In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.1

Allah! La ilaha illa Huwa (none has the right to be worshipped but He), the Ever Living, the One Who sustains and protects all that exists. Neither slumber, nor sleep overtake Him. To Him belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is on earth. Who is he that can intercede with Him except with His Permission? He knows what happens to them (His creatures) in this world, and what will happen to them in the Hereafter. And they will never compass anything of His Knowledge except that which He wills. His Kursi extends over the heavens and the earth, and He feels no fatigue in guarding and preserving them. And He is the Most High, the Most Great. [This Verse 2:255 is called Ayat-ul-Kursi.]

Quran is a book of healing, the healing of the body, the mind and the Qalb soul. It establishes a long lasting relationship with its Qari (reader), extending into afterlife. The passage in this life is not only facilitated by its verses, but given a new meaning, the journey of the soul, in the company of the all-pervading everlasting Being.

Until this Being is felt, closer than the jugular vein, science, reason and logic will reign supreme.Love is the catalyst which brings a transformation in the Mizaj (perspective) of a human, who undergoes a metamorphic change in his or her personality. When a scientist, a person of logic reads the following verses.

Ha. Mim.

The revelation of the Book is from Allah the Exalted in Power, Full of Wisdom.

Verily in the heavens and the earth, are Signs for those who believe.

Seeing and hearing these verses bring no transformation, until one journey’s from Islam to Iman to Ihsan. Only then can one see the DNA transcribing its genetic information unfolding in the new creation in its mother’s womb, the flower communicating electromagnetically with the bee, advising it the amount of nectar it contains, all a sign in the divine book of nature,and the above verses in the divine books of God, the Torah, Psalms, Bible and the latest version the Quran, reflecting on the interface, the consciousness of a Momin. This essay contains a repetition of the verses of the noble Quran to prove and elaborate a point contained in its infinite dimensions, the miracle of the last book. As the fractals written by the same Author, bringing order out of chaos in nature, so the verses of the Quran in endless repetition appearing a fractal in the book by the same Author, diminishing chaos and bringing order in our lives. A Sufi experiencing his destiny with an utmost intensity, the intensity being the Will of God.

Fractal geometry mapping the nature outside, a kind of self-replicating and self-similar patterns in the entire universe in the formations of galaxies, the mountain structures, to snowflakes on earth, in our blood vessels, trees and the coral in the sea. The Quran following the same patterns the speech of the

same Creator and hence the same style. To those whom it appears disjointed, monotonous, and repetitive often miss the totality of its message, like a great puzzle in its infinite manifestations, being the speech of the bearer of life out of darkness, so often missed by a casual reader. Whether starting with a verse on Moses (May Allah Peace be Upon him) in the first chapter, slowly building and mixing with subjects as diverse as ethics , human relations, science or the study of nature, history of nations, eschatology and other essential instructions spread throughout, like a seed growing in the earth with a stem, slowly bifurcating into thousands of shoots, leading to guidance for those of the past, present and the future, each verse connected with another like pearls in a bead, keeping the old and growing into new ones, a web of never ending dimensions nor having any contradictions, spreading in the entire chapters of the Quran and its extension in the Universe, as ‘Tilka Ayaat Ullah’ and Hadith of Allah Subhana-hu. Usually accompanied with a hard fact, a fruit, at the end of these stems, explained as ayaat signs and proved by modern knowledge inaccurately called science, the correct word being ILM. Though not a book of science and not even a book in the traditional sense, it contains directions and guidance for human kind. A speech from the Creator to the created.

Essay on Quran for Men and Women of Knowledge and Wisdom. ( Cوا وEل

C KابH أ Eب Kل Eاأل )

So all the praises and thanks are to Allah, the Lord of the heavens and the Lord of the earth, and the Lord of the 'Alamin (mankind, jinns and all that exists).

And His (Alone) is the Majesty in the heavens and the earth, and He is the All-Mighty, the All-Wise.

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(This is) a Book (the Quran) which We have sent down to you, full of blessings that they may ponder over its Verses, and that men and women of understanding may remember

Quran treats the universe as an organic being. A vast and elaborate creation which comes in to being by the word ‘Be’ of God. This essay synthesizes the dilemma of modern day Muslims, in their failures to discover their moorings, by being captivated by the western civilizations world view, and thought processes, its corporate minions, vast military, industrial complexes, phenomenal and dazzling

successes, accompanied by abysmal failures in its inherent greed, its unethical and methodical devouring of the resources of the world. Skepticism abound in the other worldly injunctions, of religion, bordering on illusion. The modern day Muslim unable to reconcile his or her inner storms, growing far greater than the outer ones, appears self-destructive at times or resigned to his fate on others. A reflective synthesis of the Quran at this critical juncture embodies a world view of which Iqbal had a rare glimpse in his “Reconstruction of Religious thought in Islam.” “The most remarkable phenomenon of modern history, however, is the enormous rapidity with which the world of Islam is spiritually moving towards the West. There is nothing wrong in this movement, for European culture, on its intellectual side, is only a further development of some of the most important phases of the culture of Islam. Our only fear is that the dazzling exterior of European culture may arrest our movement and we may fail to reach the true inwardness of that culture”.3

Concerning the dangers of getting trapped by the negative influences of both these societies, the materialistic west, and the obscurantists east, resulted in easily being indoctrinated by value systems, termed as absolute truths, leading to a certain pattern of thought and behavior in life. As regards the benefits that may accrue to an individual or a society as a whole, at the cost of alienating a lot of other viewpoints, ends in an argument for conflict and war. Though in its essence Islam is a message of peace and harmony, wisdom and knowledge for all mankind, not the racial, ethnic, or tribal prerogative

of a select few. God would question all those acting on His behalf as emissaries and guardians, whether they delivered the message of Islam, His message through dialogue, understanding and love or through brute force? In their enthusiasm overstepping the very injunctions of Quran.

In retrospect presenting the Quran no single individual or era is sufficient, to completely understand its message, as its one line instructions blossom into multiple verses containing meanings which when reflected upon, lead to wave upon wave of insurmountable grandeur, dazzling beauty, unmatched eloquence, magnificent splendor, unlimited power, sublime insights, everlasting knowledge, pristine majesty, unveiling itself through eternity, in its infinite depths, forming a grand mosaic radiating from the early moments of big bang to the past, present and future of any soul, at levels cognizant of its capacity and vigor. Quran mentions “If the ocean were ink (wherewith to write out) the words of my Lord, sooner would the ocean be exhausted than would the words of my Lord, even if we added another ocean like it, for its aid.”4 Each scholar of Quran there is one more learned.

The great misconception among all the three Judea Christian Islamic faiths is the idea of a new religion with its own distinct prophets, nothing is farther from the truth, John (May Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him) son of Zachariah (May Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him), prayed in the Temple of Jerusalem, Jesus (May Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him) son of Mary (May Allah’s peace and

blessings be upon her) prayed near the sea of Galilee, Mohammad (May Allah’s blessing and peace be upon him ) son of Hazrat Bibi Amina (May Allah’s peace and blessings be upon her) praying in the grand mosques of Mecca and Medina did not eclipse the other, but carried the one true message of Islam (Arabic) for submission to the Will of One God. It was only their later day followers who unable to reconcile the dichotomies set in motion by the titanic forces, in the history of human thought and action, with inherent ulterior motives, veered on tangential courses. The two broad level of enquiries albeit God does not exist, and its all delusional thinking emanating from our minds, as David Hume puts it “The primary religion of mankind arises chiefly from an anxious fear of future events.”5 and secondly again his observation “The whole frame of nature bespeaks an intelligent author and no rational enquirer can, after serious reflection, suspends his belief a moment with regard to the primary principles of genuine Theism and Religion”, lends firm support in one’s life’s experiences, ultimately pertaining to finding the means of an eventual resolution of the dichotomies and contradictions between the inner and the outer self of the I. Men and women of understanding ( Cوا وEل

C KابH أ Eب Kل Eاأل ) accepting the oneness (Tawhid) of Allah (swt) almighty as the only priority, with in their hearts, the rest being the supplications for righteous deeds and piety according to the teachings of Quran and Sunnah.

This (Quran) is a Message for mankind (and a clear proof against them), in order that they may be warned thereby, and that they may know that He is the only One Ilah (God - Allah) - (none has the right to be worshipped but Allah), and that Ulul Albab ( men and women of understanding) may take heed.7

And receiving,” Hikma “(wisdom).

He grants Hikmah to whom He pleases, and he, to whom Hikmah is granted, is indeed granted abundant good. But none remember (will receive admonition) except Ulul Albab (men and women of understanding).8

This article is meant to acknowledge for its esteemed readers that the task outlined above is certainly not easy, if nigh impossible. Imprint psychology plays the foremost role. Veneration for all systems heavenly or man-made, are a priori imprinted. Not impervious to the authority of its Creator, we take up the Quran as the only absolute, in the ever changing dominion of God. A pillar to be grasped after all pillars have fallen, an elixir of life, when one’s own shadow has departed. Leaving only tears in the eyes, falling on its leaves.

1. Quran (1:1). 2. Quran (38:29). 3. The Reconstruction of Religious thought in Islam, Mohammad Iqbal. 4. Quran (18:109). 5. Nature of Popular Religion, David Hume 6. Nature of Popular Religion, David Hume. 7. Quran (14:52). 8. Quran (2:269).

SCALING THE HEAVENS

Love is not to be learned from men: it is one of God's gifts and comes of His grace The Mystics of Islam

Everyone who is left far from his source Wishes back the time when he was united with it. Jalal al-Din Rumi.

There is a life in you, search that life,Search the secret jewel in the mountain of your body,Hey you, the passing away friend, look for with all your strength,Whatever you are looking for, look in yourself not around. Jalal al-Din Rumi.. When the heart weeps for what it has lost, the spirit laughs for what it has found

The Mystics of Islam

Mohammad Iqbal

I like Islam. It is a consistent [or consequential] idea of religion and open-minded. Kurt Godel

Love thy Creator with all thy power and might Matthew 22:37

Sharing the food is to me more important than arguing about beliefs. Jesus, according to the gospels, thought so too. Freeman Dyson.

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. Matthew 7.7 Lord, give me what you ask of me and ask me what you will. St Augustine

For an Ego which does not change does not endure. Henri Bergson

It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self. Mohammad Iqbal

Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny. Dr Mohammad Iqbal R.A The teaching of the Qur’an that life is a process of progressive creation necessitates that each generation, guided but unhampered by the work of its predecessors, should be permitted to solve its own problems. Dr Mohammad Iqbal R.A

In reality Man’s only guide and enlightener is God. Reason and the proofs adduced by reason are unable to direct anyone into the right way. Hazrat Syed Ali Hajveri R.A.

Life is not only Newton, it is also Milton. Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A

Oh God ‘do not give me wealth which makes me proud, do not give me poverty which makes me despair, and do not give me a country that takes away my faith’ Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A

The Destiny is somewhere very close to the quest of the seeker. Dr Arshad Waheed.

If you are in search of Reality, it is impossible to discover it without Quran. Engineer Sultan Bashir-ud-Din Mahmood.

Quran is the last book of God, includes messages of all previous Prophets, a refined and beautiful collection of physics and metaphysics. Engineer Sultan Bashir-ud-Din Mahmood.

The point is that love will go away if we can't communicate and share meaning. The love between Einstein and Bohr gradually evaporated because they could not communicate. David Bohm

In the beginning of everything we had fireworks of unimaginable beauty. Then there was the explosion followed by the filling of heavens with smoke. We come too late to do more than to visualize the splendor of creation’s birthday. Monsignor Georges Henri Joseph Edouard Lemaitre.

MESSAGES FROM OUTER SPACE

The presence and search for intelligent life on planets in our galaxy and the universe is an endeavor, captivating the minds of philosophers and scientists, transcending caste, creed, race, religions or national divides. NASA formally started a program in 1992, to discover intelligent signals from other earth like worlds, the observations called SETI (Search for extraterrestrial intelligence), were conducted in the radio frequency range. Millions of

dollars have been spent to find that one SIGNAL from outer space in the hope would provide mankind with tremendous knowledge from civilizations, far advanced technologically, bearing insights into the great heavens itself. A vast number of people are engaged in the search to find out, if we are alone or are there other more intelligent beings. Organizations like SETI Institute and the Planetary Society are in the forefront.

Radio Telescope Arecibo. Puerto Rico

Arecibo Radio Telescope in Puerto Rico by Waleska Ruiz.

The Very Large Array is a group of 27 bowl-shaped radio antennas in the state of New Mexico. Each antenna is 82 feet (25 meters) across. When used together they make one very powerful radio telescope.

Now we have the tools to narrow our search. Earth based radio and optical telescopes in tandem with man made satellites are scanning the sky, in the entire electro magnetic spectrum. New scientific ideas are being developed to look into other alternatives, other systems. The recent advancement

in finding extra solar planets every two weeks have given tremendous optimism that one day we might CONTACT. The abundance of elements, of what constitute life is brimming, in the whole universe. We have already started finding, the factors on the right side of Francis Drakes famous equation.

“N = R* • fp • ne • fl • fi • fc • L

Where,

N = The number of civilizations in The Milky Way Galaxy whose electromagnetic emissions are detectable.

R* =The rate of formation of stars suitable for the development of intelligent life.

fp = The fraction of those stars with planetary systems.

ne = The number of planets, per solar system, with an environment suitable for life.

fl = The fraction of suitable planets on which life actually appears.

fi = The fraction of life bearing planets on which intelligent life emerges.

fc = The fraction of civilizations that develop a technology that releases detectable signs of their existence into space.

L = The length of time such civilizations release detectable signals into space.

Within the limits of our existing technology, any practical search for distant intelligent life must necessarily be a search for some manifestation of a distant technology. In each of its last four decadal reviews, the National Research Council has emphasized the relevance and importance of searching for evidence of the electromagnetic signature of distant civilizations” .9

Are we alone in the cosmos, or are there other intelligent being or beings. What influence and effect do they have or will have on our daily lives. How did the origin and evolution of the universe and the earth leading to mankind occur?. “The creation of the heavens and earth is far greater than the creation of mankind. But most of mankind do not know it.”.10 What is the nature of Time?. What is non locality and quantum entanglement?. What is consciousness, are all of our strivings towards a Universal Consciousness. Is it possible to communicate with the Universal Consciousness?. Is it possible to communicate with the extraterrestrials with the Will of this Universal Consciousness?

What are the after effects of the new world order?, how are the sweat shops of the world’s transforming the once divine rights of the Kings into the divine rights of the Corporations their greedy cahoots, who under the guise of democracy and human rights are committing the worst atrocities known in history. Is economic emancipation of the poor more fundamental to them then their spiritual yearnings? How can Inter-Galactic space travel be initiated?. Is Dialogue essential to the survival of human species,

essential and vital questions of our era? Highly skeptical of phenomenon we cannot see through the telescope, the microscope, the bubble chamber or verified by the large hadron collider. Indirect evidence like an astronomical string shifting the background cosmic radiation slightly, one day could confirm our belief in the string theory. Science has taught us to respect logic and rationality only. Robert Briffault in Rational evolution says. “The last three centuries have witnessed the continuous growth of skepticism, not merely in regard to the dogmas of religions, but in regard to all things which fail to furnish a clear and rational account of themselves”.11

Do scriptures or Noble books like the Torah, Psalms, Bible and Quran qualify as messages not extracted from the human mind, but a product of an unknown source outside the universe. From extra space dimensions or parallel universes, or “supra space”. Lets us take up this challenge and reflect on there relevance and, their unrelenting control on a large portion of mankind. Translations of any book often tend to obscure its meanings from the original text, as some western critics, claim there is no consensus in the verses of the Quran, as one can pretty much read what you wanted into them. Here a leap in Faith occurs, like Supernovae, triggered by intensive reading of the Quran, prayers of a parent, or a soul shattering event, clearing its meaning by the personal Grace of God. Quran is a book of guidance for those striving to find themselves, in the vast cosmic ocean of utter darkness where light is a rarity, transforming to pure Gold in that one instance,

one moment in eternity which might never return. A book which unravels and unfolds on the deep recesses, of the heart in the emptiness of the dark nights and in the early morning fragrances of dawn. Bringing its reader, closer to the speech of its Creator and the Creator Himself. Finding solace and comfort in the intrinsic and unique relations, God grants each soul, numbered exactly, passing from the primeval to higher stages, in the development and evolution of what Mohammad Iqbal defined, the inner Anfus (self) and outer Āfāq (world) experiences. Abdullah Yusuf Ali explains. “Allah’s greatness and infinitude are such that He can create and cherish not only a whole mass, but each individual soul, and He can follow its history and doings until the final Judgement. This shows not only Allah’s glory and omniscience and omnipotence: it also shows the value of each individual soul in His eyes, and lifts individual responsibility right up into relations with Him.”12

Explained in the following verse of the Quran.

Your creation and resurrection are like the creation and resurrection of a single soul.13

The pragmatic world is a world of diversity, like colony of Bees, each individual working for the common good of the whole. Each worthy of God’s grace. It is the human personality both physiologically and psychologically, which, bent on its own self destruction, sets limits to attaining, an indestructible personality both here and the hereafter, succumbing to temporary biological satisfactions.

A starting point in the Quran is the immense importance each human being holds with God, and the subsequent need of self control, accompanied by the opening up of torrents of divine bliss on each soul man or women a spiritual attainment which has no parallels. Provided he or she takes the initiative and maintains that control starting with the humbleness of the heart and a prayer for forgiveness, and for His love and Fiendship. As the Lord the Creator and the Sustainer, the most Gracious and the most Merciful remarks in His own words.

If it had been Our Will,

We should have elevated him With Our Signs; but he Inclined to the earth, And followed his own vain desires. His similitude is that Of a dog: if you attack Him, he lolls out his tongue, Or if you leave him alone, He (still) lolls out his tongue. That is the similitude Of those who reject Our Signs; So relate the story; Perchance they may reflect.14

The verses 7-176 mentioned being a simile, carry a very deep message. Over coming the unbridled temptations.

1. The study of modern psychology, helps us in controlling and overcoming the negative traits or the impulses of the reptilian brain/mind still at work, is ultimately based on the knowledge acquired through the theory of natural selection and hence its limitations. In Islam or for that matter in any major Abrahamic religion be it Judaism or Christianity this ego/self is at its lowest level with it's urge for greed and lust a hurdle and a hindrance in acquiring the greatest level of spiritual attainment which is Nafs Al Mutminah.(soul at peace). And hence a comparison with a dog in seeing where the first hurdle lies. Nafs Ammarah which prompts to evil. This inner transformation of the soul is the essential spiritual message of Quran, and for that matter all

the Noble books revealed to the earlier Prophets, while seeking assistance from the Ayah’s or Sign’s in the study of nature (one example being in studying the characteristics of a dog both negative, and at other times positive, in acting as the protective companion of the dwellers of the cave) and along with that study of History (studying the end of mighty empires which succumbed, to these unbridled temptations under the guise of unremitting freedoms, even altering the language , where calling each other a dog becoming a slang, as synonymous with a friend).

Nature, History, Inner experience if one can include Hereafter(life after death) accompanied by and including the inner transformation Tazkiyah e Nafs as expressed in the observations of Hazrat Mohammad Iqbal R.A as the three sources of Knowledge in Quran is eloquently defined/combined in the verses of Sura Al Jathiyaah, Sura Al Qaf, Sura Al Fajr, and Sura Al Insan. However a fourth source, repeatedly alluded to in the Quran is the Hereafter, and the numerous knowledge yielding verses, therewith inciting humans, how to act in this world in a certain way, to reap the rewards, in that everlasting life, where death becomes only a migration/transfer or Intiqal, for those blessed with Divine Grace, in this world.

2. The Quran mentions animals and birds, as organized communities just like humans. A sign for those, asking for a miracle from God. And those not engaged in their studies in, Darul Hikmets/Laboratories as a divine command, as worst still. It is meaningful to note, that humans showing

characteristics, of animals like a dog, are called da'bbah a hint at their evolutionary trait/ nature.

The Arabic-English Lexicon by Edward William Lane describes da'bbah,‘Anything that walks [or creeps or crawls] upon the earth , an animal that walks or creeps or crawls , discriminating and not discriminating , any animal upon the earth’ including humans in contrast to angels.

For the worst of Beasts In the sight of Allah Are the deaf and the dumb Those who understand not. (8:22)

Hear the Creator calls humans, by using the same word da’bbah or beasts and the worst among them, for not using their intellect, on being deaf and dumb to the guidance and knowledge in Quran. Never caring to use their Aql (intellect) for fathoming its message, thinking it to be outdated, and a superstitious document of the old.

We cannot entirely blame, the logical and the gifted, who want to take everything on the face value, elaborated by the misnomer, that the scientific method, or study of nature is the only truth and knowledge yielding reality. For those reading this article, and belonging in this category of the logical, can never, ever reach the Ultimate Reality without first reading the Quran, and subsequently, attaining the perfection of the soul or ego, by methods as practiced by eastern Sufism, elaborated by Dr Mohammad Iqbal in the last chapter of his book ‘Reconstruction of Religious thought in Islam’ on ‘Is

Religion possible’. Which holds nothing less then a direct vision of Reality, with remembrance or Zikar of God being the foremost devotion to attaining this path. Otherwise we will, spend our lives, in search of evidences, not forthcoming. A director of the soul or a Murshid/Guide is highly recommendable.

Learning about the animals their traits and behavior in the mention of a dog, bee, spider, gnat, camel, and humans too if they do not evolve spiritually remaining Al-Hayawan Natiq a talking animal, or a cultured animal/biological machine. The contemporary studies in genetics and on the role of reproduction is pointed in the Quran, as the seminal seed or fluid in various verses one being.

Then tell Me (about) the human semen that you emit.

Is it you who create it (i.e. make this semen into a perfect human being), or are We the Creator?

Every change including the quantum fluctuations from the Big Bang to the creation of large scale structures, including clusters and super clusters involve Fractals. All these seeds whether of the Big Bang or the seed of the human reproduction or the plant have an ingrained mathematical or biological DNA leading to order out of chaos through fractals. Those who do not want to reflect and understand, given to an example of a donkey carrying books, having learned Quran in their younger years, but never fathoming at the later. Studying and observing birds, DARPA the defense agency in US is trying to make drones easily maneuverable in a forest. Dolphins and sea lions are trained and used in naval warfare in varying capacities.

Based on the ayahs and inspirations derived from Quran an Ulul Albab, can attain a supreme degree of spiritual development, while neither neglecting the power and strength accompanied in their scientific and engineering aspects/folds.

Eloquently described in the following verses, in reflecting on the universe, and acquiring scientific power, along with obtaining spiritual training.

Quran for men and women of understanding Ulul Albab

MOHAMMAD IMRAN KHANReply|To:

tjw31@cam.ac.uk; Wed 9/30/2015 3:49 AM

FYI ONLY:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQtGI20D1yY&list=PL7D46D4C0B4B69EB2

Integrating signs in nature with zikr.

dEAR Brother Shyakh Abdul Hakim,

Asaalam o Alaikum,

Have not updated my recent activity regarding Ulul Albab. Alhamdu Lillah, we were able to integrate the study of nature, with zikr or namaz, when this Sunday, our congregation of  Isha prayers agreed to revive the  Sunnah of the Prophet Pbuh, by  following the ahadith on study of nature, and praying Salutul Khusuf (during an Eclipse.)

Hadith no: 494Narrated: Ibn Abbasthat he spent a night at the house of the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him), The Apostle of Allah (way peace be upon him) got up for prayer in the latter part of the night. He went out and looked towards the sky and then

recited this verse (190th) of AI-i-'Imran:" Verily in the creation of the heavens and the earth and the alternation of night and day." up to the (words)" save us from the torment of Hell." He then returned to his house, used the tooth-stick, performed the ablution, and then got up and offered the prayer. He than lay down on the bed. and again got up and went out and looked towards the sky and recited this verse (mentioned above), then returned, used the tooth-stick, performed ablution and again offered the prayer.

We then went outside the mosque and used our TELESCOPE to see the eclipse, around 30 people gathered who had earlier performed   for Isha prayers,subsequently prayed Salutul Khusuf. Having been able to spread the message in the last three years on Ayah 3-190-200, and convincing   our Khatib who is also a civil engineer and IT expert, he gave a khutba for those gathered and exhorted the importance of integration of signs in nature with Zikr and Shukr leading to Sabr.(Amen).

We then prepared to visit our local Fox Observatory near   Ft Lauderdale, Fl. the venue where you had given a lecture on Islamic education guess a decade ago, strange are the ways of the Creator.

Best Regards,Imran.

P.S Since I had this vision on ayah 3:190-191 and   had narrated to you in 2012, all I am doing is to spread the Faiz of that,   the Creator has opened different doors. But feel grass root activity at the mosque level is imperative   ,   though a very   hard task to a generation steeped   in tradition,   introducing   something new to those imbibed with   centuries of a certain way of praying   . Last discussed with passion   by such great men as Ibn Rushd r.a.   , Imam Ghazali r.a, Shaykh Al Akbar Muhyi Al din   Ibn Arabi r.a. etc.

Introducing     a telescope in each mosque is as   difficult as introducing the loud speaker early last century.

When you mention extending the eye to include besides the heart to recognize the   meanings   ,in age in which we   see more then ever but understand less then ever, we have   hubble telescope,clever microscopes, bubble chambers, large hadron collider.  

Much later I wrote: Highly skeptical of phenomenon we cannot see through the telescope, the microscope, the bubble chamber or verified by the large hadron collider.  

Is that a coincidence?

Ulul Albab Halqa (study circle)...Dawah Masjid Al Muttaqeen...Pembroke Pines, Fl.

Shakeel Hye <shakeelhye@gmail.com>|To:

MOHAMMAD IMRAN KHAN <cosmic_solutions@hotmail.com>; Sun 9/27/2015 10:57 PM

Assalam u Aalykum  wrbkth.This is the race to incorporate, tazkiah, tafakkur, tadabbur, taqwa, zikr, sabr and shukr with the right knowledge and faith.This is why, Allah says in Quran, "Enter into the religion Completely and do not follow the footsteps of shaytan...."

Whoever occupies himself to race and make an effort on all of the above accounts inshaAllah will be the one of the Muttaqun and Ulul Albab.

Allah knows best.

JzkWassalamShakeel

On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 3:43 PM, MOHAMMAD IMRAN KHAN <cosmic_solutions@hotmail.com> wrote:Walaikum Asaalam,

Shakeel bhai,

I was reading this article by a distinguished scholar when he writes in Reason and Revelation:This is one more reason why the Quran puts so much emphasis on reflection (tafakkur), contemplation (tadabbur), and intellectualisation (ta’aqqul) because man is capable of probing, supplementing and extending the meanings latent in the revelation (through all these processes).

Shakeel bhai,   The word used Latent is very important here, Quran uses a few sentences   or words to describe the potential energy that is latent in the words, to be worked out in detail by practice.(example by Taqwa, or Zikr, as you have mentioned   repeatably   includes mamalat, zakat, namaz, helping the needy, etc). and Fikr including learning Arabic, rather each word, also reflecting in the heavens and the earth etc.

How we can integrate both in   our lives is expounded in the Hadith below. Hadith no: 494 Narrated: Ibn Abbasthat he spent a night at the house of the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him), The Apostle of Allah (way peace be upon him) got up for prayer in the latter part of the night. He went out and looked towards the sky and then recited this verse (190th) of AI-i-'Imran:" Verily in the creation of the heavens and the earth and the alternation of night and day." up to the (words)" save us from the torment of Hell." He then returned to his house, used the tooth-stick, performed the ablution, and then got up and offered the prayer. He than lay down on the bed. and again got up and went out and looked towards the sky and recited this verse (mentioned above), then returned, used the tooth-stick, performed ablution and again offered the prayer.

Both groups   those who do Zikr   (Tazkiya e nafs/Taqwa)   and Fikr   ( learning Arabic, reflecting on the heavens and the earth)   as each   word of Quran contains immense potential only realized   by putting it into practice, as Quran is a book of deed rather then idea,   usually practicing both   separately Zikr and Fikr is still very powerful, attested in our history, but   often   neglecting   one at the expense of the other we   do not   achieve results otherwise the Islamic nations would, and the full potential of Quran is not realized.

JazakAllah Khair.

Verily, in the alternation of the night and the day, and in all that Allah hath created, in the heavens and the earth, are signs for those who are God conscious.

This fusion of the ‘study of heavens and earth’ and acquiring ‘Taqwa’ in its highest form is only possible through the inner transformation of the mystical scientist. Attesting to the holographic nature of the universe and the mind conjoined together in the Ulul Albab. One working at the level of sense perception and other at possibly similar or close, to which William James alludes to as the ‘Subliminal selves’. Reading the same book, in three places, Ayat Allah in nature(Ilm), the polished heart(Getting Guidance From Allah Subanhu) of the Momin/Ulul Albab/Muttaqi and in the Noble Quran(Book) a unity reflected in the Ulul Albab.

3. And hence the importance of Reflection and Reason in most if not all (the unseen) at the end.

'We explain the Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, laws, etc.) in detail for the people who reflect'. Quran 10:24.

The Lane-Arabic dictionary defines Qom as “A people, or body of persons composing a community”.

This self restraint can not be attained without the Will of Almighty Allah (swt).

Nor come nigh to unlawful sex

For it is a shameful (deed)

And an evil, opening the road

(To other evils). 15

The Almighty forgives all sins, for He knows the secrets and the inner most thoughts and desires of His servants, if they ask for true repentance, Allah the most Gracious and the most Merciful responds with

Shaitan (Satan) threatens you with poverty and orders you to commit Fahsha (evil deeds, illegal sexual intercourse, sins etc.); whereas Allah promises you Forgiveness from Himself and Bounty, and Allah is All-Sufficient for His creatures' needs, All-Knower

Life resembles a traveler on the land and sea, as the Quran says:

He it is who enables you To traverse through the land And sea; so that you even board Ships—they sail with them With a favorable wind, And they rejoice there at; Then comes a stormy wind And the waves come to them From all sides, and they think They are being overwhelmed: They cry unto Allah, sincerely Offering (their) duty unto Him, Saying, “If Thou dost deliver us

From this ,we shall truly Show our gratitude!

But when He delivers them Behold! They transgress Insolently through the earth In defiance of right! O mankind! Your insolence Is against your own souls— An enjoyment of the life Of the Present: in the end, To us is your return, -And We shall show you The truth of all that you did.16

And Again

Or ( Unbelievers’ state) Is like the depth of darkness In a vast deep ocean, Overwhelmed with billow Topped by billow, Topped by (dark) clouds:

Depths of darkness, one Above another: if a man Stretches out his hand, He can hardly see it! For any to whom Allah Giveth not light, There is no light! 17

Once Allah (swt), guides to the straight path by His Will as these verses explain, we need to be consistently vigilant from the evil of Satan, the men or women, whom we might try to imitate, for life is all about imitation, processing information and data from all around us. We need Quran and the company of the Aulia Allah(friends of God), and ultimately become Aulia Allah by the Grace of Allah(swt).

Wherewith, Allah guides all Who seek His good pleasure To ways of peace and safety, And lead them out Of darkness, by His Will, Unto the light—guides them To a Path that is Straight 18

These verses trace the history of each soul as it passes through trials and tribulations in the spiritual

journey in search for God, in most cases blind, deaf and dumb, in the darkness of night or day with heavy overcast and thunder, lightning letting him or her see the truth for a short duration, then overcome again with doubt and inertia.

Travelers and seafarers, many of whom have physically experienced these phenomena while at sea, now equally apply to spacefarers travelling in the vast oceans of space, in the last 50 years. In a thousand years the solar system would have been colonized. The Oort cloud mined for minerals.

Prophet Mohammad (May peace and blessing of Allah be upon him), was only a messenger, of God, like any messenger before him. The greatest miracle bestowed upon him is the Quran, the word of Allah Subana-hu.The most successful human being, both on the secular as well as the religious plane, as described by Michael Hart, first among the 100 greatest people who ever lived. When and before success came to him, he chose to live as the poorest of the poor’s, with a house barely high enough to let him in, with having no doors but a sack hanging at the entrance, where in the fire did not burn for days on end to cook food ( notes Dr Abdal Hakim Murad). Do Muslims differentiate among the prophets, certainly not. They all practiced the same message. Jesus (May peace and blessing of Allah be upon him) being elevated by none other then the Creator Himself. These are not mere coincidences, the major hurdle in understanding is either you have this sense or you do not.

“For any to whom Allah Giveth not light, There is no light!” 19

COSMOLOGY AND ISLAM

Intuition and reason are amenable to one and the other only that one lags behind. Gödel’s incompleteness for every evidence comes a counter evidence, every logical entity with a counter logical entity ad infinitum, mere coincidence for the agnostic, but a Divine Plan in the Zahir the exoteric and the Batin the esoteric in a realization towards a Unity by righteous deeds attested in the length and breadth of Quran in serial, relativistic and mystical time, ordering order out of chaos, as Quran says that Batil will be defeated by Haq. It is by the virtue of this Tahqiq inside the heart which when illuminated by Divine Light acting in the Ruh, that transcending knowledge , and true meaning of the word intellect is realized by the realization and actualization as a Sufi saint says

The moment I realized the oneness of God,

The flame of His love shone within me and lead me on.

Constantly it burns in my heart, revealing its mysteries,

This fire of loves burns me from inside with no smoke, fueled by my longing,

I found Him closer than my jugular vein,

My love has brought me face to face with Him. ( Hazrat Sultan Bahu)

Leading to the love of the Ultimate Divine in the heart of the Ulul Albab. Two seemingly separate dimensions to be worked on in the same breath as a single moment, in the unity achieved with the inspiration of the word of God the Quran. Behold! in the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the alternation of night and day, there are indeed Signs for men and women of understanding. Men and women who celebrate the praises of Allah, standing, sitting, and lying down on their sides, and contemplate the (wonders of) creation in the heavens and the earth, (With the thought): "Our Lord! not for naught Hast Thou created (all) this! Glory to Thee! Give us salvation from the penalty of the Fire. Quran (3:190). 20

Islamic cosmology, are Ayaat Ullah, the Signs emanating from the Word of God (Hadith Allah) both in the cosmos, the human and the prophetic revelation the Glorious Quran. What are these signs in the human?. All animals possess extraordinary abilities, the dolphin able to navigate by the sonar, the salmon and pigeons, including the migratory

birds using the earth magnetic field to migrate thousands of miles, humans being the only animal in the tree of evolution, besides possessing an advanced cognitive facility having the potential to communicate with a Higher Power.

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And (Ve people!) In the creation of yourselves and whatever God does to spread animals (throughout the earth) are Signs for a people which believes (in the truth of the Universe). (Reflect on the word Ayaat which is being repeatedly used).

A small Seljuk Qur'an Iraq, probably Baghdad, AH [5]54/AD 1159Arabic manuscript on cream coloured paper, 284 leaves, 15 lines of text to the page, copied in elegant black naskhi script, the text fully vocalised with recital marks in red, of the double page frontispiece, only the left-hand half remaining, with two half circles arranged vertically with a central full circle and bold foliate designs, in gold, dark blue and sepia, followed by a double page illumination with borders featuring half circles and intersecting loops in gold outlined in black and highlighted in dark blue, with the central rectangles containing the text of al-Fatihah and the beginning of Surat al-Baqarah, gold rosettes for verse endings, verse-counts and Qur'anic divisions marked with marginal ornaments illuminated in gold, major Qur'anic divisions also marked in the margin in gold thuluth script, sura headings in gold thuluth script with marginal palmettes, the last two pages with gold borders, containing the text of the dated colophon, trimmed to fit later stamped and tooled leather binding, with box 92 x 80 mm.(2)FOOTNOTES

This very rare Qur'an was produced during a period of the Abbasid Empire when the caliphate in Baghdad was entirely dominated by the Seljuks, which began with the Caliph al-Qa'im in AD 1055 and lasted till AD 1194. It is a fine example of the great Islamic artistic traditions that were revived and much enhanced under the patronage of the grand Seljuk Sultans and particularly the illustrious Vizir Nizam al-Mulk. This Qur'an manuscript is of

great significance and ranks in its group of extant Qur'ans next to the Qur'an of Ibn al-Bawwab, now in the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin and the Qur'ans in the Nasser D. Khallili Collection of Islamic Art (David James, The Master Scribes: Qur'ans of the 11th to 14th Centuries, Oxford, 1992, pp.22-29).SALEROOM NOTICES

Additional note: the manuscript has two replacement leaves at the beginning of surat al-Imran and is misbound. The last verses of surat Maryam appear before the beginning of surat Taha, whilst the first 38 verses appear in a different place.

Signs both in the physiological and the psychological arena’s, the human body, brain and the self, a subject of inquiry for men and women of learning of all the great civilization’s from eons ago to the present, equally of interest for the philosopher, physician , and the meta-physician. Advancement in multi-disciplines of Ilm (knowledge) is unraveling layers upon layers of intricate, sophisticated, seemingly endless mystery of these most amazing beings called the homo-sapiens. Able to study the animals scattered on earth and to delve into their own creation. The earth a living and breathing entity supporting a host of species of plants and animals, a precise cardiac rhythm, balancing the eco-systems.

Ha-Mim.

The revelation of the Book is from Allah the Exalted in Power, Full of Wisdom.

Verily in the heavens and the earth, are Signs for those who believe

And in the creation of yourselves and the fact that animals are scattered (through the earth), are Signs for those of assured Faith.

And in the alternation of Night and Day, and the fact that Allah sends down Sustenance from the sky, and revives therewith the earth after its death, and in the change of the winds,- are Signs for those that are wise.

Such are the Signs of Allah, which We rehearse to thee in Truth; then in what exposition will they believe after (rejecting) Allah and His Signs?

Fractal geometry with its self similar patterns in the Galaxies, the earth, mountains, trees, even in our veins attest to the same speech by the same Creator, and the same style of the speech in the Quran with it’s single verse, appearing in self similar pattern throughout laden with layer upon layer of new meanings.

Humans the recipients of these divine commandants able to ponder the ebb and flow of the oceans, the

migration of the blue whales, protecting itself and its offspring’s from the vicious attacks of the killer whales, the plankton rising from the sea floor to the surface , every evening and returning before dawn. The alternation of night and day creating cyclical movements in the jet streams, and ocean currents, modeling the atmosphere.

Algal blooms

Echinoderm Ludia sarsii

Quran mentions the creation of humans as no less in scale as the creation of the heavens and the earth.

The creation of the heavens and the earth is indeed greater than the creation of mankind, yet most of mankind know not.

Able to acquire a discourse with Allah Almighty through knowledge, inner guidance and a book of revelation.

Do ye not see that Allah has subjected to your (use) all things in the Samawate (heavens )and on Ardh (earth), and has made his bounties flow to you in exceeding measure, (both) seen and unseen? Yet there are among men those who dispute about Allah, without knowledge and without guidance, and without a Book to enlighten them!(Al Quran 31:20).

Now these Ayaat are gifts of Allah Almighty derived from.

1. Ilm (Knowledge) 2. Hidaya (Illumination of the heart ,Allah the Most

Merciful and the Most Kind personal guidance)3. Quran.

Signs or Ayaats from the above mentioned three sources in their totality constitute Hikmah (wisdom) as described in the following verses

He grants Hikmah to whom He pleases, and he, to whom Hikmah is granted, is indeed granted

abundant good. But none remember (will receive admonition) except Ulul Albab (men and women of understanding).8

Now as there are different frames of references within which humans act, an ensemble of various belief systems, compartmentalized into materialistic and the otherworldly, the logical/scientific/modern/rationale and the intuitionist/religious/mystical/mythical, the profane and profound.

Does there exists a unifying formula, a summation Ni=n1+n2+n3+n4-------infinity. A summation of the knowledge as revealed to Abraham and the latter Prophets, from Moses to Jesus and to Mohammad. Is there a book which sheds light, minutely on all aspects of humanely existence.

Luckily we do, when the Quran reveal its secrets, to every seeker so attuned by Divine Wisdom and Divine Grace.

But how we can attune our selves as such, to receive Divine Guidance, from the Quran, what are the obstacles in this path?

Allah! La ilaha illa Huwa (none has the right to be worshipped but He), the Ever Living, the One Who sustains and protects all that exists. Neither slumber, nor sleep overtake Him. To Him belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is on earth. Who is he that can intercede with Him except with His Permission? He knows what happens to them (His creatures) in this world, and what will happen to them in the Hereafter . And they will never compass anything of His Knowledge except that which He wills. His Kursi extends over the heavens and the earth, and He feels no fatigue in guarding and preserving them. And He is the Most High, the Most Great. [This Verse 2:255 is called Ayat-ul-Kursi.]

When we start on a journey and path of finding an entity beyond space and time, unaffected by slumber and sleep, weariness and fatigue , the first thing we do is read, or meet those endowed with such knowledge. Can be from the Quran, or Bible or a Bhagavad Gita or a commentary in books written by a philosopher, a scientist, an anthropologist, a

sociologist, a psychologist, etc, but no matter how great the author’s appear, to be, he or she is still a mortal.

As if not all, most of them, and this including the minds, we come across and generally start our first debate with, hold a subset of the Universal set, though tending to be all knowing. Our intellect lies, in finding and picking, the good coins from the bad ones that is being pragmatic, as stressed by Dr Timothy Winter, not ignoring anyone. We slowly form a world view, with or without a Creator. A world view with a Creator is attained, only by the Will of the Creator, or otherwise one is continually afflicted by a condition defined as Rijis or doubt.

For ultimately even the reading of Quran, is to be sought with prayers, as in the opening verses, to guide one on the Siraat-ul-Mustaqeem the straight path, the path on those whom Divine Guidance manifests.

And if your Lord had pleased, surely all those who are in the earth would have believed, all of them; will you then force men till they become believers?

No soul can believe, except by the Will of Allah, and He will place doubt (or obscurity) on those who will not understand.

Say, "Observe what is in the heavens and earth." But of no avail will be signs or warners to a people who do not believe.

Aptly described by Karl Jasper ‘everything is an object for us, and it may be the greatest, still it is continually with in an another it is not yet all’. And the ‘Creative Evolution’ of Henri Bergson, in its emphasis on consciousness, as a means to becoming in pure duration, an active and creative partner, with the best of the Creators, the Lord of the Worlds. Able to break the mold of this world.

Quran stresses the importance of knowledge (Ilm ), and those pursuing natural phenomena as men and women of knowledge (Alamoon) , fearing God the most in the following verses

Seest thou not that Allah sends down rainFrom the sky? With itWe then bring out produceOf various colours.And in the mountainsAre tracts white and red,Of various shades of colour.And black intense in hue.And so amongst menAnd crawling creatures and cattle,Are they are various colours.Those truly fear Allah,Among His Servants,Who have knowledge.(Al Quran 35-27) 23.

Allah Almighty grants guidance through the divine books of revelation starting with Torah, Psalms,

Matthew 5:3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit,    for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Bible and the Quran. All an endeavor for the personal development of a human from instincts acquired through evolution, to a balanced middle way, being waylaid by the fellow traveler to Satan and his friends in this movement towards the Almighty. Every moment riddled by a conglomerate of ideas, even the scholars reading the Divine message, as sectional and mutually exclusive.

This discourse is further elaborated in the following verses Quran 2:255.

And warning destruction if humans astray.

Do they not look in the dominion of the Samawate (heavens) and the Ardh(earth) and all things that Allah has created, and that it may be that the end of their lives is near? In what message after this will they then believe?

Dr Neil deGrasse Tyson pointing to the ever present danger of the human species being wiped out by a catastrophic event, to the architect of evolution, the co-discoverer Dr Alfred Russel Wallace assigning an Intelligent Power.

Allah the Most Gracious and the Most Merciful constantly creating and sustaining, the universe and earth with His seen and unseen blessings accordingly as to the needs of the recipient and its evolving form, created from nothing to an onward stage in its evolution called the order out of chaos in the life of an individual, a community and the universe. The word of Allah (Kalimat Allah, embedded as the unity of the universe/ body/ brain/mind/soul/Ruh). With reflection in the creation of heavens and earth, the alternation of night and day, the remembrances of God, while standing, sitting and lying, finding laws of nature with understanding a purpose in life, to asking forgiveness from the fire.

Finding laws of nature in the universe, or Ilm (science) constitutes only a part of the whole Islamic cosmology.

Each human having the potential to develop, into an integral interface between the cosmos, a polished heart and the prophetic revelation, receiving guidance from each establishing a continuum. Ayaat Ullah within human the Ahsan Taqweem the most perfect, subtle, intricate and the most complicated creature, bound by all the laws of nature, not just a by product in turn having a cognitive brain. The signs this interface interprets between the seen (Afaq) and the unseen (Anfus) demands the same criterion for checking their validity, as in the Ayaat. (Quran: 17:36). An outer and an inner experience validating the teachings of Quran on this Ulul Albab ( Cوا وEل

C KابH أ Eب Kل Eاأل ) the Vice-Regent.

Nothing is worse for a faithful..believer than not deservethe pains he undergoes

The peak of soul’s exaltation is notthe moment everything is satisfactoryThe loving faith is notthe one tried besides various foods……and cool pleasant springsThe worshiped and kingdom is for the oneone who’s had a share of a great pain……Mulla Sadra.

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Quran informs us of this unity between thought and intuition in the following verses.

Verily, in the alternation of the night and the day, and in all that Allah hath created, in the heavens and the earth, are signs for those who are God conscious.

Where a whole community achieves consciousness of the Creator through reflecting on His Signs in the cosmos and in the microcosm the human heart endowed with Taqwa. As our mystic philosopher, mathematician and poet Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A describes.

‘Sahib e Nazar sees this universe like a book of revelation, this is also a book in which there is no doubt, with the same Creator and the same style of creation, Quran contains a description of the universe, and the universe an exegesis

and understanding of Quran, one who denies the reality of the universe cannot believe in any divine book. This universe is full of signs of intricate beauty, there recitation constitutes the pastime of these Sahib e Nazar. Sahib e Fikr, and Sahib e Zikr find the real universe through contemplation of these signs. They know that the sustainer of a seed in earth’s darkness, and the revelation of Quran are from the same Being. The Being who creates life in the womb of its mother’.

In modern scientific community, we see in David Bohm being on the verge of contemplating the Ultimate truth, as close as possible since our ancestors, viewed things as a whole, when he speaks on perception.’ In physics we see the parts because that’s the way we approach them last few centuries, I think our perception is influenced by our way of thinking so that we accept this mechanical way of looking at things, but if you went back a thousand or two thousand years I don’t think the people actually saw the parts as primary, the way we see depends on the way we think you see.’

I would emphasize here that mystical experience has parallels in the scientific inductive method only that it occurs by a mechanism not understood by modern science, the cognitive mind based physiology/psychology. Suppressing and interrupting the usual dreams in the Freudian mode, like an emergency broadcast system, however short to long depending on the contents of the message, passive but very, concise and authoritative unlike any other if one experiences it for the first time, in his or her life. During which the mind of the recipient does not astray. A mystical insight, in a dream like posture or when fully conscious , remains on hold as long as the Grace of God is on hold here I mean His personal guidance, otherwise in the complete absence of His Grace we would not exist , for as the following ayaat/signs mention,

If it had been Our Will, We should have elevated him With Our Signs; but he Inclined to the earth, And followed his own vain desires. His similitude is that Of a dog: if you attack Him, he lolls out his tongue, Or if you leave him alone, He (still) lolls out his tongue. That is the similitude Of those who reject Our Signs; So relate the story; Perchance they may reflect.(7:176)

This self restraint can not be attained without the Will of Almighty Allah the subsequent elevation comes after the above verses are acted upon, as actions and deeds constitute the basis of all spiritual attainment. Allah the Mighty and the Most Wise speaks about a person who was physically alive, but psychically dead, in depth of darkness without Divine Guidance and His light, comes to life with His Grace, compared to one who will always remain, in the state of death in life, never to come out.

Can he who was dead, to whom We gave life, and a light whereby he can walk amongst men, be like him who is in the depths of darkness, from which he can never come out? Thus to those without faith their own deeds seem pleasing.

This Light is the cause /modus operandi, of all evolving forms, in consciousness, mind and matter, the individual unable to perceive, the cause, other then laws of nature, fails to realize that all the forces in the world, have joined together, to give form and direction, to this individual, with the potential to become the best in Gnosis/Taqwa, provided he or she constantly remembers the Almighty and undertakes the righteous deeds, expressed in the length and breadth of Quran and Sunnah, along with remaining in the company of those, on whom the blessings of the, Lord of the East and West are showered.

(Lord), guide us to the right path,

The path of those to whom You have granted blessings, those who are neither subject to Your anger nor have gone astray.

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Every individual man or women has this inherent capacity for such an experience. Though being on hold as I mention above could be for any of the following or more reasons.

1. Shirk 2. Not remembering Allah Almighty constantly.3. Not practicing the injunctions of the Quran.4. Not knowing and obeying the difference between

Halal and Haram.5. Disobedience to parents and the rightfully

guided.6. Lewd practices, including unlawful sex.7. Devouring and practicing Usury.8. Backbiting, pride, conceit, self-projection,

jealousy, hatred, grudges.

The hold lifted for reasons ultimately known to God, but from a human perceptive probably the whole history of an individual being watched by the Almighty, culminates in His Grace, after the merger of both the Shariah and the Taskiyah e Nafs, triggered by intensive reading of Quran or after an incidence of utter grief, and pain, of unusual proportions, the weeping and longing after the departure of a beloved on the earth, transformed into the love of the Almighty Who sustains every soul after death. When the Almighty sees the true repentance and utter helplessness (Ikhlas), in the heart of this forgotten servant, He replaces the wrong doings with the best of what he has done.

So that Allah willTurn off from them(Even) the worst in their deedsAnd give them their rewardAccording to the best Of what they have done.

As the Lord of the World’s interacts every second, with the activity of every soul, and grant’s glad tidings to those recipients He pleases.

In whatever business thou mayest be, and whatever portion thou mayest be reciting from the Qur'an,- and whatever deed ye (mankind) may be doing,- We are witnesses thereof when ye are deeply engrossed therein. Nor is hidden from thy Lord (so much as) the weight of an atom on the earth or in heaven. And not the least and not the greatest of these things but are recorded in a clear record.

Behold! Verily on the friends of Allah there is no fear, nor shall they grieve;

Those who believe and (constantly) guard against evil;-

For them are glad tidings, in the life of the present and in the Hereafter; no change can there be in the words of Allah. This is indeed the supreme felicity.

A new journey starts accompanied by the Divine Gift of that self understanding of the Quran on the heart which purifies all sins, at that moment, starting a new beginning with the servant praying.

They say): "Our Lord! Let not our hearts deviate (from the truth) after You have guided us, and grant us mercy from You. Truly, You are the Bestower."

Though not easy to come and being one of the greatest mysteries, along with self-understanding of the Quran, mystic experience as Muhammad Iqbal say’s is as real as any in the domain of sense-perception, and what William James alludes to ‘One may say truly, I think, that personal religious experience has its root and centre in mystical states of consciousness ….and I think I shall at least succeed in convincing you of the reality of the states in question, and of the paramount importance of their function…. This latter peculiarity connects mystical states with certain definite phenomena of secondary or alternative personality, such as prophetic speech, automatic writing, or the mediumistic trance….Professor Tyndall, in a letter, recalls Tennyson saying of this condition: "By God Almighty! there is no delusion in the matter! It is no nebulous ecstasy, but a state of transcendent wonder, associated with absolute clearness of mind." Memoirs of Alfred Tennyson, ii. 473.’

A hadith of the Prophet reflects on 46 different criterion of Revelation, the only one left being a true dream by Allah the Most Merciful and the Most Gracious, and subsequent division of dreams into those generated by the devil and the conscious/soul/nafs. When a human starts to observe these subtle insights/messages/occurrences/changes/visions, brought into his or her life, by the Grace of Allah (swt), the knower of both the seen and the unseen. It

re-integrates such a soul with the light of the Almighty, needing perpetual and constant nourishment through Taqwa.

And when these latter verses ask us to follow only that knowledge, both in the cosmos and in the unseen which satisfy the criterion of being verified by that of ears, eyes and a polished heart.

And pursue not thatOf which thou hastNo knowledge; forEvery act of hearing,Or of seeing,Or of (feeling in) the heartWill be enquired into(On the day of Reckoning).

An emphasis on the empirical in the domain of the sense perception and reliance on observation, in accord with the injunctions of the above verses, although the words (Hadith) of God are always true, for the explicit use of its acme creation, whether in Universe/ Earth or Divine Revelation with Nafs Mutminah/Ulul Albab/Muttaqi/Momin deriving knowledge from Ilham/kashf/Wahy/Hadith Allah

or Ayaah in nature. But still challenging to prove otherwise, by creating a similar verse.

(Ve Muhammad)l These Ayaat which We are rehearsing to thee as Truth are the Signs of God. Then (tell me) in what more authentic exposition would they believe after the Words of God and His Signs (deduced from Nature) Quran (45:1-7).

Accordingly to their need here means each point in space-time continuum constitutes a continuous recipient of divine inspiration, changing the inanimate matter, into human consciousness or a divinely inspired bee each demanding a separate inspiration. Each ayaat whether in the divine book of nature or the prophetic revelation, to the inspiration of a friend (Auylia Allah) all a command from Allah Almighty. In moments of rarity I have experienced the following.

1. A light hovering above and the subsequently electrifying the whole body.

2 A vision ‘Those who follow

Behold! In the creationOf the heavens and the earthAnd the alternation Of Night and DayThere are indeed SignsFor those of Understanding.

Those who remember God, standing, sitting and lying on their sides, and reflect on the creation of the heavens and the earth (saying): "Our Lord, You have not created this for nothing. Glory be to You! So safeguard us from the punishment of the Fire."

Will attain Salvation from the hell fire Magfirah, and following these verses constitute Surat-e-Mustaqeem.’

In an explanation of the above two phenomenon, the first one is described in devotional Sufism as a security clearance of the Self, on its way to discovery.

The second pertains to of the mind’s ability to receive knowledge from different/other levels of consciousness without having to suspend, the cognitive abilities, hence the need for

3.In the way to this discovery or in the journey of seeking the Ultimate Truth, the seeker finds isolation, unable to share the moments of this discovery, with the friends and family, as everyone is given to their own lives and shortcomings, depending on the psychological makeup of the seeker and the friends around. It is at this moment the ability to guide from one step to another, from one duration to the next, is taken over by the Divine light or Khayal/Intuition. And the seeker tries to live through conscious/unconscious effort, as the exegeses of the Quran, emulating the Prophet Sallalahu Alaihi Wasallam. At this stage the Divine light automatically starts to clear the hurdles one step at a time as defined in the following verses.

By the Night as it conceals (the light);

By the Day as it appears in glory;

By (the mystery of) the creation of male and female;-

Verily, (the ends) ye strive for are diverse.

So he who gives (in charity) and fears (Allah),

And (in all sincerity) testifies to the best,-

We will indeed make smooth for him the path to Bliss.

But he who is a greedy miser and thinks himself self-sufficient,

And gives the lie to the best,-

We will indeed make smooth for him the path to Misery;

Nor will his wealth profit him when he falls headlong (into the Pit).

Verily We take upon Ourselves to guide.

Usually ends up in finding a God appointed guide, a man of limited material means but extremely rich in Gnosis/Taqwa. Under who’s guidance, slowly but surely, this individual undergoes the transmutation of the soul (Tazkiya) to higher realms defined in the following verses, beyond Islam and Iman to the highest stage of Ihsan.

Those who have attained to Iman (faith) and dorighteous deeds incur no blame by partaking of whatever

they may have [in the past] so long as they are conscious of Allah and have Iman and do righteous deeds, and continue to being conscious of Allahand have [true] Iman, and then grow ever more conscious of Allah and do [ reach the level ] of Ihsan; and Allah loves those who have attainted to Ihsan. (Al- Mai’dah 5:93).

Here I do not intend to claim, a friendship of Allah the Al Salam and the Al Momin , which is reserved for those whom, He blesses with His Grace, only that I wish and pray for Allah’s friendship. The innate nature of this experience precludes certain

conditions, some of which I have tried to mention, and explain for the lay men and women. The email I wrote to Dr Abdul Hakim Murad on this experience and his reply are included.

From: cosmic_solutions@hotmail.comTo: tjw31@cam.ac.ukSubject: Essay on Quran for Men and Women of Understanding. ( Cوا وEل

C KابH أ Eب Kل Eاأل )Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 09:54:54 +0000

Dear Brother Abdul Hakim Murad

Assaalam-o-Elikum

Ramadan Mubarak, I hope you are in the best of health, God willingly. It is been a while I did not write to you. Was just trying others, as usual few people seems interested in this message. As of late nothing is happening much, one day I was really depressed, and could not bear to say my prayers. As right now I do not have a job, and sometimes it wears on me. I made a covenant with God on 15 Sep 1975, while reciting the following verses in my prayers, and promised God, I will Inshallah try my best to propagate it all my life as a mission.

Behold! In the creation

Of the heavens and the earth

And the alternation

Of Night and Day

There are indeed Signs

For those of Understanding.

 

Those who remember God, standing, sitting and lying on their sides, and reflect on the creation of the heavens and the earth (saying): "Our Lord, You have not created this for nothing. Glory be to You! So safeguard us from the punishment of the Fire."41.

Without a teacher or a guide I had  to face daunting challenges, but with the Creator being so merciful, I come again and again and again back to the Quran. One day as I was relating above that in some moments one feels to give up as I have written the whole system is set up which makes salvation very difficult specially  to escape the hell fire . I had a dream, or a message as follows.

Those who follow the above verses will escape hell fire and following the above verses means Surat-e-Mustaqeem.

I have  written that in my article on the importance, of the above verses, as being  Surat-e-Mustaqeem in one its mode.

Recently I wrote to my former boss , and he kindly sent me his signed photograph, which I have included, with some other pictures.

The only motive being to make this article more as

struggle of human being in search of Reality.

Kind Regards

Imran

Pembroke Pines, Fl

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Save time looking for addresses. Import contacts from other email accounts.Do it nowAdChoices    This email refers to 15 May 1975, the day I made a covenant with the Creator, which was actually Tuesday 16th May 1975 given to the frailty of human memory, boss here refers to Dr A.Q Khan with whom I worked for 15 years to develop the nuclear centrifuge technology.From: cosmic_solutions@hotmail.comTo: tjw31@cam.ac.ukSubject: RE: Qur'anDate: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 13:11:40 +0000

  Dear Brother Abdal Hakim Murad.

   Assaalam-o-Elikum

and  Shukr Alhamad- o- lillah> From: tjw31@cam.ac.uk> Subject: Qur'an> Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 12:49:17 +0100> To: cosmic_solutions@hotmail.com> > Wa-alaykum as-salam. You are right to focus on the Qur'an. Those who can handle its heat will certainly be saved.> > Abdal Hakim> 

On Fractals:Lightning or the human brain, veins that carry our blood, to the veins in leaves carrying water , Fibonacci numbers in cones all a procurement from natures almonry completing masterpieces of art in the universe full of signs.... 

Intelligence of the seeker (Salik) has relatively, lesser importance and meaning, in the spiritual domain, for the Almighty not being unjust, although those of superior intelligence, can grasp the intricacies of the esoteric, easier and quicker is ultimately based on Almighty’s Divine Grace.

Hazrat Mohammad Iqbal R.A mentions Imam Ghazali R.A. ‘Ghazālī, finding no hope in analytic thought, moved to mystic experience, and there found an independent content for religion. In this way he succeeded in securing for religion the right to exist

independently of science and metaphysics’ a practice still of a multitude in rural and urban areas, spread across the Islamic world, the Sub-continent Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and now spreading across the West, with the message of sages like Maulana Rumi R.A , many of these have never ventured outside the teaching of Quran and Sunnah, having no formal education are in conversation with the Almighty. Here I would mention Iqbal, Corbin and Ahmed Afzaal respectively.

As elucidated by Hazrat Mohammad Iqbal R.A,

‘There is no doubt that the treatment of religious experience, as a source of Divine knowledge, is historically prior to the treatment of other regions of human experience for the same purpose. The Qur’an, recognizing that the empirical attitude is an indispensable stage in the spiritual life of humanity, attaches equal importance to all the regions of human experience as yielding knowledge of the Ultimate Reality which reveals its symbols both within and without.’

Those who are gifted with these symbols both within and without by the Ultimate Reality themselves become a living Ayaat (sign) of God. Reflected in their lives by their becoming a bridge between the seen and the unseen. As aptly described in his Persian poetry by Dr Mohammad Iqbal.

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And Corbin ‘In a similar fashion, the philosophers, from Avicenna to Mulla Sadra, when considering the five states of the intellect, from the 'material'or potential intellect to the intellectus sanctus, admit that in the case of the majority of men the intellect only exists in a potential state, and that the conditions which would enable it to become active are present in a small number of men only. This being so, how could a large number of men, in the sway of their baser impulses, be in a position to form themselves into a single community observing the same law? For al-Biruni, the natural law is the law of the jungle; the antagonism between human beings can be overcome only through a divine Law, made known by a prophet or divine Messenger’.

And again to Ahmed Afzaal reading on the mystical mood.

‘To have a mystical temperament indicates that one’s primary and preferred method of achieving certainty is personal experience, as opposed to philosophical reasoning or acceptance of authoritative pronouncements.’

Islamic cosmology reaches its zenith when signs in nature (Afaq) are deeply studied and reflected upon in conjunction with signs in the Anfus(soul), and the prophetic revelation the Quran. For where would all the cosmic unfolding, on this gigantic scale be without the observer, the highest Maqaam-e- Mehmood reserved for the one who himself travelled in the night journey Al-Isra in the presence of the Almighty, His last Prophet Muhammad ((sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam), who read ayaat both in the universe and Quran, tears overflowing, when on being asked by Bilal R.A why when Allah had forgiven him all of his previous and latter sins he was crying? He replied ‘Should not I be a devotee most grateful?

A hope for his followers of becoming an Auliya Allah a friend of Allah the Most Gracious and the Most Merciful, Who forgives again and again, the true repentance of his servants. The servant in turn wakes up in the middle of the night, and discerns the following verses

Is one who is obedient to Allah, prostrating himself or standing (in prayer) during the hours of the night, fearing the Hereafter and hoping for the Mercy of his Lord (like one who disbelieves)? Say: "Are those who know equal to those who know not?" It is only men and women of understanding who will remember (i.e. get a lesson from Allah's Signs and Verses).

In the final analyses due to the extreme personal nature of the inner experience, it can only be understood and appreciated by those who are given glad tidings by Allah Subhanu-tala first hand, the Prophets’, Martyr’s, and the friends of God the Auliya/Mutaqeen/Momineen/Ulul Albab/Alamoon etc, not as hearsay differentiating, the misgivings of those, who do not understand and consider it as heresy.

REVERANCE FOR ALL PROPHETS

The similitude of Jesus Before Allah is that of Adam; He created him from dust, Then said to him: “Be”: And he was.21

One day will Allah Gather the Messengers together, And ask: “What was The response you received (From men to your teaching)?” They will say: “We Have no knowledge: it is Thou Who knowest in full All that is hidden.

Then will Allah say: “O Jesus the son of Mary! Recount My favour To thee and to thy mother. Behold! I strengthened thee With the holy spirit, So that thou didst speak To the people in infancy And in maturity. Behold! I taught thee The Book and Wisdom, The Law and the Gospel. And behold! thou didst make Out of clay. the figure of a bird, By my leave, And thou didst breath into it, And it becometh a bird By my leave, And thou didst heal those Born blind, and the lepers,

By my leave. And behold! thou didst Bring forth the dead By my leave. And behold! I did Restrain the Children of Israel From (violence to thee) When thou didst show them The clear Signs, And the unbelievers among them Said: “ This is nothing But evident magic.22

Any attempt to resolve this dichotomy between science and reason on the one hand, and theology or Deen ( way of life) as the Quran calls it, is first to resolve the dichotomy between the Prophets, and the differences there followers preach. No man or women, or any creature of His, can deny me His love and mercy. So can no one deny me the love of his Prophets, on a personal note, we revere our fathers, but our mothers, we all love, when my mother passed away, I was devastated, only the love of God, and the love of His Prophet Jesus (May Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him), saved me. When I read the verses mentioned above. Who feels more devastated then the true parents when they see in their children, affinities and a belonging for other then God. When I turned 40, she reminded me how Prophet Mohammad (May Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him) received his calling at this age.

Globalization instead of becoming a force for good in the comity of nations is being dragged and preceded on its one track mindset towards a fatal hedonistic and autocratic capitalism, a paradise gained is a paradise lost, as Dr Iqbal laments, ‘In our daily social intercourse we live and move in seclusion, as it were. We do not care to reach the inmost individuality of men. We treat them as mere functions, and approach them from those aspects of their identity which are capable of conceptual treatment. The climax of religious life, however, is the discovery of the ego as an individual deeper than his conceptually describable habitual self-hood”.

Any breakthrough requires each of us to write one’s own experiences, to open a dialogue within, in the silence of the night or in a journey into the wilderness. This is a journey each one of us needs to travel within and without in finding who we are where we came from and where we are going. Those who are dazzled by a Prophet of materialism in Lee Kuan, must seek a Confucius. Captivated by the brilliant diagnosis in treating the malaise affecting the Islamic nations by a Dr Mahathir also requires us to embark in the life and times of the likes of Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A, as progress becomes synonymous with spirit. When he writes,

Quran guides us in the following verses to seek lively hood being an essential part of existence, but warns of an after life besides trade and industry, verse 13:26.

Allah enlarges livelihood for whom He will, and straitened (it for whom He will); and they rejoice in the life of the world, whereas the life of the world is but brief comfort as compared with the Hereafter.

This is the right moment when the entire world is coming together due to the advent of the global media and the internet, youtube has given us access to lectures by world’s foremost authority on every subject, we are moving from an unbalanced Globalization to a need for deeper relationship and understanding of the other. A need away from the modern jet fighter and the suicide bomber. In this quest Dr Iqbal again observes ‘The technique of medieval mysticism by which religious life, in its higher manifestations, developed itself both in the East and in the West has now practically failed’ and again ‘Broadly speaking religious life may be divided into three periods. These may be described as the periods of “Faith”, “Thought”, and “Discovery.” In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning

and purpose of that command. This attitude may be of great consequence in the social and political history of a people, but is not of much consequence in so far as the individual’s inner growth and expansion are concerned. Perfect submission to discipline is followed by a rational understanding of the discipline and the ultimate source of its authority. In this period religious life seeks its foundation in a kind of metaphysics– a logically consistent view of the world with God as a part of that view. In the third period metaphysics is displaced by psychology, and religious life develops the ambition to come into direct contact with the Ultimate Reality. It is here that religion becomes a matter of personal assimilation of life and power; and the individual achieves a free personality, not by releasing himself from the fetters of the law, but by discovering the ultimate source of the law within the depths of his own consciousness. As in the words of a Muslim Sufi– “no understanding of the Holy Book is possible until it is actually revealed to the believer just as it was revealed to the Prophet.”

Also described vividly by William James ‘There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other’.

The traveler in this journey experiences inner and outer storms, of unparallel nature I may mention the life and times from that of the Prophet to the present have never been conducive to this search. It is only

building the Self by means of the Quran and Sunnah, that one can weather the storms. Beginning as a child in transformation to adulthood (Haywaan Natiq the talking animal) having excessive pride, greed, selfishness, weak by nature, needs the protection of the Almighty.

I would like to start with a quote from Carl Sagan(in a thousand years Muslims will have done their own reflection to a supreme degree in the divine book of nature not having to depend on outside authenticity Be Iznillah) and continue with my thesis on

1. How religions constitute messages from a non human source, totally Independent and Infinite in power. The first step consists in establishing a direct relation with Allah Almighty.

2.And any efforts to find signals from other civilizations constitute, a genuine endeavor in Allah Almighty’s book of nature, guided by His book of revelation the Quran.

"A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later, such a religion will emerge.23

9. Drake Equation, SETI Institute. 10. Quran (40:57). 11. Robert Briffault, Rational Evolution. 12. Exegesis on Quran (31:28) by Abdullah Yusuf Ali. 13. Quran

(31:28). 14. Quran (7:176). 15. Quran (17:32). 16. Quran (10:22-23).17. Quran (24:40). 18. Quran (5:16). 19. Quran (24:40). 20 Quran (3:190). 21. Quran (3:59).22.Quran (5:110).23 Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot (1994) p 77.

The first messages we ponder into are from the Quran as signs to be reflected upon.

REVELATIONS FROM DIVINE BOOK OF NATURE.

This Al-Kitab has been revealed to man by God. Exalted in Power and Full of Knowledge.

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This is a settled thing that for those who have faith there are (thousands of) directives (and guidelines) in the heavens and on the earth.

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And (Ve people!) In the creation of yourselves and whatever God does to spread animals (throughout the earth) are Signs for a people which believes (in the truth of the Universe). (Reflect on the word Ayaat which is being repeatedly used).

And (Ve people!). In the alternation of day and night and whatever sustenance (that is water) God sent down from the sky and then with that water gave life to the earth that had died, and in the change of the winds from one side to the other, are (hundreds of) Signs (directives) for a people which possesses wisdom

(Ve Muhammad)l These Ayaat which We are rehearsing to thee as Truth are the Signs of God. Then (tell me) in what more authentic exposition would they believe after the Words of God and His Signs (deduced from Nature). 24 Quran (45:1-7).

The following is a commentary on the above messages by distinguished scholar and scientist Inayat ullah khan.

Sura Jathiyaa (45). This sura is being reproduced along with its coherent and irrefutable translation. In

the text of the Sura has repeatedly occurred the extremely significant word "Ayaat". This word has been normally used for the Quranic verses (that is, sentences), However it appears from this Sura that apart from using this word for its verses. 1 The Quran, for the first time has employed. the word Ayaat for knowledge which accrues from the study of things and phenomena of Nature. 2 The second important conclusion evident from the study of this Sura is that for the first time after the previous 71 Suras has it been emphasised that these Ayaat are the Signs of God. A believing. wise people which possesses comprehension and power of reflection must find out these Ayaat from the Book of Nature by intensive research and investigation; it should take them as reality, act upon them and apart from them, should not believe in anything else. 3 The third immense disclosure is that whatever God has created in the heavens and on or in the earth lies conquered for man so that he takes their control and brings them to his use. In, other word, this entire Universe, extending over billions of miles, constitutes man's field of action. 4 The fourth astonishing and, of course encouraging declaration is that Nature is the only truth in the world and God has created the Universe with the purpose of giving things that exist in it to man as reward for his struggle arid efforts which he makes to know and conquer them…..

Is there any of the foremost Scientists and Knower’s of Nature from the world's most enlightened and dominant nation who, after becoming aware of this standard, would not bow before the Quran and deny its being the greatest and the last Book?.” 25

Here is the ultimate evidence and proof of the Continuity of Divine Revelations, Allah”s words or Hadith’s and His Ayaats in the realm and domain of NATURE, as signs for men and women of understanding ( واC وEل

C KابH أ Eب Kل Eاأل ) , complementing the Last Book the Quran in its original and complete form, as revealed on the last Prophet Mohammad (Pbuh). Its imperative on all Modern day Islamic scholars, Alamoon(scientists, engineers, doctors, psychologists, astrobiologists, astrophysicists, biochemical theology or spiritual psychologist, and any new disciplines arising from the Cosmos to Collect all such research work, derived in individual capacities or through collective efforts, microfilming and storing it in the nearest Darul Ulloms, Darul Hikmets and Islamic Universities being part of the Adjacent Mosque. Muslim men and women of understanding واC وEل

C KابH أ Eب Kل Eاأل who reflect, ponder, creating new Ilm ( Knowledge) in the process based on these messages or ayaats clearly engage in scientific work in there laboratories, are called the Servant’s of Allah’s (swt).

As the following Quranic sura elaborates.

Here an astrophysicist and astronomer, is challenged to ponder at the Sky.

Do they not look At the sky above them? How We have made it And adorned it, And there are no Flaws in it?

The night sky is full of stars, distant suns of distant civilizations, in distant Galaxies, full of life in which Gods commands "al-amr" descends.

Below Geologists and Botanists are invited to reflect in their own domains of studies in the creation of the earth and mountains, and the growth of plants and vegetables in pairs.

And the earth We have spread it out, And set thereon mountains Standing firm, and producedTherein every kind of Beautiful growth in Pairs.(male and female).

Here God calls all those who observe, ponder, and reflect in the creation of the heavens and earth,

mountains and vegetation as his Servants in the act of remembering Him. After the insight they receive from His revelations in Nature.

To be observedAnd commemoratedBy every ServantTurning (to Allah).

And we send downFrom the sky RainCharged with blessingAnd we produce therewithGardens and Grain for harvests;

And tall (and stately)

Palm trees, with shootsOf fruit stalks, piledOne over another

As sustenance for (Allah’s) ServantsAnd we give (new) lifeTherewith to land that isDead: thus will be The Resurrection. 26

A cyclical movement, a perpetual cycle of Purpose in life, all creation in the Divine book of nature helping humans develop into an advanced civilization, with Allah’s sustenance engraving continual life cycles, of birth and death. Sweet water from the sky, produce of every kind from the earth, sustaining a species able to ponder the astrophysics of the sky, the geology of the mountains, the botany and zoology of its flora and fauna.

This Purpose in life is the least attention given to in this age of excesses. As the following verses explain that this sustenance also brings a message, of humility as and when humans feel most invincible there comes out of nowhere a calamity of unprecedented proportions. Which the Almighty mentions as His command by day or night.

Verily the likeness of (this) worldly life is as the water (rain) which We send down from the sky, so by it arises the intermingled produce of the earth of which men and cattle eat until when the earth is clad with its adornments and is beautified, and its people think that they have all the powers of disposal over it, Our Command reaches it by night or by day and We make it like a clean-mown harvest, as if it had not flourished yesterday! Thus do We explain the Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, laws, etc.) in detail for the people who reflect.

The Lane-Arabic dictionary defines Qom as “A people, or body of persons composing a community”.

And the use of the word reflection in the above verse clearly indicates a divine duty for the whole Islamic nation, a word which has been relegated, by the obscurantist preacher, devoid of the essence of Quran, on one hand, and marginalized by the

positivist, postmodern fellow in the post-colonial secular university.

A deconstruction of Macaulay’s intrigue and educational system can only be achieved if we are able to construct a true Islamic welfare society, offering a balanced economic system, quality of life then the west has to offer. For consumerism based democracy breeds, corruption, serving only the interest of the elite at home and there imperial masters abroad.

THE DIVINE MANIFESTO

There are certain verses in the Quran, which have a very clear, concise, meaning like stars and planets in the night sky, seen with unaided eyes. There are others, which can only be understood by deep reflection.

The parable of those whoTake protectors other than AllahIs that of the Spider,Who builds (to itself)A house; but trulyThe flimsiest of houses

Is the Spider’s house—If they but knew. Quran (29:41).27

Spider web is the flimsiest of creation, easily damaged by the elements in nature. So is the life of a soul unattended by God’s grace, mercy, and knowledge. The chaos in society and in one’s own life, evil of men and women, fear of poverty and of the unknown, promoting psychiatric illnesses. Human personalities vary in degree from the simple, gullible, weak, less endowed, easily susceptible to suggestions from other than God, to gifted and genetically strong. An inbuilt, strength and simplicity acquired, within the heart. “Nay, here are Signs self-evident in the hearts of those endowed with knowledge: and none but the unjust reject Our Signs”, 28 in moments of reflective silence, with prayer, patience, and remembrance. Guidance not limited to the Quran.

Verily this Qur'an doth guide to that which is most right (or stable), and giveth the Glad Tidings to the Believers who work deeds of righteousness, that they shall have a magnificent reward; 29.

But Sunnah, of the life and teachings of the Prophets from Adam (Pbuh), to Abraham (Pbuh), all intervening prophets to Moses (Pbuh), Jesus (Pbuh) to holy prophet Mohammad (Pbuh). Alluding back to the thought mentioned above, that Allah (swt) not only, keeps record of an individual from its birth, life history, death to resurrection both in the earth and

universe, exactly numbered. So does the history of nations, or more aptly the monotheistic religions, from their inception, their doings, their life cycles of growth and decay till the day of resurrection, are monitored and recorded. The Quran mentions the nation of Israel, to be given the status of most favored nation. Then they became arrogant.

He did AforetimeGrant to the ChildrenOf Israel the Book,The Power of Command,And Prophet Hood; We gaveThem for sustenance, thingsGood and pure; and WeFavoured them above the nations.30

And We gave (clear) warningTo the children of IsraelIn the Book, that twiceWould they do mischiefOn the earth and be elatedWith mighty arrogance(and twice would they be punished)!31.

Timorously accepting the dictates of law for so long, having fought the Roman legions on the summit of Masada, a heavy veil of arrogance and jealous, self delusion regarding their worldly grandeur and scholarship derived from the wisdom of the revelation, overtook them, like a dark and creeping evil in the depth of night, over several millennia, many of their mentalities became all knowing, and all powerful. The host nations fell for their charm and wealthy insinuations. Inviting the wrath of God, only to recover realizing their error and repenting.

The definition according to God of those nations called strong is their being righteous in deeds and not just in words only. A spider web appears as a weak structure, but its inherent strength has only recently been realized by modern science. As for the individual who develops two kinds of knowledge. One derived from the inner self (Anfus).

We shall show them Our signs In the horizons and in themselves, Till it is clear to them that it is the truth. Suffices it not as to thy Lord, That He is witness over everything?41-53

And becoming a friend of Allah (swt) the only goal of one’s earthly existence.

And you are not (engaged) in any affair, nor do you recite concerning it any portion of the Quran, nor do you do any work but We are witnesses over you when you enter into it, and there does not lie concealed from your Lord the weight of an atom in the earth or in the heaven, nor any thing less than that nor greater, but it is in a clear book.

No doubt! Verily, the Auliya' of Allah [i.e. those who believe in the Oneness of Allah and fear Allah much (abstain from all kinds of sins and evil deeds which he has forbidden), and love Allah much (perform all kinds of good deeds which He has ordained)], no fear shall come upon them nor shall they grieve, -

Arabic-English Lexicon by Edward William Lane describes Aulia [ i.e friends, and the like].

It is a great misconception in the hearts and minds of most Muslims that only a select elite can attain that status, Allah (swt) elevates any man or women, a plebeian no matter what ever worldly status he or she might have as long as he or she forms a direct

communications with Lord of the Worlds through prayers, taqwa, reading the Quran and Sunnah of the last Prophet Mohammad (Pbuh) with a goal to understand and reflect, ultimately absorbing into the colors of Allah (swt). What are the colors of Allah (swt) , the divine names, which a human being can absorb into due to his or her being recipient of the divine Ruh. That is the supreme bliss and victory both here and the hereafter.

(We take our) colour from Allah, and who is better than Allah at colouring. We are His worshippers.32

This journey starts with remembering the names of Allah the Compassionate the Merciful while standing, sitting or lying down. Allah the Sovereign free from Blemishes is alive He can hear and see. He reciprocates and responds to the prayers of His servants. The signs of Allah the giver of Peace are manifested in the outer and inner domains of the self of every individual man or women.

On this journey Quran remarks:

It is He Who has sent His Messenger with Guidance and the Religion of Truth, that he may proclaim it over all religion, even though the Pagans may detest (it).33

O ye who believe! Shall I lead you to a bargain that will save you from a grievous Penalty?-34

That ye believe in Allah and His Messenger, and that ye strive (your utmost) in the Cause of Allah, with your property and your persons: That will be best for you, if ye but knew!35

He will forgive you your sins, and admit you to Gardens beneath which Rivers flow, and to beautiful mansions in Gardens of Eternity: that is indeed the Supreme Achievement.36

The following verse remark.

O You who have chosen to be graced with belief! Be mindful of God and put faith in His Messenger. And He will bestow on you a double reward of His grace. He will appoint for you a light by which you shall walk, and He will absolve your faults. God is Forgiving Merciful.37

And the other being knowledge, acquired through science, and sense perception explained by Quran as outer Āfāq (world). God does not regard humans as worthless creatures existing without a purpose, but having a Divine manifesto.

When a Muslim wakes up before dawn, and recites the first pillar of Islam, ašhadu an lā ilāha illá l-Lāhu (wa ashhadu 'anna) Muḥammadan rasūlu l-Lāhi " there is no god except ALLAH and

Muhammad is the Messenger of ALLAH. Then he or she, enters into eternity, turning to strength of pure steel, like the silk fiber of a, spider when treated by knowledge.

Darwin bark spider has the toughest silk, twice as any other spider silk and tougher than either steel, ten times tougher than Kevlar. Man made spider silk

is stronger than, carbon fiber, Kevlar stronger than steel. Research is in progress, to use, genetically altered, transgenic goat/spider silk and silkworms to produce, arresting cables used in aircraft carriers, artificial ligaments, tendons and bones, manufacturing parachute cables. Ultra strength fabric for different applications, like bullet proof vests. Surgical stitches, skin graft for burn patients etc.

The inherent strength and toughness, both in nature and humans is squandered by the whims of the mighty, in the survival of existence of men and empires, unbalancing the world ecosystems. Unleashing unbridled forces on the lands of the weak and unprotected by the weapons of death and destruction. An individual or whole community, who build their affairs, on the likeness of a spider web, without God as their supreme priority are prone to perish sooner or later.

Verily Allah doth know

Of (everything) whateverThat they call uponBesides Him: and He isExalted (in power), Wise.38

And only Al Alamoon (men and women of knowledge) who use Tafakkur(thinking), Aql(intellect), Tadabbur (contemplation) to comprehend their meanings emphasized here as obtained from the Divine book of nature, and the Divine book of revelation the Quran. When explaining verses one should clearly differentiate between those showing a clear pattern of the use of words like understanding, knowledge and reason as being derived from the Divine book of nature. It is imperative to separate the knowledge of the Ruh(soul) from knowledge derived from sense perception.

And such are the ParablesWe set forth for mankind,But only those understand themWho have knowledge.39?

A perfect balance is achieved when a Muslim learns to recognize signs both within the Divine book of nature, through reflection and practicing piety and achieving God consciousness through the Divine book of revelation.

Verily, in the alternation of the night and the day, and in all that Allah hath created, in the heavens and the earth, are signs for those who are God conscious.40

25. Inayat Ullah Khan, Quran and Evolution. 26. Quran (50:7-11). 27. Quran (29:41).28. Quran (29:49).29. (Quran (17:9). 30. Quran (45:15). 31. Quran (17:4). 32. Quran (2:138). 33. Quran (61:9). 34. Quran (61:10). 35. Quran (61:11). 36. Quran (61:12). 37. Quran (57:28). 38. Quran (29:42). 39. Quran (29:43).40. Quran ((10:6).

Let me briefly mention my own personal efforts in this direction, not as a means of self-aggrandizement, but a study in the psychology of a

seeker of truth, the difficulties ensued in this way, with an ultimate objective of sharing, this knowledge and guiding the next seeker. Having studied Quran in Arabic, at an early age, I was totally ignorant of the Ilm, or Knowledge of the Quran, until at the Punjab University at Lahore, in 1972 age 18, while studying for B.sc Honors in Physics I stumbled on a banner about Tazkirah of Allama Mashriqi R.A. An exegesis on Higher Religions. I would go on to publish my M.S Thesis “On Angular Distribution of Fission Fragments using surface barrier detector”, at Government College University Lahore.

, Pakistan Center for Advance Studies in

Physics.

Cockcroft and Walton Generator 1.2 Mev.

And writing the following Ayaat on the first page of my thesis.

Behold! In the creationOf the heavens and the earthAnd the alternation Of Night and DayThere are indeed SignsFor those of Understanding.

Those who remember God, standing, sitting and lying on their sides, and reflect on the creation of the heavens and the earth (saying): "Our Lord, You have not created this for nothing. Glory be to You! So safeguard us from the punishment of the Fire."41.

While docked and onboard the International Space Station, a STS-123 Endeavour crew member captures the glowing green beauty of the Aurora Borealis March 21, 2008. Looking northward across the Gulf of Alaska, over a low pressure area (cloud vortex), the aurora brightens the night sky. Rueters/Nasa.

Hazrat Mohammad Iqbal R.A.

Muhammad Asad (seated right) and his wife Pola Hamida Asad (seated left) at the residence of Chaudhry Niaz Ali Khan in Jauharabad, Pakistan. Circa 1957

Joined Government College University Lahore Pakistan, as demonstrator physics laboratory 1979.Later working as a health physicist. and a nuclear physicist at the DR AQ KHAN research laboratories for the next 15 years 7th Feb 1980- July 1995, studying nuclear physics at advanced levels, using in the process instruments, like ultra-centrifuges rotating near a 1050 cycles/ second, vacuum pumps, quadrupole mass spectrometers, radiation detectors, high speed oscilloscopes, being inquisitive, worked and moved in different departments of the project.

As I mention above this article is meant not to be autobiographical, but a guide for fellow seeker of truth, especially the modern Muslim youth. We hardly have any access to our unconsciousness mind, which practically runs our lives, with or without our knowing. At times, it seems very hard to tread this path, as perfect harmony and balance is found in a few, and there is always a serious danger being swayed by an apparently competing, logical thought, specially the western model of liberty, freedom, equality, honesty, truthfulness, cleanliness, economic independence, hard work, respect for the privacy of the individual, belief in the judicial system, for those living in their domains. Though recent international events have eroded some of these values, and paranoia seems to have set in. But it is still amazing that the rule of law prevails, for those who profess different faiths. As one can find a synagogue, a church, and a mosque next to each other, without the sectarian violence seen in Muslim

lands. This is invariably built in the psyche of the beholder, whether it is the intelligentsia or the masses. How ever barring a few, most Muslim countries, are struggling to find a place in the community of nations, where rampant corruption, egotistical executives and the Latin-Americanization of institutions have created proxies, resulting in movements like the Arab spring. Fortunately Turkey with its brilliant Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is turning into a progressive, economically viable, modern Muslim state. Democratic nation of Malaysia with its former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammad is an archetype role model, propagating wisdom and knowledge in the Islamic world, re-defining and suggesting treatments for the root causes and malaise affecting the Ummah.

Western imperialism, seeking global hegemony carving out new spheres of influences is invariably taking advantage of this tragic divide. Mind full of being a Muslim scientist, became a part in arranging “The Holy Quran and 21st century” conference in Islamabad at the Pakistan Science Foundation in 1991. Organized under the Holy Quran Research Foundation a non-profit organization dedicated to the cause of Islam, under the guidance of great Muslim mystic, electrical engineer and nuclear scientist, Sultan Bashir ud din Mehmood.

Sultan Bashir ud din Mehmood

Contribution of Sultan Bashir ud din Mehmood to Nuclear Programme.

“I have been associated with Pakistan’s nuclear programme and the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission since 1963 and therefore I have firsthand knowledge of the various phases of the country’s nuclear quest. However the sensitive nature of the subject requires that we should be very careful while talking about it. This is what the (late) Chairman PAEC Mr. Munir Ahmad Khan impressed upon all his team members. If some self glorified scientists / engineers have succeed to reduce his image to the status of a villain, it is due to his

modesty and not advertising his achievements in his lifetime. By awarding the posthumous Nishan-i-Imtiaz thirteen years after his death, the President has done no favour to him but has only corrected a wrong. Soon after India’s 1974 test, PAEC decided to adopt centrifuge technology for uranium enrichment and I was tasked by Mr. Munir Ahmad Khan to prepare a feasibility on the basis of comparative studies of different enrichment technologies. Previous to this assignment, I was commissioning engineer and incharge of troubleshooting during the commissioning phases of KANUPP. Before that, I had worked at Risley Design Centre with the UK Atomic Energy Authority who had applied two patents in my name, and published eleven technical reports in one year—a rare honour for any nuclear engineer.The Enrichment Project, commonly known as the Kahuta Project or KRL was also started by PAEC in October 1974 with myself as its Director. I handed over charge of the project after 33 months on July 17, 1976 to Dr. A Q Khan. By then, we had completed the designs for the centrifuge machine and the process plant in the shabby Second World War Army Barracks near Chaklala airport, known as the Airport Development Workshop. We had deliberately left parts of the outer side of ADW unfurnished to maintain secrecy while the inner parts were furnished as per our needs. It was our deliberate policy to give priority to procurements of essential materials and equipment, build manpower and an indigenous base and not waste time on expensive buildings and cars in the initial years.We had also managed to procure most of the short term and long term requirements of machinery and

materials for the first phase of the project as per our original plan. Dr A Q Khan joined the project in early 1976 as Director Research. Prior to this, he was working for us in Amsterdam, Holland. The PAEC team had begun work on local development of a high-speed motor for the centrifuge and the aluminium centrifuge base.We also started indigenous development of high frequency generators and bellows using explosive forming techniques. By July 1976, we had installed and commissioned the centrifuge rotor manufacturing machines, electron beam-welding machine, high strength magnet charging machines, and initiated work on high speed bearings, grooving and welding technologies. These are few examples only. We had procured large quantities of high strength aluminium and maraging steel for manufacturing centrifuge rotors and other components for centrifuge machines. The team of dedicated scientists and engineers who made the project a success in the initial years and came from PAEC, among them Dr G D Alam, Anwar Ali, Ijaz Khokhar, Dr Javed Mirza, Brig. Abdus Salam (EME), Col Rashid Ali (EME) and many more illustrious names. Many of them later rose to important positions in KRL under Dr. A Q Khan. By the time the project was separated from PAEC, it was on its way to produce weapon-grade enriched uranium by 1980. However, once the project was separated from PAEC, this target was met several years later and at many times the estimated budget. However, I do not wish to undermine A Q Khan’s contribution in taking the project forward from where we left in 1976.

