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Mode of discernment (traz-e-tafheem) can be achieved
by habituating to sleep for one, two or at the most, two and half hours per round
of a clock and by remaining awake for the rest of time. The mode of discernment
is also termed by the Sufis as ‘prambulation’ (sair) or ‘openness’ (fatah).
Muraqbah for the discernment should be performed
after midnight. Man’s routine is to awake after sleeping and to sleep after remaining
awake. He likes to sleep during the hours of night and lives through the day remaining
awake. This routine develops to be his second nature. Mind’s duty is to see and
it does so through sight. In fact sight is nothing but mind. During the state of
wakefulness mind sees, hears and comprehends everything in its surroundings. This
process remains in operation even in the state of sleep through the impressions
vary in their lasting effects. When impressions are deep and lasting memory can
recapitulate them after awakening but the light impressions are forgotten by the
mind. For this reason we fail to acquaint ourselves with the whole atmosphere which
is present before us during the state of sleep.
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.
