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As stated
earlier, basically, the knowledge is of two types: The Presented and the
Acquired. The knowledge that is acquired by learning, it involves physical
means and is a source of continuous renewal of fictional senses. It is
attempted in the Acquired Knowledge that the conscious should not get a chance
to be liberated from the suppositions upon which the foundations of the human
conscious are established. When the human conscious is studied closely it is
observed that it is based upon fictions. When we think about ourselves we end
up nowhere in a state of helplessness. Our economic system is based upon
statistics but we have no way to prove that two and two makes four, if these
are four why these make four and not denominated as something else. Similarly,
when a child is made to join school, he is told that this is ‘A’ and that is
‘B’. And, if the child happens to ask us that why this ‘A’ is called ‘A’ and
not anything else, then we have no answer except to snub the child saying do as
you are told and just repeat what is said to you, this is the way if you really
want to learn.
It has been
made mandatory for the child’s conscious to accept the fiction offered to him
without giving it a thought and if he does not do so, he is denied education.
Other type of
knowledge, opposite to the acquired knowledge, stresses that nothing should be
believed unless it is observed.
God has collected all the four realms in the
nucleolus of the human self, which are the Nooric Realm, The Sub-conscious, the
Realm of Behest and the Created Realm.
Description of
the Realm of Behest is that our universe is a collection of the celestial
bodies, living and non-living things and countless invisible creatures. There
exists a correlation among all the individual creatures and the ingredients and
components of the universe whether that could be witnessed by the physical eyes
or not but it exists all the same.
When we look
at something that thing is witnessed. It is such an ordinary thing that we
seldom take the trouble of considering that why something is sighted?
In spiritual
science it is necessary to explore the root-cause of everything, no matter how
insignificant it may appear to ordinary conscious. When we look at something we
perceive its characteristics properly, or in other words, when an observer
witnesses something, cognition of that object transfers to our sight. That is to say, the observer transforms
himself into the seen object and then cognizes it. We cannot see a rose unless
the properties and characteristics, or to say, the attributes of the rose are
not transferred to us and we do not let them absorb into our inner self.
Every
individual of the Created Realm has the innate ability of transmuting its inner
self into any other self and, in this way, can capture anything, as many times
as may deem appropriate, into its comprehension. All the attributes of the
universe are collectively incorporated in the inner self of every person.
It is one of
the characteristics of the Realm of Behest that when the name of something is
heard, the words do not register but a representative picture of that word is
witnessed. When, for instance, we hear the name of Tom, the spellings of word
Tom do not come to our mind rather the personality of the individual named Tom
comes to our mind. Tom, who is a combination of so many qualities and
attributes pertaining to his appearance and the personality, will come to our
mind, to the extent we know of him.
Another law of
the Realm of behest is that the personality of Tom exists in the unconscious
eternally and if a spiritual percipient desires to know about the entire
personality of Tom, he has to focus his Conscious into the Unconscious to get
the whole set of attributes of Tom’s personality transferred to his mind, which
is only possible when one enjoys the cognition of one’s own self or the ego,
because it is the movement of the ego that conceptualizes the unconscious data
before the conscious mind. The august spiritual master Khwaja Bahaodin
Naqshband names this very state as ‘Memory’.
It will not be
out of place to mention few things about the religions of the world during the
course of our discussion on the topic of the Realm of Behest. The people who
happened to have knowledge about the metaphysical powers in the early ages,
keeping certain beliefs in view developed a spiritual education system. World
has seen many such systems so far. In the early ages when the population of the
world and their needs were far less than today, these teachings could not take
the form of a wide spread global movements.
In the
primeval era many people used to observe unseen things pertaining to the Realm
of Behest and they interpreted those things in the limited perspective of their
tribal ways of life. Since the life of many segments of the society and the
wide scenario of the world was not before them, their interpretations about the
Realm of Behest were limited to their times only. Therefore, their followers
and disciples were mislead to misconceived and vague thoughts after these
mystic people were passed away. All the idolatrous and paganistic religions
originated in this way.
Those who
prepared the outlines of religions of those eras themselves were not familiar
with the facts of Realm of Behest. And, thus, they laid the foundations of the
wrong beliefs, sorcery, witchcraft and monkism during the course of passing
over to others the things learnt from their leaders. They used to declare the
manifestations a source of original lights. Examples of such religions are the
religions originating in the Babylon, Jainism and in the Aryan Religions Hindu
Vedantism influenced many of them. Buddhism, too, finally ended up in monkism
because of the similar attitude of the followers of Buddha. Mongoloid religions
are also devoid of the shades of monotheism because of the same factors. Almost
the same factors caused the Taoism associated with witchcraft and delusions.