Dr. A Q Khan succeeded me as head of the Kahuta project on July 17, 1976. He accused me of procuring sub-standard maraging steel and I was later exonerated of this charge. I handed over charge of the project to A Q Khan in the presence of Mr. Agha Shahi and Munir Ahmad Khan the same day. I was the transferred back to PAEC and was assigned the job to extend its capacity of the uranium mining and refining project Meanwhile, Munir Ahmad Khan had launched over 20 laboratories and projects in the nuclear programme from 1972-1991, each one essential to acquire nuclear capability. Some of them are the uranium mining, refining, uranium oxide and hexafluoride UF6 production plants (the feedstock for KRL).On the plutonium side, it was Munir Khan’s vision to develop plutonium capability for Pakistan and I was assigned the task of designing and building the 50 MW Khushab-1 Nuclear Reactor and metal fuel manufacturing project indigenously for producing plutonium in 1986. The Khushab reactor project was completed within ten years using Pakistani manpower, materials and know-how most economically. Based on this success and the team, which we trained in PAEC, Pakistan has now expanded this capability by building similar reactors at Khushab.It was again PAEC which carried out several cold tests of different nuclear weapon designs under the leadership of Munir Ahmad Khan. These tests were conducted by Dr. Samar Mubarakmand and Mr. Muhammad Hafeez Qureshi. The first cold test of a working nuclear device was carried out on March 11, 1983 at Kirana Hills and President Zia was informed

of the results by Munir Khan the same evening. Subsequently, 24 more cold tests were conducted by PAEC between 1983 and the early 1990s. The second cold test in 1983 was witnessed by Mr. Ghulam Ishaq Khan, General K. M. Arif (Vice Chief of Army Staff) and Munir Ahmad Khan.In addition Munir Khan also established the Nuclear Fuel Fabrication Complex, Kundian; New Laboratories Reprocessing Plant, PINSTECH; Chaghi, Kharan and Kirana Hills nuclear test sites; and laid the foundation for the 300 MW Chashma-1 Nuclear Power Plant. The Centre for Nuclear Studies (now a University PIEAS) which has produced indigenous trained manpower for Pakistan’s nuclear programme was also his achievement. He also built several nuclear agriculture, biotechnology and medical centers across the country. Besides, Pakistan’s first gamma sterilization plant for sterilization of medical products was built in Lahore under my supervision which is still serving the nation. These facts can be verified from Dr. Samar Mubarakmand. Pakistan became a nuclear power due to the dedicated efforts of a large team of scientists, engineers and technicians who participated in this sacred endeavour for several decades. The nuclear programme enjoyed complete support of the people, the armed forces and the politicians. There is no single hero of this success story. It has been a great national effort and if credit goes to anybody it goes to the people of Pakistan who sacrificed so much in the shape of sanctions for the success of the programme. Let’s not fight for mundane rewards and belittle each others efforts. If some energy is still left

in us, it should be spent only in the service of Pakistan—our Pakistan. SULTAN BASHIRUDDIN MAHMOOD (Sitara-i-Imtiaz)Ex- Director-General (Nuclear Power), PAEC. email: sbmahmood1213@yahoo.com051-226000.”

Founder Director of the Kahuta Nuclear Enrichment Program and DG Directorate of Nuclear Power, Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission. Founding Chairman Holy Quran Research Foundation. Sitara e Imtiaz.

Dr A.Q. KHAN, NI & Bar, HI. Founding Chairman Khan Research Laboratories.

Essay on Quran for Men and Women of Understanding. ( لTوا Vو

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Dr. Abdul Quadeer Khan6/25/12

To: MOHAMMAD KHAN

Dear Khan Sb, AoA,

Thank you for your email and for sending me your commendable work. Please do send me a copy when it is complete with the relevant references and index. I appreciate how much time and effort you must have put into this essay.

Regards,

Dr. A.Q. Khan

Dr Salim Mehmud , Former Chairman Pakistan Space and Upper Atmospheric Research Commission.

Dr Salim Mehmud efforts for the Islamic Space Programme, as described in his own words in the following personal communication:-

Dear Sir,

Thank you for your reply. Sir, I am trying to write an essay on Islam and Science, and would appreciate, if you could kindly, write a few lines, on your efforts, in the Space program. I did meet you once, briefly at Bashir saheb house in F-8, Islamabad when you had come to meet him. I was helping him organize the conference on ‘ Noble Quran and 21st century’. In which you also read a very thought provoking article, on how we are made of star stuff.Being enriched in the core’s of stars.

Sincerely yours,

Imran.Pembroke Pines, Florida.

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7:40am.

Salim Mehmud

My dear Mohammad Khan,

Our space programme was established as far back as !961. The launching of Rehbar sounding rocket series commenced on 7 June 1962. I have been associated with SUPARCO from the very start and have seen all echelons of the department rising to the position of its Executive Director on 1st January 1976, and then as Chief Executive on 15 December 1980 and later in 1981 taking over as the first Chairman of newly elevated Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Commission (SUPARCO).

In the long final standing of about 9 years as its Chairman, a large number of important projects were implemented. Noteworthy among these are: The establishment of Lahore Campus of Space Applications Center (SPARC) next to Punjab University (in fact the land is owned by the University), Establishment of the Islamabad Campus at Rawat (Islamabad) where the Ground Receiving Station for reception of Satellite Remotely Sensed Imagery was established and ground work for the Aerospace Institute done. Today, it is a sprawling campus of Institute of Space Technology. Another milestone was the construction of SUPARCO's own Secretariat building at the University Road Karachi Campus for providing office space to its management staff including the Chairman. The list of projects goes on but I will stop here for the sake of brevity and due to time constraint.

With warm regards,

Yours sincerely,

Salim Mehmud

Project 786.Project 786 as it was called started in a rundown facility close to Islamabad international airport; I joined on the 7th of Feb, 1980, after being interviewed by Dr A.Q. Khan Project Director who advised of the scale of the project as at variant from the university or college level in both the impact and finances involved, after reporting to my director Mr Mansoor Ahmed, who earlier had worked for the Pakistan atomic energy commission, as Principal Scientific officer, having done his double masters from Government College University center for advanced studies in physics Lahore Pakistan, and later at Rochester University in New York. We met briefly in his office called the Pindi office. He was glad we had been to the same Alma mater. My choice of the study of physics was purely a leap in the dark, when ultimately or much later it turned out to be a stepping stone to metaphysics. When Allama Mohammad Iqbal mentions in his chapter “Is Religion Possible” he simply means a journey of a seeker of truth, reaching the Center through various paths, from a denier of Truth (La) there is no Truth, to studying all the philosophies and sciences, ultimately, the science of Sufism, or inner/mystical experience.

CREATIVE CO-WORKER IN THE CREATIVE ACTIVITY OF GOD

God is no more an archivist unfolding an infinite sequence he had designed once and forever. He continues the labour of creation throughout time…..Ilya Progogine.42

Spiral Galaxy NGC 1309.The creation of order out of chaos is one of the greatest mysteries bounding on the seen and unseen, in the realm of physics and meta-physics unfolding in the arrow of TIME. Quantum processes are interconnecting, operating at levels of the string, characterized by various quantum numbers, such as n the principal quantum number, L orbital quantum numbers, M(L) magnetic quantum numbers, M(S) spin quantum numbers. Vibrational modes of the string are like the harmonics or notes of a violin,

each note playing out a different sub atomic particle, with characteristic spin, mass, etc. Characterized by what Freeman Dyson (belonging to a rare class of western scientist including Isaac Newton, whom having a concrete grasp of the ultimate reality, to Alfred Wallace Russell, Freeman Dyson a partial glimpse in context of liturgical theology and modern Analytical Thomism), postulating three levels of mind, having, a free will to choose, first at the subatomic level, like a uranium atom, decaying randomly, secondly to the mind of men and women, acted upon by quantum processes capable of making existential choices, finally to the universal mind. Is Free will a psychological phenomenon, within the arrow of time, unable to reconcile, with Einstein’s equations of time. Equations predicting no past, present or future, to a free will in serial (psychological) time unidirectional in nature. Are the choices men and women make, good or bad relative to the frames of references. A universal conscious rolling out the dice, a global wave function, accompanied with manifold relations and histories.

These assertions of quantum physics in the realm and domain of metaphysics do tender to scientism and speculation, and at times appear apologetic but a verse from the Quran speak of Allah (swt) encompassing the heavens and the earth with His knowledge ILM.. And the verses in the Divine book of nature as His words.

It is Allah who has created seven heavens and of the earth, the like of them. [His] command descends among them so you may know that Allah is over all things competent and that Allah has encompassed all things in knowledge.

And (Ve people!). In the alternation of day and night and whatever sustenance (that is water) God sent down from the sky and then with that water gave life to the earth that had died, and in the change of the winds from one side to the other, are (hundreds of) Signs (directives) for a people which possesses wisdom

(Ve Muhammad)l These Ayaat which We are rehearsing to thee as Truth are the Signs of God. Then (tell me) in what more authentic exposition would they believe after the Words of God and His Signs (deduced from Nature). 24 Quran (45:1-7).

Here whole communities of those who reflect and ponder on the Signs in nature are called people of wisdom and intellect. And that Allah(swt) has encompassed all things in knowledge.

As to the nature of this Divine ILM, Quran is the best guide, with the verses.

And pursue not thatOf which thou hastNo knowledge; forEvery act of hearing,Or of seeing,Or of (feeling in) the heartWill be enquired into(On the day of Reckoning).

Knowledge is to be gained by using; the senses acquired by humans through natural selection or more aptly directed evolution. Anything not verifiable by these faculties or the modern day instruments an extension of these senses, in the realm of the unseen, does not constitute Knowledge. With the exception of God, his angels, the knowledge of ‘Nafs’ Arabic for soul, Ruh and what He hides from His creation. Here it may be argued that knowledge of the Divine is unlimited and of its creation limited. In the following verse again Allah(swt) speaks about the inquiry in to His being, with knowledge ILM.

Do ye not see that Allah has subjected to your (use) all things in the heavens and on earth, and has made his bounties flow to you in exceeding measure, (both) seen and unseen? Yet there are among men those who dispute about Allah, without knowledge and without guidance, and without a Book to enlighten them!

The word “science” which has lead to a schism, in thought is a recent phenomenon, this study and practice was always acquainted with and, as being essentially encompassed by the laws from the Divine book of nature, where everything stemmed from, sense perception for God calls “Hearing” “Sight” and Intellect as His gifts enlightened by Divine guidance and books of revelation. The subtle insight here is the ability to recognize, the manifestation of facts termed as “as scientific” in the Quran, were present in the earlier texts, though not fully elaborated to a degree and precision. Newton held to these views but has not been given his due, due to the Catholic Church and its insistence on Trinity, which he despised and kept it as a closely guarded secret through out his life.

The word “science” takes a misguided direction in its definition in the post modern phenomenology of different cultures and religious life as practiced and

experienced universally. Quran calls research, and reflection in nature as the, speech or words (Hadith) of God, the Bible calls it as His Handiwork, in contrast to the secular. This marginalized and separated the signs manifested in nature from those manifested in the soul, it is only working in conjunction the two achieve the status of inspiration (Wahy).

The modalities and true definition of Intellect Aql, knowledge Ilm, in context to the modern scientific world view and the Divine seems to have drifted apart in contemporary western thought. The epitome of all Knowledge seems to emanate in the following verses.

Behold! In the creationOf the heavens and the earthAnd the alternation Of Night and DayThere are indeed SignsFor those of Understanding.

Those who remember God, standing, sitting and lying on their sides, and reflect on the creation of the heavens and the earth (saying): "Our Lord, You have not created this for nothing. Glory be to You! So safeguard us from the punishment of the Fire."41.

Not so long ago science was synonymous with the belief in a divine presence and inspiration as Christopher Hitchens argues in “Does Science make belief in God obsolete?.

“Until about 1832, when it first seems to have become established as a noun and a concept, the term “scientist” had no really independent meaning. “Science” meant “knowledge” in much the same way as “physic” meant medicine, and those who conducted experiments or organized field expeditions or managed laboratories were known as “natural philosophers.” To these gentlemen (for they were mainly gentlemen) the belief in a divine presence or inspiration was often merely assumed to be a part of the natural order, in rather the same way as it was assumed—or actually insisted upon—that a teacher at Cambridge University swear an oath to be an ordained Christian minister. For Sir Isaac Newton—an enthusiastic alchemist, a despiser of the doctrine of the Trinity, and a fanatical anti-Papist—the main clues to the cosmos were to be found in Scripture. Joseph Priestley, discoverer of oxygen, was a devout Unitarian as well as a believer in the

phlogiston theory. Alfred Russel Wallace, to whom we owe much of what we know about evolution and natural selection, delighted in nothing more than a session of ectoplasmic or spiritual communion with the departed.”

Though Quran is clear on this for intellect is actualizations of the Divine commandants ( Amr) realized by the RUH in the inner being , experienced in the spiritual awakening whether engaged in Jihad against all forms of aggression, or as missionaries, or in excessive remembrance of God, and while contemplating the intricacies of the heavens and the earth, or practicing all righteous, deeds mentioned in the Quran and Sunnah, exemplified in the life and words Hadith of the Prophet Mohammad(Pbuh).

We have only recently started to inquire into Parallel universes. A clue to their existence is eluded in the following verse. With many universes and as many earths. For the existence of paradise is mentioned as having an expanse similar to the universe we live in. And all encompassed by His knowledge (ILM).

The dominant religious traditions often allude to the phenomenon of wholeness and interconnectedness of various parts of the cosmos, being integrated to perform their vital functions at the micro as well macro levels in nature. As for the ultimate reality, there is no before and after, exterior of interior. The Creator of Loh Mahfuz the divine tablet unfolding an unfinished product, a teleological movement hidden and not understood by the recesses of present day science OR for that matter any future science stems from God’s Plan himself. Which both partially determined and partially discrete, is acting within His Sunna, as described by Dr M.B Altaie.

‘One may rightly suggest that the objects of the world do have some intrinsic nature; and yet there can be no clear reason why this nature should constitute a stand-alone property, when we take into consideration the fact that quantum physics has demonstrated the fluctuating character of all the physical quantities. Here the principle of continual re-creation proposed by kala’m comes into play. Fluctuations are caused by continual re-creation, justifying at the same time the divine intervention which drives the world through its constantly re-created properties’.

And again

‘So in the Islamic view, laws of nature are the laws for nature sustained by God in accordance with His sunna, His ‘way’ with creation. The law is the rule and the breach is an allowed unpredictable

exception. This is indeed in conformity with the stipulations of quantum mechanics.

One final point is due. The laws of physics are, in fact, our realizations of how the world will act; in no way do these laws necessarily express the true and actual divine algorithms. These laws are our algorithms for the world. Therefore I would say that we are far from conceiving how the ‘mind of God’ works; we are far from being able to ‘catch God at work.’

Even if we did send Unto them Angels, And the dead did speak Unto them, and We gathered Together all things before Their very eyes, they are not The ones to believe, Unless it is in Allah’s Plan. But most of them Ignore (the truth).44

Unless as the Quran says,

Everyone is guarded and protected on all sides by the order of God. God does not change the condition of a nation unless it changes what is in its heart. When God wants to punish a people, there is no way to escape from it and no one besides God will protect them from it.45

Laws of maximum diversity, operating in diverse fames or dimensions, all unidirectional in time. A pragmatic world of men and women, working with in their genetic composition, behavior accorded in childhood to transition in adulthood. Is there a Law of free will with exertions of existential choices, results achieved and varying for the less endowed (according the vicissitudes of the Bell curve) to the more advanced intellects? Limited will for some, to almost unlimited for others, depending on their disposition, becoming agents (or servants depending on the definition with in their frames of references) of

a higher purpose. Sometimes self aware, and assisted in their efforts from, bringing into reality an unfinished product inching in apparently miniscule degree, from a meaning less universe to a higher order, both in intelligence and diversity.

Like the following verses warn us of keep doing our duty, being patient and overlooking the people who want us harm, until God command takes its course.

Many of the people of the book desire to turn you anyhow back to unbelief. They wish this out of the envy of their hearts though the Truth has become quiet clear to them. Yet, you should show forbearance and forgiveness to them till’ Allah Himself enforces His judgment.

A mystic having this to say “Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever”.

And again

“People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.” Mohammad Iqbal.

A mystical time and space, and a scientific time and space, how do we reconcile the two? A leader of the Balkan confederation opted for the kingdom of God, when given a choice to fight Murat the Sultan of the Turks. Islam spreading in the west for the next 500 years. A similar choice given to Babur in the east seeking “divine favour by abjuring liquor, breaking the wine vessels and pouring the wine down a well. His followers responded both to this act and his stirring exhortation stood their ground at Khanua”. Islam would spread in the east again for the next 500 years.

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,  Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor WitShall lure it back to cancel half a Line,  Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it. Omar Khayyam

Freeman Dyson remarks:

“It is true that we emerged in the universe by chance, but the idea of chance is itself only a cover for our ignorance. I do not feel like an alien in this universe. The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the

universe in some sense must have known that we were coming.”

And again.

”There is a strict lack of determination in the microscopic world, so I think that may not be a coincidence that looks something like free will, I am not saying that electron actually has a consciousness, of a kind that we have, but it probably has the rudiments of a consciousness. In some rudimentary sense, every atom has a mind and then the brain is simply some sort of an apparatus for amplifying the molecules, amplifying the choices that are made by individual molecules, and converting them unto a scale of human beings. That seems to me very plausible that the existence of quantum mechanics has something to do with the existence of human consciousness, of course that point of view is very unpopular among biologist, most biologist think quantum mechanics, has nothing to do with it, but anyway I beg to differ. That this traditional God is sort of outside of space and time He sees everything, understands everything, knows everything and He is also omnipotent. But my God is different he is part of the universe, he evolves with the universe, he dos not know what is going to happen, so his knowledge increases as time goes on, and so he is in doubt just as we are, and of course our contributions are in fact his growth, and he

grows through the contributions of creatures like us.”

There have been many individuals like Alfred Wallace Russell, PierreTeilhard de Chardin and Freeman Dyson, who by reading the scripture in the book of nature have sensed a divine purpose, but there knowledge remains partial and incomplete, in the absence of understanding and deep reflection on the verses of Quran.

In what the German poet Goethe achieved after reading the Quran:

“Jesus felt pure and calmly thoughtOnly the One God;Who made himself to be a godOffends his holy will.And thus the right(ness) has to shineWhat Mahomet also achieved;Only by the term of the OneHe mastered the whole world”.

And again on his dislike of the Christian cross:

"And now you come with a sign ... which among all others I mostly dislike.All this modern nonsenseYou are going to bring me to Schiras!Should I, in all its stiffness,Sing of two crossed wooden pieces?"

"Whether the Koran is of eternity?

I don't question that!... That it is the book of books I believe out of the muslim's duty."

"Stupid that everyone in his caseIs praising his particular opinion!If Islam means submission to God,We all live and die in Islam."

This lack of a complete understanding on the part of Dr Freeman Dyson, stems from the persistence in his thought form, of attaching every phenomenon associated with the Ultimate Reality as an act in serial time, bound by the laws of the spatial world and sense- experience being the only mode of receiving the whole truth. Unaccustomed to mystical experiences, he ventures to capture God as a Divine being moving from a state of constant imperfection to a blind perfection. In contrast to what Herr Goethe and Dr Mohammad Iqbal would have us realize about the works of the Divine.

‘Change, therefore, in the sense of a movement from an imperfect to a relatively perfect state, or vice versa, is obviously inapplicable to His life. But change in this sense is not the only possible form of life. A deeper insight into our conscious experience shows that beneath the appearance of serial duration there

is true duration. The Ultimate Ego exists in pure duration wherein change ceases to be a succession of varying attitudes, and reveals its true character as continuous creation, “untouched by weariness” and unseizable “by slumber or sleep”.  Dr Mohammad Iqbal.

This act of free will invoking exisistential choices in the domains of both nature and the human are simply acts of the Divine Will (Amr), the sunnah of Allah Subahan-Hu. An act, deed, and action acquiring ever more freedom, as the creative activity of the created assimilates the Habits of the Creator. As we assimilate the mathematics without and the light of the creator within. This duality is acquired in a Darulhikmet catering to the needs of both the exoteric and the esoteric. However God is not unjust, He gives an illiterate (accordingly in the western terminology and world view of knowledge) secrets of the universe, knowledge of the Nafs (soul) not accessible to an Einstein. There is nothing shocking, as the world literature of all the major religions testify to their mystics. Isaac Newton had many mystical experiences, believed in One God, considered Trinity as a later day falsification. Believing Christianity went astray in the 4th century A.D.

“For Sir Isaac Newton—an enthusiastic alchemist, a despiser of the doctrine of the Trinity, and a fanatical anti-Papist—the main clues to the cosmos were to be found in Scripture.”As noted by Christopher Hichens.

Maximum diversity including, chance, chaos, natural selection, including ignorance and determinism, fine tuning, randomness and knowledge, all playing their part as parts of the whole. The mechanics or law if I can take the liberty to use the word, of free will an arrow in time solved with the solution of the riddle of time.

What does the Lord of the Universe Himself says in the Quran?.

Yea, unto Allah belong All things in the heavens And on earth, and enough Is Allah to carry through All affairs.46

The final word is with Allah (swt) to Him we return, who knows all the mysteries in the heavens and the earth.

Say: “The (Quran) was sent down

By Him Who knowsThe Mystery (that is ) in the heavensAnd the earth: verily HeIs Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.”47

It is in context of the following verses of the Quran that I have alluded to the ideal free will where men and women of understanding having assimilated all the virtues and habits of an Ulul Albab participate as friends of Allah (swt) in His creative endeavors. All our activity whether being a student, teacher, research worker, reading any portion of the Quran, doing any righteous deed like praying, distributing charity to the poor, helping our neighbor is monitored by God. In the age of communication with the fear of the Big Brother (the authority of the government of the day and its surveillance agencies) humans are reminded about an authority, which surpasses them all. And again as and when we are reminded to be true to the constitution of earthly governments, hold to all its covenants. So are we reminded that friends of God (the Aulia Allah) remain steadfast with all their the convents ( Uqd) made with the only Super power in the Universe, acting without any fear, and constantly refraining from evil, so as being given a choice a free will. If they make an honest mistake, and realize it they repent and ask for forgiveness.

And you are not (engaged) in any affair, nor do you recite concerning it any portion of the Quran, nor do you do any work but We are witnesses over you when you enter into it, and there does not lie concealed from your Lord the weight of an atom in the earth or in the heaven, nor any thing less than that nor greater, but it is in a clear book.

No doubt! Verily, the Auliya' of Allah [i.e. those who believe in the Oneness of Allah and fear Allah much (abstain from all kinds of sins and evil deeds which he has forbidden), and love Allah much (perform all kinds of good deeds which He has ordained)], no fear shall come upon them nor shall they grieve, -

As again our poet philosopher and mathematician Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A remarks.

‘Man may make his way through the vastness of the sky, he may knock at the heaven’s gate, he may unravel the mysteries of the universe. He is free to do so. But ultimately there comes a stage when his freedom and latitude are instrumental in bringing him a message of constraint and even the free man who soars high in the sky is compelled to land on earth and thereafter is swallowed by earth. We have no choice at the beginning and none at the end. Only the span in between consists of freedom. So how much freedom do we have?’

And again,

‘We are free indeed but it is a very circumscribed freedom. We can’t step out of its circumscription. We are fenced in by the earth and sky. Similarly we are fenced in by our circumstances and our thinking. We can’t get out of our own self. We can’t outgrow our stature. We can’t overstep our limits. The frontier of gain and loss is the limit of our deeds.’

And in the words of Iqbal

Thus the element of guidance and directive control in the ego’s activity clearly shows that the ego is a free personal causality. He shares in the life and freedom of the Ultimate Ego who, by permitting the emergence of a finite ego, capable of private initiative, has limited this freedom of His own free will. This freedom of conscious behavior follows from the view of ego-activity which the Qur’an takes. There are verses which are unmistakably clear on this point:

And say: The truth is from your Lord: Let him, then, who will, believe; and let him who will, be an unbeliever. (18: 29).

If ye do well to your own behoof will ye do well; and if ye do evil against yourselves will ye do it. (17: 7).

Indeed Islam recognizes a very important fact of human psychology, i.e. the rise and fall of the power to act freely, and is anxious to retain the power to act freely as a constant and undiminished factor in the life of the ego. The timing of the daily prayer which, according to the Qur’an, restores “self-possession” to the ego by bringing it into closer

touch with the ultimate source of life and freedom, is intended to save the ego from the mechanizing effects of sleep and business. Prayer in Islam is the ego’s escape from mechanism to freedom.’

A choice for some withering out to dust and bones, thinking never to arise again, assuming as such, others bending the Pascal wager to their whims.

‘God is, or He is not.” But to which side shall we incline? Reason can decide nothing here. There is an infinite chaos which separated us. A game is being played at the extremity of this infinite distance where heads or tails will turn up... Which will you choose then? Let us see. Since you must choose, let us see which interests you least. You have two things to lose, the true and the good; and two things to stake, your reason and your will, your knowledge and your happiness; and your nature has two things to shun, error and misery. Your reason is no more shocked in choosing one rather than the other, since you must of necessity choose... But your happiness? Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is... If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation that He is.

And to some inspired with a force of changing the directions of the world, in every instant of human history and the future, attaining an everlasting

personality here and in the hereafter, all the Prophets being in this class, The unity of the message of Islam reaches its zenith in the following verses of the Quran.

Those who believe (in the Qur’an).

Those who follow the Jewish (scriptures),

And the Sabians and the Christians---Any who believe in Allah

And the Last Day

And work righteousness---

On them shall be no fear,

Nor shall they grieve.48

Eminent Muslim scholar Syed Abu Ala Maududi R.A commenting on the above verses remarks. “ The context in which this verse occurs shows that the Qur’an is not laying down here the details of the creed and righteous deeds, which one should believe and practice in order to earn salvation. These things have been described in their proper places. Here, the object is to refute the self delusion of the Jews that salvation was their sole monopoly. They were suffering from the delusion that they had some special relationship with God; therefore whoever belonged to their race would go straight to Heaven, irrespective of his creed and deeds, and all other people were born to become fuel of Hell. To remove this misunderstanding of theirs Allah declares that salvation does not depend upon one’s connections with any group but on one’s right beliefs and good deeds. Whoever goes before Allah with these provisions will find will find his reward with Him, for Allah’s judgment will be based on one’s real worth and not on the census registers.”

For why would God want to protect the houses of worship of the Jews, Christian and the Muslims?

To those against whom War is made, permission Is given (to fight), because They are wronged---and verily, Allah is Most powerful For their aid--

(They are) those who haveBeen expelled from their homesIn defiance of right—(For no cause) exceptThat they say, “Our LordIs Allah “. Had not AllahChecked one set of peopleBy means of another

There would surely have beenPulled down monasteries, Churches,Synagogues, and mosques, in WhichThe name of Allah is CommemoratedIn abundant measure.. Allah willCertainly aid those whoAid His (cause)---for verilyAllah is Full of strength,Exalted in Might.(Able to enforce His Will).49

The addition of Jihad in reference to war, is a war of self defense, as the above verses, the word of the Almighty, the Creator and Sustainer of its creation, gives permission to those who have been wrong fully evicted from there homes, for believing in One true God.

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Those who leave their homes in the cause of Allah, and are then slain or die,- On them will Allah bestow

verily a goodly Provision: Truly Allah is He Who bestows the best provision.50

Culminating in the life ( seerat un nabi), of the perfect man, (insan e kamil) Prophet Mohammad (Pbuh). For Allah’s (swt) inspirations acts in the movement of every atom, the smallest particle, ultimately to the quintessential processes, manifested in the creation out of nothing, order out of chaos, laws of maximum diversity, evolution and natural selection, in the life of both the mathematical and the biological, the divinely inspired bee, to men and women inspired and guided by the soul (Ruh) within , and asymptotic intelligence moving and growing in the direction of the Omega point, here the Islamic Omega point points to the ultimate reality Allah (swt) as the Quran mentions:

…. to God we belong and to Him shall we return.51

And again

And that to your Lord (Allah) is the End (Return of everything).52

More like an ensemble of gas particles acted upon by statistical laws to the, ensemble of 7 billion people, acted upon by the divine light. The seeker’s of this light are few and far between. Quran says:

Eta Carinae, Hubble Telescope.

A Hubble telescope photograph of the iconic Eagle Nebula's Pillars of Creation. By comparing 1995 and 2014 pictures, astronomers noticed a lengthening of a narrow jet-like feature that may have been ejected from a newly forming star. Over the intervening 19 years, this jet has stretched farther into space, across an additional 60 billion miles, at an estimated speed of about 450,000 miles per hour, according to NASA

A A section of the Tarantula Nebula, located within the Large Magellanic Cloud. The LMC is a small nearby galaxy that orbits our galaxy, the Milky Way, and appears as a blurred blob in our skies.

Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The Parable of His Light is as if there were a Niche and within it a Lamp: the Lamp enclosed in Glass: the glass as it were a brilliant star: Lit from a blessed Tree, an Olive, neither of the east nor of the west, whose oil is well-nigh luminous, though fire scarce touched it: Light upon Light! Allah doth guide whom He will to His Light: Allah doth set forth Parables for men: and Allah doth know all things.53.

Its re-intregtrating with this light that men and women experience, the blessings of the LORD OF THE WORLDS. The cherisher and sustainer, the first and the last, the inwards and the outwards. Whose light permeates the entire universe at every instant. For the World would collapse and be destroyed without the continuous sustenance from this light. Light upon Light illuminating the heart and soul of every man and woman of Faith.

Quran further elaborates.

It is Allah Who sustains the heavens and the earth, lest they cease (to function): and if they should fail,

there is none - not one - can sustain them thereafter: Verily He is Most Forbearing, Oft-Forgiving.54

When the Muezzin calls for prayers in the early morning hours before the rose pink light of dawn. When the congregation stand for the prayers. When the reader of the Quran, reads with weeping eyes.

A Guide and a Message To men and women of Understanding.55

Patiently, then , persevere: For the promise of Allah Is true: and ask forgiveness For thy fault, and celebrate The praises of thy Lord In the evening And in the morning.56

When a Muslim leaves his home in search for knowledge in distant lands, to bring Dawah ullah, the message of love, harmony, peace to all mankind, and reads with weeping eyes.

Ye are the best Of Peoples, evolved For mankind, Enjoining what is right, Forbidding what is wrong, And believing in Allah. If only the People of the Book Had faith, it were best For them: among them Are some who have faith, But most of them Are perverted transgressors.57

When a Castaway, a drug addict undergoing rehab, a prisoner awaiting the gallows, a women of ill repute trampled by unjust economic forces, low in the deck of, circumstances, some one who gives up every hope, contemplating suicide, repents due to an affliction, despair, loss of a loved one, to Allah(swt),

ask for His forgiveness. Considers the need of God as the all supreme SUPERPOWER, reads with his or her sincerest heart the following verses of the Quran.

And your Lord says: “Call on Me; I Will answer your (Prayer): But those who are Too arrogant to serve Me Will surely find themselves In Hell---in humiliation!.58

Becomes a Sufi, in transition to becoming a واC وEلC KابH أ Eب Kل Eاأل

in Allah’s way, eloquently elaborated by a Muslim saint Professor Rafiq Akhtar. “ Sufi’s were different kind of people, In the varieties of specializations, many people extrapolated new methods, in which Sufism was of a unique character, I cannot infer, that either due to a personal tragedy, accidental love, death of a mother or father, Due to an incident, and very rarely due to search for knowledge, some people deviated from the norms of the society and contemplated a new path to believe in God, to discover God. The real definition of Tasawuf in not, that it was nominated by the Ashari, or nurtured under the influence of the Greek Philosophy, or some speculated influence of the ideas of orient and the occident, no such thing happened.”

“The definition of Sufism is very simple, when a man or a woman decides, at an appropriate age, the significance and meaning of First

priority in his or her life, as God is a Sufi (mystic).”

“Ladies and gentlemen, when an urge arises in the heart of someone to give correct preference to ones priorities in life. And then selects God as the First preference and priority, is a Sufi. It is been one our greatest misfortunes, we always judged reality based on excellence. We saw it when it had already achieved its eminence. We saw Tasawuf and the Sufi, when Sheikh Abdul Qadir had reached the highest stations in the spiritual life, that of Qutub-Ul-Aqtab. We saw Ali Bin Usman when he was ranked Qutub-Ul-Aqtab, and sent to land of Hind. There must have been a time when this sheikh of his era, would have started his first teachings. Like you and me, he must have desired and taken the first step. Must have been a youth, and struggled with his basic instincts. Would have changed the centers of accountability, and in this conflict of power and soul, made errors. And asked for forgiveness from his Lord. What else is the beginning of every soul, an error, and what else are rewards but a repentance, rest are the rituals of religion.”59

Quran possesses and unveils, its signs in the heart of this seeker of God, mysteries in the vast cosmic ocean, open up to, this traveler in his or her life’s journey, becoming his or her destiny.

Quran say’s

This is scripture that We have revealed to you (O Prophet) full of lasting bliss that they may ponder its messages and that people of understanding may take them to the heart.60

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41. Quran (3:190). 42. “God is no more an archivist unfolding an infinite sequence he had designed once and forever. He continues the labor of creation throughout time”, proposes I. Prigogine (The Rediscovery of Time, in Science and Complexity, Sara Nash editor, Science Reviews, Northwood, Great Britain, 1985. 43. Quran (6:111). 44. Quran (13:11). 45. Quran 4:132). 46. Quran (25:6). 47. Quran (5:69). 48. Quran (22:39-40).49. Quran (22:58). 50. (Quran 53:42). 51. Quran 24:35). 52. Quran (35:41). 53. Quran (40:54). 54. Quran (40:55). 55. Quran (3:110). 56. Quran (40:60). 57. Professor Rafiq Akhtar, Haqiqat Muntazar, translation by author of this article 58 Quran (38:29).

God beautiful signs reflected in the majesty of snow covered mountain peaks, green pastures with variety of plants and fruit trees. The ever changing seasons with first signs of spring bringing joy and bliss to the onlookers.

The second highest peak in the world K-2.

The dew falling on the colored petals.

Nay, here are Signs Self-evident in the hearts Of those endowed with knowledge And none but the unjust Reject Our Signs

And yet they say, “Why are not miracles bestowed upon him from his Lord?” Say,“These verses are in themselves miraculous signs concerning God and with Himare the miracles (that you can see in the Universe). As for me, I am but a plainwarner (drawing your attention to His signs and to the consequences of your actions.)”

Why! Is it not enough of a miracle for them that We have bestowed upon you this Bookthat is conveyed to them? For, herein is grace, a reminder, and it is a giver of eminence to people who accept it.

The servants of Allah who reads and recites His names in their Hearts

The Most Beautiful NamesBelong to Allah:So call on Him by them;But shun such men asUse profanity in His names:For what they do, they willSoon be requited.

And again

Allah! There is no GodBut He! To Him belongThe Most Beautiful Names.

All the universe, the heavens and the earth at the command of Almighty Allah(swt), becomes his co-worker.

EXTRATERRESTRIAL AND QURAN

We have not yet detected an extraterrestrial signal. From its inception in the 1959 paper by physicists Giuseppe Cocconi and Phillip Morrison who together wrote that the frequency of 1420 MHz which corresponds to 21-centimeter line of neutral hydrogen would be a good starting point to make contact with extraterrestrial civilization.

“It is reasonable to expect that sensitive receivers for this frequency will be made at an early stage of the development of radio astronomy. That would be the expectation of operators of the assumed source, and the present state of terrestrial instruments indeed justifies the expectation.” They further stated.“The reader may wish to consign these speculations wholly to the domain of science fiction. We submit, rather, that the foregoing line of argument demonstrates that the presence of interstellar signals is entirely consistent with all we now know, and that if signals are present the means of detecting them is now to hand. Few will deny the profound importance practical and philosophical which the detection of

interstellar communications would have. We therefore feel that a discriminating

search for signals deserves a considerable effort. The probability of success is difficult to estimate but if we never search the chance of success is zero.”9Cocconi and Morrison's paper started a debate which

will continue till humans or their evolved forms survive doing science and in the process colonize, other star systems and galaxies.

On the existence of extraterrestrial life

And among His Signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth, and of whatever living creatures (da'bbah) He has spread forth in both.10

The Arabic-English Lexicon by Edward William Lane describes da'bbah, ‘Anything that walks [or creeps or

crawls] upon the earth , an animal that walks or creeps or crawls , discriminating and not discriminating , any animal upon the earth’ including humans in contrast to angels.

For the worst of Beasts In the sight of AllahAre the deaf and the dumbThose who understand not. (8:22)

Here as in all the verses of Quran, God’s signs need to be observed, reflected, pondered and acted upon after being deciphered by men and women of understanding ( Cوا وEل

C KابH أ Eب Kل Eاأل ).Warning those who do not reflect on these signs as dweller’s of fire.

But those who reject Faith and belie Our Signs, they shall be companions of the Fire; they shall abide therein.

Living creations are spread, throughout the expanse of the heavens and the earth. This verse embodies us to seek the means of communicating with creatures in the heavens called his Servants. How else could live creatures in the heavens, appear as

signs. Muslim’s have passed by many signs that the west now seems very certain about their truth. Origins of both the universe and humankind alluded in different verses. Topics that were ones considered as hearsay are now being taught about in the curricula. On 5th December 2011 NASA announced the discovery of a planet similar to the earth as the “First planet in the habitable zone of a sun-like star, Kepler-22b. It's 2.4 times the size of the Earth, it's in an orbital period (or year) of 290 days, a little bit shorter than the Earth's, it's a little bit closer to its star than Earth is to the sun, 15 percent closer”. Thomas Wright would be excited.

Not one of the beings in the Heavens and the earthBut must come to (Allah).Most Gracious as a servant.He does take an account of them (all), and hath numbered them (all) exactly. (Al Quran 19-93-94).11

The use of word (da'bbah) is often mentioned in the Quran for animals or beasts, referring to humans as well. In one verse admonishing those who do not use reason.

For the worst of Beasts In the sight of AllahAre the deaf and the dumbThose who understand not 8-22

And again:

For the worst of the beastsIn the sight of AllahAre those who reject Him:They will not believe.

In the following verses the number 7 in the Semitic languages refers to unlimited, or many, connoting multiplicity, in creation of seven heavens and a similar number of earths. With a reference to Divine Guidance Amr (Arabic for command) appearing for the inhabitants of those earths..

Allah is He WhoCreated seven HeavensAnd of the EarthA similar numberThrough the midstOf them (all) descendsHis Commands: that ye mayKnow that Allah has powerOver all things, and thatAllah comprehends all thingsIn (His) Knowledge.

The forgoing verses explicitly mention intelligent life in outer space, scattered throughout the cosmos. We find complex organic materials the precursor of life everywhere in the universe. The enigma with revelations or messages from the Supreme Intelligence, being whom we call Allah, God, The Eternal One, or by any other name, is that there is no instrument in the scientific laboratory (Professor Bertrand Russell denied the existence of God on lack of reason or evidences, asked what would he do if he found God, after he died, he said he would quote lack of evidence) to communicate with, and authenticate his presence, no empirical data confirming or denying his infinite power and wisdom. Do ye not see that Allah has subjected to your (use) all things in the heavens and on earth, and has made his bounties flow to you in exceeding measure, (both) seen and unseen? Yet there are among men those who dispute about Allah, without knowledge and without guidance, and without a Book to enlighten them!(Al Quran 31:20).12 Here dispute or more aptly a study about Allah envisions a Dialectical principle encompassing knowledge of Allah, derived from words of Allah in the Divine book of nature, (is were we find the empirical data of His presence, a simple example is in the combination of the products of matter and energy from the , rain, wind, sunlight, distance of the earth from the sun an aberration of the inverse square law, an almost perfect circular motion with only a four million miles of variation, to alternation of night and day, creation of the water cycle and other recycling natural cycles, to Van Allen

belts to the right tilt of the earth relative to the sun, the balance in the other solar systems, eventually to the gluing of the galaxy by dark matter etc, seen and unseen bounties in exceeding measure , maintaining the temperatures range with in which the humans can survive, as I observe the temperature fluctuations for the past 24 hours, on my desktop computer from the weather channel in Pembroke Pines Florida, I observe a fluctuation of 10 degree on the average, at any day of the week, exceptions not with standing). It is this change in perspective of a modern Muslim from science in its excessiveness or what is termed as scientism, to a Divine book of nature, with its own men and women of knowledge and intellect is not emphasized in any religion except Islam. Looking towards one of the three sources mentioned in the verses above to seek His presence. The center of all action and will moves from the scientific laboratory to the Qalb illuminated by Hadith of Allah (swt) in the

1. Divine book of nature.

Ve Muhammad)l These Ayaat which We are rehearsing to thee as Truth are the Signs of God. Then (tell me) in what more authentic exposition would they believe after the Words of God and His Signs (deduced from Nature).

It is He who made the sun a radiance, and the moon a light, and determined it by stations, that you might know the number of the years and the reckoning. God created that not save with the truth, distinguishing the signs to a people who know.

The Milky Way galaxy rolling out time and direction in this part, to a precision of unparallel magnitude and complexity, seemingly without a free will. A Laplace would render perturbation theory for this symmetry, an Isaac Newton a Divine presence. A free will and choice for both.

First mosque named Ulul Albab Mosque, Unnes.

Alif Lam RaThese are the AyatOf the Book of Wisdom.

This (Quran) is a guidance. And those who disbelieve in the Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.) of their Lord, for them there is a painful torment of Rijz (a severe kind of punishment). Quran: 45-11.

Here Rijz a psychological state of a fragmented mind and consciousness, ever fluctuating between doubt and faith, is called a severe punishment. The lane Arabic dictionary defines the Arabic word Rjis, with different meanings one being doubt, “they are in a state of confusion and perturbation in respect of their affair or case”. It maybe mentioned the removal of Rijz comes with ‘Shariah accompanied by Tazkiyah e nafs’ or the tightening of the knot of the ego as Hazrat Mohammad Iqbal R.A mentions in the chapter on ‘Is Religion Possible’ in his book ‘Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam.’ I have included a chapter on ‘Shariah accompanied by Tazkiyah e nafs’ under the guidance of Dr Azhar Waheed, coming out of a series of lectures delivered by him on both.

The time is right to gain back the naming rights, and stop being apologetic. With a use of such terms as:

1 Darul Hikmet2 Yaqaloon3 Ilm4 Ulul Ulbab5 Aql

6 Alamoon or Alim

A critic could claim it to be pseudo knowledge or science in disguise. But it is not a matter of knowledge or science it is in fact a matter of priority. When Allah (swt) the Most Gracious and the Most Merciful is the only priority and He commands us to view and act on certain things the way He wants, it is He, Who is the inheritor.

It is We Who will inheritThe earth, and all beingsThereon : to Us will theyAll be returned.

Quran remarks:

Those who listen to the Word, and follow the best (meaning) in it: those are the ones whom Allah has guided, and those are the ones endued with understanding.

2. His personal Guidance, (Infinite possibilities exist in Allah ( swt) guiding His creation. One being the outpouring of ideas and thoughts manifested in inspirational poetry and writings, while studying the Quran, other being the occasional opening of a page and the related message from the Quran, or a book of a rightly guided under the extremity of despair or the sincerest urge of a seeker of Divine truth, or unusual moments of clarity and understanding under the passion and the fire burning in the Heart to find Allah (swt) and in the process becoming friend of Allah (swt) the most gracious the most merciful. .

The third source being a

3. Book (scripture) to gain knowledge about Him, where Allah in His infinite mercy encourages His creation to seek Him.

They have not estimated Allah His Rightful Estimate; Verily, Allah is All-Strong, All-Mighty.

And in the process creating new knowledge hitherto unknown to men or women. Would a present or a future super human race be able to do that it’s, hard to contemplate at our present level of technological progress and intelligence. Having already envisioned the tear and rupture in the fabric of space and time, after controlling hydel energy, wind and steam powers, harnessing electro-magnetism, solar energy, nuclear forces, conquering Hyper space seems to be the next, albeit when, we don’t know. On Oct 29th 2011 neutrino’s, elementary particles were found to travel faster then the speed of light as announced at CERN a few months later the news was retracted, indicating a much more peaceful resolution in realm of science as contrasted with religion. As we progress from the type I to type II and III or more civilizations, will we have more answers, as we or our evolved forms start doing Astro-Engineering of the Divine book of nature ( Be iznillah by the Will of God). Physics transforming into Meta-physics in the Human Phenomenon.

However as we slowly move towards Astro-Engineering ( Be iznillah, by the Will of God) the cosmos, men and women of faith are increasingly being manipulated and forced (knowingly or unknowingly) to play by the rules of science. This sometimes seems to apparently challenge, the Creator Himself or playing God according to others.

A Satanic metaphor repeated through ages.

(Remember also) Qarun, Pharaoh, and Haman: there came to them Moses with Clear Signs, but they behaved with insolence on the earth; yet they could not overreach (Us). And

(Allah) said: "What prevented thee from prostrating when I commanded thee?" He said: "I am better than he: Thou didst create me from fire, and him from clay."

What does Quran say in the verses. “Do ye not see that Allah has subjected to your (use) all things in the heavens and on earth”. As Allah delegates more and more of His power and knowledge to its creation, enabling it to control all the things in the heavens and on earth one day, it will definitely be a test of faith, the duty of its creation is to humbly praise the lord by praying the following..

And that those on whomKnowledge has been bestowed may learnThat the Qur’an) is the truthFrom thy Lord, and that theyMay believe therein, and their HeartsMay be made humbly (open)To it: for verily Allah isThe Guide of those who believe,To the Straight Way.

Orientalists have done a great service to Islam in various capacities depending on their orientation and capabilities.  One such orientalist was Edward William Lane who wrote the English-Arabic Lexicon in the 18th century (though not entirely without their ulterior motives).

http://www.tyndalearchive.com/tabs/lane/

One such word Arabic word  is Jadal and defined as:

1. He contended in an altercation, or disputed or litigated, with him, or did so vehemently or violently and ably or powerfully [or he did so obstinately, or merely for the purpose of convincing him; for]  

 the other being Mujadila from the same root:

2. Signifies the disputing respecting a question of science, for the purpose of convincing the opponent, whether what he says be wrong in itself or not.

And so on to Jedil:

3. Hence as a term of logic, A syllogism of things well known or conceded, the object of which is to convince the opponent, and to make him to understand who fails to comprehend the premises of the demonstration.  

(Copied exactly as they appear in the dictionary).

Jadelat: "I twisted the rope firmly" as though each of the two parties twisted the other from his opinion or as some say it originally means the act of wrestling, and throwing down the other upon the ground.

Qur'an using the same word develops an argument for those who dispute about God.

Do you not see that Allah has made subject to you whatever is in the heavens and whatever is in the earth and amply bestowed upon you His favors, [both] apparent and unapparent? But of the people is he who disputes about Allah without knowledge or guidance or an enlightening Book [from Him]. Qur'an 31:20

So it appears disputes in understanding God, were subject to the mentality, knowledge of the recipients , on their levels of self-interests, vehemently in some to more peaceful and logical in others.

Qur'an here in the above ayah subjects it reader to the logical argument. To resolve dispute about Allah logically using the above three standards viz knowledge, guidance and an enlightened book.

In a simpler form Mohammad Iqbal relates this process as follows.

Broadly speaking religious life may be divided into three periods. These may be described as the periods of “Faith”, “Thought”, and “Discovery.” In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without

any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command. This attitude may be of great consequence in the social and political history of a people, but is not of much consequence in so far as the individual’s inner growth and expansion are concerned. Perfect submission to discipline is followed by a rational understanding of the discipline and the ultimate source of its authority. In this period religious life seeks its foundation in a kind of metaphysics– a logically consistent view of the world with God as a part of that view. In the third period metaphysics is displaced by psychology, and religious life develops the ambition to come into direct contact with the Ultimate Reality. It is here that religion becomes a matter of personal assimilation of life and power; and the individual achieves a free personality, not by releasing himself from the fetters of the law, but by discovering the ultimate source of the law within the depths of his own consciousness. As in the words of a Muslim Sufi– “no understanding of the Holy Book is possible until it is actually revealed to the believer just as it was revealed to the Prophet.” It is, then, in the sense of this last phase in the development of religious life that I use the word religion in the question that I now propose to raise. Religion in this sense is known by the unfortunate name of Mysticism, which is supposed to be a life-denying, fact-avoiding attitude of mind directly opposed to the radically empirical outlook of our times. Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so. It is a genuine effort to clarify

human consciousness, and is, as such, as critical of its level of experience as Naturalism is of its own level.

It is in this third period of Discovery we start to understand the "The splitting of the moon". Can one develop a personality able to understand difficult subjects in the Qur'an by elevating ones Rooh to a level higher than that of the nafs or soul? Also called nafs e mutminah.

I understand that this path is long, arduous, and hazardous many of the Sufi have claimed "karamats" and others Prophet Hood.

Mohammad Iqbal was really perplexed when he tried to understand the “Finality of Prophet Hood" being challenged, and sought the writings of Shaykh Ibn Arabi for any mention of such. The Wahhabi movement did away all together with the institution of saint hood, fearing such utterances.

Opinion:

Know thyself inscribed at the temple of Apollo at Delphi, would add know thy friends and thy companions accompanying thy self in the journey of thy life.( too much thy's) hence our children's  cut off from the old English cannot read the classic’s, as we cut from Farsi and Arabic do. There have been sages who had a glimpse of sacred perhaps not the sacred itself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson and Khalil Gibran could be two such individuals, might be wrong have to read their works.

"Aristotle writes in his Metaphysics: When the objects of an inquiry, in any department have principles, conditions, or elements, it is through acquaintance with these that knowledge, that is scientific knowledge, is attained. For we do not think that we know a thing until we are acquainted with its primary conditions or first principles, and have carried our analysis as as its first elements. Plainly therefore in the science of Nature, as in other branches of study, our first task will be to try to determine what relates to its principles.".

Simply put  Aristotle writes in the nest paragraph, we start from the General and then by the process of reductionism find the details.

A first principle is a basic, foundational proposition or assumption that cannot be deduced from any other proposition or assumption.In mathematics, first principles are referred to as axioms or postulates....wikipedia.

“Similarly a child begins by , calling all men "father" and all women "mother", but later on distinguishes each of them. Aristotle's metaphysics.

Goethe writes the western Divan, inspired by eastern sages as having a thirst for the east, studies the poets of Persia "Khawaja Hafiz" and "Sadi Shirazi ".

Iqbal (knowing German, English, Urdu, Farsi and Sanskrit.) writes payam e mashriq as an answer to Goethe divan.

Though I think Goethe like Ralph and Khalil too missed the sacred, having been inspired by”Spinoza" too.

Regards

Imran.

Dr Azhar Waheed.

Dear Imran Sb! aoa! 

uI am glad to read that we have much common and very little to differ.  I really appreciate your detailed answer. Many a concepts have become crystal clear.  In fact I have never ever considered Ulul-Albaab , mere scientists. Rather I thought (  probably misunderstood or  mis-communicated)  it was your conception.  I do regard Ulul albaab as  Arfeen. 

کیلئے  قرآن مفہوم ہی ایک اگر ، ہے نہیں زائد لفظ کوئ میں ہوئے  کریم استعمال الفاظ مخلتف دواللہ ) ( اولیاء اور الالباب اولی ، معانی  ہیں کے ان کہ ہے لازم ہوں  تو مختلف یہ  بھی یعنی ، گے

گے۔ ہوں نہیں مترادف ہے۔  بالکل نرسری کی ولایت تو ہونا سے میں الالباب ہوئے  اولی الالباب اولیمیں باب کے ولایت کوئی ہے۔  بغیر سکتا ہو داخل  کیسے

ہم   میں محفل یہاں moral   اور purification of thoughtدراصلvalues  & character building دیتے زور زہادہ صورت  پر کی عمل کو علم ہیں،

ہیں۔ کرتے تلاش طریقے کے ڈھالنے کی  میں ایک  آاپ کیلئے مباحثے علمی ہمیں ، ہے درست باترکاوٹ کوئی میں اس ، رکھیں جاری کام تحقیقی اپنا آپ حوال ک اولواللباب گا و رکھنا سیشن ےالگ ے ۔ ہ

کنفیوژن ک ن ، ی چا ملنی معاونت میں کام ک آپ س طرف ماری کو آپ دراصل ، ی چا آنی ہن ہ ے ہ ے ے ہ ے ہ ہ

!!! ، ہے مغرب اسکوپ کا اوراس ہیں رہے کر کام علمی ایک سے حوالے کے اسلام آاپ رکاوٹ اور!! چاہیے رہنا جاری کام یہ ہے۔ اہمیت الگ ایک جگہ اپنی کی کام اس ظاہرہے

والسلام

Regards

Some of the modern scientific challenges appear in the form of1. Genetics with. Cloning, creation of synthetic life.2. Ultra-sound3. Theory of Evolution.4. Rapid acceleration of the Universe.

Having delegated the naming rights to the west, we need to go back to our foundations, and start calling cosmos as the Divine book of nature and the scientists as ( Cوا وEل

C KابH أ Eب Kل Eاأل ).

Allah the First and the Last in Quran states that

Surely God -- He has knowledge of the Hour; He sends down the rain; He knows what is in the wombs. No soul knows what it shall earn tomorrow,

and no soul knows in what land it shall die. Surely God is All-knowing, All-aware.

The word INDAHU describes “in possession”, of Allah the Most Merciful the Most Beneficent the knowledge of the following

1. The knowledge of the Hour.2. The knowledge where Rain will fall.3. What is in mother’s womb?4. What each soul will earn tomorrow.5. Of each soul what land it will die.

Which He can by His Will and Permission accord to humans if He so Wishes (Be-Iznillah). He challenges His creatures the humans to create, where He so Wishes (Be-Iznillah).

Then fashioned We the drop a clot, then fashioned We the clot a little lump, then fashioned We the little lump bones, then clothed the bones with flesh, and then produced it as another creation. So blessed be Allah, the Best of creators!

He calls Himself the best of creators, besides others namely humans and jinn to; and calls them to create

a single verse of the Quran, or get back what a gnat flies away with, attending to the incapacity of both the challenger and the challenged. The challenge apparently posed by modern science is both the reflection of the Almighty’s power and plan to bring His acme creation, to a level in strength and ability granting him a status from the lowest of the low to the Vice-regent/ Co-worker and in the process conqueror the entire universe. If the master plan is not visible so is the shortsightedness. Some times a verse which modern science appears to challenge has a solution is pairs as everything else is created in pairs. Either the verse creates an incentive for humans to duplicate and achieve same brilliance, as manifested in the verse or the reminder of the ultimate fate in the hands of the Best Creator. Quran, exhorts to reflect on this order emerging out of chaos as not created without a purpose and truth (Haq).

What appears as an unbridled evolution, is the unity in diversity leading to infinite levels of advancements in knowledge, culminating in face to face meeting with the Almighty, an end which will take unlimited amount of time and resources.

Arabic-English lexicon by Edward William Lane, describes. “( Cوا وEل

C KابH أ Eب Kل Eاأل ), persons of understanding. ( Labib), a person of understanding, or intelligence. Hence ( Lub) of a man (understanding, intellect, intelligence and mind). Aql the understanding that is put into the heart of a man so called because it is the choicest or best part of him, or it is not so called unless it is pure from cupidity or lust and foul imaginations and therefore has a more special sense than Aql. Lubab, lub what is pure, or, best part of anything thing.”

These people of intelligence and understanding achieving the purification of the soul by practicing Taqwa are also called Muttaqeen, the true believers. Obeying both Allah (swt) and the His messenger Prophet Mohammad (Pbuh).

And obey Allah and the Messenger (Muhammad SAW) that you may obtain mercy.

Asking forgiveness of their Lord as the following verses remark.

And march forth in the way (which leads to) forgiveness from your Lord, and for Paradise as wide as are the heavens and the earth, prepared for Al-Muttaqun.

Those who spend in the cause of Allah (swt) both in adversity and in prosperity. Overcome anger; forgive others for the love of Allah the Al-Rehman and Al-Rahim.

Those who spend [in Allah's Cause - deeds of charity, alms, etc.] in prosperity and in adversity,

who repress anger, and who pardon men; verily, Allah loves Al-Muhsinun (the gooddoers).

Those having committed a shameful act seek Allah (swt) repentance, and forgivness..

And those who, when they have committed Fahishah (illegal sexual intercourse etc.) or wronged themselves with evil, remember Allah and ask forgiveness for their sins; - and none can forgive sins but Allah - And do not persist in what (wrong) they have done, while they know.

For such, the reward is Forgiveness from their Lord, and Gardens with rivers flowing underneath

(Paradise), wherein they shall abide forever. How excellent is this reward for the doers (who do righteous deeds according to Allah's Orders).

TWO AYAH ON THE LOGIC OF QURAN:

They say: "What! when we are reduced to bones and dust, should we really be raised up (to be) a new creation?"

Say, "Be you stones or iron

Or created matter which, in your minds, is hardest (to be raised up),- (Yet shall ye be raised up)!" then will they say: "Who will cause us to return?" Say: "He who created you first!" Then will they wag their heads towards thee, and say, "When will that be?" Say, "May be it will be quite soon!

DEFINATION AND CORRECT MEANINGS OF THE WORD ( Cوا وEل

C KابH أ Eب Kل Eاأل ).

Quran does render the correct premises in the word, ( Cوا وEل

C KابH أ Eب Kل Eاأل ) a title granted by none other than the Creator and Sustainer Allah (swt) Himself, Lord of the seen and unseen, as the epitome of all understanding, modern scientism, excludes domains of experience beyond sense perception, limits human intellect (Aql ) in its search of the Providence. The unity of the message of Quran for men and women of understanding is in essence the oneness of God. (Tawhid). It is not preordained for it can lead to shirk, but an actualization of the self or ego achieved in the hearts of the ( Cوا وEل

C KابH أ Eب Kل Eاأل ) by the Grace and Will of Allah (swt). The two acts of this Will of the Almighty, the inward (Batin) and the outward (Zahir), the Creator of things in pairs is reflected by the Ruh of the insan al kamil, the divine vicergent (naib). As the definition of the word ( Cوا وEل

C KابH أ Eب Kل Eاأل ) symbolizes. Leading to the hadith of the Prophet of Islam, ‘Takhallaqu bi-akhlaq Allah’, ‘Create in yourself the attributes of God.’ Fortified with

1. Tawhid

This (Quran) is a Message for mankind (and a clear proof against them), in order that they may be warned thereby, and that they may know that He is the only One Ilah (God - Allah) - (none has the right to be worshipped but Allah), and that Ulul Albab( men and women of understanding) may take heed.

2. Hikmah

He grants Hikmah to whom He pleases, and he, to whom Hikmah is granted, is indeed granted abundant good. But none remember (will receive admonition) except Ulul Albab (men and women of understanding.)7

3. Two kinds of verses in the Quran. A) Have clear meanings. B) Having hidden meanings or not yet understood because knowledge has not advanced to that level.

He it is Who has sent down to thee the Book: In it are verses basic or fundamental (of established meaning); they are the foundation of the Book: others are allegorical. But those in whose hearts is perversity follow the part thereof that is allegorical, seeking discord, and searching for its hidden meanings, but no one knows its hidden meanings except Allah. And those who are firmly grounded in knowledge say: "We believe in the Book; the whole of it is from our Lord:" and none will grasp the Message except Ulul Albab (men and women of understanding).

4. Endowed with Knowledge and Taqwa , without pride, and false ego, choose the right meaning of the words.

Those who listen to the Word, and follow the best (meaning) in it: those are the ones whom Allah has guided, and those are the ones endued with understanding.

For Quran warns those who invent false Hadith, or words in the following verse.

But there are, among men, those who purchase idle tales, without knowledge (or meaning), to mislead (men) from the Path of Allah and throw ridicule (on the Path): for such there will be a Humiliating Penalty.

5. Revelations (Hadith, words of Allah) in the divine book of nature and the divine books revealed to the Prophets.

Behold! In the creationOf the heavens and the earthAnd the alternation Of Night and DayThere are indeed SignsFor those of Understanding.

Those who remember God, standing, sitting and lying on their sides, and reflect on the creation of the heavens and the earth (saying): "Our Lord, You have not created this for nothing. Glory be to You! So safeguard us from the punishment of the Fire." (Qur'an, 3: 191)

Hubble Telescope

Grand Mosque at Mecca

6. Understanding, reflecting and pondering on the meanings in the verses of the Quran. A book full of wisdom, knowledge, insights about the universe and

a spiritual guide for men and women of understanding within. A book full of blessings, like the other books of God including Torah, Psalms and the Bible which preceded it.

It is a blessed Book which We have revealed for you so that you will reflect upon its verses and so the people of understanding will take heed.

7. The other lesson for men and women of understanding is that, after they have read the Quran, they have to constantly actualize, and practice living in peace and harmony, within their community, be an example for all.

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Say (O Muhammad SAW): "Not equal are AlKhabith (all that is evil and bad as regards things, deeds, beliefs, persons, foods, etc.) and AtTaiyib (all that is good as regards things, deeds, beliefs, persons, foods, etc.), even though the abundance of Al-Khabith (evil) may please you." So fear Allah much

[(abstain from all kinds of sins and evil deeds which He has forbidden) and love Allah much (perform all kinds of good deeds which He has ordained)], O Ulul Albab (men and women of understanding) in order that you may be successful.

8. Hereafter is the final destination of every man and women of understanding.

Allah has prepared for them a severe torment. So fear Allah and keep your duty to Him, O Ulul Albab (men and women of understanding) who have believed! - Allah has indeed sent down to you a Reminder (this Quran).

9. Those that reflect and acquire Allah Mercy and Blessings through prayers in the depth of nights, contemplating on signs in Nature, Quran and the Qalb.

Is one who is obedient to Allah, prostrating himself or standing (in prayer) during the hours of the night, fearing the Hereafter and hoping for the Mercy of his Lord (like one who disbelieves)? Say: "Are those who know equal to those who know not?" It is only men of understanding who will remember (i.e. get a lesson from Allah's Signs and Verses).

Tonight April 20, 2015, after reciting our Isha prayers we set up a Ulul Albaab Halaqa in Masjid Al Mutaqqeen, Pembroke Pines, and agreed to work on a spreadsheet, classifying the Quran from 1st to the 114th Suras, with brother Shakeel Hye and Syed Waqar as key Ulul Albaab’s.

Supernova remnant 0509-67.5, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a small galaxy about 170,000 light-years from Earth.

A bizarre comet-like X-pattern of filamentary structures circling about 90 million miles from Earth. It is believed the object was created by the collision of two asteroids.

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An image of a crater on an object called 8405 Asbolus, a 48 mile-wide chunk of ice and dust between Saturn and Uranus.

Several hundred never before seen galaxies are visible in what was the "deepest-ever" view of the universe. Taken in 2009.

A pair of gravitationally interacting galaxies called Arp 147. The left-most galaxy is relatively undisturbed apart from a smooth ring of starlight. It appears nearly on edge to our line of sight. The right- most galaxy, resembling a "zero," exhibits a clumpy, blue ring of intense star formation.

Research on Similar ayah and their comparison.

Example: The topic of SKY in two different Sura's. Qaf 50:6 and sūrat l-ghāshiyah.88:18

Quran 50:6

Have they not looked at the heaven above them, how We have made it and adorned it, and there are no rifts in it?

 

Quran 88:18

And at the heaven, how it is raised?

We see the words adorned and rifts added in Sura Qaf, where as in Sura Ghashiyah,  we are told to see the heaven and  how it is raised.? Adorned means the beauty of the sky at night as defined in dictionary embellish: to add decoration or ornamentation to something, and rift means there are no breakage, loss or damage in the sky, like in a wall. (Allah knows better.)

Eta Carinae as seen by Hubble Telescope.

Spiral Galaxy M74, Courtesy STSci.

MEANS AND WAYS OF APPROACH TOWARDS GOD.

There is however for every human being man and women a duty to attain and seek the MEANS of approach to Allah.

O ye who believe Do your duty to Allah Seek the means Of approach unto Him, And strive with might And main in His cause: That ye may prosper.(5:35)

And keep thy soul contentWith those who callOn their Lord morning

And evening ,seekingHis Face; and let notThine eyes pass beyond them,Seeking the pomp and glitterOf this life; nor obeyAny whose heart WeHave permitted to neglectThe remembrance of Us,One who follows his ownDesires, whose case hasGone beyond all bounds.

1.The first thing then is to seek the five times Salah a day for the sake of Allah(swt). A conversation with the Creator. This is remembrance or Dhikr.

And do thou (O reader!) Bring thy Lord to remembrance In thy (very) soul, With humility and in revererance, Without loudness in words, In the mornings and evenings; And be not thou Of those who are unheedful.

And again those of us who miss prayers,

Then, there has succeeded them a posterity who have given up As-Salat (the prayers) [i.e. made their Salat (prayers) to be lost, either by not offering them or by not offering them perfectly or by not offering them in their proper fixed times, etc.] and have followed lusts. So soon they will meet evil..

2. Charity.

As-Sadaqat (here it means Zakat) are only for the Fuqara' (poor), and Al-Masakin (the poor) and those employed to collect (the funds); and for to attract the hearts of those who have been inclined (towards Islam); and to free the captives; and for those in debt; and for Allah's Cause (i.e. for Mujahidun - those fighting in the holy wars), and for the wayfarer (a traveller who is cut off from everything); a duty imposed by Allah. And Allah is All-Knower, All-Wise.

An effort to find and talk to God’s other creations, seems not possible for everyone. But Quran does gives a clue to people of Paradise talking to those in Hell and asking them the cause of their affliction in the following verses.

In Gardens (Paradise) they will ask one another,

About Al-Mujrimun (polytheists, criminals, disbelievers, etc.), (And they will say to them):

"What has caused you to enter Hell?"

They will say: "We were not of those who used to offer their Salat (prayers)

"Nor we used to feed Al-Miskin (the poor);

"And we used to talk falsehood (all that which Allah hated) with vain talkers .

"And we used to belie the Day of Recompense

"Until there came to us (the death) that is certain."

3. Remembrance of Allah(swt) in the Heart or Qalb., is where the spiritual journey emanates, in search of Al Haqq. For its only attaining the love of Allah what is real, all else is just the inward and outward manifestations of his love. Illuminated by divine names.

Accepting Allah’s PLAN AND WILL introduces a paradigm shift, when a Momin in the way of Allah after undergoing heart wrenching trails and tribulation accepts the Plan and Will of Allah as all Encompassing. Every new traveler on this path has to first answer the question. How can I find God?

Remembering God is the shortest way to Him, the word short may not suffice here as there is a direct connection between the Creator and His creation. He says He is closer than the jugular vein.

It was We Who created man, and We know what dark suggestions his soul makes to him: for We are nearer to him than (his) jugular vein.

Quran is in fact Allah (swt), word’s and His speech, when we remember Him, through the Quran, we invoke His speech and establish a harmony for split seconds, too however long a two way communication. The creation asking for His mercy and guidance and the Creator responding in kind. The Creator is not unjust or unkind, for those who

remember Him, in their own languages, are duly rewarded.

Except those who believe, work righteousness, engage much in the remembrance of Allah, and defend themselves only after they are unjustly attacked. And soon will the unjust assailants know what vicissitudes their affairs will take!

Remembrance is supplemented with the purification of the soul, as the following verses state.

But as for him who feared standing before his Lord, and restrained himself from impure evil desires, and lusts.

This desire to purify the heart from lust, pride, egotism, jealousy, hypocrisy, conceit, grudge; need the company and guidance from an Aulia Allah a

friend of the Almighty. Constantly reminding and teaching the Salik(Seeker), Talib (Student), Ulul Albab (men and women of understanding)the intricacies of Quran and Sunnah, with the utmost emphasis on practice/deeds. Bringing into the mantle of the injunctions of Quran and the Seerat of the last Prophet. Along with excessive veneration of this beloved of God.

The first stage is the repentance Taubah (repentance) which lead to Ikhlas( ) by overcoming what Quran calls Naf’s Amara or the lower soul.

"And I free not myself (from the blame). Verily, the (human) self is inclined to evil, except when my Lord bestows His Mercy (upon whom He wills). Verily, my Lord is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful."

MURAQABA

A contemplation technique practiced with utmost concentration on the Ayaat (signs ) of Quran and Divine names of Allah.

1.One verse for Muraqaba.

Behold! In the creationOf the heavens and the earthAnd the alternation Of Night and DayThere are indeed SignsFor those of Understanding.

Those who remember God, standing, sitting and lying on their sides, and reflect on the creation of the heavens and the earth (saying): "Our Lord, You have not created this for nothing. Glory be to You! So safeguard us from the punishment of the Fire."41.

This creative activity mentioned in the above ayat referrers to men and women of understanding ( Cوا وEل

C أHابK Eب Kل Eاأل) in an act and deed devoted to the commands of Allah. As the opening verses of the Quran, introduce and prepare the seeker/beginner who wants to take the first step.

In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.

Praise be to Allah, the Cherisher and Sustainer of the worlds;

Most Gracious, Most Merciful;

Sovereign of the Day of Recompense.

It is You we worship and You we ask for help.

Guide us to the straight path,

The path of those upon whom You have bestowed favor, not of those who have evoked [Your] anger or of those who are astray.

First determining Allah as the only priority the rest being the supplication for His guidance on the straight path, integrating all our professions as a military scientist, astrophysicist, doctor, engineer, scientist, psychologist, sociologist etc and developing our Soul ( Nafs) constitutes Surat-e-Mustaqeem, while seeking His mercy from the hell fire. These are some of the righteous deeds to be practiced to overcome the gloom and despair I elude

later, of how everything around us is set up in a way leading for us to follow only the capitalist system with its inherent greed, in this world shaking endeavor by strengthening the individual and consequently, the whole Islamic community. When namaz becomes a mere ritual, and not as time for reflecting and contemplating on the ayaat being read and conversing with the Creator, the masjid as a place of inactivity, we gravitate to what Iqbal warns in his poem of Asrar-e- Khudi, as those who do not tighten the knot of their self, bring themselves gradually out of favour of God.

And be ye not like those who forgot Allah; and He made them forget their own souls! Such are the rebellious transgressors!

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We shall show them Our signs In the horizons and in themselves, Till it is clear to them that it is the truth. Suffices it not as to thy Lord, That He is witness over everything?41-53

The Jihad against our souls is for own well being, for God is free from all needs.

And if any strive (with might and main), they do so for their own souls: for Allah is free of all needs from all creation.

3. Men and Women of understanding who wake up in the night and reflect on the verses of Quran, while invoking Mercy of Allah(swt)

Is one who is obedient to Allah, prostrating himself or standing (in prayer) during the hours of the night, fearing the Hereafter and hoping for the Mercy of his Lord (like one who disbelieves)? Say: "Are those who know equal to those who know not?" It is only men and women of understanding who will remember (i.e. get a lesson from Allah's Signs and Verses). Quran 39-9.

A constant self education at night reflecting upon the verses in Quran with Allah (swt) as the witness leads to knowledge, by which the friends of Allah (swt) are selected and entrusted with the secrets of the Universe, both within the heart and outside.

The devotee, can reach illumination in two ways, as described to me by Zulfiqar Agha a mystic living in Orlando, Fl.

1. The devotee by initiation into a circle becomes a traveler, is guided on the journey from Qal to Hal by a Sufi master.

2. The devotee having independently experienced illumination by Divine Grace being selected out of a multitude for a purpose.

Here Dr Azhar Waheed, contemporary Muslim mystic and physician guides us to Shariah/Tariqah , the exoteric/esoteric by reminding the golden, imperatives of a Hadi(Guide) in order to understand the intricacies of Quran and Sunna of Prophet Mohammad(sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam), and in the process develop that Nafs(ego) which can sustain the shocks of life, of death and the Hereafter(life after death).

When the Creator reminds of the ayah 2:164 and 3:189-200, essentially a path of a scientist turned into a mystic. When he considers the Creator as One and reflects on the creation of the universe, turning into the mohiba love for the Creator of this creation, and is reminded that no work of a male or female will go unaccounted for.

And your Ilah (God) is One Ilah (God - Allah), La ilaha illa Huwa (there is none who has the right to be

worshipped but He), the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful.

Verily! In the creation of the heavens and the earth, and in the alternation of night and day, and the ships which sail through the sea with that which is of use to mankind, and the water (rain) which Allah sends down from the sky and makes the earth alive therewith after its death, and the moving (living) creatures of all kinds that He has scattered therein, and in the veering of winds and clouds which are held between the sky and the earth, are indeed Ayat (proofs, evidences, signs, etc.) for people of understanding.

And of mankind are some who take (for worship) others besides Allah as rivals (to Allah). They love them as they love Allah. But those who believe, love Allah more (than anything else). If only, those who do wrong could see, when they will see the torment, that all power belongs to Allah and that Allah is Severe in punishment.

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Dear Imran Sb!  AOA!  I respect your difference of opinion. I appreciate your candid expression of difference of opinion. The difference of opinion between intellectual people invariably proved to be a nidus of creation. Now I expect you should come up with creating a new dimension of thought. We will meet again after 120 days,  Insha.Allah! P.S.I should also admit that I, too, cannot quit my way, a way that is elaborated by Hz. Wasif Ali Wasif , Saeen Fazal Shah , Baba bulleh Shah, Rumi , Fareed-u-Deen Attar and of course the way which is taught to practice in Kashful Mahjoob.  I should clearly express that thought pattern vocalized by Dr. Zakir Naik, Prof.

Basheer-u- Deen Sb, Prof, Rafeeq Akhter and Pervaiz Sb, is simply not at par with what is in my pursuit. I expected, and still expect you to come up with a synthesis of Science and Mysticism. I always encouraged you ( must recall  our first meeting in Lhr) to work and keep on working and writing regarding topic of ULUL-ALBAAB. ; but at the same time, I cannot approve a wrong, or out of context inferences/deductions on your part). I will humbly suggest you to reopen our correspondence and re-read my versions regarding ILM, INTELLECT and ULUL-ALBAAB. We should know each other's limitations. Dear Imran Sb! I have my own limitations as I have limited time left; that is why I am more concerned with refining of Soul (tazkia.e.nafs); the same I focus during Q & A sessions with my students. To re-affirm what we are doing in Mehfil, I will suggest to re-read Ashfaq Sb's MUN CHALY KA SODAAnyhow, we can meet and exchange our views, outside Mehfil, any time, anywhere. Stay Blessed !!( I will keep you updating about my new writings; plz, find copies of my last few columns; today's columns is a tribute to our late friend Mr. Furqan Danish)

Regards---------------------------------  Dr.Azhar Waheed   ڈاکٹراظہروحید  

This journey from Islam to Iman and finally to Ihsan cannot be undertaken without the Sangat/Darul-Hikmet/Tadabur ul Quran Academy any on of these names constitutes the reflection and the associative power of such a group as contrasted with the a search of an individual, a collection built up slowly of such like minded Ahle Khayal on whom Allah’s mercy and blessing abounds. Reflecting on the Quran and Hadith being mentioned there, including the veneration on the Last Prophet Mohammad (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam ).

If in the process the level of consciousness of the soul starts to transmute from its lower to higher forms the seeker starts receiving new inspirations of Khayal/intuition/vibes it is imperative to follow what Dr Azhar remarks.

From Duality to Divinity

The first breath of life serves an encounter of human consciousness with the world of perception. His world is all what he perceives through his five senses.

prelude

Thoughts Reconstructed As it goes, “I think, therefore I am!” Human being is distinguished among other physical being on account of his ability to think, reflect and then response back in the form of thoughts. He assimilates concrete world and can produce ideas that are abstract. Abstract thinking is a hallmark of human being. Sometimes it appears that by virtue of this abstract thinking he is capable of maneuvering the concrete world. It sounds that abstraction rules over concrete.Thoughts are of two kinds. One is material, the other one is mystic, though sounds mysterious. Material thought stems from matter, culminates in reshaping matter-energy complex and ultimately dumped down in matter. In material thought nothing matters except matter. The other set of thoughts buds within the deeper recesses of human consciousness. Human conscious does not accept itself a part of temporal world. He takes ride on matter, rules on matter and sometime ruled by lust for matter-money-power triad but he never concludes himself a

part of matter. He regards himself apart from matter. Embedded deep in the nexus of his thoughts, he assumes himself immortal, though trapped within whirlpool of mortal existence. He recognizes himself as creature but at the same time he considers himself an ally to Creator; though he may not justify himself as an image of God. This very thought paves the way to self-realization. Quest to know is unfathomable. To some, it ends up in fathoming “how”, whereas to some it culminates in wondering “who”. This transformation from “how” to “who” turns a scientist into saint. A saint with his stalk of "who" tries to peep into the Will ___ the ultimate plan of Planner. Hence, lies the difference between Search and Research. Research is matter oriented but search is Being- oriented. It is a shift in the order of preferences that make a paradigm shift. Man of research silently plunges into search. He research outer world and searches his inner Self. You start a communication and you end up in communion. Communion is communicating with self. Isn’t it weird that you can recognize only one entity in this world and ____that is You. You can hardly communicate with anyone else other than You. It is indeed a great revolution that sublimates “I” into “YOU”. Scientist’s curiosity shape up the gadget of "how"____ this intellectual gadget keeps on piercing matter, energy black-hole and even big-bang. Whereas wanderer of “Who” sooner or later comes across the frontiers of religion, ethics and morality. For a saint morality, ethics and religion is as important a field as mathematic, physics or chemistry.

Awareness that Right is mightier than might stems from this very mystical thinking.

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Dr. Azhar Waheed2nd May, 2015

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“Everyone should feel in his heart the urge to serve the nation. Urge derives from intention, and intention involves a type of knowledge. Then there is an action corresponding to this knowledge, and for each action there is a field of action. If in the field of action, those engaged in action are people of good intentions, it will end well. But if fellow-travellers are not fellow thinkers, action will not yield success.”

'"The Beaming Soul" Hz. Wasif Ali Wasif )reh.)

Clarification on Ulul Albab

To: MOHAMMAD IMRAN KHAN

Dear Imran Sb!aoa! Today, I studied your article cum letter in very detail; I must agree,  many of your points are quite stunning ( so why shouldn't  I take stress!! ). You are right that Mefil's collective decorum is different, where much cannot be discussed regarding this topic, which is an essential specialty of yours!In Muslim Era of Science, in fact every "scientist" was essentially a Sufi. We read in history that "Chemistry" کیمیاand Medicine ( طب), was a part and parcel of every Sufi's syllabus. Even today we encounter many Sufis who have a keen interest of ھھی ہومیو  اور طب ، حکمت پیت , to relieve the suffering and ailing fellowmen. So I may conclude that the way to be an اولوالباب, is through Taswwuff, and may not be through enrollment in Oxford and  Ohio University. If we read further after the ayat of Ulul.albaab, the characteristics of Ulul.Albaab matches exactly those of typical Sufi/ Saints ( Ale-Imran verse # 190-198).In short what you are studying is right, what you are thinking, you are thinking in right direction.As we have discussed,  in our last face to face meeting during your visit to Lahore:" you must not stop your work even if you get something  more refined; because what you are writing is going to help those who will follow you"

Thank you very much for sharing what you are thinking.Actions

MOHAMMAD IMRAN KHAN7/14/13 To: dr.azharwaheed@gmail.com

Dear Dr Saheb, aoa,

The discussion helps me a lot to understand properly the Sufi Perspective of the Divine order, in the clear definitions of the Quranic words.

As you very rightly pointed and explained the meaning of the word Ulul Albab is basically a spiritual journey of an Individual.

I had translated from Dil Darya Sumandar before

which sums up the argument I am trying to find out and understand how the two can be amalgamated , with reference to the Saheb Zikr and  Saheb Fikr in one word of Quran that is Ulul Albab.

‘Sahib e Nazar sees this universe like a book of revelation, this is also a book in which there is no doubt, with the same Creator and the same style of creation, Quran contains a description of the universe, and the universe an exegesis and understanding of Quran, one who denies the reality of the universe cannot believe in any divine book. This universe is full of signs of intricate beauty, there recitation constitutes the pastime of these Sahib e Nazar.  Sahib e Fikr, and Sahib e Zikr find the real universe through contemplation of these signs. They know that the sustainer of a seed in earth’s darkness, and the revelation of Quran are from the same Being. The Being who creates life in the womb of its mother’.

However discussing with you brings a lot of new ideas to my mind, and one being that since science has made an illegal Qabza on Nature, whose detail whether in a DNA, OR RNA, is written by God, and not because of a scientist. The scientist only reads in finer detail having the instruments of microscope, telescope etc. The word scientist should be slowly changed to Ulul Albab. Who made the seed and its cells and the DNA inside not the scientist, it is the Qabza group, or modern English west, not reading the Quran is describing the Divine book of nature. For God gives His instructions according to His plan,

there is hardly a few verses in the Bible highlighting nature, but the Quran is full of them. Ibn Rushd also called Averroes in the west was to highlight the obligatory duty to study the Divine book of nature in the 11 century, and many more Muslim scholars did that including Ibn Jaber, Ibn Haitham, etc, when he says in his book.

The Law commands such a study. That the Law summons to reflection on beings, and the pursuit of knowledge about them, by the intellect is clear from several verses of the Book of God, Blessed and Exalted, such as the saying of the Exalted, "Reflect, you have vision:" (fix, 2)* this is textual authority for the obligation to use intellectual reasoning, or a combination of intellectual and legal reasoning. Another example is His saying, "Have they not studied the kingdom of the heavens and the earth, and whatever things God has created?" (viii, 185): this is a text urging the study of the totality of beings. Again, God the Exalted has taught that one of those whom He singularly honoured by this knowledge was Abraham, peace on him, for the Exalted said, "So we made Abraham see the kingdom of the heavens and the earth, that he might be" [and so on to the end of the verse] (vi, 75). The Exalted also said, "Do they not observe the camels, how they have been created, and the sky, how it has been raised up?" (lxxxviii, 17-18), and He said, "and they give thought to the creation of the heavens and the earth" (iii, 191), and so on in countless other verses. This study must be conducted in the best manner, by demonstrative reasoning.

Since it has now been established that the Law has rendered obligatory the study of beings by the intellect, and reflection on them, and since reflection is nothing more than inference and drawing out of the unknown from the known, and since this is reasoning or at any rate done by reasoning, therefore we are under an obligation to carry on our study of beings by intellectual reasoning. It is further evident that this manner of study, to which the Law summons and urges, is the most perfect kind of study using the most perfect kind of reasoning; and this is the kind called "demonstration."

Newton was the first person in the west to realize that, recently discovered papers of Newton have been found in the last century where it is found he wrote more on Revelation then science, but was afraid that the Pope would condemn him, as he believed in one God and not trinity.

As to your apprehension that basing Quran on science can be fraught with mistakes, as science continuously changes, I would add that some things do not change like the things made by God , example could be the periodic table, the Helix in the DNA. (Also verified by the microscope). We can refine this knowledge but the basic remains the same, so I am

trying to find example of creation in nature because of the Supreme being.

The only modern scientist who approaches the subject as a Wahadat is David Bohm a quantum physicist. He says the Universe is a whole entity, it is our way of thinking in the past few centuries that has given us this habit of breaking into parts. Quantum physics is a very interesting subject with roots in the wholeness of the universe, example being if we give a spin to an electron in the clockwise direction on the earth in a laboratory , an electron at the end or edge of the universe will spin in the opposite direction, though the distance between the two is infinite. As a wave connects the two, although Einstein said nothing can travel faster then the speed of light. But this phenomenon  is beyond understanding.

Another interesting property of Quantum mechanics is the coherence principle in which a light photon or any particle of matter can be in more than one place at the same time. Beyond comprehension of Newtonian physics.

 

 These assertions of quantum physics in the realm and domain of  metaphysics do tender to scientism and speculation, and at times appear apologetic but a verse from the Quran  speak of Allah (swt) encompassing the heavens and the earth with His

knowledge ILM.. And the verses in the Divine book of nature as His words.

 

It is Allah who has created seven heavens and of the earth, the like of them. [His] command descends among them so you may know that Allah is over all things competent and that Allah has encompassed all things in knowledge.

 

 

 

 

 

And (Ve people!). In the alternation of day and night and whatever sustenance (that is water) God sent down from the sky and then with that water gave life to the earth that had died, and in the change of the

winds from one side to the other, are (hundreds of) Signs (directives) for a people which possesses wisdom

 

 

 

(Ve Muhammad)l These Ayaat which We are rehearsing to thee as Truth are the Signs of God. Then (tell me) in what more authentic exposition would they believe after the Words of God and His Signs (deduced from Nature). 24 Quran (45:1-7).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here whole communities of those who reflect and ponder on the Signs in nature are called people of

wisdom and intellect. And that Allah(swt) has encompassed all things in knowledge.

 

 

As to the nature of this Divine ILM, Quran is the best guide, with the verses.

 

And pursue not that

Of which thou hast

No knowledge; for

Every act of hearing,

Or of seeing,

Or of (feeling in) the heart

Will be enquired into

(On the day of Reckoning). Quran 17:36.

 

 Knowledge is to be gained by using; the senses acquired by humans through natural selection or more aptly directed evolution. Anything not verifiable by these faculties or the modern day instruments an extension of these senses, in the realm of the seen or the unseen, does not constitute Knowledge. With the exception of God, his angels, the knowledge of ‘Nafs’ Arabic for soul, Ruh and what He hides from His creation. Here it may be argued that knowledge of the Divine is unlimited and the knowledge given to its creation is limited. In the following verse again Allah(swt) speaks about the  inquiry in to His being, with knowledge ILM.

 

 

Do ye not see that Allah has subjected to your (use) all things in the heavens and on earth, and has made his bounties flow to you in exceeding measure, (both) seen and unseen? Yet there are among men those who dispute about Allah, without knowledge and without guidance, and without a Book to enlighten them!

Dr Saheb please do not take any stress, as I am interested in this topic will keep on updating, so we periodically discuss, not upsetting the mehfil. As I do not want to interrupt the general syllabus which is the whole the Marifah e Alaihi, but also try to understand the proper use of the word ILM. Because if we isolate the above verses the meaning of ILM though true because of Quran has to be studied in detail. As you mention to understand the verses check a few verses before and a few verses afterwards which is the correct way of finding the meanings . Since I tried to use the above definition of ILM for 30 years, in isolation and did not know anything about Irfan I did not get any benefit. So ILM has to be connected with Marifah.

On the word science I quote from an article.

'Until about 1832, when it first seems to have become established as a noun and a concept, the term “scientist” had no really independent meaning. “Science” meant “knowledge” in much the same way as “physic” meant medicine, and those who conducted experiments or organized field expeditions or managed laboratories were known as “natural philosophers.” To these gentlemen (for they were mainly gentlemen) the belief in a divine presence or inspiration was often merely assumed to

be a part of the natural order, in rather the same way as it was assumed—or actually insisted upon—that a teacher at Cambridge University swear an oath to be an ordained Christian minister. For Sir Isaac Newton—an enthusiastic alchemist, a despiser of the doctrine of the Trinity, and a fanatical anti-Papist—the main clues to the cosmos were to be found in Scripture. Joseph Priestley, discoverer of oxygen, was a devout Unitarian as well as a believer in the phlogiston theory.'

Regards,

Imran.

Dr Azhar Waheed sahib email.

Actions Dr.azhar Waheed 6/18/14 To: cosmic_solutions@hotmail.com

Dear Imran Sb!I read this transcription and believe me , it created a spell on me. I wondered what delicate points we were discussing, taking it just a casual talk. This description  transferred me in a spiritual ecstasy ( kaifiyyat). I have no words to thank you......May Allah Almighty bless you with what you seek...... with wisdom , spirituality and Nearness. 

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“‘ The protection of Khayal is inside Ahle Khayal and not ouside’.

Page 1

‘In this journey of Irfan, there is no core syllabus, it is an experience, an experience of Noor Khuda(swt) and Nur Mohammad (phub).’

‘Taqwa:- Pehchaan (God Consciousness) as narrated in Kashaf ul Majub, love is God, God is love.’

‘Be afraid of the Firasat(wisdom) of a Momin.’

‘Endeavour to recognize the Firasat of a Momin.’

The psychology of the Talib (seeker) has to be understood.’

Books by Shaykh ul Akbar Ibn Arabi R.A 1. Zar e Khalis (Pure Gold).2. 2. Futhuhat Al Hukum.

What is Seerat ul Mustaqeem ?

Those whom Inam (blessing’s) of the Almighty Allah descend.

Page 2Sources of Perception

1. 5 senses2. Dreams3. Kashaf4. Wajdan5. Sixth sense6. Ilham

Nourishment is according to the needs of the recipient, whose size could be increasing and decreasing.

