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“Say, the soul is the Edict of My Lord.”
(Quran)
Soul has
been declared as the Edict of the Lord therefore it is also the Realm of behest.
But this Realm of Behest is altogether a different thing from that Realm of
Behest which was made to come into being by the utterance of the World, ‘kun’
(Be!).
Had both these Realm of Behest been one and the
same, Allah would never have mentioned that I breathed My soul into the body of
Adam. It is expressedly depicted from these words that the Realm of Behest
enlisted above at NO. 2. Is the General Command and that at No. 3. Is the
Specified Command.
From here the Knowledge and the Manifestations
are sub divided into two categories, which have been termed as the Knowledge of
the Divine Scripturum and the Knowledge of the Divine Pen, that si the Pen and
the Scripturum by the Holy Quran. Now the arrangement would be as follows:-
No. 1. The Self of Allah (The God-Head)
No. 2. The Realm of Specified Behest, Beatific
Vision of the Godhood (The Indispensable Being),
No. 3. The Realm of Behest, The Command in
General or the Beatific Vision of the Attributes.
And after these three stages the fourth is that
of the Created Realm
.
Six
subtleties have been mentioned earlier. With the exception of the God-head; the
Self of Allah, rest of the three stages have six sides in total i. e. every
stage is di-hedral. One side of the Realm of Specified Behest; the beatific
Vision of the God-head or the indispensable Being is towards the Supreme Being
of the God-head and its other side is facing the General Realm of Behest. This
makes them two subtleties. First one of them is known as the ‘Latent’ and the
other one is called the ‘Obscure’. First side of the realm of General Behest is
towards the Realm of the Specified Behest and its other side is facing the
Created Realm. The first one is known as the ‘Arcanum’ and the other one is
called ‘Spiritic”.
One
side of the Created Realm (the Phenomenal world) is facing the Realm of the
General Behest and the other side is towards the Cosmos (Matter). The first of
these two is called the Subtlety of Heart and the other is known as the
Subtlety of the Self.
We
can exemplify all this with a sheet of fabric which is woven by the threads of
the Light (Noor). Space in which these strings of the Light are staying could
be termed as the realm of Specified Behest. The strings used in the weaving of
the fabric as the ‘wrap’ could be named as the Nasmic realm. Upon all these
three Realms there is the shell of Senses known as the Body.
Cognition
of the Realm of Nasma, in Sufism, is termed as the True Knowledge
(Ilm-ul-Yaqeen). Cognition of the Realm of General Behest is called the Exact
Truth (Ain-ul-Yaqeen) and the cognition of the Realm of the Specified Behest is
known as the True Reality (Haq-ul-Yaqeen) and this is that stage which is the
cognition of the Supreme Being or the God-head, the rest are the stages of the
cognition of the Attributes.
Human
body is a shell. This shell has two sides -- the body and the mind. Mind is
facing the Realm of the General Behest and the same is called the Nasma. But
this mind or the body is not the man. Man who could be called a point of the
Beatific Vision of the Being, in fact, lives in both of them. This point which
is the human self is a particle of the Fabric woven from the Light. This
particle has a shell (cover) which is known as the Body and the same is the
manifestation.
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.