The Mongoloid
religions like Heliolaters, the moon-worshippers and the believers of
Zoroastrianism either considered the Realm of Behest based upon the principles
of good (divine) and bad (evil) or they declared the manifestation having a
central position in the Realm of Behest. These trends and attitudes
gradually established and developed the
Fetishism, Idolatry and Paganistic beliefs.
This fact cannot
be ignored that the material life constitutes the half portion of the total
life. If any religious system ignores half of the life, the whole set up of the
values gets upset and confusion and straying in the beliefs are inevitable.
Ensuing the derangement of the beliefs so many religions remained oblivious of
the facts of the Realm of Behest and the Created Realm. It all resulted in a
reactionary attitude of the multitudes and such religions came into being which
aimed only for the state, its government and the material life. Ever- new
philosophies were the eventual out come of this situation and new religions
kept on emerging. Confucianism, Shintoism and other similar religions of past
and present ages are significant examples of such religions. Thousands of such
religions have annihilated, yet many are still surviving. None of them provides
any facility for the Realm of Behest, that is, the life hereafter; rather they
create such complications of perception and experience that eventually result
in eternal sufferings of the soul.
All of these
were founded because the prevailing religions had ignored the wants and demands
of the Created Realm and it resulted in atheism and general irreligiousness.
The basic reason of this disorder and disarray is the involvement of the human
intellect in materialism and the other side that makes the realities to come
into light remains dormant. The fact is that the materialism does not provide
any facility or ease in our life. We can say this from our experience that all
the new inventions and means of comfort have their side effects and every means
of comfort is a perpetual source of so many discomforts and difficulties. The
more we are trapped in the labyrinths of materialism, tighter and tighter
become the clutches of difficulties and worries.
The focal
point of the teachings of the prophets of God is that they introduced the
mankind with the concept of good and evil. This very concept of good and evil
determined the two aspects of our reason and intellect; one of them is
responsible for all the human sufferings and the other helps in overcoming them.
One of the
sciences that have been transferred to mankind through Revelation (wahi) is the
Knowledge of the Self, which deals with the Realm of Behest. The most popular and
established religions that originated under the influence of Revelation and
practiced in Middle East are the Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Last of them
is the Islam. Islam is the last religion because all the information about the
Realm of Behest and the Presented Knowledge that the mankind was required to
know, were revealed upon the most gifted child of the mankind and, for the very
reason the prophethood has also been concluded once for all.
In the Realm
of Behest a species exists in time and in the Created Realm it expresses itself
in Space. A spiritual person who is versed with the Presented Knowledge and
knows the laws dealing with the features of species, or in other words, he is
familiar with the creative formulae, knows that a rose and he are two different
entities with respect to their features and they both are different from each
other because of the amount of colors in them. This depends upon the creative
ability of his Self to color the features as and when he may wish to do so.
In the Real of Behest, he and the rose both are
parts of one single Self. The commonness of the properties causes the rose to
enter into his imagination. And, after including colors of his choice and using
the will power, he can bring that rose into the limits of the cosmos as solid
and concrete reality, tangible to our touch, sight and smell.
Nobody enjoys
monopoly over the psychic potentials of the Realm of Behest; every person
enjoys them in general by the grace of God, the Most Beneficent. If a person
could acquaint himself with this ability, he can bring out the rose from the
Realm of Behest into this world according to his will.
REFLECTION OF THE BEATIFIC VISION
The human
body, in actual fact, is an empty shell that has two aspects. The material
shell dominates one of the aspects and the features have solidness in them. A
current of noor flows from the nucleus of the self towards nasma and from nasma
to the physical body. Another current flows from the manifestation; the body,
towards the nasma and from nasma to the nucleus of the self. The current
flowing from the nucleus of the self towards the manifestation carries the
stores of the Insinuated Knowledge. Whereas, the light that flows from the
manifestation towards the nucleus of the self contains the worldly knowledge
pertaining to the physical needs, desires, urges and demands. If the conscious
is more interested in that flow of the current, which is coming from the
nucleus of the Self, the nasma of such a person gets toned up in the shades of
pure and delicate lights of noor. This creates an atmosphere of enlightenment
in the Subtlety of Self and this
causes a flow of delicate lights from the body towards the Nucleus of the Self
and it gets richer and richer with the brilliances of noor. This results in
such a sagacity, which is typical for the believers and about which the Holy
Prophet (PBUH) has stated, “Be cautious of the sagacity and prudence of a
believer as he sees through the noor of God.”