Need of the world increases and decreases by Zikar Khair and Darud Pak.

Who is Jahil (Ignorant).Be Ilm (without knowledge).Ghafil (without knowledge).

Knowledge is light.

To refute Nur is Jahilat, nur will come from Marifaat.Zulmat (darkness) is denial of Marifat.

Page 3

To jahil (ignorant) we should say Kalo Salamah.

Do not indulge with the Jahil.1. Refrain from vain talk.2. Love should be pure.

A person of humility will give way even to an opponent/enemy.A person of Pride will destroy and crush the opponent.

Hijab are of two kinds.1. Raine (permanent).2. Ghain.

Zikar are two kinds1. Qalbi.2. Akhfi.

Page 4Relation is with the BeingIsm is the journey of the Being.Is the remembrance of the Being.

Vision of the seeker:- To create Taulak to seek the face of Allah(swt). As the Lord is within we should too, indulge within, move from one Sefat to another, to acquire through consciousness effort the

In getting attracted or related with the Zaat results in the creation of the plant of knowledge.

Kiran Kiran Surag( a book by Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A). Every Ism is related with its Musama.Protection of Ism.

The one who recognizes himself , recognizes God.Those who are selected, are not a product sold in stores.

Zikar of Sifaat Muhammadi and Tasbeeh and Zikar Elahi is theory.Aswah Husna is practice.

Find the means to connect with the Maalik.

Page 6 Transcend forms and formats. Love of the Prophet Mohammad (Pbuh) is the basis.Ashab e Sufa used to seek the face of Prophet Mohammad(Pbuh).

Iman and Muhabat(love) are the same.

Taqwa:- Tazeem e Rasool.

Adab:- Love is not acquired without Adab.

Kainaat(universe) is perishable, Zaat Mohammad(Pbuh) is not.

Iman based on Logic (Daleel) is Iman based on personality of Prophet Mohammad(Pbuh)Logic is based on alam asbab.Deen is based on Zaat.

Page 7‘If a human find’s the company of Rohaini Umra (spiritual rich), one finds the poverty of Gnosis, and tries to find means to enrich /enlarge the heart.’

‘ To enlarge the spiritual heart we need to Pray and n

The journey of a Salik traveler constitutes in activating the miracle of consciousness to higher levels, a gift endowed on the human beings only, to their union with the Ultimate Consciousness.

This journey for the sake of correct directions and stability has, to have a Director of Consciousness, an ‘Ulul Amr’.This author was endowed with the blessing’s of God the most High, Mighty and Wise in the personality of Dr Azhar Waheed, his own speech is translated from Urdu to English in the end of this treatise.

And the Shaykh of Dr Azhar Waheed remarks in Qatra Qatra Qulzum translated into English.

“An eye which is able to see a multitude of stars simultaneously is unable to see itself. Shaykh is the mirror who introduces us to ourselves. It is possible that a thing which makes us feel happy today could turn out to be an agony tomorrow, and a thing which we are lamenting upon today could be a source of blessing tomorrow. A Shaykh corrects our liking and disliking for us, and with love makes the path of Deen easy. A Murshid can correct us even without speaking.” Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A.

Expressed in what Afzaal Ahmed writes about in the life of Hazrat Mohammad Iqbal R.A.

Iqbal’s approach to the Qur’an is thoroughly experiential-firmly grounded in his life-long practice of reciting the Qur’an and pondering upon its meanings. In this living relationship, Iqbal posed questions to the Qur’an and received answers that not only challenged him but also shaped and directed the yearnings of his soul. In traditional Islamic terms, Iqbal’s approach to the Qur’an was based on personal realization and insight (tahqiq) as opposed to conformity to authoritative teachings or interpretations (taqlid).

As everyone is not endowed with the intellect or the time to make Qura’n, a book of Tahqiq as opposed to Taqlid, this Tahqiq is undertaken in the lives of the esteemed personalities as mentioned in reference to the Persian couplet.

‘Bandah e Momin Z Ayaat e Khuda Assat.’ Who have travelled this path of self-knowledge and Taskiyah e Nafs.

I would add to this the example of Dr Israr Ahmed R.A in his knowledge and teaching’s on what constitutes tasawwuf.

‘The conclusion of this argument has to return to the points that were made at the very outset. As far as the objectives and goals of tasawwuf are concerned, these are in full agreement with Islamic teachings. To put the matter more bluntly, the objectives and goals of tasawwuf are in fact the very core, the essence, and the spirit of Islam. significantly Islam.However, during the course of Muslim history, Sufi thought and practice has deviated from the Prophetic model in terms of the exact methodology to attain these objectives. A critical and objective academic study of Sufism and its comparison to the Prophetic life sufficiently illustrates this point.

And again,

It has been noted that Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab (RA) is the most notable example of an individual who manifests aversion towards tasawwuf. However, I still include him among the reformers of Islam. Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab (RA) made significant headway in purging the religious practices and beliefs of the Muslims in the Arabian Peninsula of innovative and un-Islamic elements. He also eradicated many of the un-Islamic cultural norms that had taken on the veneer of religiosity among the Arabs. It must also be acknowledged that he made significant achievements in presenting an authentic and purified version of the exoteric and ritualistic dimension of Islam. Therefore, he must be included among the reformers of the Muslim Ummah. However, if we compare his accomplishments to his Indian contemporary, Shah Waliullah Delhvi (RA), it is obvious that there is no comparison between the two. Shah Waliullah accomplished at both the esoteric and exoteric level what Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab (RA) could only achieve at the exoteric level. Shah Waliullah’s work in philosophy,spirituality, and social thought is unparalleled by any other thinker from either the classical or the medieval age of Islam. In other words, the work and personality of ShahWaliullah (RA) is much more holistic, integrated, and profound than that of Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab (RA).

Dr Azhar remarks ‘Transformation by acquiring the habit of pardoning people, one sided, the person you

are pardoning both of you are at the same level, status as far humanity is concerned, one who is forgiven thinks you are a fool. Given to sharing food, wealth, time, and effort.’

An impression William James tries to give when he remarks.

‘Other revelations are described as "openings" -- Fox’s, for example, were evidently of the kind known in spiritistic circles of today as "impressions." As all effective initiators of change must needs live to some degree upon this psychopathic level of sudden perception or conviction of new truth, or of impulse to action so obsessive that it must be worked off, I will say nothing more about so very common a phenomenon’.

‘When, in addition to these phenomena of inspiration, we take religious mysticism into the account, when we recall the striking and sudden unifications of a discordant self which we saw in conversion, and when we review the extravagant obsessions of tenderness, purity, and self-severity met with in saintliness, we cannot, I think, avoid the conclusion that in religion we have a department of human nature with unusually close relations to the transmarginal or subliminal region. If the word "subliminal" is offensive to any of you, as smelling too much of psychical research or other aberrations, call it by any other name you please, to distinguish it from the level of full sunlit consciousness. Call this

latter the A-region of personality, if you care to, and call the other the B-region’.

This diversity in the creation of the universe, a mechanism for creating order out of chaos, as is the creation of everything in pairs, is a source of faith and disbelief, faith for those who have been blessed with a true guide in a parent a mother a father, a teacher, a friend accordingly as one who is in search of this Reality, a Reality which is beyond reason, beyond physics, which reciprocates to the yearning’s of the broken hearted, the down trodden, the weak and the poor , the pale and the unworthy, in the tear’s of the huddled masses, those who share their food, even themselves going hungry with those they consider human and not Rich or Poor, Jews or Christians, Muslims or Hindus, Whites or Blacks, Yellow or Browns but people of God. Who’s Mercy and Blessings are showered on those who seek Him in the middle of the night and early morning hours of dawn, with love and seldom with reasoning and logic, though the seeker is encouraged, to study and watch the splendor and grandeur of the majesty of the Creator, in this grand symphony we call the Cosmos, a symphony elaborated in His book the Qur’an and its extension the Cosmos:

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The revelation of the Book (this Quran) is from Allah, the All-Mighty, and the All-Wise.

Verily, in the heavens and the earth are signs for the believers.

‘The first khayal or prompting of the soul will be the right one.’

‘The second prompting of the heart will be doubt.’

‘The enlargement of the spiritual heart is achieved by leaving worldly desires (material needs).’Test of an enlarge heart.1. How you treat a guest.2. Treatment of a guest with generosity, big heart

and patience.

And in the life and teaching’s of the last Prophet Mohammad (On whom God and the angels are constantly sending their Blessings, asking the humans to do the same) one who called all the previous Prophets his brother’s, culminating in the teaching and practices of what his brother Abraham saw in the movements of stars and the appearance of the sun, the depth of the Cosmos, where entire galaxies are born out of chaos, seed’s in the quantum fluctuation’s, the birth of the universe, evolving and maturing to create the dwelling’s, the hanging garden’s of ‘Samawat’ without pillar’s that we can see’, full of intelligent beings scattered across, the vast and nightingale singing universe in praise of the Lord of the World’s , Who’s Majestic Throne encompasses this entire unfolding, having started with the Big Bang, and continues in the ever new and expanding creations, are encouraged to find the sacred and the scientific in the, alternation of night and day, the movement of the clouds, high above bringing rain to the dead earth, mandating reflection on the creation of camels, and in the diversity observed in the color of plants, animals and humans, of streaks of red and black in the mountains, that this study of the Noble book of nature,we recently started calling the study of science, forgetting the Creator Himself and the purpose in creation,

Among His Signs are the Night and the Day, and the Sun and the Moon. Do not prostrate to the sun and the moon, but prostrate to Allah, Who created them, if it is Him ye wish to serve.

We must revert back to remembering Allah the Almighty, while standing, sitting and lying down, reciting His names at all times ,while contemplating the structure of the heavens and the earth, in the process using a radio telescope, or an electron microscope, or a Hubble telescope, to finding a Purpose in life, with praying from the agony of Hell fire, as being a straight path the Seerat e Mustaqeem.

For it is these Abd (servants) engaged in such endeavors, the men and women of understanding that Almighty Lord of the Heavens and the Earth without blemish calls as the rightly guided, on whom His Blessing and Rewards, flow in abundance.

Who is better in speech than one who calls (men) to Allah, works righteousness, and says, "I am of those who bow in Islam"?

The one who starts to write his own book, a book of his deeds, in the path of the righteous, is described by Muhammad Iqbal R.A.

Yeh raaz kaise ko nahi maloom ka MominNazar ataa hai Qari haqeeqat meen hai Quran

This mystery is not known to any, A Momin who appears to be a Qari,In actuality is the Quran.

As the Quran says

They were in the habit of sleeping but little by night,

And in the hour of early dawn, they (were found) praying for Forgiveness;

And in their wealth and possessions (was remembered) the right of the (needy,) him who

asked, and him who (for some reason) was prevented (from asking).

In the earth there is evidence (of the Truth) for those who have strong faith.

There is also evidence of the Truth within your own selves. Will you then not see?

And in the heaven is your provision, and that which you are promised.

Then, by the Lord of heaven and earth, this is the very Truth, as much as the fact that ye can speak intelligently to each other.

Mr. Imran Khan, Aurangzeb Wing (1967- 1972) , 14th Entry, working in USA for Science and Education, visited Cadet College Hasanabdal on 4th Feb, 2014. 

He wants to set up an Astronomy Club at Campus by donating Optical and Radio Telescopes to develop interest in current Abdalians.

He already has donated Astronomy Books worth Rs. 20000 to the College. He appeals to his other entry mates, seniors and juniors to join him in his efforts towards their Alma Mater.

Inspecting site for the Radio Telescope at Cadet College HasanAbdal, with Vice-Principal Mr Saggu and Dean of Physics Mr Kaleem.

Shipped first Orion reflector telescope to Mr Hamza Yusuf at Zaytuna College, CA. 02/11/2014. May Allah the most High and the most Merciful accept this effort. Amen.

Observation of Sun spots at Markham Park in Weston Florida. Astronomy day in America May 10th 2014. An effort to integrate Islam and Science or more aptly ayat (Ilm..knowledge or signs both in the scripture the Noble Quran and the universe. Scientist’s/Ulul Albab’s drawn from Masjid Al Mutaqqeen , Pembroke Pines, Fl.)

Discussing with the Director Fox Observatory Markham park Weston Florida, on questions of Sun spots..10th May 2014 .

A trip to Fox observatory Markham Park, Sunrise Fl. 10th May 2014 viewing Sunspots using special filters. Astronomy day celebrated in United States.

Fine balance in the Universe:

It is Allah who has sent down the Book in truth and [also] the balance. And what will make you perceive? Perhaps the Hour is near.

By hour we mean the collapse of time and space of the fabric of the cosmos so finely tuned as to defy logic.

Is this collapse a local phenomenon or universal? Balanced to a precision which if studied by modern day scientific instruments point to an accuracy able to sustain not by chance, but by an intelligence able to outsmart and out maneuver chance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQtGI20D1yY

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On 17 Oct 2014, at 02:37, MOHAMMAD IMRAN KHAN <cosmic_solutions@hotmail.com wrote:

Dear Brother Dr Abdal Hakim Murad,

Asaalam o Alaikum,

It has been a while have not communicated with you, I keep on writing my essay on men and women of understanding Ulul Albaab.

DEFINITION AND CORRECT MEANINGS OF THE WORD ( Cوا وEل

C KابH أ Eب Kل Eاأل ).   Qur'an does render the correct premises in the word, ( Cوا وEل

C KابH أ Eب Kل Eاأل ) a title granted by none other than the Creator and Sustainer Allah (swt) Himself, Lord of the seen and unseen, as the epitome of all understanding, modern scientism, excludes domains of experience beyond sense perception, limits human intellect (Aql ) in its search of the Providence. The unity of the message of Qur'an for men and women of understanding is in essence the oneness of God.(Tawhid).  It is not preordained for it can lead to shirk, but an actualization of the self or ego achieved in the hearts of the ( Cوا وEل

C KابH أ Eب Kل Eاأل ) by the Grace and Will of Allah (swt). The two acts of this Will of the Almighty, the inward (Batin) and the   outward (Zahir), the Creator of things in pairs is reflected by theRuh of the insane al kamil, the divine vicegerent (naib). As the definition of the word ( Cوا وEل

C أHابK Eب Kل Eاأل) symbolizes. Leading to the hadith of the Prophet of Islam, ‘Takhallaqu bi-akhlaq Allah’, ‘Create in yourself the attributes of God.’ Fortified with.   1.      TawhidThis (Quran) is a Message for mankind (and a clear proof against them), in order that they may be warned thereby, and that they may know that He is theonly One Ilah (God - Allah) - (none has the right to

be worshipped but Allah), and that Ulul Albab( men and women of understanding) may take heed. 2.      Hikmah He grants Hikmah to whom He pleases, and he, to whom Hikmah is granted, is indeed granted abundant good. But none remember (will receive admonition) except Ulul Albab (men and women of understanding.)7    3.      Two kinds of verses in the Quran. A) Have clear meanings. B) Having hidden meanings or not yet understood because knowledge has not advanced to that level.      He it is Who has sent down to thee the Book: In it are verses basic or fundamental (of established meaning); they are the foundation of the Book: others are allegorical. But those in whose hearts is perversity follow the part thereof that is allegorical, seeking discord, and searching for its hidden meanings, but no one knows its hidden meanings except Allah. And those who are firmly grounded in knowledge say: "We believe in the Book; the whole of it is from our Lord:" and none will grasp the

Message except Ulul Albab (men and women of understanding).              4. Endowed with Knowledge and Taqwa , without pride, and false ego, choose the right meaning of the words.    Those who listen to the Word, and follow the best (meaning) in it: those are the ones whom Allah has guided, and those are the ones endued with understanding.  For Quran warns those who invent false Hadith, or words in the following verse. But there are, among men, those who purchase idle tales, without knowledge (or meaning), to mislead (men) from the Path of Allah and throw ridicule (on

the Path): for such there will be a Humiliating Penalty. 5. Revelations (Hadith, words of Allah) in the divine book of nature and the divine books revealed to the Prophets. Behold! In the creationOf the heavens and the earthAnd the alternationOf Night and DayThere are indeed SignsFor those of Understanding. Those who remember God, standing, sitting and lying on their sides, and reflect on the creation of the heavens and the earth (saying): "Our Lord, You have not created this for nothing. Glory be to You! So safeguard us from the punishment of the Fire." (Qur'an, 3: 191)

I have extended Ulul Albaab from 3:189:200 as suggested by Dr Azhar my mentor, as he says this gives the whole process that a Sufi who is also a naturalist goes through. And read the ayaahs in their whole context.

And I pointed out to him have we ever noticed when Qur'an gives an authentication of women or female as also included in the Ulul Albaab, as my mentor is kind of patriarchal.

When Allah Subhana-hu says,

Yusuf Ali: And their Lord hath accepted of them, and answered them: "Never will I suffer to be lost the work of any of you, be he male or female: Ye are members, one of another: Those who have left their homes, or been driven out therefrom, or suffered harm in My Cause, or fought or been slain,- verily, I will blot out from them their iniquities, and admit them into Gardens with rivers flowing beneath;- A reward from the presence of Allah, and from His presence is the best of rewards."

Male and Female if we consider the ayaah 3:189-200 not doing a selective study but in the whole context. Female too are Ulul Albaab, where our Talib (student  back in Pakistan,  through all his sincerity misses this point in Islamic Education.) in the process destroying girls schools.

My mentor or Shaykh Dr Azhar Waheed also says,

Do not describe the vision or dream one has but to describe its FAIZ.

But I still consider you the first person in the whole

wide world that I described my vision to the first time.

I have send Zaytuna college and their Dean Mr Mahan Mirza a telescope as per your suggestion and last month added a CCD camera to take pictures of the COSMOS. Samawat wal Ardh and our Nafs together forms the laboratory to see the ayaat of the Almighty Creator. Will inshaAllah mail them to your when their Astronomy department has a class in the spring semester only.

Bringing the naming rights back, I have named scientist as Ulul Albaab, in my essay, which has grown so extensive cannot email it any more.

Dear Shaykh, all this effort also includes Tazkia e nafs please pray for me to have a pure heart, as the word Lub signifies,if we read Arabic English Lexicon by William Edward Lane describes as the choicest part or a purified heart.

I have been in my discussion with my mentor pointed out to this, he was adamant at first not understanding Ulul Albaab, but after an effort of two years, we have come to a mutual understanding, Ulul Albaab are in fact Arafoons , and that Ulul Albaab is the potential nursery in which waliyat is born or enriched. JazakAllah khair.

As my mentor used to stress on Kashf ul Majub sharif only but I have convinced him, though that is the fundamental book still in Islamic tasawwaff in Lahore

Pakistan, but Ulul Albaab should also be included in its dictionary. In a lecture by Dr Martin Lings in Lahore in 2005 he pointed to the word Ulul Albaab as the Quranic authentication of the word Sufi. And now listening to your lectures on Islamic Education more closely today I wondered am I rediscovering the wheel, the ones you gave in Ft Lauder-dale Fl.

But reminds me of Dr Ali Shariati who said a genius throws ideas down like a pyramid, captured by the intellectuals, who then pass them on to the general masses.

Though not claiming to be an intellect but just bouncing your ideas. I have launched a vigorous campaign to introduce the idea of Ulul Albaab in our mosque and schools around, and writing flyers and handouts to advertise Islamic Education as also stressed by you, in your  lectures.

As, I have also given or denoted books to Pak-Turk school in Lahore, and trying to build a Radio Telescope in my former alma-mater near Islamabad.

I, have talked to the mayor of the city of Sunrise in Ft Lauder-dale to have a program to install telescopes and use it as a meeting point for interfaith activity. 

I keep on translating from Urdu to English the mehfil or sangaat of my mentor Dr Azhar Waheed, as we have four hour lecture by him every saturday on skype.

I am blessed by Almighty when a few years back I had complained to you, I read the Quran without a guide. I found Dr Azhar a Sufi scholar from Pakistan, but I STILL do not understand the concept of Wahadat ul Wajud, would go by the definition of Yusuf Ali  for now , "Not everything is He but  His is everything" as differing from my mentor, who says according to his mentor Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif r.a

"Wahadat ul Wajood is a mushaida" La majud Allah, concepts difficult for me to understand at my present state or station. I am a novice in taraiqah just peeping in the class to get a glimpse.

   Dr Azhar Waheed sahib Mehfil  on 22-6-2013.

Question:-  I have a question in my mind , I have read a lot about it, asked many people this question, which is why has the Khalaqa Kainat (Creator of the Universe) arranged and created this whole Nizaam(system), a question I have asked many and usually get a  traditional answer.Answer: Let us view this question from a different angle, although this is not an answer.  If you note that when you get into a relationship with someone, then the question of asking how and why immaterializes. And if the relationship is not developed or is in the stage of developing, or the question of developing does not arises at all, then the questions of how and why are infinite. Why did

you do this, why did you that. But if one gets hold of the link to a relationship, then instead of asking one starts to narrate and to answer. There is one relationship between the Khaliq(Creator) and the Makhlooq(created), and the other being a secular relationship, which is relationship of the Creator with every of His  creation,  with every being, with an ant , a lion, but in the relationship with Insaan(human) there is something special of what that has been communicated is in the form of Quran e Pak. How and why, to ask the questions there was by Insaan (human) and to reply there was Insaan(human). Let us read an Ayah,

 In Arabic language Taa is used instead of Tuu, so using Taa the word becomes Taluq , so the whole Ilm is tere taluq ka naam, Your relationship.

Read! In the Name of your Lord, Who has created (all that exists), 

 Has created man from a clot (a piece of thick coagulated blood).

There is a point created by the Sufia, yeh tera taluq hai, this question you asked has another dimension, another perspective, how did I arrive here, what is the meaning of my being here, question is the same, the question is being asked more decently , if we get answer to this question we get answer to the others, in Quran it says ‘Do not ask, but instead you will be asked’ I usually ponder what will be asked of us, like did you read the Quran, and said yournamaz, but another question can also be asked in this context is , did you in this vast world where from besides Milton and Archimedes to Abu Ali Sina, Rumi and Razi pondered on at their levels, did you also try to discover yourself,  who are you ?, where did you come from?, what  is your purpose?, if we see a graph paper, and the four axis go into  infinity. When we draw anything on the graph we need a reference point, drawing anything without a reference point will be meaningless, unless a person considers himself as the reference point and starts to find and make himself the reference point and then  the meaning of these questions of  why, and how start to unravel . The question is what is the Wajah e Taqhleeq Kainaat? You will not get an answer to your question from outside, like if you are working in a bank, I as an outsider will ask what are these people doing from morning to evening, keep on counting repeatedly like some mad adventure. But those working in the bank a part of the bank, know it is a very serious issue , like those working in the World Bank, a little error in calculations will cause great problems, a small discrepancy in counting will be hazardous for the bank.  So even to find the Maqsad(purpose) you have to become a part of this Nizam, those people who

ponder on how the Creator created this vast Nizam stretching into billions of years, working  effortlessly,  reflecting  how a child is born, then one has to become a part of the Nizam e Qudrat of the Khaliq consciously not academically butilmi and consciously, in this respect the education given to us is first enter Taslim then do Research , reach research through Taslim, Iman is the syllabus of the heart, not of logic, The question is what is the Wajah e Taqhleeq Kainaat? We have to create Taluq first as its solves all entanglement of the rope, do know the kuna, the root cause for which we have to become first the part of the Nizam ,then things will start to Ashkaar( unravel), like while working in a bank the first we thing we do is apprenticeship , although already having studied banking, so instead of asking the Creator why and how He started the creation, why everything has been created, first find yourself  finding a reference point  in your own self   then all the drawings and maps will manifest on the graph, we do not understand things because we try to understand from a mantqi (reasoning)  point of view, so that we would be able to communicate to others, instead of controlling the impulse to narrate to others, and coming out of this impulse to tell others, instead of deciding only to narrate to ourselves and understand only ourselves and not to tell anyone else then we will see we understand much more , usually when a person hears or read he tries to rationalize, because if he has to tell someone else then he should have logic, so if the human instinct to rationalize and human intellect has a basic instinct to rationalize is overcome for a short time , our scenario and our

aperture will open, like in a dream when we  are trying to understand or communicate, in a dream we don’t have an impulse to communicate so in a dream we understand much more. The filter of logic removes many pearls of wisdom, and many pearls do not pass through the filter, thinking as leftover a human throws them away.What is the better approach?Answer: The better approach is to disregard the earlier approaches written on ones mindset, that slate should be cleaned, then in the state of acceptance (ba halaat e tasleem) try to read whatever is being written by itself, since whatever has already been written so far on our mind has been written by some one else by others, on the contrary what is in our slate we have written by our own hands, the only book that is verifiable is the one which is our own book.Question: How can we clean the slate?Answer: This question is very important of how to clean the slate, this is a very easy and a very difficult way, if one is in Tasleem of someone it is a matter of 2 minutes, but if one does not come in Tasleem  can become a stupendous task of life. When one comes in Tasleem( accepts) someone things become very easy, I will give you my personal experience, when I came in the company of Sarkar Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A, I had read all the philosophies of old Greece, Khalil Gibran, the Halqa Arbab e Zauq , the critics gatherings, laden with all, but it was miracle not my effort, miracle was his, when we came in his trance, when he made us Tasleem , not saying we came in Tasleem since we did not know, when and how we came in Tasleem, it never came to the mind

that this point was discussed by this Sufi or that writer, also said something like this, not coming in the developing stage, I came when having read everything , so it was a his Ijaz that all that was written , the heart and mind came together , otherwise one says I am listening and this is just one,  of the many  explanations this did not happen. So this is the way of cleaning the slate, cleaning the slate is a spiritual level and journey of all spiritual matters and tasks start throughTasleem, bypassing the contents of the Mind and the bypassing the mind is accepting Tasleem. If we reflect on how big the Haqiqat are the Angels, reward and punishment, Allah Tala which do not come in our experience, but as soon we come into Tasleem , we  become of those Haqaiq,  saying salaam to the angels and getting wa alikum salaam. The whole Ijaz is of Tasleem, getting in the domain of Hadood e Haraam, when those who have not accepted find a board, that says those not in Tasleem go this way, only those with Tasleem go this way as the Hadood e Haraam has come when we go to umra there is a board, when coming into Muslim town about 35 miles ahead is a board the rest are sent in the bypass, its all a story of Tasleem , the cleaning of the slate is smaller event , Tasleem does big events, so cleaning the slate is matter of Tasleem with the brush of tasleem, eroding all other brushes, as the saying goes, the pen was given , giving us permission to write, whatever one want to write, example when we come to a physician carrying many files, the physician prescribes a certain medicine knowing what medicine to prescribe , like in a spiritual prescription too we work in a hit and trial method, going to

different doctors, and also having our own prescription, so Taslim makes one focused, removing any torsion in transmission.What is the relationship between Tasleem and Mohabbat is tasleem possible without 

Thanking  you for your patience.JazakAllah Khair,

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From: abdalians_14th@googlegroups.com on behalf of imran600@hotmail.comSent: Mon 12/29/14 1:09 AMTo: abdalians_14th@googlegroups.com"God made the world of the absent. It is the world of reason and corresponds to the salat of the night. Its moment is from the absence of the evening glow to the rise of the morning glow.  "He who performs the salat is whispering with his Lord." In this salat through the proofs and demonstrations of Him given by the world of the absent, reason, and reflection. This is a specific proving through a specific kind of knowledge, known by the Folk of the Night. This is the salat of the lovers. The Folk of the Mysteries and Abstruse knowledge's, those sheltered by the veils. God gives them knowledge's appropriate to this moment in this world. This is the moment of the ascents of the prophets, the messengers, and the mortal human spirits so as to see the imaginal signs of God and gain spiritual nearness. It also the moment when God descends from the station of Sitting{ upon the Throne] to the heaven closest to us for the sake of those who seek forgiveness, repent, ask, and supplicate. So it is an eminent moment. When someone performs the night salat in a gathering it is as if he has stood half the night."In this hadith there is a fragrance for him who maintains that the last moment for saying this salat is until the halfpoint of night. God made the world of imaginalization and the barzakh. It is the descent of meanings within sensory forms, The meanings are not of the absent world, because they have put on sensory forms, nor are they of the witnessed world, because they are disengaged meaning and their manifestation within these forms is an accidental affair that has happened to the perceiver, not to the meanings themselves. Here knowledge is seen in the form of milk, religion in the form of a fetter, and faith in the form of a handle. Among the moments for the salats, the barzakh is the moment of the sunset and the morning salats, since neither of these moments belong to the night or the daytime. They are two barzakhs between night and daytime on the two sides, since the time of night and daytime is cyclic.  That is why God says, He wraps the night around the daytime and wraps thedaytime around the night, from the wrapping" of the turban. Each of the two hidden by the manifestation of the other. Thus God said, He makes the night cover the day and in

the same way He makes the daytime cover the night. He who performs the salat is whispering with his Lord" at this moment through the signifiers of God given by the world of the barzakhs, in the self-disclosures, their constant variations, and the transmutation within forms, as has reached us in the sound reports.  However, the barzakh reality of the sunset salat is the servant's emergence from the world of the witnessed to the world of the absent. He passes by means of this odd-numbered barzakh, and thereby he gains awareness of the mysteries of the acceptance of the witnessed world by the absent world. This corresponds to sensation when it gives a form to imagination. My 0 cents, as it’s quite hard to understand Ibn Arabi, here is a guess.  A Specific kind of knowledge by which Ibn Arabi means, a knowledge delivered through meditation in the  magrib/isha prayers from the start of the evening glow (barzkah between daylight and dark ) to the rise of morning glow Or could be tahajud prayers only including Fajr.(barzakh again between a dark night and the early morning).  When the heart is opened up to the proofs of God, by the world of absent ( do not know what Ibn Arabi means by it, guess the world of the unseen/night time) sometimes by opening up the pages of Quran, while in prayers, a veil gets lifted. Usually the ayah opening up there meanings in a crystal clear comprehension, not understood, previously, only in moments of a nightly vigil. This nearness to God, when a person gets guidance to THE NEEDS of the moment, I guess means an indication to the direction which he should travel or move towards in general. Example trying to build a scientific institute or an Observatory, also containing books and audio visuals giving very clear message/instructions on the role for Quran and Sunnah. So if we read Ibn Arabi in its totality means the Isha prayers too, as he mentions it can be read up to midnight. (not familiar with Shariah/Juriprudence/Fiqh). The meanings of the unseen world having put on a sensory form.     Example : In the verses 25:53.

 It is He Who has let free the two bodies of flowing water: One palatable and sweet, and the other salt and bitter; yet has He made a barrier between them, a partition that is forbidden to be passed. The viscosity, density and temperatures including the concentration of unsalted or sweet water containing some nutrients, mixing with the salted of the ocean producing the effect,

producing an interface.  http://www.msc.ucla.edu/oceanglobe/pdf/densitysalinity/densityentire.pdf "Thus, we use parts per thousand to express salinity). Salinities near shore vary due to the addition of fresh water by rivers and rainfall. An estuary is a semi-enclosed body of water where incoming seawater is diluted with fresh water coming from the land. Because of differences in density between fresh and salt water, salt water will move upstream in the estuary along the bottom, while fresh water will flow downstream along the surface. Some mixing occurs at the interface where fresh and salt water meets. This is called brackish water. Local conditions of temperature and water circulation may also increase or decrease salinity." Not forbidden to be passed, I think means a continuous process of brackish region remaining for the next millions of years until the water cycle comes to end in a cataclysmic activity/event or a gradual geological change stretched in a certain localized regions over millions of years. Since there could be a passage of some contents of sea water and river or sweet water mixing. One can always be critical of the ayah but in its broadest perspective, someone living in a desert could not have spoken such words.  Here the use of the word Barzagh corresponds to "separation" proved by empirical science. While again in the ayah 23:100 the word Barzagh is used meaning a separation after death, a spiritual event.

 "In order that I may work righteousness in the things I neglected." - "By no means! It is but a word he says."- Before them is a Partition till the Day they are raised up. Or as translated by Mohammad Asad, "As for those who will not believe in the life to come, they go on lying to themselves, until when death approaches any of them, he prays: "O my Sustainer! let me return [to life], so I might act righteously in whatever I have failed [aforetime]. Nay, it is indeed but a [meaningless] word that he utters: for behind those [who leave the world] is a barrier of [death] until the Day when all will be raised from the dead! Here again the word Barzagh is used, a separation, humans or their souls will be requesting/asking to be sent back in order to correct what they did before. It is known by the Sufia as an interface, where those with the highest spiritual attainment, can cross over by the Will of the Creator coming back and forth.  An Ulul Albaab can see/relate the meanings of Barzakh, both in the domain of physics and metaphysics.  

Understood by Imran khan when he writes: "Reading the biography of the twelfth-century Andalusian mystic Muhammad Ibn Arabi helped me understand Mian Bashir's gift better. Ibn Arabi referred to those ' that see with two eyes ' . He believed that after a process of spiritual discipline somebody could reach a state during meditation in whichthey received direct knowledge from Allah.I also started to read about Sufism. and discovered there was a whole world of spirituality about which I was completely clueless. Sufism is too big a subject to delve into in this book. but these beautiful lines from the mystic poet Rumi reflect what he calls the inner journey of man, and the ascent of the human soul. People who know about mysticism will understand about the journey of the soul towards God.   Low in the earthI lived in realms of ore and stone;And then I smiled in many-tinted flowers;Then roving with the wild and wondering hours.O ' er earth and air and ocean' s zone.In a new birth.I dived and flew.And crept and ran.And all the secrets of my essence drewWithin a form that brought them all to view ----Rumi. and again,   "I was heavily influenced by the Quranic injunction ' Keep the money you need and give the rest away . ' It took me quite a long time to understand this. yet within it lies the key to human contentment. Most people cannot distinguish between wants and needs because wants can be limitless. I would see cricketers I had played with - some of whom came from very humble backgrounds - striving to make more and more money even after they left the sport. I realized that it was out of insecurity. For a sportsman in particular there is usually only a limited time in which one can make a lot of money. These people were caught in a never-ending race where no amount of money was ever going to be enough. It is the same with Pakistan' s ruling elite. Some of our politicians are dollar billionaires yet there is still no end to their greed. What I realized whilst raising funds for the hospital was that the unhappiest people are those whose goals areentirely material. The people who had donated the most were also the ones who were spiritual and seemed most content. In the same vein. the greatest scenes of happiness and contentment I had ever seen were in the villages and homes of rural communities of Pakistan. I have long since believed that the people who are richest are the people who cannot be bought for any price. 

From Imran Khan....A Personal Journey... I believe IK is the right candidate after reading more about him, though I was skeptical in the beginning, by his behavior bordering on rude. Regards,Imran. અલા�તો� આહા�રિIQBAL S. AKHTAR Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies and South Asian PoliticsDepartment of Religious Studies Department of Politics and International RelationsFlorida International UniversityDeuxième Maison (DM) 359BMiami, Florida 33199P: +1 305.348.7098Actions Mohammad Imran Khan 1/10/15

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the advances in science, might interest you. Includes my correspondence with Dr William C Chittick from State Univ at Stony Brook , NY. Regards,Imran.Actions Mohammad Imran Khan 1/06/15

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To: abdalians_14th@googlegroups.comhttp://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/asian/faculty/WilliamChittick.shtml  Dear Friends, I had started a class on mysticism 101, here 101 means a very elementary stage last month, by undertaking to study psychology and its role in the experience of the  self, making a critical judgment first on a human claiming an inner experience, followed by a comparative study of mysticism, and later extending it to a study of comparative religions , having done so with introducing Ibn Arabi, and his thoughts, with a commentary on nightly vigil, by quoting from a book called "The Self-Disclosure of God", by Dr William C Chiitick who is a scholar on Islam, at Sunny University, New York, on Asian and Asian American studies.  

   With the intention of asking him to explain his book, and any questions raised by this forum. The Self-Disclosure of God, from which I had quoted, a difficult subject when narrated by the masters, had sent him an email to help us over in the understanding, of the fundamentals of Sufism, as given to in the Self-Disclosure of God. His  reply is attached, as choosing the subject from the mid point,  in Dr Chittick assessment I have jumped further/ahead, and should start at the basics.  Kindly read the attached emails for those interested.  I had in previous conversations with Dr Chittick, mentioned my interest in science or signs pointing to the study of nature in Quran. He guided me to first open the inner eye, before undertaking this path/direction. Also explained by Dr Iqbal in his Reconstruction, on the Chapter "Is Religion possible".  Seeing a lukewarm reception on the forum, as not interested equating with discomfort will discontinue and promise not to raise this subject for another six months starting  today. While discussing on this forum stumbled on Allama Mohammad Iqbal r.a on his claiming a "Wahy" in revealing the secrets of the self or the secrets of science, however we construe it,  I was quite perplexed  having believed on the miracle of the book in verses, which are crystal clear as daylight, cannot be spoken by someone living 14 centuries ago,  even more when they are understood in the light of an inner experience /or every day experience,while  science refuting some powers of God, namely verses on genetics.  I understand this poem of Iqbal he wrote under the name of his son called "Javed Nama" could be criticized on this forum but attest to the power of Inspiration or transcendental knowledge, and the very concept of inorganic/organic matter, animals, plants, birds, and above all Humans receiving continued "Inspiration". I quote again the said poem.  

 Warm Wishes to all. If all goes well will start this topic after six months. Sohail observation on religion is complex,would add Arslan's observations,  still have to keep finding.....   This research is rediscovering the wheel, must have been miles ahead in institutes like Islamic University Faisel mosque, Allama Iqbal open university, Ghamdi institute in Lahore, National Defense University etc. Unable to access any of these, could be writing a lot of but believe. Wahabism in its excesses, though King Saud befriended Dr Mohammad Asad the Austrian scholar and gave him full support resulting in Road to Mecca, later met Iqbal who had his family taken care of while confined in an anti- German citizens arrests,  locked up in sweltering heat, and becoming ambassador extraordinaire for Pakistan , has to curtail extremism in the form of  blowing up girl schools, where an Ulul Albaab a term used in Quran, includes both men and women of insight/understanding/knowledge, having access to science and technology besides Uloom e deen. Sufism has to be mindful of not committing shirk, by prostrating to graves. When someone says Sajada Tazeemi before a saint not bending all the way one who has passed away , and Sajada before God prostrating in like namaz are two different, has to be researched as not committing shirk . Bowing Wahadat ul Wajud as explained by Dr Israr on Youtube is self explanatory, Not everything is He, but His is everything, mysteriously plunged, as His control on every atom, in our bodies, is reflected, by the Hologram in the Cosmos, each particle mysteriously connected with the other, even  on the edge of the universe in seconds defying the speed of light, effects Non Local in quantum physics as contrasted with local in the Newtonian classical physics.  

Besides respecting all, Shia Islam, though not understanding some of the denominations, will include a tribute to Dr Abdus Salam. Sohail makes

me laugh with all respect to both him and to Arslan. http://www.kailoola.com/abdussalamdocufilm/home.php  

 Imran.P.S Dr Chittick had referred to his book "Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul  " on the importance of transcendental knowledge.  “The crux of knowledge, then, is to read and know one’s own soul. The whole trajectory of the voluntary return to God is to learn how to interpret oneself through understanding the wisdom present in both revelations and the cosmos.” —  William Chittick, "On the Cosmology of Dhikr" here refers to Zikr.  And, “Sufism is not primarily involved with mystical experience. Although “unveiling of the mysteries” is indeed one possible fruit of Sufi practice, it cannot be taken for granted and should not even be made a goal, at least in any exclusive sense. Many Sufi masters would maintain that the attempt to achieve unveiling is a dangerous enterprise, because it turns the seeker away from God and puts experience in His place. Hence, it is a form of shirk (associating others with God)…”

—  William C. Chittick, Faith and Practice of Islam: Three Thirteenth Century Sufi Texts Frithjof Schoun and Dr Suheyl Umar have written extensively on understanding modern psychology, a comparative study, especially writings of Carl Jung and the sciences

Radio TelescopeInstrument used to capture, concentrate and analyze radio waves emanating from a celestial body or a region of the celestial sphere.

Diversity also a source of disbelief for others, who see reason and excessive science or scientism, as the only source of knowledge and life as an accident, based on chance and randomness. We need to build a Radio Telescope to study the heavens and the earth as a Divine duty and see how close we live in a world where our end might come at any time in the morning , evening and at all hour’s of the night. Its God Almighty Who protects us till the day of resurrection. The best location to build one could be the foothills of Islamabad or Murree.

How To Use A Telescope According To The Injunctions Of The Quran:

Behold! in the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the alternation of night and day,- there are indeed Signs for men and women of understanding. Quran 3-190.When the Last Prophet Mohammad (Sallallahu Alaiha Wassallum) was born in 570 C.E, his father Abdulllah had passed away, leaving him in the care of his mother Bibi Aminah. As being customary when Prophet Mohammad (Sallallahu Alaiha Wassallum) was sent with Bibi Halimah, as all other women had refused, looking for monetary benefits dropped him for being an orphan, when it came her turn Bibi Halimah’s camel was tired and did not move, and feeling left out, what would she explain on her return home took him to nurse.

Thus started a relationship the Prophet Mohammad ( Sallallahu Alaiha Wassallum) would have with nature, in the harsh and dangerous environment of the Arabian Desert, where for untold miles nothing grew. The Universe appeared in the dark nights, with all the multitude of stars, scattered across like pearls in the cosmic ocean. Years would pass and in the middle of one night, during the height of his Divine mission in Medina , the following revelations were revealed.

Those who remember Allah (always, and in prayers) standing, sitting, and lying down on their sides, and think deeply about the creation of the heavens and the earth, (saying): "Our Lord! You have not created (all) this without purpose, glory to You! (Exalted be You above all that they associate with You as partners). Give us salvation from the torment of the Fire. Quran 3-191.

Years have passed, and ages have gone by, of men and women, saints and guides, scientists and engineers, but hardly any generation has taken up the above verses, with the devotion, zeal, energy, commitment as a community and as individuals that the Prophet so dearly envisaged, when he wept the

whole night and on being asked at dawn by Bilal R.A before going for the morning prayers, the reason of being sad replied. “Woe to anyone who hears these verses and does not meditate upon it.” If some have meditated, there is hardly any mention in our class rooms, colleges, universities, mosques, Juma prayers and Dar ul ulum.The study of sciences including physics, biology and mathematics, philosophy and astronomy had been undertaken as divinely imperative by great schools of the Islamic renaissance. Then all went dark.The study of the heavens and the earth is not possible, with out the modern scientific equipment. A need arises for every center of learning to be equipped with a decent size Telescope. The Muslim community should pool together there financial resources. Weekly lectures should be conducted by the engineer and scientists for the youth, emphasizing the connection between research in the heavens and earth, along with Taqwa as elaborated by the following verses.

The last two hundred and fifty years has seen a new day, the day of Muslim lamenting his days of excellence, long gone by and trying to bring them back, the days of Ibn Rushd r.a, Shaykh Ibn Arabi r.a, Ibn Haitham r.a, Ibn Sina r.a, Ibn Tammiyah r.a, Abdul Wahab r.a followed by a long chain like Syed Jamaluddin r.a, Inayat ullah khanMashriqi r.a, Shah Waliullah Delhvi r.a, Syed Suleiman Nadvi r.a, Syed Abu Ala Maududi r.a, Allama Muhammad Iqbal r.a, Muhammad Asad r.a, Shah Shahidullah Faridi r.a, Abdullah Quilliam r.a,Wasif Ali Wasif r.a, Dr Israr Ahmed r.a, Dr Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad, Bashir

uddin Mehmood Nuclear Engineer PAEC. Dr Azhar Waheed.

Verily, in the alternation of the night and the day and in all that Allah has created in the heavens and the earth are Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.) for those people who keep their duty to Allah, and fear Him much.

The word Albab stems from the root Lub, in Arabic the choicest part the heart, which undergoes Tazkia e Nafs and is purified by undergoing transformation while practicing Taqwa along with the attention given to the creation of heavens and earth, the alternation of nights and days as the earth revolves around it own axis, pointing to signs in nature and the human soul.

O mankind! Worship your Lord (Allah), Who created you and those who were before you so that you may become Al-Muttaqun (the pious - see V.2:2).

When we study the plants it is amazing to see how they calculate the amount of starch left as food, till the breaking of dawn. A biological inbuilt calculator along with the biological clock, in the molecules of

these plants adjust , even slowing down their growth rate to conserve the starch for the time left. If there was no alternation of night and day these plants would not survive.The use of quantum biology is gaining momentum, the quantum property of coherence is being used by biological systems to achieve maximum and near perfect efficiency in the process of photosynthesis.

Telescopes come in different varieties, depending on what part of the electro-magnetic spectrum one is observing. I would mention two of them for now. Radio and Optical telescopes.

1. Radio-Telescope. 2. Basic terms: Flux density, intensity, brightness,

temperature.3. Tool :Fourier Transforms, decibels etc.4. Radio telescope systems:

Antennas (simple dipoles)Paraboloid reflectors, sub-reflectors.Telescope performance: surface accuracy, pointing, gainReceiver feed horns, frequency flexibility.

The following equation is called the Raleigh-jeans law. That is at low frequencies increases with the square of the frequencies.

Radio Telescope Arecibo. Puerto Rico

Optical telescope: The optical telescope gathers light from the visible part of the electro-magnetic spectrum.

Case Study:- Masjid Al Mutaqeen, Pembroke Pines, FL. In accordance with and keeping the above paper in view today Tuesday 23 July 2013, with the Grace and Help of Almighty Allah the Creator and Sustainer of the Universe, together with my colleagues, Shakeel Hye and Faisel Haroon, we laid out a program to implement, the means of having a library and a Telescope in each mosque in South Florida insha’Allah. We did consider the best ways of convincing the older generation of such an enterprise.3rd September 2013, decided to make power point presentations, for students primarily grade 6th to 12th, with focus on speech that is lectures, as the best form of communication.

Today 18 Oct 2013.

Met Buzz Aldrin the second man to land on moon,was signing his book in Kissimmee, Fl. A landmark event for me to meet someone, who actually touched the moon, when I listened live as 15 years old to his actual landing on the moon on 16 July 1969.Broadcast live on radio. He signed two of his books for me on ‘Mission to Mars’, as he has developed a vision for human to settle and build a permanent colony. I had the following conversation with him.

 

Author: This is a landmark day for me.

Mr Aldrin: Thank you.

Author: Mr Aldrin do you know why is this a landmark event for me?

Mr Aldrin: I have been to India.

Author: Because what you men have started would one day lead to the conquest of the Universe. Our Noble Quran is full of instructions on the conquest of nature and I think this world will not come to an end, until we humans have done so, do you want a copy of the Quran I have brought for you.

Mr Aldrin: No.

Author: You are one of the greatest men on earth.

Mr Aldrin: Thank you, no it is Obama. (While smiling,the current President of the United States.)

1. Unfortunately could not take the video movie of the above conversation in detail, when my turn came to have him sign the book.

2. The second video movie is of a crowd gathered

to have there books signed.

The instinct of the bee, working for the common good of the hive, its inherent functions embedded in the genetic code as it strives to gather, honey from the nectar, in the plants and its surrounding, a deterministic process, highly organized and complex, accompanied with their scout and the dancing bees. The survival of a community of 15000 to 80000 bees in a single hive depends on this collective effort and struggle.

The Quran calls its readers to reflect on this phenomenon as signs in nature.

And thy Lord revealed unto the bees, saying: 'Take unto yourselves, of the mountains, houses, and of the trees, and of what they are building.

Then eat of all manner of fruit, and follow the ways of your Lord easy to go upon.' Then comes there forth out of their bellies a drink of diverse hues wherein is healing for men and women. Surely in that is a sign for a people who reflect.

.And in the process gaining thousand of insights, with the bee helping in pollination, an act of transferring pollen and seed to fertilizing plants growing, and producing the food we eat, to the study of bees in human longevity. Recently the colony collapse disorder among bee population is creating havoc with food production.

Are humans too suffering from a colony collapse disorder?.

The seven heavens and the earth, and all beings therein, declare His glory: there is not a thing but celebrates His praise; And yet ye understand not how they declare His glory! Verily He is Oft-Forbear, Most Forgiving!

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Here Allah (swt) Himself guides to the straight path, men and women of understanding, contemplating, studying nature, and practicing piety.

Verily, in the alternation of the night and the day, and in all that Allah hath created, in the heavens and the earth, are signs for those who are God conscious.

Do you not see that Allah sends down rain from the sky and makes it flow as springs [and rivers] in the earth; then He produces thereby crops of varying colors; then they dry and you see them turned yellow; then He makes them [scattered] debris. Indeed in that is a reminder for those of understanding.

Niagara Falls, NY. Personal visit to the falls.

This timeless journey of God’s higher purposes unfold every moment in the alternation of night and day, laws of nature regulating order. Energy of the sun sustaining the cyclical movements on earth, water cycles of the oceans and rivers, rain through processes of evaporation and condensation. A visit to the ocean, gives a remarkable insight, into this phenomena, with its salt water, unbearable to drink. Quran mentions:

See ye the water Which ye drink?

Do ye bring it Down (In rain) from the Cloud Or do We?

Were it Our Will, We could make it

Salt ( and unpalatable): Then why do ye not Give thanks?

Amazing insights with the whole cycle of life, death and reproduction enunciated, in a few verses, a whole theory of modern Gaia, the earth being a living cell, extrapolated to the whole universe as a living and breathing dynamo, carrying the Will of the Almighty. This insight does not come by reading alone, which can be a catalyst, but by the Divine Grace. Age is no barrier; one does feel an awe and submission, elated to possess these insights by observing the wonders of nature.

Human consciousness is the epitome of all this alternation of night and day, the action at a distance of the various forces of sun, the moon, planets and stars working together to bring rain from the sky, bringing life onto dead earth, sprouting seeds and plants producing food for humans and the grazing animals, in the food chain. All an endless cycle in the service of Human consciousness, as animals posses genetically endowed, pre-programmed, inbuilt powers,. Salmon travelling thousand of miles in the ocean, coming back to breed at the spot, it left

Alluded in the following verses as all species of animals on earth, and birds flying in the sky as forming organized communities. Quran gives pointers, which are directional’s, in thought and action and are never in conflict with science. When I mentioned reason, or science as lagging behind intuition, it does not mean as one being inferior to the other, for both are words (Ayat and Hadith) of God. Both evolve step by step to higher planes of understanding. Only science might take longer, to reach coming in synchronization with scientific truths mentioned in Quran. Both derived from the same Divine book, extending and forming an inner and an outer dimension, with Phd thesis, papers, and equations derived from nature, as complementing those derived from prophetic revelation. Both merging to form men and women of understanding (

Cوا وEلC KابH أ Eب Kل Eاأل ). Some Islamic scholars wrongly equate

sciences derived from nature as vocations, and not words of God. One might assert that science can change any time, but not the laws. All animals on earth and birds in the sky will remain communities no matter whoever tries otherwise. Those seeking testable proof’s need go no further then the following, where its explicitly mentioned that those seeking a miracle, need to look in the communities and nature of animals and birds . I may mention here, God has His own way of giving light to a seeker of truth. It could be from the outer (divine book of nature) or inner (divine book of revelation) or both.

There is not an animal (that lives) on the earth, nor a being that flies on its wings, but (forms part of) communities like you. Nothing have we omitted from the Book, and they (all) shall be gathered to their Lord in the end.

The study of animals and birds has been a constant endeavor by every civilization past and present, intending to learn from their behavior, skills and powers. Darpa is engaged in copying and genetically

altering them for warfare and military, industrial usage. Noble prize have been awarded to Konrad Lorenz, Nikolaas Tinbergen, Karl Von Frisch for studies on their behavior. Quran stresses on this study as a divine command.

Humans too have unlimited potentials that need to be studied. The greatest being their ability to contact and interact with the Ultimate Consciousness. Aptly remarked by Max Planck, “Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve”.

And again.

“As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter”.

For this communication is what the lama in the monasteries on the high mountains, the Vedanta philosopher in the temple, the kabbalah practitioner, are trying to achieve a contact with the ultimate reality, which is as some argue God being just, we are not able to Qadr assess His Might.

But for one well versed in the Quran, the intensity OF FIRE, and one of the reality of all realities the hell, as described in Quran sends shudders, and fear, when one realizes how naively we treat ourselves and how this whole system is setup( with the aspirations for wealth, gold ,lust , individual intelligence, genetic makeup, environment, quest for survival, dependence on food , peer pressure of family and friends, pride, envy , urge to become supermen, jealousies makes it almost impossible to achieve salvation) around us to be companions of those who’s fate will be handed in the left hand, we come into this world , live and depart with all the media blazing, all our companions striving for the capitalist system.

And indeed his or her love of wealth, is intense.

Should we pray for God to turn us into stones?. As the following verses warn mankind.

But those whose good deeds will be lighter (on the scale).

He or she will have their home in Hawiyah (pit, i.e. Hell).

And what will make you know what it is?

(It is) a hot blazing Fire!

Or follow the footsteps of the greatest and the last Prophet Mohammad (Pbuh). Here God comes to the rescue of those who follow Quran and Sunnah. To achieve salvation and protection from Hell fire.

Have We not opened your breast for you (O Muhammad (Peace be upon him))?

And removed from you your burden,

In an Islamic welfare society, each one of us tries to live by a Shariah compliant profession to earn a living. salvation depends on following Seerat-ul-Mustaqeem a righteous path, who’s meaning is well defined and elaborated in the Quran in its various modes , such as Islamic charity, defined in its larger context as serving the needs of the poor, as well as a wide variety of other activities, such as being kind to parents, tied to the rope of Allah(swt) , so does the opening up of the breast (mind), studying , and reflecting on the intricacies/ construction of the universe , with the creation of night and day, all forms of pairs both seen and unseen(Be Iznillah), in humans , plants, animals and matter( positrons and electrons etc) in a duality accompanied with the purification of consciousness (soul) inside, this unity of matter, mind and soul constitutes Seerat-ul-Mustaqeem in one of its mode.

One’s burden is lightened: On witnessing and experiencing Allah Almighty Sign/Signs directly on the heart.

Which weighed down your back?

Here is the beginning of what Mohammad Iqbal describes ‘In the third period metaphysics is displaced by psychology, and religious life develops the ambition to come into direct contact with the Ultimate Reality. It is here that religion becomes a matter of personal assimilation of life and power; and the individual achieves a free personality, not by releasing himself from the fetters of the law, but by discovering the ultimate source of the law within the depths of his own consciousness. As in the words of a Muslim Sufi– “no understanding of the Holy Book is possible until it is actually revealed to the believer just as it was revealed to the Prophet.”

When a human being comes into direct contact with the Ultimate Reality and is guided by His light, His revelations in the Quran, directly unfold as a living experience in the life of this servant, brought forth from the depths of darkness and sins, worst than the most vicious animal can perpetrate, only the recipient of this Light can feel the gravity of his degradation, from which he is pulled and is bewildered by God’s infinite, beneficence and mercy reciting.

In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful

Although words like Most, or Infinite hardly suffice in describing, His Grace and Mercy replacing His Wrath.

Only the recipient of this light can appreciate this transformation from the living death to a new life, by his or her actions/deeds in daily practice depicting an understanding of the noble Quran as it was actually revealed on the Prophet ( May Allah Peace and Blessings be upon him). Even literally, receiving an exegesis of the verses directly from the Living Lord of the Worlds (Al Hayyu and Al Qayyum) , depending on his or her acceptance and spiritual attainment with the Almighty, a manifestation of His Divine Grace.

Is he who was dead (without Faith by ignorance and disbelief) and We gave him life (by knowledge and Faith) and set for him a light (of Belief/Quran) whereby he can walk amongst men, like him who is in the darkness (of disbelief, polytheism and

hypocrisy) from which he can never come out? Thus it is made fairseeming to the disbelievers that which they used to do.

It pertains to any human past, present and the future that attains that union with the Light which guides him or her as it guided the Prophet (May Allah peace and blessing be upon him).

Here Iqbal in an urdu couplet insists on receiving Quran as a living reality (Tahqiq) on the heart, instead of learning by committing it to memory, which is in itself a first but not the only step, resulting in transmitted knowledge (Taqlid), which does not help in untying the knots, the mysteries of the Universe, even when guided by the likes of Razi and those who receive Divine Guidance.

Though there are many examples in the Quran about past civilizations, the study of nature and performing righteous deeds, no understanding is complete or understood in depth until every, human being man or women, starts believing himself or herself , as the actual recipient.

Becomes a living example/ participator, understanding the meanings according to the situation passing through your own life at that very moment, whether coping with the death of a loved one, or the birth of a new life, would be bewildered and completely astonished to find a verse for each situation, and according to each situation, the condition being, searching/reading the whole Quran, word by word, line by line, verse by verse, chapter by chapter, finding guidance for ourselves rather than depending on other’s, learning the meanings, by learning Arabic or consulting a dictionary, and acting on these verses as they are meant for us, which in reality they are, and not a relic for, or of the past.

Common sense dictates the Prophet was only acting as a messenger, the message was meant for you and me, and for eternity. I mean not neglecting the guidance meant for the Prophet, after converting to Islam; the next stage is finding Allah Almighty in the early morning hours of dawn, and the stillness of the nights, in the creation of the heavens and the earth and the alternation of night’s and day’s, in graduating from the animal self, to being on the path of discovery the call of Tazkiya e Nafs in transitioning from Nafs Amarah to Nafs ul Mutminah. In each stage becoming a part of God’s Will.

There are no half measures, several paths have to be travelled simultaneously, and the performance of five times mandatory ‘Salah/Namaz’ after becoming a second habit, comes with remembrance of His Names, spread through the length and breath of the Quran.

Books for Reference:

1.Tahfeem ul Quran by Hazrat Syed Abu Al’a Maududi R.A.

2. Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam by Hazrat Mohammad Iqbal R.A.

3. An Approach to Quran, MUQADAMAT-UL-QURAN by Professor Ahmad Rafique Akhtar.

4. Tazkirah by Hazrat Allama Inayat ullah Khan Mashriqi R.A.

5 Talash e Haqeeqat and Foaz al Azeem by Nuclear Engineer Sultan Bashir- ud -din Mehmood.

Electrical engineer and nuclear scientist Sultan Bashir-Ud-Din Mehmood in his book “In Search Of Reality” remarks.

“It is matter of contemplation, when in a backward Arabian desert nation, how could a person (Prophet Mohammad) living 1400 years ago, in a city full of superstitions, and idol worship, who could not read a book, at reaching the age of 40, come up with statements which the sociologists, economist, historians, mathematicians, and scientists have arrived after lengthy and deep studies. Where did this brilliant personality learn all this?”

The above verses mentioned in the studies of animals and all kind of creatures flying in the sky is

one such statement, providing, knowledge, and guidance for mankind. It is unfortunate Muslim nations, in quest for power and influence are outmaneuvering each other at the cost of building advanced institutes of sciences where these signs from God can be minutely studied, and PhD thesis and papers published, seminars, conferences conducted along with many other signs in the length and breadth of Quran.

If a Charles Darwin, Sigmund Freud, and Konrad Lorentz have done exhaustive studies on human evolution, human psychology and animal studies, having far reaching implications on the cultural, social and moral fabric of mankind, similar studies were conducted by Ibn Miskawayh in al-Fawz al-Asghar, Ibn Khaldun in Muqaddima, and Al-Jahiz in Kitab al-Hayawan respectively, based on the signs and inspirations derived from Quran.

Photo synthesis of plants, cloud formations. Driving rains bringing life to the seed, sprouting produce. The seven heavens and the earth, and all beings therein, declare His glory: there is not a thing but celebrates His praise; And yet ye understand not how they declare His glory.

Individuals, communities and nations reading signs and laws of nature in the heavens and earth, with fine tuning and limitations set on these laws by Allah( swt), along with inculcating the virtues and the purification of the heart through but not limited to a)Prayers b)Charity c) Fasting d) Solitude e) Poverty. f) Silence g) knowledge h.) Elimination of pride, greed, greatness, lust, anger, conceit etc. This journey starts with Ikhlas fine tuning the self, doing away with the above mentioned vices, as Dr Azhar Waheed points to the fact the logical implication of Ikhlas is solitude. This inner contemplation and self accountability implies a personality able to stand the most severest of shocks, most defiantly requiring a teacher.

The Quran is full of Signs, on the holistic nature of the Cosmos as the following verse mentions.

We shall show them Our signs In the horizons and in themselves, Till it is clear to them that it is the truth. Suffices it not as to thy Lord, That He is witness over everything?41-53

To Allah doth belong the dominion Of the heavens and the earth, And it is He who hath power Over all things.(Al Quran 5-120)

Syed Qutb emphatically brings out the essence of Islam. The only SUPER POWER in the Universe and on the earth is Allah(swt). A fusion of harmony and perfect balance is achieved when the inner experience of the Qalb, and the outer experience of knowledge, reason and science work in tandem.” None of this; The Qur'an always appeals to human nature and draws our attention to the signs of God which are within man's soul itself and are all around him. It liberates human nature from superstitions,

polishes man's native intelligence to the utmost degree, and opens up windows to the world and makes man appreciate the intricate processes of God's nature.”.

And again. “For all tyranny is the same. The earth belongs to God and must submit purely to God. This cannot be achieved unless the banner of ‘ no diety other than God’ is unfurled across the earth. Man is servant to God alone, and this cannot be maintained except when the banner of ‘no deity other than God’ is raised high.”

We shall show them Our signs In the horizons and in themselves, Till it is clear to them that it is the truth. Suffices it not as to thy Lord, That He is witness over everything?41-53

As Mohammad Iqbal elaborates this union of the inner self and the outer universe eloquently as follows.

‘The idea, however, does not mean that mystic experience, which qualitatively does not differ from the experience of the prophet, has now ceased to exist as a vital fact. Indeed the Qur’an regards both Anfus (self) and Āfāq (world) as sources of knowledge. God reveals His signs in inner as well as outer experience, and it is the duty of man to judge the knowledge-yielding capacity of all aspects of experience.’

‘But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge. According to the Qur’an, there are two other sources of knowledge– Nature and History; and it is in tapping these sources of knowledge that the spirit of Islam is seen at its best. The Qur’an sees signs of the Ultimate Reality in the “sun”, the “moon”, “the lengthening out of shadows”, “the alternation of day and night”, ‘the variety of human colour and tongues”, “the alternation of the days of success and reverse among peoples”– in fact in the whole of Nature as revealed to the sense-perception of man. And the Muslim’s duty is to reflect on these signs and not to pass by them “as if he is dead and blind”, for he “who does not see these signs in this life will remain blind to the realities of the life to come.’

Quran exhorts the study of history, advising travel to the far corners of earth, in order to learn the laws of rise and fall of nations, to study their archeology, anthropology, sociology etc, just like it does for

naturalists and biologist to visit the far corners of the earth and see how God initiated creation. As the following verses elaborate.

In their history verily there is a lesson for Ulul Albab (men and women of understanding). It is no invented story but a confirmation of the existing (Scripture) and a detailed explanation of everything, and a guidance and a mercy for folk who believe.

The Quran exhorts on research of past civilizations and their history including that from the scriptures as a truth and not anything invented or false.

And We sent not before you (as Messengers) any but men, whom We inspired from among the people of townships. Have they not travelled through the earth and seen what was the end of those who were before them? And verily, the home of the Hereafter is the best for those who fear Allah and obey Him (by abstaining from sins and evil deeds, and by performing righteous good deeds). Do you not then understand?

This study of the three disciplines of Almighty’s Tajali, as manifested through His great strength Al Aziz (power) and His great wisdom Al Hakim culminates in Sura Al Fajr with Divine Guidance directing a human being who once having realized his or her greatest sins chose Hazrat Omar R.A over Abu Jahil after having repented(Tauba) falls in prostration, weeping for the Mercy to remain at all times, every where till death has other plans and starts reflecting on the ‘Al Furqan’ guided, by sometimes randomly opening the pages of the Quran or through the vibes radiating in the ‘Sangat’ of the ‘Aulia’ wakes up at night engaged in Zikr, reading the Quran till dawn, performing the ‘ Salah’ is invited to share the greatest evidences/mysteries in the universe the silent turning of the night into day

before his or her very eyes, the disappearance of night and the appearance of a bright new day, just as his or her life changed from sin, to repentance and on to reflecting in the signs in nature, history and the soul.

By the break of Day

Humans are invited to witness the majesty, splendor, grandeur, omnipresence and omnipotence of the Lord as He guides the earth around the sun, turning it slowly around its own orbit as it glides in space. An evidence for those who seek a miracle.

By the Nights twice five;

The first ten nights’s revered in the month of Dhu al Hijjah reserved for praying and meditation.

Here God explicitly mentions men, and not women sent as His messengers, in contrast to the word (

Cوا وEلC KابH أ Eب Kل Eاأل ), persons of understanding where

there is no stated distinction between the two.

Arabic-English lexicon by Edward William Lane, describes. “( Cوا وEل

C KابH أ Eب Kل Eاأل ), persons of understanding. ( Labib), a person of understanding, or intelligence. Hence ( Lub) of a man (understanding, intellect, intelligence and mind). Aql the understanding that is put into the heart of a man so called because it is the choicest or best part of him, or it is not so called unless it is pure from cupidity or lust and foul imaginations and therefore has a more special sense than Aql. Lubab, lub what is pure, or, best part of anything thing.”

EXAMPLES OF A FEW MEN AND WOMEN OF UNDERSTANDING ( Cوا وEل

C KابH أ Eب Kل Eاأل ).

Here the centrality of the heart is mentioned, which when treated with distinctive features mentioned in the Quran and Sunnah of Prophet Mohammad (Pbuh), leads to knowledge beyond reason, aptly described, by Hossein Nasr, and the Muslim saints like Imam Ja’far Al- Sadiq (Jabir Ibn Hayan had this to say about his master ‘my master Ja'far as-Sadiq taught me about calcium, evaporation, distillation and crystallization and everything I learned in alchemy was from my master Ja'far as-Sadiq’). Here Jabir refers to Geber, the forerunner of modern chemistry.Ali Hajver , Abdul Qadir Gilani, Ibn Arabi, Imam Ghazali, Allama Iqbal, Allama Inayat ullah khan, Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Syed Qutb, Syed Abu Ala Maududi, Professor Wasif Ali Wasif, Dr Israr Ahmed and including all those engaged in spreading the message of Quran in their various capacities with their pen, speech and action, honorable the likes of , Dr Abdul Quadeer Khan Founding Chairman K.R.L , Engineer Sultan Bashir ud din Mehmood Former DG DNP, PAEC, Dr Inam-ur-Rehman Former DG Pieas, Dr Basit Bilal Koshul Associate Professor L.U.M.S, Professor Rafiq Akhtar , Dr Mujahid Kamran V.C Punjab University. Dr Umar Suheyl DG Iqbal Academy, Dr Muhammad Yousaf Hamza Principal Engineer Pieas, PAEC. Dr Azhar Waheed, Imtiaz Bukhari, Afzaal Ahmed (Sang-e-meel publications), Nouman Ali khan and rare western scholars like Dr William Chittick, Dr Abdal Hakim Murad Cambridge university, Dr Annemarie Schimmel, Dr Karen Armstrong.

Dr Hossain Nasr elaborates.“The traditional concept of knowledge is concerned with freedom and deliverance precisely because it relates principal knowledge to the Intellect, not merely to reason, and sees sacred knowledge in rapport with an ever-present Reality which is at once Being and Knowledge, not with a process of accumulation of facts and concepts through time and based on gradual growth and development. Without denying this latter type of knowledge which in fact has existed in all traditional civilizations, tradition emphasizes that central knowledge of the sacred and sacred knowledge which is the royal path toward deliverance from the bondage of all limitation and ignorance, from the bondage of the outside world which limits us physically and the human psyche which imprisons the immortal soul within us.

“While considering the ordinary knowing function of the mind connected with what we receive through the senses and the rational analysis of this empirical data, tradition refuses to limit the role of knowledge to this level, or that of the intelligence to its analytical function. It sees the nobility of the human intellect in its being able to attain that knowledge which is beyond time and becoming, which, rather than engrossing us ever further in the accumulation of details and facts, elevates man to the level of that illimitable Being which is the source of all existents yet beyond them. To know that Being is to know in principle all that exists and hence to become free from the bondage of all limitative existence. To

know existence through the piercing light of intelligence is to be free from concern with the limited type of knowledge which engrosses but does not liberate the mind.”

“And they will ask you about the Spirit. Say, The Spirit is by the command of my Lord; you have been given only a little knowledge.”

The kind of knowledge yielding experiences narrated in the traditions of the sages, slowly disappearing, under the weight of scientism. As the following translations of the book “Rohain ki khusboo” by Muslim mystic, electrical engineer and nuclear scientist Bashir ud Mehmood explains.

“It is a moment of great concern for us that in the western world, experiencing a wave of spiritual revival, there arises, a need for us not only to guard against erroneous concepts. But also explain the world of the unseen in the light of the true facts and concepts of Islam. So that they can move from falsehood towards guidance. If we are unable to do that, it is at all possible under the materialistic mindset of the west, that the knowledge of the soul(Ruh), might get entangled in their materialistic approach. And that humankind instead of getting closer to God, move away.”

As explained in the “Mystics of Islam”.

“Sufism is not a system composed of rules or sciences but a moral disposition; i.e. if it were a rule, it could be made one's own by strenuous exertion, and if it were a science, it could be acquired by instruction; but on the contrary it is a disposition, according to the saying, 'Form yourselves on the moral nature of God'; and the moral nature of God cannot be attained either by means of rules or by means of science.”

Dr William Chittick, points the way of approaching the intellectual knowledge (Aqli) by phenomenon of Tahqiq, a word derived from the root (Haq), the esoteric and intellectual knowledge derived from the eye of the heart, rather then the transmitted (Naqli) and exoteric based on imitation (Taqlid). One tested by the time honored traditions, other on the modern explanations of the apologetics. One achieved by actualization in the heart, crucial ingredients, needed for the inner transformation, the self of the I am (heart and the soul of the momin, purged of the lowly desires, love of wealth, fame, status, acquisitions).

A reformation movement needs to be undertaken to curtail excessiveness in all domains of human activity leading to shirk. And to be careful to a repeat of Monasticism as practiced in Christianity is not accepted in Islam. For the following verses of the Quran warn us.

Then, in succession, We followed them up with (other of) Our Messengers. We caused them to be followed by Jesus son of Mary and gave him the Gospel. And we placed kindness and compassion in the hearts of those who followed him. As for monastic asceticism—We had never ordained it to them. They invented it themselves to seek God’s approval. But then, they did not uphold the Gospel with right observance. And so those who truly believed among them, We gave them their reward. But, a great many of have been drifting away.

Interpretation of the Quran are done by scholars who captivated by their circumstances, their personal feelings , personalities, experiences, political motives, depth of knowledge and understanding ,

talent and vigor, economic distresses, reason and scientism, political influences tend to sometimes exaggerate one aspect or the other leading to shirk (blasphemy) unknowingly . May Allah (swt ) all praise be to Him, the Creator and Sustainer, the Cherisher and Lord of the Heavens and Earth’s, all the seen and the unseen. Lord of Grace abounding, forgive me for of any of my excesses (Amen). The least it is to be remembered being human with a constant urge to self praise and be praised, hard wired into out genetic structure. We get tempted to be all knowing. It is my personal experience when we meet people with authority, knowledge, wealth, one experiences a brick wall. Usually of very high intelligence these men and women of unusual talent appear to disregard the other’s viewpoint. Imposing their own will, allowing their personal failings, inner insecurities, trial and tribulations, hidden in the unconscious to be reflected in their actions. This dichotomy can be removed through ijma (consensus) and dialogue.

We have to carefully look into the works of Dr Shabbir Ahmed( though he overlooks the achievements , sacrifices , and the valuable contribution to knowledge by Ulema and the Sufis of Islam). God warns of innovations that lead to the stray path, but says those who did practice monastic asceticism, with the right observance of the Gospel, as giving them their rewards. Allama Inayat Ullah Khan “Maulvi ka ghalat madhab”, Professor Rafiq Akhter’s book “An approach to the Quran” and Syed Abul Ala Maududi Tehfeem ul Quran commentary on chapter 57 verse 27 into the excesses, which have

accumulated over the centuries especially in context to Christian Monastic practices having parallel derivatives in Islam.

In the extreme case of committing blasphemy as the followers of Jesus (Pbuh) in their ignorance, attributing Holiness and Divinity to the Holy Bible, Holy Son, etc, finding similar parallels in our calling Quran as Holy Quran, as brother Abu Mussab Wajdi Akkari explains. ‘Holy in the Arabic language is (transliteration) 'Muqaddas' , And Allah ta'Alaa has never referred to the Quran as being, Quran-il-Muqaddas, nor will you find in the reliable books of Sunnah Qurana-il-Muqaddas (The Holy Quran). Allah called the Quran, Quran-il Kareem (Noble Quran), Quran-il Hakeem (The Wise Quran), Quran-il Majid(The Glorious Quran)etc. So in-shaa'Allaah lets refer the Quran according to the names Allah had given it, not simply imitating the Christians without intending to do so. And Allah ta'Ala knows best”.

Their quest for purification, with in Islam is clearly laudable and great a service for the modern Muslim youth. The definition of Sufism applies to having Allah (swt) as the only priority with excessive remembrance

supplementing the five times daily prayers. The human nature given to extravagance sometimes tends to bypass the Shariah in its quest for Tariqah.

All our efforts are to seek and find God, constitute Seerat ul Mustaqeem, a Unity in diversity, in a wide variety of modes and paths/action/deeds/ways, according to our disposition, education and talent cannot ignore the law (Sharia) in any circumstances, the basis of all our strivings. While seeking the Absolute reality through reason and intellect,(Aql) or through love, some sacrificing their most precious possession in nurturing the tree of truth, with their own blood, giving their lives in the cause of Allah (swt), some as missionaries of Islam, many through all of the above. It should not be our intention to ridicule, or belittle the other. But to understand the message, the word of Allah (swt) the most gracious the most merciful. “As for monastic asceticism—We had never ordained it to them. They invented it themselves to seek God’s approval. But then, they did not uphold the Gospel with right observance. And so those who truly believed among them, We gave them their reward. But, a great many of have been drifting away”. In a subtle way with having a soft corner for these men of learning the verses pertaining to God warning those who practice Monasticism or as some scholars refer it to Sufism in Islam, as explaining those who love Him, but not deviating from the Gospel as the rightly guided, what seems as dichotomous is in fact the diversity in the message of Allah (swt). Here is where a new seeker

of truth is bewildered as seeing the tradition, split in different directions. The polemics of various commentators stem from lack of a common thread, of Ijma and Dialogue. Quran warns those who drift seeking God. Excess of everything leads to an unbalance, usually by a thought embedded or ingrained in the unconscious giving impetuous to the will, a harmony and balance between the conscious and unconscious mind is imperative. Those who do not understand the diverse working in nature and Allah’s plan ( Be Iznillah), bringing order out of chaos both in the seen and the unseen tend to create schism. Excessive remembrance of God, upholding the Law (Sharia) while standing sitting, and lying on their sides, are those who truly believe.

Recite (O Muhammad SAW) what has been revealed to you of the Book (the Quran), and perform As-Salat (IqamatasSalat). Verily, As-Salat (the prayer) prevents from Al-Fahsha' (i.e. great sins of every kind, unlawful sexual intercourse, etc.) and Al-Munkar (i.e. disbelief, polytheism, and every kind of evil wicked deed, etc.) and the remembering (praising, etc.) of (you by) Allah (in front of the angels) is greater indeed [than your remembering (praising, etc.) Allah in prayers, etc.]. And Allah knows what you do.

In modern time management paradigm a balance is emphasized. We have to seek this perfection and guidance achieved in the life and teachings of the Holy Prophet Mohammad (Pbuh). Who could have wept more for the love his Lord then the Prophet himself relating an incidence when he wept the whole night until dawn till the early morning prayers as narrated by Aisha RA. “Then, she said, ‘Then he stood up, washed up (for prayer, performed Ghusl) and then stood up in prayer and kept crying until his ‘Hijr (the part of his clothes that covers his lap) became wet, and kept crying until the floor became wet. Then, Bilal came to him to inform him that it was time to start the prayer. When Bilal saw him crying, he said, ‘O Messenger of Allah! Do you cry, while Allah has forgiven you your previous and latter sins?’ He said, ‘Should not I be a devotee most grateful? Tonight, Ayat (verses from the Quran) were sent down to me, woe unto he who reads them and does not think about them, “Verily in the creation of the heavens and the earth, and in the alternation of night and day, there are indeed Signs for men of understanding. Those who remember Allah (always in prayer) standing, sitting, and lying

down on their sides, and think deeply about the creation of the heavens and the earth. [3:190-191].’ This guidance and perfection achieved in the life and teachings of the Prophet Mohammad (Pbuh) if practiced sincerely is what Quran refers to those priests and monks in the following verses who are rightly guided, still using the word Rahab, as used in the above verses.

Verily, you will find the strongest among men in enmity to the believers (Muslims) the Jews and those who are Al-Mushrikun (see V.2:105), and you will find the nearest in love to the believers (Muslims) those who say: "We are Christians." That is because amongst them are priests and monks, and they are not proud

And again

And when they hear what has been revealed to the Messenger, you see their eyes overflowing with tears because of what they have recognized of the truth. They say, "Our Lord, we have believed, so register us among the witnesses.

Islam is a religion of intentions (Niyah). Those scholars of Islam, who equate Sufism with monastic asceticism, miss the subtleness of the intentions, why would God here praise those same Monks. I am not advocating otherworldliness to a point of neglecting the covenants.

He (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) used to say: All actions are by intention, and every man shall have what he intended.

If a physicist or a chemist working in a Darul Hikmet, reflecting on the divine book of nature, a doctor devoting selflessly to his profession, a judge giving a right decision even it be against his son, brother or father, a political scientist, a social worker or a

leader holding himself or herself as accountable to God and remembering Him at all times, attains the status of Allah’s devotee or servant. Unfortunately for the actions of some, right institutions are blamed. Quran mentions the priests and monks as practicing a truncated version of Judaism and Christianity, as at variance with the true faith.

(Jews and Christians) took their rabbis and their monks to be their lords besides Allah (by obeying them in things which they made lawful or unlawful according to their own desires without being ordered by Allah), and (they also took as their Lord) Messiah, son of Maryam (Mary), while they (Jews and Christians) were commanded [in the Taurat (Torah) and the Injeel (Gospel)) to worship none but One Ilah (God - Allah) La ilaha illa Huwa (none has the right to be worshipped but He). Praise and glory be to Him, (far above is He) from having the partners they associate (with Him)."

And many of these priests and monks hoarded gold, silver, and wealth which they were not entitled.

O you who believe! Verily, there are many of the (Jewish) rabbis and the (Christian) monks who devour the wealth of mankind in falsehood, and hinder (them) from the Way of Allah (i.e. Allah's Religion of Islamic Monotheism). And those who hoard up gold and silver [Al-Kanz: the money, the Zakat of which has not been paid], and spend it not in the Way of Allah, -announce unto them a painful torment.

And again Syed Abu Ala Maududi in his Tehfeem ul Quran remarks.

‘This verse embodies two directives. The first is that man should not attribute to himself the authority to proclaim things either lawful or unlawful according to his own wishes. Only that which God has held to be lawful is lawful, and only that which God has declared unlawful is unlawful. If men were to declare certain things either lawful or unlawful on their own authority, they would not be following the law of God but their own laws. The second directive is that they should not adopt the course of world-renunciation

and abstention from worldly pleasures as the Christian monks, Hindu mendicants, Buddhist bhikshus and illuminist mystics did. Religious-minded and virtuous people have always tended to consider their physical and carnal desires an impediment to spiritual growth. They have considered suffering, deprivation from worldly pleasures and abstention from the means of worldly sustenance to be acts of goodness and indispensable for achieving proximity to God. Even some of the Companions leaned in this direction. The Prophet (peace be on him) once came to know that some Companions had resolved that they would fast without interruption, that instead of spending the night on their beds they would remain awake praying, that they would consume neither meat nor fat, and would have no (sexual) relations with women. The Prophet (peace be on him) addressed the people on this subject and said: 'I have not been commanded to do so. Even your own self has rights against you. So, fast on certain days and refrain from fasting on others. Stay awake praying at night and also sleep. Look at me; 1 sleep as well as stay awake (praying); sometimes I fast and sometimes I don't. I consume meat as well as fat. Whosoever dislikes my way does not belong to me.' He then added: 'What has happened to people that they have prohibited for themselves women, good food, perfumes, sleep and the pleasures of the world, whereas I have not taught you to become monks and priests. In my religion there is neither abstention from women nor from meat, neither seclusion nor withdrawal. For the purposes of self-control my religion has fasting. As for monasticism, all its benefits can be

derived from jihad (struggle in the way of God). Serve God and associate none with Him. Perform Hajj and 'Umrah, establish Prayers, dispense Zakah and observe the fasts of Ramadan. Those who were destroyed before you were destroyed because they were severe with themselves, and when they became severe with themselves God became severe with them as well. It is the remnants of such people who you see in the oratories and hermitages of monks.' (Ibn Kathir, vol. 2, pp. 626 and 628-9 - Ed.).

Only Allah (swt) knows best. May Allah (swt) again forgive me for interpreting the verses on Priests and Monks in parallel with Ulema and Sufis of Islam. According as the verses of Quran explain both their attributes of virtue and vice.

What these scholars are trying to explain, is cleared by the two verses in the Quran.

And most of them believe not in Allah without associating (other as partners) with Him!.(Quran 12:106).

It is imperative to guard against shirk, which can appear in any form and shape. -

Verily, in the alternation of the night and the day, and in all that Allah hath created, in the heavens and the earth, are signs for those who are God conscious.

A gibbous moon is visible above Earth's atmosphere, photographed by an STS-128 crew member on the Space Shuttle Discovery, during flight day three activities in this NASA handout photo taken August 30, 2009. REUTERS/NASA/Handout.

A perfect balance, inner harmony and the right direction or path is achieved with reflecting and using knowledge acquired through sense perception, together with practicing piety.

Another misconception in the hearts of those who dread Shirk in any form or shape, Is that out of our zeal for purification, we forget the importance in the life and teachings of Prophet Mohammad (Pbuh). The parallels in the history and later day developments in Judaism, Christianity and Islam sometimes baffle, the mind, with similar practices arising in context of Shirk. But what does Allah (swt) says about His Prophet.

Verily, those who give Bai'a (pledge) to you (O Muhammad SAW) they are giving Bai'a (pledge) to Allah. The Hand of Allah is over their hands. Then whosoever breaks his pledge, breaks only to his own harm, and whosoever fulfills what he has covenanted with Allah, He will bestow on him a great reward.

Verily the best Guide, is Allah (swt) the Creator and the, Sustainer, the Lord of the Seen and Unseen, the Wise and the Mighty, the First and the Last, the Rehman and the Rahim.

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No kind of calamity can occur, except by the leave of Allah: and if any one believes in Allah, (Allah) guides his heart (aright): for Allah knows all things.

Praying for His forgiveness with a weeping eye and softness of the heart in the middle and early morning hours of the night. In the utter darkness of the universe, left only with His Light, The Creator and creation without any intercession.

Say: "O 'Ibadi (My slaves) who have transgressed against themselves (by committing evil deeds and sins)! Despair not of the Mercy of Allah, verily Allah forgives all sins. Truly, He is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.

The Quran says ayah 17-36

And pursue not thatOf which thou hastNo knowledge; forEvery act of hearing,Or of seeing,Or of (feeling in) the heartWill be enquired into(On the day of Reckoning).

Knowledge is gained by using; the senses acquired by humans through natural selection or more aptly directed evolution. God’s gift’s accountable to Him .Anything not verifiable by these faculties or the modern day instruments an extension of these senses, in the realm of the seen or unseen, does not constitute Knowledge. With the exception of God, His angels, the knowledge of Ruh and what He hides from his creation. And merging it with piety or vica versa, the two domains of scholarship from the Quran working in tandem.

Synthetic a priori knowledge and assertions acquired in the Qalb. Quran explains

No vision can grasp Him, but His grasp is over all vision: He is above all comprehension, yet is acquainted with all things.

And the analytic propositions, deductive truths and empirical values of the a posteriori sense

perceptions. Though Kant here misses the essentials of knowledge, as both physics and metaphysics, for a Dr Stephan Hawking or Hazrat Mian Bashir R.A , are relative to their concrete experiences. One having a certainty in the domain of sense perception the laws of physics, the other on the Creator of the universe. A synthesis of both in the life and practices of Nuclear Engineer, Momin and Ulul Albab Sultan Bashir-ud-Din Mahmood. .

Continuing on the importance of study of history as mentioned in various verses of the Quran.

Indeed in their stories, there is a lesson for men of understanding. It (the Quran) is not a forged statement but a confirmation of the Allah's existing Books [the Taurat (Torah), the Injeel (Gospel) and other Scriptures of Allah] and a detailed explanation of everything and a guide and a Mercy for the people who believe.

Here the essence of Quran is substantiated by those who delve into these signs with the sincerest of hearts. A book to be lived and acted upon in every moment of ones existence, no sooner as one reads and understands its messages, to the fullest extent

of ones vigor and talent. For soul of every person is like a plant in nature, which grows when tendered with light and water, air and soil, and withers away when unattended. Quran a therapeutic balm balancing heart and mind of the insane e kamil with reason being subservient to the Lord of the Worlds within the context of Tawhid. Explained by the friend of Allah (swt) the Sufi saint Abdul Hakim Murad.

“This is the Quran as healing (17:82) a balm for hearts. The scripture seems to apply that our tragedy is an ignorant alienation from the Real, wherein lies all wholeness and appropriateness, and that only Heaven can send down the rain which revives the hearts. Whether it saves through its calligraphy or its cantillation, the Book does not seem to be saving through reason, it does not deny it, but it insists on ‘descending upon your heart’ (2:97), for its Author is not reached by the faculties of perception (6:103).

Say, "Whoever is an enemy to Gabriel - it is [none but] he who has brought the Qur'an down upon your heart, [O Muhammad], by permission of Allah, confirming that which was before it and as guidance and good tidings for the believers.

No vision can grasp Him, but His grasp is over all vision: He is above all comprehension, yet is acquainted with all things

Allah (swt) reclaims the heart of such a friend and opens it up to Islam.

Is one whose heart Allah has opened to Islam, So that he has received Enlightenment from Allah, (no better than one hard-hearted)? Woe to those whose hearts Are hardened against celebrating The praises of Allah! They Are manifestly wandering (in error)!

Allah(swt) gives the reason for people who do not believe in his Signs, namely Pride and seeking Greatness.

Those who dispute about the signs of Allah without any authority bestowed on them,- there is nothing in their breasts but (the quest of) greatness, which they shall never attain to: seek refuge, then, in Allah: It is He Who hears and sees (all things).

Besides the signs of God, to be reflected upon in the study of nature, there are laws to regulate and conduct the affairs of men and women of understanding. Being of a superior intelligence and free will, as compared to the more inspired BEE and

its colony (Inayat ullah describes as labour by intensive regimentation), easily prone to being domesticated by the evil of their fellow beings, under economic, political, social duress. Imitating their beliefs as absolute truths being enslaved in the process under the guise of modern, civilized cultures. Here Syed Qutb has elaborated “In the Shade of the Quran”.

“The Quran was bestowed from on high to Muhammad, God’s Messenger, so that he might, by means of it, establish a state, bring a community into being, organize a society, cultivate minds and consciences and set moral values. The Qur’an was also to set the bonds that would operate within the Muslim community, as also define the international relations the Muslim state might have. All these were to be firmly joined together, so that all their parts would form one coherent whole, stemming from a single source and referring to a single authority. This is, in fact, the nature of religion, as defined by God and practiced by Muslims in the days when they were indeed truly Muslims.”

Quran is the commands of Allah (swt), which He says descends on the earth and the entire universe. Humans given to pride, anger, domination, greed, lust for power, wealth, jealousy, immoral behavior (under stresses and pressures of life, weak by nature) needs guidance.

There is life in the law of Al-Qisas, a lesson for men and women of understanding.

And there is (a saving of) life for you in Al-Qisas (the Law of Equality in punishment), O men of understanding, that you may become Al-Muttaqun (the pious - see V.2:2).

The importance of free will also entails and carries a covenant with God, in moral, ethical instructions, legislation on diet, conduct in war and peace, abolition of usury etc, Another important and fundamental question is what the Quran mentions as to the nature of the heart “Truly there is a reminder in this for anyone who has a heart, or who listens attentively with presence of mind(Quran 50:37).”As Iqbal alludes to his guiding Nietzsche if he were alive.

The “I am” which he seeketh,Lieth beyond philosophy, beyond knowledge.The plant that groweth only from the invisible soil of the heart of man,Groweth not from a mere heap of clay!

Islamic mysticism as it seeks the ultimate reality is a further extension of the mysticism of the followers of original church of Jesus (Pbuh), his ministry in his earthly life. For what it seeks is a possession of the heart of the individual soul, “They shall be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee" (Prov. v. 17), and again

" Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches; but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me"(jer. ix. 22,23).

