation. One cannot
believe anything unless it is in one’s personal observation. A person with
natural tendency of having firmness of knowledge gets into the observations of
the underlying invisible and unseen world. He fully comprehends this fact that
there is a Reality that is functioning in the background of every unseen
phenomenon and this unseen world is established because of that Reality. The
movements that are taking place in that unseen world are causing the universe
to be. Where this thing has been mentioned in the holy Quran that God pick them
towards them, actually, the reference is made to a Rapt, or to say, a majzoob
is hinted there who is pulled towards God.
KHWAJA SHAMS-UD-DEEN AZEEMI
The book Loh-o-Qalum (The Pen and The Scripturum) was written by His Divine Grace, Qalander Baba Auliya at the behest of the Holy
Prophet; the Prophet
of Islam, (Peace
and Blessings of God
be upon him). This auspicious command was given
to him by the Holy
Prophet directly, in a manner, which is known as the Owaisian Manner.
Possessor of the
Insinuated Knowledge, Knower
of the Secrets
of the Command, “Be!” Proclaimer
of the Reality, the Kind Preceptor, His Divine Grace,
Hassan Ukhra Mohammad
Azeem Burkhiya Qalander Baba Auliya (May the blessings
of God be upon him),
whose saying is the saying
of God though uttered
through the human mouth, narrated
the contents, which
were inscribed on the
screen of my mind, by his strong Spiritual Influence, word by word ……. And, thus, this inspired
writing, stated by Qalander Baba Auliya and penned down by me took the form of Loh-o-Qalum
(The Pen and the Scripturum).
This knowledge of the Spiritual Science is the heritage of mankind and jinns. I, hereby, deliver this trust onto the present and the future generations of man and the jinns.