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In the light of the Subtlety of Self, first
step of Istarkha, is the activation of audibility. At this step the inner
thoughts of a person· or a living thing, in the form of voice, are carried to
the hearing of the one who is having the power of Observation. During the
lessons of Discernment to vitalize this form of observation many material
things are also used. One of them is the powdered pepers. This powder, after
applying on a swab cotton with a drop or two of water, is placed in the ears at
time of performance of Muraqbah and Istarkha.
Second step of Istarkha is that the lights of
the Subtlety of Self can arrange themselves into smell and touch. And, one who
has power of Observation can smell and touch anything even if it is at a
distance of millions of light year - the speed of light is about three hundred
thousand kilometers per second Many forms of contemplations are used in
increasing the lights of Subtlety of Self. It will not be out of place to give
one or two examples of Contemplation and Cogitation.
Alpha-luminescences which are the main theme of
this chapter is such an Attribute of Allah which could be studied analytically
in the human self. The very same Attribute is the Unconscious of man. The
Unconscious, according to ordinary approach, is considered to be those basis of
activities about which human intellect remains ignorant. If such a basis is
taken into consideration deeply then either it is not properly understood by us
or if understood, its meanings and significance remain equal to a naught i. e. only
its non-existence comes to our mind.
The law governing every beginning, according to
the text of the Preserved scripturum, is only one and that is, when
significance of the beginning is debated or try to conceive the commencement of
something in our mind, at that moment, only the tenor of nothingness (La) is
there in the depths of our concept. It means that in the first phase of a beginning
we are only introduced with nothingness. Al though the common standards of
intellect have not tried to understand this thing the law of the Preserved
Scripturum demands that we understand and analyze this fact comprehensively. Without
having this La (nothingness, naught, an adverb of negation) analyzed we would
remain at a loss to understand this thing.
Every fact which somehow or the other, whether
fanciedly, ideologically or imaginatively is known to us, is an entity whether
it is a negating entity (La) or an affirmative one. After having understanding of
the modes of laws of the Preserved Scripturum we would be looking at n act,
whether it is negating or affirming, affirmation (positivity) is called ‘Is’
that is we acknowledge its existence as an entity then the negation
(negativity) is stated as 1s not', id est, we consider this, too, an entity of
whose existence we do not have any knowledge. In other words, w term nescience
_as negativity and knowledge as affirmation. That which is called knowledge or
affirmation cannot be identified by us· unless the nescience is known to us,
that is, first we recognized the nescience only then the knowledge was cognized.
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.