True to these dual teachings of piety and righteous deeds, Dr Ali Shariati the martyr saint elaborates.” As for the Qur'an, it is a book resembling the Torah (Old Testament) which contains social, political, and military precepts, including instructions for conducting a war and capturing as well as the freeing of captives. It is also a book which emphasizes the purification of nature, the piety of the soul, and the exalting ethics of the individual.

As to the prophet Mohammad (PBUH), he was also a man with two profiles (as we see in the history of celebrities) combined in one spirit. He was a man continuously at war, politically and militarily, with the enemies and the subversive elements of society. His aim was to build a modern society and civilization, while guiding humanity towards a distinct goal. But above all he was devout and virtuous.

Finally, the fruits of the prophet's training are Ali,

Abuzar, and Salman. These are among the very few two-dimensional human beings of the world. These were men of politics and war, who struggled for a better existence. They spent a lifetime in the battlefields, military training, scientific inquiry and discussion. They were also virtuous on par with the monks and theosophists of the East. Today, with the information available on his meditations on God, Abuzar is the best guide to knowing the Qur'an. A look at the prophet's companions indicates that all were just, sensitive warriors, and constructive individuals who were concerned with building a better society and establishing justice. Conclusions In Islam man is not subjugated by God, since he is the Lord's associate, friend, trustee, and kinsman on earth. God taught man and all the angels prostrated themselves before him. Thus, such a two-dimensional being needs a religion which can protect him from swinging to either asceticism or worldliness, and continually keep him at an equilibrium. Only a two-dimensional religion is able to give reality to man's great responsibility.”

It is only in context to these teachings, that this essay mentions physics and mathematics, masquerading as and replacing the Ultimate Ego, or its creation the human observer being relegated by the instrument recording the outcome of an experiment in quantum physics, here both the creative activity of God and His Vice-regent act to determine the outcome. God when the human observer did not exist or does not exist. The creative

activity of this Ultimate Ego and its creation in the outer horizons and inner manifestations slowly passing from One to the other as more and more of His creation assimilates the Intelligence, Will and Power of the Creator. A unity manifested in the outcome of the creative activity of the Creator and the created. Sense perception and inner intuition actualized into the outcome of its role in the development to the status of Khalifa Phil Ardh, Vice-regent. In practice all human activity whether of a doctor, an engineer or some one engaged in the study of nature, a soldier defending the interest of Islam, is a mystic in the way of Allah (swt).

Dr Chitick mentions.

“True intellectual knowledge is altogether different. It is not achieved by standing on anyone’s shoulders. Only what is known in the depths of the soul, without intermediary, is intellectual in the proper sense of the word. No one can pass such knowledge on to someone else, nor can it be found by reading and study. It must be realized within oneself through a long process of mental training and inner purification.”

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Corrections: To name a few. Both Christian who become Islamic mystics...

From: imran600@hotmail.comTo: abdalians_14th@googlegroups.comSubject: [abdalians_14th:6009] Pir Bhai Sohail,Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 02:07:55 +0000

Pir Bhai Sohail,

I have switched back, to calling you Pir.

I for some reason missed your earlier email addressed to Aamir, If I mention you directly or indirectly is a clash of ideas which flourish best when there is a constant challenge not standing the heating of our minds once in a while, it’s purely your scholarship that impresses me, has nothing to do with our relations on a personal level. Though you

occasionally give me a cold shoulder a product of your expertise in your trading days, which I did try to understand by reading you and your personality, as your article Candle in the Dark is a self-analysis, as the one on Chowk. Do not get me wrong I am not trying to belittle you, but  your ideas related to god are, having the best of intentions, with best of conviction and deem logical are extremely hard to change, understand that for a cold, calculated mind which to a certain degree is mine too, if not cold and calculated but certainly very skeptical.  As you mentioned me in your reply to Aamir. I take the opportunity to answer back.

Where is the evidence, the evidence is in the people(in your kind of search) and the nature out there after you understand them, if you consider Imran to be delusional, you have to enter his mind, by going to those Baba's you call reciting abracadabra. You almost always ignore this part of my argument. If Imran is delusional then Pakistan ka Allah Hafiz.

Call it delusion, madness, janoon, history is full of eccentric people, but we measure their success with their fruits that they delivered , or perhaps IF A PSYCHOPATH or a neurotic carried to success a great idea, which I believe is carried to some extent by those possessed by an idea or a path. On a closer inspection one can see the Psycho part. I would call it single track mind, though at best the ideas on closer inspection also carries away the personality it harbors/engulfs, meaning there being possessed by it reflected though by the habits, strengths,

weaknesses, character, environment  etc. of these individuals. The fine line between delusional behavior and rational behavior is best described in case of Pauli, in our favorite chemistry class Kr]=1s22s22p63s23p64s23d104p6, describing the number of electrons in the orbital shells. Jung personally had him as his patient. Some fall on the border line, how can we define SANITY?

Hence Dr Anniemarie Schimmel is basically describing the same Baba's but in a sophisticated language, so is a William James a Professor at Harvard in his "Varieties of religious experience" he read at Edinburgh during his presentation of Gifford Lectures, so does Carl Sagan with his " The Varieties of scientific experience" a lecture in the same series I was never able to bridge the gap only recently, a big fan of his all his life, and still, never figuring out what prevented a scientific mind to take a leap, hence my recent research, I could have been from any other religion, and not Islam as you mention.

So, once you are free we will undertake a journey in the mind of these Baba's, there is big fraternity of Christian mystics in a town in upper New York, perhaps would visit them, but certainly not the free for all communities.

Why do I stress about "Mysticism" OR "Religion in General" is that your are correct to a certain extent, one is born and remain emotionally attached to the idea one cannot escape its repercussions, but I honestly feel again not being funny here, you are an arm chair "General", not having any intention of

exhausting all options, when you say you have read the Qur'an in detail, I do not doubt that, but there are many who were born as Christians, I am not talking about the general public but the best minds, who after a long process(genuine in their search found God).

To name a few. Both Christians who become Islamic mystics, and Christians mystics themselves, religion has a very deep meaning a continuity missed by a casual observer.1. Hamza Yusuf, Zaytuna college.(Born an American, I mean a white one, well everyone can be white, will not by analysis in paralysis. 2. Dr Timothy Winter, a.k.a Abdal Hakim Murad. Double tripos in Arabic, says religion without inspiration is dry as dust. (Can argue against that.)3. Goethe, reading about Hafiz, Sadi and many Iranians wrote the "Western Divan" if you call him to be any one less than a genius would be a surprise to me. Captivated by Shakespeare which as you say could carry his seeds. 4. Tennyson, Milton, even Newton. Einstein was too busy flirting around given to the pressure of his work to have studied the Jewish faith, well I might be wrong here ( if you research William James "Varieties of Religious experiences" and the chapter on mysticism , can do more analytical digging in the mind of whom you call a fanatic.(mazhabi janoon.)

Your structure is very very(two times) sound, but misses the detail.

Goethe does not fall in the category of "Only the

minor, personally less significant decisions are based on rational analysis ... and those too only among the minority who possess the capacity to process a rational thought -- an uncommon ability among our species."

I bet you will never read Goethe in detail. You can write that on a piece of paper, this is not autosuggestion. I like your link that you put up, religions continue to flourish not because of an accident but inspiration, and you will always dub it as delusion.

Do not agree with you: Some of us, on the other hand are born to endure these http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_Popular_Delusions_and_the_Madness_of_Crowds

Regards,Imran.P.S My only regret is in the crossfire many get hurt. Thanks for enduring, a relative frame of reference you prefer to choose.

SO THIS DEBATE WILL CONTINUE WITH OUT AN END. EACH PARTY GIVING ITS VIEWS TO THE ANNOYANCE OF OTHERS. ALTHOUGH THERE IS TRUTH IN BOTH.

Sunday School, December 14, 2014

Actions MOHAMMAD IMRAN KHAN 2:16 AM

To: Shakeel Hye

http://www.islam-guide.com/islam-guide.pdf

Dear Shakeel bhai,

Asaalam O Alikum,

Thank you for reminding, again missed as came home late. I was able to start today to teach some students from grades 3-5 in the Sunday school, is very refreshing.

The  area covered was sūrat l-zalzalah, it was an opportunity to have them acquainted with the day of judgment and the mention of earth throwing out what it contains or throws out its burden.

So taught the students about the Mantle of the earth, including inside containing melted/molten iron, producing magnetic fields around the earth protecting us in the process from radiation from the sun. And the periodic table of elements, which some of them know, at a basic level. Now this group of students is stretched from grade 3-5, not necessarily

each student knows everything, but as a sum total all the topics I covered they are familiar with.

As they have been taught about tectonic plates in school creating earth quakes, were able to understand what will happen when the earth is shaken up. And humans will get distressed what is happening to the earth. As getting inspiration the earth will relate how they behaved, doing good and evil.

They acknowledged I mean the students, that everything is from God.

I was in return able to learn the correct pronunciation as we read the Arabic, they being children from Arabic speaking families.

Also discussed the water cycle and the process of evaporation, how plants produce starch and food from photosynthesis all of them have learned in school, so a connection can be established while reading the Qur'an , and showed them verses about how clouds are formed.

Sahih International: Do you not see that Allah drives clouds? Then He brings them together, then He makes them into a mass, and you see the rain emerge from within it. And He sends down from the sky, mountains [of clouds] within which is hail, and He strikes with it whom He wills and averts it from whom He wills. The flash of its lightening almost takes away the eyesight.

In a process described in the books we have ordered. Showed the figures in the book.

" Illustrated understanding of Islam" with such terms as :

Joining:Then the small clouds join together forming a largercloud1(see figures 18 and 19)

Stacking:When the small clouds join together, updraftswithin the larger cloud increase. The updrafts near the centerof the cloud are stronger than those near the edges.1Theseupdrafts cause the cloud body to grow vertically, so the

cloud is  stacked up (see figures 19 (B), 20, and 21).

There are two sections of activity, first reading Qur'an for about one and half hour, which was sūrat l-zalzalah, and then the second portion is from a book called "I love Islam" in which the topic for today was (sūrat quraysh). How Prophet Sallalahu Alahi Walaahi Wasallam, used to trade with Yemen in winter and Syria in summer, told them how the caravans in those days traveled on camels, the ship of the desert, we explored how the camel is created, I was quite amazed from their knowledge and learned from the students, how camel stores fat and water. We treat children's in our culture as children, while the system here in America, tries to discipline them to become kind of adults at a very young age , and feel responsible.

JazakAllah khair,

Imran.

    

Men and women of understanding Ulul Albaab

Actions MOHAMMAD IMRAN KHAN 10/17/14 To: tjw31@cam.ac.uk

Thank you gives me tremendous inner strength.

Warmest Wishes,

Imran.Actions Tim Winter 10/17/14

To: MOHAMMAD IMRAN KHAN

Thank you so much!

With best regards,

Abdal Hakim

On 17 Oct 2014, at 02:37, MOHAMMAD IMRAN KHAN <cosmic_solutions@hotmail.com> wrote:

Dear Brother Dr Abdal Hakim Murad,

Asaalam o Alaikum,

It has been a while have not communicated with you, I keep on writing my essay on men and women of understanding Ulul Albaab.

DEFINITION AND CORRECT MEANINGS OF THE WORD ( لTوا VوTأ

Yب\ابVل\ Vاأل). 

  Qur'an does render the correct premises in the word, ( لTوا Vو

Tأ Yب\ابVل\ Vاأل ) a title granted by none other than the Creator and Sustainer Allah (swt) Himself, Lord of the seen and unseen, as the epitome of all understanding, modern scientism, excludes domains of experience beyond sense perception, limits human intellect (Aql ) in its search of the Providence. The unity of the message of Qur'an for men and women of understanding is in essence the oneness of God.(Tawhid).  It is not preordained for it can lead to shirk, but an actualization of the self or ego achieved in the hearts of the ( لTوا Vو

Tأ Yب\ابVل\ Vاأل) by the Grace and Will of Allah (swt). The two acts of this Will of the Almighty, the inward (Batin) and the   outward (Zahir), the Creator of things in pairs is reflected by theRuh of the insan al kamil, the divine vicegerent (naib). As the definition of the word ( لTوا Vو

Tأ Yب\ابVل\ Vاأل) symbolizes. Leading to the hadith of the Prophet of Islam, ‘Takhallaqu bi-akhlaq Allah’, ‘Create in yourself the attributes of God.’ Fortified with.   

1.      TawhidThis (Quran) is a Message for mankind (and a clear proof against them), in order that they may be warned thereby, and that they may know that He is theonly One Ilah (God - Allah) - (none has the right to be worshipped but Allah), and that Ulul Albab( men and women of understanding) may take heed. 

2.      Hikmah He grants Hikmah to whom He pleases, and he, to whom Hikmah is granted, is indeed granted abundant good. But none remember (will receive admonition) except Ulul Albab (men and women of understanding.)7    

3.      Two kinds of verses in the Quran. A) Have clear meanings. B) Having hidden meanings or not yet understood because knowledge has not advanced to that level.    

  He it is Who has sent down to thee the Book: In it are verses basic or fundamental (of established meaning); they are the foundation of the Book: others are allegorical. But those in whose hearts is perversity follow the part thereof that is allegorical, seeking discord, and searching for its hidden meanings, but no one knows its hidden meanings except Allah. And those who are firmly grounded in knowledge say: "We believe in the Book; the whole of it is from our Lord:" and none will grasp the Message except Ulul Albab (men and women of understanding).              4. Endowed with Knowledge and Taqwa , without pride, and false ego, choose the right meaning of the words.    Those who listen to the Word, and follow the best (meaning) in it: those are the ones whom Allah has guided, and those are the ones endued with understanding.  For Quran warns those who invent false Hadith, or words in the following verse. But there are, among men, those who purchase idle tales, without knowledge (or meaning), to mislead (men) from the Path of Allah and throw ridicule (on the Path): for such there will be a Humiliating Penalty. 5. Revelations (Hadith, words of Allah) in the divine book of nature and the divine books revealed to the Prophets. Behold! In the creation

Of the heavens and the earthAnd the alternationOf Night and DayThere are indeed SignsFor those of Understanding. Those who remember God, standing, sitting and lying on their sides, and reflect on the creation of the heavens and the earth (saying): "Our Lord, You have not created this for nothing. Glory be to You! So safeguard us from the punishment of the Fire." (Qur'an, 3: 191)

I have extended Ulul Albaab from 3:189:200 as suggested by Dr Azhar my mentor, as he says this gives the whole process that a Sufi who is also a naturalist goes through. And read the ayaahs in their whole context.

And I pointed out to him have we ever noticed when Qur'an gives an authentication of women or female as also included in the Ulul Albaab, as my mentor is kind of patriarchal.

When Allah Subhana-hu says,

Yusuf Ali: And their Lord hath accepted of them, and answered them: "Never will I suffer to be lost the work of any of you, be he male or female: Ye are members, one of another: Those who have left their homes, or been driven out therefrom, or suffered harm in My Cause, or fought or been slain,- verily, I will blot out from them their iniquities, and admit them into Gardens with rivers flowing beneath;- A reward from the presence of Allah, and from His presence is the best of rewards."

Male and Female if we consider the ayaah 3:189-200 not doing a selective study but in the whole context. Female too are Ulul Albaab, where our Talib (student  back in Pakistan,  through all his sincerity misses this point in Islamic Education.) in the process destroying girls schools.

My mentor or Shaykh Dr Azhar Waheed also says,

Do not describe the vision or dream one has but to describe its FAIZ.

But I still consider you the first person in the whole wide world

that I described my vision to the first time.

I have send Zaytuna college and their Dean Mr Mahan Mirza a telescope as per your suggestion and last month added a CCD camera to take pictures of the COSMOS. Samawat wal Ardh and our Nafs together forms the laboratory to see the ayaat of the Almighty Creator. Will inshaAllah mail them to your when their Astronomy department has a class in the spring semester only.

Bringing the naming rights back, I have named scientist as Ulul Albaab, in my essay, which has grown so extensive cannot email it any more.

Dear Shaykh, all this effort also includes Tazkia e nafs please pray for me to have a pure heart, as the word Lub signifies,if we read Arabic English Lexicon by William Edward Lane describes as the choicest part or a purified heart.

I have been in my discussion with my mentor pointed out to this, he was adamant at first not understanding Ulul Albaab, but after an effort of two years, we have come to a mutual understanding, Ulul Albaab are in fact Arafoons , and that Ulul Albaab is the potential nursery in which waliyat is born or enriched. JazakAllah khair.

As my mentor used to stress on Kashf ul Majub sharif only but I have convinced him, though that is the fundamental book still in Islamic tasawwaff in Lahore Pakistan, but Ulul Albaab should also be included in its dictionary. In a lecture by Dr Martin Lings in Lahore in 2005 he pointed to the word Ulul Albaab as the Quranic authentication of the word Sufi. And now listening to your lectures on Islamic Education more closely today I wondered am I rediscovering the wheel, the ones you gave in Ft Lauder-dale Fl.

But reminds me of Dr Ali Shariati who said a genius throws ideas down like a pyramid, captured by the intellectuals, who then pass them on to the general masses.

Though not claiming to be an intellect but just bouncing your ideas. I have launched a vigorous campaign to introduce the idea of Ulul Albaab in our mosque and schools around, and writing flyers and handouts to advertise Islamic Education as also stressed by you, in your  lectures.

As, I have also given or denoted books to Pak-Turk school in Lahore, and trying to build a Radio Telescope in my former alma-mater near

Islamabad.

I, have talked to the mayor of the city of Sunrise in Ft Lauder-dale to have a program to install telescopes and use it as a meeting point for interfaith activity. 

I keep on translating from Urdu to English the mehfil or sangaat of my mentor Dr Azhar Waheed, as we have four hour lecture by him every saturday on skype.

I am blessed by Almighty when a few years back I had complained to you, I read the Quran without a guide. I found Dr Azhar a Sufi scholar from Pakistan, but I STILL do not understand the concept of Wahadat ul Wajud, would go by the definition of Yusuf Ali  for now , "Not everything is He but  His is everything" as differing from my mentor, who says according to his mentor Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif r.a

"Wahadat ul Wajood is a mushaida" La majud Allah, concepts difficult for me to understand at my present state or station. I am a novice in taraiqah just peeping in the class to get a glimpse.

   

Dr Azhar Waheed sahib Mehfil     on 22-6-2013 .

Question:-     I have a question in my mind , I have read a lot about it, asked many people this question, which is why has the Khalaqa Kainat (Creator of the Universe) arranged and created this whole Nizaam(system), a question I have asked many and usually get a     traditional answer. Answer: Let us view this question from a different angle, although this is not an answer.  If you note that when you get into a relationship with someone, then the question of asking how and why

immaterializes. And if the relationship is not developed or is in the stage of developing, or the question of developing does not arises at all, then the questions of how and why are infinite. Why did you do this, why did you that. But if one gets hold of the link to a relationship, then instead of asking one starts to narrate and to answer. There is one relationship between the Khaliq(Creator) and the Makhlooq(created), and the other being a secular relationship, which is relationship of the Creator with every of His  creation,  with every being, with an ant , a lion, but in the relationship with Insaan(human) there is something special of what that has been communicated is in the form of Quran e Pak. How and why, to ask the questions there was by Insaan (human) and to reply there was Insaan(human). Let us read an Ayah,

 In Arabic language Taa is used instead of Tuu, so using Taa the word becomes Taluq , so the whole Ilm is tere taluq ka naam, Your relationship.

Read! In the Name of your Lord, Who has created (all that exists), 

 Has created man from a clot (a piece of thick coagulated blood).There is a point created by the Sufia, yeh tera taluq hai, this question you asked has another dimension, another perspective, how did I arrive here, what is the meaning of my being here, question is the same, the question is being asked more decently , if we get answer to this question we get answer to the others, in Quran it says ‘Do not ask, but instead you will be asked’ I usually ponder what will be asked of us, like did you read the Quran, and said yournamaz, but another question can also be asked in this context is , did you in this vast world where from besides Milton and Archimedes to Abu Ali Sina, Rumi and Razi pondered on at their levels, did you also try to discover yourself,  who are you ?, where did you come from?, what  is your purpose?, if we see a graph paper, and the four axis go into  infinity. When we draw anything on the graph we need a reference point, drawing anything without a reference point will be meaningless, unless a person considers himself as the reference point and starts to find and make himself the reference point and then  the meaning of these questions of  why, and how start to unravel . The question is what is the Wajah e Taqhleeq Kainaat? You will not get an answer to your question from outside, like if you are working in a bank, I as an outsider will ask what are these people doing from morning to evening, keep on counting repeatedly like some mad adventure. But those working in the bank a part of the bank, know it is a very serious issue , like those working in

the World Bank, a little error in calculations will cause great problems, a small discrepancy in counting will be hazardous for the bank.  So even to find the Maqsad(purpose) you have to become a part of this Nizam, those people who ponder on how the Creator created this vast Nizam stretching into billions of years, working  effortlessly,  reflecting  how a child is born, then one has to become a part of the Nizam e Qudrat of the Khaliq consciously not academically butilmi and consciously, in this respect the education given to us is first enter Taslim then do Research , reach research through Taslim, Iman is the syllabus of the heart, not of logic, The question is what is the Wajah e Taqhleeq Kainaat? We have to create Taluq first as its solves all entanglement of the rope, do know the kuna, the root cause for which we have to become first the part of the Nizam ,then things will start to Ashkaar( unravel), like while working in a bank the first we thing we do is apprenticeship , although already having studied banking, so instead of asking the Creator why and how He started the creation, why everything has been created, first find yourself  finding a reference point  in your own self   then all the drawings and maps will manifest on the graph, we do not understand things because we try to understand from a mantqi (reasoning)  point of view, so that we would be able to communicate to others, instead of controlling the impulse to narrate to others, and coming out of this impulse to tell others, instead of deciding only to narrate to ourselves and understand only ourselves and not to tell anyone else then we will see we understand much more , usually when a

person hears or read he tries to rationalize, because if he has to tell someone else then he should have logic, so if the human instinct to rationalize and human intellect has a basic instinct to rationalize is overcome for a short time , our scenario and our aperture will open, like in a dream when we  are trying to understand or communicate, in a dream we don’t have an impulse to communicate so in a dream we understand much more. The filter of logic removes many pearls of wisdom, and many pearls do not pass through the filter, thinking as leftover a human throws them away.What is the better approach?Answer: The better approach is to disregard the earlier approaches written on ones mindset, that slate should be cleaned, then in the state of acceptance (ba halaat e tasleem) try to read whatever is being written by itself, since whatever has already been written so far on our mind has been written by some one else by others, on the contrary what is in our slate we have written by our own hands, the only book that is verifiable is the one which is our own book.Question: How can we clean the slate?Answer: This question is very important of how to clean the slate, this is a very easy and a very difficult way, if one is in Tasleem of someone it is a matter of 2 minutes, but if one does not come in Tasleem  can become a stupendous task of life. When one comes in Tasleem( accepts) someone things become very easy, I will give you my personal experience, when I came in the company of Sarkar Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A, I had read all the philosophies of old Greece, Khalil Gibran, the Halqa

Arbab e Zauq , the critics gatherings, laden with all, but it was miracle not my effort, miracle was his, when we came in his trance, when he made us Tasleem , not saying we came in Tasleem since we did not know, when and how we came in Tasleem, it never came to the mind that this point was discussed by this Sufi or that writer, also said something like this, not coming in the developing stage, I came when having read everything , so it was a his Ijaz that all that was written , the heart and mind came together , otherwise one says I am listening and this is just one,  of the many  explanations this did not happen. So this is the way of cleaning the slate, cleaning the slate is a spiritual level and journey of all spiritual matters and tasks start throughTasleem, bypassing the contents of the Mind and the bypassing the mind is accepting Tasleem. If we reflect on how big the Haqiqat are the Angels, reward and punishment, Allah Tala which do not come in our experience, but as soon we come into Tasleem , we  become of those Haqaiq,  saying salaam to the angels and getting wa alikum salaam. The whole Ijaz is of Tasleem, getting in the domain of Hadood e Haraam, when those who have not accepted find a board, that says those not in Tasleem go this way, only those with Tasleem go this way as the Hadood e Haraam has come when we go to umra there is a board, when coming into Muslim town about 35 miles ahead is a board the rest are sent in the bypass, its all a story of Tasleem , the cleaning of the slate is smaller event , Tasleem does big events, so cleaning the slate is matter of Tasleem with the brush of tasleem, eroding all other brushes, as the

saying goes, the pen was given , giving us permission to write, whatever one want to write, example when we come to a physician carrying many files, the physician prescribes a certain medicine knowing what medicine to prescribe , like in a spiritual prescription too we work in a hit and trial method, going to different doctors, and also having our own prescription, so Taslim makes one focused, removing any torsion in transmission.What is the relationship between   Tasleem and Mohabbat is tasleem possible without  

Thanking  you for your patience.JazakAllah Khair,

Mohammad Imran Khan,Pembroke Pines, Fl.

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Present day anathema of modern science, subjugating the inner experiences of the heart, relegating the human from its role as vice-regent to the role of a tool making, lower animal, losing all higher strivings, mired in the pleasure of the body at the cost of the soul, for what is body but the evolution and symmetry breaking of the universe from the big bang to the present, having come a long way from being enriched and tossed in the firmament and cores of the stars, fine tuned at each epoch. Each individual a unique and purified gift,

needing to survive in the vast emptiness of space and time, itself a gift of these dimensions. Human mind, gradually permeating matter, is finding it difficult to maintain that perfect harmony and equilibrium, which Dr Ali Shariati mentions above. A harmony achieved and perfected in the personality of the Holy Prophet Mohammad (Pbuh). The Quran becomes externally and internally manifested in the life, teaching and practices of this servant of God. As the following passages illustrate.” Indeed, the Messenger of Allah used to think deeply about the Quran, and he was on an exalted standard in this regard. Ibn ‘Hibban narrated that Ataa’ said, “I and ‘Ubaydullah ibn ‘Umayr once came to ‘Aaishah. ‘Ubaydullah ibn ‘Umaayr said, ‘Tell us about the most unusual thing that you have witnessed from the Messenger of Allah. ‘She cried. Then, she said, ‘One night, he stood up—in prayer—and said, ‘ O Aaishah, let me worship my Lord!’ She said, ‘I said, ‘By Allah! I like your being close to me, but I also like what pleases you.” Then, she said, ‘Then he stood up, washed up (for prayer, performed Ghusl) and then stood up in prayer and kept crying until his ‘Hijr (the part of his clothes that covers his lap) became wet, and kept crying until the floor became wet. Then, Bilal came to him to inform him that it was time to start the prayer. When Bilal saw him crying, he said, ‘O Messenger of Allah! Do you cry, while Allah has forgiven you your previous and latter sins?’ He said, ‘Should not I be a devotee most grateful? Tonight, Ayat (verses from the Quran) were sent down to me, woe unto he who reads them and does not think about them, “Verily in the creation of the heavens and the earth, and

in the alternation of night and day, there are indeed Signs for men of understanding. Those who remember Allah (always in prayer) standing, sitting, and lying down on their sides, and think deeply about the creation of the heavens and the earth. [3:190-191].’

[ As-Silsilah As-Sahihah]. This Hadith proves that thinking about these Ayat is an obligation on Muslims.”

Here it is of a crucial importance and utmost necessity for each individual man and women of understanding to comprehend that which is seldom apprehended, by a single soul as a unity. The development and progress in knowledge the above verses introduced were manifested in the history of Islam by such terms as daqiq al-kalam and jalil al-kalam.

By fully advancing amid and practicing the techniques, methods and injunctions of “Verily in

the creation of the heavens and the earth, and in the alternation of night and day, there are indeed Signs for men of understanding” we have arrived by reflecting in the Divine book of nature at the Grand unification of the fundamental forces. The other immediate verses,” Those who remember Allah (always in prayer) standing, sitting, and lying down on their sides”, have produced men and women of the esoteric. Those who attune themselves to the call of the soul beyond the call of morality and ethics, though not neglecting the later, at that transcendental union with the absolute, with experiences in the heart of the واC وEل

C أHابK Eب Kل Eاأل. It is time that we start using the Quranic expression in describing both the Scientist and the Sufi as واC وEل

C KابH أ Eب Kل Eاأل . The followers of Ibn Taymiyya in their quest for purification have done a great service in excelling at the root the law(Shariah), but failed to nurture the flower of Divine essence the signs in the Anfus (self) and outer Āfāq(world). Most Muslim’s unaware of the stations of the Qalb, due to this dichotomy have generated an uncalled for antagonism. Though both the words Scientist and Sufi in their earnestness (ikhlas) define the equilibrium, manifested in the above ayah.

IS DIALOGUE POSSIBLE?

Dialogue among individuals, civil societies, communities, organizations, academia and policymakers, higher religions, nations, and empires, is the most critical and essential ingredient for the survival of human species, in any short and long term ventures on earth and in space. Dialogues are a threat to vested interests, who enjoin for status quo. The wrath of spontaneous outpourings, and revolutions are undertaken under the conditions of extremity in views, of a Pharaoh and a Moses (Pbuh), a Socrates and his accusers, the defenders of Masada and the Roman legions ( “The defenders of Masada simply had to be killed to reinforce an ancient imperialist superpower's reputation of invincibility), a Jesus(Pbuh) and the High Priests, a Mohammad (Pbuh) and the Jahiliyya, a Hussain and a Yazid, a Robespierre and King Louis XVI., a George Washington and a colonial empire. The international serf and the bourgeois, a Syed Qutb and a modern Pharaoh, an Ali Shariati and ignorance, a Nelson Mandela, a Cesar Chaves, a Martin Luther king, and the likes of them, to many to count. History perhaps never changes, but is reborn under new guises, with a new Pharaoh and a new Moses (Pbuh). “Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions may be founded only upon the general good."[8] They have certain natural rights to property, to liberty and to life.

According to this theory the role of government is to recognize and secure these rights. Furthermore government should be carried on by elected representatives.” Ibn Khaldun’s prolegomena viewing latent instabilities a sign of every nation having its days with God

George Bush carried a paper written by Bernard Lewis in one of the conferences leading to attacks on the Middle East and the orient in September 2001, which stressed on inculcating fear and dread in the hearts and minds, of Islam, with the arrogance and might of its war fighter. Bernard Lewis is a prodigious, scholar and thinker, who for one, knows the history, culture, and the ways of Muslim’s, perhaps equal to them if not more. Are the origins in the clash of civilizations, commercial, the inherent greed in men and empires? Or a clash of religions or both.

Clash occurs due to the west and their,

1. Judeo Christian values.2. Freedom and liberty.3. Neo Liberal economy and Capitalist system.4. Rule of law (with in west).

Feeling threatened by the east, especially with Islam and the emerging powers in China, Russia and Iran, which the west considers as the rise of a new imperialism and radical Islam.

The years preceding 1492, were the last when the elect of the three monotheistic faith, had a dialogue in the libraries of Toledo, Seville and Cordoba,

since Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand accepted the surrender of the Muslim monarch, Mohammed XII, when a million books by Muslim scholars were destined to burn, when the edict of the expulsion of Jews went public on 29 April 1492.

The historical document of the Edict of the expulsion of the Jews of Spain(1492).

English translation of a portion of the Edict. “…. since the Christians have engaged in and continue to engage in social interaction and communication they have had means and ways they can to subvert and to steal faithful Christians from our holy Catholic faith and to separate them from it, and to draw them to themselves and subvert them to their own wicked belief and conviction, instructing them in the ceremonies and observances of their law, holding meetings at which they read and teach that which

people must hold and believe according to their law, achieving that the Christians and their children be circumcised, and giving them books from which they may read their prayers and declaring to them the fasts that they must keep, and joining with them to read and teach them the history of their law, indicating to them the festivals before they occur, advising them of what in them they are to hold and observe, carrying to them and giving to them from their houses unleavened bread and meats ritually slaughtered, instructing them about the things from which they must refrain, as much in eating as in other things in order to observe their law, and persuading them as much as they can to hold and observe the law of Moses, convincing them that there is no other law or truth except for that one. This proved by many statements and confessions, both from these same Jews and from those who have been perverted and enticed by them, which has redounded to the great injury, detriment, and opprobrium of our holy Catholic faith.”

We have gathered again, this time in the land where she sent her admiral, on 3rd of August 1492 precisely, not knowing in 400 to 500 years, all the three faiths, would be building, their synagogues, their churches , their mosques with the same vigor as then. God does monitor and records, how His followers and those of His messengers, perform. Time is of no essence to Him, and will continue to watch us, as we and our later generations, become admirals of the universe. A space faring community, destined to carry on the message of One God, unfurling his flag, across eternity. Our next

rendezvous could be on a distant planet, in a distant star, in forms and shapes, different, but with the eternal message.

To God belongs all sovereignty over the heavens and the earth and all they contain.

He has the power over all things.” (Verse 10:120).

Time is ripe to sit again, continuing our dialogue where we left. Perhaps we would need the likes of Luis de Torres (a Christian convert from Judaism, under coercion, who spoke Hebrew, Aramaic and Arabic to mediate our dialogue), whom Columbus had left behind, to set up a diplomatic mission. Quran would be of immense, study in relations and the dialogue, that could take form and place among the people of the book, the west predominantly, and the Muslim Diaspora.

Mankind was but one nation,But differed (later). Had it notBeen for a wordThat went forth beforeFrom thy Lord, their differencesWould have been settled Between them.

Laws of requital and laws of diversity operating in the affairs of Gods creation, unraveling in the movement and change of time , throughout the cosmos, like a stream, a river of water, overcoming nooks and corners, boulders and mountains, waiting for no one, in its destiny towards a definite purpose, understood by a few

Seest thou not thatAllah sends down rainFrom the sky? With itWe then bring out produceOf various colors.And in the mountainsAre tracts white and red,Of various shades of colour,And black intense in hue.

.And so amongst menAnd crawling creatures and Cattle,Are they of various colours.Those truly fear Allah,Among His Servants,Who have knowledgeFor Allah is Exalted in Might,Oft-Forgiving.

Here again those who scrutinize and reflect (taffakur) on the rain from the sky, the meteorologists and climatologists . Those who delve in agriculture the agronomists. Geologist and geo-physicists, who research, classifying rocks and minerals by their colors. Anthropologists studying human societies, communities, and races. Entomologists, zoologists, veterinarians contemplating (tadabbur ) the behavior of insects, reptiles, mammals all constitute God servant’s in the study of the Divine book of nature, are called Al Alamoon, as those truly fear Him.

Necessitates a whole set of arguments of God challenging His creation of there being not able to rightly estimate Him.

No just estimate have they made of Allah, such as is due to Him: On the Day of Judgment the whole of the earth will be but His handful, and the heavens will be rolled up in His right hand: Glory to Him! High is He above the Partners they attribute to Him!.

An indication of his Might reflected in the prayers of Moses, on Mount Sinai.

During the appointment, the Lord spoke to Moses. He asked the Lord to show Himself so that he could look at Him. The Lord replied, "You can never see Me. But look at the mountain. If the mountain remains firm only then will you see Me." When the Lord manifested His Glory to the mountain, He turned it into dust and Moses fell down upon his face senseless. After regaining his senses, Moses said, "Lord, You are all Holy. I repent for what I asked you to do and I am the first to believe in You."

This is the first incidence of any soul, trying to have a direct vision of the Ultimate. The nearest estimate as to His Gory and Might is the story of Prophet Moses (Pbuh). Quran speaks of the trust, which the mountains could not bear, Humans in their impatience took that challenge, and continue to do till the end times, as Co-workers, Vice-regents.

The signs derived through Intellect and reason the exoteric is balanced in its application, integrating it with the inner spiritual dimension, growth and movement the esoteric. Quran is very clear and concise on the equal importance of both. As both being derived from same root Haq (truth with a purpose) as opposed to Batil (slander without a purpose). Sirat-e-Mustaqeem has wide connotations one being reflecting and achieving salvation through the study, practice and deep understanding of the following verses.

Quran.remarks:

We shall show them Our signs In the horizons and in themselves, Till it is clear to them that it is the truth. Suffices it not as to thy Lord, That He is witness over everything?41-53

And again,

Verily! In the creation of the heavens and the earth, and in the alternation of night and day, there are indeed signs for men and women of understanding.

Those who remember Allah (always in prayers) standing, sitting, and lying down on their sides, and think deeply about the creation of the heavens and the earth, (saying): "Our Lord! You have not created (all) this without purpose, glory to You! (Exalted be You above all that they associate with You as partners). Give us salvation from the torment of the Fire.

The finitude of thought often misread as something inconclusive, is contrary to the spirit of the above, mentioned verses. Also explained in depth as follows.

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No soul can believe, exceptBy the Will of Allah,And He will place Doubt(Or obscurity) on thoseWho will not understand

The lane Arabic dictionary defines the Arabic word Rjis, with different meanings one being doubt, “they are in a state of confusion and perturbation in respect of their affair or case”. Or the illness of the heart, in what Syed Abu Ala Maududi describes as the wrong premises of reasoning in their quintessential search in to the meaning and nature of things.

And let not their speech grieve you. Indeed, honor [due to power] belongs to Allah entirely. He is the Hearing, the Knowing.

Here the speech (thought, knowledge, logic and, reason, of those who do not understand) or the dialectics of those opposed to Quran, are being challenged to face the knowledge and dialectics of God the all Hearing and the all Knowing. It is in reference to these teachings and the correct understanding, of the Quran that many commentators and scholars of Islam have very clearly understood and enumerated the role of reason. I would like to draw attention to a few of their writings. But in he same breath not ignoring the arguments of the likes of Dr Bertrand Russell , Dr Francis Crick, Dr Steven Weinberg, Christopher Hitchens, Dr Neil deGrasse Tyson, Dr Stephen Hawking .The pragmatic way is for both sides to follow what the later remarks.

“It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years”.

And again

“The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary

manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.”

The implications of belief for a scientist and a member of faith or tradition are quite different, a scientist can review and easily admit his mistakes on presentation of contrary evidence, but a person of faith, whose evidence is based on a divine book or a very personal religious experience, cannot be so convinced. This is the dilemma facing the one of not understanding the other and subsequent clash of civilizations and even clash of religions and religious sects. As I have written in this essay we can only minimize our differences but not eradicate them. This is the inbuilt character of tradition as opposed to science. If Quran presents us evidence as for those asking for a miracle, in the study of animals and birds, organized into vastly complex communities, its not indoctrination. God the Creator and Sustainer is the one Who’s book the Quran provides evidences, of unparallel magnitude. Besides a way to ever greater purification of the soul.

On this news on the 5th July 2012 “Physicist Steven Hawking admits he has lost a bet that the Higgs boson particle would not be found. Hawking says the bet was made with Gordon Kane of Michigan University. 'It seems I have just lost $100', said Hawking with a big smile on his face, after Cern scientists announced their findings on Wednesday.”

A man of faith on a journey in search of reality, how ever long it takes once having been convinced is

not following science but a Divine book the Quran. Science is only a subset, we confuse the Ultimate Reality God with science and reason. If it took us so much efforts in finding the God particle (metaphorical sense) that too indirectly, to find God Himself called Laqai-Rabb the ultimate meeting in the Quran would render us to search and exhaust the whole cosmos. As some scholars like Inayat-ullah Khan Mashriqi contend in their translations.

The Ultimate Reality God cannot be seen with our eyes, but by the following.

1. Reflecting on the signs in the heavens and earth in a direction from the known to the unknown.

And how many Signs in the heavens and the earth do they pass by? Yet they turn (their faces) away from them!

2 An inner experience through specialized conduct alluded in the Quran.

Following the teachings of His last Prophet Mohammad(Pbuh).

3 Finally by Divine Grace and Attaining what we call Irfan, or Marifa (Gnosis).

(Marufatun) is described in Arabic-English lexicon by Edward William Lane as: Signifying Knowledge, cognition, cognizance, or acquaintance.

(Aref) : It also signifies particularly [Skilled in divine things] possessing knowledge of God, and of His kingdom, and of the way of dealing well with Him.

Referring to the Jews at the time of the advent of Quran, Allah Almighty mentions them as the people of the Book, who would not understand even when they recognized it as the truth. Here it may be mentioned some of their leading authorities converted.

And when there comes to them a Book from Allah, confirming what is with them,- although from of old they had prayed for victory against those without Faith,- when there comes to them that which they (should) have recognised, they refuse to believe in it but the curse of Allah is on those without Faith.

Let us find the may or may not however long it takes. On a personal note it took me 40 years to find the may from the may not. The greatest obstacles being reason, logic and science (free

inquiry).Though well versed in the Quran about its exhortations and dictums in nature. Only the power of Love broke all the chains and inhibitions. However long one contemplates all the mysteries in the cosmos, there is no greater mystery then unveiling, the self-understanding of Quran on the heart of a Muslim, a Sufi, a Momin, a Muttaqi, an Alim, an Aulia Allah, or Ulul Albab.

A Sufi saint mentions in his book Irfan on the preciousness of each moment left in our lives.‘In short, the value and price of this valuable life and its golden breaths will be apprehended after death, when it is lost and the foolish careless man , will cry aloud:--“ Alas for what I wasted in getting near to the God and verily I am one of the great losers.” Therefore , O dear ones ! think highly of the few breaths and moment left to you in this world. Even if one of these is spent in remembrance of God, it is preferable to the kingdom of the whole world.

As Khaquani, a truthful poet, has said :--

“After thirty years of meditation Khaquani learnt the point that a moment with God is far better than the kingdom of Solomon the Prophet.”

Or as Christopher Hitchens offers.

“Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, open mindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake. We do not hold our convictions dogmatically: the disagreement between Professor Stephen Jay Gould and Professor Richard Dawkins, concerning "punctuated evolution" and the unfilled gaps in post-Darwinian theory, is quite wide as well as quite deep, but we shall resolve it by evidence and reasoning and not by mutual excommunication.”

Quran remarks;

There shall be no compulsion in [acceptance of] the religion. The right course has become clear from the wrong. So whoever disbelieves in Taghut and believes in Allah has grasped the most trustworthy handhold with no break in it. And Allah is Hearing and Knowing.

The Lane Arabic dictionary describes “Taghut, means the idol called Ilat or that called Aluzi, or whatever is worshipped instead, or to the exclusion of God--------and any head or leader of error and the exorbitant in pride or corruptness, or disbelief or disobedience, of the people of the Scripture.”

What Christopher misses is in the superficial research, with which he approaches the whole of science, reason, metaphysics, and the prophetic revelation. An issue that takes years like any major problem, in physics, mathematics, chemistry etc to solve

depending on a certain kind of receptive heart and mind. As to his assertion that the advent of the telescope and the microscope, did a great service in eliminating the dogma, shows the depth of his inquiry. Writing an article or speaking with convincing arguments, logic, and philology in the domains of knowledge beyond senses, requires an inner experience, the unveiling of the Quran, reaching Haqiqat the Ultimate Reality by Tahqiq the realization in the heart, beyond the pale of physics and mathematics for those investigating God intellectually. As for the heart of a plebian, a ship breaker in Gadani on the shores of the Indian Ocean, or a Guyanese’s working in the Rice fields of Berbice, a construction worker on the high rise buildings of Dubai in sweltering heat and offering namaz, giving charity whether monetarily or by their righteous deeds, reading the Quran in the early morning hours constitute people of paradise.

Quran gives guidance to each and every person of every denomination/skill/profession with the wisdom in its leaves spread across its length and breadth whether he or she is finding it in reference to military science, laws of business, human sociology, psychology, science,

Quran uses its own arguments, with an unimaginable depth, some scholars in Islam; prohibit reading the earlier texts and their histories. What I believe is just the opposite, as this book the Quran stresses us to visit far corners of the earth to find out the truth, whether in anthropology, biology or history leading to the continuity and understanding of these messages with increasing conviction. A visit from Jones town, Pa to the Niagara Falls, Ny, shows the proliferation of nuclear reactors and message of God, the churches, scattered in the heart of every town and village in the beautiful valley’s and the green pastures. Science and religion existing together and the best possible method described itself to resolve an argument. Fundamentalism, extremism often used in context to revolutions, is a relative term; my hero can be your enemy. Though hero worship leads to cults, and the hero starts believing in the concept and in the following dictum, “If you can do anything you will do it” or ”Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely” the sunnat of Allah(swt), is to create diversity at the expanse of divisions.

Quran argues with statements, not attuned to a western mind like Christopher Hitchens, or Dr Neil deGrasse Tyson for if they want a testable prediction.

“But I remain skeptical of the value of revelations gleaned from religious texts as sources of insight to the natural world -- until the day when a person makes a testable prediction that comes true about unknown (or unsuspected) objects or phenomena based on revelation. This has never happened in the history of this effort, yet such predictions represent a fundamental dimension of science as an enterprise.” “A scriptural passage is of no use to the scientist unless it makes a testable prediction of unknown phenomena.  Until that happens, religion will offer no meaningful insight into the operations of the natural world.” Dr Neil deGrasse Tyson.

Then the Quran remarks.

Do not the Unbelievers see that the heavens and the earth were joined together (as one unit of creation), before we clove them asunder? We made from water every living thing. Will they not then believe?

The Cobe satellite mission, and evolutionary biology, is spread with statements to this effect.

Lord of the Worlds, in His wisdom creates and repeats creation, evolutionary biology, supplemented in the “Order and Chaos; The Prigoginian view” giving new insights to the active creative activity of God and the creativity of His co-worker and Vice-regent.

That is because Allah He is the Truth (the only True God of all that exists, Who has no partners or rivals with Him), and what they (the polytheists) invoke besides Him, it is Batil (falsehood) And verily, Allah He is the Most High, the Most Great.

If scholars of Quran, use evolution, as a function of natural selection then their followers have to expand it into other fields of inquiry. Creative co-worker(Naib) has to remember what is explained in the following.

“The ultimate source of existence is the Void, the supracosmic Silence, the uncreated and absolutely ineffable Supreme.

The first possible formulation of this source is Universal Mind. Here, too, words fail, for Universal Mind transcends the dichotomies, polarities, and paradoxes that harass the relative world and our finite minds comprehension of it. Insofar as description is attempted, the Vedantic ternary—Infinite Existence, Infinite Intelligence, Infinite Bliss — is as serviceable as any.

God is not limited to his forgoing, “abstract” modes. He can be encountered concretely, as the God of the Old and New Testaments, Buddha, Shiva, or in other modes. These modes do not, however, wear the mantle of ultimacy or provide final answers.

The phenomenal worlds owe their existence to Universal Mind, which Mind does not itself become implicated in their categories. Man, together with the three-dimensional world he experiences, is but one of innumerable modes through which Mind experiences itself. The heavy physicality and seemingly objective finality of man’s material world, its space-time grid and the laws of nature that offer themselves as if they were the sina qua nons of existence itself—all these are in fact highly provisional and relative. Under exceptional circumstances, people can rise to a level of consciousness at which they see that taken together they constitute but one of innumerable sets of limiting constructs that Universal Mind assumes. To saddle that Mind itself with those constructs would be as ridiculous as trying to understand the human mind through the rules of chess.

Created entities tend progressively to lose contact with their original source and the awareness of their pristine identity with it. In the initial stage of this falling away, those entities maintain contact with their source, and the separation is playful, relative, and obviously tentative. An image that illustrates this stage is that of a wave of the ocean. From a certain point of view the wave is a distinct entity—we can speak of it as large, fast-moving, green, and foamy. But its individuation doesn't keep it from belonging to the ocean proper.

At the next stage, created entities assume a partial independence and we can observe the beginnings of cosmic screen work, the Absolute’s assumption of veils that are gossamer-like in the beginning but grow increasingly opaque. Here unity with the source can be temporarily forgotten in the way an actor can forget his own identity as he identifies with the character he depicts.

Eventually the veiling process reaches a point where individuation looks like the normal state of things and the original wholeness is perceived only intuitively and sporadically. This can be likened to the relationship between cells of a body and the body as a

while. Cells are separate entities but function as their body’s parts. Individuation and participation are dialectically combined. Complex biochemical interactions bridge provisional boundaries to ensure the functioning of the organism as a whole.

In the final stage, the separation is practically complete. Liaison with the source is lost sight of and the original identity forgotten. The screen is now all but impermeable, and a radical change of consciousness is required to break through it. A snowflake can serve as a symbol. In outward appearance it doesn’t look like water; to understand that nevertheless it is water we have to get down to H2O.

Human beings who manage to effect the requisite break through find thereafter that life’s polarities paradoxically do and do not exist. This holds for such contraries as matter and spirit, good and evil, permanence and change, heaven and hell, beauty and ugliness, and agony and ecstasy. In the end, there is no difference between subject and object, observer and observed experiencer and experienced, creator and creation..” By Huston Smith in ‘Cleansing the Doors of Perception’.

It is only in managing this requisite break through, that the experience of the unitary or mystical is attended to.

Or Dr Chittick.

“True meaning can never be grasped by dogma, doctrines, theories, or any other mental construct. It can be only found by going beyond the operations of the mind, actualizing the unitary awareness of primordial intelligence that lies beneath the mind and behind the world, and integrating the human self back into its transcendent origin.”

Summing up is what Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad remarks.

“Could it be that the very existence of prophecy, which the scripture proclaims as necessary to man’s salvation, indicates that human reason, unaided, cannot reach truth? Is this the crux of the argument not only between Plato and Aristotle, but between Athens and Jerusalem.”

Quran professes the merger of thought and action, the study of nature (free inquiry, open mindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake) coupled with practices of Law (Shariah) in the vertical dimension synthesized by intuition in the horizontal dimension. Both the

horizontal and the vertical dimensions, opening up seen and unseen blessing in the regulating powers of law (Sharia), Ilm (knowledge) and purification of the Ruh. A three dimensional effort, unlocking the secrets of the fourth and more dimensions, where time and space freezes as the tears of this servant of God, who is a fighter on the battlefield against the infidels, a father par excellence, a husband devoted to his family, a son devoted to his parents. What we read, we try to understand, what we try to understand, we try practice; it’s of utmost importance to realize, that one form of imperialism should not be replaced with another. If we profess our religion to be the religion of peace, we should strive for peace and not war for war sake. Having a rare access in the deepest recesses of human mind, due to social interactions, the internet, and media, the modern world has come very close, for each one of us to see and hear, what the other is thinking and planning. In the psychoanalysis of Hitler, we read.

“From a scientific point of view, therefore, we are forced to consider Hitler, the Fuehrer, not as a personal devil, wicked as his actions and philosophy may be, but as the expression of a state of mind existing in millions of people, not only in Germany but, to a smaller degree, in all civilized countries. To remove Hitler may be a necessary first step, but it would not be the cure. It would be analogous to curing an ulcer without treating the underlying disease. If similar eruptions are to be prevented in the future, we cannot content ourselves with simply removing the overt manifestations of the disease. On the contrary, we must ferret out and seek to correct the underlying factors which produced the unwelcome phenomenon. We must discover the psychological streams which nourish this destructive state of mind in order that we may divert them into channels which will permit a further evolution of our form of civilization.”

How can we have a dialogue when our state of minds differ?. When we read different books. Religions have diversified sects, each interpreting the Divine books differently. Inayat ullah khan in the dialogue and conversation that he had with Hitler only could introduce the message of the Quran, in Tazkirah, which the later read with interest, but who in turn saw Nietzschean superman as the embodiment of all life.

The late 18th century and the early 19th out of the necessity of the changing dynamics in the Lands of Islam, produced men of

understanding, with a few women, including the, oriental’s the likes of which the previous generations of Muslims had not seen. Including Jamal ud din Afgani, Syed Ahmed khan, Maulana Mohamrnad Ilyas Khandalvi , Syed Sulaiman Nadvi, Mohammad Iqbal, Inayat ullah Mashriqi ,Syed Abu Ala Maududi, Syed Qutb etc.

No doubt! Verily, to Allah belongs whosoever is in the heavens and whosoever is in the earth. And those who worship and invoke others besides Allah, in fact they follow not the (Allah's so-called) partners, they follow only a conjecture and they only invent lies.

In the domain of modern thought and philosophy with only sense perception and intellect as a guide, liberty of thought unattended by divine books of revelations, is seeking to formulate its own logic and laws providing principles of ethics and morality speculating as far as understanding can go.

In the domain of religions, things are different with God as the only priority; the first law is as stated. “No soul can believe, except By the Will of Allah”.

Fractals expansion and growth. The activity of a Muslim to travel the path of an Ulul Albab is not easy without a Director of Tazkia, this Director first becomes an Ulul Albab himself and then guides others. God Consciousness starts with consciousness and reflection of the self and vica versa, as Dr Azhar Waheed notes. And again very subtly observed by Professor Ahmed Rafiq that as with all other educational endeavors, the search for the Almighty can result in the help taken from various teachers. As stated by Ali Hajver taking directions from around 65 men of learning.

This hold for any tradition, past, present and in the future. For as Quran remarks about the people of the book as their books to be confirmed by it.

That which We have revealed to thee of the Book is the Truth,- confirming what was (revealed) before it: for Allah is assuredly- with respect to His Servants - well acquainted and Fully Observant.

And here too Allah(swt) by His grace and mercy grants understanding.

And dispute ye notWith the People of the Book,Except with means better(Than mere disputation), unlessIt is be with those of themWho inflict wrong (and injury);

But say. “We believeIn the revelation which hasCome down to us and in thatWhich came down to you;Our God and your GodIs One; and it is to HimWe bow (in Islam).

The third attempt to invade, as Bernard calls these Muslims migrations to the west. In the 7th century the Muslims rose from the deserts of Arabia, and in a relative short span, of time stretched their empire, from the Pyrenees to the Himalaya. “The Ornament of the World” describes that Golden age in Al Andalusia.

“Most important, however is that Muslims, Christians, and Jews did not have separate cultures based on religious differences but were rather part of a broad and expansive culture that had incorporated elements of all their traditions, a culture that all could and did participate in regardless of their religion. Writing poetry in Arabic was what educated people did, not just Muslims, and when the Jews of Toledo built a synagogue with horseshoe arches they were adopting the signature style of a culture rather than of a religion---indeed those same horseshoe arches, which are the unmistakable of the Great Mosque of Cardoba, were themselves adopted by the early Muslim rulers of Cardoba from the old

Visigothic Christian churches..It was, in other words, a culture that rejected religious or political correctness as the basis for any sort of aesthetic or intellectual value.” Any dialogue between power and intellect will suffer the same fate as that between Voltaire and Frederick the Great. But men and women of understanding do we have an obligation, where the above two, personalities failed at, a dialogue?. Is dialogue possible between the strong and the weak? What subsequent history has showed, there is always an inbuilt cultural, political, imperialistic, historical, nationalistic, ethnic and racial divide, a pride, and an argument for war in all religions, all national ideologies, that this divide will persist is unfortunate, we can only reduce its intensity but never overcome the realities for we all have hidden and manifested agenda’s , whether it is the Protocol of the elders of Zion, Bhagavad Gita , Bible or Quran, each of us having our own radicals, each one of us deeply and passionately tied to our beliefs. To the Irish question or Kashmir and Palestinian, issue. As a teacher in USA, I could see a Jewish child age 16, or a Palestinian, a Muslim or Hindu child of the same age, having innocence and a friendly understanding in their eyes, only to be brainwashed later in life.

Islamic people with a population of over 1.6 billion stepping out of their long stupor are preparing to become a responsible and major stake holder, in world affairs. Learning from the west and watching its neighbor in India and China, rise in economic might and political power, are shaping themselves into this ideal and compelling example albeit quietly.

United Arabic Emirates, where investments in infrastructure, education, science and technology, trade and industry, merits mention. With the end of foreign occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan, it’s imperative that the outpouring of its energies become a source of pride and example par excellence, for Muslims and the rest of the world. Here the lead has to be taken by Saudi Arabia, Iran and Pakistan, of course not in the least by Iraq and Afghanistan themselves.(Humans born free do not like hegemony and control). One should say easy said then done, a dilemma stretching out into centuries past. Instead of fermenting sectarian tensions, and carving out spheres of influences at the cost of the poor and huddled most earning a dollar a day, are less interested in ideologues than making a living and surviving each day. Having heard enough lectures from the west on democracy and freedom, want their genuine socio-economic problems solved. Unfortunately everyone seems to be hiding behind the sheep in the guise of a self righteous wolf, embedded within their own vested self interests. Whether he be a King, an authoritarian self serving democrat,(corrupt to the core, cruel and ruthless), or a hypocrite masquerading as a theologian.

The case being the Madrassa, an institution centuries old providing a major source of funding for the needs of the under fed and under privileged. A stupendous effort is needed to bring this majority into the main stream of knowledge and scholarship, economic activity, business and commerce at the same instant keeping and growing their faith. Taking advantage of these loved one’s of God, many have ended up with

devouring wealth. Although a lot others have done an earnest act, inviting and earning the pleasure of the Almighty. A strong middle class is the back bone of a society and a nation, a middle way as induced by traditions of Quran and Sunnah. Illusions and delusions of grandeur aside, pride, leadership, arrogance of some, has to give way and replaced by realism of the majority. The recent events in the Middle East, with their Arab spring, are a major test in point. Having opened the flood gates to change and revolutions is now tending to chaos and anarchy, caught unprepared. Though chaos and anarchy for some, a Divine plan for others.

Almost comical seems to be the devotion and zeal of the followers of those who profess modernity in the context of the current western paradigm of hedonistic absorptions, predatory capitalism, unchecked ambitions, former Disney executive Michael Eisner well said, that after making millions of dollars one day you have a heart attack and you die, to those who seem to be tracing their Islamic roots, unwilling to ponder, on their book, which exhorts otherwise, stigmatized with their own opinions, developing into cults, major under currents ripping each other apart, neither side prepared to listen or to have a dialogue, each a recipient of the absolute truth. Christopher Hitchens must be feeling vindicated.

The situation of post withdrawal from the war in Afghanistan of the sons of Isaac (Pbuh) is not clear either. These progeny of Abraham (Pbuh), having had their bloody day, are leaving. While the sons of Ishmael (Pbuh) wait in silence studying there options.

Their eyes set on the steppe of Central Asian, plains with the secret yearning and intentions of establishing a second Medina.

We me say the great game of Kipling will never end, spilling more sweat and blood, for the opposite side is not sitting idle they too are preparing for the inevitable showdown. Who would be the next victim of the grave- yard of Super powers called Afghanistan?.

What more proof is required as to the statement in the opening narrative? “.Do scriptures or holy books qualify as messages not extracted from the human mind, but a product of an unknown source outside the universe. From extra space dimensions or parallel universes, or “supra space”. Lets us take up this challenge and reflect on there relevance and, their unrelenting control on a large portion of mankind”. The two brothers arguing thousands of years ago, to have their progenies their children at each other throat in the cities, plains and mountains of New York, D.C, London, Iraq ,Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The locations of permanent lights on the Earth's surface are seen in this October 23, 2000 handout image from NASA. This image of Earth's city lights was created with data from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Operational Linescan System (OLS) which was originally designed to view clouds by moonlight. The brightest areas of the Earth are the most urbanized, but not necessarily the most populated. REUTERS/NASA/Handout.

All humans resemble each other, with the same aspirations, given to immense love for their children and family, yearning for their security, decency in character, longing for first class education, food , health and a clean environment, in the process some acquire unbridled strength, becoming stronger

then others, in the absence of Divine guidance, tend to fabric unjust wars.

For some all conquests, revolutions end in advanced civilizations, as the rise and fall of nations in world history has taught us. Barring a few most speak in the inevitability of the clash of civilizations as a Law in nature.

Having a personal experience of living in the west for nearly 20 years, one can observe and speak of stupendous, warm-heartedness and generosity reflected in the average middle and lower middle classes; it’s only in the presence of the ultra rich, the Illuminati and the Bilderberg’s dubbed in the “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man” by John Perkins and “The Grand Deception: Corporate America and Perpetual War” by Dr Mujahid Kamran, that one finds the global malaise.

The seeker of truth overcomes the valley of doubt, attains to the unveiling of Quran and its essence and mysteries by the Grace of God, an inner experience very personal in nature, , culminating, in the removal of these doubts , for reason alone is insufficient, to grasp the ultimate reality. Reason engages its beholder, in a cyclical movement, precisely a sine

wave. Alternating between faith and doubt, a seeker of truth, is exhausted. Again beautifully explained by the Muslim mystic Mohammad Iqbal.

‘Nor is there any reason to suppose that thought and intuition are essentially opposed to each other. They spring up from the same root and complement each other. The one grasps Reality piecemeal, the other grasps it in its wholeness. The one fixes its gaze on the eternal, the other on the temporal aspect of Reality. The one is present enjoyment of the whole of Reality; the other aims at traversing the whole by slowly specifying and closing up the various regions of the whole for exclusive observation. Both are in need of each other for mutual rejuvenation. Both seek visions of the same Reality which reveals itself to them in accordance with their function in life. In fact, intuition, as Bergson rightly says, is only a higher kind of intellect.’

The Quran itself fosters and inculcates the habit of enquiry, in the sphere of thought and scientific discovery.

The Quran says ayah 17-36

And pursue not that

Of which thou hastNo knowledge; forEvery act of hearing,Or of seeing,Or of (feeling in) the heartWill be enquired into(On the day of Reckoning).

Knowledge is to be gained by using; the senses acquired by humans through natural selection or more aptly directed evolution. Anything not verifiable by these faculties or the modern day instruments an extension of these senses, in the realm of the unseen, does not constitute Knowledge. With the exception of God, his angels, the knowledge of ‘Nafs’ Arabic for soul, Ruh and what He hides from His creation. Recent progress in the techniques of ultra-sound is extending our knowledge which once seemed to be in the realm of unseen a few decades ago. [Be Iznillah by the Will of Allah(swt)].

Allah doth know what every female (womb) doth bear, by how much the wombs fall short (of their time or number) or do exceed. Every single thing is before His sight, in (due) proportion.

Here Allah Subhana-Hu does not say that any one else cannot have this knowledge.

“Most objects on Earth (including the human body) contain measureable contaminating amounts of all of the 88 chemical elements which are detectable in nearly any soil on Earth”. A sign of holistic nature of the universe.

Non locality, quantum entanglement, as increasing amplitude of the sine wave, and then back to the accelerating universe a concept in astrophysics discovered in 1998, and structures extending beyond the boundary, of the observable universe, in the direction of the great attractor, example of decreasing amplitude of the sine wave, a platonic view of the universe with no end ( A metaphorical analogy, of seeking the ultimate reality, on the basis of limitations of science). The resolution of the dichotomy mentioned in introduction to this essay, remains elusive, until we submit to a paradigm shift of watching the progress, of واC وEل

C KابH أ Eب Kل Eاأل the men and women of understanding as they reflect in the divine book of nature. And find the Hadith Ul Allah (swt) the Words of Allah (swt) as signs. Observing the Ultimate reality, with the aid of this Ilm , He alone grants, to those whom He calls as his servants, who attain to this status after reflecting on the divine book of nature.

And the earth We have spread it out, And set thereon mountains Standing firm, and producedTherein every kind of Beautiful growth in Pairs.(male and female).

To be observedAnd commemoratedBy every ServantTurning (to Allah).

Whom enlightened, both in the knowledge acquired in nature and in the remembrance of Allah in ‘Nafs and Ruh’ (Arabic for soul) along with His personal guidance, and through wisdom of revelation attained through the Quran achieves the unity, which

remains elusive otherwise, for where would those servants go, if He were to stop the rotation of the earth, strike it with an asteroid, (today 14the June 2012 LZ1 missed our earth, discovered a few days ago, the size of a city block, sparring us God knows for how long, while we on earth were preparing to build more nuclear bombs to annihilate each other, don’t we need a collective effort to build an asteroid deflection shield. Little do we understand Him?. For here is when God mentions us to look into His kingdom around, and see how close the earth is to being annihilated by a rock from the sky or cave in underneath.

See they not what is before them and behind them, of the sky and the earth? If We wished, We could cause the earth to swallow them up, or cause a piece of the sky to fall upon them. Verily in this is a Sign for every devotee that turns to Allah (in repentance).

Say, "Observe what is in the heavens and earth." But of no avail will be signs or warners to a people who do not believe.

And again

Do they not look in the dominion of the heavens and the earth and all things that Allah has created, and that it may be that the end of their lives is near? In what message after this will they then believe?

Ruh which acts to unite the esoteric and the exoteric. Intellect and intelligence used in our limited sense in every day usage, is the actualization in the Heart of the Ulul Albab the select few by

the personal Grace of the Divine being manifested by His Divine name Allah (swt) with reflecting on all the attributes of the subsequent 99 names, acquired through Dikhr and contemplation in nature Fikr

As Dr Chittick mentions in “Science of Cosmos” as Consciousness is not limited, so is the Universal Consciousness,

“Consciousness is not essentially limited; it itself is the subject that perceive limits, boundaries and definitions. Strictly human modalities of being pertain to pure consciousness and pure awareness, the true human selfhood cannot be defined, yet it gives rise to every distinction and differentiation. Those human beings who fully realize their own selfhood—their innate, unlimited intelligence and consciousness –thereby gain freedom from every constraint.”

And again

"In other words, human beings can aim for “freedom” from their environmental limitations – not just physical limitations, but also social, political, and psychological limitations. Much more profoundly,they can strive for freedom from all limitations and all constraints To do so they need to extirpate what the Buddhists call “the three poisons” – anger, greed, and ignorance."

“As long as human beings take finite things, or a defined and known God, as the object of their quest, they can never know the true and final meaning of the universe and themselves.” Dr William Chittick.

On this portion, Quran elaborates, the words of Allah (swt) with an insight, truly of the proportions of a Supreme Being, manifested by His beautiful names

, He is Allah, than Whom there is no other Allah, the Knower of the Invisible and the Visible. He is the Beneficent, Merciful.

He is Allah than Whom there is La ilaha illa Huwa (none has the right to be worshipped but He) the

King, the Holy, the One Free from all defects, the Giver of security, the Watcher over His creatures, the All-Mighty, the Compeller, the Supreme. Glory be to Allah! (High is He) above all that they associate as partners with Him.

He is God, the Creator, the Maker, the Shaper. To Him belong the Names Most Beautiful. All that is in the heavens and the earth magnifies Him; He is the All-mighty, the All-wise.

This we see realized in the life and teachings of Prophets of revelation in their attaining these sublime heights and becoming archetype and role model of the Perennial philosopher as well as the contemporary men and women of understanding the “Ulul Albab”.

He it is Who has sent downTo thee the Book;In it are versesBasic or fundamental(Of established meaning);They are the foundation Of the book: othersAre not of well –established meaning. But thoseIn whose hearts is perversity followThe part thereof that is not of Well-established meaning.Seeking discord, and searching For its hidden meanings,But no one knowsIts true meaning except Allah.

And those who are firmly GroundedIn knowledge say: “We believe In the Book; the whole of itIs from our Lord; and none Will grasp the messageExcept men of understanding.

There are two types of verses in the Quran, one called Muhakemat, having a very clear and concise, meanings , and the other being Mutashabihat,, none other can grasp, their meanings except God, and men and women of understanding.

1. Mutashabihat are verses in the Quran, which unravel as knowledge progresses in time. Contemplated, when the conditions are ripe, for their understanding, whether they belong to the knowledge of the ‘Nafs’ (Arabic for soul), inner experience or outer horizon annotated by sense perception. A).In the later, sense perception has either not reached, the maturity, or caught up yet, with the scientific analysis, required to clear there meanings, if these verses pertain to having scientific connation’s, usually accompanied by such words… , but very few understand, or if they only knew, and none will grasp the message except men and women of knowledge. 2. Allah (swt) does not discourage those, having advanced spiritual training, specialization of physical and social sciences called واC وEل

C KابH أ Eب Kل Eاأل in Arabic, to discover their meanings. If a scientific discovery seems to be

totally opposite, to what the Quran say’s, then a promethean mind, is too myopic to judge the will and plan of the Creator in the outer domains and of the self, manifested in the vast canvas of the cosmos, embedded in the fabric of space and time, God’s creative activity at every moment of His pure duration in Mohammad Iqbal’s words, unveiling piecemeal, at levels of forces, which functions, through the processes of evolution, creative diversity, order emanating out of chaos( Allah’s inspiration). Whole worlds destroyed at the blinking of an eye. Stars hundred of times massive as the sun, exploding in a supernovae within, 30 seconds to produce elements heavier than iron, spreading, across a vast ocean of gas, like rose petals, creating a new far superior permutations and combinations, developing star systems with trillions of earths and civilizations like ours.

Reciting Subhan'Allāh (Arabic ن ا ح ب ه س ل ل ا ) "Glory be to Allah". Estagfirullah (Arabic: إستغفار), "I seek forgiveness from Allah”. Alhamdulillah or ( لله الحمد ) "Praise to God”. A Momin, is honored by God, with interpreting His signs, in the realm of the Muhakemat and Mutashabihat. Overcoming the dichotomy of inner self and the outer realm. He has achieved the status of, the divine observer participating with God, who graduated from the status of the beasts. Quran proclaims.

For the worst of the beastsIn the sight of AllahAre those who reject Him:They will not believe.

to the status of vice-regent, an eternal personality and ego, here and in the hereafter. Prophet Abraham (Pbuh), was one of the first to show this path and achieve, this transition. Abraham realized his telos with a conscience act of existential choices, embedded in a culture of idol worship he moved from a state of denial to annihilation (fanâ') in God. When he began in his research, on the mysteries of the universe, with its dark nights, multitude of stars, the moon with its splendor, the morning sun with its blinding light. A journey however long it took, to reach the ultimate reality. If reason guided him to take the appearance of a star as an object worthy of worship, above the then prevailing inveterate worship of idols.

When the night Covered him over,He saw a star:He said “This is my Lord.”But when it set,He said; “ I love notThose that set.

Doubt appeared in his heart and mind as to the nature of the object, limited by its diminishing powers. A foremost واC وEل

C KابH أ Eب Kل Eاأل among the Chaldean people, who were committed to the study of natural phenomena. Laws of the universe taught to him by none other than the Creator Himself. As the Quran mentions.

So also did We showAbraham the powerAnd the laws of the heavensAnd the earth, that heMight (with understanding)Have certitude.

Resolving the intuitions of the inner self and data acquired through sense perception, questioning his father Azar, about his established religion, breaking the a priori veneration which his clan had for idols.

Lo Abraham said To his father Azar: “Takest thou idols for gods? For I see thee And thy people In manifest error.”

Most minds are imprinted by their parents, close friends, society, political affiliations, rarely an act of conscious choice. Those who do use the prerogative of reason tend toward in two directions, either a complete denial of the ultimate reality, or mired in the study of nature, with fluctuating periodic movements from disbelief to belief and returning to disbelief no sooner as the cyclical discoveries of science and logic pervades their mind, devoid of absolute faith in God, as omnipresent, omniscient. Abraham (May Allah’s blessing and peace be upon him) using his intellect as a starting point became a friend of God, when he had exhausted all the possibilities intellect could offer. For intellect is a limiting factor, ultimately it’s the sincerest intentions, a soul shattering event in the life and the heart of the seeker, that God ultimately unveils His grace and mercy, His secrets upon his friends. Abraham (Pbuh) was the first of the monotheistic faith, to overcome the chain of reasoning, lack of sufficient evidences, doubts to proclaim what the following verse of the Quran exhort its reader.

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Verily, in the alternation of the night and the day, and in all that Allah hath created, in the heavens and the earth, are signs for those who are who are God conscious.

Followers of religions, corrupted the original message and tended toward superstitions, cult and occultism, reader criticism is most valuable and enduring on any treatise, which reflect, a partial understanding in the domains of knowledge and metaphysics. A metamorphism is achieved when a Muslim learns to recognize signs both within his heart and in the outer domains of the universe. Praying for everlasting understanding and obedience to the Lord of the Worlds.

“Our Lord!” (they say),“Let not our hearts deviateNow after Thou hast guided us,But grant us mercyFrom Thine own Presence;For Thou are the Grantor

Of bounties without measure.

The seven heavens and the earth, and all beings therein, declare His glory: there is not a thing but celebrates His praise; And yet ye understand not how they declare His glory! Verily He is Oft-Forbear, Most Forgiving!

Quran schematizes its structure and style with the following verse.

A. L. R. (This is) a Book, with verses basic or fundamental (of established meaning), further

explained in detail,- from One Who is Wise and Well-acquainted (with all things).

It synthesizes its concepts like the rose buds blooming into flowers with multitude of colors and fragrances, enamoring the heart of a true seeker with infinite joy in the garden of peace, happiness and tranquility. Bringing moments of ecstasy and tears. Specially of those engaged in the Dhikr of the Lord of Heavens and the Earth. Those engaged in charity, those smiling with the poor, the Prophet of Islam lived as the poorest of the poor, accepting as brothers and sisters, of all faith.

And while asserting unique deliverance to the mystical and ratiocinative epistemologies as noted by Sufi and Saint Abdal Hakim Murad.

Quran says

And this Quran is not such as could ever be produced by other than Allah (Lord of the heavens and the earth), but it is a confirmation of (the revelation) which was before it [i.e. the Taurat (Torah), and the Injeel (Gospel), etc.], and a full explanation of the Book (i.e. laws and orders, etc, decreed for mankind) - wherein there is no doubt from the the Lord of the 'Alamin (mankind, jinns,and all that exists).

THE WILL TO REMEMBER GOD

The Contact with the Supreme intelligence accorded only when the Vicegerent (naib) has by Allah(swt) Will searched the far corners of the whole Divine Book of Nature and exhausted all seen and unseen blessings intended for this Direct Contemplation (Mushahadah) seems far reaching, are we progressing in that direction?. Who could have guessed eons ago that an asteroid or heavenly body would strike the earth and produce a tilt enough to start the seasons later on? Or another would wipe out the Dinosaurs and pave the way for us Homo sapiens. Was the blast over Tunguska another in a series of useless encounters with the earth or a planned strike, we have the means to extrapolate to a certain degree and level of what short and long term effects that strike might have had on our lives and the planet. Are we just the wanderers of Carl Sagan for whom the cosmos is the only reality that no one can doubt? ‘The cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be’ and again ‘The cosmos is also within us, we’re made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself ‘or the Omega point travelers of Tielhard de Chardin?. Are we the Sahib-e- Haal of Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A where the will to power or triumph of the will is replaced by the Will of God and the will to remember God ‘One for who’s self-understanding having reached a point where there is no separation, no death, for whom there is no ours and no there’s, who talks to the silence of eternity, who listens to the

heart of the atom, one who’s glare encompasses both being and nothingness…. ‘Sahib-e- Haal is where love, intuition, seeking, belief, faith, companionship and above all good fortune dwell….

‘It is important to think that the one whom God sends his blessings had, to pass through orphanage and poverty, its is amazing that the Prophet of Prophets and the leader of them, one who is respected most among entire mankind, has to pass through injured and bleeding from the valley of Taif, God at his side, all that matters is the companionship of God, and relationship with God, not prosperity and wealth’.

Those seeking the elixir of life, a formula for an everlasting salvation and escape from Hell fire, an inner as well as an outer transmutation, need go no further than following Quran, and Sunnah the life of the Prophet (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam ). The Prophet of Islam is praised by none other than the Creator Himself. After the Quran, the example in the life of the Prophet shows the steps to attain the friendship of God (Aulia Allah).

Allah and His angels send blessings on the Prophet: O ye that believe! Send ye blessings on him, and salute him with all respect.

When he passed away his earthly dwelling he left a grief, described in the words of salutation, by none other than Hazrat Ali R.A.

CONSCIOUSNESS as defined by Hazrat Ali R.A

A Poem by Imam Ali (AS)

Your sickness is within you, though you do not realize

And your cure is within, yet you do not see

You claim that you are nothing but a tiny entity

Yet wrapped up inside of you is the greatest

universe

You are the clear book, through whose letters

All that is secret is revealed and made known.

So you have no need for anything outside of you

Your consciousness is within you, though you do

not know

A true perspective cannot be realized if we are

lost in thinking ourselves as a tiny entity, which we

seem to be, when comparing with the cosmos, where

the diameter of the sun is roughly a million miles.

Where light travels across the Milky Way in a

hundred thousand years. Takes six million years for

light to cross the largest galaxy in the universe.

No just estimate have they made of Allah, such as is

due to Him: On the Day of Judgment the whole of the

earth will be but His handful, and the heavens will be

rolled up in His right hand: Glory to Him! High is He

above the Partners they attribute to Him!

Qur'an does not shy away with facts, in fact

explaining the minutest details, but in a series of

long fractal movements, just like constructing an arm

and hand with veins, or clouds with silver linings,

trees with endless bifurcations. Since the style both

in nature and its form on paper are from the same

Author.

Fractals often called the thumb print of God in

an allegorical sense, become part of an

implicate order at some mysterious level,

though when finger printed and analyzed in a

laboratory, an engineer or a scientist although

being very precise and accurate is unable to

connect the whole, deceived and deluded by

the power of controlled experiment, assuming

science and the scientific method as the only

way of approaching reality

It challenges men and women to go out and find how

the first creation started, not hiding behind

ignorance.

Say: "Travel through the earth and see how

Allah did originate creation; so will Allah produce

a later creation: for Allah has power over all things.

29:20.

What did Alfred Russell Wallace and Charles Darwin

do? Creation here means creation of life, culminating

in humans, since the later also refers to humans after

death and the day of resurrection..Evolution is the

process if studied in detail, leads to an ultimate

purpose for humans, seen in their totality.

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The World of life by Alfred Wallace Russell. "

I first endeavour to show (in Chapter XIV.) by a care- ful consideration of the structure of the bird's feather ; of the marvellous transformations of the higher insects ; and, more especially of the highly elaborated wing-scales of the Lepidoptera (as easily accessible examples of what is going on in every part of the structure of every living thing), the absolute necessity for an organising and directive Life- Principle in order to account for the very possibility of these complex outgrowths. I argue, that they necessarily imply first, a Creative Power, which so constituted matter as to render these marvels possible ; next, a directive Mind

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which is demanded at every step of what we term growth, and often look upon as so simple and natural a process as to require no explanation ; and, lastly, an ultimate Purpose, in the very existence of the whole vast life-world in all its long course of evolution throughout the eons of geological time. This Purpose, which alone throws light on many of the mysteries of its mode of evolution, I hold to be the development of Man, the one crowning product of the whole cosmic process of life-development ; the only being which can to some extent comprehend nature ; which can perceive and trace out her modes of action ; which can appreciate the hidden forces and motions everywhere at work, and can deduce from them a supreme and over- ruling Mind as their necessary cause.

My main research is finding ayaat where the

creation has already stated competing with the

Creator. Less than 50 at the most, I do not exactly

know now . One of the ayaat telling us that the

creation will interfere with the Cosmos.

How a single individual devoid of any resources,

living in the deserts of Arabia could have, made such

statements?

This role of being a conscious helper of God and His messengers is what constitutes, a humans understanding of the world outside (Afaq) and the inner dimension (Anfus) as a verse of Quran states. Integrating the two seems the biggest challenge in the world of Globalization. Eloquently described by Professor Wasif Ali Wasif, ‘Sahib e Nazar sees this universe like a book of revelation, this is also a book in which there is no doubt, with the same Creator and the same style of creation, Quran contains a description of the universe, and the universe an exegesis and understanding of Quran, one who denies the reality of the universe cannot believe in any divine book. This universe is full of signs of

intricate beauty, there recitation constitutes the pastime of these Sahib e Nazar. Sahib e Fikr, and Sahib e Zikr find the real universe through contemplation of these signs. They know that the sustainer of a seed in earth’s darkness, and the revelation of Quran are from the same Being. The Being who creates life in the womb of its mother’.

Now this Sahib e Haal, Sahib e Nazar, Sahib e Fikar, Sahib e Zikar is the fully developed conscious, as alluded to by Hazrat Ali R.A , pointing to a purpose and the meaning of creation. .

‘Yet wrapped up inside of you is the greatest

universe

You are the clear book, through whose letters

All that is secret is revealed and made known’.

These individuals act as agents and helpers of God, bringing order to His creation according to their abilities and effort obeying the Divine commandments (Amr). The greatest being the Prophet (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam).

An observer who observes the quantum processes unraveling in the atom, spends his or her life on the contemplation and recording the birth of a new star, a new planet, a new child, a new equation, a new

revelation in God’s book of nature, one who sees Hadith Allah the words and signs of God, with one own eyes, as one continuous revelation in Quran and the universe becomes Sahib-e-Haal or واC وEل

C KابH أ Eب Kل Eاأل . The will to remember God is acquired through His Mercy and Blessing’s showered during prostration in the silence of the night, on men and women of understanding.

Is one who is obedient to Allah, prostrating himself or standing (in prayer) during the hours of the night, fearing the Hereafter and hoping for the Mercy of his Lord (like one who disbelieves)? Say: "Are those who know equal to those who know not?" It is only men and women of understanding who will remember (i.e. get a lesson from Allah's Signs and Verses).

What we mistake for an observer is actually the universe, in a few billion years the drop of ocean full of enzymes and nutrients became he or she that is

us, to fathom our origins being in the same proportions as the rest of the elements of the periodic table on earth and sea (notes Dr Inam ur Rehman). What Quran reminds "Are those who know equal to those who know not?"

Ayat Allah

Ayat Ullah are the Hadith (word) of Allah, verses stressing on the acquisition of knowledge one being the creation of Humans, being the sign of Allah (swt). There are continuous, co-relations, from the early moments of the big bang as these verses explain.

To Him is due the primal origin of the heavens and the earth: When He decreeth a matter, He saith to it: "Be," and it is.

As reflected in the primordial plasma, quantum wave functions, and symmetry breakings to the creation of galaxies, stars, planets and Humans.

[These letters are one of the miracles of the Quran and none but Allah (Alone) knows their meanings].

The revelation of the Book (this Quran) is from Allah, the All-Mighty, the All-Wise.

Verily, in the heavens and the earth are signs for the believers.

And in your creation, and what He scattered (through the earth) of moving (living) creatures are signs for people who have Faith with certainty.

(Here its is emphasized Humans along with all the animals, as signs of Allah for those who possess faith, implying the anthropic principle and equal importance to the role of all creatures, in the ecological balance, with the humans perfected as Ahsan-e-Taqweem, clearly indicating a superior role, in possessing body, mind and a soul. All as signs to be reflected by those of faith, with recognition of the importance of the Soul/Ruh as a steady process of evolution from Nafs e Lawama to Nafs e Mutminah. Verses 91-7,8,9,10.)

And by Nafs (Adam or a person or a soul, etc.), and Him Who perfected him in proportion;

Then He showed him what is wrong for him and what is right for him

Indeed he succeeds who purifies his ownself (i.e. obeys and performs all that Allah ordered, by

following the true Faith of Islamic Monotheism and by doing righteous good deeds).

And indeed he fails who corrupts his ownself (i.e. disobeys what Allah has ordered by rejecting the true Faith of Islamic Monotheism or by following polytheism, etc. or by doing every kind of evil wicked deeds.)

When the verses 45:1-7 above are read in conjunction with verses 91:7-10 the Quran explicitly answers the dialectics of the like of Bertrand Russell who is stated to have remarked, why he should study Quran when it would be like any other religious book. I would like to quote a passage from his book ‘Logic and Mysticism’ when he says. ‘It is my belief that the ethical and religious motives, in spite of the splendidly imaginative systems to which they have given rise, have been on the whole a hindrance to the progress of philosophy, and ought now to be

consciously thrust aside by those who wish to discover philosophical truth. Science, originally was entangled in similar motives, and was thereby hindered in its advances. It is, I maintain from science, rather than from ethics and religion, that philosophy should draw its inspiration’.

And again when he ask the question empathically, is there any knowledge which no one doubts about, not an optical illusion.

‘Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it? This question, which at first sight might not seem difficult, is really one the most difficult that can be asked. When we have realized the obstacles in the way of a straightforward and confident answer, we shall be well launched. When we have realized the obstacles in the way of a straightforward and confident answer, we shall be well launched on the study of philosophy, for philosophy is merely the attempt to answer such ultimate questions, not carelessly and dogmatically, as we do in ordinary life even in the sciences, but critically, after exploring all that makes such questions puzzling, and after realizing all the vagueness and confusion that underlie our ordinary ideas……’.

And again

‘In daily life, we assume as certain many things which, on a closer scrutiny, are found to be so full of apparent contradictions that only a great amount of thought enables us to know what it is that we really may believe. In the search for certainty, it is natural

to begin with our present experiences, and in some sense; no doubt, knowledge is to be derived from them. But any statement as to what it is that our immediate experiences make us know is very likely to be wrong’.

Here Bertrand Russell makes a bold statement, an empirical fact, logical and sense bound. Any claims which belie our sense-data processed by our discursive intellect, lies in the realm of mythical and constitute conjecture.

And in the alternation of night and day, and the provision (rain) that Allah sends down from the sky, and revives therewith the earth after its death, and in the turning about of the winds (i.e. sometimes towards the east or north, and sometimes towards the south or west etc., sometimes bringing glad tidings of rain etc., and sometimes bringing the torment), are signs for a people who understand.

These are the Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, revelations, etc.) of Allah, which We recite to you (O Muhammad SAW) with truth. Then in which speech after Allah and His Ayat will they believe?

The author of ‘The age of Reason’ able to unravel many a mysteries failed to connect the dots in the absence of Quran…When the world of the unseen starts to unravel by His Grace, consciousness reaches self consciousness and God consciousness. Even if Kant did or did not write the Bismillah before his 1755 thesis, it does show, an attempt can always be made to correct and rewrite philosophy and give a new direction to history as in the life of Dr Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad. Cambridge Muslim College will certainly go a long way, in harmonizing the various ecologies, to co-exit peacefully and in harmony with creativity manifested in its infinite possibilities, on achieving a balanced middle way, and lasting relations in goodness with all traditions.

The belief in the same God, Who created the heavens and the earth but without a son is

highlighted, as a major doctrinal difference in the following verses. Quran 6-101,103.

The Creator of the heavens and the earth -- how should He have a son, seeing that He has no consort, and He created all things, and He has knowledge of everything?

Having veered from the straight path, the west again, appears to be winning in its Globalization adventure, an imitation of Macaulay and the East India Company’s practices of world domination. where the sun never set, instead of physically conquering , the emphasis now is on controlling the mind. To produce carbon copies, machines working for the good of Dr Frankenstein.

That then is God your Lord; there is no god but He, the Creator of everything. So serve Him, for He is Guardian over everything.

The eyes attain Him not, but He attains the eyes; He is the All-subtle, the All-aware.

These challenge are be taken up, by Helpers of God, when they act by His accord.

We have already sent Our messengers with clear evidences and sent down with them the Scripture

and the balance that the people may maintain [their affairs] in justice. And We sent down iron, wherein is great military might and benefits for the people, and so that Allah may make evident those who support Him and His messengers unseen. Indeed, Allah is Powerful and Exalted in Might.

Now as some would condone mystical experience or Irfan/Intuiton, as Bida/Innovation how ever unique and individualistic this experience might be it does not render it liable to suspicion for those who, see it as something to be lived and vividly experienced not read or heard from others. One such experience in reference to Professor Wasif Ali Wasif R.A, narrated by a devotee.

‘I want to relate an incidence which still sends shudder down my spine, even to this day, one day as I was preparing to go to Wasif sahib, when a relative asked me to ask Wasif sahib to pray for the birth of a son. As I entered his office, he was sitting by himself.

Before sitting myself, I narrated the request. Even before I had finished heard a very loud voice, which definitely was not Wasif sahib. It felt the walls of the room trembling, by the dread of this voice. ‘Go We have blessed a son’ I kept on standing and do not how much time had passed, then Wasif sahib asked for water from a jug placed on the table. I gave a glass full of water, when Wasif sahib had finished I asked him, Wasif sahib what happened just now. You do not to speak like this; this is not your style. Wasif sahib directed me to the door leading to the house, with his hand and said in Punjabi “Riaz oh app hi bol gya hai meen te daar da mare utha lagya betha see” ‘Riaz He himself spoke, I was myself sitting in that corner with dread’.

On mystical experiences Moses Maimonides remarks:

‘Such persons can never attain to perfection: it is utterly useless to occupy oneself with them on such a subject [as Metaphysics]. For this science is, as you know, different from the science of Medicine and of Geometry, and, from the reason already mentioned, it is not every person who is capable of approaching it. It is impossible for a man to study it successfully without moral preparation; he must acquire the highest degree of uprightness and integrity," for the froward is an abomination to the Lord, but His secret is with the righteous" (Prov. iii. 32).Therefore it was considered inadvisable to teach it to young men; nay, it is impossible for them to comprehend it, on account of the heat of their blood and the flame of youth, which confuses their minds: that heat, which causes all the disorder, must first disappear; they must have become moderate and

settled, humble in their hearts, and subdued in their temperament; only then will they be able to arrive at the highest degree of the perception of God, i.e., the study of Metaphysics, which is called Ma'aseh Mercabah Comp. The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart" (Ps.xxxiv. 18)" I dwell in the high and lofty place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit: to revive the spirit of thehumble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones" (Isa. lvii. 15).’