When these
lights of sagacity and prudence are stored in the mind of a spiritual
associate, the General Realm of Behest is revealed upon him. And, when the
subtleties are further toned up from the luminance of the General Realm of
Behest, he acquaints with the Specified Realm of Behest.
The human
conscious is like a mirror in which the lights of Insinuated Knowledge continue
to reflect and if the mind of a person is like a polished and clear mirror then
the scenes pertaining to the happenings to take place are sighted with closed
or open eyes easily. Whereas, if the lights flowing from the Subtlety of the
Self contain impurities and the flow is of a darkness rather than that of the
light then the mirror of the conscious becomes darkened and blind and all the
reflections of Divine Knowledge become obliterated from the sight. The
reflection of the Insinuated Knowledge upon the Conscious in religious terms is
known as the Conscience.
God has
stated, “God has placed a seal upon their hearts and the ears and heavy veils
have fallen upon their eyes.”
If the
polluted lights continue to store in the Subtlety of the Self, an ulcerous boil
is produced in there and this boil putrefies. With the increase of this
putrefaction the man suffers from diseases, distresses and difficulties, which
causes him to remain restless and anxious. A person who is not at peace and has
an ulcerous boil in his Subtlety of the Self cannot befriend with God. For the
prevention of having such a disease and to familiarize the Self with the flow
of noor, learning the spiritual sciences is necessary.
Ladies and
gentlemen, by now you have come to know that this physical body is a shell,
which is controlled by the lights. We also know that man is the collection of
mind and body. The root of a person, in actual effect, is the reflection of the
Beatific Vision, from which a current of lights flows towards the nasma and
from there it flows towards the physical body. The actual person resides in
both these places and the very same flow becomes urges after becoming the
thoughts, concepts and feelings.
Man ascends
towards the Realm of Behest and a current of noor continues to descend and this
chain of ascent and descent is the life of the universe. The knowledge of mysteries
hidden in this ascent and descent is known as the insinuated knowledge, which
deals with all the realms of ascent and descent.
Muraqba is such a process that can enable a
person to learn the Insinuated Knowledge. If a person is desirous of looking
into the mirror of his conscious, i.e., in the Unconscious and wants to know
about the ascending and descending movements then the sure shot and easy to
practice method is the muraqba. Muraqba helps in liberating from the
spatio-temporal constraints and no one can enter into the unseen realm unless
one is liberated from the clutches of Time and Space. Liberating from the space
or the body needs does not means that one should dissociate oneself from the
life altogether. It only means that the physical urges must be considered of
secondary nature and attention must be made to remain focused upon that light,
which is responsible for the creation of the urges. The technique of performing
muraqba is quite simple. Adopting a relaxed sitting posture, sit in a dark
place where the temperature is moderate. Relax the body and let there be a
state whence the mind is taken off from the presence of physical body. Breathe
deeply. Deep breathing helps in having a control over the breath and thoughts.
Close your eyes and attempt to focus your attention towards the inner self,
that means, to observe all that is going through your mind in that state
without involving into it.
If the deeds
and thoughts of the person who is performing muraqba are chaste, that is, he
must not be considering anyone bad or evil, have no grudges against anyone, is
forgiving even if feels hurt and is not revengeful, strives to earn his
livelihood diligently, after doing his part of the job leaves the results to
God, if anyone is hurt because of his behavior, he is not reluctant for asking
pardon, likes for other what he wants for himself, is not infatuated by the
love of worldly riches, uses the God given resources with pleasure, the worldly
gains are not his ambitions and serves the fellow human beings and the
creatures of God as much as possible,
then the subtleties of such a person will tone up very fast. When the Subtlety
of the Self is toned up, the conscious becomes more and more resplendent and
the mirror of the conscious becomes clearer and clearer.
In
spiritualism, total submission on the part of the spiritual associate for the mentor
is very important. If there is any hesitation in carrying out the
instructions of the spiritual teacher then the
performance of muraqba would not be completed. For the success and right
results of muraqba the associate has to submit himself completely to his mentor.