In the world view of Iqbal, Islam harbors the greatest challenge to Globalization, containing seeds to itself universalize life as a complete force for good, ‘Mystic experience, then, however unusual and abnormal, must now be regarded by a Muslim as a perfectly natural experience, open to critical scrutiny like other aspects of human experience. This is clear from the Prophet’s own attitude towards Ibn Sayyād’s psychic experiences. The function of Sufism in Islam has been to systematize mystic experience; though it must be admitted that Ibn Khaldūn was the only Muslim who approached it in a thoroughly scientific spirit.’

How a human being react here, he reacts as the Quran says

And when it is said to them, "Believe as the people have believed," they say, "Should we believe as the foolish have believed?" Unquestionably, it is they who are the foolish, but they know [it] not.

Are we the existentialists of Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean Paul Sartre and Albert Camus?, or the bearer of Divine Covenant accorded to the Prophets of

revelation Abraham(Pbuh), Moses (Pbuh), Jesus(Pbuh), and Mohammad(Pbuh)?.

True Physics is that which will someday succeed in integrating the totality of the human being into a coherent representation of the world….. The Human Phenomenon… By Pierre Teilhard De Chardin.13.

Again his observations..”The history of consciousness and its place in the world remain incomprehensible to anyone who has not seen beforehand that by the unassailable integrity of it as a whole, the cosmos in which we humans find ourselves engaged constitutes a system, a totum, and a quantum: a system in its multiplicity--a totum in its unity—a quantum in its energy; all three moreover, within a boundless contour..”14.

Where the Torah and Bible ends Quran takes over to complete the message of God.

If you are in search of reality, it is impossible to discover it without Quran. Sultan Bashir-ud-Din Mahmood.

Quran is the last book of God, includes messages of all previous Prophets, a refined and beautiful collection of physics and metaphysics. Sultan Bashir-ud-Din Mahmood.

These messages, of non-human origins evolved piecemeal as scriptures, verses or ayahs of the text of Prophet Abraham, Prophet Moses… the Hereafter is better and longer lasting. This is certainly in the earlier texts, the texts of Ibrahim and Musa. (Al Qur’an, 87:17-19).16. Torah, Psalms of David, Bible and the Quran, entail a code of conduct integrating the dynamics of the times, developing as the human kind socially, rationally and scientifically evolved in the last few thousand years. However each recipient generation of these messages fossilized around what it perceived to be the ultimate or absolute truth, until to everyone surprise came, another message and another messenger. Generating conflicts and wars in the name of religion.

Talking to a pastor at Trinity Broadcasting Network in Miami Florida, I felt perplexed not able to understand the dilemma of God sending different

prophets at different intervals either to confuse us if I may say so, or not understand the mode of His communications. What does God wants us to do, change from being followers of Moses(Pbuh) to followers of Jesus(Pbuh) , to followers of Mohammad(Pbuh), some even claim to the continuation of the revelation, even if their Prophets are Minor Prophets. “The finality of any prophet can be observed with reference to his message as well as with reference to his status. It is possible for a prophet to be final in his message and his status, yet it is also possible for another lesser prophet to come after him without violating his finality. It is this aspect of prophet hood that we are going to thoroughly examine now”.17”Nation of Islam rejects the Muslim belief that Muhammad(Pbuh) was the last prophet. Instead it teaches that Elijah Muhammad was a prophet of Allah, and that Louis Farrahkhan is yet another messenger, sent to deliver a last call to humanity.Islam: Holds that Muhammad (Pbuh) was the very last of all prophets, and that no more prophets would ever arise.18

When the pastor, I referred to above said that the Jews missed Jesus (Pbuh). How can we not claim that they both missed Mohammad (Pbuh)? The first interfaith dialogue that I had in my life, was a short lived one, as I showed the said pastor the Noble Quran, he read it half heartedly, commenting on it as professing a strong claim, in the verse.

This is the Book;In it is guidance sure, without Doubt,To those who fear Allah;

And promptly referred me to a book by Dr William Campbell, and a free Bible, though voicing his concern, of both faiths facing a challenge from the internet, and both faiths somehow professing the superiority of men over women, a patriarchal model. Dialogue is a way of communication, when I communicate with the modern Muslim youth about the ways of the Quran, I am stuck too, like with the pastor, for he is not willing to accept, anything other than the goddess of progress, science, cutting edge technology, unlimited freedom, equal opportunities, liberty, justice, reason and logic west, has to offer for those of us living here. Human psychology is an extremely powerful tool, to any knowledge of the self of men and women; no dialogue is complete without it. The difference between darkness and light a relative term. Imitation seems to be a rule rather an idea, we tend to imitate, like our ancestors long gone. Australopithecus Africanus / Hablis and the Rampithecus before him, were a one nation, under God, working together, to hunt, to gather food, we have come a long way, with our genes mutating into higher and higher levels of brain power. Given the power full tools of science at one end, and the racial superiority, religious pride, immense technological

wealth and power, diminishing us into ever segregated individuals, communities and nations. We tell our stories I too have a tragicomic story to tell, albeit a short one I watched on the television, given in the backdrop of epic struggles, we call the clash of civilizations. In one lecture on the reach of Globalization, Thomas Barnett naval war college professor, was explaining a long drawn out program, to bring the world into one family and culture, a Global village, when a Pakistani brigadier general asked him a question, as to the impact his ideas or that of globalization, would have on the values of religion and culture, in parts of the world he came from. Thomas was quick to cut him short, with explaining how the west too had to go through a similar transition, the religious wars, and the emancipation of women. We are in a state of euphoria, what we call dialogue is in fact a monologue, psychologist Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber in “Why Do Humans Reason? Arguments for an Argumentative Theory,” draw our attention, to the fact that, “Reasoning was not designed to pursue the truth. Reasoning was designed by evolution to help us win arguments. That's why they call it The Argumentative Theory of Reasoning.” And also “our thought processes tend towards confirmation of our own ideas.

I would end with the following observation by David Bohm.

“And it's very important that it happen together, because if one individual changes it will have very little general effect. But if it happens collectively, it means a lot more. If some of us come to the 'truth',

so-called, while a lot of people are left out, it's not going to solve the problem. We would have another conflict - just as there is conflict between different parts of the Christian faith of the Mohammedan faith or various others, even though they all believe in the same God, the same prophet or the same Saviour. Thus this whole question of communication and the ability to dialogue, the ability to participate in communication, is crucial”.

In retrospectively assigning the historical knowledge emanating from the meanings of Sufi and the Scientist into the Quranic word Ulul Albab constitutes a modern day effort to redraw both the esoteric and the exoteric into one whole. The Ayaat in chapter 3 verse 190-3 define the essence of those who achieve a purified heart the (Lub) strive to become co-operatives and agents of a Higher power, as assimilating both the Character and His Creative Abilities.

Behold! in the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the alternation of night and day,- there are indeed Signs for men of understanding,-

Men who celebrate the praises of Allah, standing, sitting, and lying down on their sides, and contemplate the (wonders of) creation in the heavens and the earth, (With the thought): "Our Lord! not for naught Hast Thou created (all) this! Glory to Thee! Give us salvation from the penalty of the Fire

At the same time keeping their identities for explicit purpose of referencing the data accumulated in both.

It is here that a traditional/modern effort needs to be made to bring the two into communication with each other, in a dialogue between Ibn Rushd and Ibn-Arabi.

The aim of this Dialogue is to ascertain whether a conversation can be established between Reason and Intuition, and the objective being to see if intuition still holds meaning/substance in the post scientific revolution.

The panel includes the following

Moderator:- Author.

Dr Timothy Winter lecturer at Cambridge University school of Divinity.

A Muslim Kalam scholar of the past interpreting views of both Ibn Rushd (Averroes ) and Ibn Arabi.

Moderator: Before we begin this interesting topic we have to initiate an initial enquiry into the meanings linguistic/philosophical and sociological/anthropological of the words Intuition and Reason with reference to the various cultures and customs they were embedded in. Their subsequent development and evolution and the impact these words would have in ultimately transforming the brute (Hawaan Natiq, the talking animal, the proto- human from the depths of ignorance revering cultism/paganism given to human sacrifice to a force for good).

Ultimately in ascertaining there influence on the great men and women of knowledge and understanding the outgrowth of the two and the great civilizations produced a pragmatic test for both.

Intuition and Reason both unfolding the bouquets of scented flowers of knowledge and civilizations , starting from antiquity in its transition to the historical middle ages, called the dark ages to the present, do present an enigma. There being an inherent unease, between both the philosopher and the deist on one hand, and the theologian and the scientist, on the other to come to terms, and form a partnership on their onward march to a future progress, incorporating both the material and the spiritual, expressed partially in what Carl Sagan say’s.

‘If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies you will not find another.’

For in each and every civilization, claiming to have contributed ,to the development and progress of these words, both in the metaphorical and literal sense, as evidenced in the fruit, produced and their impact on human societies, a need arises too see why each tends, to curtail the significance and influence of the other.

Moderator:- Humans beings have no eminence save in their knowledge of God. As for their knowledge of other than God, this is a diversion [‘ulala] through which veiled human beings divert themselves. The right thinking man [al-munsif] has no aspiration save toward knowledge of Him.(IV-129-5). Ibn-Arabi on the Benefit of knowledge by Dr William Chittick.

Moderator: I have two quotes.

TWO QUOTATIONS:First:"... We are fallible. We cannot expect to foist our wishes on the universe. So a key aspect of science is experiment. Scientists do not trust what is intuitively obvious, because intuitively obvious gets you nowhere. That the Earth is flat was once obvious. I mean, really obvious; obvious! Go out in a flat field and take a look: Is it round or flat? Don't listen to me; go prove

it to yourself. That heavier bodies fall faster than light ones was once obvious. That blood-sucking leeches cure disease was once obvious. That some people are naturally and by divine right slaves was once obvious. That the Earth is at the center of the universe was once obvious. You're skeptical? Go out, take a look: Stars rise in the east, set in the west; here we are, stationary (do you feel the Earth whirling?); we see them going around us. We are at the center; they go around us. ..."

Wonder and Skepticism (from Skeptical Enquirer, 1995)

By Carl Sagan -

Second:

The myth of Adam and Eve:

"Man and woman live in the garden of Eden in complete harmony with each other and with nature. There is peace and no necessity to work; no choice, no freedom, no thinking either. Man is forbidden to eat from tree of knowledge from good and evil. He acts against God`s command, he breaks through the state of harmony with nature which he is a part without transcending it.

From the stand point of traditional religion, which represented authority, this is essentially sin. From the stand point of man, however, this is the beginning of human freedom. Acting against the command of authority, committing a sin, is its positive human aspect, the first act of freedom, that is, first human act.

(The myth reflects material history of man from prehuman stage, when he was one with nature, to human stage)

THE FEAR OF FREEDOM

By Erich Fromm

Dr Timothy Winter:-

Read through a Biblical concordance [says Rashid Rida], and you will never find the word ‘intellect’ [‘aql], or any synonym for this human faculty which raises human beings above the entire animal kingdom, whether it be ‘insight’ [lubb] or ‘intelligence’ [nuha]. This is because this category is never mentioned in either the Old or the New Testament, since it is not a basis for the understanding of religion and its arguments and lessons; neither is the Bible’s religious discourse rationally oriented or based on reason. Similarly absent are the words ‘thinking’ [tafakkur], ‘contemplation’ [tadabbur], and looking at the world, all of which are among the greatest functions of the intellect.

Moderator: Carl Sagan says:

My parents were not scientists. They knew almost nothing about science. But in introducing me simultaneously to skepticism and to wonder, they taught me the two uneasily cohabiting modes of thought that are central to the scientific method. They were only one step out of poverty. But when I announced that I wanted to be an astronomer, I received unqualified support—even if they as (I) had only the most rudimentary idea of what an astronomer does . They never suggested that, all things considered, it might be better to be doctor or lawyer.

And again

‘The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be’

Kalam Scholar:- Never before and never since, on such a scale, has the spectacle been witnessed of the ruling classes throughout the length and breadth of a vast empire given over to frenzied passion for the acquirement of knowledge . Learning seemed to have become with them the chief business of life. Khali’fs and Emirs hurried from their diwans to closet themselves in their libraries and observatories; they neglected their affairs of state—which they in general sorely mismanaged---to attend lectures and converse on mathematical problems with men of science ; caravan laden with manuscripts and botanical specimens plied from Bokhara to the Tigris, from Egypt to Andalusia; embassies were sent to Constantinople and to India for the sole purpose of obtaining books and teachers; a collection of Greek author or a distinguished mathematician was eagerly demanded as the ransom of an empire. To every mosque was attached a school. (Moderator note: A similar fervor can be mapped in the life of a Queen Victoria who was eager to learn the theory of Evolution and to send naturalist’s to every corner of her empire to collect its flower and fauna. Included the bureaucratic cadre who developed it as a hobby sending back the specimens to the laboratories of Great Britain) from…Rational Evolution By Robert Briffault.

Moderator :

On the assertion that religion stifle’s progress by Syed Jamal ud din Afghani:

‘In truth, the Muslim religion has tried to stifle science and stop its progress. It has thus succeeded in halting the philosophical or intellectual movement and turning minds from the search for scientific truth. A similar attempt, if I am not mistaken was made by the Christian religion, and the venerated leaders of the Catholic Church have not yet disarmed, so far as I know. They continue to fight energetically against what they call the spirit of vertigo and error. I know all the difficulties that the Muslims will have to surmount to achieve the same degree of civilization, access to truth with help of philosophic and scientific methods being forbidden them.’

Here Syed Jamal misses the essentials of religious life, and its meanings in the domains of the two complementary disciplines, needed to acquire the spiritual essence as opposed to the discipline required to acquiring the social presence.

CONQUEST OF SPACE AND QURAN.

Is Sagan right when he says. “ We run the danger of fighting to the death on ideological pretexts”.19 Or

do we need another Moses Maimonides to write another Guide for the Perplexed. Then to our great surprise comes the Quran, with amazing insights into the world of NATURE, statements, exhorting its reader to study, what we now call science. That everything created in the Universe has a purpose.

Let me quote from an essay by Dr deGrasse Tyson.

“My personal views are entirely pragmatic, and partly resonate with those of Galileo who, during his trial, is credited with saying, "The Bible tells you how to go to heaven, not how the heavens go." Galileo further noted, in a 1615 letter to the Grand Duchess of Tuscany, "In my mind God wrote two books. The first book is the Bible, where humans can find the answers to their questions on values and morals. The second book of God is the book of nature, which allows humans to use observation and experiment to answer our own questions about the universe.20

Though not a book of science as in the anatomy, of the modern day atheistic scientist, Quran supplements, the Bible by unifying the answers to the questions on values and morals with answers to the origin of the universe, to our origin, our own questions about the universe, very Galileo like. Verses “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”18 of the Genesis, are elaborated, in more detail, predicting advance scientific phenomena only recently discovered. Scattered, like plums in a cake, in the 30 chapters, 114 surah and 6200 ayahs of the Quran.

The Bible underwent numerous changes, the Newton project, a project dedicated to Isaac Newton’s writings describes “Newton also spent an astonishing amount of his time assessing how the simple original truths of Christianity had been corrupted. Picking up a theme central to his work on prophecy, he identified the fourth century cleric Athanasius and his deviant associates the vanguard of those who had introduced (as Newton saw it) the false religion of Catholicism, and in particular, the hideous doctrine of the Holy Trinity”.

Newton praises Arius for his upholding the unity of God, against the mechanizations of Athanasius, with the support of Emperor Constantine. The council of Nice convened in 325 by Constantine himself resulted in the invention of the false doctrine of Holy Trinity, called to resolve the controversies regarding the concept, nature and meaning of the same, as raised by Arius resulted in his being excommunicated and banished, leading to an ignominious end.

Carl Sagan illustrates in his book ‘Cosmos’ that the Ionian Greek scientist would have worked wonders if the Greek society would have kept on going with libraries as that of Alexandria, where scientists were trying to find the circumference of earth.………..which was Pre- Prophet Jesus (Peace be upon him) and Mohammad (Pbuh), and later, this endeavor would be

pursued by Mohammad’s (Pbuh) followers. This was taken up by Muslim scientists beginning with the 4th Caliph Ali in his weekly Friday sermons on the Quran in 6th century A.D, picking up where the Ionians left, emphasizing on the study of nature.19 With 1/8th of the Quran or about 600 verses having examples drawn from Biology, Zoology Geology, Physics etc. Carl Sagan calls science as informed worship in his book The Varieties of Scientific Experience, ironically science or the study of nature is itself a form of worship as the Quran says.

In the study of the heavens and the earth and in alternation of night and day there are signs for men of understanding…..(Al Quran 3-190) 21.

And coupled with instructions on moral values.

Thy Lord hath decreed

That ye worship none but Him,And that ye be kind To parents, whether oneOr both of them attainOld age in thy life,Say not to them a wordOf contempt, nor repel them,But address themIn term of honour.And, out of kindness,Lower to them the wingOf humility, and say:“My Lord! bestow on themThy mercy even as theyCherished me in childhood. (Al Quran 17-23,24). 22

And again on nature or science.

Seest thou not that Allah sends down rainFrom the sky? With itWe then bring out produceOf various colours.

And in the mountainsAre tracts white and red,Of various shades of colour.And black intense in hue.And so amongst menAnd crawling creatures and cattle,Are they are various colours.Those truly fear Allah,Among His Servants,Who have knowledge.(Al Quran 35-27) 23.

Seeing through the mist is of paramount importance, as Karen Armstrong states quoting the Quran.“Verily in the creation of the heavens and of the earth, and the succession of night and day and in the ships that speed through the sea, with what is useful to man, and in the water that God sends down from the sky, giving life thereby to the earth after it had been lifeless ,and causing all manners of living creatures to multiply there on, and in the change of winds, and the clouds that run their appointed courses between sky and the Earth.(in all this)there are messages(ayat) indeed for people who use their reason.2:164

The Koran constantly stresses the need for intelligence in deciphering the “Signs” or “messages” of God. Muslims are not to abdicate their reason but to look at the World attentively and with curiosity, It was this attitude that later enabled Muslims to build a fine tradition of natural science, which has never been seen as a danger to religion as in Christianity.”24.

The following statement defines one of the five key factors, as high level motivations for the exploration of distant space, in building a space ship. A joint collaboration between NASA and DARPA.

“Belief and faith: a search for God or the Divine, a need to explore beyond Earth’s atmosphere as a part of natural theology or as found through religious revelation.” And again;

“Finally, Belief was discussed as a motivation for the exploration of space on the basis of religious thought and belief; one participant observed a distinction in the definition of natural theology, which could be identified as the knowledge of God obtained through any process apart from Divine revelation. In this sense, exploration of outer space could be motivated by either a study of natural theology or as a need found through revelation.”

Unfortunately, unable to attend the conference held in California and neither the seminar in Orlando(a free event inviting everyone who believes in the Conquest of Nature as a higher purpose or the ultimate frontier , only 3 hour drive from Miami). I was able to send this article as an Islamic perspective on Conquest of Space, to the office of DARPA, soliciting proposals on 11-11-2011. In its essence one of its goals is to conquer the heavens and earth, and search for God or the Divine. Exactly what Quran describes, as a challenge to the

intellectuals, men and women of faith ( Cوا وEلC KابH أ Eب Kل Eاأل ) ,

all over. God does not discriminate, if the followers of one of His Prophets slumber, for lack of vision, He does not depend on them. So also warning if none of them, remembers, Him a new creation, will be brought forth, if they do not heed to His signs..

Do you not See That Allah has subjected To your (use) all things In the heavens and on earth, And has made His bounties Flow to you in exceeding Measure, (both) seen and unseen? Yet there are among men Those who dispute about Allah, Without knoweledge and without Guidance, and without a Book To enlighten them!

Do you not see that Allah has created the heavens and the earth with truth? If He will, He can remove you and bring (in your place) a new creation!

Eminent Scholar of both science and divinity Inayat ullah Khan, basing his studies on Quran and nature believed that one day humans will have evolved to such a degree as physically conquer the whole universe. Today Saturday 25th August, 2012, Neil Armstrong the first man to land on moon, passed away. The journey these servants of God started only God knows, when, where and how it will end. Praise is to the Creator and Sustainer, the Lord of the worlds in Whose, Might and Control all souls arrive. (Subhan -Allah).

Nuclear Engineer Sultan Bashir-ud-Din Mahmood,after an in depth study of the Quran amalgamates three principles of the Quran as life saving and world shaking namely zikar,fikar and taskheer, that is remembrance, of Allah , pondering his Signs, and conquest of nature. We have to

carefully watch the progress of knowledge in all its domains. Not neglecting one at the expense of the other. An unverifiable sign yet is the existence of the unlimited paths, tracts in the Heavens above us which are being neglected by modern research as the Quran points to.

And We have created above you seven paths, and We are never unmindful of creation.

HatafVI-Ghauri2-IRBM, Pakistan.

The Robotic Arm on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander carries a scoop of Martian soil bound for the spacecraft's microscope in handout photo released on June 13, 2008.

The space shuttle Discovery lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, in this photograph taken on July 4, 2006 and released by NASA July 5, 2006. REUTERS/NASA/Handout.

Ghauri Missile rolls out of assembly hall at workshop at Khan Research Labs.

Pheonix Mars Lander Mission.

"We are a way for the Cosmos to know itself."Carl Sagan

Frosty white water ice clouds and swirling orange

dust storms above a vivid rusty landscape reveal

Mars as a dynamic planet in this sharpest view ever

obtained by an Earth-based telescope. The Earth-

orbiting Hubble telescope snapped this picture on

June 26, when Mars was approximately 43 million

miles (68 million km) from Earth -- its closest

approach to our planet since 1988. Hubble can see

details as small as 10 miles (16 km) across.

Especially striking is the large amount of seasonal

dust storm activity seen in this image. One large

storm system is churning high above the northern

polar cap [top of image], and a smaller dust storm

cloud can be seen nearby. Another large duststorm is

spilling out of the giant Hellas impact basin in the

Southern Hemisphere [lower right].8

Rocky cliffs in the foreground named "Cape Verde"

on the left, are seen in this image taken by Mars

Exploration rover released on October 5, 2006.

REUTERS/NASA-JPL/Handout.

Today 11 Nov 2011 National aeronautics and space agency and Department Advanced Research Projects Agency are soliciting studies on a 100 year research plan, for inter stellar travel star ship. The statement issued is the following. “I. FUNDING OPPORTUNITY DESCRIPTION The human history of exploration and grand designs—from Ferdinand Magellan to John Harrison to Roald Amundsen—has been a history of patronage and persistence. Indeed it was sustained investments over decades and sometimes centuries that ultimately yielded the marine chronometer, a passage to India (or several), circumnavigation of the globe, discovery of the poles, and drilling into the Earth’s mantle. For the past half century, the great domain for human exploration has been the cosmos. In a break with the past, however, space exploration has been principally a government-driven enterprise. While not without its spectacular successes, this has not proved—and nor would history suggest otherwise—an especially promising model for long-term investment into the fundamental challenges associated with a sustained foray into space. Neither the vagaries of the modern fiscal cycle, nor net-present-value calculations over reasonably foreseeable futures, have lent themselves to the

kinds of century-long patronage and persistence needed to definitively transform mankind into a space-faring species.”This article was emailed to Darpa today, to become

part of this historical moment of us humans taking a first step towards building a space ship and actually realizing the dream to conquer the universe.

Earth at top, and Jupitor at botton as seen from orbiting mars global suryeor, May 8th 2003.

North and South America were in view.

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Dear Paul Eremenko, DARPA-RA-11-70I hope to find you in the best of health and want to sincerely, congratulate both NASA and DARPA  for this extraordinary effort for the future of SPACE TRAVEL.

I being a member of the Muslim faith, express my deepest wishes for all of you in this historical moment of 11-11-11 today. I am enclosing an article as my faith expresses, its desire for the conquest of space. And also as a part of assistance in fields of Humanities(  higher religions), requested in the document.

Best Regards

Mohammad Imran Khan.

Matter converted into mind, now seeks to penetrate into the vastness and depths of the Cosmos Ocean.

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CREATION OF THE HEAVENS AND EARTH AND ORIGINS OF MANKIND

Carl Sagan observes in The Varieties Of Scientific Experience. Now, we can say” Well that’s just because the right words, were not available back, when the first Jewish or Christian or Islamic holy books were written” But clearly that’s not the problem, it is certainly possible in the beautiful metaphors in these books to describe something like the galaxy and the Universe, and isn’t there. It is God of one small world a problem, I believe, that theologians have not adequately addressed.

Quran and all holy books used the language of the recipient nations to, communicate. Hebrew for Prophet Moses(Pbuh). Aramaic for, Prophet Jesus(Pbuh). Arabic or the language of the, Qureshi tribe in which Prophet Mohammad (Pbuh) was born, called the {laguat ul quresh}.In keeping with the traditions, customs, cultural constraints, mode of conduct and habits. Wentzel Van Huyssteen observes “I believe the history of ideas of theological reflection shows that theological traditions have been

extremely sensitive to the culture(s) in which they were embedded”.

Quran evolves and introduces, new and previously unknown concepts scattered like seeds in its fertile soil, through out its chapters as verses or signs to be reflected upon. Inviting men and women of understanding to ponder in its verses and chapters collect data and in the process become Co-Workers and servants of the Ultimate Reality, becoming infinitely powerful, more and more an image of God, acquiring wisdom and knowledge from the Divine book of nature and the Divine book of revelation the Quran.

And Allah makes the Ayat (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.) plain to you, and Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise. Quran 24:18).

For reason is not the final arbitrator between men or women and God, but it’s the love of God, His grace and mercy in the heart of the believer which is the final arbitrator. The love of God, is like a magnifying glass, when His light (Nur) passes through it and falls on the heart of a Momin, it melts and creates a new personality. For this Ego to survive and grow it has to be constantly cleansed in this light at every single moment of his or her existence.Not limited to

1. Remembrance of Allah(swt).

2. Five times prayers. 3. Regular Charity.

(Lit is such a Light) In houses, which Allah Hath permitted to be raised To honour; for the celebration,In them, of His name: In them is He glorified In the mornings andIn the evenings, (again and again)-

By men whom neither Traffic nor merchandise Can divert from the

Remembrance Of Allah, nor from regular Prayer, Nor from the practice Of regular Charity: Their (only) fear isFor the Day when Hearts and eyes Will be transformed (In a world wholly new)_

SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE OF MUSLIMS

Quran itself unifies natural theology with examples drawn, from Geology, Astrophysics, Astrobiology, and other sciences as signs of Allah with Amr (commands} on what befits the best human behavior, as distinct from its closely related DNA cousins in the animal world. Essentially finding limits on Darwinism and inferring Fine Tuning and Design at the molecular and astronomical levels.

Thus grew the DAR UL-ULOOMS and DAR AL-HIKMETS (The Home of Science)7. or center of leanings in Spain, Central Asia, Middle East, Africa and all the way to Indonesia, producing the finest scholars and scientists who’s inventions and discoveries in art, literature, medicine and Science were the fore runners of Reformation and Renaissance in the west.

CORTEX AND ITS CONNECTION: Most probably the link of a human with the Creator is through the Frontal Lobe.Western scholars accuse Quran of plagiarism, as having been copied from Biblical sources. A reflection, and in an depth study of the Quran reveal it to be a reforming book both for Judaism and Christianity. Former British prime minister Tony Blair remarks speak for themselves..

“I speak with great diffidence and humility as a member of another faith. I am not qualified to make any judgments. But as an outsider, the Koran strikes me as a reforming book, trying to return Judaism and Christianity to their origins, rather as reformers attempted with the Christian Church centuries later. It is inclusive. It extols science and knowledge and abhors superstition. It is practical and way ahead of its time in attitudes to marriage, women and governance”.

These messages from the scriptures, Torah, Bible and the Quran, have a sense of continuity, a sense of purpose, and history, being derived, from the same source, at intervals of a few hundred to a few thousand of years. More like nature or the universe itself, some times , showing chaos , random destruction, some concepts harder to understand, than others, some to be left for latter generations, with more advanced knowledge to clear there meanings. One Sura starts with the creation of man from Adam (Pbuh), and another exhorting Muslims to visit the far corners of the earth to find out how God originated the first creation. The man in the Galapagos Islands and the other in, Brazilian

rainforest of the Amazon river basin and later in The Malay Archipelago were attempting to do the same.

Say “Travel through the earth And see how Allah did Originate creation; so will Allah produce a later creation: For Allah has power Over all things.

The Arabic-English Lexicon by Edward William Lane describes the Arabic word “Bada” as following.

“He originated the thing; brought it into being or existence; or produces it for the first time, it not having been before.”

1. Now why would travelling be so important, otherwise God creation is the person sitting next to us? We can just observe him or her. Or the birds and animals roaming in our neighborhood would suffice. Some people make statements, like the arm chair academics and generals. Alfred Wallace Russell, went to the far corners, of the earth, prone to infections and diseases, sub human cultures, and see his brother die in the process. Arriving at the same conclusions, as Darwin, but asking further questions about the Creator, who had the mysterious power of growth and reproduction.

2.Challenging 21st century Muslims, naturalists, biologists, zoologists to eliminate and eradicate once for all, or confirm parts of the Darwinian and Wallace notions as Allah’s plan, for them selves by studying the earth, with all its paleontology, geology, and pale anthropology.

It’s amazing how Thomas Malthus writing in. “An essay on the Principal of Population”, had a rare insight bordering on mystical, with his remarks on the past and future, of human kind. Reading God’s mind in earth, nature and the scripture. He influenced both Charles Darwin, and Alfred Wallace, both of whom independently, deduced the principle of natural selection, accompanied with their corollaries’ of survival of the fittest, random mutation, and selective retention. Commenting on his inspiration, the former remarks. “In October 1838... I happened to read for amusement Malthus on Population... it at once struck me that under these circumstances favourable variations would tend to be preserved, and unfavourable ones to be destroyed. The result of this would be the formation of new species." And the co-discoverer Alfred Russell says.” But perhaps the most important book I read was Malthus's Principles of Population... It was the first great work I had yet read treating of any of the problems of philosophical biology, and its main principles remained with me as a permanent possession, and twenty years later gave me the long-sought clue to the effective agent in the evolution of organic species.”

Utilizing all modern day tools. God wants us to visit the far corners of earth as an Amr (command) to find the mystery behind the beginning of life on earth. No other translations can be made of these verses, as the word Originate refers to creation of Mankind, since the next and immediate verse alludes to how Allah’s (swt) will produce a later creation in the Hereafter. Earlier Muslim naturalist like Al Jahiz wrote.

"Animals engage in a struggle for existence: for resources, to avoid being eaten, and to breed. Environmental factors influence organisms to develop new characteristics to ensure survival, thus transforming into new species. Animals that survive to breed can pass on their successful characteristics to offspring."

If naturalist like Charles Darwin, Alfred Russell Wallace co-discoverer of natural selection and the Leakey’s could venture in the far corners of the earth, as remote as islands of Galapagos, Brazil , Malay and the wilderness of Africa to read God’s scripture’s by studying the flora and fauna on and

Paleontology in the earth . Why could a Muslim research team not do the same? Had we based our research on the Quranic verses in the domain of Nature, centuries ago, we would have rendered a great service to make Quran, the light of the world.

A task taken up elsewhere, inferring natural selection to be a mindless natural process, as the originator of the first creation. Instead of natural selection a law in nature as any other physical law, an agent of change, in the universe and on earth being itself a corollary of the law of maximum diversity and law of creation of order out of chaos, all being the corollaries of the Word of God. The former being diametrically opposed to what the above verse challenges its readers to find out by travelling throughout the earth and discover a Conscious creator. Certainly these naturalists were not planning to over throw the Scriptures, had any ulterior motives both being trained in theology. They reported what they saw. Alfred Wallace Russell’s is the architect of intelligent evolution, belief in common descent that was directed, he writes in his book.

The WORLD OF LIFE A MANIFESTATION OF CREATIVE POWER, DIRECTIVE MIND AND ULTIMATE PURPOSE

“But besides the discussions of these and several other allied subjects, the most prominent feature of my book is that I enter into popular yet critical examinations of those underlying fundamental problems which Darwin purposely excluded from his works as being beyond the scope his inquiry. Such are the nature and causes of life itself; and more especially of its most fundamental and mysterious powers-growth and reproduction.”

And again;

“I first endeavour to show (in Chapter XIV.) by a care-ful consideration of the structure of the bird’s feather; of the marvellous transformations of the higher insects; and more especially of the highly elaborate wing-scales of the Lepidoptera (as easily accessible examples of what is going on in every part of the structure of every living thing), the absolute necessity for organising and directive Life-Principle in order to account for the very possibility of these complex outgrowths. I argue that they necessarily imply first, a Creative Power, which so constituted matter as to render these marvels possible; next, a directive Mind which is demanded at every step of what we term growth, and often look upon as so simple and natural a process as to require no explanation; and, lastly, an ultimate Purpose, in the very existence of the whole vast life-world in all its long course of evolution throughout the eons of geological time. This Purpose, which alone throws light on many of the mysteries of its mode of evolution, I hold to the development of Man, the one crowning product of the whole cosmic process of life-development; the only being which can to some

extent comprehend nature; which can perceive and trace out her modes of action; which can appreciate the hidden forces and motions everywhere at work, an can deduce from them a supreme and over- ruling Mind as their necessary cause.

For those who accept some such view as I have indicated, I show (in chapter XV, and XVI.) how strongly it is supported and enforced by along series of facts and co-relations which can hardly look upon as all purely accidental coincidences. Such are infinitely varied products of living things which serve man’s purposes and man’s alone not only by supplying this material wants, and by gratifying his higher tastes and emotions, but as rendering possible many of those advances in the arts and in science which we claim to be the highest proofs of his superiority to the brutes, as well as of his advancing civlisation.”

Here Alfred insinuates a creative power which directs the affairs of nature to an Ultimate purpose. Being the development of men and women using all the facilities provided by this directive Mind.

Modern man having ceased to live soulfully, in its pursuit of wealth and happiness, is he really modern or a relative of the Toulambi’s, having changed his outer attire. Leaving the Stone Age

behind, to pilot space ships instead of canoe’s, set up commerce around the globe instead of scourging for food. What would a Michel Montaigne render were he alive today?

Quran explicitly guides us and makes it very clear, for those endowed with knowledge and Taqwa in understanding Surah 76 Al Insan (Man), Al Dahr (The Time). The evolution of Insan(Man) in Dahr(Time).

Has there not been over Man a long period of Time, when he was nothing - (not even) mentioned?

Verily We created Man from a drop of mingled sperm, in order to try him: So We gave him (the gifts), of Hearing and Sight.

The next steps being elaborated in the length and breadth of the divine books of revelations including the Torah , Gospel and Quran.

From: Psalm 19:1-4

19:1 The heavens declare the glory of God;

the sky displays his handiwork.

19:2 Day after day it speaks out;

night after night it reveals his greatness.

19:3 There is no actual speech or word,

nor is its voice literally heard.

19:4 Yet its voice echoes throughout the earth;

its words carry to the distant horizon.

In the sky he has pitched a tent for the sun

To

In the alternation of night and day, and what God has created in the heavens and the earth surely there are signs for a God fearing people.

There is a continuity of Epic proportions, pointing to a super race of space warriors engaged in the conquest of the universe and endowed with the fear of Allah (swt).

Dr Mohammad Iqbal R.A remarks:

“The naturalism of the Quran is only a recognition of the fact that man is related to nature, and this relation, in view of its possibility as a means of controlling her forces, must be exploited not in the interest of unrighteous desire for domination, but in the nobler interest of a free upward movement of spiritual life. In the interests of securing a complete vision of Reality, therefore , sense-perception must be supplemented by the perception of what the Quran describes as Fuad or Qalb, i.e heart”.

What does the Creator Himself says in the Quran.

Say:”Of your partners’, Can any originate creation And repeat it?” Say: “It is Allah Who originates

Creation and repeats it: Then how are ye deluded Away (from the truth)?”

And again

And Allah has created Every animal from water: Of them there are some That creep on their bellies; Some that walk on two legs; And some that walk on four. Allah creates what He wills; For verily Allah has power Over all things.

We have indeed sent down

Signs that make things manifest:

And Allah guides whom He wills

To a Way that is straight.

Life forms have modified after having adapted to the changed conditions, brought about in natural environment, climate and means of subsistence.

We find evidence from the fossil records of the earliest living organism in what are defined the Geological era, starting with Precambrian from 4.6 Billion years ago to the present.

Precambrian Time (4.600 million). Earth is formed, continental shields appear, and Fossils are rare with Cyan bacteria (blue –green algae found in still water) the most common organism.

Paleozoic divided into:

4. Cambrian (542 million) Shelled marine, invertebrate appear, trilobites and brachiopods are common. First vertebrate appear, atmosphere reaches the modern O2 (oxygen-rich state).

5. Ordovician (488 million) Echinoderms appear, Brachiopods increases, Trilobites decline, and Graptolites flourish.

6. Devonian (416 million) Age of fishes begins, Amphibians appear, Giant horse tails, Ferns, and seed bearing plants develop.

7. Carboniferous (359-318 million) Amphibians flourish, brachiopods are common, and land

is covered with forests and swamps. Coal deposits form and reptiles are common.

8. Permian (299 million) Pangaea comes together and mass extinctions occur ending the Paleozoic era.

9. Mesozoic

Triassic (251 million) Dinosaurs appear, ammonites are common, cycads and conifers are abundant, and mammals appear.

Jurassic (200 million) Dinosaurs are the dominant life form, primitive birds and flying reptiles appear.

Cretaceous (146 million) Flowering plants and modern birds appear, mass extinction mark the end of Mesozoic Era.

Creation from Earth is what the Quran mentions when some humans finding no hope for planet earth’s or their own future, fall into despair, anguish and depression, in the following verses when Noah (Pbuh) replying to God, about his people’s obstinacy and arrogance and of his efforts night and day to warn them of the impending disaster which in the absence of piety would befall on them. God does not change the condition of people, until they repent, and ask His forgiveness.

In the mention of Abraham in the Quran we find him studying the starry heavens, but no such discourse on nature is observed for Noah(Pbuh). Allah(swt) inspires His prophets with knowledge, which could not be obtained otherwise of the past, present and future events.

Creation of Humans is mentioned in diverse stages, along with the evolution of the seven heavens, as here God mentions both humans and the heavens to be formed in diverse stages. Along with creation of the Sun and Moon, and spreading out the earth like a carpet. Another very interesting sign points to creation of humankind like the growth of a tree from earth; perhaps here the mystery of the creation of humans is solved.

‘' Saying, ‘Ask forgiveness from your Lord; for He is Oft-Forgiving;

"' He will send rain to you in abundance;

"' Give you increase in wealth and sons; and bestow on you gardens and bestow on you rivers (of flowing water).

What is [the matter] with you that you do not attribute to Allah [due] grandeur

"' Seeing that it is He that has created you in diverse stages?

Here scholars like Mohsin Khan allude to above ayah as the creation in the mother’s womb, but considering the whole narration of verses speaking of great works of Allah(swt) in nature one after another , this verse points in the different direction, of human evolution in stages. In another verse the creation of the heavens and earth is described as a great event, being far greater then the creation of

mankind. The creation of the heavens and earth is far greater than the creation of mankind. But most of mankind do not know it. And along with God wanting us to visit the far corners of the earth to study how the first creation was originated. It is the mighty Lord, in His full grace and mercy conveying to all generations past, present and future, secrets of the Universe.

"' See ye not how Allah has created the seven heavens one above another,

The Arabic word (Samawate Tebaqan) is defined in the Arabic-English Lexicon by Edward William Lane “The Heavens (are composed of stages) one above another.”

"'And made the moon a light in their midst, and made the sun as a (Glorious) Lamp?

"'And Allah has produced you from the earth growing (gradually),

Chapter (71) sūrat nūḥ

Sahih International: Then He will return you into it and extract you [another] extraction.

When a seed GROWS in the darkness of earth laws of nature take effect in time and space, all these terms are used for a seed to break up defying gravity, go up and down, up towards space outside and down into the earth to form roots. 

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Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace were both  trained in theology (religion) , when they embarked on a journey for

searching the entire world to find how the species were created , one in the ship Beagle and the other to Brazil and later Malaysia came to conclusion what they saw with their

own eyes and not hearsay. While the above verses are doing the same for Muslims biologist and zoologist we

simply ignore them. Where is Adam pbuh mentioned in the above. These verses are taking about Humans and not

Heavens and the earth which too, evolved from the seed of the Big Bang or its DNA. The west has sent many satellites

to find and construct the mathematical DNA of the origin of the universe. 

In Surah 32 verse 7 Allah (swt) describes the creation of everything with perfection foremost being creation of Humans.

It is He Who created everything in the best manner and began the creation of the human being from clay

And made his progeny from a quintessence of the nature of a fluid despised

Then He fashioned him in due proportion, and breathed into him the soul (created by Allah for that person), and He gave you hearing (ears), sight (eyes) and hearts. Little is the thanks you give!

Knowledge is the Heritage of all mankind. In the Golden age of Islam, in Andalusia, scholars like, Ibn Rushd inspired, Moses Maimonides and later St Thomas Aquinas with works, as Kitab fasl al-maqal, derived from the knowledge of Quran.

These inspirations blossomed in to the pillars of science, pure reason, abstract mathamatics, logic, technology, higher religions, great edifices, on which the whole superstructure of modern science and culture, is built, after its birth incubation and maturity in the lands of Islam, in cities such as Baghdad circa 800-1100 AD(although we cannot ignore the contributions of other cultures, including the Chinese, Indian, Greek, Chaldean and many more).

The year 1858 is a year when evolution continuing its progression inherent in the tree of life, reached its zenith, producing two men, who independently, of each other, came to the same conclusions, i.e. natural selection being the engine driving our physical and social progress, with one major

difference, as nature would have it, in a very subtle way, the men them selves were also the epitome of the split. The two papers each written by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace, and read simultaneously on 1st July, 1958, by Charles Lyell, would open up for debate in two directions or thoughts, in subsequent books, speeches and articles written by the two, one believed that , men and women are just another, animal species, not given to any higher purpose, the other believing them as the product of a special creation, a divine manifestation, though the engine still remaining as natural selection but it is not a single engine driven by nature alone.

This opened a debate, which will continue, till both thoughts are united in a distant future.(depending on which side of the debate one belongs to). The adherents of the first view are Charles Darwin, Alfred Huxley, Stephen Jay Gould many others including Richard Dawkins. The other side represented by none other then Alfred Wallace Russell himself (with books such as The world of life, a collection of arguments from winged birds to wood as perfectly suited for ship building offering insights of a divine purpose to making humans the king pin of evolution from brute to a scientific civilization)), Inayat Ullah Khan and Pierre de Chardin (Inayat Ullah Khan a contemporary of Pierre de Chardin, the two almost came to the same conclusions on human evolution and destiny. With the first enunciating evolution in his books Man’s destiny, Human problem destined to explore the stars, with necessary ingredients already laid out or in the process of creation by the Ultimate

Creator. Both Co-workers in this epic Divine Purpose understood by heart of an omnium, al-insan al-kamil and the later with Human Phenomena). The Muslim Responses to Evolution by Professor Abdul Majeed articulates arguments for and against evolution by distinguished Muslim scholars.

And how many Signs In the heavens and the earth Do they pass by? Yet they Turn (their faces) away from them!

Are Muslim scientists prepared to travel to the far corners of the earth in Darwin’s, Alfred Wallace foot steps and reclaim the knowledge derived as their heritage. Quran mentions the birth of Adam (pbuh) as spontaneous and special like Jesus (pbuh), taking place, we need to see how it’s integrated with rest of human kind. For Quran hints at evolution and creation of heavens and earth as an event far greater than that of humankind, as explained in later part of this essay. It took the universe 13.7 billion years, for us to send, advanced satellites and space crafts , to construct our origins.

Allama Inayatullah Khan says, in his book Hadith ul Quran, Allah Almighty has made parts of Quran, seem chaotic like nature itself, with one verse having no relation with the previous or the next. Like scientist working with data from nature, it’s imperative for scholars of Quran to see and construct the whole puzzle to find meaning full answers.

Allah Almighty essentially used the prevalent Semitic language Arabic or more precisely Laguat ul Quresh, the dialect used by the tribes of Quresh of the 7th century to download its messages, as mentioned above, very strongly using the prevalent traditions, customs, cultural constraints, mode of conduct and habits, certainly overthrowing and unbalancing the modern day analytical and empirical scientist. Let me give just one example the word 7 is used by all the holy books to denote multiplicity or many as the terms billions or trillions and terms like Planck constant did not exist then. Moses Maimonides says in the Guide of the perplexed chapter 29. “As his words, as the light of seven days, the commentators have said that means there by the multiplicity of light, for the Hebrews denote multiplicity by the number seven.”.

The influence Quran would wield on the later generation of Muslims resulted in the religious fervor and zeal with which they pursued knowledge.

Dr Iqbal writes, about the Muslim contribution to Science with references from Robert Briffault’s book in the following passages.“Let me quote a few passages from Briffault’s Making of Humanity.‘. . . it was under their successors at that Oxford school that Roger Bacon learned Arabic and Arabic science. Neither Roger Bacon nor his later namesake has any title to be credited with having introduced the experimental method. Roger Bacon was no more than one of the apostles of Muslim science and method to Christian Europe; and he never wearied of declaring that a knowledge of Arabic and Arabian science was for his contemporaries the only way to true knowledge. Discussions as to who was the originator of the experimental method . . . are part of the colossal misrepresentation of the origins of European civilization. The experimental method of the Arabs was by Bacon’s time widespread and eagerly cultivated throughout Europe’ (pp. 200-01). . . .

‘Science is the most momentous contribution of Arab civilization to the modern world, but its fruits were slow in ripening. Not until long after Moorish culture had sunk back into darkness did the giant to which it had given birth rise in his might. It was not science which brought Europe back to life. Other and manifold influences from the civilization of Islam communicated its first glow to European life’ (p. 202).

‘For although there is not a single aspect of European growth in which the decisive influence of Islamic

culture is not traceable, nowhere is it so clear and momentous as in the genesis of that power which constitutes the paramount distinctive force of the modern world, and the supreme source of its victory - natural science and the scientific spirit’ (p. 190).

‘The debt of our science to that of the Arabs does not consist in startling discoveries or revolutionary theories; science owes a great deal more to Arab culture, it owes its existence. The ancient world was, as we saw, pre-scientific. The astronomy and mathematics of the Greek were a foreign importation never thoroughly acclimatized in Greek culture. The Greeks systematized, generalized, and theorized, but the patient ways of investigation, the accumulation of positive knowledge, the minute methods of science, detailed and prolonged observation, experimental inquiry, were altogether alien to the Greek temperament. Only in Hellenistic Alexandria was any approach to scientific work conducted in the ancient classical world. What we call science arose in Europe as a result of a new spirit of inquiry, of new methods of investigation, of the method of experiment, observation, measurement, of the development of mathematics in a form unknown to the Greeks. That spirit and those methods were introduced into the European world by the Arabs’ (p. 191).

The first important point to note about the spirit of Muslim culture then is that, for purposes of knowledge, it fixes its gaze on the concrete, the finite. It is further clear that the birth of the method of observation and experiment in Islam was due not to a compromise with Greek thought but to a

prolonged intellectual warfare with it. In fact, the influence of the Greeks who, as Briffault says, were interested chiefly in theory, not in fact, tended rather to obscure the Muslims’ vision of the Qur’«n, and for at least two centuries kept the practical Arab temperament from asserting itself and coming to its own. I want, therefore, definitely to eradicate the misunderstanding that Greek thought, in any way, determined the character of Muslim culture. Part of my argument you have seen; part you will see presently.”

The creation of the heavens and earth is far greater than the creation of mankind. But most of mankind do not know it. (Quran 40:57). 

The heavens and earth on the universal and geological time scales took 13.7 billion years to produce observers or star stuff, as the scientists like to call us, to be able to send satellites carrying advanced instruments into space and construct our Origins. Looking back we infer from the recent discoveries in astrophysics, the singularity or quantum fluctuations of the big bang to the present was a colossal task, both in complexity and time

scales. The above message distinctly mentions the word Akbar, in Arabic for greater, larger, immense in estimation , bigger, major, superior, the creation of heavens and earth then the creation of human beings....does this pertains to giving any clues that life forms evolved too, in billions of years.. for if it took some 8 or 9 billions years.(We keep on changing these numbers as we get more precise instruments and accurate data , as everything was happening in tandem) for the universe to form the milky way galaxy and produce sun from the protosun,

leading to the planetary system including our own earth. Having itself evolved from the solar nebula, the accretion disk and sufficiently cool down, on the surface for us, to forget we live on a molten rock

hurtling through space travelling around, the sun at 18.5 miles per second , or 60000 thousand miles an hour and moving with the solar system around, the galactic core once every 225 million galactic years . The basic processes and principles to take root for life forms to evolve, would happen in tandem again for the above information from the Quran as stating that the work of the creation of universe and earth was immense, as compared to human kind, which considering than could not have been, less either. As the literal reading of six days of the Bible or Quran would suggest. Each day reckoned as an Epoch in Geological and Cosmic time scales of billion of years.

It is Allah Who has created the heavens and the earth, and all between them, in six Days, and is firmly established on the Throne (of Authority): ye have none, besides Him, to protect or intercede (for you): will ye not then receive admonition?(surah 32-4)

The universe as mentioned above had a beginning some 13.7 billions years ago, in what we now call the Big Bang, smaller than the size of a pinhead,

Elaborating the creation of the Universe and all life forms on earth appears in the following verses.

Do not the Unbelievers see that the heavens and the earth were joined together (as one unit of creation), before we clove them asunder? We made from water every living thing. Will they not then believe?

In The Guide For the Perplexed the famous Jewish scholar Moses Maimonides writes.

“Do not turn away from the opinion according to which the world is new, except because of a demonstration. Now such a demonstration does not exist in nature. Further more the student of this treatise should not engage in criticism because of my using this rhetorical mode of speech in order to support the affirmation of the newness of the world. For Aristotle, the prince of the philosophers in his main writings has likewise used rhetorical speeches in support of his opinion that the world is eternal. In such cases it may truly be said: Shall not our perfect Torah be (worth as much) as their Frivolous talk. If he refers in support of his opinion to the ravings of the Sabians, how can we but refer in support of our opinion to the words of Moses and Abraham and to everything that follows there from?”

Moses Maimonides would have to wait 800 hundred years until, the launch of the COBE and WMAP

satellite missions for a demonstration in nature, upholding his opinion that the world is new and not eternal as Aristotle thought.

Figure I

Figure II. An all-sky image of the infant Universe, 380,000 years after the Big Bang, as captured by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe. The WMAP image reveals temperature fluctuations (shown as color differences) differing by one-millionth of a degree Celsius. Temperature fluctuations stem from density differences in place soon after the Big Bang, the seeds of galaxies and the vast structure we see today. REUTERS/Handout/NASA-WMAP

Timeline of the expansion of the universe. The light elements were created on the far left of this diagram at the beginning of the universe, and became neutral atoms at around 380,000 years after the big bang. Credit: NASA/WMAP Science Team

Dr deGrasse Tyson describes in his book the Origins, with all the four forces unified into a single force. “At this juncture Einstein general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics describing the large scale and small scale phenomena were indistinguishable, followed by the epoch of inflation accompanied by the splitting of the strong nuclear force and the electroweak force”. “The inflationary era lasted from 10_37 second to 10-33 second after the big bang. During that relatively brief stretch of time, the fabric of space and time expanded faster than light, growing in a billionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second from one hundred billion billion times smaller than the size of proton to about 4 inches.”“ Yes the observable universe once fit within a grape fruit. But what caused the cosmic inflation? Cosmologist has named the culprit a “Phase Transition.” That left behind a specific and observable signature in the cosmic background radiation.”

“With in the hot universe the photons converted to matter and anti-matter particles pairs, with every 1 billions antimatter particles, 1 billion+1 matter particles were born, the universe further cooled with the splitting of the electro-weak force into electromagnetic and weak nuclear force. As the temperature further dropped the photons could not produce matter and anti-matter particles any more resulting in the complete annihilation of both leaving behind one matter particle for every 1 billion photons. In about a three minute period matter

converted to protons and neutrons, and combined to form simple nuclei of atoms. Further cooling below a few thousand degree Kelvin, this soup composed of electrons scattering the photons, here and there started to combine with the nuclei to form complete atoms of hydrogen, helium and lithium”.

The universe was now transparent to light, and the left over photons of that era appear as the cosmic back ground radiation discovered by 1965 by Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey.

In the first few billion years matter lumped to form galaxies, with suns ten times massive then our star to produce heavy elements under extreme temperature and pressure, later to be scattered in the massive super nova explosions.( Stephen Hawking is amazed at our earth being spared with such a super nova burst and its accompanying high energy gamma rays for the last nearly 4.5 billions, sparing life otherwise to be instantly eliminated as we know it). About 8 or 9 billion years later our sun was formed in the Milky Way galaxy from the dust clouds enriched with these heavy elements. These gas cloud formed the sun and accretion disk around it, which in turn cooled sufficiently to form planets, asteroids and the comets.

Though most water was present in the accretion phase, new research point to asteroids, and icy comets in the outer domains of the solar system contributing to a portion of water in the oceans. The early earth was ejecting enough water vapors from within rising to form clouds in the atmosphere. The surface being so hot that no water could collect there. After millions of years these clouds cooled to form droplets falling to the surface of the earth. Once our star system having produced enough asteroids and comets to continually bombard the planets for several hundred million years gradually decrease, the molten surface of our earth gave rise to liquid oceans, producing complex molecules, the precursors of simple anaerobic bacteria which in turn, would transform the carbon rich atmosphere at that time into one with sufficient oxygen, paving the way for aerobic organisms to evolve and establish in the sea and on the land.

Quran describes the creation of all life forms from water. Water with its characteristics to dissolve chemicals, retain heat, maintain moderate temperatures, including nutrients permitted biochemical reactions to create and sustain life. Suggesting all life on our planet to be of a common ancestry and origin.

Have not those who disbelieve known that the heavens and the earth were of one piece, then We parted them, and we made every living thing of water? Will they not then believe? Quran 21:30

The earth surface cooled and water started collecting in the basins. Dissolving minerals from the rocks, to form the salty oceans, evaporating again forming endless cycles of a natural desalination plant. Mentioned in the Quran from a beginning of a few billions years ago, to still happening before our eyes, in every thunder, every rain droplet falling on the earth and producing an aroma.

Do you not see that Allah sends down rain from the sky and makes it flow as springs [and rivers] in the earth; then He produces thereby crops of varying colors; then they dry and you see them turned yellow; then He makes them [scattered] debris. Indeed in that is a reminder for those of understanding.

These gigantic works of God are full of signs, In the struggle for existence, we are changing earth’s fine balance, cutting rain forests providing major source of the oxygen we breathe. A saying of Prophet Mohammad (Pbuh) exhorts us to plant trees.

Do they just waitFor the final fulfillmentOf the event? On the dayThe event is finally fulfilled,Those who disregarded itBefore will say: “The MessengersOf our Lord did indeedBring true (tidings). Have we

No intercessors now to intercedeOn our behalf? Or could weBe sent back? Then should weBehave differently from ourBehaviour in the past.”In fact they will have lostTheir souls, and the thingsThey invented will leaveThem in lurch….Surah 7-53.

Many are the Jinn and menWe have made for Hell:They have hearts wherewith theyUnderstand not, eyes wherewith They see not, and ears wherewithThey hear not. They are Like cattle-nay moreMisguided: for they Are heedless (of warnings).

But those who worship Allah the Most Gracious and the Most Merciful, His Mercy encompasses all despair, all depression, all suicidal thoughts, all sins when sincerely repented bringing glad tidings.

So that Allah willTurn off from them(Even) the worst in their deedsAnd give them their rewardAccording to the best Of what they have done.

Those who believe,And work righteousness—Their Lord will guide themBecause of their Faith:Beneath them will flowRivers in Gardens of Bliss

Author Mohammad Imran Khan, B.Sc Physics Punjab, M.Scs Physics Government College University,

Lahore. Senior Scientific Officer, Dr A.Q Khan research Laboratories, Pakistan.

System Administrator Oasis corporation, Virgin Atlantic airline Miami office, Miami,Fl.

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Dr Inam ur Rehman

Ex-DG PIEAS, Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission.

Dr Mujahid Kamran Vice Chancellor Punjab University Lahore.

Author at Kennedy space center, replica of moon rover

With Granddaughter Samra, a new life is born to explore the meaning of life and its purpose, replacing the endless gone by forgotten in time, Dec 2014.

Pembroke Pines Florida, United States of America, How many succeed know one knows.

With George Ted Sassen , Former Chief Engineer of Spacecraft Operations for Nasa Nsc 1961-1994. Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida USA.

Author with Buzz Aldrin one of the first two men who landed on moon on 21st Jul 1969.Signing a copy of his book ‘Mission to Mars’. Photo at Books-A-Million store Kissimmee, Fl. dated 19th Oct 2013. I did offer Buzz Aldrin a copy of Quran which he did not accept, holding the same Quran in my hand.

List of websites:

1. Darulhikmat.com

2. www.iium.edu.my

Mehfil on 8-6-2013 with Dr Azhar Waheed Saheb.

When it is said that time stops in the journey of Miraj, then does the stoppage of time means, that the Arsh(throne) and the Maqamat are outside the domain of time.?It is a difficult topic, from what is known partially, we cannot state anything with certainty, as the Umi(follower) cannot estimate the Uroj and Miraj(Greatness) of the Nabi Pak(Prophet Mohammad Sallallahu alaihi Wasallam) which is beyond comprehension. What we have got from the knowledge handed from generation to generation, is that Waqt(time) has two Jahatain (entities), one being connected with space , the horizontal axis on which rest are usual calendars, and the other being vertical, which is probably called Dhār. In which although there is depth, but its is at a standstill called Ana e Wahid (single moment/pure duration) that dimension of time. Also it is said since Nabi Pak(Prophet Mohammad Sallallahu alaihi Wasallam)is the Ruh of the Qainaat(Universe)so when the Ruh leaves the Jasad it becomes standstill. So the stoppage of time was very natural, since when the cause of time and events was not there in the Alam Khalq, the stoppage of time was natural. My grandfather used to say, that before the creation of India and Pakistan, he used to sit with intelligent Hindu Jotshi’s, and one a very capable of them said you Muslims talk a lot about Qiamat (the end of times). I can tell you the end of time if you Muslims can give me the, duration of the Miraj, when we

calculate the Qiamat end of the world, as soon as we try to calculate the time a space comes in between which hinders and interrupts our calculations before and after, and it the same space which you say your Prophet journeyed in Miraj, in which the interval of Miraj took place.In the Waqai e Miraj shariff it has been declared with certainty, that the events in time and space do not work only by cause effect and calculations , now a Zaat is involved, now the Mansha of the Zaat is involved, although before that it was according to calculation. We see in Sura Jinn also that Jinnat used to say that before, we used to get information from the heavens, but after the Besaat, we cannot intervene when we try as we do are followed by a bright Shaab e Saqib, also in the narratives we find that too, that after the Prophet Sallalahu alaihi Wassallam came back, the bed was hot, the chain at the door was swinging and the water for Wadhu was flowing.The particles (and forces created in the space-time continuum are the symphonies produced out of the vibrating strings of this violin the Grand Cosmos, whether a scientist arrives at a discrete space-time as the musing of string theory or no space-time as in non locality, ), this music created by the violin(its strings) is actually at the heart of Tasawwuf, it is all about , hearing the tones coming out of this violin. Tasawwuf is looking at the whole, that is why the description of a Sufi encompasses the totality, while that of a scientist being partial. As Allama Mohammad Iqbal R.A has mentioned in his ‘Reconstruction of Religious thought in Islam’. If you ask me how I define Miraj Shariff, although there different Jahatain( meanings), which have

been and will unfold on the ummat, I would like to talk in the context of Shan e Mustafa, I will say that the Waqai e Miraj was the declaration of the Faniat e Basheriat. The complete and outspoken declaration of Fana e Basheriat . The declaring I am Ana Bashar by the Prophet Sallallahu alaihi Wassallam.This could be interpretation of a poet, like me a childish feeling, Azhaar e Aqeedat (the love of the Prophet Sallallahu alaihi Wassallam). The Purdah even of Meem is not in between tonight. Time is Alam Khalq, time is Takhliq (creation), those who do not consider it Takhliq, and do not believe that time is created by a Creator; they consider time itself as the creator, that is why they are called Dharia(atheist/free thinkers). Because they see the essence of time and all its great seefat (properties) appearing as similar with the Divine, time is everywhere, time is Qadar(power), time over comes everything, then those who do not believe in a Zaat have to believe in time as omnipotent, omnipresent, in alam Khalq the key seems to be time, the key factor, the code, when time types a command after sometime things start happening for those who do not believe in a Zaat, that is why they are called Dahria. When the Jana e Takhliq will go to Jane e Jana, takhliq will stop, that is why we say that time stopped. Another thing which opens up from this question about time stopping in Waqai e Meraj, is that as in the Iman of Sufia belief of Zaat e Mohammadi is Barzakh e Kubra, a medium between Khaliq and Maqhlooq, when the medium is directed towards the Maqhlooq, with all the faculties of Mazaga Al Basar or Mataagaa in

conversation and in the Qurb of the Creator when the chain of the door was still moving , indirectly proving Barzakh e Kubra, when the Rab gives Zaat Mohammad Sallallahu alaihi Wassallam is the one who divides, the knowledge would come divided to the Maqhlooq of Waqai e Miraj and would be partial, blossoming with time until Qiamaat.

Question: What is Time?

Time in the fabric of Taqhliq (creation) is a Tana, and space is a Bana, first during knitting Tana and Bana creates the space-time fabric, when the Dori (thread) of time is pulled and the thread of time is erased from the fabric, in the Alam Kasarat(diversity in nature), the designs and calligraphy in the garden of creation are ripped. The differentiated phenomena between the grandfathers, father and son is due to time, if it is removed all the difference between the generations is removed, time has proliferated matter, fashioning matter, disintegrating in a very integrating way.To the question is time the destiny of Zaat, this is that time which we call Dahr. Aima Pak state about this time is that I am time; it is my Will, the dimension of time which is vertical. It is not the horizontal or the serial dimension, which can be divided according to the calendar and the clock. Dhar is Ana e Wahid (single duration) cannot be divided, as applicable on Zaat, Jaisa tha waisa hai (Was as Is), and zamana ko kabhi bura na kaho(do not vilify time). There are two terminologies involved when we use serial time and Divine time together. People say if the time is related

with the movement of matter, if matter stops moving the meaning of time will diminish. Serial time is used to record change. If time is for Makhlooq no one will become Dahriah(atheist/free thinker).

Question: Do we refer it to serial or vertical time the above reference to Dahr .Are we talking about serial or horizontal time, a single moment Ana e Wahid is creating serial time

Answer: it is for both, my perception and not of a scientist, is although debatable, at the moment of creation , when time was created in vacuum ,the matrix on which creation took place is called Dhār (time).

Question: When you were talking about the stitching of fabric of space-time of Tana and Bana the kasarat (diversity) created in serial time as you mentioned earlier, does it not typify Hijab(Viel).

Answer: Certainly it is a Hijab, this is the Hijab which when lifted is called Makashaafa in the calendar year, when we say, we met someone in the past, meeting a 200 year old Saint, a 500 year old, a 1000 year old, how did we meet, by the lifting of this Hijab of time.Let us talk about something beyond science.

Question: Yaad ka Haal ko Hama Haal kiasa kya gaye(How do we make permanent the remembrance of the beloved.?

Answer: Yaad has two entities like time, one is suri, and the other seerati, one of tasawar and the other of concept, when we remember someone, we remember the face and the movement of that person, this is purely based on love, and the other dimension is looking at the seerat, khayal and Uswa Husna, the Amal of Yaad is both suraati and seerati, so both, accepting the seerat, on oneself, so that I might not commit something which would be in opposition, if my Amal is before the beloved how will the reaction be.The other is being getting Hamrang, the dimension of seerat, which reduces the distance, the distance is reduced in love, by nature it wants to remove the distance, the formula is ‘Itaba Kardar’; when one attains hamrang or Sigbat Ullah only we become Hamrang then we become close. For otherwise the zahari yaad as in a mosque does not bring that closeness.Yaad really creates wonders, starts at surat, then journeys through seerat becomes Wasal e Mehboob(one with beloved).God does not see our faces but Taqwa.To travel on seerat, on the path and seerat of the Medina Wala, and the path of the Aulia Allah makes you Hamrang, reduces the distance, Itaba e Kardar e Mohammadi, as described by the Sufis. Those who say they want to love Allah should follow the Prophet Mohammad Sallallahu alaihi.When they become Hamrang and be on the path of Sigbat Ullah(color of Allah) is actually the path to Hama Hal. When the standing, sitting and lying down of a Momin becomes a Hama Hal, a question of niyah, even he sleeps during. When I went to do Umra,I fell sleep and felt sad to have missed the namaz, a Saudi

friend came to meet us and while talking to us mentioned that to sleep in the Haram is sawab too, so I felt better .So its is all about the niyah, like when we are in masjid for Ithiqaf, everything is prayer, whether eating, sleeping but should be Ba Wadhu ablution, otherwise it’s like a person in a library is looking at books without Wadhu. The Wadhu of Niayah, for first thing in namaz is to Ba Wadu and second being Kibla Ruh.Will the Mohib and Mehboob be together in the day of Judgment or in Barzakh too, it is also in Hadith pak too, does it apply to Barzakh also or after. The sangat has started, Khafi in barzakh and in barzakh the other will not know who is with whom, in Hashar it will be known, these are shuhada, salaheen, momineen.

This question asked by Sheikh Sahib is for a practical traveler.

Same action produce different results in different situations, it depends on niyah , when for example I gave water to sheikh sahib it was giving water, in another situation the niyah could be different, when we travel abroad we get a travel tag, having a flight number, if the tag is changed the bag gets to another destination. So with our Amal we should be very careful to attach the proper tag, sometimes the amal and niyah are same, but the situation could be different, saying a poem in front of a people having different understanding will have different reaction and respect. Depends on the environment, we have no power on the environment, when there is Majboori, Munafaqat comes in. When we have no

control on the environment we are not responsible for a different reaction, we had offered a meal, but if some one did not accept it is not our fault. We cannot control the entire environment, but there is a middle way, the solution is and that is what people say if we are committed to one Idea for a long interval , than we start slowly acquire an environment conducive to our Khayal. We make our environment conducive to our Khayal, if we are using poetic language, we will get similar company slowly but surely. As long as we are committed to a Khayal (idea/thought) by the Kudrat(Grace of the Mighty), we will start attaining similar ideas, events and people in the outside world aiding our Khayal. If we are not sincere, with our Khayal, then we will lose, otherwise things get settled down. Until our desire is inside the circle of our Khayal we will no be disturbed, it is our desires the steps we take which produces an environment of evil. If we are sincere with our Khayal, our steps will take us in the right directions, but it is the desires which bring in the wrong direction. Almost there is 99% chance we will be among the righteous, in our own environment, but if we are overtaken by desire, then being under the influence of desires we will be in the wrong company.

Question: Does khayal feeds on the nourishment provided by the Hum Khayal (friends having same or similar thought), or is a Divine Gift or an endowment.?Answer: A khayal is an endowment, and the Zaat which endows it also nourishes, protects and takes

care of the Khayal, there is no contradiction among the three, will be better nourished among the same group. But a Khayal can also get instructions from a different medium, like someone who asked Socrates, where you got Wisdom, he said from the fools, whatever they did I did not do. So when a Khayal becomes established, which ever valley and alley it passes through it will eat only that fruit which suites it own Khayal. It is said about storks (though not established scientifically) that when it is provided adulterated milk, it leaves the water in the milk. Some birds only pick up the pearls, so a person has established an idea, will pick pearls too, whatever environment it may get in. As environment is similar in most circumstances.A few days back my son was sitting with his grandfather, the grandfather said to my son, you have read about the biography of Quaid e Azam by Fatima Jinnah, what lesson did you learn, my son said he did not accept the desire of his father, who wanted him to learn commerce, and he instead studied Law so he did not fulfill the desires of his father. So when one is on a Lahaj (path), if one learns something, he will learn that which suits him out of everything else. The grandfather said he changed because he could not afford to study commerce, but my son only remembered that he opposed his father.In this world those who suffer , the righteous people who face difficult path, full of thorns and sufferings, one of the observation is that whoever tread this path face opposition, the other observation is that those that were faced with difficulties were great souls.

So when the Khayal once gets consolidated whatever valley it travels through, although it will face injury , injustice, suffering but will never die, until reaching its destination, Maqam e Maqsood and Maqam e Takhliq and Ina Lillahah Wa ina Alahi Rajaoun.

Question: In the journey towards Saluk , there is one ambiguity the desires are always there, unless it is all under Allah Subana-hu Will.That is not possible for everyone , on the other side there is a Khayal.

Answer: Desires will be there no doubt, but there is a constant Hijrat towards Saluk, the attributes of Jism(body) and its demands are called desires, and the demands of Ruh are called Khayal. We gradually dip in the desires, it is not that desires do not exist, they do exist, but even after its existence, we try to bypass them. Quran says too that there are the parameters of desires of Lust, gold, women, horses, do exist, personally I think that as the Khayal gets stronger, the desires start to die down, or at least start to become less attractive. When a stronger Khayal becomes a part, of one life, the desires become irrelevant, as an example it is the desire of the new born children to drink the mothers milk for ever, until we divert them to other food. Similarly one fond of a higher Khayal, or a table laid with the food of Khayal will be attracted away from desires. When we teach a boy to play carom board they will not play other game, or when we teach them to play cricket they will not play Guli danda (a sport played in the Indian subcontinent with a stick and bails).

Question: How do we know something has become a Hijab, as Sufia say even the desire of Qurb becomes a Hijab.Answer: That is a metaphysical matter, until now we are talking about desires, body and Ruh, that is about Tarq e Aula, meaning if there are two pious feelings we desire the best out of two. If there is Khayal e Qurb and the Mehboob which do we select. Until now we are talking about desires.It’s about developing the taste, what is called Tazkya e Nafs is a Zauq about piety, your taste has so developed that you dislike impiety. It is about maturity.What I was taking about is a matter of maturity, as an example children who have a deficiency of calcium and vitamin D , eat earth to quench their desires but not a sane person, we can consider earth as wajudi activity. Desires are always there. All we do is postpone our desires for the higher path. A law of Neurophysiology states that when a nerve impulse travels through that nerve repeatedly, a phenomenon is developed we call facilitation, a nerve impulse passing through a center again and again will develop diligence, and phenomenon is called disused atrophy, when we do not use a limb with time it dies down. So is the case with desires, the less we use it will shrink, and the more we exercise a desire it will grow.Question: I am talking about Naik Khwaishat ( good desires).Answer: Then desire is a different category; for good intentions the word is Tamanna.The word desire has a negative connotation which hinders in the activity and development of the Ruh,

for the word Tarq a Aula, as the Sufia say, when we have a choice among two feelings of piety or choice, we select the better one or the superior one. Quran says ‘what is the best invest in that’Question: Usually people who use a part of Quranic verse to diminish the status of the Great Prophet Sallallalahu alaihi Wassallam.Instead of arguing we should bring forth, knowledge which enhances the Shan (status) Prophet Sallalalahu alaihi Wassallam.Answer: This is a degree of Irfan, Maqam Irfan, I remember Hazrat Wasif sahib R.A saying what kind of Ummati is that who is discussing knowledge about the Prophet , how knowledge he had, this is unfortunate , those who have less Irfan will do such activity, even a mathematician entering a discussion having a material worldview will have such ideas getting entangled in time and view , when my friend went to do ummra, he was met by those who said, how can call the Nabi the cause of the Universe, though Prophet Adam was the first, so people having the kharaji worldview what is there crux, there crux would be applying Quran on the deliveral of the Quran. Question: At our level we do not have a problem, but these people give references of the Quran and sunnah, its is not our personal problem, but fear the loss of others.Answer: It is said a group of people came to meet Hazrat Nizam deen Aulia R.A from Afghanistan, and said to him , that it is heard there are 300 ayat, in praise of Muala Ali, on which Hazrat Nizam deen Aulia replied, you say there are 300 verses , I say there are 6686 ayat in his praise.I can prove it you,

In the time of Prophet hood some people came from Iran with about 20 or 25 questions to validate the claim,there ulema told them that if the answer to these questions be given would mean the claim to be true, and met Hazrat Ali R.A, on the way, they were asked by him as to the purpose of their visit. On being told, he replied to all the 20 or 25 questions and to their bewilderment they said are you the Prophet of Islam.He replied I am just a cobbler for the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wassallallam. So it is ridiculous to argue about the verses.People who know their words stop at Shere Ilm, the ladder of Shere Ilm is so high.Quran is Maaqalma a dialogue between the Mehboob and Mohib, it has to be viewed in that perspective.Questionaire: The path to Irfan is love is that so?Answer : If the Niyah is wrong every step leads to ignorance, there was a Manazara some time ago among two school of thoughts , on a question about whether the Prophet Sallallahu alaihi Wassallam knew about the hidden knowledge or not, one person said, I am so happy that all the night I was reading kalam e pak to find means of Praising the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wassallamand you were reading it to diminish.

Mehfil with Dr Azhar Waheed sahib on 6-15-2013.

Question: There is dilemma when the Jamud of the Wajud engulfs or overtakes one. When one is a in Mehfil and enjoys a sentence, and then tries to perceive himself and judge at what level he is at, thinks of the fast track ahead what should he do.?

Answer: The thing is that if we consider walking (wayfaring) as an ability, and the ability to travel on a fast track of the khayal is an ability and talent, what we need instead to do or the moral of the lesson or the key to your question, although the explanation can be lengthy, the answer is not to make an effort to develop our potential or ability specially for the two of us (Yousaf saheb and Dr Saheb), not to develop our ability , it will be slightly different message for these youngsters. Our journey and effort should be towards Ikhlas , towards zeroing , so the movement is zero, a physical aspect of Ikhlas is you are at a standstill, and you are just observing what is going on with you and what is happening with everything else around, until a command is given, a movement without a command means there is an element of a desire. Our desire is acting under a stimulus. What we have to do is to write a letter and forget, until the postman comes and knocks on our door, do you follow the point. So the effort should be towards Ikhlas, and not developing an ability, which I have now realized that in this department, is not that much needed, because the meaning of this department is not do

anything which one desires, as a lot of good work and effort is done under the Khawaish e Nafs( impulses of desires).In ikhlas all the erratic movement is stopped. In ideal situation every moment and movement has to stop, say if we are travelling to another country, say for Umra. All we need is move towards the airport the rest will be done by the plane,to reach the platform the rest of the movement will be done by the plane; our physical movement is to reach the plane, our effort is to reach the plane, after that it is the heavy vehicle.We can have as much potential, in spite of all our potentials once we are in the plane , we cannot do anything , till the time doors are closed, once we reach that stage, when we can say, we have reached the platform , the rest is Your wish and Manzil.

Question :When we go through intensity in the path of Tasawuff, a separation which generates intense longing for God, sometimes this intensity for Qurb(longing) creates a negative feeling of the heart being sad, heart is breaking, this intensity getting so uncontrolling (almost like an authority). Why is that?

What we call Firaq is meant to increase our Zaraf (potential). To increase our ability this delay takes place. A child prays of going to Hajj, if he can go to Masjid Nabwi, if he goes at the age of 8 or 10 years, all he will get is a few feelings, but if he goes at a mature age of 40 or 45 years, the delay will cause him he can learn and recite Naat will become more Ba Himmat. So this delay or Firaq is created, samma is wisaal everywhere, in actuality there is no wisaal ,

the distance is all about our Khayal(thought),otherwise we are not distant.

Khizar kya Batai kyon kar batai

Agar mahi pochaa darya kahan hai

The river we are trying to find, we are physically in this river, but not Manwi (Tasaawuf). These feelings are for nourishments, in the menu of the food. So that a balanced diet with proper vitamins are meant to provide a complete diet.

The job of a Musafir is to keep on traveling not reading the milestones, in mountaineering when we go to the base camp, until reaching the base camp a lot of video is taken, a lot of activity and enthusiasm is shown and seen, until slowly a journey of solitude starts, when reaching the peak or a special peak a lot of extra effort is undertaken, even a single step, its not that his travel has stopped, when the mountaineer thinks and calculates where he was and where he is at the present does not work, taking a single step when going towards the peak. The horizontal direction is changing into the vertical. It is the job of the Mountain climber to keep the peak in sight, and not worry about the steps.

Question: So overcoming our weaknesses, shortcomings. Sometimes I think the rope is getting entangled and cannot get hold of the end.

Answer: Let us talk of the first thing.

Question: It is part of the first thought?

Answer: The entangling of rope is a very serious issue due to Fikari(like doubt), not getting hold of the end of the rope is. The first thing you talked about weaknesses and shortcomings is not a serious issue, that is just like Flu, but the one of entangling is like a cancer. It is due to the change in thought (ideology) or a very complex and confused state a cancer of a lethal kind. Even if there is no action, when one is in the haram, is not that dangerous, even sleeping in the haram is sawab, but the entangling is, when a journey started ends up in confusion, so everything he has done in the past and before goes to nought. Today we have to untangle this problem for once. To untangle the rope.

Question: The thought did not come in relation to Fikar, that came in although is related to Fikar which is not deviating and is perfectly fine, there is a sharp contrast, when the khayal is getting stronger, a lot of things, of which the Khabar is being given, but the wajud (liking getting lazy) and rest of the issues are not in synchronizations.

Answer: Probably you did not use the correct words then.

Observation/Questionare: Yes I admit I used it in the wrong context.

Although the philosophy is that the word is used correctly although in the interpretation we do make mistakes, as it contains a batin, which is unraveled by the unconscious. Word contain a batin(inner meaning). Unconsciously what ever comes out our

mind reflect exactly our batin. But when a detail is asked sometimes explaining is difficult. The practical faults are very easy to remedy, the line of Amal is clear, there is no confusion, Faraiz, wajab, Haqooq Ul Abad, Haqooq Ul Allah, example as we are on a highway , traveling in the left lane we need to go in the right lane to make a right turn , the sergeant seeing our mistake forgives us before giving us a ticket. Needs two rakat namaz tooba, as long as we are

breathing the doors to repentance are always open. The great struggle is in the Khayal or thought, if a mistake is made here then there is concern. If the direction finder of the plane malfunctions is changed instead of going to London we land in Paris. The entangling of the rope is consciously or unconsciously of concern, reading the theory on one end, we see a different practice is a cause for concern. The theory was different, and the conduct of people practicing it act differently, seeing the Muslims creating doubt about Islam. The misconduct of followers does not effect the Nizam, instead of finding truth and proving it we should follow it with full Ikhlas, as we practice and travel on it the doubt is removed. The reasons of entanglement are also due to Be Amali(Laziness), those who consider themselves men of knowledge but do not practice is a self defeating effort, which he himself is writing. Be Amali all also dissipates ones efforts, one can see the face but does not enter. Other reason is we associate yourself with that Khayal.

Example those who follow Islam, start to associate and think their understanding as the true, explantion.

Infact it was due to Islam that they got Kalimah. If we were around Islam would be different. So the entanglement of the rope can be due to many reasons. When we differentiate between khayal and Saheb e Khayal, between tasawwuf and Sufi and, trying to check the sufi in the chapter of tasawwuf. The untangled rope is achieved through a person and so is it entangled too. The graph goes up and down.

Question: Those paths which are covered by heart when connected to the mind or logic a distortion occurs. Why?

Answer: True, heart and mind have different speeds. Logic connects to wrong

Question: Why can’t a person do such kind of good works that the rope does not entangle ever in ones life? Travel on one path?

Answer: Try to unite khayal and Amal, and focus on the Saheb e Khayal in ones Khayal, will happen through the Saheb e Khayal. As discussed last week concentrating on the surat and seerat both should be focused on, if unable to concentrate on the surat then on seerat, eventually the surat will be visible. Because both are in union, where as it is there in us. That is why they are Murshid, where there is no distance between there surat and seerat.

Question: Why is there is distortion later on, when in the beginning everything happens with ease?

Answer: If one of a chistiya silsila goes to naqishbandya will have a problem.

Question: In the time of Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A time there were a lot pious saints, now it is not so. Why?

Answer: Twenty years ago, people said the same thing that 20 years ago there were pious people but not after 20 years, we have heard there is no epoch that the saints and pious people did not exist.

What we call hijrat is a hijrat of our Mizaj, so that we expect Qurb without Qurbani. If we want Qurb, we have to sacrifice our Mizaj. In effect righteous deed does not constitute something according to our own desires. What righteous deed is accepted by the Zaat, is the one which brings a transformation and change. Getting Qurb and a change. It is not working in a secular way, it is a system. If establishing a system would be righteousness than the whole western world be called muttaqeen for building and having a welfare system. The rightness constitute in following the commands of Allah, and not our own desires. It appears one zaat is in the closeness of another Zaat. ‘One cannot reach near righteous deed until spend the best of one possesses.’ The closeness of a zaat with a Zaat. When there is a danger to a soul comes seldom, before that is Maal, khayal , Mizaj A hadith of the Prophet Sallall Alaihi Wassallam ‘ No one become a momin until I am more closer than ones parents, brothers and sisters and children.’

Question: Where do we start?

Answer: Starting from the point where we left, like in a motorway, entering at the point where we exited. A human knows that himself.

Question: Can we express our questions in words, though we can arrange our questions in words but are afraid of asking?

We need to express in words, and ask all questions, if we don’t ask using words than we will not have an answer in words, complicating further. So we can ask all type of questions using all types of words, the theme of this mehfil is to acquire clarity otherwise it becomes a social gathering, this travel or path is based on clarity. There can be two reasons for not asking all questions which come to our minds, one being that in our heart we are not willing to accept the answers, which could be against our Khawaish (desires), the other being because of the Roab e Jalal and Roab e Jamal of the teacher. Now the second option or condition does not exist in this case, so it’s the first one to be considered.

Question: How do we know a sure way if our deeds are being accepted?

Answer: Yes when we get the opportunity to perform another deed continuously as narrated by the rightly guided, if we say a namaz and get another opportunity that means our namaz is accepted. Also another test is that we feel a Kaifiyaat ( inspiration), if there is no feeling than its useless to wait for the results, that is one should feel better, for without inspiration a deed is like a mechanical act.

Once it was asked from Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A that sometimes one is afraid to ask a question, to which he replied this could be a sign of disrespect. In respect of Sawal.

Question: Can one be Bebak?

Answer: It not permitted to be Gustakh, but to be Bebak is permitted. There are two types of questions, in a Bebak question a relationship is not broken, but in a Gustakhana question, the relationship is broken.

Question: How do we behave when we go to Data Darbar?

In respect of Darbar Sharif it is told by Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A, when you go there do not look around. What others are doing just do salam and come back.

Question: I have asked this question about 35 times in the last 2 years, when going to data darbar can we go on a Friday? Whatever activity goes around is different from mine, I only do what we do on Thursdays.

Answer: When going to haji sahib with the question of Dua, with a question about Dua, he did the dua, the dua got accepted, there the lesson of Manwait was finished, did not go to unlock or development of the khayaal. Neither are you attached to that Silsila, now it is a social meeting. If there is a distortion, then gradually withdraw.

Question: They have a different attitude to prayers. Then even in Dua I have not gone in a long time.

Answer: If one goes in a circle and feels destruction, then leave it, we are talking of principles not of events and people, if I go into sociology will not be justified. So gradually move away. Yes this happens

if the frequency is different then a distortion occurs in the Khayal. This is a Karam too; detachment is also Bab e Karam. In more than one class accepting more than one frequency, one cannot get used to one frequency or track, becoming instead like a commentator. The heart has a tendency to be on one frequency.Since intelligent is seeing things as statistics calculates the flow of water in floods, is like a fish in Hazrat Moses time, when it sees Majma ul Bahrain(two rivers combined) makes a tunnel and escapes. Like where the Fana and Baqa have sangat(meets) where fani and baqi meet. If we call Mizaj as Nafs, then it does not want to stand if we realize Nafs is our enemy, the good part in us should keep on doing there work.Even a thief comes the security guards are still hired. When the birds nest are scattered in a storm, they start working again to collect barks to make a home.

Woh apne khooh na badlaan ga

Hum apni wazah kyon choraan.

Question: The environment very strongly affects our personality. There is nafs or our personality one side, we acquire the traits of our companions, and how do we protect ourselves?

Answer: Nafs gets its entire vote from outside, so that in the heart there is no democracy, nafs attacks us through our desires wanting to find a justification, from the environment. There is Bollywood and Hollywood on one end and Mecca and Medina on the other. We can select, in London to visit ajmeer sheriff

and Lahore sheriff, as some people call Lahore out of respect for Data Darbar. In the internet we have different communities; we can select one to our liking.

Question: If we do not have consistency and strong will power in our personality but then comes in change. How do we handle it?

Answer: Some is natural like a professional environment, like a job or business, but that is from 9 to 5, an environment should not go after 5. Some people are working in a job, but also doing there own activity, so why can’t spiritual people do the same. Instead from finding the environment outside we should find it inside.

Question: How can we keep our heart in our control and stay on path of remembrance of God?

Answer: The heart is not in our control but a human is in the control of heart. The heart is in the control of Allah. We can safely say to those people who are righteous to follow their heart. The first prompting is from heart, the second one is from intelligence. So follow the first as a sign from the unseen.

Question: Can we go to the mazar sharif all the times?

Answer: Yes

Question: Is the path of love through the heart?

Answer: Yes, the question would be how to keep the heart alive. What are the methods of activating the heart. Leaving all those activities which hinders . Keeping the company of those who hearts are alive. This path is lighted from lamp to lamp. When heart comes close to another heart. So this is an activity from house to house. Example if there is a saint, staying in another home, and you want to bring him to yours, what we need is to visit that home often.

Question: Whos heart is dead?

Answer: Heart is the place for Dilbar, whatever things the Dilbar forbids should be left out from the heart. Every Mohib knows what activity will please the Dilbar, because the Dilbar is alive all the times, it will come in a living heart and not a dead heart. Wasif sahib R.A says in order to invite the Dilbar in our home we should keep only those things that pleases Him. Taking out any statue, book any painting not suitable, any CD, clean settings. When we are doing a mehfil , so do the same for the heart. At whatever level one is on. There is absolute perfection an abstract thing, and a practical and realistic approach.

Question: God has forbidden interest, though it is followed in western countries in buying a home. What can we do?

Answer: Why is interest forbidden, well there is nothing to reflect on it as if it’s forbidden it means it is forbidden, but on my personal level I was thinking one day why is there such strong criticism. Came to conclusion of a limited mind, the material things like money have been grafted with non material things

like time.Time has a dignity, the destiny has to manifest in time, for example I have put money in the bank , and it will double in 5 years, besides that we cannot undermine Qudrat, by thinking 1 lac will become 5 lac in 5 years, but there are also cancer institute where 2.5 lac will be spent. The more one is on Rizq hilal hardly have there money spent in the wrong places. Unless the destiny wants to test. Besides in interest there is factor of exploitation, in religion the manifestation is of goodness. The laws of nature for a nation, is for the betterment of the society. Now we see Islamic banking, though the profit to the bank is the same, but they claim leasing, leasing articles and properties, there is a difference, if you live in London transfer to an Islamic bank, and at least do not take interest. In western countries if you are in distress if you are forced to give take interest, but do not take it.

Question: In London if you buy a home for one or two bedroom for 1 or 2 lac pounds, most people give a down payment of 15 or 20 percent. What can be done?

Answer: If you ask me about my opinion, I would say do not buy a home, where majboori starts gunah ends, if there is free will then use Islamic law. Buy a home in Johar Town.Convert those pounds and buy here, the rules of the game are, at a young age one should see where one is going to die, where we want to be our grave, may you have a long life, should be near your home. The grave is Miani sahib and the home is in New York. If life starts at one point one should consider death, though death is twin sister of

life. As life starts so does the end. In planning the life we should also plan the end.

Question: If we rent a property to a bank that is wrong as all your income is from interest bearing profit. How far is Islamic banking truly Islamic?

Answer: The path of when we go to shop claiming the chicken is halal , we do not know the takbeer was performed, we should at least go to a place where one is claiming to be halal. If someone is claiming an interest free we should join them, and get the blessings. I have seen some of my friends who are bankers move from non interest banking to interest free have felt better and feel like earning a halal income. There scholars are trying to study the Islamic laws pertaining to banking.

Question: Should we not help Islamic banks?

Answer: If we have the option to join, we should join Islamic banking, they are growing, like Meezan bank has maximum branches, the theme being there are not renting out money, the claim they buy things and the bank becomes the partner renting out and making money. Though they have calclutate to make same profits as other, though they have the right to make same margin of profits as other, by doing such calculations, like they don’t fine on the profit it one is late in paying, they have separate department for fines, I have this experience they have a welfare department. It all about Niyah, then business comes in Sawab.

Question: Some retired people put in saving certificates, as they think investing in business might cause losses.

Answer: That is the weakness of Iman, if they invest in business they might hire 20 people along with their family members. In Quran God says Sadaqaat are multiplied and Riba is disintegrated, interest is not a business.

Question: If some one is running a family by national saving certificates, is that Haram?

Answer: The family is not living by the bank, but by the Almighty. Usually if a person retires at the age of 60 usually the family members, become quite grown up to survive on their own.

Question: In Pakistan usually in joint family system the elder contributes with the return from these certificates. Supporting the family is that wrong?

Answer: I do not understand at 60 years of age, the joint family is split into many families contributing. The message as one gets old; one should invest in the hereafter then in this world. If a head of the family is bringing a family on saving certificates, then the younger children are not liable, but this income in their blood won’t be good. Their children will send their parents in old homes. There was a person I know who opted for Germany, in an interview said I have 3 children who have sent me to an old home in Frankfurt. Their children do not have time to give medicine to him.

Question: I have seen in Pakistan families have a head who dictates, when he retires, if he has national saving certificates, has children who are told of the interest bearing account, has to bow to the head. Is that an excuse?

Answer: The decision of the head is only an excuse, when children marry at their own will but cannot stop sharing their food. If the children see the head not matching the Islamic tenants, should migrate. The children should voice their opposition, when the Quran says do not expect wrong commands of parents, but only do Ihsan. In manner and in dealings.

Question: ‘Qalb e il Momin Arsha Allah’, When one reaches the level of momin, do things keep on illuminating like in Qalb e Majzoob?

Answer: This is not a physical idea, Quran says ‘First His Arsh was on water’ and later ‘Suman taba al arsh’ the tashkeel of arsh was from before later Suman taba . Not that cleaning the Kalb(heart) would make it pure and be the recipient of the Divine. Unless the Qalb of the momin its gets like arsh and alam e bala, arsh is not in alam khalq but in alam a bala, this is that Qalb in which the Mashiat o Arada is manisfested in tasleem o raza, what I have understood when a momin heart becomes Qalb e Momin, and Qalb e saleem, on which amr and arada is manifested, when commands are brought down. So mahlooq goes to the King and ask what its command is. Might be they are telling their about own station. Asking about mizaj e shahana.

The terminology of Qalb should be more practical and clear, like a khayal of a momin, to understand it better, because khayal is also manifested from the qalb, is going to be emitted from the qalb. Instead of getting into history and geography of the Qalb, khayal is the appropriate meaning.

Question:Is there a maqam e zaat of insaan?

The maqam of the zaat e insaan is not lamaqam though insaan is in a makan, the maqam insaan is in lamqaam. Every Sufia talk about maqam e insaan,

Khuda banda se khud poocha bata tere raza kya hai.

Question:

The lord has created everything for Himself. Insaan is a tenant, when the tenant leaves he leaves with all his belongings The wajud is the makan, where we live we are not concerned with the building, we live in it, it is not our representation. The lord has made it for Himself, insaan become a qabz, the

landlord tells the tenant to vacate, and the tenant wishes the landlord does not come to collect the rent. It’s made for the Lord.

Question.: Do we have different faculties?

Answer:.He is Malak e Mulk, is our wajud outside that Mulk. The tenant think it is his, in a nutshell what does a man has to do, but to shift the paradigm, to recite the Kalimah, menahi tu, not me but You. The relationship with Him is of wazir and the King. In

wahadat ul wajud the meaning of kalimah is menahi tu.

Question: The other meaning is to reach oneself.

Answer: Leaving the home to its Owner.

Question: When a Sufi and saint go in halat e muraqaba in alam e bedari, what kind of duration is he in? Is it pure duration, what kind of time is that?

Answer: I think he dives in the vertical time from serial time into universal time, where all the calendars of serial time meet. I am talking about a theoretical thing but it looks like.

Question: There are two events one which Dr Suhail Umar narrates that when he took an American to meet Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A, after the audience the American said this sahib while talking to us was also reflecting another world. And secondly when an acquaintance of Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif Ali R.A met him in his office, on putting a request before him, resulted in a Voice of unprecedented strength. In these two instances where these events happening in a duration beyond serial time?.

Answer: Yes then in his maqan the La maqan is manifested because he got out of his makan. It is said that Zaat is in lamamaqaam, so in those who inner being lamaqaamiat is manifested know in that place the Jalwa of Zaat is manifested.

Question: If that person got out, how does he have Idraak (knowledge) that this same Zaat?

Answer: Here it can be seen that the Zaat made everything for its own pechaan (recognition). When a person gets out of his bashari being he knows instantly he was not the one, than who was That, when he sees his own bashari identity he finds out the Other who Talked, again it means the same that Zaat, has made insaan(everything) for its Own recognition. It is not possible for a ghair zaat to recognize the One, that Zaat is lamaakan, one which recognizes finds himself.

Question: Is the insaan is made to recognize Him?

Answer: Yes no one recognize Him without His permission. When one withdraws one gets nearer, once I wrote for a book, ‘A faqir whole life is spent pulling himself out of himself.’

Question: Then this body is sanctified.

Answer: That is why Sultan Bahu R.A said ‘ Haa tan rab sacha da hujra’ , Yes then we can recognize the sanctity role of Sharia, making this body purified by wudhu and shower and saying Kalimah, shows what to eat, eat this do not eat this, this wajud having transient role shows the importance of Sharia, having a complete role with Tasawwuf as a preface , we have a friend who once had a trance of love once said,’Wo jane aur wo jane tu us ka apna khel hai tu kyoon darmian mukalfat karaha hai.’ So what he saw was himself.

Question:

Answer: The secretariat is one there cannot be two prime minsters and two presidents, in one Aiwan e Sadr, the establishment is the same with one as Hizb ullah and the other as those belonging to Hizb e Shaitan. The faculties of Kuffar are hizb e shiateen.

Question: How can we negate our self?

Answer: What we call taqarab does not mean to find something but to lose something. Meaning to withdraw from oneself. What Ghalib said take my divan for this shair.

‘When you are with me there is no other’.

Question: This what we call as Apna aap, how long does it remain Apna aap?

Answer: There is no such boundary like the India- Pakistan boundary, like crossing the wagah border 10 feet each side, it is a gradual transition, like when we fly in plane when the desert pass, gradually we the greenery coming, not all of a sudden. We can saw we gradually grow out from no more of us.

Question: We were talking about the Mizaj, whose faculty is it?

Answer: It is tilt of the wajudi part, the bashari aspect, the physical the shade or inertia, having genetic factors, physical factor, a composition of many factors. Those who express there Mizaj often also constitute pride. I like this thing or I do not like that thing. ‘Apna mizaj ka ja baja izhaar ghroor ke

zumara me ata hai.’All this syllabus of ikhlaqiaat and its postulate is meant to conquer our Mizaj, we have a friend who said he learned a lesson from her mother, she said people with great names of sufia and aulia, the greatness constituted in there negation, how much they had minuses with in them selves. When we appreciate someone we are not appreciating the bashari aspect, when we talk about a great Sufi we are not remembering him, so there is no Shirk, shirk is making a sha equal a Lasha.Potentially an insaan is not a sha, but himself accorded that honor.

Question: What does Tazkia e Nafs or Tazkia e Qalb means?

Answer: Tazkia e Qalb and Tazkia e Nafs means Tazkia e Qalab, automatically having a tazkia of the outer shell, when we have nafasat in our mizaj it will definitely manifest outside. Although we live outside, infect our inner self is reflected. Just as is our inner world so is our outer self reflected. There is narration that once a robber came to Ghaus e Pak, and became a qutb. As one is cleaning ones inner self, so does our outer self is reflected

department for fines, I have this experience they have a welfare department. It all about Niyah, then business comes in Sawab.

Question: Some retired people put in saving certificates, as they think investing in business might cause losses.

Answer: That is the weakness of Iman, if they invest in business they might hire 20 people along with their family members. In Quran God says Sadaqaat are multiplied and Riba is disintegrated, interest is not a business.

Question: If some one is running a family by national saving certificates, is that Haram?

Anwer; The family is not living by the bank by the Almighty. Usually if a person retires at the age of 60 usually the family members become quite grown up to survive on their own. So saving certificates

Question: In Pakistan usually in joint family system the elder contributes with the return from these certificates.

Answer: I do not understand at 60 years of age, the joint family is split into many families contributing. The message as one gets old; one should invest in the hereafter then in this world. If a head of the family is bringing a family on saving certificates, then the younger children are not liable, but this income in their blood won’t be good. Their children will send their parents in old homes. There was a person I know who opted for Germany, in an interview said I have 3 children who have sent me to an old home in Frankfurt. Their children do not have time to give medicine to him.

Question: I have seen in Pakistan families have a head who dictates, when he retires, if he has national saving certificates, has children who

are told of the interest bearing account, has to bow to the head.

Answer: The decision of the head is only an excuse, when children marry at their own will but cannot stop sharing their food. If the children see the head not matching the Islamic tenants, should migrate. The children should voice their opposition, when the Quran says do not expect wrong commands of parents, but only do Ihsan. In manner and in dealings.

Question: ‘Qalb e il Momin Arsha Allah’, When one reaches the level of momin, do things keep on illuminating like in Qalb e Majzoob?

Answer: This is not a physical idea, Quran says ‘First His Arsh was on water’ and later ‘Suman taba al arsh’ the tashkeel of arsh was from before later Suman taba . Not that cleaning the Kalb(heart) would make it pure and be the recipient of the Divine. Unless the Qalb of the momin its gets like arsh and alam e bala, arsh is not in alam khalq but in alam a bala, this is that Qalb in which the Mashiat o Arada is manisfested in tasleem o raza, what I have understood when a momin heart becomes Qalb e Momin, and Qalb e saleem, on which amr and arada is manifested, when commands are brought down. So mahlooq goes to the King and ask what its command is. Might be they are telling their about own station. Asking about mizaj e shahana.

The terminology of Qalb should be more practical and clear, like a khayal of a momin, to understand it better, because khayal is also manifested from the

qalb, is going to be emitted from the qalb. Instead of getting into history and geography of the Qalb, khayal is the appropriate meaning.

Question:Is there a maqam e zaat of insaan?

The maqam of the zaat e insaan is not lamaqam though insaan is in a makan, the maqam insaan is in lamqaam. Every Sufia talk about maqam e insaan,

Khuda banda se khud poocha bata tere raza kya hai.

Question:

Answer:

The lord has created everything for Himself. Insaan is a tenant, when the tenant leaves he leaves with all his belongings The wajud is the makan, where we live we are not concerned with the building, we live in it, it is not our representation. The lord has made it for Himself, insaan become a qabz, the landlord tells the tenant to vacate, and the tenant wishes the landlord does not come to collect the rent. It’s made for the Lord.

Question.: We have different faculties.

Answer:.He is Malak e Mulk, is our wajud outside that Mulk. The tenant think it is his, in a nutshell what does a man has to do, but to shift the paradigm, to recite the Kalimah, menahi tu, not me but You. The relationship with Him is of wazir and the King. In wahadat ul wajud the meaning of kalimah is menahi tu.

Question: The other meaning is to reach oneself.

Answer: Leaving the home to its Owner.

Question: When a sufi and saint goes in halat e muraqaba in alam e bedari in what duration , pure duration , what kind of time is he in.?

Answer: I think he dives in the vertical time from serial time into universal time, where all the calendars of serial time meet. I am talking about a theoretical thing but it looks like

Question: There are two events one which Dr Suhail Umar narrates that when he took an American to meet Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A, after the audience the American said this sahib while talking to us was also reflecting another world. And secondly when an acquaintance of Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif Ali R.A met him in his office, on putting a request before him, resulted in a Voice of unprecedented strength. In these two instances where these events happening in a duration beyond serial time?.

Answer: Yes then in his maqan the La maqan is manifested because he got out of his makan. It is said that Zaat is in lamamaqaam, so in those who inner being lamaqaamiat is manifested know in that place the Jalwa of Zaat is manifested.

Question: If that person got out, how does he have Idraak (knowledge) that this same Zaat.

Answer: Here it can seen that the Zaat made everything for its own pechaan(recognition). When a person gets out of his bashari being he knows instantly he was not the one, than who was That, when he sees his own bashari identity he finds out the Other who Talked, again it means the same that Zaat, has made insaan(everything) for its Own recognition. It is not possible for a ghair zaat to recognize the One, that Zaat is lamaakan, one which recognizes finds himself.

Question: The insaan is made to recognize Him.

Answer: Yes no one recognize Him without His permission. When one withdraws one gets nearer, once I wrote for a book, ‘A faqir whole life is spent pulling himself out of himself.’

Question: Then this body is sanctified.

Answer: That is why Sultan Bahu R.A said ‘ Haa tan rab sacha da hujra’ , Yes then we can recognize the sanctity role of Sharia, making this body purified by wudhu and shower and saying Kalimah, shows the

eat this do not eat this, this wajud having transient role shows the importance of Sharia, having a complete role with Tasawwuf as a preface , we have a friend who once had a trance of love once said,’Wo jane aur wo jane tu us ka apna khel hai tu kyoon darmian mukalfat karaha hai.’

So what he saw was himself.

Question:

Answer: The secretariat is one there cannot be two prime minsters and two presidents, in one Aiwan e Sadr, the establishment is the same with one as Hizb ullah and the other as those belonging to Hizb e Shaitan. The faculties of Kuffar are hizb e shiateen.

Question: How can we negate our self?

Answer: What we call taqarab does not mean to find something but to lose something. Meaning to withdraw from oneself. What Ghalib said take my divan for this shair.

‘When you are with me there is no other’.

Question: This what we call as Apna aap, how long does it remain Apna aap?

Answer: There is no such boundary like the India- Pakistan boundary, like crossing the wagah border 10 feet each side, it is a gradual transition, like when we fly in plane when the desert pass, gradually we the greenery coming, not all of a sudden. We can saw we gradually grow out from no more of us.

Question: We were talking about the Mizaj, whose faculty is it?

Answer: It is tilt of the wajudi part, the bashari aspect, the physical the shade or inertia, having genetic factors, physical factor, a composition of many factors. Those who express there Mizaj often also constitute pride. I like this thing or I do not like that thing. ‘Apna mizaj ka ja baja izhaar ghroor ke zumara me ata hai.’All this syllabus of ikhlaqiaat and its postulate is meant to conquer our Mizaj, we have

a friend who said he learned a lesson from her mother, she said people with great names of sufia and aulia, the greatness constituted in there negation, how much they had minuses with in them selves. When we appreciate someone we are not appreciating the bashari aspect, when we talk about a great Sufi we are not remembering him, so there is no Shirk, shirk is making a sha equal a Lasha.Potentially an insaan is not a sha, but himself accorded that honor.

Question: What does Tazkia e Nafs or Tazkia e Qalb means?

Answer: Tazkia e Qalb and Tazkia e Nafs means Tazkia e Qalab, automatically having a tazkia of the outer shell, when we nafasat in our mizaj it will definitely manifest outside. Although we live outside, infect our inner self is reflected. Just as is our inner world so is our outer self reflected.

Question: As one is cleaning ones inner self so does our outer self is reflected, there is narration that once a robber came to Ghaus e Pak, and became a qutb.

Answer: Answer: Actually this has been discussed before in the mehfil of Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasil R.A, that the person was actually not a robber, but a Qutb who was afraid to face the Ghous of his time, because roab e jalal who knew what Qutb Al Iktab meant, those who are in the domain of zahir do not understand, like when Baba fareed R.A came to Lahore , he stayed a mile from the darbar. One fine morning this event happened, is actually there is a

activity in the batin. It is manifested before the public at a certain moment. Like an example of a person who is listening to the Quran being recited fell for it, actually he must have read a lot of Quran. A person just removes his outer garment, so the robber who came was actually a saint, on duty probably, appearing to be in a non acceptable position. Like when there was a group of Sufia on the way to Hajj met a gang of highway robbers, and the their leader prescribed capital punishment for the head of the Sufia, as we are going to hajj, to that the leader of robbers said your leader is not a true Sufi, and how can he lead you. Our professions are our weakness it is not the true identity, all of sudden is only the marzoob, who is not further explained, a Qutb is a coronation, thus going in the house of Ghous e Pak is not easy.

That was a big locker, full of wealth they got it. For the zahir it looked like a robber came to rob.

Question: Sometimes a negative feeling overcomes of not practicing enough, what can be done?

Answer: There is paradox when a negative feeling comes, what we have heard we cannot practice enough. When religious education is given people say we cannot practice enough to listen to more, we should accommodate the knife, until it becomes a part, sometimes a thought so overtakes that one is forced to practice and believe, like when we hear the Azan a thought seizes us to pray . Admitting our mistakes we should continue our practices. Do not say with what face I should go his Home, do not

worry go with whatever face you have. Sometimes we think we have not reached that level of piety to go to hajj, the other option is to present to yourself. Like we have come to your Home on our own so forgive us. Come in His presence with a petition begging for mercy. Instead of being a fugitive, there are two problems here, one is that we have confidence on the Amal, will go after sometime and ask for the pardon, in which case depending on the Amal, the other is he does not depend and believe on the faculty of forgiveness.

Dr Azhar Waheed sahib Mehfil on 22-6-2013.Question:- I have a question in my mind , I have read a lot about it, asked many people this question, which is why has the Khalaqa Kainat (Creator of the Universe) arranged and created this whole Nizaam(system), a question I have asked many and usually get a traditional answer.Answer: Let us view this question from a different angle, although this is not an answer. If you note that when you get into a relationship with someone, then the question of asking how and why immaterializes. And if the relationship is not developed or is in the stage of developing, or the question of developing does not arises at all, then the questions of how and why are infinite. Why did you do this, why did you that. But if one gets hold of the link to a relationship, then instead of asking one starts to narrate and to answer. There is one

relationship between the Khaliq(Creator) and the Makhlooq(created), and the other being a secular relationship, which is relationship of the Creator with every of His creation, with every being, with an ant , a lion, but in the relationship with Insaan(human) there is something special of what that has been communicated is in the form of Quran e Pak. How and why, to ask the questions there was by Insaan (human) and to reply there was Insaan(human).

Let us read an Ayah,

In Arabic language Taa is used instead of Tuu, so using Taa the word becomes Taluq , so the whole Ilm is tere taluq ka naam, Your relationship.

Read! In the Name of your Lord, Who has created (all that exists),

Has created man from a clot (a piece of thick coagulated blood).

There is a point created by the Sufia, yeh tera taluq hai, this question you asked has another dimension, another perspective, how did I arrive here, what is the meaning of my being here, question is the same, the question is being asked more decently , if we get answer to this question we get answer to the others, in Quran it says ‘Do not ask, but instead you will be asked’ I usually ponder what will be asked of us, like did you read the Quran, and said your namaz, but another question can also be asked in this context is , did you in this vast world where from besides Milton and Archimedes to Abu Ali Sina, Rumi and Razi pondered on at their levels, did you also try to discover yourself, who are you ?, where did you come from?, what is your purpose?, if we see a graph paper, and the four axis go into infinity. When we draw anything on the graph we need a reference point, drawing anything without a reference point will be meaningless, unless a person considers himself as the reference point and starts to find and make himself the reference point and then the meaning of these questions of why, and how start to unravel . The question is what is the Wajah e Taqhleeq Kainaat? You will not get an answer to your question from outside, like if you are working in a bank, I as an outsider will ask what are these people doing from morning to evening, keep on counting repeatedly like some mad adventure. But those working in the bank a part of the bank, know it is a very serious issue , like those working in the World Bank, a little error in calculations will cause great problems, a small discrepancy in counting will be hazardous for the bank. So even to find the Maqsad (purpose) you have to become a part of this Nizam, those people

who ponder on how the Creator created this vast Nizam stretching into billion of years, working effortlessly, reflecting how a child is born, then one has to become a part of the Nizam e Qudrat of the Khaliq consciously not academically but ilmi and consciously, in this respect the education given to us is first enter Taslim then do Research , reach research through Taslim, Iman is the syllabus of the heart, not of logic, The question is what is the Wajah e Taqhleeq Kainaat? We have to create Taluq first as its solves all entanglement of the rope, do know the kuna, the root cause for which we have to become first the part of the Nizam ,then things will start to Ashkaar( unravel), like while working in a bank the first we thing we do is apprenticeship , although already having studied banking, so instead of asking the Creator why and how He started the creation, why everything has been created, first find yourself finding a reference point in your own self then all the drawings and maps will manifest on the graph, we do not understand things because we try to understand from a mantqi (reasoning) point of view, so that we would be able to communicate to others, instead of controlling the impulse to narrate to others, and coming out of this impulse to tell others, instead of deciding only to narrate to ourselves and understand only our selves and not to tell anyone else then we will see we understand much more , usually when a person hears or read he tries to rationalize, because if he has to tell someone else then he should have logic, so if the human instinct to rationalize and human intellect has a basic instinct to rationalize is overcome for a short time , our scenario and our aperture will open, like in a

dream when we are trying to understand or communicate, in a dream we don’t have an impulse to communicate so in a dream we understand much more. The filter of logic removes many pearls of wisdom, and many pearls do not pass through the filter, thinking as leftover a human throws them away.What is the better approach?Answer: The better approach is to disregard the earlier approaches written on ones mindset, that slate should be cleaned, then in the state of acceptance (ba halaat e tasleem) try to read whatever is being written by itself, since whatever has already been written so far on our mind has been written by some one else by others, on the contrary what is in our slate we have written by our own hands, the only book that is verifiable is the one which is our own book.Question: How can we clean the slate?Answer: This question is very important of how to clean the slate, this is a very easy and a very difficult way, if one is in Tasleem of someone it is a matter of 2 minutes, but if one does not come in Tasleem can become a stupendous task of life. When one comes in Tasleem( accepts) someone things become very easy, I will give you my personal experience, when I came in the company of Sarkar Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A, I had read all the philosophies of old Greece, Khalil Gibran, the Halqa Arbab e Zauq , the critics gatherings, laden with all, but it was miracle not my effort, miracle was his, when we came in his trance, when he made us Tasleem , not saying we came in Tasleem since we did not know, when and how we came in Tasleem, it

never came to the mind that this point was discussed by this Sufi or that writer, also said something like this, not coming in the developing stage, I came when having read everything , so it was a his Ijaz that all that was written , the heart and mind came together , otherwise one says I am listening and this is just one, of the many explanations this did not happen. So this is the way of cleaning the slate, cleaning the slate is a spiritual level and journey of all spiritual matters and tasks start through Tasleem, bypassing the contents of the Mind and the bypassing the mind is accepting Tasleem. If we reflect on how big the Haqiqat are the Angels, reward and punishment, Allah Tala which do not come in our experience, but as soon we come into Tasleem , we become of those Haqaiq, saying salaam to the angels and getting wa alikum salaam. The whole Ijaz is of Tasleem, getting in the domain of Hadood e Haraam, when those who have not accepted find a board, that says those not in Tasleem go this way, only those with Tasleem go this way as the Hadood e Haraam has come when we go to umra there is a board, when coming into Muslim town about 35 miles ahead is a board the rest are sent in the bypass, its all a story of Tasleem , the cleaning of the slate is smaller event , Tasleem does big events, so cleaning the slate is matter of Tasleem with the brush of tasleem, eroding all other brushes, as the saying goes, the pen was given , giving us permission to write, whatever one want to write, example when we come to a physician carrying many files, the physician prescribes a certain medicine knowing what medicine to prescribe , like in a spiritual prescription too we work in a hit

and trial method, going to different doctors, and also having our own prescription, so Taslim makes one focused, removing any torsion in transmission.What is the relationship between Tasleem and Mohabbat is tasleem possible without Mohabbat?Answer: Yes they say Tasleem is not possible without Mohabbat. There is a proof in Quran, ‘We said to heavens and the earth to come into obedience’, this is the prize, toon has a rank, ‘They come to you and say we believed, do not say we believed say we accepted Islam, then you might get Iman’, as its said about namaz even when one does not experience a feeling in namaz to still pray, as its obligatory while feeling is not obligatory. For example in a mehfil of a saint, if things go by merit , then hardly any one qualifies, but those who come in Tasleem qualify and join, like for a six grader we make them learn math tables not be used later on, so doctors have to learn all the specialties, even if not using them later. They could be working in CMH, still have to learn all to become a part of that system maybe some having Nishan e Haider could be doing Tuun. Tuun of Tasleem is with Mohabbat, which might not be there but only being in the sangaat could lead to Tasleem, one is associated with the word love. In higher levels tasleem and mohabbat do unite.Question: Prophet Sallallalahu Alaihi Wassallam is the Wajah e Taqleeq Kainaat and then a hadith e Quddusi narrates about Allah Subanhu, as declaring’ I was a hidden treasure to be discovered’ how do we understand the two hadith?

Answer: The answer to kyon is not given in the creation of heavens and the earth. There is Hadith e Qudussi, in human history what are the reasons of creation of Universe, is Allah Subhanhu say’ I was a hidden treasure and wanted to be known’ and the other Hadith says ‘ Awala makhalqa nuri’ ‘ God created my nur first’ if we consider these two hadith we understand how the hidden treasure was discovered and unraveled in cave of Hira. As said treasures are found in caves. The Saudi friend’s debate how do you say the cause of creation was the Prophet Mohammad Sallallalahu Alahi Wassallam, first Hazrat Adam pbuh, Nuh alai saallam and there were a hundred and twenty four thousand , here we mention a masnawi of Maulana Rum said, That the tree of kainaat, whatever the seed we plant and the tree grows, whatever seed we planted we get it at the end, so when the universe was created, the seed came at the end, after the tree was filled with leaves and , so the seed and fruit which was the reason of the creation of the tree of creation came last ,alam amr and alam khlaaq are Mirrror image of each other, whatever is extreme right on one side is extreme left on the other, first one came the last. This treasure is increased through Insaan , why do you call Hazrat Ali Hajveri as Gaang e bakash, because he is delivering, Gaang e nuri marifaat e Muhammadi.Question: What is shirk?Answer: Our Prophet derives everything from the Quran, shirk is not who’s work is not complete, but bring to attention the common name, whatever message the Maqkhlooq got from is from the Prophet Mohammad Sallallalahu Alahi Wassallam

otherwise the Maqkhlooq has no reliable source. Those who claimed in history of any relationship were not justified, even to their own claim, not even own their mark. But the message to the Prophet was delivered generation after generation is increasing and increasing. Marifat elahi is being constantly explained through Sufia karam , this work is in progress, as the karamat e aulia are actually the continuity of the mujazaat e nabi.

Question: How we define ‘To Be Known’?Answer: its meaning is for God to be known to Himself, not that the Maklooq recognizes, the Sufia karam tell us before God had no Surat, I believe personally only the need is of Huba e Rasool, because Mohabbat itself leads to Marifaat, what we call Mariffat is of love, that of laila was with majnoon, the rest will write research papers.Jane tera naqsh e kadam mela tere jamal meen dhall gaya. Apne basheri rasta ko tarq karta hoe tere rahoon meen besaya gaya.All prayers are for Qurbat, not for pleasure but for Suhbaat, the meaning of Roza is to tie your self. Tera khayal na hota mere namaaz ka imam. As said by Iqbal.Tera khayal be So mohabbat is first and amaal are afterward , because if amal advance by themselves can lead to munafqat, the imamat of amal is mohabbat, the deliverance of an insaan is through khayal, not amal the best khayal is to remember the beloved, Mohabbat means to leave, there other definitions too, but one definition is to think about the beloved.

Question: Is the discovery of self the discovery of God?Answer: Yes this is so; yes it is a shortcut of saying that, for if we go step by step goes into detail. Self discovery is like as discussed before , if a drop in the ocean discovers itself its mahiat that is qualitatively not quantity wise, will find some properties of the Qulzam not all.Question: As you said about Khayal and fikr.Anwer: The cleaning of the slate is in reference to Afkaar, to hold khayal is not easy is a hard task , to clean the slate is about afkaar, not khayal which is a frequency between the set and the server, the frequency at which the transmission is made, from the server from which the whole mehfil is transmitted. Answer: What is the qualitative difference in the nature of the questions asked before and after Tasleem?Questions: The questions before Tasleem are of different nature are zamini sawal(earth bound) of tashkeek, which change after catching the train of Tasleem, then the nature of questions change, like when we come in the compartment of tasleem, then we ask questions like how far is the Manzil ?, what is the next station ? at what speed are we going?, when will we reach the Manzil?, until we buy the ticket of the train of Tasleem, we keep on asking question like whether train goes or not some say it goes , the journey of questions keeps on going, the question of Tasleem are different from those of tahqiq.Question: There is a lot of Sakuun(contentment) in the questions of tasleem.

Answer: Yes there is much difference, in the questions of tahqiq there is a danger of breaking the relationship, while in the question of tasleem the relations become nearer and stronger. We are importing our Qalbi kafiaat with our danish. The column which holds the building cementing the two. Hazrat Ibrahim A.S in his dialogue with God, asked how do you resurrect the dead, to which he was asked don’t you believe, he replied yes I do but to enhance my faith, to satisfy my Qalb. Giving support of the column even if yaqin is displaced.Question: Do even after tasleem, we still face the questions of Tashqeeq?Answer: An important question and the answer is also very important, there is the Manzil, and some people love the manzil , and some love the mehboob of the manzil. Does doubt still comes after acceptance, some people love the manzil and some have mehboob as the manzil. Question: Is safar the manzil?Answer: If we are on the right track then manzil is at every step, but that is a different chapter, the other is if two people are travelling together and get to a place, they reach together the first peak and then plan for the next peak, after covering some peaks, some will say we have not reached the next peak, but there will be those who’s only wish will their journey and say leave the peaks aside, and there tasleem will never be in tashqeeq. Question is important.

Answer: On taqdeer and tadbir we can read many poems, and read about jabri and qadri, the reality is yaqin and tashqeeq is the prerogative of a human,

depends on the human,the decision is made by a human, yaqin can be called as love, but if tashqeeq is not akthiairi and is jabri , then the whole show ends, then why would we blame a kafir, the whole shariat, reward and punishment , amaal and mizaan , jannat and dozakh, all things come in tashqeeq. All things if delivered to taqdeer, then on the doraha of tashqeeq and tadbir lies the strength and human weakness to chose.

Question: Is tashqeeq a human weakness or gunah ?

Answer: Let shaqq (doubt) come, and pass through the pressing machine, the juice will be separated from the rest. ‘When shaaq is removed it becomes an asset of yaqin.’A child makes a drawing, and practice, keep on practicing practice makes a man perfect, tahqeeq and gunah is the chapter of the maulvi, , the base and journey of truth is asking questions, a sufi never says do not ask this question, to them all people went, the dehrya, the Wahhabi, everyone. So if we think asking a question is wrong, it is invalid ask as many questions you want. Those who have a factious building will be afraid, if going further it will be bedaat and going back will be shirt, stopping a rational person from reflecting, Quran is full of tafakaar, to think, tafkaar is silent zikar, and zikar is the talking fikar. Inkaar, ikraar ke halaat ka naam hai, the meaning of kufar is to veil, to hide, you must unveil the veiled. The journey to kaaba tulaa is the unveil desire, of the nura e iman injected while performing Umra. After that this

kafiaat will be stopped if one thinks whether I am a follower, until there is a distance one keeps on thinking but stops when we come in front. The tashqeeq is removed by mushaid.Question: Does reading more carry more responsibility?Answer: That is wrong, to think the more religious knowledge we have will have more responsibility, is incorrect, when we are checking the internet, reading philosophy but not the translation of the Quran. How to do a Phd. But reading the translation of Quran is the only thing left. One of our friends a teacher used to say that he had a principal, wherever he went he used to find people who liked research and reading, used to give them a scholarship and send them away. So that no will be there to ask questions and nor will have the trouble to answer. A hadith e pak says, ‘One moment of reflection is better than a hundred years of ibadaat’. Tafaqar is a very valuable thing.When we are in the state of tashqeeq we are disconnected from the reality, when we are in tasleem we get connected, what Mushaida does is to create a state of Unison, creating synchronization with the Ultimate reality, tashqeeq disconnects, this contact and dis contact usually keeps on going, is called music periodically contacting and dis contacting, neither the liking of mushaida nor the state of tashqeeq, the journey of musafir is to keep on going, whether in mushaida or in tashqeeq , whether in contact or otherwise . When a beloved finds out the door is closed still keep on moving, a true lover will keep on traveling, even when all the doors are closed, waiting for them to open.

Chal hoon gurdwara maal, shaair se de saraa dewaa bujj gayaa.

Question: How can we live amiably?

Answer: If insaan learns to live with other Insaan is saved from a lot of troubles, example shah sahib has a car, if I compromise and go with shah sahib, I will save, when an insaan does not depend, has become short tempered, then one feels the shortage of money, in older times, a lot of family used to live together, the cousin was considered as an insult, not using the term brother, a few people used to earn and a lot of them lived a free life. We have sharing our family and started to feel isolated. We have to pass through a secular and mechanical life; we take loan, but do not want to live close. The older brother does not share with the younger brother, so the younger brother has to take a loan from the bank. Let me say, if we live close we do not have to worry about the currency. The bread and better of capitalism is selfishness.

Question: Did they not create goodness by technology and what are side effects of capitalism how was system different from the west?

Answer: The west having the codes or system, whether through Quran or Muslim scholars,or their own philosophy, whatever postulate they got they worked sincerely on them, there system is khushaal, but their individual is not khushaal,

there is suffocation. If you go the west then your whole family should be there, if we do not have job here you do not worry, but over there if you do not have hundred dollars you will be thinking about the bills, falaah is individual , khushaali is at a collective level, if I have a building outside and I am not happy, when you started talking about tahqiq(research) and Tashkeer e Kainaat is a journey of an individual not of the community, talking about east and west, the majority from the east have doubts about there traditions, are they reliable to be followed, when its stamped from outside we readily accept it, when Hakim Saeed gives a medicine we doubt, but coming from the royal college we are elated. Another important thing is those of the west, respected there sages and the learned. The table of Shakespeare is still kept as a souvenir, on the other hand we have been in the grip of shirk and bedaat, on the other hand we sold those of our learned and the scholars.

The spiritual beating we got, ignoring our scholars and their assets, their books landed us in trouble while the west did not ignore their guides. Insaan whatever he is a believer a non believer , human as a human, as example to understand there is another god in another universe, and ask God what is your masterpiece, will be an Insaan(human being), if we also devote to a system where the human being will be elevated and respected, we will have Falaah, from Khutaba Hajat ul Widah, Europe and

America has recently given emancipation to the blacks only lately the message was no white has superiority over black, no insider has superiority over outsider, the life of Muslim and his respect is more the respect of Khana Kaaba. The respect showed by Islam towards a human is unparalleled, not to run in namaz to meet someone. The kings have ruined the system have bulldozed the message for personal gains.

Question: You have very excellently described is indeed perfect the

Answer: Describing does not solve the problem, inqilaab the revolution was when the slave and master prayed together 1400 years ago, a Yemeni king had slapped a baadhu, for accidently putting his feet on his robe, when the case went to Hazrat Umar Farooq R.A, told the King according to Islamic justice, to either get a slap or ask for forgiveness from the baadhu, to which the king answered he will think, and fled at night saving himself from disgrace, this was the revolution.

Question: Is the welfare system, a complete system?

Answer: Those whose home contains guidance the punishment will be double. In Scandinavian countries the law of Umar R.A is copied, that

was the objection of the kuffar mecca that you are making our slaves to sit with us. In the revolution of France, the people came to know after 1200 years when the deen had already made it known. The respect of a human is so high that one finds God, to make a welfare system is not that big thing as compared, it is not changing the nizam, because we have many jammat e islami only portraying a good system, which is just a fringe benefit, like besides getting salary. The 6686 ayah on the welfare system is just a part the real is when an individual achieves perfection through tafakuur and tazakurun and Ulul Albab, a one to one game. When it was said come to the good system, people objected on the socialist also possessing a nizam without religion. The Scandinavian countries having also a welfare system, without kalima, why you say we come to deen and then form a community, having thesis. Developing an antithesis. When the ten of us are sitting in this room can plan to have this room decorated together, paint here put a tube light there, we are trying to change a system without first having an individual changed. Beating the system without changing the individual, talking of nafaz without nafooz, when we hire a righteous person in a department, the whole department will be cleansed, as Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A, said ‘Those countries flourish where the head of departments are

righteous’. In the passport department one person came DIG Zulfiqar Cheema having a good reputation, has changed the system otherwise the urgent passports were issued in six months, we do not provide food for the hungry and try to cut hands of the thief as in the Islamic history when there was a famine the sharia was not implemented. This is called neem hakimi, the quack will not find the root cause, while a doctor will diagnose and cure the root cause.

Question: Some people who become mechanical do not become helpful for others, but some believe one has to be mechanical to survive what is the right way?

Answer: Those who become dependent on the mechanical aspect of the Nizam even dependent on the watch, there was professor who had an anxiety disorder, to do every thing perfectly, I told him to reduce his punctuality which is not good from a mechanical point, as it is not very good for the body makes you tense. So those dependent on the Nizam , who are mechanical then they wont be very helpful. Like when I practices I do not say, I am closing my clinic after 10:15 , and come after 6pm, will not take any more patients, will not be good. Which is due to mine being non mechanical, some earn an amount, then say they will save some, and then and

save so much percent. If a person takes ones economic life to the banks, then he wont have a penny left to pay to the poor, when I am driving an old car and then finds myself wanting a new one, I will go to the bank and get the loan, and keep on paying the loan off, not able to pay the poor, the more we are able to get out of this mechanical life, the more we will be able to bring out others from this mechanical life, the more spiritual life we will adopt the more we will come out of the mechanical life. Mechanical life is a wheel of jabr(compulsion), morning follows the evening, while earning millions have hardly time for helping others. There are definite exceptions. Loss of working hours is mentioned in the west, contributing to loss of monetary hours, not making humans but horse of race courses.

Questions: What do you say about our systems in the east and their faults?

Answer: This crisis is not new, as Allama Iqbal pointed out; we are giving the wrong message to our children. Hazrat Wasif R.A pointing to the sad story in the east, where the khanqai nizam is dominating our society, in contrast to the west where the conquest of the universe, is being achieved. The debilitating situation in the east, where the pir takes advantages of the mureed. What is the true litmus test of the truthfulness of a person is whether he is

talking help or helping others. In the example of the king of Balk Hazrat Ibrahim R.A when he settled in the Kaba, and started having followers, he used to tell them from now on, I will feed you, and what he did to earn was go to the jungle and collect wood.

Question: Is there any need of a Pir today?Answer: If by Pir we mean a mentor and a guide is

necessary, you have not to take a mentor but the mentor has to take and guide you, a real mentor guides other, who understand the program and follows the program, a true Pir is in the need of true followers, who can understand the program him too. The relation between a Pir and a Mureed is from the standpoint of understanding is of fikar e tazkia, and fikar e rububiat, like in any branch of knowledge we need a teacher, as in any other department to get knowledge , so too for sahibane fikr need a mentor, do not get into names there is a confusion in names, call them ustad, mentor, guide, pir, murshid, this is a relation between talib and matloob, if it is without zahir dari, it is strong, and if this relationship is based on zahir dari it becomes weak. Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A used to mention in spite of the breakup of the society the voice of Haq has always been heard, even the wrong doers know the wearing this mantle would make them appear as pious. Now days there is so much

confusion so leave the rest and try to make your own center strong, do not look around, if there is something wrong going around, like a dance, circus do not look there, just salaam and come back. What is the question? What have we to do with the Gadi Nasheen?

Question: In all the happenings around we do not see any quality?

Answer: Why do you have anything with these people, though we respect them out of their relation with the saint, and not because of them, just go there and come back after paying your respect.

Question: There are like a bazaar, with different shops everywhere, what do we do? They are sitting six months each, not spreading any truth.

Answer: When there is the progeny at the sites, like Golra Sharif, we have been guided by Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A as in Kiran Kiran Suraj , Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A said if the Prophets Nubawat was not inherited, how could the waliayat of a saint be inherited, and also stating that the concept of seat hood in tasawwuf is liable to reflection. So we are given a guideline, as we have seen the real Alhamad u lillah, he is outside of tradition and of protocols, dress and maneuvers , this is a journey of khayal, so were ever we think this khayal can be

lighted from the lamp, we should follow it. We should only worry about our own khayal, we should have respect for the progeny, as they might change any time. But do not give your hands in their hand. The good darbars, like Golra sheriff, Khawaja Ghulam Fared R.A , where later on there was dissent, among the progenies. Care about your own khayal and not worry about others. If we are in the journey and in trance then everything is fine, as narrated by Hazrat WasifAli Wasif R.A,in Kiran Kiran Surag ‘If springs come and every cow becomes fat and not ours what would be the benefit to us.’

Question: In the beginning those who deserved were elected from outside and the deserving in the family too, why is that no more?

Answer: This concept that the son of hakem sahib would at least be able to make the covering of the medicine, but people come for medicine and not for the coverings. For a true and faithful the guidelines are given from somewhere, this universe has been so constructed that everyone gets the rububiat, the biggest thing is that those deserving faith will get faith and those seeking evil will get evil.

Kainait talib aur matloob ke dermayaan misaal aik keshkul ke hai.

Who ever wants will get his desire fulfilled, nazar and manzar are part and parcel as two sides of a

coin, not separate, the maqamaat baqa ke manazar will get baqa, like in a match we have to have the spectators, the match is going on, even being a spectator is a worthy .Nazar and nazeer together form a manzar(scene), the nazeer also means andaza nazer.

Question: But the nazar will get the reward, how he plays depends.

Answer: This example is to understand, otherwise we get into logic. The batini examples have to be given in the zahir, to discern as otherwise out of compulsion. The rational approach has a weakness, to occupy illegally without understanding its limitations. Aql when ever it journeys will be illegally controlling things outside its domains. Khaish (desire) whoever rational will interfere in the affairs of the Universe. The symphony of this universe, the events happening under this symphony when approached rationally truncates the Real. Doing research on this symphony by analyzes derides us from the whole, who made this symphony, where did the notes comes from, listening to music is something different, but if we start to research it who wrote it, where did it come from is another discipline. Like while checking the internet the cursor comes across. Researching a song of Nur Jehan will unable us to listen to the song. To listen to the symphony we have to disable the filter of analyzes.

Question: How can we understand the exegesis of the Quran to our satisfaction as explained from different points of views by numerous translations?

Answer: As written by Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A ‘To understand and write the exegesis of the Ilhami kalam has to be revealed.’ needs a Rumi R.A as revealed on his heart in the form of a Masnawi, and an Iqbal R.A, when Bala e Gabriel was recited in the form of higher poetry , otherwise everyone will have their own tafaseer and point of view, the Sufis who wrote the tafaseer never mentioned or claimed as such only later on people thought so. As Iqbal R.A said once ‘Oh God if what I have written is not correct do not give me guidance’. Like the poems of Iqbal R.A when sung make a person say namaz, like for the dreams we cannot discern rationally, we seek such and such person having a revealed knowledge of decoding, when the dreams have such am importance, what about a revealed book. So mantiq and dalil is not accepted here, another way of understanding this point is keep all the tafaseers on one side, when Who revealed is Here, on whom it was revealed is here, and for whom it was revealed are here, read without a tafaseer, so that the understanding which will be revealed will be one for you. Once a pious man said I have four tafaseers , and I read

them one by one, so I asked him how do you know which one to follow.

Read like a column, for Quran e Pak there are seven grid, from mutual understanding , so whichever grid we are standing start there the next grid will open up. This is the kalam of the Creator. Once Allama Iqbal R.A was asked by an English gentleman, when Newtonian physics ruled and atheism prevailed, when the one talking about particles was accepted and those talking about waves was not accorded acceptance. Dr Iqbal do you believe only the meanings of the Quran were revealed, or the whole words? To which he replied when on me the whole poems are revealed including the words. Not that a thought (khayaal) comes first and then I try to find the words, if a person like me having the poem revealed as a whole, then what to talk about the Quran. Because if we consider only the meanings then the status of the Quran is put in abeyance. Then the objection can be raised that the khayaal comes over saints and poets too will reduce the legal importance. If you want to read the exegeses, then read the tafseer of Baba Nur Wala R.A who was first recited a verse by the mureeds , as he could not read and write then narrated the tafseer Fazli verbatim, so read tafseer a Fazli if you want a spiritual rendering of Quran e Pak. Who once said what kind of tafseer is that you have designed maps and related geography

in the story of Moses and Pharaoh, the tafseer is Pharaoh is the one who is full of his desires, and immersed in the river of desires in which he ultimately drowns. How Pharaoniat drowns in the river of its desires and pride. The moral of the lesson should be there, otherwise becomes a book of history, those events that have passed; now we need to draw lessons till the kaymaat from them.

Question: Can we read the Quran while lying down?

Answer: We should keep the decorum, for otherwise if we do not respect will loose the meanings. If we want to hear then it is fine. The people of gulf read the Kalam e Pak like an ordinary book, storing it in the same column as the rest, without respecting it. Do not keep in the same column as the rest of the books even religious, the Quran e Pak has a preference over all other books, as like Khuda e Zul Jilal has over the whole of His creation, a mustanad hadith(A solid saying of the Prophet, May peace and blessing of Allah Almighty be upon him).

Question: What is the philosophy of Namaz?Answer: The concept of Namaz is to leave the ways

of evil, otherwise it has no meanings. Forgetting the last day, the day of judgment, not considering the difference between right and wrong, not feeding the poor, stopping others from feeding, telling

people to stop feeding, for feeding is a sacred task, the maskeen who cannot say he wants food, not a beggars, the system of langar in a spiritual system and in tassawwuf is against the capitalist way, if a westerner comes to data darbar and see the food being distributed will be bewildered. And those showing off, the munafaqoon, there masjid zarar was ordered to be destroyed. Going in the presence of the Prophet Sallalallahu Alahi Wassallam, the other point is not giving and sharing with the needy, not facilitating each other, for example we should share with each other things of daily use, example being the charger or the phone, or the car in trying to make the life of our fellowman easy. Those who are just praying namaaz and do not taking care of the needy. Fazail are not in namaaz but in ammal and khayaal. Fazal is the intiha of khyaal and the fazail are in ammal. These are the few important points, in all ibadaat, the end is Qurbaat Illalahe, to find Qurbat and the root is Medina, if the goal for ibaadat is denied then fazail of ammal are confusing, producing a pride on ammal and not on Fazal.

‘Happiness is in the naseeb of shukar guzaar, the corollary of shukar guzaar is to remain contended and be glad’.

Question: How do we make our ammal pakezza?

Answer: Like you asked how the khayaal becomes concrete, does not wander becoming sold, otherwise in a liquid state it will most likely deviate, it is not a mathematical question having a mathematical answer, there is no answer, there is no theory, it is an experience by doing, like driving a bicycle is by doing, by practicing it by falling and then standing up again until one gets to know, it is project of life for the whole life, a whole book, becoming Qaim is the willaayat. Those whom we call wali are the ones who are able to maintain there khayaal. The answer to your question in your own words on how khayaal can be established is. ’ The way the khayaal is established is where the Qaim Maqam of the khayaal resides’. If you discover the Qaim Maqaam of a khayaal , then reside your khayaal there.

Mehfil with Dr Azhar Waheed Saheb dated 29-6-2012.

Question: How to concentrate and stabilize ones thoughts, I am talking about myself how do we make our thoughts (khayal) pious and have stability, is there a method, how we can make them pious is there a prescription?

Answer: The scene (manzar) or scenes (manazar) have a very important role in rearranging our thoughts (khayal), for example we keep watching a TV channel depicting the khana kaaba, we will dream at night about it. Those who visit the saints and go to khana kaaba, or go for umra, and hajj, would too often when closing their eyes, see those scenes vividly. A scene affects us and our minds, when we see a scene even which we do not like, still affects our mind. If we see a scene outside, and then go to pray we still might be feeling and thinking about it. The saints say that the company of like minded ( Sangaat )will keep our thoughts concentrated and stable. The company (Sangaat )can be of like minded , of having similar thoughts (khayal), of places representing those pious thoughts, of friends, like sometimes hearing a religious hymn( qawali )representing symbolically of the thought (khayal) brings stability. The scenes, the sounds, and the people when filtered can be seen to teach us a lesson, which being that their company is of no use or any of their other activities, as they are running contrary to your thoughts. Those who do not respect your company in your thought(khayal), why should you care about there activities, example while working in an office there are some people close to you, and some have only a formal relation with you, those having a formal relation do not affect your thoughts(khayal). An easy way to arrange our thoughts is the need to define our priority, only prioritizing those who are close to you in your thoughts, what is the definition of concentration, an easy definition would be a concentration and a synthesis of where the thought

(khayal), mind, the heart, and wajud all come together at one point, where you are totally concentrating with the presence of both your heart and mind. Where your mind is your heart should be and visa versa, another dimension of concentration would be that the words we are expressing, we should try to come closer to the meaning of these words. In kasfh ul mahjoob in the definition of a fakir defining from a quote of a saint, quoting that a fakir or dervish is one whose sight is in the direction of his journey, or whose journey is in the direction of his sight. How do we achieve it is by guarding our thought(Qol), what does guarding means, one who hears a good thought or having a good thought, should bring it into practice. As the saints say, in there books, and our guides too quoting from there books. To be protective of our heart( dil ka pahra) means a desire from an alien should not be allowed in. Since the practical meaning considering the old terminology used here of darban, dil ka pahra, is too hard for the new generation to understand, actually means whenever an alien idea or a new thought is received which tries to expels us out from our right thoughts should be given a shut up call, and that thought which is bringing us closer should be given importance, the mind should not be a clutter and collection of confused ideas and irrelevant thoughts, do not make It a junkyard , rather keep it like a drawing room where everything is arranged in perfect order, like the sofa, the carpet , side table, etc are arranged , we should make an effort to keep our heart and mind organized, a new thought should be settled down immediately , getting a proof , either for or against it by keeping it or expelling it out, no

question should be left unsolved or unresolved , whether less or more, the idea creating a paradox should be resolved at once, not keeping a lot of paradoxes while working on others things at the same time, getting alert by the confusing statement, not matching the previous set of questions, either this statement is wrong or the previous ones, in being yes or no. To keep the khayal stable gets a lot of help from the Sharia, the commands like namaz, reading the Quran, hajj and giving zakat, helps in consolidating. Having said zuhar prayers we get ready for the asr and followed by the next ones. Those who bypass Sharia the responsibility falls on them. Any other question.

Question: Again How to consolidate? Answer: This is a Divine Grace as bestowed by the Creator, starts with love, as anything in love consolidates all thought directed at the Beloved, anything directed at Him will be united, as the Loved One is Wahid, will single out. There has to be the perseverance and struggle to keep the thought united. The more this urge is alive and being consciously developed to have a unity in our thought means our prayers are heard.The rest is foul play the more we stay away from it the more we attain fair play, so the rest is in staying away from foul play.Observation: So do not get out of the manzar, keep a guard and stay close to the pious, keep continuously pursuing the goal.

Question: Once the night is finished a change comes in our thoughts, increasing and

decreasing, as we get into another routine a break is applied, changing our inner self, how do we escape from this?Answer: You mean when we are in a congregation we can keep the thoughts together and move forward, and once we leave the mehfil we feel forgetful, a back gear is permissible according to the laws of inertia, a law of nature, but the inertia will not get us back to zero, but will keep some of the residual information in the mind, our duty is to use it as a stimulus and a guide, like a ping pong, usually a pendulum goes to and fro, and one thinks I have done nothing, moving morning and evening and getting no where, but actually the height which the conscious mind gains is unfathomable, although appearing as to and fro. Going forward a step and coming back to where I started, but it is the vertical ascent that which we are not able to gauge. Even by this travelling or journey being vertical there is ascent or descent or rather it is only ascent, since until we take the minus state and become static, agreeing with the status quo and not struggling it is guaranteed we will come down to the ground. Otherwise one who is continuously moving going east and west, is also moving upwards, to new heights, a new point of view opens up here.

Question: Does not this state of going to and fro ultimately become a point for acceptance by the Creator?Answer: Yes this means that the journey is going on as is attested by the presence of nafs e lawamah, for those whose journey is stopped there nafs e lawamah goes silent.

Question: Is it important for us that the journey should continue?Answer: A traveler has to continue with his journey, he does not have an option, what else can he do besides travelling?

Question: Musafar(Wayfarer) , safar(journey), manzil(destination), when does the manzil comes nearer to the musafar?Answer: When the musafar is persistent then the manzil reveals itself, since the manzil is mustaqeem(on a straight path)manzil is seerat e mustaqeem, ‘Behold Your Lord is on the straight path’ so the manzil is on the Zaat e mustqeem, where ever it will find the true believer on the right path, will reveal and come nearer. On this ayaat Allama Hazrat Shyakh ul Akbar Ibn Arabi has written a whole chapter on the meaning of the Lord being on seerat e mustaqeem. The world has seen such gems, when the people could not understand them such personalities were persecuted.

Question: When and how one achieves the power of confidence?Answer: The strength of confidence comes with piety, an achievement in the domain of piety produces the power of confidence, the to and fro does not produce confidence is a sign of sahib e sikhaast, though taking one into a self supporting phase a blessing in disguise. Too much confidence is not a very viable thing either, now you may say what has Dr Saheb said, since we always thought self confidence is the best thing to achieve, actually it keeps one restricted

to ones achievements, it does not takes one to La(no one).

Question: So one thing is established to remain in the journey is the SURE sign of reaching the destination.Answer: To remain in a journey is the sure sign of reaching the destination (manzil), since the one who leaves the journey is like the person who left the test without completing the paper, for the one who keeps on the journey is a sign of passing the test not giving up.

Question: What is Zaad e Rah?Answer: Zaad e Rah is the khaloos(good intention, purity), the key factor in this journey and success is khaloos(pure intention), which is a weapon of the Momin. Which means the negation of the self, not taking any step to flourish personal desires. With good intentions a few works, deeds, words, thinking producing a great result, with out which a lot of deeds, reflections, trusts stand no where.So taking this thought of Butt sahib further then the meaning of journey is to search one self, now we understand the meanings of ‘Apna maan meen duub ker pa ja suraag e zindage’ that who found the secret of the Qalanadar found the secret of the self, self analysis, self study all link up together.

Question: Can you please elaborate the search inside or of oneself?Answer: This is a short cut, practically until a person reaches the Ikhlas (purity) within, it is a journey of finding the faults within, where is the leakage, where

is the water leaking, to find where the glass is broken, where is the crack, those who do not find there own faults, will de track very fast. If a person reaches the purity (Ikhlas) , then finding the self means to finding the similarities, and then he will be finding similarities,’ Mana rabu nafs Hu… a new life will start coming in the domain of the Sibgaat Ullah, imbibing in the color of God. Humans have a potential to reach the color of Allah Almighty. Before the turning point comes he is finding the dissimilarities. There will be some similarities if not all when the turning point comes.

Question: In the verses you quoted, means where there will be selfish desire God will not be there, and where there will be purity God will be found, can you please elaborate?Answer: In the first phrase where there is nafs there will be no God, where there is no nafs there will be God, this the meaning of the Kalimah La Ilaha Illalah, the first thing we have to say no is to our nafs, then the rest are all its manifestations. Keep Mana rabu nafs Hu and the kalimah together we find

Question: Sometimes the nafs wanders and takes another direction, how to rectify?Answer: It takes time to filter.

Question: So the first step in finding oneself or to search oneself is to check ones faults in the path of tazkia e nafs and the first stage is to check and see our faults and take them out, to red circle them and to scrabble them?

Answer: To red circle them, because if you do not become your own examiner, no one else will do it for you, no one will correct your paper. Giving other the benefit of doubt, not yourself not finding excuses, the judge gave the benefit of doubt to others, and not you.

Question: Are our deeds a reflection of our intentions?Answer: Our deeds depend on our intentions, when we feel a doubt we should check our intentions, do not become your own defense attorney, I did not mean this or that, it just happened, finding excuses for ones conduct, for human is a bad omen for himself.

Question: Does bringing the blessings (shaafaat) means changing into the colors of Allah (Sigbaat Ullah)? Answer: The divine blessing do not come along with a person does not , the Divine blessing come after the negative instincts are expelled out , after the animal instinct are removed coming into a state of minus, expelling them out, becoming a repository of the manifestation of the Divine, so the proof is in the Hadith ’Kalaqa ul adama ala surat e hee.’ God created Prophet Adam (Pbuh) on His own image Who ever is at the level of an Adam, after coming in the obedience the true shadow is reflected, before becoming a mutaaqi and then slowly with efforts a human becomes a place for Divine blessings. A human has discovered himself, when the disfigurement is blocked the true figure is manifested.

Question: Is the seed there?Answer: Yes the seed is there but the thorns are not letting them come out.

Question: Does the seed which is already created grow with an effort and repentance?Answer: The great blessing of the Almighty is in the chapter of repentance (tauba) before the last breadth. There is no sin which is not accepted, the human is finite while the Creator is infinite, all his wrongdoings will be in the domain of his limitations, although thinking himself to be super, like Halaku khan or Gangez khan, the finite cannot grasp the Infinite. So the deeds are also limited, there cannot be a comparison between the limited and the unlimited.

Question: The true peace cannot come in the state of wrong doing.Answer: It is not technically possible for a human to be in wrong state and be at peace, is possible theoretically. If we interview such a person, he will never be in the state of ease. The true relation is the relation of the khaayal, having no formality and does not necessitate meeting personally.Observations by a participant: This is a great effort by you in regards to Wasif Khayal, and I thought of sharing the mehfil with you.Observations of Dr Saheb: This is a dialogue and as such has no formal topic; it is a mutual discussion, clearing the paradoxes in our thoughts.

Question: What is the state regarding the progeny that is the children of the Saints?Answer: When Hazrat Ibrahim A.S was sanctified and elevated to an Imam, he asked God whether this also applied to his progeny. To which it was replied that this does not apply to the unrepentant.

Question: Can you please elaborate?Answer: I will answer from a book of mine, which will interest you, as you yourself are a writer, ‘Educational facts are something else, and the education of facts is something else’ we know that children’s of a physician can wrap medicines, this is an educational fact, and that they have relative more chance, of accepting the truth, although it is also the genetic makeup, those who have this in their genes, will have definitely more exposure, but depends on how different Sadaat(children) of the saints react on individual basis, those who are not consciousness of the khayal are still getting the benefits of the system . I have a patient of mine who comes from a village and belongs to a family of saints. Tells me how his being in the village helps a lot of people from coming to the courts in the towns, as we solve a lot of their issues locally, but from the point of view of Khayal, or their inner development is not guaranteed, there is no compromise. In a mehfil someone asked what is Al e Rasool, what is the meaning of Ale , to which Hazrat Wasif R.A replied, those who are in your khayal, those who are in the khayal of Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi wa Alahi Wassallam. As like Hazrat SalmanFarsi is considered in ahle bayt also Hazrat Bilal R.A , while Abu al Hasan was declared as Abu Jahl although being a relative.

Instead of giving a verdict we should look at our own journey, if some person khayal is purified in a nizam should go there, well and good, otherwise is he is getting confused should not go there.

Question: When one has aqeedat somewhere one becomes sensitive?Answer: Becomes sensitive and does not let you develop, Aqeedat is from Uqdah, an entanglement otherwise the musafir of the khayal has a lot of universes open to him.Tu saheen hai pervaiz hai kaam tera Tera samne asmaan aur bhi hainThose who are nice are nice everywhere.

Question: It is very beautiful statement what is nice and what is wrong, this division is defined differently.Answer: It is tasawwuf as Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A use to say the bifurcation or division is not of rich and poor but if rich person is nice is good, but if he is bad that is very bad, if a poor person is good then he is nice otherwise he is not.

Question: Sometimes someone has a feeling that I am very near to God should keep me in this state one is very happy, ones state being elevated and other times feel dejected, that I am sinful then the rest of the world can you please explain?Answer: Happens with everyone of us do not think your self an exception, as Butt sahib was just narrating, this feeling is called nafs e lawama, some time one is in the camp of the righteous, one

feels happy and proud, see oneself elevated. On the other hand if one is in the other camp, then this pendulum is in the state of nafs e lawama is a proof of the continuity of the journey, the pendulum going to and fro, is watching both sides, but the consciousness is not measuring the height it is attaining the ascent towards its goal. Although doing some good and then leaving it to do it again at some later time, the diamond which is being polished in the process of this journey also called the tazkia e nafs cannot be ascertained and is realized at the end. The difference between those who left there journey because of the promptings of the nafs and those who continued there journey.

Question: What is the best way to attain tazkia e nafs?Answer: Look Butt sahib you also mentioned it but this has come in a new way in a different form, what should be done for tazkia e nafs, the first thing is to try to be muzaki, to keep the company of people who are blessed who have attained tazkia e nafs,, desire to remain with them, to keep the struggle although the distances are infinite but still keep on trying.Manzil hai bahut duur magar husna taqaraabWasif tere qadmoon ke nishanaat meen gum hain.To find the footstep of someone who is a muzaki, and following his foot step is the important first stage. Also the second stage is to keep struggling in the journey but never thinking oneself to have attained tazkia e nafs. Never thinking to have attained tazkia e nafs.

Question: I have gone to various shrines, and read about the saints, but have not met someone live.

Answer: The first question you raised confused us, now let us remain to the first topic.

Question: We have to find that personality.Answer: Let us reflect on tazkia e nafs, what else we need not letting it finish in a few lines.

Question: I went to a shrine to find how out how to attain tazkia e nafs, but could not find the answers. I had a desire to meet someone. How can I attain this goal?

Answer: Visiting a shrine brings one in trance, is a place of attaining tazkia unconsciously, the going and returning brings a difference slowly one may not realize the difference, but as we are talking about tazkia e nafs needs a live person because we are talking about tazkia e nafs . Like Hazrat Ali Hajveri R.A tomb is a great place in the subcontinent, where by requesting the ability to attain tazkia e nafs we are directed to a person of tazkia e nafs a Murshid. As the person of the tomb has already attained the tazkia is actually zee ruh, we need a person of zee nafs of flesh and blood who straightens you out who guides you. As it is hard to ascertain the meanings of these feelings at a tomb. Needs a person to guide, for if this system was not there, then getting or translating the meaning of ones feelings could not be rightly attained like in a dream, the messages one is receiving needs a mard e khuda agaah, for if it were

not so, then the silsila of tasawwuf could not have been established, for what is the greater place then Masjid e Nabwi. The fourth step is the ability to find the true sangaat. If you are in the company of the rich one feels ones material poverty, if all your friends have a Mercedes and you have a Mehran will feel the difference, the same rules appears there likewise in the company of the pious one feels the poverty of the khayaal. Those who you think have a better tazkia then you, if you sit with them you will feel the difference, likewise we guide our children to make friends who are valedictorian, will have a better chance of knowing their own worth having bad grades and achieving for better. For Tazkia e nafs we need a silent kidmat(good works) of not propagating and professing our own desires, like openly saying we have built a factory or built a mosque, the silent worship, includes feeding the poor, is a rohani raaz, apni islaah dosroon ke falaah, a sufi in tazkia e nafs is busy with his own islaah using the tool of falaah, by helping others getting rewards himself, also respecting the parents, respecting the subordinates, good attitude. Tasraaf itabaa e kirdaar e Muhammadi, teaching the Ikhlaaq e Mohammadi, only by doing tazkia e nafs we can understand the hadith,’manara nafsu faqada rabu’ the nafs e mutiminah is the nafs with tazkia, is a constant amal(journey) not a single chapter, is complete book.

Question: As you said that one needs a teacher, guide, murshid ,rohani peshwa, how do we get satisfied, with such a guide?

Answer: There are general principles, do not personify or personalize, for one who feels the absence of tazkia e nafs resembles a disease when one finds it, one instantly start where to find the doctor, getting referred from one to another, not finding peace at one doctor goes to an another, like a patient who comes to us and feels the doctor is not referring him, and is only interested in the money, goes to another doctor, so the answer it is similar with a person who has true longing and true ikhlas ,will find the true guide eventually . I am not giving my own example but of Yousaf sahib, how does a person who has true ikhlas and longing finds a guide, a test is where the frequency of the mind and heart find synchronization, not something the mind is accepting but not the heart. The logic of the mind and the heart have to be on the same frequency, I am not talking about satisfaction, appealing to the heart and not the mind, and vica versa does not bring synchronization.

Question: True sometimes the heart accepts what the mind does not. So how do we resolve this dichotomy?

Answer: There are both symptoms, for rububiyat means complete acceptance and not partial. The mother’s milk contains the complete nourishment. People say we do not find true guides; my own observation is there are so many beautiful and good people, that it becomes hard to select the best possible out of so many. The whole world is beautiful and most beautiful of them are the Musafaar(those undertaking the and are in the journey of khayaal).

Question: How did Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A know the best possible?Answer: We can discuss that in a personal meeting, we can go into so many events which are personal, we should discuss the principles, in Kiran Kiran Suraj, there is a quote of Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A ‘ Do not talk about the Zaat of your Mohsin but his ihsanaat’ will talk a whole night to talk about personal events. Since you are impressed by his personality, but that will become my own self projection if I talk about my events, will not be very helpful.

Question: No I am talking about tazkia e nafs, how did that develop in your meeting with Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A?Answer: You can ask as many questions in a personal meeting.

Question: If someone praises you what do you do?

Answer: When someone praises you he is praising the khayal and not you, as you are in the journey as khayal is the music that does not depend on the flute, even if someone is showing his aqeedat longing for, and if God forbid you consider your own personality, the rohaani mistake of division takes place which is Shirk, converting the tajreed to taqseem , changing the abstract to concrete, why should one praise, someone, praising a Muslim is praising Islam. Praise those who have passed away. Praising the kalimah. Praising yourself is like begging.

Question: As you were saying last time, that a plateau comes, when we wait for the postman, does it apply to means of subsistence, I mean the financial aspect. Though one cannot ignore the life of merchandize?

Answer: How are you linking the plateau of spiritual journey with the dynamics of dollar if you are in America, the gold has its own rate, your own activities and your own ranking and grade, how do you bring the spirit in the question and connect it with your worldly activities, both are separate.

Question: It is like riding a bicycle are they two different things or can they be related, when one is planning the worldly activities, how do you consider and make life as living in the Haram a complete life, what are the instructions to keep your worldly life in cognizance with the spiritual?

Answer: How did you link the two, the spiritual and the material, both has a different dynamic. These are two different things, the norms of the spiritual are not and cannot be mixed with the business, but involving your khayal in it will create problems.

Question: There are people who are living a spiritual life as well as a life of merchandize. The desires are limitless, and then you mentioned to only worry about the breakfast, in the morning.

Answer: All the business activity should not be done with the Imamat of your niyaat, all those activities should not to be done with the power of your khayaal, let it continue with its own physical momentum, the power of khayaal and all its aims should be your journey, khaayal has its own power,, the Imamat of your khayaal should not involve business, as khayaal has power, the business activity should only remain without desires, like in winter we get a sweater and a coat and gloves without planning, and in summer dress code is changed not buying a brand or special color, in winter due to the intensity of winter we buy the coat not under the parameter of desire, the khayaal is not corrupted otherwise there is trouble.

Question: Is there a stage after Yaqeen?Answer: Yaqeen is the manzil there is no manzil after yaqeen, whose other name is death. In Quran it is mentioned ‘keep on praying to your Lord until you reach yaqeen’ the translation are obviously according to the grammar is to keep on praying to your Lord until death overtake you, all these are steps towards yaqeen, the first being Ilm ul Yaqeen, then Ain ul Yaqeen, and Haq ul Yaqeen all are the stages of yaqeen.

Question: What is after Haq ul Yaqeen?Answer: Which means becoming the kaaim maqaam of Haq.

Question: Knowing someone is going to die is Ilm ul Yaqeen, then he dies being Ain ul

Yaqeen, and then one see him dead as Haq ul Yaqeen what is after there must be something?

Answer: Haq ul yaqeen means Ishq(love), the definition of love is it burns everything except itself, Ilm ul yaqeen being we heard that fire burns, and Ain ul Yaqeen is you saw someone burning, like seeing Mansoor climbing on the gallows, and Haq ul Yaqeen being you yourself climbing the gallows. So Haq ul yaqeen is the last manzil (stage) in the old books of tasawwuf the definition and synonym of zaat is hazarat e ishq. There is nothing after, it is his barzaakh and is done with who reaches Haq ul Yaqeen, while the other who has not reached Haq ul yaqeen is waiting for the ammal, the right deeds, the stages of barzakh. The one who has reached Haq ul yaqeen has penetrated all the stages of barzakh, as what is going to happen with Mansour Al Hallaj. For the one possessing Haq ul Yaqeen does not recite the word tu does not have the word tu in his dictionary, when he is saying meen (I), means tu, so when Mansour Hallaj was writing people became confused, and said that he is writing kuffar(blasphemy), and called to arrest him. When the letters of Mansour Hallaj where found they became a proof, he used to write in a state of trance, bisme, instead of baisme, with his name, although he later he had to give the proof. The most beautiful work of Mansour Hallaj in the history of tasawwuf was to open the bottle of wahadat ul wajud, then people started to drink openly, when it opened then everyone said, then janab e bayazid said ’nothing happened’, since Mansour Hallaj had once given the

sacrifice, some said ‘there is nothing except God in my home’ then Ghalib said,Koch na tha tu ghuda tha, Koch na hota tu ghuda hotaDubya mugh ko hona na na hota tu meen kyahotaa. So everyone got a license to proclaim. So in poetry a lot was said. In love it can happen ‘I am You and You are I’. In love it can happen, where di d this topic start from, from Haq ul Yaqeen.

Question: What is love with the zaat is it abstract, the abstract of the zaat?

Answer: Is there Love with their Murshid or Ali or the Prophet? A very nice question and asking in the night at this time can be answered. Actually where there is barzakh in between nothing happens, When the barzakh is lifted then the problems actually occur, you might love your Murshid or Ali , or the zaat e Rasool, but when sometimes the curtain are lifted then the people feel confused, the existence of barzakh are a great savers, they save one and take care the people of barzakh.

Question: When this state of barzakh in between, this feeling of the heart, when the medium is lifted in this state of love this feeling, and the doors are opened, are they opened by them too, when one is a mureed of somebody, how do they apply and act in the abstract?

Answer: The fael and mafool is same, actually the strings of the medium are also with him in his

fingers, you can say in easy words, that all this play is of zaat making one fael the other mafool, making one ashiq and the other mashooq, is a play of hazarat e ishq, ,for these people of barzakh that is the medium is controlled by them , that is there uqool or intelligence does not waver or is not scattered, otherwise by definition the maqam e ishq is of Jazbst, the difference between one and other does not remain.You are trying to formulate this in a formula.

Question: Can they be bypassed?Answer: Sometimes they are bypassed then one gets a shock of 11,000 volts, one definition of Majzoob as defined by Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A is defined as the passing of one maqam before entering the other maqam. When he has passed one manzil but the other has not grasped him, the other manzil has not held his arm, the manazil can be in the same medium, the murshid has let go his zahiri hand but not grasped with his batini hand, when he is held by the other arm then things settle down for in that interval he is roaming about.

Question: Is it necessary for Juno that the purdah of Aql should be shattered?Anwer: The meaning of junoon is that the barzakh of aql should be scattered, as we grow it is development of the aql the development of our consciousness, the system is the same, the language is the same gaining an excellence in the same language, Jazb means coming into a different language,

Question: Does everyone have to be given this Jazb?Answer: For a musaafir a person in a journey is Jazb necessary , Jazb is a taseer which is imparted to the human consciousness, and can be gifted without a person having to travel in this valley. Everyone does not have to pass through it.Junoon meen baaq rahoon kya kooch kooch na samgha khuda kara koi

Question: Some people do Chillas and go to graveyards what is this activity about?

Anwer: Rohanayaat is something else and rohinayat is something else, has nothing to do with Irfaniaat, there cup of tea is not marifaat, but to achieve some extra material or extra sensory power to influence people. This is not a subject, like doing B.A or M.A in economics or a zahiri ullom, like cumpowedery, not to become a surgeon. A friend of our once went to such a person, and after scanning him the person said you have nothing wrong, to which my friend answered that is the problem nothing is wrong do something, as people were going to him to say they had been wronged.In the topic of Junoon let me add one more thing, the language of Junoon is a language of consciousness which is not mustahmil, though according to facts, like people who do computer programming if they show you there programming sheet, you will not understand, what is this mumble and jumble, so it is like a machine language.So rohaanayaat is something else, can be done in any religion, animal spirit like yoga, do some things

by awakening these powers not connected with marifaat, like someone who is Msc in Chemstry does not mean, he is Aref. Has his own spectrum of life does not mean any relation with Irfan, becoming and doing is a deed of negation a lot of difference, where as doing a chilla is sign of decadence. Starting with La, there is no scent, gathering the masses, solving some problems through spiritualism a limited work, there is no tazkia involved either.

Question: Is a business using the religion?Answer: Yes religion has no relation with it, even non Muslim do it.

Question: Everything has a mystery what is mystery?Answer: It is only known to whom the mystery is opened, as Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A used to say the unseen is for whom it is hidden, it is a relative term, if you reflect in Kashf ul Majoob, tasawwuf or faqiri is journey from lafz (word) to its meanings, when we journey from meaning of the word , the word is zahir and the meaning is its batin, the batin of the words is actually the batin of the one who is discovering the meanings, any number of meanings he has discovered is not a mystery for him but a mystery for others, if you want to know the real mystery it’s the human himself. Because what ever meaning of any symbol he wants to find the meaning is his batin, actually finding himself though himself saying he is discovering the other, saying finding tu , infact finding meen self. There is a proof, a hadith quoted by Ghaus e pak in his book, ‘He is My mystery and I am his mystery’ to find the journey of discovering the

mystery, the discovery of the mystery in a nutshell, is to find the Raab in a human. If you find without making human a medium, bypassing the mystery without the human, otherwise you are a scientist, finding researching all your life like at NASA..

Question: A Murshid?

Answer: The man of God that is a far off thing we will call a murshid man of God.The kharaji thought of bypassing means conjecture, roaming in circles.Saad raygaan hoe iblis ka muqadaar hoee wooh sajdaa jo kesse chukaat ke roobro na hoee.Insaan is that chukaat.

Question: The saints who are gone are also considered Murshid?

Answer: Sure the distances are not valid even of centuries, one who is sahib e maqaam who is amongst us, who is sahib e nigaah, sahib e nishaan amongst us, who has green gunbad on top, to them it does not matter that a sahil or talib comes to them in 2000 or 2020,or 2050, the time is running for us not for them, for example if we go to data hazur today does not matter, if you were in his time you would have still have gone the constraints of time and space a lot of people could not meet them then. The one going on Thursday to the tomb, would have find them then too, because the one who they do not want meet, they won’t let them even now spiritually. Maybe one of your friends may get the duty to change you. Things will change, the two things are not opposite but complementary, the two things are

two facts and are in pairs, we think them opposite and in contrast, things which appear contradictory are not as such. They are complementary, not necessarily contradictory, if there is a paradox must be cleared immediately.

Question: How long do we go to sahib e darbar?Answer: A journey which does not have a side effect, the uloom also have side effects, those ilm are good who become part of the journey and khayal, for example the knowledge of economics brings you a job in a bank, but does not help in the journey of marifaat, some are harmful like palmistry, horoscopes, etc, if you do an M.A economics you get a job of 20 or 25 thousand rupee, but the former have no contribution.

Question: What is the marifaat of ILM?Anwer: Marifat or Irfan is of zaat, like if we say do you know someone, and then we will recognize, marifat is of the face, the knowledge can have division.

Question:If ilm has no marifaat, then can we have a nomenclature.?Answer: Pray for the right knowledge, having a division in knowledge, the basis of all creation is knowledge and creation has khair and shar, blessings and evil, devouring the knowledge of evil will lead us astray, the power of knowledge will influence us, using a button to destroy a whole city, also in deen or religion, there is saying of Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A be ilmi( no knowledge) is better than baad ilmi

(useless knowledge). The deen has a kharij(external) and a batin(internal), those who only grasp the external also get their proof from the Quran, for them the internal does not exist, since a saint or those blessed with rehmat or fazal is not there. To be in the domain of a friends of Allah subhana-hu does not exist. Here is what we mean by baad ilmi. We had a friend who used to study horoscopes, and numerology, his last life was very difficult, he did not want to be on hospital bed number 8, or 6, preventing and not letting him stay on a path of blessings.

Question: Those who do not know about deen religion, can they know about dunya material world ?

Answer: Those who do not know about deen will not be successful in life either, the rule of game is when a veil (Hijab) is lifted you do not have the irfan of that veil(Hijab), let me explain in easy terms, the circle that you have not crossed, you will not have the irfan of that circle, the things you have not given up, you will not have the the irfan of leaving that thing, so to have irfan of the world you will have to leave the world. So in order to know the world you will have to give up on the world. Who ever is involved in the world will not be able to understand the deen, those involved in deen will be easy to understand the world, the man of wordly affair will be greedy, taking 15,20 dollars, but one who has given up greed, will easily understand, and be indifferent. Those who come and offer us insurance, I tell them my policy about life is different than yours, my

thinking is 180 degree different, so it will be no use discussing, even the nizam of banks is based on greed, once greed disappears goes away we will not have any banks and credit cards.To have a knowledge of deen it is not mandatory to have a worldly knowledge, when their was no knowledge of physics, chemistry, biology still people had knowledge of deen, now when having science we are teaching students Cambridge O levels , A levels , Beacon house does not insure that they are getting knowledge of religion, or religion will get easy for them.

Question: It is heard that when people used to go to Saints, they used to mention or say things which one felt as the reflection in one’s life. Now it is seldom found so. Why is that?

Answer: This is not a general statement, depends on person to person, the drapery and the clothes may change, but the system is never finished, the world is never left out with irfan e haq, though when we read about the history in books, we find a concrete thing, like reading a history of tasawwuf of the old of 400 years we read about a lot of saints, viewing a sliced or cross sectional view of history, though at the same time the kissa khawani bazaar was running and the talk about purdah and chilman was going on, but we were not concentrating, but when we are in Hal(present) in our own world the eye is in diversification seeing all the channels, when we are probing in history we are just probing one channel,

Question: The saints are hidden and not loud, I have been to various places and people, to summarize when a saint is met, at the first sight he gives some signals testifying to one being at the right place, and this mirror reflects the right dwelling or the place of guidance. Is that so?

Answer: Why would they give a signal, giving a guess paper, a short cut? Read the whole syllabus and not just the guess paper.

Question: No they give a sign alluding too or a click from which one can figure out that one is at the right place?

Answer: That could be right at reaching that place you might get the signal, but you might not be ready yet for the required information, but that is a one to two one situation varying for each seeker, the patient is treated on an individual basis. Sometimes some patients come and us about measles having seen a few children whereas a doctor might have seen 20000. Your experience might be partial, not encompassing the whole.

Question: Once you mentioned that greed can be part of a person and he might have changed later to a Sufi is that right?

Answer: If a Sufi or Wali Allah has said something is wrong, it does not mean that they were wrong themselves at one point in there lives.

Question: Do they come already made and ready?

Answer: Yes but to explore needs 50 or 40 years, to estimate the flood one does not swim in it, to save yourself from an injury does not need to experience it.

Question: Even Quran mentions signs.

Answer: Having read a quotation we try mentioning it without seeing the suffix and prefix, some quotations of person are narrated without them. The true perspective as narrated by Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A is that a woman is a knower of the world, and a man cannot escape her temptations without first having knowledge of deen. So this quotation tells us that to overcome the women of the world, she cannot be overcome without knowledge of deen.

Question: What about the mother. Do we have to listen to them always when they grow old as mentioned about them, and the respect for the mother?

Answer: A law of nature where it is mentioned three times in hadith about the mother, to serve her first, and to accept wisdom take it from the father. In point of opinion listen to your father, but her service should be ten times, but to acquire intelligence listen to your father.

Question: Do we have to have listen to and accept them in everything?

Answer: It is the genetic makeup, the mother grows you like a tree, but the genetic make up comes from the father and the grandfathers, never disrespect your mother in order to be saved, the word Itaba is not used but Ihsan is used, even if your thought does not correspond with theirs, in easy terms do not make your own attitude such that they cannot enforce their attitudes. Having humility and considering you as their property.

Question: Every person has a maqam the real being the one in the kingdom of the Creator. When we meet a person how can we tell or know what is his maqam in the eyes of the Creator and not what we are trying to configureAnswer?

Answer: What you said becomes a fallacy in your search sorry about that in the first meeting I had to say that directly to you, but since the intention is about finding the truth I am saying that. If you are in the search of a true guide, then he is your psychologist as well as your psychiatrist and everything, we have to fill the entire tavern from one place.

Question: Don’t we need to follow and become like someone, we are searching for, who is our ideal and a true guide?

Answer: Psychologist and psychiatrist are paid workers, in the chapter on nesiyaat (advice) Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A has written that the giving advice has become a profession, like career counseling

lectures, highly paid lectures on personality development in the offices, when guidance becomes a profession it loses its blessings, a psychologist cannot give peace, as he gets paid.

Question: Are they not working for money, by not giving free advice?

Answer: They do not have time to share your feelings as being on a time schedule, for 20 minutes this much money, for 25 minutes so much fees, even giving one a working plan, I have seen people who used to visit the psychologists committing suicide later on. For years visiting them and committing suicide, a personal experience as a Doctor. Meaning when you reach you a mard e khud agaah (know thy self-kind of personality) then he will be your psychologist.

Back to your question how can we know the maqam spiritual standing of the saint or the spiritual guide we are trying to find, well, the real placing of a person is in the eyes of the Creator, how do we know this is only when we interact with people, this is a very important question, the first thing we come across is their seefat (habits and personality), we judge a person from their personality from their status, is a doctor, an engineer, a scientist, an economist etc, how does he look, his physical appearance is he educated or illiterate.

But according to Quran the criterion is quite different ‘Ina aqram a qum indallah bil azkaar’, like ‘wali rah wali me shanasaat’, ‘mutqi rah mutqi me shanasaat’,

one who will have taqwa piety, will respect and be aware of taqwa of the other, one who himself is a traveler will know the status of another traveler, one who is a poet himself will know the status of ghalib or mir taqi mir. To find a human one must find oneself, knowing the other self is related with knowing one own self. There is an invitation’ Ina aqrama qum bil azkaar’, a working protocol not just a statement, not getting impressed by their outside appearance, finding in them taqwa piety, the closeness to God, is the protocol, which could create the company of a cobbler more soothing and better then a deputy commissioner, until one does not dive in ones own ego, one cannot find the status of others, so in the final analyses pechaan (knowing) rests with humans alone. The outward appearances are dodging and be quite deceitful .

Question: Some people are given names, but death takes away our outward appearance?

Answer: Yes all these names doctor, engineer, reflect an outward status. Death takes away our zahiri labas(outward dress), leaving the batini(inward dress).Question:

Answer: Can you share other points, you have found out.?

Question:

Answer: A quotation has the basic theory is of knowing the main idea; otherwise we have to read

the whole grammar. The main idea being not be proud of our outward status, will become zero after a few years, we do not die with outward status but with the inward status, like qutb al iqtab, shabaz la maqam, the inward status being written on the tombs of the saints, not knowing their outward professions, like cloth merchant, or physician or teacher, just qutb e irshaad, their batini status, not even mentioning their caste like being malik, khan or shah, because we have already talked about them before that their thought and being are one, being recognized by their khayal , ‘Wasif sangaat ka naam wasif khayal hai’ Wasif Ali ka naam aik arfa khayal tha’.

Question: What is the protocol of Sharia?

Answer: We cannot debate on the Shariah, if keeping beard is sunnah then have to follow it, is not just following the outer commands only, in the chapter of marifah,

Question: A person is clean shaved goes to mosque does good deeds, but cannot do imamat, why is it so?

Answer: We cannot interfere with the shariat, as you are talking about is batin, if a person is not in the protocol of the shariah, like going to mosque etc is mandatory, punishment accorded in shariah are not to be discussed, like Allama Iqbal was a great thinker, but would not probably be the leader in the mosque, so we cannot compare the two, in shariah the batin of saints like Mansour Hallaj was not

understood, even Hazrat Ali Hajveri mentions him with great respect in Kashf ul Majoob. Allama Iqbal talked about deen with so much depth; his outward appearance was different, so was Quaid e Azam.So the people in the mosque have their own tasks, and the ahle e batin have their own duties, in masjid e haram the guards are roaming about with shoes, so with people with the inner dimensions, like a police man will go one way, and the hospital van will go through the traffic signal, now the duty of the one who are in the dress of batin is different as assigned to them, even talking about Hanif Ramay and Ashfaque Ahmed and a young man like me would be listening to deen, having come to listen to some things different. So the one who makes the law is not dependent on it. There should be no formality and in criticism I am talking and you are listening, the criticism will help you. A mukhlis(honest person) is such who is more concerned about you, then your self as narrated by Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A. Not like I call you haji and you call me haji, I praising you and you praising me, is of no use. The traveler has relations with his peers; either he is a teacher or a student.

Mehfil with Dr Azhar Saheb 7-6-2013.

Question: How is noraini and rohani progress related with dua (prayer)?

Answer: Rohaini spiritual is enough why to waste the use of words, the question is of the relationship of noraani and rohaini progress with prayers. It will be hard to understand noorani progress for our conscious let us discuss about rohani development, the word progress here connotes an objectionable meaning since there can be no change in the Ruh which is already a purified entity, and does not entertain progress, already holding a refined place in our being, rohani or spiritual purity for jurisdiction purposes, for further ikhlaas , and further transparency in order to entertain the spiritual purity what is the concept of dua prayers. Reshaping the question gives us a better understanding and clears our concepts. The relationship of prayer with spiritual purity is foremost, and first among all other amaal deeds, since all the deeds to improve the status of our spiritual development achieved through riyazaat practices and as such riyaazat e insani is connected with, humans defects being part and parcel of bashiryat e nafs basic instincts, and inherently would be incomplete as the nafs ego is prone to defects and shortcomings, any progress claimed by nafs will be shortsighted, and such a claim will also be a bundle of imperfections and shortcomings, but what were asking through prayers is Fazal e Khudawandi Divine Grace free of wants with no imperfections.Question: What are the first steps?Answer: Our Amaal deed are connected with our body, ‘ Khalqul ul insaan zaefa’ the human body is made of parts made of clay the composition of many elements, in the old philosophy being a mixture of fire, earth, air, and water etc, the clay has hidden the

weakness, protecting our ugliness appearing beautiful , any amaal deed emanating from this body will not be perfect. Human if he starts to do good will feel pride after a short while , even doing good not being accepted or practiced easily, one getting into pride, except those on whom Allah Blessing’s descend the inam yafta the blessed and the muqarabeen near ones, other than we see all humans amaal deeds a mixture whether good or bad, in contrast Ruh being pure and one entity having no variance, a constant entity the question again being what is the effect of prayers in rohani . Let us visualize the concept of our own efforts seeing not very durable for our own desires, what to speak of them for the development of spirit, dependency directly linked only to dua prayers, when we are praying in true perspective it means we are asking for Fazal Divine Grace, if we are asking for things by our efforts we hardly take the help of dua prayers. If we want to buy a car we will first save money and buy not asking it much by prayers, on the other hand the dua is related to facets not achievable by hard work. This is the answer to your question in brief, it is only related with dua, why because in Quran e Pak ‘Rabna la tuz equlabna bada iz hadaytna, ’Oh God do not deviate our Ruh from the right path and punishment once given guidance.’ Tatlu qalub being on the right path, qalb heart being saleem pure, and being in the path of tasleem obedience is a Divine Grace,and for this we need prayers rab e zidne ilma, all having a spiritual dimension, al ilma kama shai, all prayers is with the spiritual, rabna jalna fite give us a spiritual relation, all have a connection with dua prayer less with koshish exertion, because when a

salik traveler realizes quite quickly that less is achieved by work.When saying taraveh we need to eat and fulfill call of nature.this is the weaknesses in a human body, after a few hours on the jay e namaz will need other things to do, the body is clothing and covering the animal being non scented portion, washing and putting scent for a few hours to appear presentable changing after 4-5 hours, Divine Grace has actually a link directly with dua prayer. This has been written by all the sages.Kooch haath nahe ata beagaha sahar agahi

Waking up in the morning tahajud prayer , Fajr prayer and then prayer dua an ayaah. Kooch haath nahi atta pertains to spiritual saying.Question: Is faizs achieved by prayer?Answer: Faiz is a manifestation of a prayer of long gone times in childhood, or early adult hood unveiling in time on a physical platform, so gathered later on completing the sunnat , with the right circumstances, providing the means for the actual destiny to blossom. If we pray for Rupee 500 the spiritual longing achieved by a prayer through a spiritual longing, the manifestation of the prayer and the Faiz coming from a mazar or sahib e mazar due to the physical longing, go and give him is due to physical longing.What is Faiz, is it a zahiri benevolence, after I became rich having no money before being fazl or faiz, or something else, before I had less practice and now more is it a Faiz, before having a motor cycle and now a car getting Faiz, no it is not getting something in a tangible form it is not Faiz, tangible form is a possession in the form of amanat trust or

azmaish trial . Something we can touch by hand is common between believers and non believers , like a cell or mobile phone is common for a every one , Chinese , Japanese, Korean or Saudi, any one use, Faiz is not in a tangible form, available only to a Momin and not to anyone. As narrated by Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A in books do not ask for a tangible form with a prayer, having with a non Muslim, ask for the longing of the beloved of the Creator with prayer being the fore most, not the naseeb yearning of a non Muslim.In simplest term and words when we say some person had a lot of Faiz meaning like in khush naseebe is not a part of the zahir but of the batin, so is Faiz, changing not the zahiri but the batini wajud, one person who had a longing for the worldly life and it changed to deen received Faiz, changing from mafad self interest to ikhlass, not likening to sitting in the bazaar but to sit in a masjid, a Faiz, meaning at least where Faiz is coming from, getting closer to one who is emanating Faiz. One who says he got Faiz as he has got four factories is not Faiz not using the right terminology, data hazur had great Faiz, now like to read Kashf ul Majub, wanting to saying 5 times prayers at the shrine due to Faiz of data hazur. The minimum definition and tending towards the location where the Faiz is coming from a faculty which when illuminated and turning towards to the place where the Faiz is coming from.Question: Getting the rasaie access of Faiz rassan friend of God? Answer: Getting the Qurb nearness of Faiz rasaan friend of God, is called Faiz, and while getting popularity, wealth, and power is not guaranteed.