The body is
directly related to with breathing. If the breathing stops the body also
perishes but for learning the knowledge about the Unseen, breathing is not to
be dissociated with. Relaxation of body muscles and low rate of breathing is
essential for producing the state in which one is least aware of his physical
body. When the physical body becomes imperceptible and is no longer being
realized as such, the body of lights that surrounds the physical body starts
ascending towards the Beatific Vision. We all know that during sleep our mind
is temporarily dissociated from the physical body but the physical body system
remains in operation, in the same way, if we could temporarily dissociate
ourselves from the physical body during wakefulness, the Unseen world comes
before us even in our awakening. When the nucleus of the Self is liberated from
the worldly thoughts it starts perambulating in the Realm of Behest. It not
only becomes ambulant but also enjoys eating and drinking and performs all
those activities, which it may deem necessary to perform in that nooric realm.
Performance of activities within the limits of Realm of Behest is the
liberation from time and space. When it happens, one can cover any length of
time, from the very beginning to its final ending, and continuation of muraqba
enables a spiritual associate to see both the ends of Time, simultaneously and
he can see the incidents and events of thousands of years ago or hence. When a
person manages to reach this stage and is fully versed with the ascents and
descents of life, he can witness the universe as and when and where he may
desire. This state, in the spiritual terminology, is called perambulation.
It is the holy
proclamation of God Almighty, “O’ ye; the assembly of jinns and men, if you
have the power, get out of the boundaries of the earth and haven! You cannot,
but if you have the Authority.” Here the authority means to be equipped with
the reflection of the Beatific Vision.
A
DOT IN THE HEART
This world
gradually, stage after stage, becomes a life of experience for us after our
birth into this world. Similarly when the inner eye of a spiritual associate
starts functioning, gradually, the observations of the unseen realms start
coming into the experience. The more one gets involved into the observations of
the unseen realm the more familiar he becomes with the creatures of the unseen
worlds and their routines of life.
A child, after
his birth, gradually gets the consciousness and awareness of his surroundings.
Initially, he senses the aroma of his mother, and then he starts recognizing
her. And, then he acquaints with the other relatives like father, brothers and
sisters. Gradually, his vision broadens and he starts learning the worldly
sciences. In the very similar way, a spiritual associate, who is aware of the
Unseen World existing in the nucleus of his Self, or is entered into the Unseen
World, or that, he has started witnessing the unseen, gradually, develops that
sight, which enables him to see at any length of distance and time, he
witnesses all that exists in the Unseen World, can touch them even, if he wants to do so. It
becomes possible for him to journey between the stars
and planets, visit the heavens to see the heavenly creatures and to have
conversations with them.
The Facts and
Realities that are the basis of the Creation of the universe are revealed upon
him. He also observes what types of lights are being used in the formation of
the universe, what is the actual source of these lights, how these are being
produced and divided among the creatures of the universe and how the features
of the universe are formed from the varying quantities of these lights. He also
witnesses that the source of these lights is the Beatific Visions of God, the
Most High.
Qalander Baba
Auliya says, “ If fireworks are displayed in the moonlit night, the white
lights of the fireworks that appear in the atmosphere do not encompass the moonlight
but the moonlight still encompasses them. It appears that various patterns and
designs made from the scintillations and fireworks are spreading all over the
atmosphere filled with moonlight. Similarly, when the lights become activated
in the body of lights (nasma) these are manifested just like the designs and
patterns formed from the scintillations of fireworks.
Let me share
this secret with you that the entrance in the Unseen World or the perambulation
in the Inner Realms is not made from the outside rather one enters in the
Unseen Realm after he manages to enter into his own nucleus of the Self. No one
can acquaint with the spiritual norms unless he recognizes his true self or the
nucleus of his self and when one manages to know his Self, understands the
Nucleus of his Self and enters into it after opening the doors of his heart,
the universe emerges before him as is never seen by him. He understands that he
is also one of the travelers of the caravan of the manifestations in the
universe.
A small dot of
light that is situated in the fathomless depths of the center of the heart is
the microfilm containing the true pictures of the universe. When traveler of
the paths of spiritual associability is acquainted with the dot located in the
center of his heart, the traces of reality are found in the depths of that dot
where all the realities exist in an embodied form and figure.
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.