Question: Is this process to discover or its rohaini development, a process or a discovery or nourishment with time?Answer: Your question is the rohani spiritual development is it connected with time or it is same as the development of body or a process of discovery, it is process of discovery, unleashing the curtains of haqiqat truth not like a body, the development of Ruh spirit is a discovery, not the changing and varying stages of the body, small Ruh becoming big no it not like that like the body, a self able to perceive and understand the Ruh is blagaat discovering not blogaat growth which is connected with the body. The ages of Ruh are the same but the difference is built in , some more pure than others. We have to discover our own Ruh not of anyone else; discovery means the faculty of Ruh starts manifesting. Question: Is it often?Yes when a human is humbled by the power of the body or does not consider the power of the body and lower self to be ultimate, then the Roahini spiritual power starts to unfold. A human striving for a purpose when he finds his mind, body and brain utterly exhausted by the vicissitudes of life and he falls asleep, here the faculty of his Ruh is unfolded and activated, and then the minimum he is informed in sleep of what he needs to be informed Allah Akbar, if he is a bit stronger then the state of kashf will appear informing him.Question: Answer: The body is dependent, these are events of recorded history, or gadgets is it going to rain, a bodily activity overcome by someone else who is

predicting rain a transcendental activity of irfani plane. The body is dependent if flying needs a plane ticket, having very strong barriers of space and time.Question: What has ammal to do with dua prayer and how can they become a means of acceptance of prayers?With dua and sawal we are trying to find the nearness to God, when we read Quran, we do not know how to pray?Answer: Are you talking about acceptance of dua prayers, in linguistics we see dua is ammal and dua as striving, like faryad and yelling is not voluntary, no acting while in other actions it is maneuvering, will take bath in a river, while dua mean faryad is a sign of despondency and utter helplessness, in the failure of our own efforts. As Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A stating the falling of tears in the darkness and solitude of the night as a form of dua prayers. Being an acceptance of complete failure and repenting from our deeds, telling the Creator to do something, what we wanted to do we did now its you the Creator to do.Question: How does remembering the Prophet Pbuh contributes to dua, prayers?Answer: We cannot confuse the question linguistically or philosophically by making a dua prayer dependent on amaal deeds. Prayers are answered with reciting the Darood e Pak before and after, Question: is it a faryad longing?Answer: Yes it is a faryad otherwise will remain in a state of suspension between the heavens and the earth. Darood e Pak is the reading and tazkira of usama nabyeen. Usama o Nabyeen read with utmost devotion and the need thereof holds the necessaity,

darood e taj, the prayer to be accepted needs usama o nabyeen.Question: All Christianity could reach till maqam e rooh and after rooh only Islam reached till nur?Answer: Christianity reached the point of Ruh as Christ was Ruh u Allah, whereas Islam gave us the knowledge of nur, as zaat mohammadi is nur, marifat e nur is marifat e zaat e mohammadi, that is very distant destination, only discussing Ruh is sufficient for now, both cannot be understood in the same breath.Discussing Ruh and nur, Maqam e mohammadi is maqam e nur, as earlier religions were not conscious of nur.Question: What is desire?Answer: Do not do anything because doing something will add to the desire of doing more. One work of worldly affair adds to another because of the momentum, should not do anything. To get rid of desire, the solution is not to do anything of one’s own choice, will create more trouble. In order to spare oneself from the desires of the nafs the easy way out is to follow the voice of another, when not following the voice of another one is forced to follow one’s desire. There are three paths, according to the Quran. 1. The path of the mehboob’s beloved inaam yafta the blessed, alternately there are two others, 2.magzoob’s and the 3.gumrah, those who do not follow the voice of the mehboob’s are doomed to follow, the other two, those who turn from mehboob’s to magzoob’s either inkaar deny or else inharaf ignore, those who deny following the path of His mehboob undergo gazaab punishment and those who follow inharaaf are subject to gumrahi are lost.

So there are so three ways 1.Muqarabeen. 2.,Magzoobeen’s and Gumrahioun. Those who do not click the first options are forces to click one of the other two.Question: Like in Sura e Fatah?Answer: Yes as in Sura e Fatatah, like as in Quran, the best option is to follow the path of the blessed, following there voice, choosing one among them, then the life is like a Hajj. How to get rid of desires this was the topic, in other words follow the advice of the heart, otherwise will have to follow the nafs, following the heart means where the dilbaar resides as the heart is maqam e dilbar. We are discussing means and ways of protecting ourselves from desires, the first thing is to recognize the voice, of what is called desire, and otherwise one considers the voice of khawaish e nafs desire as doing laabaak a good and genuine deed. Real voice and fake voice have to be differentiated, in Quran‘laan tara bera hatta mema’ means you cannot reach pious deed unless you do not sacrifice the most precious thing, the lesson and mystery revealed and learnt is to get rid of all things then shaar evil will not , because the desire will emanate from the precious property. Your property will travel though it, the easy meaning tarq e khawaish is taraqa e maalqiaat, transferring things in one names makes one forgets one’s own name, when writing a sentence I had written, ‘This house is under your name, this land is under your name, this bank balance is under your name, what is your name? The sages say your property is your ghair apart, the ghair apart, different from your zaat being, malqiaat property is not you. Example this table is mine, although it means the table is not your it’s

your ghair apart from. The more property you will gather the more lost you will get, discovering yourself will become increasingly difficult, where insaan human is probably hiding behind the mountain of coins. Question: The desires are part of a human, those who are free from wants are really pure? Wajud e ghair ho kaisa gawara.

Answer: Wajud e ghair ko ho kaisa guwara tere rahoon meen besaaya gaya’ a poem of sarfarz, wajud ghair is not acceptable, the Being which is lashay, how can sha approach it, at least go to Lashay after being besha, ‘wajud ko ho kaisa guwara tere rahoon meen besayaa gaya’. The biggest hurdle to doing Hajj is your possession, your luggage, when one desires to go to Bayt Allah, when one is stressed to take care of the luggage, then the wealth of the besaro sumani possession less is assessed, is the greatest jauhar e insanayat jewel. The sage’s lying without possessions were often misunderstood, Waiting at a counter, to pick up luggage while the friend is waiting outside. Now we can understand the meaning of the Hadith, on the Day of Judgment the poor will enter jannah paradise 70,000 days ahead, as compared with the rich, not to have their luggage checked. When the Lord blesses a person, the first thing He makes him realizes is the futility of material possessions.When his belief is removed from chains of thought of cause and effect, only then he will realize how the mansha and massiahat y will manifest, the concept of taqdeer, tawaaqal, kanat, mashaahiat, fazal, istaqnad, all will be meaningless. So one who only spends life on

possessions suffocates. Has its own mechanism in killing by suffocation having tons of possessions will be yelling, call the doctor I am having palpitations, the cure of human is through another human, as soon left to possessions will bulldoze, any one who does not lays the foundation of his happiness and sorrows on a human, and instead on possessions will be a dead person.Question: Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A said when a ruh ka ruh se wasal hota hai tu unsoon agate hain, when the Prophet Sallalahu Alahi Wassallam and sage like Baba ji Wasif R.A have tears, what is that ocean? To be part of their company in Hereafter and Barzakh.Answer: For not getting into any disrespect and not for the sake of endangering our self and better is on the safe side, this concept of wasaal has a very high and different pedestal for these great beings. Not involving our self with them out of fear of disrespect. Should have tammana for their yaad, yaad ruh ka saafar hai, in the direction of the safar. In aqaabaat and the sangaat in the Hereafter and in Barzaakh with their Noble beings is a great tammmana, is a very emotional prayer, one should pray for it and have its tammaana achievement. The fate of an insaan will be with those he loves. Sahahaba who were very pious, have narrated their extreme bliss and satisfaction on hearing this news, that now there was a sanad certainty that whom they loved and revered, would be in their presence in the Hereafter.(Amen). In punjabi kalam of Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A, jees de yaad saade dil whiich usdee sadde aiko ghoot. Should remember and stay in the path, manzil

ka wadha musafir ka lya.As long as he is traveling he is promised.Question: As in the case Baba ji must know who he is calling him?Answer: Even calling a friend will remember you, we do not have the ability to remember them, without them remembering us. Like we have a phrase when going to a senior officer’ Sir did you remember me’ without permission even remembrance is not possible. Yaad ruh ka safar hai remembrance is a journey of spirit.‘Naam Ali laboon pa aya hai abhiShaid anona yaad farmaya hai abhiMuhabbat jo awal der dil a mahbbob paida safarMohabat love is created in the heart of the Mehboob beloved first, when he considers and pay attention then the mohib pays attention.Question: When we are paid attention do we go through a process? Does the saint guides us?Answer: To the child we want to teach writing we first teach taawaa not able to write, putting words here and there called tawaa, you are right in mohabat haqai is kush khati fine writing and pona are layed to learn , love of a parent, or a human on earth is changed to love of the Creator. The love of the human prepares for the love of the Beloved.Ba Alif ba, leaning ba alif ba, and then they learn the whole sentence. Mohaabaat is such a pakeeza and munazza pure thing that even its true copy is an admirable thing. Majaz is a copy is also a mountain. In Sareika a poet in firaq longing says ‘Ya raba ja tera arabi dhola tere tu becharda te meen poch’ ka dard firaq da ke hai.’ Majaz is copy, in court language we write ‘True copy of the original’ tnaqal ke asaal bhe

whoo he hai, naqal meeen bhi jalwas us e ka hai hota hai blessing in the true copy also, Majaz remain ‘majaaz us waqat taak majaaz rahta hai jab tak majaaz ke haqiqat nahi khulti’ until reality opens up as the jalwa in the majaz is also the same. The ones standing outside define and differentiate it as majaaz and haqiqaat, according to their own understanding not realizing since standing on a different pedestal define their own dictionary terms seeing his outwardly behavior and appearance though for those involved in majaz the jalwa is from the same being exactly as reality, while the others seeing his behavior think mehboob as pakaar e fina having wasal e fana died . For the one in maajaz the haqiqaat reality is the same the true copy is also the original copy for him. In the platform of majaaz too in that the mohib and the mehmoob the conversation going, the events being shaped waqai e nigare and the wakoa e nigare is being done by the same author Hazrat e Ishq, the kitabat is being done by the same Katab e Aazal and the Katab e Taqdeer for where ever to make a punctuation where to put a comma where to put a full stop, For the time being the same reality is being opened up on him. Question: The love we have is already in the Shaykh what are the signs?Answer: It is not necessary to take certification every time, we are in the same frequency we will stay in it, non conditional, otherwise will be conditional. Question: We get everything from mehboob, the rohaani path? How can we do righteous deeds, which come from the hadith?

Answer: Do not short cut mixing the roohani spiritual and madi material together, keep on and stay on the path, will Question: It is a feeling keep on traveling on it like Maulana Rum, ‘Harq e zaat e perruh haq ra yaq na deddu na muridu na muridu, there is no formula , a thing of concentration, When the platform of daleel logic and aql intelligence will come then things will be segregated, this is Medina, this is Mecca, this is Baghdad Sharif, it is the mohabaat ka surma hai one who says we see the same jalwa everywhere in Bagdad Sharif and in the Murshid khana is a great thing a personal experience. We cannot generalize and vocalize it for those who are not having the same concentration, will get confused. So it is important to keep ones Mehboob and ones Mushaida inner experience to one self infect the Mushaida of ones Murshid to oneself also. Kamran Shah sahib ( God bless his soul) used to say apna mehboob ta apna faqir looqa ka rakhna chaida uno public figure naee banaa chaida.Question: From the point of Ilm ul Yaqin, is there a formula? Sometimes if another thing comes in our lives and we get busy in businesses what are the means of avoiding negative areas and save our Ilm? Answer: In Kiran Kiran Suraj Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A said. ‘We should know the Ilm knowledge to save our Ilm knowledge ‘what you just called Ilm ul Yaqin to save it also we should have the Ilm knowledge too. Whatever knowledge you know and take it to Jamia bunuria, it is not possible to save your book, knowing where there is baad ilmi, bad intentions, while you can sit with the be ilm without knowledge

would be alright but baad ilm are destructive, without ilm will just say a random thing not intentionally just heard from somewhere, but a baad ilm will fire a missile of bad words and sentences to unnerve you. To protect the Shish Mahal of your Quaid and khayal one most have the knowledge to save your knowledge So like in a computer we should know what programs are compatible to download, or they will create a virus and blow of your system data. So in knowledge you should know the kind of people to avoid. So the yaqsaniat of sangaat is very important for concentration of the khayal. Another important point Hameed sahib is as said by Hazrat Ali Wasif R.A on answer to a question raised in his sangaat, ‘People even come to pick the bricks of a fallen home.’ Do not let your yaqin faith unguarded, people will come to destroy and loot it if your castle of yaqin is weak. Let us name your khayal as yaqin , if you are firm in your khayal, slowly people of half hearted nature will learn to stay away from you. Knowing full well that from now there conspiracies and ill intentions will not work it is a danger zone. If you are your self plus and minus then the people you will find will be negative. But if you positive charged will no be able to neutise you. Why are you traveling on this path many have perished? Question: Even someone talks negative stay away and keep silent?Answer: Discuss it on your own platform a colleague can create a distraction, discuss them on your own platform, in your own sangaat company, they will keep you engaged, and will delay your doing good deeds. I went to a wedding and there was a company of people knowing full well my intentions and khayal

while I kept silent, not there subject just wanted to tease me. Like talking about Shirk, Noor,Bashr,Bidah, arguments heard for a long time fell silent after five minutes. If you want to teach physics one must know the basics, if you want to teach quantum physics first teach them particle physics.Question: I saw a program of an hour were talking about, mysticism? Answer: Until one does not read a book by the one who has brought the book, his intentions and the angle the book does not open. ‘Yadu bil kasera wa yahdu bil kasera’ there are people have memorized the whole Quran, explaining destiny. The missionaries are reciting the verses of Quran as well to mislead.Question: When verses are read how do we know its correct meanings?Answer: If you do not understand a verse of the Quran the best and easy way is to read two verses before and two or three after will clear up, the context, if we just read a verse out of context will not solve, even Christian do that. Not reading the before and the after verses to use a verse out of context. Even Quran says’ We have made the Quran easy for understaning’ when we have a question the answer appears in the next few verses. In sura fatha what is seerat e mustaaqeem is ‘ ahde na rase ratu ul mustaqqeem’ ‘seerat Alllah zeena anamta alihim’ the inaam yafta blessed, not the maqzabeen evil doers, like in surah baqra ‘huda lil mutaaqeen’ who are the mutaaqeen, hudal mutaqeen those who fear Allah, each term explained in the verses around, though the depth is limitless, new symbols, a seeker who

reads it will find it as a message delivered today. Has to remove prefixed idea, whether in good or bad condition, warning if on the wrong path and proof if on the right path, having the warning if on wrong direction, The time and space and the kalam speech and the humans all belongs to the same Zaat Him, using the medium of time and space delivering you the message using the words. What is your problem then? When you read Hadith it wil reach you after 1435 years, roaming in time and space, and so we should see when the message reached us, the mushiada and muqaisha then became. Example a relative had a problem two weeks ago, while the news reached you today , that would be a news for you when it reached you not two weeks ago , though the event had happened two weeks ago but it reached you today. In olden times when an event had occurred you got the news by telegram, and then became an occurrence. Though the Deen is complete and declared but for you it became Deen when it was implemented on you.Question: Harr chehra meen ate hain yaar ke nazar, haar chera meen kaisa nazaar ate hai yaar ke surrat?Answer: Ahbab ke surat ho ka agyaar ke surrat, until the distance between them and us is removed, only then we will be able to see in every face the face of the Beloved, when there is no distance between agyaar and ahbaab, in history we have an example of Sarmad shaheed who was martyred by Aurganzeb, when the executioner was coming was bringing the sword, it is not easy seeing a sword and then saying a farsi qalam‘Outside

Mehfil on 8-6-2013 with Dr Azhar Waheed Saheb.

Question:When it is said that time stops in the journey of Miraj, then does the stoppage of time means, that the Arsh(throne) and the Maqamat are outside the domain of time.It is a difficult topic, from what is known partially, we cannot state anything with certainty, as the Umi(follower) cannot estimate the Uroj and Miraj(Greatness) of the Nabi Pak(Prophet Mohammad Sallallahu alaihi Wasallam) which is beyond comprehension. What we have got from the knowledge handed from generation to generation, is

that Waqt(time) has two Jahatain (entities), one being connected with space , the horizontal axis on which rest are usual calendars, and the other being vertical, which is probably called Dhār. In which although there is depth, but its is at a standstill called Ana e Wahid (single moment/pure duration) that dimension of time. Also it is said since Nabi Pak(Prophet Mohammad Sallallahu alaihi Wasallam)is the Ruh of the Qainaat(Universe)so when the Ruh leaves the Jasad it becomes standstill. So the stoppage of time was very natural, since when the cause of time and events was not there in the Alam Khalq, the stoppage of time was natural. My grandfather used to say, that before the creation of India and Pakistan, he used to sit with intelligent Hindu Jotshi’s, and one a very capable of them said you Muslims talk a lot about Qiamat (the end of times). I can tell you the end of time if you Muslims can give me the, duration of the Miraj, when we calculate the Qiamat end of the world, as soon as we try to calculate the time a space comes in between which hinders and interrupts our calculations before and after, and it the same space which you say your Prophet journeyed in Miraj, in which the interval of Miraj took place.In the Waqai e Miraj shariff it has been declared with certainty, that the events in time and space do not work only by cause effect and calculations , now a Zaat is involved, now the Mansha of the Zaat is involved, although before that it was according to calculation. We see in Sura Jinn also that Jinnat used to say that before, we used to get information from the heavens, but after the Besaat, we cannot intervene when we try as we do are followed by a bright Shaab e Saqib, also in the

narratives we find that too, that after the Prophet Sallalahu alaihi Wassallam came back, the bed was hot, the chain at the door was swinging and the water for Wadhu was flowing.The particles (and forces created in the space-time continuum are the symphonies produced out of the vibrating strings of this violin the Grand Cosmos, whether a scientist arrives at a discrete space-time as the musing of string theory or no space-time as in non locality, ), this music created by the violin(its strings) is actually at the heart of Tasawwuf, it is all about , hearing the tones coming out of this violin. Tasawwuf is looking at the whole, that is why the description of a Sufi encompasses the totality, while that of a scientist being partial. As Allama Mohammad Iqbal R.A has mentioned in his ‘Reconstruction of Religious thought in Islam’. If you ask me how I define Miraj Shariff, although there different Jahatain( meanings), which have been and will unfold on the ummat, I would like to talk in the context of Shan e Mustafa, I will say that the Waqai e Miraj was the declaration of the Faniat e Basheriat. The complete and outspoken declaration of Fana e Basheriat . The declaring I am Ana Bashar by the Prophet Sallallahu alaihi Wassallam.This could be interpretation of a poet, like me a childish feeling, Azhaar e Aqeedat (the love of the Prophet Sallallahu alaihi Wassallam). The Purdah even of Meem is not in between tonight. Time is Alam Khalq, time is Takhliq (creation), those who do not consider it Takhliq, and do not believe that time is created by a Creator; they consider time itself as the creator, that is why they are called

Dharia(atheist/free thinkers). Because they see the essence of time and all its great seefat (properties) appearing as similar with the Divine, time is everywhere, time is Qadar(power), time over comes everything, then those who do not believe in a Zaat have to believe in time as omnipotent, omnipresent, in alam Khalq the key seems to be time, the key factor, the code, when time types a command after sometime things start happening for those who do not believe in a Zaat, that is why they are called Dahria. When the Jana e Takhliq will go to Jane e Jana, takhliq will stop, that is why we say that time stopped. Another thing which opens up from this question about time stopping in Waqai e Meraj, is that as in the Iman of Sufia belief of Zaat e Mohammadi is Barzakh e Kubra, a medium between Khaliq and Maqhlooq, when the medium is directed towards the Maqhlooq, with all the faculties of Mazaga Al Basar or Mataagaa in conversation and in the Qurb of the Creator when the chain of the door was still moving , indirectly proving Barzakh e Kubra, when the Rab gives Zaat Mohammad Sallallahu alaihi Wassallam is the one who divides, the knowledge would come divided to the Maqhlooq of Waqai e Miraj and would be partial, blossoming with time until Qiamaat.Question:Time in the fabric of Taqhliq(creation) is a Tana, and space is a Bana, first during knitting Tana and Bana creates the spacetime fabric, when the Dori (thread) of time is pulled and the thread of time is erased from the fabric, in the Alam Kasarat(diversity in nature), the designs and calligraphy in the garden of creation are ripped. The

differentiated phenomena between the grandfather, father and son is due to time, if it is removed all the difference between the generations is romoved ,time has proliferated matter, fashioning matter, disintegrating in a very integrating way.To the question is time the destiny of Zaat, this is that time which we call Dahr. Aima Pak state about this time is that I am time; it is my Will, the dimension of time which is vertical. It is not the horizontal or the serial dimension, which can be divided according to the calendar and the clock. Dhar is Ana e Wahid (single duration) cannot be divided, as applicable on Zaat, Jaisa tha waisa hai (Was as Is), and zamana ko kabhi bura na kaho(do not vilify time). There are two terminologies involved when we use serial time and Divine time together. People say if the time is related with the movement of matter, if matter stops moving the meaning of time will diminish. Serial time is used to record change. If time is for Makhlooq no one will become Dahriah(atheist/free thinker).

Question: Do we refer it to serial or vertical time the above reference to Dahr .Are we talking about serial or horizontal time, a single moment Ana e Wahid is creating serial timeAnswer: it is for both, my perception and not of a scientist, is although debatable, at the moment of creation , when time was created in vacuum ,the matrix on which creation took place is called Dhār (time).

Question: When you were talking about the stitching of fabric of space-time of Tana and

Bana the kasarat (diversity) created in serial time as you mentioned earlier, does it not typify Hijab(Viel).Answer: Certainly it is a Hijab, this is the Hijab which when lifted is called Makashaafa in the calendar year, when we say, we met someone in the past, meeting a 200 year old Saint, a 500 year old, a 1000 year old, how did we meet, by the lifting of this Hijab of time.Let us talk about something beyond science.Question: Yaad ka Haal ko Hama Haal kiasa kya gaye(How do we make permanent the remembrance of the beloved.)Answer: Yaad has two entities like time, one is suri, and the other seerati, one of tasawar and the other of concept, when we remember someone, we remember the face and the movement of that person, this is purely based on love, and the other dimension is looking at the seerat, khayal and Uswa Husna, the Amal of Yaad is both suraati and seerati, so both, accepting the seerat, on oneself, so that I might not commit something which would be in opposition, if my Amal is before the beloved how will the reaction be.The other is being getting Hamrang, the dimension of seerat, which reduces the distance, the distance is reduced in love, by nature it wants to remove the distance, the formula is ‘Itaba Kardar’; when one attains hamrang or Sigbat Ullah only we become Hamrang then we become close. For otherwise the zahari yaad as in a mosque does not bring that closeness.Yaad really creates wonders, starts at surat, then journeys through seerat becomes Wasal e Mehboob(one with beloved).God does not see our faces but Taqwa.

To travel on seerat, on the path and seerat of the Medina Wala, and the path of the Aulia Allah makes you Hamrang, reduces the distance, Itaba e Kardar e Mohammadi, as described by the Sufis. Those who say they want to love Allah should follow the Prophet Mohammad Sallallahu alaihi.When they become Hamrang and be on the path of Sigbat Ullah(color of Allah) is actually the path to Hama Hal. When the standing, sitting and lying down of a Momin becomes a Hama Hal, a question of niyah, even he sleeps during. When I went to do Umra,I fell sleep and felt sad to have missed the namaz, a Saudi friend came to meet us and while talking to us mentioned that to sleep in the Haram is sawab too, so I felt better .So its is all about the niyah, like when we are in masjid for Ithiqaf, everything is prayer, whether eating, sleeping but should be Ba Wadhu, otherwise its like a person in a library is looking at books without Wadhu. The Wadhu of Niayah, for first thing in namaz is to Ba Wadu and second being Kibla Ruh.Will the Mohib and Mehboob be together in the day of Judgment or in Barzakh too, it is also in Hadith pak too, does it apply to Barzakh also or after. The sangat has started, Khafi in barzakh and ,in barzakh the other will not know who is with whom, in Hashar it will be know, these are shuhada, salaheen, momineen.The questions of Sheikh Sahib are for a practical traveler.Same action produce different results in different situations, it depends on niyah , when for example I gave water to sheikh sahib it was giving water, in another situation the niyah could be different, when

we travel abroad we get a travel tag, having a flight number, if the tag is changed the bag gets to another destination. So with our Amal we should be very careful to attach the proper tag, sometimes the amal and niyah are same, but the situation could be different, saying a poem in front of a people having different understanding will have different reaction and respect. Depends on the environment, we have no power on the environment, when there is Majboori, Munafaqat comes in. When we have no control on the environment we are not responsible for a different reaction, we had offered a meal, but if some one did not accept it is not our fault. We cannot control the entire environment, but there is a middle way, the solution is and that is what people say if we are committed to one Idea for a long interval , than we start slowly acquire an environment conducive to our Khayal. We make our environment conducive to our Khayal, if we are using poetic language, we will get similar company slowly but surely. As long as we are committed to a Khayal (idea/thought) by the Kudrat(Grace of the Mighty), we will start attaining similar ideas, events and people in the outside world aiding our Khayal. If we are not sincere, with our Khayal, then we will lose, otherwise things get settled down. Until our desire is inside the circle of our Khayal we will no be disturbed, it is our desires the steps we take which produces an environment of evil. If we are sincere with our Khayal, our steps will take us in the right directions, but it is the desires which bring in the wrong direction. Almost there is 99% chance we will be among the righteous, in our own environment, but if we are overtaken by desire, then being under the

influence of desires we will be in the wrong company.

Question: Does khayal feeds on the nourishment provided by the Hum Khayal (friends having same or similar thought), or is a Divine Gift or an endowment.Answer: A khayal is an endowment, and the Zaat which endows it also nourishes, protects and takes care of the Khayal, there is no contradiction among the three, will be better nourished among the same group. But a Khayal can also get instructions from a different medium, like someone who asked Socrates, where you got Wisdom, he said from the fools, whatever they did I did not do. So when a Khayal becomes established, which ever valley and alley it passes through it will eat only that fruit which suites it own Khayal. It is said about storks (though not established scientifically) that when it is provided adulterated milk, it leaves the water in the milk. Some birds only pick up the pearls, so a person who has once established an idea, will pick pearls too, whatever environment it may get in. As environment is similar in most circumstances.A few days back my son was sitting with his grandfather, the grandfather said to my son, you have read about the biography of Quaid e Azam by Fatima Jinnah, what lesson did you learn, my son said he did not accept the desire of his father, who wanted him to learn commerce, and he instead studied Law so he did not fulfill the desires of his father. So when one is on a Lahaj (path), if one learns something, he will learn that which suits him

out of everything else. The grandfather said he changed because he could not afford to study commerce, but my son only remembered that he opposed his father.In this world those who suffer , the righteous people who face difficult path, full of thorns and sufferings, one of the observation is that whoever tread this path face opposition, the other observation is that those that were faced with difficulties were great souls.So when the Khayal once gets consolidated whatever valley it travels through, although it will face injury , injustice, suffering but will never die, until reaching its destination, Maqam e Maqsood and Maqam e Takhliq and Ina Lillahah Wa ina Alahi Rajaoun. Question: In the journey towards Saluk , there is one ambiguity the desires are always there, unless it is all under Allah Subana-hu Will.That is not possible for everyone , on the other side there is a Khayal.Answer: Desires will be there no doubt, but there is a constant Hijrat towards Saluk, the attributes of Jism(body) and its demands are called desires, and the demands of Ruh are called Khayal. We gradually dip in the desires, it is not that desires do not exist, they do exist, but even after its existence, we try to bypass them. Quran says too that there are the parameters of desires of Lust, gold, women, horses, do exist, personally I think that as the Khayal gets stronger, the desires start to die down, or at least start to become less attractive. When a stronger Khayal becomes a part, of one life, the desires become irrelevant, as an example it is the desire of

the new born children to drink the mothers milk for ever, until we divert them to other food. Similarly one fond of a higher Khayal, or a table laid with the food of Khayal will be attracted away from desires. When we teach a boy to play carom board they will not play other game, or when we teach them to play cricket they will not play Guli danda (a sport played in the Indian subcontinent with a stick and bails). Question: How do we know something has become a Hijab, as Sufia say even the desire of Qurb becomes a Hijab.Answer: That is a metaphysical matter, until now we are talking about desires, body and Ruh, that is about Tarq e Aula, meaning if there are two pious feelings we desire the best out of two. If there is Khayal e Qurb and the Mehboob which do we select. Until now we are talking about desires.It’s about developing the taste, what is called Tazkya e Nafs is a Zauq about piety, your taste has so developed that you dislike impiety. It is about maturity.What I was taking about is a matter of maturity, as an example children who have a deficiency of calcium and vitamin D , eat earth to quench their desires but not a sane person, we can consider earth as wajudi activity. Desires are always there. All we do is postpone our desires for the higher path. A law of Neurophysiology states that when a nerve impulse travels through that nerve repeatedly, a phenomenon is developed we call facilitation, a nerve impulse passing through a center again and again will develop diligence, and the other phenomenon is called disused atrophy, when we do not use a limb with time it dies down. So is the case

with desires, the less we use it will shrink, and the more we exercise a desire it will grow.Question: I am talking about Naik Khwaishat ( good desires).Answer: Then desire is a different category; for good intentions the word is Tamanna.The word desire has a negative connotation which hinders in the activity and development of the Ruh, for the word Tarq a Aula, as the Sufia say, when we have a choice among two feelings of piety or choice, we select the better one or the superior one. Quran says ‘what is the best invest in that’Question: Usually people who use a part of Quranic verse to diminish the status of the Great Prophet Sallallalahu alaihi Wassallam.Instead of arguing we should bring forth, knowledge which enhances the Shan (status) Prophet Sallalalahu alaihi Wassallam.Answer: This is a degree of Irfan, Maqam Irfan, I remember Hazrat Wasif sahib R.A saying what kind of Ummati is that who is discussing knowledge about the Prophet , how knowledge he had, this is unfortunate , those who have less Irfan will do such activity, even a mathematician entering a discussion having a material worldview will have such ideas getting entangled in time and view , when my friend went to do ummra, he was met by those who said, how can call the Nabi the cause of the Universe, though Prophet Adam was the first, so people having the kharaji worldview what is there crux, there crux would be applying Quran on the deliveral of the Quran. Question: At our level we do not have a problem, but these people give references of

the Quran and sunnah, its is not our personal problem, but fear the loss of others.Answer: It is said a group of people came to meet Hazrat Nizam deen Aulia R.A from Afghanistan, and said to him , that it is heard there are 300 ayat, in praise of Muala Ali, on which Hazrat Nizam deen Aulia replied, you say there are 300 verses , I say there are 6686 ayat in his praise.I can prove it you, In the time of Prophet hood some people came from Iran with about 20 or 25 questions to validate the claim,there ulema told them that if the answer to these questions be given would mean the claim to be true, and met Hazrat Ali R.A, on the way, they were asked by him as to the purpose of their visit. On being told, he replied to all the 20 or 25 questions and to their bewilderment they said are you the Prophet of Islam.He replied I am just a cobbler for the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wassallallam. So it is ridiculous to argue about the verses.People who know the meaning of these words stop at Shere Ilm, the ladder of Shere Ilm is so high.Quran is Maaqalma a dialogue between the Mehboob and Mohib, it has to be viewed in that perspective.Questionaire: The path to Irfan is love.Answer : If the Niyah is wrong every step leads to ignorance, there was a Manazara some time ago among two school of thoughts , on a question about whether the Prophet Sallallahu alaihi Wassallam knew about the hidden knowledge or not, one person said, I am so happy that all the night I was reading kalam e pak to find means of Praising the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wassallam and you were reading it to diminish his status.I would

Quran belongs to the One, it is a prerogative of the One and His beloved. If we can get blessing and guidance is the best thing. Question : When someone argues with you about the status of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wassallam.

Answer: We should if we have an antidote, we should express it.If we have forum like a facebook or a group we should express the best we know. Love is not understood by arguments.Spiritually today should be better than yesterday. If we have argument with a friend or a relative, we should try to see how we can wipe it. Improving our economy or improving our business is also a duty, a Momin should be strong, but spiritually and morally is the first priority. The effect of Noble Quran, is first of the Batin. As Quran says ‘What a man earns or what a women earns is his or her’ refers to the spiritual. The Khariji thought is fundamentally Fitna and Fasad, the removal of the role of the intermediary and medium and interpreting the Noble Quran leads to differentiation and interpretations and sects. As long as we are firm on the verses reminding the one who brought the message.We see the Sufia have no sects, the sects are the thought of the Khawarij, history as it was interpreted gave rise to sects. The lesson we learned is never ask for Deedar, ask for Naqsha Qadam, if we get on the path and Naqsha Qadam we will get seerat and kardaar.

So even who have the ability for Deedar too asked for Naqsha Qadam. Since everyone is accepted there, from Muslimoon to Arafoon. From Deedar and Naqsha Qadam, we learn ‘Follow the Lord and His messenger’.Khayal is the imamat of words, if khayal is at the right place, then the words form a straight path, when the khayal is in Medina, then the namaz will be valid.The thing is that Qalander is from Qal (inside) and Hal (outside). Our Qal is outside and Hal is inside at the most. Where Khiraat is born, Qalandar are born before, what we think in our wisdom, is known to the Qalandaar they are there before on our wisdom can reach it, both in range and expansion our intellect and wisdom can reach.It is one to one, the khoj (discovery) of the inner being, once the news is received only then the other books are opened. Otherwise those books remain closed, even after opening. One to one means talib and matloob. Mureed aur Murad.Questions: Does one finds the weakness in a mehfil, what we lack, the mismatching.Never satisfied even after performing the deeds.

Answer: Are you talking about the Khoj of your journey. Question:No, I am talking about the weakness in reference to the Murshid. Though the mismatching is there. Looking into our character. When we compare our self with the Murshid.Answer: The itaba kardar Murshid makes it Hamrang.Question: Is this the journey of Khoj(discovery).

Answer: The discovery starts when a matloob comes in, otherwise one thinks oneself to be big intellectual.When one disovers a matloob one looks at the mirror. First is love and then there is Khoj(discovery). First I thought I should be known , then the creation was started. The discovery of God starts after love.Question: What is Khoj(journey). How do I find myself? Am I on the journey of discovering?Answer: The mystery is Mehboob and Matloob. It is to be attaining Hamrang.One can only find oneself.Question: Is the Matloob not thinking he has not attained satisfaction.Answer: It is the Hijrah from Meen to Tum, to forget oneself. To forgot about one self and remember the other. Question: Does one gets complacent, the best way to get out is to follow another. A doubt is created whether one missing some color of the other.Answer: The way out is to get out of one own deeds, and follow the other, during a trip to Hajj, people say when they reach the Haram, they leave their own Amal,(acts) and forget everything.Question: Whoever discovered one self, he got out of himself.Answer: Who ever discovered the mystery of a Qalandaar, actually discovered him self as said by Baba Bulleh Shah.Question: This lamp is lighted from the one who has discovered himself, and not by doing a Phd.Answer: If this had been so easy, then there would have been no need of sangats or mehfils, everything

would have been in the books. When patients come to me the educated ones, say Dr Saheb we gave Amoxil to our children, if this would have been so easy, there would have been no need of doctors, to convert and make what is written into practical form we need a guide. The book of Tasawwuf opens only when a guide is there. When a friend of ours set on this path after reading Allama Iqbal he said, about him he looks like our Pir brother. There are two ways, batini and khariji, the way of batini is to look for the guide of the book and that of khariji is to read a book. The path other then kharij will reach towards batin, the Sawad azam gradullay moves to Tasawwuf , as it moves towards the batin and is attained,after muslimoon to mominoon to arafoon. The other will make one doubtful. In other words one path is Takfeem e Adamiyat and other is Takfir e Adamiyat.Question: In a kingdom there different degree of status, like for the courtiers.An infrastructure was build by God. Would not be complete until, Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wassallam.Answer: The paradise which has been promised to the momineen is to be opened by the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wassallam. This is attained at the Darbars of the Aulia Allah. When there is order we see that there is Makeen. After Firsh to give meaning to Arsh , the Waqai Miraj was organized. We started this mehfil by Waqai Miraj, the question arises though the Maqam e Qurb status of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wassallam was from Roz Azul, then what is rationale in time and space of a movement of Waqi e Miraj, the Suraat e Adam or the

dress of Bashirayaat is so dignified, we see the meeting in the dress of Bashirayaat, showing the extreme dignity of this dress. That the Creator met its creation in this surat and seerat, the other ways of saying is to attain Malaqoo Rabahoom we need to attain same suraat and seerat. Sufia called Suraat e Adam as Surat e Mohammadi, So we can say to attain the highest pedestal is to attain Suraat e Mohammadi.Like we call mohammadi bestaara.Behind any story there is the story of love, and universe is also a story which cannot be completed without Miraj.Waqai e Miraj was to give Miraj to the Ummat. Question: We try to cross our lines to get illumination which is wrong, should wait, although its said sending Darood Sharif, its is known to open up the Murad of a person.Answer: Definitely it does not apply here, every Ummati should say Darood, even standing in line at the some point in life, one gets direction and guidance and the journey becomes easy. Even a student of primary will be benefiting, so would a university student, Darood Pak is a continuous Amal, which is a theory constantly repeating, and Maqam e Irfan is practical. Irfan is Marifaat e Mohammadi. Maqam e Irfan Zaat, what is the Maqam e Zaat.In a qualitative way is different Maqam, . La makan means maqam Zaat, App ne maqam zaat ka Ilaan kya.In a scholastic way and a scholarly way its has a different Maqam, aref se Anal HaqQuestion: Is our constructs not right about God. Lamakaan and Makaan how do we

understand it and define it. Arsh and arsh a maula.Answer: Arsh is not a maqan , what is the meaning of Arsh will be our own definition.Question : Are our own mental schemes and constructs wrong about God?.Answer: Certainly as the Sufis say we cannot constrict God for want or lack of our own perceptions, that Zaat is such we cannot point to it. Arsh is a Makan, we cannot constrict God to Arsh, we do not know the exact meaning, not taking it to be a platform., if we restrict God to Firsh, then what is Dunya, when the conception of distance is understood, then things begin to clear up. Question : Is not the whole Qainaat( world) a single Zaat?.Answer: Dervish say Noor is one, Zaat is one, this Nur has two dimensions one is Mawrai e Zaman aur Makan, the other is on a trip to Zaman aur Makan. That which is Mawrai e Zaman aur Makan, is in Tanzih in the state of Subhan, has not the experience what is to be an Insaan. The other state has experience of Insan throughout. When the concept of Tanziaat is removed then the concept of Lamaakaan and Makaan disappear. Does not belong to Makaan, then who belongs to the Makaan, can not be two, or Ghair. Zaat is one, Allah is noor us samawaat e fil Arz, in bayan is noori, in experience not noori, in bayan there is a hint, when there will be bayan there will be duality.Question: What is the purpose of His visit? He is already everywhere and knows everything. Kama Haqooho Idrak is already there, then what is the purpose of getting out?.

Answer: He constructed everything for Himself to be known if everything is there then what is purpose of creation if everything is Tanzih and no tasbeeh, then Question: God has 99 names, Al Qareeb has no pair, not dur(distance) , is close, when why its is difficult to find Him?.Answer: That Zaat does not want Qurb e Maqaami , but Qurb Manwi, for Qurb Manwi is the real difficulty, if a child performs prayers in Kaaba, has apparent blessings, but will not have the status of a dervish, Zahri qurb is there, but Qurb e Manwi is the goal, what kind of qurbat, what is the feelings behind the qurbat, is not mathematical, cannot be this is equal this, but an actual experience, there is a crude example, like of a father, The concept of fatherhood wont be easily understood, until he goes through the process of the physical fatherhood,( seeing his baby being born , being dependent on him etc, creates the love of the child.)He will not understand the meaning of the word ‘The compassion of Parents’. The more we practice Itaba e Mohammadi the closer we come to God. Although He is the creator of an ant, lion, fly Question: There is the Akas of Zaat, degrees of Akas. What is in His knowledge is created. Insan is also a creator, what comes in his mind is created. Can we talk about that in respect of God also?Answer: Please rephrase it.Question: How do we negate the concept of Nazul. When there was nothing there was Zaat e Rab Alameen.

Answer: No the concept of Nazul is not being negated, nazul awal etc, these seven heavens being being the example of Hasal e Nazul. This concept is already in the concept of Wahad ul Wajood.Questioner: Maybe I am not saying it rightly.Answer: It is Hallool.Question: Yes it is hallool.Answer: That is Hallool, inspite of Nazul, the Suraat is there fixed, but the light is being radiated or Nazul everywhere.Like the sun is there fixed, but its heat is being radiated all over being in the condition of Nazul.Question: When it comes to chapter of Nazul things are not definable, when it’s fixed its definable. As long in the fixed position. In Nazul its not illustratable.Answer: Where do you feel a paradox in?Question:When the process of creation started, when there was nothing there was God.Answer: When we come to grid and paradigm of Wahaadat ul Wajood the chapter of Taqlikh (creation) is not applicable, does not exist. Creation is about Dori (distance).In the paradigm of Taqlikh (creation) and Maqhlooq . On reaching the station of Wahaadat ul Wajood every where there is His Jalwa. Humair sahib quoting Wasif Ali Wasif R.A say ‘As He is far but He is very near, like the sun which is very far, but its heat is very near, all we need is His Jalwa, Zaat se Zaat ka Wasal Insaan se Bahar hai, us ka jalwa ka talash ka wasal hosakta hai, Hazoor e Pak Sallallahu Alaihi Wassallam ke zaat uss ka saab see bahtrain jalwa hai tum talaash karta jao jalwa khud he hasaal e talaash rahtaa hai.

Dilbar is not created, heat is the manifestation of the sun, and everywhere is nazul e nazul.Islam is a religion calling for Tawhid , to reduce the separation. Islam is step one, as we step up the doors to Marifaat will be opened. As the chapters of Marifaat will be opened the Doori (separation) will be reduced.Tawhid is closing of the separation between Mohib and Mehboob.Whoever finds Baqa there, will find Baqa inside, otherwise if one thinks of Fana there, finds Fana inside. One step further and the next category.Question: One feels and wants communication, practically communicating. Heart wants to communicate with Marqaz Tajaliaat, at our level.Answer: If we understand Haqeet e Aula from the chapter of tanzih is Dua(prayers). If one wants Qurb with Zaat e Mehboob then turn from Dua to Darood.Question: Will there be time when communication will be possible. What even in our natural life we are not able to communicate. In the next world we have full hope of the introduction.Answer: I have faith when God grants the wishes of the worldly desires, why will He not grant the direct communication. The Zahir and Batin is same for HimThe delay is due to cleaning of the pot, cleaning it again and again, so that when the Jalwa is radiated, it is clear and readable. That is why this chapter in opened up in this world, for others the chapter of Kitab e Mohabbat is not even introduced to them.

Those who have read the preface the whole book will be opened.So in this chapter waiting is also the start of an event, since any event is started before it happens, as some one who is to be granted paradise, even being in the grave is on the journey to paradise.Again what Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A remind us.Manzil hai bahut dur magar husna TaqarabWasif teraa Qadmoon ka nishanaat meen gum haiActually to be lost in the footprints of Nishanaat is the Manzil, to attain Itaba is the Manzil.Husna Taqarab can easily be side tracked.Firaq and wisal is very eloquently described by Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A , wasal is till Zaat and Firaq is till the whole Universe. There is not a big separation between faraq and wasal in the hereafter. Those who have traveled on the path of Irfan, have been made to travel through the path of Firaq, the broken heart has provided the job of the physician.Question: In the paradigm of Wahaat ul Wajud Firaq does not exist, when He is everywhere then the question of Firaq does not exist. Answer: Firaq is adam e Irfan.Question: husna intizar ke baad.Answer: When an Insaan (Human) start to travel on this path and starts to wait, he starts to experience events and happenings in his personal live, beyond cause and effect (beyond space and time, beyond physics) according to his Zaraf, all the events which come across are the menu of the Ruh, sustaining the wajud to provide it strength , when an insaan becomes kiblah ruh, all the events( inner and outer happenings in their daily lives, treating them beyond

space and time, and no longer as superstitions) sustain his Khayal.Question: Does every Intizaar (waiting) succeed.Answer: Does every intizaar (waiting) succeed, yes all intizaar is successful until one lifts the veil or the cover of waiting, until one lifts the sheet of waiting, those who lose hope, every waiting is successful for one who waits, one our friends said, I have been waiting for 1 ½ to 2 years. I told him only 2 years, you should wait for 200 years at the least. One who is Muntazar is Ba- Wafa, one who is in waiting is in Wafa. One is who be-wafa will leave, saying this is mere talk been waiting for so long. If one sees something outside or not is a separate issue, changes occur inside that wasal happens, things of a genetic and chemical nature start to change inside, (his waiting engulfs him with the fire of love and tears). So waiting is always successful, if we define success as such. Question: When things happen in the life of someone beyond cause and effect

Answer: If we observe the life of a Salik, we see that his life is usually beyond the formula of cause and effect. The formula of two plus two does not apply. Ordinary people get money and spend, this person if does have some money, he wont be able to make much. The chain of cause and effect is usually broken this person is on a path of Dervish. What the leader of the Dervish said, ‘I found God by the breaking of my desires’ by Imam Ali R.A. Mostly those people who have their lives broken, are on the

right path. Otherwise for Pharaon and Haman, apparently succeeding. Those who have the passion and fire of love in their hearts. their lives are different. It is not that the are being punished, it is the Malamaat in their lives which guide them. This is an Ummat of Ashiq, those who face more turmoil, and dangers, who are those of the loved ones and are beaten more. People say this is due to their faults. Once Ashfaque saheb went to China, there were thousand waiting in line to meet Mao, when my turn came, Mao said some words in Chinese. The translator said Mr Mao is saying Pakistan is a great nation, relating to an incidence about the Chinese ambassador in karachi once telling him that once he was playing bridge with a Pakistani, he saw him again and again leaving and cleaning his face with water, so the ambassador asked him why don’t you drink, instead of washing your face with water, The ambassador advised him to drink as no one was seeing on this the Pakistani told him that he is fasting. Mao said those nations who have self denial are great nations. We have partial greatness in our nation which are scattered, a Chairman will come who will integrate them Questioner: Those who love God are subjected to more trials, as one who claims love then the sufferings are also a part of the test. Answer: These trials are on those who claim to love their Creator. A nation which claims the love of the Creator face more trials. It is quoted from Imam Jaffer Sadeq R.A a person said to one of the aima pak, I love you, to which he said then prepare for poverty and trials. Those of us who love Ahl e bayt

then trials and tribulations come as water coming down the hill. The real lover is not afraid.Aj tak mehboob ke jafa na aj tak kaise mohabaat ko tarqa wafa per majboor nahi kya.Question: I remember a saying of the Prophet Sallallahu alaihi Wassallam, , ‘Those who saw me actually saw me that shaitaan cannot come in my personality’. In context of wahaadat ul wajud he was the best. Answer: A saying of the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wassallam. ‘Those who saw me saw Allah’ meaning in dream, mushaida, makashwa if some one saw me should not get in doubt. If someone see in the Murshid the same depends on the salik, someone who got attached to a sahib irfan, could not reach his de detination, depends on his claim, of reaching the destination. Kharq e zaat e peru haq ra yaq na deed… ….. The traditional seats of mysticism have used there mureed to follow, the earlier claims to propagate and use them.Question: The Murshid sees the mureed and develops there character, this is one way of polishing the paimana, when the Jalwa reaches, it through the same Pyala, though the Jalwa is of the same Zaat.Answer: There would be a difference in the intensity or voltage, but not in the inherent properties. Like water in a glass has the same property as water in a lake. Once Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A sahib was asked if it is alright to eat with the Ahl e Kitab, to which he said it is ok to eat. The questioner said well theses Ahle e Kitab and that Ahle e Kitab were different.

He replied well these Muslims and those Muslims are not same either.Question: Dr sahib the Waqai e Miraj looks as it happened today.Question: The Raz(mystery) of this event will keep on unfolding till the day of Judgment, can be explained in the true sense only by the Baraati’s (wedding guests). Once at Shah Fazal shah sahib R.A residence, the Waqai e Miraj was being discussed, along with Ashafaque sahib, Hanif Ramay sahib, the intellectuals, when they left Sain Fazal Shah sahib R.A asked what were they discussing, on being told he said, then ask those who went, the Baraati’s. When a delegation goes abroad a whole brigade goes along, the cook, the protocol officer, each one gets a different protocol, a room reserved for each. When my father went to China along with last Nawaz Sharif government, a big delegation with my father as an educationist, he said I was treated as if I was the only one in the delegation getting excellent treatment, on what to eat, what sites to visit.Question: What are the elements in Khidmat, what are the expectations.Answer: Kidhmat without love cannot be expected, without expectation, otherwise it’s a business with condition, and what did you give me that I should give in return. Mohabbat is the only chapter which is without reward. Otherwise it is tijarat(business). Khidmat is of the Maqhlooq, Mohabaat is of the Mohabbat Walaa there is no desire of any reward. Doing for someone. When the muttaqeen help the poor they say we do not need anything in return. In khidmat there has to be a reference of the Zaat. Why

am I doing this, because of a Zaat. In which there is a desire for reward, it looks as it is without love.Question: Those verses and hadith for a person of Allah,if that Zaat is one and a purdah. Answer: For the others, for those we do not want to help we say, we are not capable, if someone tells us to use our influence, working for a department, if we do not want to help, we say we do not know them. So it’s about us and the other. For Ghair it is about bashariyaat, for our own its Nur. ‘No one will bear the burden of the other’ for the loved ones it’s Shafaat. It is all about yaqeen, a formula according to which whoever has more yaqeen has more shafaat, for 100% Shafaat need 100 yaqeen. Hazrat Ali R.A said do not explain my fazail before the other. The fazail are of the Zaat. The more yaqeen we will have on the Zaat, the more we will move away from the mechanism of Seefat. If we only have yaqeen on the Saffaat and not on the Zaat, we will remain in the mechanism of the Seefat. If we neither have yaqeen on Zaat and Shaffat then be trust only the amaal. Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A said ‘The tragedy is neither having amaal and doubting the Shaffat.’

Dr Azhar Waheed sahib Mehfil on 22-6-2013.

Question:- I have a question in my mind , I have read a lot about it, asked many people this question, which is why has the Khalaqa Kainat (Creator of the Universe) arranged and created this whole Nizaam(system), a question I have asked many and usually get a traditional answer.Answer: Let us view this question from a different angle, although this is not an answer. If you note that when you get into a relationship with someone, then the question of asking how and why immaterializes. And if the relationship is not developed or is in the stage of developing, or the question of developing does not arises at all, then the questions of how and why are infinite. Why did you do this, why did you that. But if one gets hold of the link to a relationship, then instead of asking one starts to narrate and to answer. There is one relationship between the Khaliq(Creator) and the Makhlooq(created), and the other being a secular relationship, which is relationship of the Creator with every of His creation, with every being, with an ant , a lion, but in the relationship with Insaan(human) there is something special of what that has been communicated is in the form of Quran e Pak. How and why, to ask the questions there was by Insaan (human) and to reply there was Insaan(human).

Let us read an Ayah,

In Arabic language Taa is used instead of Tuu, so using Taa the word becomes Taluq , so the whole Ilm is tere taluq ka naam, Your relationship.

Read! In the Name of your Lord, Who has created (all that exists),

Has created man from a clot (a piece of thick coagulated blood).There is a point created by the Sufia, yeh tera taluq hai, this question you asked has another dimension, another perspective, how did I arrive here, what is the meaning of my being here, question is the same, the question is being asked more decently , if we get answer to this question we get answer to the others, in Quran it says ‘Do not ask, but instead you will be asked’ I usually ponder what will be asked of us, like did you read the Quran, and said your namaz, but another question can also be asked in this context is , did you in this vast world where from besides Milton and Archimedes to Abu Ali Sina, Rumi and Razi pondered on at their levels, did you also try to discover yourself, who are you ?, where did you come from?, what is your purpose?, if we see a graph paper, and the four axis go into infinity. When

we draw anything on the graph we need a reference point, drawing anything without a reference point will be meaningless, unless a person considers himself as the reference point and starts to find and make himself the reference point and then the meaning of these questions of why, and how start to unravel . The question is what is the Wajah e Taqhleeq Kainaat? You will not get an answer to your question from outside, like if you are working in a bank, I as an outsider will ask what are these people doing from morning to evening, keep on counting repeatedly like some mad adventure. But those working in the bank a part of the bank, know it is a very serious issue , like those working in the World Bank, a little error in calculations will cause great problems, a small discrepancy in counting will be hazardous for the bank. So even to find the Maqsad (purpose) you have to become a part of this Nizam, those people who ponder on how the Creator created this vast Nizam stretching into billion of years, working effortlessly, reflecting how a child is born, then one has to become a part of the Nizam e Qudrat of the Khaliq consciously not academically but ilmi and consciously, in this respect the education given to us is first enter Taslim then do Research , reach research through Taslim, Iman is the syllabus of the heart, not of logic, The question is what is the Wajah e Taqhleeq Kainaat? We have to create Taluq first as its solves all entanglement of the rope, do know the kuna, the root cause for which we have to become first the part of the Nizam ,then things will start to Ashkaar( unravel), like while working in a bank the first we thing we do is apprenticeship , although already having studied banking, so instead

of asking the Creator why and how He started the creation, why everything has been created, first find yourself finding a reference point in your own self then all the drawings and maps will manifest on the graph, we do not understand things because we try to understand from a mantqi (reasoning) point of view, so that we would be able to communicate to others, instead of controlling the impulse to narrate to others, and coming out of this impulse to tell others, instead of deciding only to narrate to ourselves and understand only our selves and not to tell anyone else then we will see we understand much more , usually when a person hears or read he tries to rationalize, because if he has to tell someone else then he should have logic, so if the human instinct to rationalize and human intellect has a basic instinct to rationalize is overcome for a short time , our scenario and our aperture will open, like in a dream when we are trying to understand or communicate, in a dream we don’t have an impulse to communicate so in a dream we understand much more. The filter of logic removes many pearls of wisdom, and many pearls do not pass through the filter, thinking as leftover a human throws them away.What is the better approach?Answer: The better approach is to disregard the earlier approaches written on ones mindset, that slate should be cleaned, then in the state of acceptance (ba halaat e tasleem) try to read whatever is being written by itself, since whatever has already been written so far on our mind has been written by some one else by others, on the contrary what is in our slate we have written by our own

hands, the only book that is verifiable is the one which is our own book.Question: How can we clean the slate?Answer: This question is very important of how to clean the slate, this is a very easy and a very difficult way, if one is in Tasleem of someone it is a matter of 2 minutes, but if one does not come in Tasleem can become a stupendous task of life. When one comes in Tasleem( accepts) someone things become very easy, I will give you my personal experience, when I came in the company of Sarkar Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A, I had read all the philosophies of old Greece, Khalil Gibran, the Halqa Arbab e Zauq , the critics gatherings, laden with all, but it was miracle not my effort, miracle was his, when we came in his trance, when he made us Tasleem , not saying we came in Tasleem since we did not know, when and how we came in Tasleem, it never came to the mind that this point was discussed by this Sufi or that writer, also said something like this, not coming in the developing stage, I came when having read everything , so it was a his Ijaz that all that was written , the heart and mind came together , otherwise one says I am listening and this is just one, of the many explanations this did not happen. So this is the way of cleaning the slate, cleaning the slate is a spiritual level and journey of all spiritual matters and tasks start through Tasleem, bypassing the contents of the Mind and the bypassing the mind is accepting Tasleem. If we reflect on how big the Haqiqat are the Angels, reward and punishment, Allah Tala which do not come in our experience, but as soon we come into Tasleem , we become of those Haqaiq, saying

salaam to the angels and getting wa alikum salaam. The whole Ijaz is of Tasleem, getting in the domain of Hadood e Haraam, when those who have not accepted find a board, that says those not in Tasleem go this way, only those with Tasleem go this way as the Hadood e Haraam has come when we go to umra there is a board, when coming into Muslim town about 35 miles ahead is a board the rest are sent in the bypass, its all a story of Tasleem , the cleaning of the slate is smaller event , Tasleem does big events, so cleaning the slate is matter of Tasleem with the brush of tasleem, eroding all other brushes, as the saying goes, the pen was given , giving us permission to write, whatever one want to write, example when we come to a physician carrying many files, the physician prescribes a certain medicine knowing what medicine to prescribe , like in a spiritual prescription too we work in a hit and trial method, going to different doctors, and also having our own prescription, so Taslim makes one focused, removing any torsion in transmission.What is the relationship between Tasleem and Mohabbat is tasleem possible without Mohabbat?Answer: Yes they say Tasleem is not possible without Mohabbat. There is a proof in Quran, ‘We said to heavens and the earth to come into obedience’, this is the prize, toon has a rank, ‘They come to you and say we believed, do not say we believed say we accepted Islam, then you might get Iman’, as its said about namaz even when one does not experience a feeling in namaz to still pray, as its obligatory while feeling is not obligatory. For example in a mehfil of a saint, if things go by merit ,

then hardly any one qualifies, but those who come in Tasleem qualify and join, like for a six grader we make them learn math tables not be used later on, so doctors have to learn all the specialties, even if not using them later. They could be working in CMH, still have to learn all to become a part of that system maybe some having Nishan e Haider could be doing Tuun. Tuun of Tasleem is with Mohabbat, which might not be there but only being in the sangaat could lead to Tasleem, one is associated with the word love. In higher levels tasleem and mohabbat do unite.Question: Prophet Sallallalahu Alaihi Wassallam is the Wajah e Taqleeq Kainaat and then a hadith e Quddusi narrates about Allah Subanhu, as declaring’ I was a hidden treasure to be discovered’ how do we understand the two hadith?Answer: The answer to kyon is not given in the creation of heavens and the earth. There is Hadith e Qudussi, in human history what are the reasons of creation of Universe, is Allah Subhanhu say’ I was a hidden treasure and wanted to be known’ and the other Hadith says ‘ Awala makhalqa nuri’ ‘ God created my nur first’ if we consider these two hadith we understand how the hidden treasure was discovered and unraveled in cave of Hira. As said treasures are found in caves. The Saudi friend’s debate how do you say the cause of creation was the Prophet Mohammad Sallallalahu Alahi Wassallam, first Hazrat Adam pbuh, Nuh alai saallam and there were a hundred and twenty four thousand , here we mention a masnawi of Maulana Rum said, That the tree of kainaat, whatever the seed we

plant and the tree grows, whatever seed we planted we get it at the end, so when the universe was created, the seed came at the end, after the tree was filled with leaves and , so the seed and fruit which was the reason of the creation of the tree of creation came last ,alam amr and alam khlaaq are Mirrror image of each other, whatever is extreme right on one side is extreme left on the other, first one came the last. This treasure is increased through Insaan , why do you call Hazrat Ali Hajveri as Gaang e bakash, because he is delivering, Gaang e nuri marifaat e Muhammadi.Question: What is shirk?Answer: Our Prophet derives everything from the Quran, shirk is not who’s work is not complete, but bring to attention the common name, whatever message the Maqkhlooq got from is from the Prophet Mohammad Sallallalahu Alahi Wassallam otherwise the Maqkhlooq has no reliable source. Those who claimed in history of any relationship were not justified, even to their own claim, not even own their mark. But the message to the Prophet was delivered generation after generation is increasing and increasing. Marifat elahi is being constantly explained through Sufia karam , this work is in progress, as the karamat e aulia are actually the continuity of the mujazaat e nabi.

Question: How we define ‘To Be Known’?Answer: its meaning is for God to be known to Himself, not that the Maklooq recognizes, the Sufia karam tell us before God had no Surat, I believe personally only the need is of Huba e Rasool, because Mohabbat itself leads to Marifaat, what we

call Mariffat is of love, that of laila was with majnoon, the rest will write research papers.Jane tera naqsh e kadam mela tere jamal meen dhall gaya. Apne basheri rasta ko tarq karta hoe tere rahoon meen besaya gaya.All prayers are for Qurbat, not for pleasure but for Suhbaat, the meaning of Roza is to tie your self. Tera khayal na hota mere namaaz ka imam. As said by Iqbal.Tera khayal be So mohabbat is first and amaal are afterward , because if amal advance by themselves can lead to munafqat, the imamat of amal is mohabbat, the deliverance of an insaan is through khayal, not amal the best khayal is to remember the beloved, Mohabbat means to leave, there other definitions too, but one definition is to think about the beloved.Question: Is the discovery of self the discovery of God?Answer: Yes this is so; yes it is a shortcut of saying that, for if we go step by step goes into detail. Self discovery is like as discussed before , if a drop in the ocean discovers itself its mahiat that is qualitatively not quantity wise, will find some properties of the Qulzam not all.Question: As you said about Khayal and fikr.Anwer: The cleaning of the slate is in reference to Afkaar, to hold khayal is not easy is a hard task , to clean the slate is about afkaar, not khayal which is a frequency between the set and the server, the frequency at which the transmission is made, from the server from which the whole mehfil is transmitted.

Answer: What is the qualitative difference in the nature of the questions asked before and after Tasleem?Questions: The questions before Tasleem are of different nature are zamini sawal(earth bound) of tashkeek, which change after catching the train of Tasleem, then the nature of questions change, like when we come in the compartment of tasleem, then we ask questions like how far is the Manzil ?, what is the next station ? at what speed are we going?, when will we reach the Manzil?, until we buy the ticket of the train of Tasleem, we keep on asking question like whether train goes or not some say it goes , the journey of questions keeps on going, the question of Tasleem are different from those of tahqiq.Question: There is a lot of Sakuun(contentment) in the questions of tasleem.Answer: Yes there is much difference, in the questions of tahqiq there is a danger of breaking the relationship, while in the question of tasleem the relations become nearer and stronger. We are importing our Qalbi kafiaat with our danish. The column which holds the building cementing the two. Hazrat Ibrahim A.S in his dialogue with God, asked how do you resurrect the dead, to which he was asked don’t you believe, he replied yes I do but to enhance my faith, to satisfy my Qalb. Giving support of the column even if yaqin is displaced.Question: Do even after tasleem, we still face the questions of Tashqeeq?Answer: An important question and the answer is also very important, there is the Manzil, and some people love the manzil , and some love the

mehboob of the manzil. Does doubt still comes after acceptance, some people love the manzil and some have mehboob as the manzil. Question: Is safar the manzil?Answer: If we are on the right track then manzil is at every step, but that is a different chapter, the other is if two people are travelling together and get to a place, they reach together the first peak and then plan for the next peak, after covering some peaks, some will say we have not reached the next peak, but there will be those who’s only wish will their journey and say leave the peaks aside, and there tasleem will never be in tashqeeq. Question is important.

Answer: On taqdeer and tadbir we can read many poems, and read about jabri and qadri, the reality is yaqin and tashqeeq is the prerogative of a human, depends on the human,the decision is made by a human, yaqin can be called as love, but if tashqeeq is not akthiairi and is jabri , then the whole show ends, then why would we blame a kafir, the whole shariat, reward and punishment , amaal and mizaan , jannat and dozakh, all things come in tashqeeq. All things if delivered to taqdeer, then on the doraha of tashqeeq and tadbir lies the strength and human weakness to chose.

Question: Is tashqeeq a human weakness or gunah ?Answer: Let shaqq (doubt) come, and pass through the pressing machine, the juice will be separated from the rest. ‘When shaaq is removed it becomes an asset of yaqin.’

A child makes a drawing, and practice, keep on practicing practice makes a man perfect, tahqeeq and gunah is the chapter of the maulvi, , the base and journey of truth is asking questions, a sufi never says do not ask this question, to them all people went, the dehrya, the Wahhabi, everyone. So if we think asking a question is wrong, it is invalid ask as many questions you want. Those who have a factious building will be afraid, if going further it will be bedaat and going back will be shirt, stopping a rational person from reflecting, Quran is full of tafakaar, to think, tafkaar is silent zikar, and zikar is the talking fikar. Inkaar, ikraar ke halaat ka naam hai, the meaning of kufar is to veil, to hide, you must unveil the veiled. The journey to kaaba tulaa is the unveil desire, of the nura e iman injected while performing Umra. After that this kafiaat will be stopped if one thinks whether I am a follower, until there is a distance one keeps on thinking but stops when we come in front. The tashqeeq is removed by mushaid.Question: Does reading more carry more responsibility?Answer: That is wrong, to think the more religious knowledge we have will have more responsibility, is incorrect, when we are checking the internet, reading philosophy but not the translation of the Quran. How to do a Phd. But reading the translation of Quran is the only thing left. One of our friends a teacher used to say that he had a principal, wherever he went he used to find people who liked research and reading, used to give them a scholarship and send them away. So that no will be there to ask questions and nor will have the trouble to answer. A hadith e pak

says, ‘One moment of reflection is better than a hundred years of ibadaat’. Tafaqar is a very valuable thing.When we are in the state of tashqeeq we are disconnected from the reality, when we are in tasleem we get connected, what Mushaida does is to create a state of Unison, creating synchronization with the Ultimate reality, tashqeeq disconnects, this contact and dis contact usually keeps on going, is called music periodically contacting and dis contacting, neither the liking of mushaida nor the state of tashqeeq, the journey of musafir is to keep on going, whether in mushaida or in tashqeeq , whether in contact or otherwise . When a beloved finds out the door is closed still keep on moving, a true lover will keep on traveling, even when all the doors are closed, waiting for them to open.Chal hoon gurdwara maal, shaair se de saraa dewaa bujj gayaa.

Question: How can we live amiably?Answer: If insaan learns to live with other Insaan is

saved from a lot of troubles, example shah sahib has a car, if I compromise and go with shah sahib, I will save, when an insaan does not depend, has become short tempered, then one feels the shortage of money, in older times, a lot of family used to live together, the cousin was considered as an insult, not using the term brother, a few people used to earn and a lot of them lived a free life. We have sharing our family and started to feel isolated. We have to pass through a secular and mechanical life; we take loan, but do not want to live close. The

older brother does not share with the younger brother, so the younger brother has to take a loan from the bank. Let me say, if we live close we do not have to worry about the currency. The bread and better of capitalism is selfishness.

Question: Did they not create goodness by technology and what are side effects of capitalism how was system different from the west?

Answer: The west having the codes or system, whether through Quran or Muslim scholars,or their own philosophy, whatever postulate they got they worked sincerely on them, there system is khushaal, but their individual is not khushaal, there is suffocation. If you go the west then your whole family should be there, if we do not have job here you do not worry, but over there if you do not have hundred dollars you will be thinking about the bills, falaah is individual , khushaali is at a collective level, if I have a building outside and I am not happy, when you started talking about tahqiq(research) and Tashkeer e Kainaat is a journey of an individual not of the community, talking about east and west, the majority from the east have doubts about there traditions, are they reliable to be followed, when its stamped from outside we readily accept it, when Hakim Saeed gives a medicine we doubt, but coming from the royal college we are elated. Another important thing is those of the west, respected there sages and the learned. The table of Shakespeare is still kept as a souvenir, on the other hand we have been in the grip of shirk

and bedaat, on the other hand we sold those of our learned and the scholars.

The spiritual beating we got, ignoring our scholars and their assets, their books landed us in trouble while the west did not ignore their guides. Insaan whatever he is a believer a non believer , human as a human, as example to understand there is another god in another universe, and ask God what is your masterpiece, will be an Insaan(human being), if we also devote to a system where the human being will be elevated and respected, we will have Falaah, from Khutaba Hajat ul Widah, Europe and America has recently given emancipation to the blacks only lately the message was no white has superiority over black, no insider has superiority over outsider, the life of Muslim and his respect is more the respect of Khana Kaaba. The respect showed by Islam towards a human is unparalleled, not to run in namaz to meet someone. The kings have ruined the system have bulldozed the message for personal gains.

Question: You have very excellently described is indeed perfect the

Answer: Describing does not solve the problem, inqilaab the revolution was when the slave and master prayed together 1400 years ago, a Yemeni king had slapped a baadhu, for accidently putting his feet on his robe, when the case went to Hazrat Umar Farooq R.A, told the King according to Islamic justice, to either get a slap or ask for

forgiveness from the baadhu, to which the king answered he will think, and fled at night saving himself from disgrace, this was the revolution.

Question: Is the welfare system, a complete system?

Answer: Those whose home contains guidance the punishment will be double. In Scandinavian countries the law of Umar R.A is copied, that was the objection of the kuffar mecca that you are making our slaves to sit with us. In the revolution of France, the people came to know after 1200 years when the deen had already made it known. The respect of a human is so high that one finds God, to make a welfare system is not that big thing as compared, it is not changing the nizam, because we have many jammat e islami only portraying a good system, which is just a fringe benefit, like besides getting salary. The 6686 ayah on the welfare system is just a part the real is when an individual achieves perfection through tafakuur and tazakurun and Ulul Albab, a one to one game. When it was said come to the good system, people objected on the socialist also possessing a nizam without religion. The Scandinavian countries having also a welfare system, without kalima, why you say we come to deen and then form a community, having thesis. Developing an antithesis. When the ten of us are sitting in this room can plan to have this room decorated together, paint here put a tube

light there, we are trying to change a system without first having an individual changed. Beating the system without changing the individual, talking of nafaz without nafooz, when we hire a righteous person in a department, the whole department will be cleansed, as Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A, said ‘Those countries flourish where the head of departments are righteous’. In the passport department one person came DIG Zulfiqar Cheema having a good reputation, has changed the system otherwise the urgent passports were issued in six months, we do not provide food for the hungry and try to cut hands of the thief as in the Islamic history when there was a famine the sharia was not implemented. This is called neem hakimi, the quack will not find the root cause, while a doctor will diagnose and cure the root cause.

Question: Some people who become mechanical do not become helpful for others, but some believe one has to be mechanical to survive what is the right way?

Answer: Those who become dependent on the mechanical aspect of the Nizam even dependent on the watch, there was professor who had an anxiety disorder, to do every thing perfectly, I told him to reduce his punctuality which is not good from a mechanical point, as it is not very good for the body makes you tense. So those dependent on the Nizam , who are

mechanical then they wont be very helpful. Like when I practices I do not say, I am closing my clinic after 10:15 , and come after 6pm, will not take any more patients, will not be good. Which is due to mine being non mechanical, some earn an amount, then say they will save some, and then and save so much percent. If a person takes ones economic life to the banks, then he wont have a penny left to pay to the poor, when I am driving an old car and then finds myself wanting a new one, I will go to the bank and get the loan, and keep on paying the loan off, not able to pay the poor, the more we are able to get out of this mechanical life, the more we will be able to bring out others from this mechanical life, the more spiritual life we will adopt the more we will come out of the mechanical life. Mechanical life is a wheel of jabr(compulsion), morning follows the evening, while earning millions have hardly time for helping others. There are definite exceptions. Loss of working hours is mentioned in the west, contributing to loss of monetary hours, not making humans but horse of race courses.

Questions: What do you say about our systems in the east and their faults?

Answer: This crisis is not new, as Allama Iqbal pointed out; we are giving the wrong message to our children. Hazrat Wasif R.A pointing to the sad story in the east, where the khanqai nizam is dominating our

society, in contrast to the west where the conquest of the universe, is being achieved. The debilitating situation in the east, where the pir takes advantages of the mureed. What is the true litmus test of the truthfulness of a person is whether he is talking help or helping others. In the example of the king of Balk Hazrat Ibrahim R.A when he settled in the Kaba, and started having followers, he used to tell them from now on, I will feed you, and what he did to earn was go to the jungle and collect wood.

Question: Is there any need of a Pir today?Answer: If by Pir we mean a mentor and a guide is

necessary, you have not to take a mentor but the mentor has to take and guide you, a real mentor guides other, who understand the program and follows the program, a true Pir is in the need of true followers, who can understand the program him too. The relation between a Pir and a Mureed is from the standpoint of understanding is of fikar e tazkia, and fikar e rububiat, like in any branch of knowledge we need a teacher, as in any other department to get knowledge , so too for sahibane fikr need a mentor, do not get into names there is a confusion in names, call them ustad, mentor, guide, pir, murshid, this is a relation between talib and matloob, if it is without zahir dari, it is strong, and if this relationship is based on zahir dari it becomes weak. Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif

R.A used to mention in spite of the breakup of the society the voice of Haq has always been heard, even the wrong doers know the wearing this mantle would make them appear as pious. Now days there is so much confusion so leave the rest and try to make your own center strong, do not look around, if there is something wrong going around, like a dance, circus do not look there, just salaam and come back. What is the question? What have we to do with the Gadi Nasheen?

Question: In all the happenings around we do not see any quality?

Answer: Why do you have anything with these people, though we respect them out of their relation with the saint, and not because of them, just go there and come back after paying your respect.

Question: There are like a bazaar, with different shops everywhere, what do we do? They are sitting six months each, not spreading any truth.

Answer: When there is the progeny at the sites, like Golra Sharif, we have been guided by Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A as in Kiran Kiran Suraj , Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A said if the Prophets Nubawat was not inherited, how could the waliayat of a saint be inherited, and also stating that the concept of seat hood in tasawwuf is liable to reflection. So we are given a guideline, as we have seen the real Alhamad u lillah, he is outside of tradition and of protocols, dress

and maneuvers , this is a journey of khayal, so were ever we think this khayal can be lighted from the lamp, we should follow it. We should only worry about our own khayal, we should have respect for the progeny, as they might change any time. But do not give your hands in their hand. The good darbars, like Golra sheriff, Khawaja Ghulam Fared R.A , where later on there was dissent, among the progenies. Care about your own khayal and not worry about others. If we are in the journey and in trance then everything is fine, as narrated by Hazrat WasifAli Wasif R.A,in Kiran Kiran Surag ‘If springs come and every cow becomes fat and not ours what would be the benefit to us.’

Question: In the beginning those who deserved were elected from outside and the deserving in the family too, why is that no more?

Answer: This concept that the son of hakem sahib would at least be able to make the covering of the medicine, but people come for medicine and not for the coverings. For a true and faithful the guidelines are given from somewhere, this universe has been so constructed that everyone gets the rububiat, the biggest thing is that those deserving faith will get faith and those seeking evil will get evil.

Kainait talib aur matloob ke dermayaan misaal aik keshkul ke hai.

Who ever wants will get his desire fulfilled, nazar and manzar are part and parcel as two sides of a coin, not separate, the maqamaat baqa ke manazar will get baqa, like in a match we have to have the spectators, the match is going on, even being a spectator is a worthy .Nazar and nazeer together form a manzar(scene), the nazeer also means andaza nazer.

Question: But the nazar will get the reward, how he plays depends.

Answer: This example is to understand, otherwise we get into logic. The batini examples have to be given in the zahir, to discern as otherwise out of compulsion. The rational approach has a weakness, to occupy illegally without understanding its limitations. Aql when ever it journeys will be illegally controlling things outside its domains. Khaish (desire) whoever rational will interfere in the affairs of the Universe. The symphony of this universe, the events happening under this symphony when approached rationally truncates the Real. Doing research on this symphony by analyzes derides us from the whole, who made this symphony, where did the notes comes from, listening to music is something different, but if we start to research it who wrote it, where did it come from is another discipline. Like while checking the internet the cursor comes across. Researching a song of Nur Jehan will unable us to listen to

the song. To listen to the symphony we have to disable the filter of analyzes.

Question: How can we understand the exegesis of the Quran to our satisfaction as explained from different points of views by numerous translations?

Answer: As written by Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A ‘To understand and write the exegesis of the Ilhami kalam has to be revealed.’ needs a Rumi R.A as revealed on his heart in the form of a Masnawi, and an Iqbal R.A, when Bala e Gabriel was recited in the form of higher poetry , otherwise everyone will have their own tafaseer and point of view, the Sufis who wrote the tafaseer never mentioned or claimed as such only later on people thought so. As Iqbal R.A said once ‘Oh God if what I have written is not correct do not give me guidance’. Like the poems of Iqbal R.A when sung make a person say namaz, like for the dreams we cannot discern rationally, we seek such and such person having a revealed knowledge of decoding, when the dreams have such am importance, what about a revealed book. So mantiq and dalil is not accepted here, another way of understanding this point is keep all the tafaseers on one side, when Who revealed is Here, on whom it was revealed is here, and for whom it was revealed are here, read without a tafaseer, so that the understanding which will be revealed will be one for you. Once a pious man said I have four tafaseers , and I read

them one by one, so I asked him how do you know which one to follow.

Read like a column, for Quran e Pak there are seven grid, from mutual understanding , so whichever grid we are standing start there the next grid will open up. This is the kalam of the Creator. Once Allama Iqbal R.A was asked by an English gentleman, when Newtonian physics ruled and atheism prevailed, when the one talking about particles was accepted and those talking about waves was not accorded acceptance. Dr Iqbal do you believe only the meanings of the Quran were revealed, or the whole words? To which he replied when on me the whole poems are revealed including the words. Not that a thought (khayaal) comes first and then I try to find the words, if a person like me having the poem revealed as a whole, then what to talk about the Quran. Because if we consider only the meanings then the status of the Quran is put in abeyance. Then the objection can be raised that the khayaal comes over saints and poets too will reduce the legal importance. If you want to read the exegeses, then read the tafseer of Baba Nur Wala R.A who was first recited a verse by the mureeds , as he could not read and write then narrated the tafseer Fazli verbatim, so read tafseer a Fazli if you want a spiritual rendering of Quran e Pak. Who once said what kind of tafseer is that you have designed maps and related geography

in the story of Moses and Pharaoh, the tafseer is Pharaoh is the one who is full of his desires, and immersed in the river of desires in which he ultimately drowns. How Pharaoniat drowns in the river of its desires and pride. The moral of the lesson should be there, otherwise becomes a book of history, those events that have passed; now we need to draw lessons till the kaymaat from them.

Question: Can we read the Quran while lying down?

Answer: We should keep the decorum, for otherwise if we do not respect will loose the meanings. If we want to hear then it is fine. The people of gulf read the Kalam e Pak like an ordinary book, storing it in the same column as the rest, without respecting it. Do not keep in the same column as the rest of the books even religious, the Quran e Pak has a preference over all other books, as like Khuda e Zul Jilal has over the whole of His creation, a mustanad hadith(A solid saying of the Prophet, May peace and blessing of Allah Almighty be upon him).

Question: What is the philosophy of Namaz?Answer: The concept of Namaz is to leave the ways

of evil, otherwise it has no meanings. Forgetting the last day, the day of judgment, not considering the difference between right and wrong, not feeding the poor, stopping others from feeding, telling people to stop feeding, for feeding is a sacred task, the maskeen who cannot say

he wants food, not a beggars, the system of langar in a spiritual system and in tassawwuf is against the capitalist way, if a westerner comes to data darbar and see the food being distributed will be bewildered. And those showing off, the munafaqoon, there masjid zarar was ordered to be destroyed. Going in the presence of the Prophet Sallalallahu Alahi Wassallam, the other point is not giving and sharing with the needy, not facilitating each other, for example we should share with each other things of daily use, example being the charger or the phone, or the car in trying to make the life of our fellowman easy. Those who are just praying namaaz and do not taking care of the needy. Fazail are not in namaaz but in ammal and khayaal. Fazal is the intiha of khyaal and the fazail are in ammal. These are the few important points, in all ibadaat, the end is Qurbaat Illalahe, to find Qurbat and the root is Medina, if the goal for ibaadat is denied then fazail of ammal are confusing, producing a pride on ammal and not on Fazal.

‘Happiness is in the naseeb of shukar guzaar, the corollary of shukar guzaar is to remain contended and be glad’.

Question: How do we make our ammal pakezza?

Answer: Like you asked how the khayaal becomes concrete, does not wander becoming sold, otherwise in a liquid state it will most likely

deviate, it is not a mathematical question having a mathematical answer, there is no answer, there is no theory, it is an experience by doing, like driving a bicycle is by doing, by practicing it by falling and then standing up again until one gets to know, it is project of life for the whole life, a whole book, becoming Qaim is the willaayat. Those whom we call wali are the ones who are able to maintain there khayaal. The answer to your question in your own words on how khayaal can be established is. ’ The way the khayaal is established is where the Qaim Maqam of the khayaal resides’. If you discover the Qaim Maqaam of a khayaal , then reside your khayaal there.

Mehfil with Dr Azhar saheb on 21-9-2013.

Question:- Khaabar ka daam ka daam, here khaabar means one person receives some information, does not know what the information is about, a batini(inside the soul) news, we interpret meanings ourselves, there is a hurdle here, what is the importance of khaabaar.?Answer: Khaabar here is not simply an information but a specific term, looking at the important points, in the books of seerah(Life of the Prophet) there is a title besides other titles of the Prophet Sallalahu Alahi Wasallam, called Mukhbaar e Sadeq, in Quran it is written ‘Ama yata saboon anin na abil

azeem’, ‘ They ask about the nawa e azeem a big news’in Arabic called nawa, in Quran it is written ‘nabi abadi’, ‘my nabi my slave’, here khaabar means, a very important question indeed, here khaabaar does not mean about a zahaari nizaam the work which is being done and assigned outside by science, here khaabar means having relations with Aalaam e Ghaaib, and Aalaam e Amr, a certainty, even someone being at the pedestal of khaabaar has a unique standing, that we say so and so person is standing at the pedestal of Khabbar, here the source of acquiring khaabaar(news) is not the five senses, if a scientist talks it is not khaabaar whatever its interpretation, here we are taking in terms of Tasawwuf, here khaabar is a specific term, when Bale Rehman says something, it is a khaabar, or if Maulana Rum says something it is a khaabaar, and our murshid says in his introduction ‘khaabaar ka daam ka daam’ it is a news. In the Quran in Sura Yasin ‘Qula shain ataina fe imamun mubin’ Every thing has a measure with the mamul e Mubin’. Like we have kitab ul mubin, Here Khaabaar means the relation a person has with mamul Mubin, the source being the person has a relation with imamul mubin, because he has a contact with the Rab ul Alameen, or can read kitab ul mubeen. These are formulas like in science, there too the Creator is the same, there too formulas are being unveiled, here in mystic enumerations we cannot verify and have to depend on the words of the recipient delivering the news (khaabaar). There is no test or litmus test here other with time, not instantaneously, if he is saying there is a cliff ahead, and one can plunge into it, only time will tell about

its correctness, no one will be able to see it with eyes, or the senses or science or any academic means to verify his warnings, only time unveiling the authenticity of the news about this cliff. Since Wilaayat (friendship with the Creator) is the hallmark of the Prophets, as there are kulliyaat about the Prophets so also about the Aulia ‘Bashiran wa Nazira’ giving glad tidings and recipient of illuminations being the standard bearers of the Prophets. Being able and recipient of khaabaar of being Ba Khaabaar is a blessing, in a be- khaabaar life to be able to have news, is an Ihsan e awal of maanzar, the khabriyaat you are talking about is something else those who receive it are rewarded with Eternal life. Bekhaabaar is a life lead by the living dead, we should reflect upon the Khaabaar (news). The one who is giving the khaabaar is like the Moon reflecting the light of the Sun a news about the sun , not just a transmission but a boaster, but a transformational entity, you can say khaabaar or the news is linked with Mushaida.

Question: Those who are given a khaabaar those who receive it we can see had the access, it we can access the Source being Absolute Uunseen, if there is no access to the source of the news and the news is for the whole world, having nothing in it for me, but there is nothing for me.

Answer: This access is not a physical access, but a communication with the consciousness of another conscious, a communication with the Complete

Being, sometimes talking about a person as Pohancha hoa (having a great access), example someone who has just a zahir(outward) can buy a ticket and reach Medina, but till a zahir ,we cannot call him pohanchoa, a real pohanchoa is having access to the khayal might not have left Lahore physically, but having access to the khayal , the other name being Islam, but has access to the paigham e rehmaat, the communication of five senses is one way, the other is two way, in communication of senses we read Darud Shariff knowing well we are being heard, in the other words having yaqin on the zaat and being part of Iman , but not having experience, but when we have an experience that we are being heard and have access and attention, then that is a khaabaar, Maqaam Ihsaan, praying to the Creator as He is seeing you, the station of Ihsaan. Everyone prays but there is a difference, of being present physically and the huzari e Dil, the obedience of the heart, in easy words we can say, when a child is reading 2 multiply 2 is 4, or 2 multiply 4 is 8, rote memorization, but have a different meaning able to comprehend, should know the real mathematical comprehension of how 2 multiplied by 2 is 4.

Question: The injunctions of sharia what is the significance?Answer: The injunctions of sharia should be performed and has its own Maqam, with or without understanding, has its own significance but with getting no khaabaar, or news, not knowing if it’s accepted or what standing one has before the Lord of the Universe. You have very easily said that since not

having access to Zaat e Mutlaq or Khaabaar e Mutlaq things appear theoretical having no practical significance.

Question: Does not the news not look theoretical?Answer: Do you know the saying ‘Who ever got the Raz becomes part of the Raz’ one who is standing at the pedestal of being the holder of news is part of that news. We read Quran, having nightly reading, but what is that Maqam, when a person heard the ayaat, ‘Has that time not come, when the hearts of the Momin did not shatter in the Name of the Lord’ ‘Wa iza tuliyat’ . We hear and read one thing all the times every day, but at one moment at a certain period the frequency in a certain state of consciousness hears a saying, or hears a voice, and says I trembled. While being of no significance for the other. Haza asaeteul awaleen. Here the khaabaar is (the news) the khaabaar of Marifait e Haque. Having same Quran and having the same ayaat, but at a certain time, the same ayaat changes the heart of the recipient, destroying the fabric of the mind, creating an earth quake in the heart, being same ordinary people, in the same morning or an ordinary day, same words, same sun, start giving different meanings. The curtain of physics starts to fall, like in love, an ordinary face, an ordinary being, becomes a doomsday for him for whom the curtain of that consciousness drops, taking away my breath, when an ordinary person passed through the corridor, but a different news for him. The news is a

specific term not information but an awareness in the chapter of ignorance.

Question: Different people receive different news from the Zaat, different people with different medium get the news from the same Zaat.Answer: Everywhere it’s the Jalwa Zaat, whether of Samaat or Aawaz or face or eye.

Question: Is it in reference to a certain medium?

Answer: One holding the bowl should not be the chooser, not taking advantage of the charity of the donor, not specifying to ask for the whole, taking a cross check, because having heard that the khayal is not a cross check, it is not for him to specify, as the mohib (lover) does not create a formula for the beloved, for the khaabaar(news) at this maqam(station) the other name is Jalwa.Not an information from the information cell, but a complete Jalwa e Zaat in other words a Wardaat(happening), this khaabaar (news )is the Naba Al azeem, sleeping with a big comforter of ignorance, this news is the falling of this comforter, the sliding of this comforter, a Greek philosopher (Plato) describes this in an episode of few persons in a cave, where they see the light coming from an opening and falling on a wall with shadows appearing thinking this as the reality outside, forced to look at the wall. Thinking the shadows to be the reality, assuming the shadows to be facts falling on the wall to be the Haqiqat. Using this allegorical story will try to explain my

point, instead of looking at the wall a person turns their face towards the light, they will become Ba-Khaabaar towards the light. Because then he will be able to show those looking at the wall the true picture and the true reality, saying what you are looking at shadows is based on assumptions, and conjectures, you have been trying to assimilate the reality from the shadow on the wall, while I am actually seeing a person, with what color, what height he possesses. The one who is attuned to a khaabaar is left with a collection of the parts, which the people looking at the wall do not possess. One who is possessed with khaabaar is possessed with the pieces of the reality, while those calculating by looking at the wall are devoid of all the pieces.

Question: How do we recognize the medium, or will the medium recognize us, or someone will tell that there is a bowl, how do one hold a bowl? Where to sit?

Answer: In other words you are trying to know, how a person who is a wayfarer finds the murshid, or how a murshid recognize a traveler.

Question: When the reality appears what the tool is, will the murshid tell, when the Haqiqat comes across as a Jalwa ?

Answer: It is built in, is a genetic pre-disposition, some are taken aback by samaa(voice), a tendency connected with creation.

Question:, I have question in reference to the above discussion , when we read the ayaat.

Ha-Mim. [These letters are one of the miracles of the Quran and none but Allah (Alone) knows their meanings].

The revelation of the Book (this Quran) is from Allah, the All-Mighty, the All-Wise.

Verily, in the heavens and the earth are signs for the believers.

I have a question when we sit in a Mehfil or read the Quran, we have wudu we go out of the masjid and see the signs of the Lord everywhere, in the heavens and the earth, in

the noble book should not we have wudu. all the times though hard to keep. Answer: You mean when we read the Quran written on a book after doing the wudu, and when we read the Quran in Afaaq (Universe) and the verses in it, should we study them with having a wudu.

Question:- Allah says there are so many signs in the heavens and the earth that you ignore and pass by without reflecting in them, when you get a khaabaar, even Iqbal R.A says that Kalam is better then Samma(eastern litany), have a genetic predisposition or exposure, reading Jalil ul Kalam, Dahqiq ul Kalam, reflecting on Allah and his creation, when we get out of the home, we see the heavens and the earth, with signs the sun and the moon and we say Subhan Allah, shouldn’t we try to have ablution.

Answer:-Yes we should keep wudu, it is a castle or an armor , it is called one of the mystery in the mysteries of Afaaq(the universe), but while reading the verses in the universe, here the wudu is of Niyaah, of the koniah , because if there will be self-interest involved, no amount of seeing the sun however big it is or, the moon will not have the desired message and the results, we see a scientist being hired by an organization doing research and developing a cosmetic, motivated by profit and self-interest and material gain will not achieve the desired results, will not be stunning, the curtain will not unveil, for him.

Question: I am talking here about a person who sees the Jalwa of Allah the Mighty everywhere, not having a self-interest or is not profit motivated. He reads the Quran while doing ablution but does not think, about doing wudu while going out, knowing well that that the same verses are coming in front of him again, the ones he just left while reading the Quran?

Answer: Wudu too has a zahir and batin. We should try to be in the state of ablution.

Question: What is the command for one on whom an illumination appears as a khaabaar(news)?.

Answer: It is an illumination only once, a lifetime experience, not a daily lesson, khaabaar like in the case of Prophet Moses when he fainted only once and not again and again, ‘Falaama tajalla rabahu lil jabal jalahu datqan waqarabu musa kaifa’ the same one Jalwa, same one khaabaar, one tajali, quenching ones thirst for a lifetime, watering his being.

Question: What are the further extractions, do they raise the iman and take further towards Haq( Truth) what when a person sees a plant being nourished and fed by an entire universe? (Being Holographic in essence) what lessons can he draw further?

Answer: The news is the same the observation in the plant, but further manifestations of the same message and its particular nature working out in the growth of a plant, flowers, and the universes, not discovering something new, already illuminated in his batin (inside) not discovering anything new with his discoveries he is making as a scientist. The mushaida further strengthens his being.

Question: So we should be in the state of ablution?

Answer: Yes we should, a big status, a castle, many mysteries, to make sleep a prayer, it is said remain with wudu, the practical way being to keep doing it again once it is broken, wherever possible do it again. Because the niyah with wudu, the intention with ablution, those of eyes, tongue, will prevent him to go towards meel dirt, which would break the ablution, if you see diet pattern of those who maintain their wudu, not breaking. This is what the Sufia say, that whatever we are doing should become our

Questions: Are they the Manazils of Junoon?

Answer: The first benefit of junoon or jazb or what they do is to remove the intricacies of logic and reason, they stop effecting him, when logic and philosophy only becomes an ordinary book, what we said just now about khaabaar is a chapter of jazb, outside the chapter and domain of khird, in the terminology of physics, those on whom the chapter

of quantum physics is opened, for them particle physics becomes secondary.

Question: Are not people interpreting a different meaning on various aspects of our culture, like inamal amalo binayyat , some interpret accordingly to their point of view, like it is not a sin to listen to music, what is their fault as they were told like that, like what is the status of music?

Answer: One person who is not doing the right deeds and his intentions are good where does he stand? You are an attorney should know how to interpret a big article , ‘inamal amalo binayaat ‘To differentiate between nifaaq and iman’, the same deed, a good and bad deed depends on intention, not taking about the secular deeds if there is self-interest involved and the intention is not good, ‘Amal o salahaat’ the ranking comes after amano, after accepting the Iman, otherwise the chapter of niyaat and amaal e salaha there is no chapter of niyaah, it does not exist if he is not accepted Iman, the right deeds come after no self-interest, listening to music is like driving a car, whatever work we do is changed to ammal deeds when there is a niyaah. The word afaal becomes amaal when the niyah is attached after acquiring Iman. The chapter of niyah and intention do not exist, otherwise every activity is a social activity, those who are people of amano if they listen to music will be alright, after reciting the kalimah and becoming sahib e Iman, when they hear the melody of the flute, they interpret that as the lamenting of the separation. If someone is on

the path of Maulana Rum, will listen to a saaz, will be alright, when he listened to the flute, he is interpreting the separation from the beloved, fine for Maulana Rum. If a person is not on the path of Maulana Rum will listen to what the emperor Nero would interpret. While Rome burned he was listening to the flute or the music.

When we think of ammal they have quantity and a direction like a vector, a direction otherwise will be scalar, driving a car can have a good or bad purpose, a good or bad deed, if he is driving to the mosque, that will be Amal Sallah, Ammal and afaal are separate.

Question: God has given man intelligence and consciousness, for what purpose?

Answer: God has given humans intelligence to find the difference between right and wrong, Shujaat sahib this intelligence is only for the good deeds and applicable only for me, my deeds whether I am going on the right or wrong path, not for the other, we do not know what conditions and state of mind the other is going through, his kaif and kaifayat , if we understand the other, then we can say we understand. Using this facility we cannot map and make decisions about the other. This intelligence is given to us and not using this faculty on the other and giving our decision on his behavior, unless we come in his state

Question: When I go to a preacher and then people who attain different levels of understanding and Taqwa, I want to follow them, those who do not come in our perception are we duty bound to do bayt.

Answer: No it is not Farz mandatory after Tauhid o Risalat to do bayt on a wali is not a duty.

Question: When something does not come in our understanding why should we accept unconditionally, a perception attained by a saintly person. Which does not come in the domain of our intelligence and logic? But if one has curiosity, how can one deal with it, when one does not accept the unseen?

Answer: If there is a curiosity, then the fellowship of curiosity is also curiosity, when traveling on the path of curiosity and its fellowship we reach the condition of inward acceptance. (batini halat). Then the litmus test will not be necessary, when one is standing outside, those who have been illuminated will continue on, like children trying to catch a butterfly get lost from the company of their friends, pursuing the butterfly, so that the rest of the company goes away, the collective sense of do and don’t, will get out of the mob psychology, interest takes one out from the conventional mind, like children leave their homes in June and July to play outside in heat, which a sensible person wont, so the duality of intelligence and logic is waved and bypassed in the interest of interest. If we are

bewilder by one of our friends, and wonder how come he is pursuing something beyond our comprehension in the wilderness where no one dares, while we are comfortably settled in our ways holding sensibilities, reason and logic as our guide. The mold of this person has broken itself clearing all through the barriers, having conquered the highest peak, in Malanjaba Swat, where skiing is done, a friend of mine when he reached the highest peak and saw the whole valley a panoramic, view fell into prostration. He did not realize any one was watching; spontaneously bowing, done only by those who reach the valley of wonder, having already reached the peak. Accepting His mold of In the valley of wonder, there is only obedience and not doing an exercise, for those in do’s and don’ts in the state of logic and reason, in the domain of logic for them its suggested to remain in their comfortable life, and exercise restraint. ‘do not put yourself in danger’ The usual philosophy is to earn money and save, but one who has sacrificed everything has crossed the danger line, the red line. The syllabus of love has no dos and don’ts ‘Yagusuna bil khata’ have only one music, one category, and not different categories as those in the conventional state wajib, mustajib etc. This is paradox when we ask a question in the state of reason, the answer is there is no need to go any forward any more, complete your duties, do not let anyone take advantage of you and do not take advantage of others, earn money and sleep comfortably at night. The one is the valley of love does not ask how much to give, for the other has to calculate percent for cultivated land, 10 % for baraani this percentage, given direction by the

Fiqh, but one with love does not have any book to guide, all the books finish at that point. He sacrifices everything.

Question: It is said follow Me( Creator) and His Prophet. Following the Prophet is following the Creator, and then what is the difference?

Answer: Where this ayaat is narrated, it is a protocol. Reading the whole verse ‘ ya zeena alaamo atyulluh’.

Question: Yes followed by accepting the Ulul Amar, in the verses

Answer: Here a protocol is being narrated. Following the Creator and the Prophet is followed by Ulul Amar, amongst you. The Prophet has 1400 years of past, then there so many books and even writing their names would take so long, then we are asked to follow the practical way which is following the Ulul Ammar amongst us.

Question: Many people do regular righteous deeds. How does Junoon takes form, and ishq turn into junoon?

Answer: What Junoon does is to find the sahib e ammar, if there is a sahib e ammar himself calling people possibly will not pay attention, or follow him as there could be many events, one being doubt, whether this person is sahib e ammar, but junoon

unravels and discovers the sahib e ammar, junoon illuminates the hidden and hide the . The power of character disappears and hides the big mountains of agony in the life of a seeker, ocean and deserts, hiding the outside temperature. We see sahib e maqaam and of the ahle e khird those of logic , there poetry and philosophy is a landmark, engaged in debates, but we find sahib e aqaal logic, themselves advocating Love(junoon) what a paradox. We give reference about their poetry, like Allama Iqbal R.A, a great sahib e aqaal, person of reason and logic narrating and talking about Love and junoon in his poetry; we see ourselves following those with reason and logic, themselves following and talking about junoon love, quiet a paradox.

Observation: Someone asked Iqbal R.A, where you got the idea of a separate homeland for the Muslims, he remarked at the tomb of the great saint Hazrat Ali Hajveri R.A.

Answer: Look where a philosopher Iqbal R.A a beacon for other philosopher, is following whom?

Question: If someone has junoon tries to use his energy and strength to be on the right path, the path enunciated by the Creator and the Prophet. Like in ordinary life there are objectives and targets but how about here? How do one forms aims and targets in the path of wayfaring, where there are no limits, using all his energy trying to wear the colors of the Creator. One gets confused where all this ends or what is maximum height one can attain?

Answer: A fine point not confusing but meant to uplift the seeker to provide nourishment, ‘ Traveling on this path do not lose faith, there are no limits and destination in There are no time frames and milestones to satisfy a seeker, one has to travel after the other, when a caravan is traveling a seeker follows the next traveler, in old times when caravans used to travel to Syria, each camel was tied to the next, had we asked a traveler if he had compass, he would say I am following the next traveler and the next so on to the Ameer e Qaravaan, so it would not be possible for everyone to keep a compass caravan, a seeker having no compass would ask the Ameer e Qaravaan why are you traveling to the east instead of going south, the leader would tell them there is a mountain ahead which they would bypass, but the Leader does not have time for everyone, like in a government hospital the doctors are doing a fine job in general, but won’t explain everything to the patient, not having time for everyone. Even having time does not wont to engage in discussion, since the public with limited knowledge with a professional knowledge, would annoy the doctor, why are you prescribing antibiotic which is harmful, not knowing the spelling of antibiotic, so do the traveler in the path cause of Love and interest, not on merit but on their seniority in the group. ’Rah nardawana shauq’ in the interest of their passion.

Question: If a professional doctor is not liking the inquiry of the patient, like in our mehfil you are Doctor, and we do not know anything

might annoy you, also is kashf ul majoob it is said about Qabz and Basat and there difference, ‘No one knows or have a control when it comes and goes without ones wish having no control’. Wala yaqbazo wa .Like our syllabus also

Answer: No do not apply the example of doctors here, since everybody is a patient here. I will be careful to use the word doctor, as might cause confusion, in Quran ‘Wala hu yaqbuzo’ .He is Allah who can control increase the diet, rizq does not only means food only, but a khayal He is the one who can increase and decrease the khayal in the heart, like the sight in our eyes, since a Sufi has other meanings being connected to a khayal, is trying to understand in the context of the kafiyaat e rizq, whenever He wants can confiscate it and whenever He wants distribute it. This Mote a Mutliq Zaat (The Creator) only best know when to open, when and where, like you will see that when a person gets a lot of money he gets arrogant likewise in the rizq of kafiaayat is increased people are misled.

Question: Is this a trail?

Answer: Yes trial in both cases having more and having less, do not consider zahiri(apparent) increase of money or food as a favor, where there is no contentment it is a trail, not considering it as a favor or blessing, where one has less, and being agitated is a trial, in the translation of Quran it is written as ‘Sustenance’ one which is sustaining the musafir is sustained by the khayaal and his

kafiyaat, and the word for Creator is used as the Sustainer.

Question: There is a confusing problem, when being allowed to cut a person throat, then why is there a judgment?

Answer: The word used is Be-izn, Will of the Creator is a provision, an allowance, according to a law, the word will is used for being willful willing, although the law exist, though everyone can cut other throat, a provision which can be exercised but no the will, according to each a potential made at the outset of man’s creation. Whatever is done at the moment is being done by the permission of the Ultimate Lawgiver, ‘Not even a leaf can move without the permission of the Creator, there is no law in the universe that can surprise the Creator.

Question: Then why is there resentment by the Creator?

Answer: The translation of the word izn being done is will, it is not a will without permission, praising and condemning is connected with having been given the Ifthiar (vice-regency) a property of the created a mystery depending on the intention(Niyah) (however small in quantity, there are things predestined and other open to possibilities, the choice the Creator having all and the created a small portion).It is the intention, if a thing is going to happen, and intention is according to the Will of the Creator will be blessing for him, even the ammal( deeds) are not to the require standard will

pass, and even if the deeds are very good according to the ordinary laws of social behavior and not according to the Will of the Creator, then it will not be acceptable. A new chapter is opened here, while what I am trying to explain the meaning of Izn as the tamana, while will means as being willful, as in the video games the creator of the games puts thousands of options, predestined by the possibilities the game programmer puts in. The player will reach a level which will not surprise him according to the provision set by the creator of the game, whoever the champion reaches will not surprise him that is will of the creator, even going to level from one to two etc. Traveling on Seerat e Mustaqeem will take one to the other level. So the created things won’t surprise the Creator. Not even thought would surprise what to talk about deeds. What direction we want to move.

Question: Even the satan was given permission?

Answer: Though not the Will of the Creator.

Question: But the control is of the Creator, the books came to illuminate, the same command, as well the Answer: The diversity in creation is causing confusion, light and darkness are both created by the Creator for a blessing and light following the Will of the Creator, for those in darkness have the Izn to go whatever quantity. We use this ayah (Be-iznillah) to mean human reward and punishment which is not so and the intention. In kiran kiran surag it is narrated a

person enters an orchard and starts eating the fruit when the owner comes in, to which the person says’ This orchard is owned by God, and I am also creation of God’ to which the owner says ‘According to the second command of God the second person of God has the hammer which is going to fall on the first person of God.’ Until Barazk e awal does not occur, the chapter of good and evil cannot be ascertained as the Creator is the same, as the evil uses the same arguments, using the reference of the Creator to do evil, Yazid was using the ayah and example of Quran to do his evil deeds, so we need the Kitab Wala will not understand, as the sage say where there is Ali there is Haq, a friend of the Creator will tell who is doing merchandise in the name of God, or good deeds, without a friend of the Creator, we will get impressed by the other if by reading books only without a guide and will get impressed, as Yazid was reading the ayah of Quran too , need the reference of the batin, the zahir cannot explain good and evil. ‘Kitab kitab wala ka begair namukumal hai’. Shaitan is not a parallel force against its Creator, just a creation as any other creation of the Creator; there is no comparison between a Creator and the created, a mutinous being, doing its activity by the Izn (permission) and the strength of its Creator till the time allotted. Ya yauma ilm waqt maloom till the allotted time. Question: If there was no Shaitan would humans not go astray?Answer: What do you mean the humans were given instructions by Prophet; they were not given guidance by any other.

Question: I mean if one does not stay on the straight path, will not stay neutral but accept satanic impulses.

Answer: For academic discussion, suppose if there was no Satan, man is enough to become Satan by himself by default,

Question: The animal instincts?

Answer: Can activate these instincts whenever he wants(astagfur Allah) .Yes everyone by default, has inbuilt tendencies, except the Prophets who by definition are sin proof. Satan is not a central figure in waylaying humans, the tendency to be close to the Rab or going astray is the central point. Like you just quoted. Wa mamin araza un zakri zaan kam maeshtan ‘Who ever goes astray from my remembrance and become neglectful I reduce the blessings and appoint a Satan’ So the first step is taken by the human of being neglectful, the rest of the steps are implemented later by God. Example if want to test your son whether he goes in the right or wrong environment, how do we test by providing the provision of wrong environment, for if there was no bad environment, how could someone be tested. If there is no check there is no concept of a reward. The person had no choice if there was only good environment.

So the word Satan you are mentioning is just one of the choices, as a human is so great he has other options, we cannot let Satan get on our nerves.

When Satan number one said’ I will cause your people to deviate from the right and left, was replied ‘ila abad ul mukhleseen’you will not able to influence and astray my Mukhlas (sincere) person, If one is in Dara e Ikhlas there Satan does not roam.

Question: The cell produces light and darkness the source being same?Answer: You have opened a new chapter.

Question: By default the chances of getting astray is more. The world is a jungle where there are vicious people like animals always ready to attack you and lead you astray or there are people giving guidance around . Because a human is usually given guidance either by a parent, a Divine Grace be-izni Allah a journey from Hal to Qal.Answer: It is just one of the choices not having a big role, since even one leads the path of Satan, can very easily get rid of him at the next exit by repenting and coming back. Getting away from Satan is just an act of repentance , just a repentance away, he is not a hero, not even a villain but a side character, the real story does not revolve around Kaidu but around Ranjha.

Question: Qabz meen gudaz aur kahar hai aur basst meen nawazish aur meharbani , La mahala bashriat ke ausaf ko fana karna aur nafs ko magloob karna parwarish aur meharbani sa afzal hai, kyon ka woh bahut baraa hijab hai. These two states are in control of God. In qabz there is restriction and anger

while in basast there are rewards and kindness, do not controlling the basic instincts and crushing them, are at a higher level of activity then rewards and sustenance?

Answer: Yes

Question: Is Qabz a hindrance?

Answer: No it is not a hindrance.

Question: When the journey is going on and then it stops, not knowing if the traveler is going on the true path?

Answer: One who is on a journey is not a judge of his deeds and his journey, he cannot Ascertain his states it is practically impossible to know how much of the journey is left .Which deed is worthy of acceptance in the Kingdom of the Lord, until the final semester, his job is to keep on praying. The only test he can ascertain is to check whether he is going with the righteous (soa manzil) or with the manzil so (bad company), he should then check if he is with the righteous and in good company, or deviated from the true path and starts to acquire bad company, then he should reflect on the type of the caravan and the sangaat..

Question: Is there an example?

Answer: The old example if a person is going with the Haji’s then the traveler in that caravan should be

sure that he is going to Mecca and is on the right path, and not going to Somanath( a Hindu temple in India) then he should stop and reflect.

Question: When we see that in a perfect guide we see many types of people, good and bad?Answer: The Rahnamia kamal (perfect guide) is a universe in themselves, as the universe has good and evil, Mecca and Somanath, like the Creator of the Universe has not fired a person of conduct unbecoming, but has provided sustenance to him. This is the beauty, as we see thousands of people come to the saints, including people who are dervaish , insan e kamil , circus holders, sweet sellers, and those who want to abduct children. But the greatness consists in the Nizam(system).

Question: The Ahle Kashif can easily discern the paradigms of Free will, Be izn Allah when a leaf falls is known to the Lord, why is that?

Answer: They are in the company of the Will (Creator). They are willfully accepting. They know all the shades of the Will, even where there is rejection. Answer: The earlier question is not complete yet, we see that people of different categories in the same kanqah and in the company of a saint, we see all kinds and variety of people, where do we stand among them, there our localized pocket of sangaat counts and our company matters, which changes when we change the sangat(company of the

likeminded, like the people of Shah Alami go and pray, will not have the same feelings if you pray with them. Kiblah being the same.

Question: When a person is in the state of fana, is giving up totally what he is doing, at that point will he go backward on the hill?

Answer: The same engine takes the mall train to the mosque.

Answering: continuing with a pervious question.As you were saying that certain points are very well understood by Ahle Kasfh. When the Ahle kasfh are opened up to a kashf, meanings of certain points (mana e kasfh) are elaborated very finely, this is due to the filter of aql o khird logic being removed, what happens in kashf is like in a dream a lot of points are illuminated which seize to exist once one wakes up, like in an anesthesia in the sleep a lot of big operation can be are performed with ease. Very big meanings are illuminated, when the filter of logic remains a lot of points do not pass the filter, in a kashf(dream) without sleeping where there is the activity of the brain is minimized, when its minimized the many contrasts, when one was seeing only one side of the coin only, is able to see both the sides of the coin, where there is will and where there is izn, where there is qadr and where there is jabr, if we use our logic then we will either understand er jabr or qadr not simultaneously , how can both be validated, in the kashfi state there is more possibility to view both.

Question: I am in a prefix, sometimes I feel the curtain of ghafalat (the veil of ignorance) and the mold of the self or wajud ka jamud inertia (a natural state of being) the force of gravity we feel is increasing, even in regards to the conscious. Some concepts are going toward clarity, and on the other side the wajud is going towards ambiguity.

Answer: Meaning that the conscious is going towards clarity, while the wajud (inertia) is going towards lagarat(weakness)..God is interested in your conscious and not wajud (interia/mold), not considering ones wajud, seeing if one is sitting inside or outside the mosque. As said by the Sufis have a clear verdict, as Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A has remarked that a vice which gives it holder is better than a virtue which makes him arrogant, as such immediate good or evil does not matter, of the record comment, but what finally matters is the Qurba e manwe Nearness to God. The phenomena you just said Humair saheb, if we consider a maulana who is saying all his prayers with , has beard and a cap, but when he walks leaving Pharaoh behind, being arrogant at each of his deed ‘They walk on earth with arrogance’. Is this activity better or the other. The realization of not being able to do anything and being ashamed of is better than doing something and be overcome by pride and becoming arrogant. The ability of not able to do anything due to inertia when one really wants to do many things or due to kashf e qalb is showing off that I have this thing. Here a paradox develops which has to be

reported, Insan human is engaged in inertia and gravity , but it is not his will, willfully he wants to escape gravity, will be beneficial and Sarmaih e Irfan as long he is not satisfied, otherwise if is he is happy and contented with what is happening not trying to change and maintain the status quo will disrupt his Irfan. If not having any options or choice one is going to the bank and getting into interest based dealings giving interest and engaged in interest based business, he cannot survive it is alright, till with a very strong ta manna, desire to leave it as soon as possible from this Fasiq evil system, not if one accepts it and thinking it to be good.

Question: It is said to those who are given guidance are given the understanding of Deen. What is meant by deen? is given understanding and spreading it is also Tabligh.

Answer: No harm in saying it. Right path means going in certain direction, towards someone. Have Shukar instead of raising a point of objection on receiving a straight path. If there is heat outside a bank and you are given priority by the bank manager Shah sahib, then instead of complaining to Shah sahib of the people standing in line.

Observation: A poem of Iqbal R.A says and one can estimate the pedestal and the height at which the Allama was standing when he said

that.’ God asks Iqbal R.A did you like my world, the creation with its beauty, to which Iqbal R.A replies, no I do not, as I see the owner of a brewery making beer and his servant working to do so, the landowner crushing his servants and keeping them as slaves. To which the Creator replies, yes I see that, but your job is to follow the life of the Prophet Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam, when he was not retaliating against anyone, spreading the message of Quran. His Meccan period, so is your duty not to look around the world but perform what you are asked to do.’

Answer: Yes that is called a synthesis in the life of traveler, whatever is happening outside is a catalyst to his personal development.

Question: And then the Prophet pbuh following the Medina life with different commandments to follow. So we can say the path in the life of the Prophet is what to be practiced?

Answer: The seerat e pak as described by Iqbal R.A here is the ajmali dimensions in the life of a salik and musafir, that the musafir should recognize his state in the journey, a task only Iqbal R.A can understand with such a clarity. When a traveler is faced with difficulties outside, he is advised to follow the Meccan period, and keep on doing his duty. Only a Mard e Qalandar of Iqbal R.A rank can perceive it.

Question: Why do researches in medicine keep on changing? Having said one thing on its benefits the media comes up with an opposite view shortly?

Answer: The period of Fleming is gone, when there were scientists having the nature of saints. The same thing if one has a preset ulterior commercial motive, all this will not produce any inner wealth.

Question: What is concept aqaabat retribution, nawazishat, being the other name of doing ihsanat, then what is the meaning of ‘Count your blessings’ why is a count of the nawazishat? aqabat ks samaan mee anaa ka kyta matlab hai?

Answer: We have to see the concept and the word here aqabat retribution means when ihsaanat are being done and if someone is asking a count of the deeds done by you, the recipient of ihsaanat are outside the formula of merit, not deserving but still getting the blessings. Aqabaat apne nawazhiat ka hisaabat mangna ka kya matlab hai means no longer the hisaab, now the blessings is based on ones merit of good and bad deeds Aik inssan ko apne aqaabat ka hawala kardana ka kya matlab hai, No longer insaf being handed over to merit, the curtain of rehmat blessing being withdrawn, starting of the aqaabaat retribution and the purdah of rehmat being withdrawn, whether deserving or not, getting the blessing, like a children

living in the home is never reminded or asked by his father of the favor done, but when a child misbehaves he is reminded to go and work outside and see what this life is all about. Now no more free meal and you have to work. The aqaabat retribution changes into akuwaat starting of the punishment in reference to what Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A has said that the role of the rehmat is to save and protect us from our misdeeds and the consequences of our Ammal misdeeds being overcome by the rehma blessings a sphere created in between, a control of the rehma in between which when taken out and handed over to the ammal deeds would mean tit for tat, starting his qyamaat, aqaabat converting, when a Mohsen says the period of blessings is over now I am going to have a count of the deeds, saying until now there were blessing now it will be insaaf justice when it is said that the time period has ended, means extended time period of blessings is over, when its withdrawn the aqaabat retribution starts.

Question:

Answer: This is for those preachers who do not let us breath, who say to accept Quaid e Azam and then Allama Iqbal R.A, this saying of Imam Ghazalli and the Imam Razi R.A, give them breathing space, the words of Allah are sufficient the Quran e Pak, the rest is to see the Majesty and cannot all be followed , it is not mandatory to follow every reformer and read his writings or reading Diwan e Ghalib, or Allama Iqbal R.A himself no one can follow better than

Iqbal R.A himself , is not practically possible and everybody needs a breathing space.

Question: For a traveler what are the guide lines?Answer: It is not a means of escape.For the traveler tasleem is not an inconvenience but a bahar spring and a blessing being following Alul al mar. To make the path of a common man easy. Now you have in the mosque the whole Fiqh will be taught to you.

Question: In kashf ul mahjub it is narrated in reference to twaquul about traveler in reference to bayt, an example of bayt a mureed sinking in a river is asked by khidr to give him his hands, which he refuses saying he has given it to his Shaykh .What is the concept of bala tasleem, in the chain of command whenthe commander is the Shaykh?

Answer: In history of the seerat of pious people, like khwaja nizam din aulya R.A followed his murshid , there are no two statements.

Question: When there is no distance why the difference in lesson of taswauf where there is no duality?Answer: The distance was being created when the traveler of unity, said there is no distance this is him, instead he is him I say him is he. Here intelligent people can evaluate that we take two steps at a time on a ladder we will not understand. In a platform every one is taught according to his needs and capacity after evaluation, if the capacity is raised ten

times from this platform we will not understand the subject.

Question: The first musafirs going to haj doing zahri ibadat they met another group, is the zahir kept aside?Answer: Here Haj is not a zahiri haj but a batini haj , in the haj they were going to a paradox developed where they were afraid after meeting the other group, there sangat could change to the other haj, so they asked to be kept to the haj they were going, wanted to keep on doing what they were doing. Here the haj is not of books.

Question: The Haj towards Allah.Answer: The concept here that sometimes pious deeds sometimes become an obstacle. Deeds have their own colors, like deeds resembling your color, like the deed resembling your color is being performed when from the next room another call come to do another good deed, will stop the first deed, like a person going to fight on the border is asked to help a widower, will stop the other deed.

Question: According to our own shade and duty?Answer: The zauq and shauq is diminished, a bad deed is easily recognized, but there is another kind of destruction, like some friends in disguise abduct you in the name of deen. In the name of deen they change your direction. Question: I have a question, sometimes like doing an ibadat like Qurbani one is doing according to ones financial size, sacrificing a

camel, cow or goat,Qurbani is a sunnat, instead there a lot poor people around can a change can be done? Answer: The extreme example is that of the mutzillah who raised an objection about Qurbani sacrificing millions of animals, saying, that due to Qurbani the cost of sheeps is raised every year, why not create a fund and build a hospital. If you do that you will not be able too. Why to sacrifice the camels from around the communities and save them to build hospitals. Why do haj every year, help ten persons, the result found out was that doing so they could not help the poor and found out that those going every year, were helping the poor already. Pious deed is not opting for the deed of your own choice. Those who do so is there temperament. Pious deed is for some one, not fe nafs he, otherwise countries like welfare state should be all pious. If it is said to do Qurbani a certain way has to be done accordingly. Not giving up sunnat for farz, not sacrificing Qurbani for welfare, otherwise creating a state within a state. Pious deed is for the sake of someone. If you have helped another person a poor person, pious deeds have reference to something. Qurbani is a Sunnat done by and asked to do. Seeing where the meat has to be distributed, and where the money has to be distributed. Not distributing twenty thousand worth of currency to buy an animal and distributing the meat, and where required to distribute Not using the currency of 20 years old, but the one being currently used.Question: To help others and doing piety and helping the poor is helping oneself a blessing for our selves.

Answer: Yes that is so, like some people object that people often go to haj and go several times wasting and not giving to the poor, but according to a hadith, doing haj and umra repeatedly calls for increase in rizq financially, if there is increase in rizq finances, means increases the chance in doing the piety with affluence ,which one cannot do without increase in money. If your means are increased you will instead of opening one dispensary open ten. So the formal format for the pious deeds have been cleary defined, helping poor is according to the command of the Lord. A community of the Lord, so you are helping the poor on the command of some other. He knows you are forgiving someone for Him. Qurbani is Qurb nearness taqarub. Qurbani does not itself means just distributing meat only but having fringe benefits you can distribute meat by going to meat shop and pay them money, symbolically sacrificing the animal goat inside when are you going to sacrifice the animal inside , if you will sacrifice the inner animal then the benefits will accrue then you will get nearness to God. Every animal has certain characteristics reflected in the human heart, like the camel is known for keeping grudges, so of the shuthar murgh , the goat the other department and so on; the cow is the symbol of mesiaht economy, so every heart has a cow, bull all ties up, and its imperative to sacrifice them one by one. Telling the form and the format, a severe and clear violation is done by those who have done so, asking for welfare system, keeping Qurbani as well as welfare system, where tasleem obedience instead using our intelligence to change according to our desires. Not accepting the system where it came

from, forming a state within state, the federal law being different from our own.Question: : Many times we have discussed this that Islah reformation is an individual act and safar travel is an individual act, even creating Nizam is not necessary, the Rohaini kind of Nizam, then what was the need for creation of Pakistan.Answer: The creation of state that was established in Mecca is also a Sunnah, because as Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif narrates the importance of Tazkiya before establishing state, focus on fard individual, meaning the state should not be formed, will facilitate the individual, comparatively the chances of falah is more for the weak not able to resist, will have their task become easier, the borderline personailities, the community is for the individual, Question: Nizam for the sake of Nizam.Answer: Establishing the community is for the individual, the stress is on individual as namaz is also being said in lucknow and Mumbai. That is why Iqbal r.a said, ‘Mullah ko hai hind me sajdida ke agazaat, nadan samgta hai kalam iqbal’

A scholar in the muzaikra in MAO college had the same question. Example saying prayer in congregations is better then at home by 27 times, but the nawafil is the travel of an individual, Tahujud is individual. Nawafil is a mean of Qurb nearness to God. PoetryAnswer: Yeh khabbar wala sawal khub thaa , Meen junoon e bakhaabar, bahkbaar asl meen junoon hai

hota hai, aql bechare beghbaar mee mare gai , zumae agahe meen bekabaare meen mare gayeAql wala dunya se peshaman hainRuswa hoe haar hal meen.Khird ke daam ka daamIshq zumra iman hai baabe ishq meen dakhal hone ka baad aql see ishq ke daleel talab karna zumra e ke Shaharae ishq ka wapas hogane wala musafar ko wooh aql bhi kabool nahi karte jis ke zuum meen wooh adha rasta sa wapas hoa thaa.

Answer: When we see the moon, just reflecting the sun, but forget it is also burning, the burning effect is not simply a reflector, adding to many benefits like controlling the tides, in the oceans, the water waves, taking air inside for the many creatures using oxygen, the moon not only reflects the light of the Sun it sustains the oceans on the command of the Creator. The medium at the stage of khaabaar news has a very important role. Question: banda e momin z ayaat khuda assaat.Answer: Qari nazaar ata hai haqiqat me haa Quran. Yes not only reading the Quran but the Quran revealing on him.Question: In the work of the Creator, when a human loses only then he gains. We use all our resources for the benefits of the worldly affairs, but not for the work of the Creator.Answer: The communication is one way, the righteous deeds according to a format, not knowing what is the acceptance there. If you are sitting across

then the situation will be something else. If you are away I might think about somebody else, help other, but if you are right in front of me I will be more concerned about you. Maqaam e Ihsan, baat tu saahi hai magar baat hai ruswai ke. Question: All the people are getting the blessing.Answer: That is taken for granted, Question: We think what a one way communication, could be two if able to perceive is it not like, for two communications, we are burning too, such as in a khaabaar, and the extensions, need an acute perception.Answer: Explaining the previous points, when we ask the CreatorQuestion: If we ask the Creator we get an answer in the form of a vision and the reply could be in the form of miracle. There is not possible for a Bashr to communicate with the Lord.Answer: When it is two way the work is stamped and certain. In one way it is doubtful, with kafayat and mushaida.Question: Is it possible for Kalam for bashr, like kali mullah and habib ullah, for the sage.Answer: It is not possible to talk with Creator in the form of speech except behind veil or messenger; these three options, for the nabi there is an exception, for the nabi, not for the general population, the status of the Anbya is exceptional not comparable with the humans.Question. I have not understood two way communications:

Answer: That is in reference to Mushaida and not kalam.Question: The two of us talking is a speech?Answer: Yes but could be one way though in spite of appearing two ways, communication could only be a part not a whole, not necessarily being listened by both sides.Question: No human can have speech with the Creator.Answer: That is in the Kalam e Pak, you must have understood and read the verses.Question: Yes I have read about all the three ways described in the Quran?Question: How about the event of Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A and Riaz sahib in the office hearing a loud voice?Answer: But that too if you reflect to understand only, was also one way when the kalam was talking place Hazrat Wasif r.a saying ‘I was cornered being afraid do not know who talked.’ being one way.Question: So that was one way too and two ways is mushaida?Answer: Yes the Mushaida becomes the Yaqin takes place after two a way communication. This is the Topic, one sided love is doubtful, whether letters are being delivered not knowing if we are in good books or not.When there is mushaida and mulaqaat.Question; Two way is for the Dervaish meeting his own dervish, this is the color of dervaishi. Does this two way dervaishi has some special colors?Answer: That who found your naqash e kadam mela tere jamal me dhal gaya as narrated by Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif r.a , in every epoch there are dervaish

following in the foot steps of and the character, following the character of the Prophet Sallalal alahi walahi Wasallam meeting his dervaish’s in all times, only after this meeting with the Prophet, a dervaish is worthy of calling himself a dervish.Question: The Creator spoke with His Prophets, and after that it is written with those He desires?Answer; Let me check the ayah, that means only His Prophets which are the Murtaza whom He so choses and not with the general public. Question: Yes God communicated with His Prophets, but what about khayal?Answer: Kalam ke nafi hai, but the communication is there like with the Bee, and the ant etc. Wahy is there.There is the difference between speech and wahy.Question: What the heart excepts will be right,first choice is always true, but in second the calculations create doubt? Wasfa khadshat are created?Answer: How did you get this khayal? How are you relating this here?Question: The communication is going with the ant too, but sometimes we suppress the khayal of the rightoues deed, that is our character, although He communicated to do this.He already gave a command to DO. People of the path, in any form get a khayal whether in a form of poetry , prose, statement,or rightoues deeds, travelling earnestly whether seeing the light of jugnu, the thing starts from there, where does it opens and where does it ends one does not know.

Answer: Kahsf e mane is there on the traveler, dil pa mane ka ilqa zuroor hota hai is there on the musafar, unveiling the meanings of the verses of the Quran.Question: Tera khayal banta raha, apana app ko banda Answer: Tahrir e jaan ka baad, kalima tayeba for a person living in a village not knowing urdu, Arabic, not knowing how to read, to teach him the meaning, for him one way is tell him to say meen nahi tu, not me you. If he asks for an example tell him read seerah.(Subhan Allah, Masha Allah) Question: It is not for Allah to talk to a human, It is not given .What type of communication was between Iqbal r.a and God I just mentioned before in the Persian poems, on what kind of pedestal was that?Answer: My personal view can be debatable this is Ilqa illumination possible on a non Prophet, like the example of the mother of Prophet Moses (Pbuh) in the Quran on her heart was Ilqa. The writings of wise people is in the form of Ilqa. A communication not resembling the Prophets, another heavens, not accessible to humans, for them the message is different, another type of contract messaqun nabiyun, for the common people the contract is dargaa ammomiat, Am I not your Raab, for the Prophets Yeh nabi ka pass ayan gat u iman lana hai, darga meesaq meen hai darga foqiat hia. For those stars the minimum qualifications is a Nabi Prophet. ( Allah Akbar, Allah Akbar) a special accord and common folks the difference is there.

Mehfil with Dr Azhar Saheb 13Jul 2013. Questions and Answers pertaining to the essence of Being, the unity of Being. Developing the flame of this shauq and subsequently zauq under the guidance and leadership of a competent rahanama , a quaid and a guide.Question: How do we learn in terms of fasting? Answer: Fasting is a lesson which is already elaborated not to revive or repeat It, not in a primary class to explain what is fasting how to respect them is already mentioned, if there is any practical difficulty at the individual level then we can discuss. Question should not be ilmi otherwise one book will be referred against the other.Question: We made a great effort to keep fast not anymore? Initially at our childhood we had a great passion, waking and making preparations for the fast, does not seems to be any more.Answer: Those who are the level of children still have them; we are grown up from that phase, and have other responsibilities as things start to balance up, the children are still waking up people, going to mosques is still a passion of the youth. Our job is to Pray for the well being of zauq taste, and shauq interest, the biggest bad luck is the decrease in shauq interest, We should develop the shauq and zauq, after shauq we need zauq, as shauq is a bhambar mystery and is a flame, but zauq is the trimming down, to trim the shauq and bring it into proper form to perpetuate it, give it a direction , bringing it into a continuity like a gardener doing gardening when the plant of shauq blossoms, then

zauq is the cutting done by the gardener, both of them should blossom and grow badadreeg gradually ,for if only shauq was enough then we wouldn’t need the tazkia e nafs fine tuning of the heart, to go to a sangaat’s gathering of the seekers, for any tarbiat practice would not be necessary, to understand the true meaning of a book we need a demonstrator need a true teacher, for the shauq to function properly need a rahnama, quaid and guide. When the plant and the bud of Shauq blossoms, aik shola hai is a flame, zauq is the trimming to perpetuate to bring it in tasalsul continuity, shauq and zauq needs constant progress under a guide.Question: Nur mutliq khud tajalli ka shakar Khud gchopaa khud pae khud ko haar kadam

Answer: Butt sahib this is a question of Wahadat ul Wajuud unity of Being, this is the sardar Grand Master of all and your asking this question while laying down on the couch. This is a full formula of ‘Kun Fa Yakoon’, Be and it is, if we reflect in this verse poem is akin to ‘Kuntu tu kanzor makfeu ma nuri fa ….’. This shair or verses of the poem by Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A is a translation of the aforementioned Hadith e Qudsi.Questioner (repeating).Answer : In easy words His beauty is so beautiful talking in poetry not in prose taking a liberty, the eyes of the beholder are bewildered, Husna mujasum is such khera kun nothing resembles Him, that the eyesight of the beholder gets amazed and in Pehli Kiran sorry in my book….. there is a

paragraph you will understand the meaning of this poem, should clarify though one should not read ones own book, ‘Waqat aik hijab hai, hijab meen husna e adil khud he masrrof hai, woh waqat kae niqaab ulut ta howa bijilian gharatta hoa wajud ke gali ka aik koona saa doosra konna taak khud he mahwa khara hah’ this prose describes to some extant this stanza you mentioned. Time is a veil, under the guise of this veil the Beauty is dazzling itself busying Itself, turning over the veil of Time this Entity greeting with the bolt of lightening from one Part of the alley of its Being to the other. This process of self exploration is going on ‘Khud beeni’ seeing Oneself ‘khud shanasi’ finding Oneself is going on, proliferating Oneself, excusing the Sharia, not offering any fatwa decree, in the paradigm of Wahadat ul Wajood, the Wajud entity does not have a ghair separate, not a khaliq Creator and another maqlooq created, not an entity of a khaliq Creator and not an entity of the mahqlooq created, this will create duree separation in the Universal Wajud, this Wajud being One , in Wahadat unity, is both in the form of wave and a particle, itself a ray and the ray illuminating the entity itself the ray all the same Entity, in the context of Wahadat ul Wajood. Allah is nur us samawaat wal urz any noraaniat we are seeing here is all He, nothing is ghair separate from Him, Nur mutliq khud tajalli ka shaker hai. Another verse written on the same topic by Hazrat Wasif R.A is Yeh ture dil hai ka khud ko jala ka dakya kaleem e hossh koo kaab hai taab e nazara yeh turee dil hai jo khud ko jala ke dekhya. Khabi bholaa ka khabi passs akaa. This is a mushaida of saheb e

maqam sufi the shair verse you are describing , Wahadat ul Wajood Entity of Being is not a discussion, as related by Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A, is not ilm knowledge but a mushaida illumination. When the Sufis describe their mushaida they express it in this way, and if that zauq taste is not available, people declare a fatwa decree. This is in reality is Tashbeeh and Tanzih, when a human looks with the eye of love, he moves from Tanzih towards Tashbeeh saying this is that and that is this, when a human uses the faculty of aql reason, he starts classifying things, as this is you and that is me, this is down this is up this is right that is left. In Junoon in the eye of Love as Love is also a consciousness; similarly as the activity of the brain is a conscious. Love is also part and parcel of consciousness. Seeing an observation in Toto in totality, so when one sees the faults of people instead of getting angry burst in laughter, will not get angry realizing full well that whatever the other is saying is not wrong either, as the other is seeing from his own perspective. He knows the other is not saying wrong because at the others maqam station will not find it wrong. That is why munafqat hypocrisy is only liable for ‘ Fil Jahanam….’ for Hell and is false all others things are truths nothing is batil and false. Nothing else is batil false except hypocrisy, at whatever level one who is saying gold is the most precious metal sitting in the gold market, is telling the truth. Those who say save for tomorrow, as in the case of an ant, saving in summer for the winter months are equally true, as for those not saving like in the case of a hawk. Finding a pigeon to

eat whenever hungry, equally right. There is nothing false everything is true. When the Quran says ‘Rabna ma khalaqtana haza batiloon’ ‘Oh Lord you have not created anything in vain.’ Those who have mushaida call out. Whatever is created there is no batil false. Example a crude one just a part only to understand , when a big businessman train there children like Daud Hercules, start with the peon, steno, every department, just to have a feeling otherwise a crude example, being the owner sitting at different places viewing himself. Same with the Creator seeing Itself, having all the colors, at all the places, every point, every particle being a sun. Now this poem has taken us to Wahadut ul Wajood lets talk about our own wajud.Question: When it is said in Quran e Hakeem that children, property etc is a trial?Answer: Everything is a trial, uzaka al naas, a thing to reflect here is that those to whom the Quran is being addressed are advised that it is not addressed to everyone at the same time, those who are able to raise the state of their conscious to a level able to understand this, those at the level of shawaat are being pointed out and told not to worry and be concerned about those who are going in another direction, for this person is not going in that direction. A human or a person until he does not come out of a hijab veil is not conscious of that hijab veil or covering until he comes out of that hijab and the veil until it is removed. For those having the veil Ilnas e shawaate ,for those having a source of attraction being mechanically involved in matter, being mechanically involved in materialism cannot understand, for those beyond matter are reminded

saying do not be worried as everything has been constituted purposefully, nasa bananena was samaae wa banana for those under this veil. The one who is being addressed everything is ghair apart for him for those having a hijab veil banaena is truth, for them insurance is truth, there is a whole science, banks, lockers should have jewelry the whole nation is after, in that crowd one who has fazil grace comes out, realizes this ayah , where he is going, where the others are going, being part of the mob and the mob psychology , reflecting and understanding in the temperament of tazkia e nafs one realizes where one is going ,this is a scene laid out by the Creator, what you are not is a scene for you, feast for thought not food for thought. Who will talk now, Yusuf Mian you should talk.Question: The ones who are being referred to here, are they the ones who are beyond sood o zian?Answer: Those who are beyond sood o ziaan gain and loss this concept of wadad ul wajood is for them. Who have passed the semester of their own interest, until one has interest one cannot be the observer of that scene, if you are a stake holder in a game you cannot come out since wadad ul wajood is a scene for those who are outside self interest, beyond gain and loss. Those in self interest cannot say gold and metal have the same value. Those who are in search of stone find gold throwing it away, saying I needed stone and gold came in, let me throw away the gold. Those who refuse to accept pride of performance are endowed with Nishan e haider. The usual line is of gathering the medals of success in their necks, in the life of gain and loss if

one gets gain but loses the one for whom the gain was meant is ultimately a loser. If one gets zian loss and one finds the Mehboob beloved, then it is not a zian loss but sood gain. The concept of gain and loss cannot be understood without reference to a zaat, until then kamayabi success is a sign of being superior to nakamyabi loss. These are quotes deserved to be written down, why to succeed, why to do business of interest, of gain.Question: Without Zaat there is no success, is that true?Answer: Without Zaat it’s a mob, is a purely physical game, matter has its own dynamics, if there is no reference to a Zaat, if its not related to ZUL JILAL E WAL IKRAM, then the rest is an illusion, if there is a reference to a Zaat, only then one relinquishes the platform of matter, otherwise matter has its own dynamics, if you earn 50000 will have its own game, earning 5 lac will have a different game will have its own circle, so on to 50 lac, will change the behavior of the recipient. Then you are not playing with matter, but matter is playing with you, behaving like Mr xyz, Mr abc, Mr stc with a 50000 earning. Only those in the pursuit of wajah e rabeka will be able to get out of the grip of matter. Yaduna rabuhum wal ghairta waeshai , those who want the face of their Lord morning and evening.Question: When will this face be illuminated?Answer: This example is given until the face a reflection of the Zaat is not the goal, until then everything is Maya an illusion a game of matter, until then you are not using matter, but matter is using you.

Question: Everyone is running after earnings and success how so, everyone is calling success as an activity or gathering of more money?Answer: And this is in fact failure and defeat. The important point to note here is that the maqsad goal is related to batin inner life, and success is related to zahir the worldly life, the one who is not a traveler of batin will pass by touching the maqsad , the one who is after batin without an interest will consider it a dirt of the palm and consider maqsad a sore of the palm, will keep it with care, here the difference is enumerated. The one who is after success without maqsad is dazzled by the material world, For whom the priority is only success is dazzled by the material life, and those who are after batten will be after the maqsad and for them success or failure has no relevance. Question: It is being advertised every the way to succeed is to earn money, why is that considered success?Answer: Success for what, you cannot earn more than Bill Gates, but if you are asked to interchange your grave with him will certainly cry out no way. It is narrated Baba Bulleh Shah did not have any money did he have money ?, so was Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A, was said to have had his meter for measuring electricity cut of for non payment seldom times, and would usually drink tea on credit, his home was in a dill pated state, with the paint of the walls falling, the chairs broken, seen too. If it is said you can get a grave close to him you will say Suban Allah, so they did not have money, why would you getting a lot of money make it a difference. It is said

when Baba Bulleh Shah died his grave was not permitted to be in the regular graveyard, had to be buried outside the walled city. So success is not a success until your death is not successful is not worthy of emulation, being a part and parcel of your life. Until death is not a success to be applauded, life is a whole unit a whole book, until the last chapter is not finished tama bil ghair, kitab e zindagi ke tamaa bil ghair hogayee can be a sentence with the success at last breath nothing else matters including the laurels won in present life.Question: People who go to data sahib and other places and to pious people is that not shirk too?Answer: This is said by those who do not go, if you are going there regularly, you will say I have been there myself, there is no shirk, what are you talking about, this is a fatwa said by those who have not gone through the process. For shirk a ghair has to be involved an old and controversial topic, until we have a knowledge of ghair and our own we will get confused by the ghairlog people will keep on abducting us. Those who base there philosophy of telling us not to go the tombs of the saints is shirk, if you read the books written by them explicitly mention the wali, pir, murshid,deo, pari, duyta, murte, written in same breadth written 200 years or so ago. In same category explain nur and zulmat in the same breadth, allahu zulim amano………………… , we have to see who are representing tagut falsehood and who are representing khudai rehman there is a lot of difference. One our friend debates, saying what is the difference between praying before muureti idol, and the tombs, this is shirk, so I

explained Haleem sahib do me a favor spend one night in a temple in Krishna murti mandir ,Jain mandir, and then at stay one night at data sahib, if you do not feel a difference or do, then tell me, a difference between the fragrance the good and bad smell. Question: Sometimes a doubt arises?Answer: What is the doubt? If we want to understand these are very easy , when we pray alhamad ulliah rab al alameen Ihade naserate mustaqeem, seraat tala zeena anamta alihim those who are blessed are separate inam yaftagaan are separate, and those who are ghair different, gharial magzoob alhai him, if you are kissing your father hands and kadam bosi , where is the shirk your are not kissing Rajiv Ghandi hands , if you are kissing Prince Charles, or Obama hands that is shirk, love of dollar is a shirk, loving data sahib is not shirk but ain haq truth, there is sentence of Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A those who lead to the way of Allah themselves become the way of Allah or when the remembrance of a person becomes extreme become yaad e haq remembrance of truth, we do not reflect on tasawauf, and this haad is behaad a sentence. In easy term there are two establishments Pakistani and Indian establishment, if we compare an officer with the other the whole establishment will be get irate with us, you are a siaal wayfarer, what is the need for a siaal wayfarer to indulge in these matter, we need to understand if an application is given to the President and does not go through the sectary will not be through proper channel, saying the application I am writing should not go through the chief sectary, do you think the President wont

mind. In Quran janub us smawaat wul arzdh there are the forces of Hisb ullah the force of Allah is separate, and hisb us shaitaan those of satan. The forces of Allah are separate from the forces of Shaitaan. In Quran janud us smaawat e fil ardh , the laskher forces of heavens and earth are for Him.So there is a difference between fragrance and nausea, zulmaat and nur the darkness and night. Question: Keep on abducting.Answer: The ayaat for kufaar are unfortunately labelled on the Muslims, being only for the kufaar, after saying Kalimah Tayeeba one gets pak clean, after taking a bath and going to the mosque one is cleansed. Who tempts the heart Yo wasafe su min naas. After saying the Kalimah we have become pak clean. Having cleansed them Kufaar o shirk after reciting Kalimah, are reciting Allah Allah you are calling them kuffar, if visiting a place where the name of Lord is being taken, darud Is being send on the Prophet(phub) then visiting a place and calling is shirk what is left. Then you are only left with prayer mat, how many prayers you will recite.Question: When Guru Nanak came to Lahore he was dazzled at the tomb of Data Darbar.Answer: That is right let us finish this topic those who are going to accept it there is no controversy and those who are not going to accept it there will remain controversy, if we go to the kunya root cause of philosophy there is one litmus test, those who follow the congregations will not be deviated. The hadith of Prophet pbuh says those who are engaged in a group activity will not get betrayed, those who have soft corner for taswaawuf , are engaged in zikar and fikar let us compare there numbers with those

of the other, you will say a minority giving a fatwa that a majority is deviant such a tragedy starting with the times of khulfa a rashadeen the kharijeen, they say they want to believe in Allah but not believe in a human as a mediator or do not want human medition, there flag used to mention ‘Here only the decree of Allah will reign’, hukan indallah when they had conflicts with Khalafa e rashedeen, even Hazrat Ali Karam wajahAllah, he often tried to convince and explain them that mediation is needed, let us find some between you and us some people who can mediate, saying they are saying that they are using the right saying of Allah the Almighty at the wrong place, sama bil gaaib the rule is of Allah(Be-izn Allah) but will be carried through some human, not something against the injunction of the Creator. If the kharajeen accepting a mediator to mediate otherwise, negating their own claims of not accepting a mediator a paradox. This is only self interest.Questions: The philosophy of rejection?Answer: The philosophy of rejection, to accept directly, If there is no acceptance of the qualities of a human the embodiment of creation, denying the apex of creation, results in a problem, a paradox will be created.Question: Not respecting a maqarb insaan and the Prophet pbuh?Answer: This is tohaane insaniyaat, a crime of global level, not giving respect to the Prophet pbuh is tohaane insaaniat a global, where the kamaal e miraj e inssaniyat is placed, it is disrespecting the whole insaanaayat human kind a journey of millions of years reaching the cultural pinnacle at a point and if you have made a mistake at the nuqaata e kamal

pinnacle at medina pak, you are bulldozing the whole killing the whole humanity, even not understanding religion.Question: Example a teacher is giving you lessons at a point and you make a mistake of negating the pinnacle the teacher himself, can you ignore that teacher?Answer: The one who gave us the kalimah, however one got it by, by inheritance, or by Alqa made you a national of their nation, and how can anyone evict you. .Once you understand do not repeat it. Ashafaque mian can you speakQuestion: A person who is doing zikar is protected by many a trials.Answer: We were just discussing, that, this is one quote of Kiblah wasif sahib, Zikar karna wala bahut sare araish e naqas se baachgata haiAur zikar ka aik darga hai fikar zikar ka baad aik maqam ata hai jese fikar ka maqam kahtaa hain.(End of Quote by Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif Reh).

Yatafqaroon jo hai asaal meen zakarron ka baad ke baat hai.Fikar ka maqaam zikar ka baad ataa hai.The first part of this quote by Hazrat Wasif R.A pertaining to one doing zikar is exempted from many promptings of the soul. The first stage of zikar is lasaani zikar recitation by the tongue. Doing zikar by lasaan tongue, not knowing its meaning initially, its implications, its spiritual depth, just doing zikar with the tongue, now the tongue is part of the body, and according to Hazrat Wasif R.A, if one part of the body

is given to as a waqaf denoted to Allah tala, then eventually whole body eventually becomes a waqaf endowment in the service of Allah tala. After tongue the heart is endowed after heart then fikar will come, fikar is never partial, fikar is not part time, fikar like love is for all the times, not like doing in the morning and not doing in the evening. Sahibane fikar people of reflection are represented from head to toe in reflection and pondering.

About yatafaqroon who reflect are people who do fikar, reflect standing, sitting, lying on their sides, who reflect, at every moment, when an insaan human devotes a part of his body and life to the remembrance of yaad e haq the Ultimate Truth, then the chance to get involved with nafs soul, the capacity will diminish, will not accept the commands of soul. Because the nafs also need complete submission, nafs also want complete authority, trying to drown. In Quran it is said, ‘Enter into submission completely’ if you take out one hand and take hold of a pipe, then you will not drown, the togayane torrent will not be able to harm you, togayanee torrent is also of nafs soul, if your hand grasps haath pa gaya catch hold of the Sufi Master , the torrent will not harm you. Zikar is also grasping a hand, people who have taken upon themselves to zikar wird aurad, even for half an hour, and are not able to perform will face the prayer mat and the pashee accountability, will not pass 24 hours and face consequences. How long will there be a ping pong situation, their taste for the soul is ultimately saying to give divorce and get rid of the turmoil.

Question: When we do zikar. Praying and reciting Kalimah is zikar is now very clear, saying namaz and wird, but what is fikar, after prayers how do we do fikar or doing something is fikar?Answer: Zikar is individual act or in a congregation, but fikar is purely an individual act is not a collective act, you can share fikar, that you had such and such idea yesterday, and you bring it to the attention of a gathering.Question: Are you discussing fikar now?Answer: I myself is not sure. Let us not define.Fikar is khamoosh silent zikar, Afzal zikar is Lailah allah, now Afzal ul fikar is also Lailaha illah, so those who got involved in this fikar on them Wahdaat ul Wajud illuminated opened up, Laillah Allah, meaning La maqsood Illala, meaning La matloob illala, meaning Lamajood illala, after zikar they got involved in fikar reflecting and finding its meaning, Fikar is marifaat as stated in Kashful Majoob by data hazur, marifaat is a journey from word to its meanings. When we said a word, doing zikar then we started in the journey of finding its meaning in marfaat . For the sahib e irfan, the word is not simply a word they protect and guard their word, by their actions.Question: Does zikar has a magnitude is it necessary to keep a record of the zikar?Answer: This is a mystery, when we amalgamate fikar with zikar, then fikar does not remain isolated but acquires a new meaning, not just a brain activity, it’s a point of maqam a mahiyaat, and maqam e tahajud, why because the stages after zikar, as stated by our Sarkar, that zikar, zakar aur mafol is a

unity at a point, the path then elaborated by zikar is a channel after maqam e mahviyaat, fikar then is not a brain activity rather a station of maqam tahujud. Not a name of rational activity it has jazb, having mushaida, and mahiviaat, defining tafakaar opens up many realities in our mehfil, when we do fikar the one we are taking about the quality of people of tafakaaroon involves a zaat Being, a reference is involved is not secular, pertinent to a zaat Being is involved, wajhe rabe ka wal zulale wal ikram.Observation by Humair saheb: A moment of reflection on Allah tala is equivalent to remembrance of a thousand years. Religion is a sign to reach nature, while religion reaches the hasil destination. (correction needed).Fikar takes one to the Creator. While secular research only takes us to nature.Observation: Hazrat Ibrahim Pbuh reflected on the signs of the universe, and reached its Creator, while Satan having seen everything turned against the Creator.Hazrat Ibrahim title is Khalil ul Allah, friend of Allah, a zaat is involved, whereas in the case of Iblis though he had mabood but no mehboob. Without reference to a zaat, whatever he had prayer without a Being, in tafakaar e ibrahime the title is Khalil Allah friend of Allah.Observation by Humar sahib. The concept of ramazan, Sarkar has said reading Quran e pak, complete it once during Ramazan if not use a cassette to listen.Life has so much momentum a lot of faraiz obligations are left, even saying zuher and asr together, sometimes asr is left to be prayed with isha

and so on. This considering the future our Sarkar said so.The complexities of the future of modern life, these are the tips, even in our lives, in childhood there was ample time, to say Fajr, and it was a must to recite the Quran.Even those going to work in the fields, even having the right or wrong pronounciations, now the children have to go through such a fast pace, doing homework, leaving no time for reading Kalam e pak. The best thing is reading and reflecting on the verses. So at least the primary stage or preliminary stage is to read the Quran once during ramazan e pak.

Question: Is it just a ritual?Answer: No it should not come to a point where we do not have time not to read the Quran. Even not knowing its meanings. There is a sonic power even in the words creating a spiritual power, repulsing many evils, if we only recite by a simple reading not knowing its meanings, a sign of kalamat e ilahi while tafakaar comes in reflecting on the verses after zikar, repeating with sonic vision. Following on the hadith of the Prophet. Acting on the zahir bringing the barakah in understanding the inner meanings.Question: It is enough not to be only haam khayal, sole obedience is not enough but needs mizaj ashna as quoted by Baba ji?Answer: : It is enough not to be only haam khayal, sole obedience is not enough but needs mizaj ashna as quoted by Baba ji?What did Hz Wasif Ali Wasif emphasized in ramadhan.?

If you are on facebook we are getting instructions to read at least once kalam e pak, what is the meaning of mizaj ashnai. We need to follow that instructions any difficulty following them, what is the importance of mizaj ashna, is that your question, well until one does not become mizaj ashna, one will remain dependent of words, where mizaj ashnai is beyond words.Until we become mizaj ashna we move beyond words, should have love of the person where these words are coming from, wisdom is beyond words, becoming mizaj ashna will go beyond words and understand the wisdom, mizaj ashnai means the words are coming from the personality, one should have love for that personality where the words are coming from, then we do not having to consult a book, a whole constitution is imposed on the domain of the recipient, otherwise have to read making it sure one article is not contradicting the other.Question: Is Fikar continuous?Answer: Fikar is a journey, a continues process.Question: When we are close to the Fikar of the Sufia, Sufia and the Aulia we get the potential to overcome difficult circumstances, becomes an escape, those who do not get depressed, since it a spiritual activity over riding the material world.Question: Do we just do Zikar? Continuiously.Answer: Things which are beyond our control we do not accept it right away consciously, Fikar meaning a mahviaat, we should do what is possible, like following Shariat, the dos and don’t, we do not know how it will change into marifaat is not in our control, the samarat blessings of fikar, the duty of the

gardner is to till the garden, to give water, sadar e ifkar.Question: An observation and a question, in the beginning you said about the relation between the book and writer, in the context of the taleem education of Sarkar, somehow it is felt , the book or wasifiat is it sufficient for us. Answer: The universal formula or universal phenomena, the side effects will be there, a jigsaw puzzle or a parts exist, but does not form a whole picture, not forming a concept, a universal formula starting with the Quran, people who said its is enough, got into a problem, or some had a belief that there was a need of some person on whom the true meanings were revealed, the paradox between the Sufia and Ulema, the majority of Ulema saying there libraries are full of tafaseer having tafseer ibn e kaseer, having not need to consult the sahib e irfan, while the Sufia do not eat until consulting the Shaykh, reading a few ayaat verses reveals the overall concept, which is the center of the deen, a universal thing, in any silsila.Question: Being a part of an ammar, a personality?Answer: Yes the faculty which has to read, has to be tames is the soul, until we do that it will keep on running, like a dog which is tamed can be used to hunt and the hunted is halal, while that of a untamed is haram.Question: How do we treat others?.Answer: Who have you mistreated, if someone mistreats you that is his journey, while you have your own journey, in judiciary there is so much corruption as narrated by Butt sahib, means a lot of hard work

needs to be done, the more a medical case is entangled the more it needs remedy, if we depart a part from the zikar and fikar, we cannot say that a person is less then me, like the women who used to pour filth on the Prophet, when she got sick the prophet took care of her. The natural consequence of which was to remind of doing what Prophet Yusuf did to his brothers, a tradition of the prophets. Those who accept the Prophets follow the same path or sunnah, technically speaking were those were harsh with the prophet deserved good treatment, not that the sunnah of the prophets is different from those following them, husn e saluk with someone is for someone else. Example you are treating your sisters and brothers with respect because of your parents, same with everyone, you are following a journey of truth, irrespective how others react.Question: We are doing for someone?Answer: When love enters inside then things are different, you are not to see if the other person is worthy, since you are doing for some other zaat being. Ashafaque mian can you ask.Question: What is Ghaflaat?Answer: Ghaflaat is connected with zikar, forgetting zikar and then fikar, your first question, of not remembering zikar first, not reciting tilaawat of the ayah verses, in reality we see all the root cause of all sins is Ghaflaat, a proof in the Quran, those who forget Ghaflaat Us, We impose a shaitan satan on them, those who forgot zikar were turned over to there nafs, meaning handed over to taguan e nafs, a good question regarding Ghaflatt, the good news is that those who realize and are consciousness and aware of not forgetting Ghaflaat, is not forgetful,

since those who are forgetful are not consciousness of being aware of being forgetful. The one who is afraid of losing a treasure is aware of and conscious of not losing it and has a treasure, one who is afraid of losing a connection is having a connection, those who are afraid of spilling over a cooked utensil, have a cooked food.

Dr Azhar Waheed sahib Mehfil on 22-6-2013 .

Question:- I have a question in my mind , I have read a lot about it, asked many people this question, which is why has the Khalaqa Kainat (Creator of the Universe) arranged and created this whole Nizaam(system), a question I have asked many and usually get a traditional answer.Answer: Let us view this question from a different angle, although this is not an answer. If you note that when you get into a relationship with someone, then the question of asking how and why immaterializes. And if the relationship is not developed or is in the stage of developing, or the question of developing does not arises at all, then the questions of how and why are infinite. Why did you do this, why did you that. But if one gets hold of the link to a relationship, then instead of asking one starts to narrate and to answer. There is one relationship between the Khaliq(Creator) and the Makhlooq(created), and the other being a secular relationship, which is relationship of the Creator with every of His creation, with every being, with an ant , a lion, but in the relationship with Insaan(human)

there is something special of what that has been communicated is in the form of Quran e Pak. How and why, to ask the questions there was by Insaan (human) and to reply there was Insaan(human).

Let us read an Ayah,

In Arabic language Taa is used instead of Tuu, so using Taa the word becomes Taluq , so the whole Ilm is tere taluq ka naam, Your relationship.

Read! In the Name of your Lord, Who has created (all that exists),

Has created man from a clot (a piece of thick coagulated blood).There is a point created by the Sufia, yeh tera taluq hai, this question you asked has another dimension, another perspective, how did I arrive here, what is the meaning of my being here, question is the same, the question is being asked more decently , if we get answer to this question we get answer to the

others, in Quran it says ‘Do not ask, but instead you will be asked’ I usually ponder what will be asked of us, like did you read the Quran, and said your namaz, but another question can also be asked in this context is , did you in this vast world where from besides Milton and Archimedes to Abu Ali Sina, Rumi and Razi pondered on at their levels, did you also try to discover yourself, who are you ?, where did you come from?, what is your purpose?, if we see a graph paper, and the four axis go into infinity. When we draw anything on the graph we need a reference point, drawing anything without a reference point will be meaningless, unless a person considers himself as the reference point and starts to find and make himself the reference point and then the meaning of these questions of why, and how start to unravel . The question is what is the Wajah e Taqhleeq Kainaat? You will not get an answer to your question from outside, like if you are working in a bank, I as an outsider will ask what are these people doing from morning to evening, keep on counting repeatedly like some mad adventure. But those working in the bank a part of the bank, know it is a very serious issue , like those working in the World Bank, a little error in calculations will cause great problems, a small discrepancy in counting will be hazardous for the bank. So even to find the Maqsad (purpose) you have to become a part of this Nizam, those people who ponder on how the Creator created this vast Nizam stretching into billion of years, working effortlessly, reflecting how a child is born, then one has to become a part of the Nizam e Qudrat of the Khaliq consciously not academically but ilmi and consciously, in this respect the education given to us

is first enter Taslim then do Research , reach research through Taslim, Iman is the syllabus of the heart, not of logic, The question is what is the Wajah e Taqhleeq Kainaat? We have to create Taluq first as its solves all entanglement of the rope, do know the kuna, the root cause for which we have to become first the part of the Nizam ,then things will start to Ashkaar( unravel), like while working in a bank the first we thing we do is apprenticeship , although already having studied banking, so instead of asking the Creator why and how He started the creation, why everything has been created, first find yourself finding a reference point in your own self then all the drawings and maps will manifest on the graph, we do not understand things because we try to understand from a mantqi (reasoning) point of view, so that we would be able to communicate to others, instead of controlling the impulse to narrate to others, and coming out of this impulse to tell others, instead of deciding only to narrate to ourselves and understand only our selves and not to tell anyone else then we will see we understand much more , usually when a person hears or read he tries to rationalize, because if he has to tell someone else then he should have logic, so if the human instinct to rationalize and human intellect has a basic instinct to rationalize is overcome for a short time , our scenario and our aperture will open, like in a dream when we are trying to understand or communicate, in a dream we don’t have an impulse to communicate so in a dream we understand much more. The filter of logic removes many pearls of wisdom, and many pearls do not pass through the

filter, thinking as leftover a human throws them away.What is the better approach?Answer: The better approach is to disregard the earlier approaches written on ones mindset, that slate should be cleaned, then in the state of acceptance (ba halaat e tasleem) try to read whatever is being written by itself, since whatever has already been written so far on our mind has been written by some one else by others, on the contrary what is in our slate we have written by our own hands, the only book that is verifiable is the one which is our own book.Question: How can we clean the slate?Answer: This question is very important of how to clean the slate, this is a very easy and a very difficult way, if one is in Tasleem of someone it is a matter of 2 minutes, but if one does not come in Tasleem can become a stupendous task of life. When one comes in Tasleem( accepts) someone things become very easy, I will give you my personal experience, when I came in the company of Sarkar Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A, I had read all the philosophies of old Greece, Khalil Gibran, the Halqa Arbab e Zauq , the critics gatherings, laden with all, but it was miracle not my effort, miracle was his, when we came in his trance, when he made us Tasleem , not saying we came in Tasleem since we did not know, when and how we came in Tasleem, it never came to the mind that this point was discussed by this Sufi or that writer, also said something like this, not coming in the developing stage, I came when having read everything , so it was a his Ijaz that all that was written , the heart and mind came

together , otherwise one says I am listening and this is just one, of the many explanations this did not happen. So this is the way of cleaning the slate, cleaning the slate is a spiritual level and journey of all spiritual matters and tasks start through Tasleem, bypassing the contents of the Mind and the bypassing the mind is accepting Tasleem. If we reflect on how big the Haqiqat are the Angels, reward and punishment, Allah Tala which do not come in our experience, but as soon we come into Tasleem , we become of those Haqaiq, saying salaam to the angels and getting wa alikum salaam. The whole Ijaz is of Tasleem, getting in the domain of Hadood e Haraam, when those who have not accepted find a board, that says those not in Tasleem go this way, only those with Tasleem go this way as the Hadood e Haraam has come when we go to umra there is a board, when coming into Muslim town about 35 miles ahead is a board the rest are sent in the bypass, its all a story of Tasleem , the cleaning of the slate is smaller event , Tasleem does big events, so cleaning the slate is matter of Tasleem with the brush of tasleem, eroding all other brushes, as the saying goes, the pen was given , giving us permission to write, whatever one want to write, example when we come to a physician carrying many files, the physician prescribes a certain medicine knowing what medicine to prescribe , like in a spiritual prescription too we work in a hit and trial method, going to different doctors, and also having our own prescription, so Taslim makes one focused, removing any torsion in transmission.

What is the relationship between Tasleem and Mohabbat is tasleem possible without Mohabbat?Answer: Yes they say Tasleem is not possible without Mohabbat. There is a proof in Quran, ‘We said to heavens and the earth to come into obedience’, this is the prize, toon has a rank, ‘They come to you and say we believed, do not say we believed say we accepted Islam, then you might get Iman’, as its said about namaz even when one does not experience a feeling in namaz to still pray, as its obligatory while feeling is not obligatory. For example in a mehfil of a saint, if things go by merit , then hardly any one qualifies, but those who come in Tasleem qualify and join, like for a six grader we make them learn math tables not be used later on, so doctors have to learn all the specialties, even if not using them later. They could be working in CMH, still have to learn all to become a part of that system maybe some having Nishan e Haider could be doing Tuun. Tuun of Tasleem is with Mohabbat, which might not be there but only being in the sangaat could lead to Tasleem, one is associated with the word love. In higher levels tasleem and mohabbat do unite.Question: Prophet Sallallalahu Alaihi Wassallam is the Wajah e Taqleeq Kainaat and then a hadith e Quddusi narrates about Allah Subanhu, as declaring’ I was a hidden treasure to be discovered’ how do we understand the two hadith?Answer: The answer to kyon is not given in the creation of heavens and the earth. There is Hadith e Qudussi, in human history what are the reasons of

creation of Universe, is Allah Subhanhu say’ I was a hidden treasure and wanted to be known’ and the other Hadith says ‘ Awala makhalqa nuri’ ‘ God created my nur first’ if we consider these two hadith we understand how the hidden treasure was discovered and unraveled in cave of Hira. As said treasures are found in caves. The Saudi friend’s debate how do you say the cause of creation was the Prophet Mohammad Sallallalahu Alahi Wassallam, first Hazrat Adam pbuh, Nuh alai saallam and there were a hundred and twenty four thousand , here we mention a masnawi of Maulana Rum said, That the tree of kainaat, whatever the seed we plant and the tree grows, whatever seed we planted we get it at the end, so when the universe was created, the seed came at the end, after the tree was filled with leaves and , so the seed and fruit which was the reason of the creation of the tree of creation came last ,alam amr and alam khlaaq are Mirrror image of each other, whatever is extreme right on one side is extreme left on the other, first one came the last. This treasure is increased through Insaan , why do you call Hazrat Ali Hajveri as Gaang e bakash, because he is delivering, Gaang e nuri marifaat e Muhammadi.Question: What is shirk?Answer: Our Prophet derives everything from the Quran, shirk is not who’s work is not complete, but bring to attention the common name, whatever message the Maqkhlooq got from is from the Prophet Mohammad Sallallalahu Alahi Wassallam otherwise the Maqkhlooq has no reliable source. Those who claimed in history of any relationship were not justified, even to their own claim, not even

own their mark. But the message to the Prophet was delivered generation after generation is increasing and increasing. Marifat elahi is being constantly explained through Sufia karam , this work is in progress, as the karamat e aulia are actually the continuity of the mujazaat e nabi.

Question: How we define ‘To Be Known’?Answer: its meaning is for God to be known to Himself, not that the Maklooq recognizes, the Sufia karam tell us before God had no Surat, I believe personally only the need is of Huba e Rasool, because Mohabbat itself leads to Marifaat, what we call Mariffat is of love, that of laila was with majnoon, the rest will write research papers.Jane tera naqsh e kadam mela tere jamal meen dhall gaya. Apne basheri rasta ko tarq karta hoe tere rahoon meen besaya gaya.All prayers are for Qurbat, not for pleasure but for Suhbaat, the meaning of Roza is to tie your self. Tera khayal na hota mere namaaz ka imam. As said by Iqbal.Tera khayal be So mohabbat is first and amaal are afterward , because if amal advance by themselves can lead to munafqat, the imamat of amal is mohabbat, the deliverance of an insaan is through khayal, not amal the best khayal is to remember the beloved, Mohabbat means to leave, there other definitions too, but one definition is to think about the beloved.Question: Is the discovery of self the discovery of God?

Answer: Yes this is so; yes it is a shortcut of saying that, for if we go step by step goes into detail. Self discovery is like as discussed before , if a drop in the ocean discovers itself its mahiat that is qualitatively not quantity wise, will find some properties of the Qulzam not all.Question: As you said about Khayal and fikr.Anwer: The cleaning of the slate is in reference to Afkaar, to hold khayal is not easy is a hard task , to clean the slate is about afkaar, not khayal which is a frequency between the set and the server, the frequency at which the transmission is made, from the server from which the whole mehfil is transmitted. Answer: What is the qualitative difference in the nature of the questions asked before and after Tasleem?Questions: The questions before Tasleem are of different nature are zamini sawal(earth bound) of tashkeek, which change after catching the train of Tasleem, then the nature of questions change, like when we come in the compartment of tasleem, then we ask questions like how far is the Manzil ?, what is the next station ? at what speed are we going?, when will we reach the Manzil?, until we buy the ticket of the train of Tasleem, we keep on asking question like whether train goes or not some say it goes , the journey of questions keeps on going, the question of Tasleem are different from those of tahqiq.Question: There is a lot of Sakuun(contentment) in the questions of tasleem.Answer: Yes there is much difference, in the questions of tahqiq there is a danger of breaking the

relationship, while in the question of tasleem the relations become nearer and stronger. We are importing our Qalbi kafiaat with our danish. The column which holds the building cementing the two. Hazrat Ibrahim A.S in his dialogue with God, asked how do you resurrect the dead, to which he was asked don’t you believe, he replied yes I do but to enhance my faith, to satisfy my Qalb. Giving support of the column even if yaqin is displaced.Question: Do even after tasleem, we still face the questions of Tashqeeq?Answer: An important question and the answer is also very important, there is the Manzil, and some people love the manzil , and some love the mehboob of the manzil. Does doubt still comes after acceptance, some people love the manzil and some have mehboob as the manzil. Question: Is safar the manzil?Answer: If we are on the right track then manzil is at every step, but that is a different chapter, the other is if two people are travelling together and get to a place, they reach together the first peak and then plan for the next peak, after covering some peaks, some will say we have not reached the next peak, but there will be those who’s only wish will their journey and say leave the peaks aside, and there tasleem will never be in tashqeeq. Question is important.

Answer: On taqdeer and tadbir we can read many poems, and read about jabri and qadri, the reality is yaqin and tashqeeq is the prerogative of a human, depends on the human,the decision is made by a human, yaqin can be called as love, but if

tashqeeq is not akthiairi and is jabri , then the whole show ends, then why would we blame a kafir, the whole shariat, reward and punishment , amaal and mizaan , jannat and dozakh, all things come in tashqeeq. All things if delivered to taqdeer, then on the doraha of tashqeeq and tadbir lies the strength and human weakness to chose.

Question: Is tashqeeq a human weakness or gunah ?Answer: Let shaqq (doubt) come, and pass through the pressing machine, the juice will be separated from the rest. ‘When shaaq is removed it becomes an asset of yaqin.’A child makes a drawing, and practice, keep on practicing practice makes a man perfect, tahqeeq and gunah is the chapter of the maulvi, , the base and journey of truth is asking questions, a sufi never says do not ask this question, to them all people went, the dehrya, the Wahhabi, everyone. So if we think asking a question is wrong, it is invalid ask as many questions you want. Those who have a factious building will be afraid, if going further it will be bedaat and going back will be shirt, stopping a rational person from reflecting, Quran is full of tafakaar, to think, tafkaar is silent zikar, and zikar is the talking fikar. Inkaar, ikraar ke halaat ka naam hai, the meaning of kufar is to veil, to hide, you must unveil the veiled. The journey to kaaba tulaa is the unveil desire, of the nura e iman injected while performing Umra. After that this kafiaat will be stopped if one thinks whether I am a follower, until there is a distance one keeps on

thinking but stops when we come in front. The tashqeeq is removed by mushaid.Question: Does reading more carry more responsibility?Answer: That is wrong, to think the more religious knowledge we have will have more responsibility, is incorrect, when we are checking the internet, reading philosophy but not the translation of the Quran. How to do a Phd. But reading the translation of Quran is the only thing left. One of our friends a teacher used to say that he had a principal, wherever he went he used to find people who liked research and reading, used to give them a scholarship and send them away. So that no will be there to ask questions and nor will have the trouble to answer. A hadith e pak says, ‘One moment of reflection is better than a hundred years of ibadaat’. Tafaqar is a very valuable thing.When we are in the state of tashqeeq we are disconnected from the reality, when we are in tasleem we get connected, what Mushaida does is to create a state of Unison, creating synchronization with the Ultimate reality, tashqeeq disconnects, this contact and dis contact usually keeps on going, is called music periodically contacting and dis contacting, neither the liking of mushaida nor the state of tashqeeq, the journey of musafir is to keep on going, whether in mushaida or in tashqeeq , whether in contact or otherwise . When a beloved finds out the door is closed still keep on moving, a true lover will keep on traveling, even when all the doors are closed, waiting for them to open.Chal hoon gurdwara maal, shaair se de saraa dewaa bujj gayaa.

Question: How can we live amiably?Answer: If insaan learns to live with other Insaan is

saved from a lot of troubles, example shah sahib has a car, if I compromise and go with shah sahib, I will save, when an insaan does not depend, has become short tempered, then one feels the shortage of money, in older times, a lot of family used to live together, the cousin was considered as an insult, not using the term brother, a few people used to earn and a lot of them lived a free life. We have sharing our family and started to feel isolated. We have to pass through a secular and mechanical life; we take loan, but do not want to live close. The older brother does not share with the younger brother, so the younger brother has to take a loan from the bank. Let me say, if we live close we do not have to worry about the currency. The bread and better of capitalism is selfishness.

Question: Did they not create goodness by technology and what are side effects of capitalism how was system different from the west?

Answer: The west having the codes or system, whether through Quran or Muslim scholars,or their own philosophy, whatever postulate they got they worked sincerely on them, there system is khushaal, but their individual is not khushaal, there is suffocation. If you go the west then your whole family should be there, if we do not have job here you do not worry, but over there if you do not have hundred dollars you will be thinking about the bills, falaah is individual ,

khushaali is at a collective level, if I have a building outside and I am not happy, when you started talking about tahqiq(research) and Tashkeer e Kainaat is a journey of an individual not of the community, talking about east and west, the majority from the east have doubts about there traditions, are they reliable to be followed, when its stamped from outside we readily accept it, when Hakim Saeed gives a medicine we doubt, but coming from the royal college we are elated. Another important thing is those of the west, respected there sages and the learned. The table of Shakespeare is still kept as a souvenir, on the other hand we have been in the grip of shirk and bedaat, on the other hand we sold those of our learned and the scholars.

The spiritual beating we got, ignoring our scholars and their assets, their books landed us in trouble while the west did not ignore their guides. Insaan whatever he is a believer a non believer , human as a human, as example to understand there is another god in another universe, and ask God what is your masterpiece, will be an Insaan(human being), if we also devote to a system where the human being will be elevated and respected, we will have Falaah, from Khutaba Hajat ul Widah, Europe and America has recently given emancipation to the blacks only lately the message was no white has superiority over black, no insider has superiority over outsider, the life of Muslim and his respect is more the respect

of Khana Kaaba. The respect showed by Islam towards a human is unparalleled, not to run in namaz to meet someone. The kings have ruined the system have bulldozed the message for personal gains.

Question: You have very excellently described is indeed perfect the

Answer: Describing does not solve the problem, inqilaab the revolution was when the slave and master prayed together 1400 years ago, a Yemeni king had slapped a baadhu, for accidently putting his feet on his robe, when the case went to Hazrat Umar Farooq R.A, told the King according to Islamic justice, to either get a slap or ask for forgiveness from the baadhu, to which the king answered he will think, and fled at night saving himself from disgrace, this was the revolution.

Question: Is the welfare system, a complete system?

Answer: Those whose home contains guidance the punishment will be double. In Scandinavian countries the law of Umar R.A is copied, that was the objection of the kuffar mecca that you are making our slaves to sit with us. In the revolution of France, the people came to know after 1200 years when the deen had already made it known. The respect of a human is so high that one finds God, to make a welfare system is not that big thing as compared, it is not changing the nizam, because we have many jammat e islami only portraying a good system, which is just

a fringe benefit, like besides getting salary. The 6686 ayah on the welfare system is just a part the real is when an individual achieves perfection through tafakuur and tazakurun and Ulul Albab, a one to one game. When it was said come to the good system, people objected on the socialist also possessing a nizam without religion. The Scandinavian countries having also a welfare system, without kalima, why you say we come to deen and then form a community, having thesis. Developing an antithesis. When the ten of us are sitting in this room can plan to have this room decorated together, paint here put a tube light there, we are trying to change a system without first having an individual changed. Beating the system without changing the individual, talking of nafaz without nafooz, when we hire a righteous person in a department, the whole department will be cleansed, as Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A, said ‘Those countries flourish where the head of departments are righteous’. In the passport department one person came DIG Zulfiqar Cheema having a good reputation, has changed the system otherwise the urgent passports were issued in six months, we do not provide food for the hungry and try to cut hands of the thief as in the Islamic history when there was a famine the sharia was not implemented. This is called neem hakimi, the quack will

not find the root cause, while a doctor will diagnose and cure the root cause.

Question: Some people who become mechanical do not become helpful for others, but some believe one has to be mechanical to survive what is the right way?

Answer: Those who become dependent on the mechanical aspect of the Nizam even dependent on the watch, there was professor who had an anxiety disorder, to do every thing perfectly, I told him to reduce his punctuality which is not good from a mechanical point, as it is not very good for the body makes you tense. So those dependent on the Nizam , who are mechanical then they wont be very helpful. Like when I practices I do not say, I am closing my clinic after 10:15 , and come after 6pm, will not take any more patients, will not be good. Which is due to mine being non mechanical, some earn an amount, then say they will save some, and then and save so much percent. If a person takes ones economic life to the banks, then he wont have a penny left to pay to the poor, when I am driving an old car and then finds myself wanting a new one, I will go to the bank and get the loan, and keep on paying the loan off, not able to pay the poor, the more we are able to get out of this mechanical life, the more we will be able to bring out others from this mechanical life, the more spiritual life we will adopt the

more we will come out of the mechanical life. Mechanical life is a wheel of jabr(compulsion), morning follows the evening, while earning millions have hardly time for helping others. There are definite exceptions. Loss of working hours is mentioned in the west, contributing to loss of monetary hours, not making humans but horse of race courses.

Questions: What do you say about our systems in the east and their faults?

Answer: This crisis is not new, as Allama Iqbal pointed out; we are giving the wrong message to our children. Hazrat Wasif R.A pointing to the sad story in the east, where the khanqai nizam is dominating our society, in contrast to the west where the conquest of the universe, is being achieved. The debilitating situation in the east, where the pir takes advantages of the mureed. What is the true litmus test of the truthfulness of a person is whether he is talking help or helping others. In the example of the king of Balk Hazrat Ibrahim R.A when he settled in the Kaba, and started having followers, he used to tell them from now on, I will feed you, and what he did to earn was go to the jungle and collect wood.

Question: Is there any need of a Pir today?Answer: If by Pir we mean a mentor and a guide is

necessary, you have not to take a mentor but the mentor has to take and guide you, a real mentor guides other, who understand

the program and follows the program, a true Pir is in the need of true followers, who can understand the program him too. The relation between a Pir and a Mureed is from the standpoint of understanding is of fikar e tazkia, and fikar e rububiat, like in any branch of knowledge we need a teacher, as in any other department to get knowledge , so too for sahibane fikr need a mentor, do not get into names there is a confusion in names, call them ustad, mentor, guide, pir, murshid, this is a relation between talib and matloob, if it is without zahir dari, it is strong, and if this relationship is based on zahir dari it becomes weak. Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A used to mention in spite of the breakup of the society the voice of Haq has always been heard, even the wrong doers know the wearing this mantle would make them appear as pious. Now days there is so much confusion so leave the rest and try to make your own center strong, do not look around, if there is something wrong going around, like a dance, circus do not look there, just salaam and come back. What is the question? What have we to do with the Gadi Nasheen?

Question: In all the happenings around we do not see any quality?

Answer: Why do you have anything with these people, though we respect them out of their relation with the saint, and not because of

them, just go there and come back after paying your respect.

Question: There are like a bazaar, with different shops everywhere, what do we do? They are sitting six months each, not spreading any truth.

Answer: When there is the progeny at the sites, like Golra Sharif, we have been guided by Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A as in Kiran Kiran Suraj , Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A said if the Prophets Nubawat was not inherited, how could the waliayat of a saint be inherited, and also stating that the concept of seat hood in tasawwuf is liable to reflection. So we are given a guideline, as we have seen the real Alhamad u lillah, he is outside of tradition and of protocols, dress and maneuvers , this is a journey of khayal, so were ever we think this khayal can be lighted from the lamp, we should follow it. We should only worry about our own khayal, we should have respect for the progeny, as they might change any time. But do not give your hands in their hand. The good darbars, like Golra sheriff, Khawaja Ghulam Fared R.A , where later on there was dissent, among the progenies. Care about your own khayal and not worry about others. If we are in the journey and in trance then everything is fine, as narrated by Hazrat WasifAli Wasif R.A,in Kiran Kiran Surag ‘If springs come and every cow becomes fat and not ours what would be the benefit to us.’

Question: In the beginning those who deserved were elected from outside and the deserving in the family too, why is that no more?

Answer: This concept that the son of hakem sahib would at least be able to make the covering of the medicine, but people come for medicine and not for the coverings. For a true and faithful the guidelines are given from somewhere, this universe has been so constructed that everyone gets the rububiat, the biggest thing is that those deserving faith will get faith and those seeking evil will get evil.

Kainait talib aur matloob ke dermayaan misaal aik keshkul ke hai.

Who ever wants will get his desire fulfilled, nazar and manzar are part and parcel as two sides of a coin, not separate, the maqamaat baqa ke manazar will get baqa, like in a match we have to have the spectators, the match is going on, even being a spectator is a worthy .Nazar and nazeer together form a manzar(scene), the nazeer also means andaza nazer.

Question: But the nazar will get the reward, how he plays depends?

Answer: This example is to understand, otherwise we get into logic. The batini examples have to be given in the zahir, to discern as otherwise out of compulsion. The rational approach has a weakness, to occupy illegally without understanding its limitations. Aql when ever it journeys will be

illegally controlling things outside its domains. Khaish (desire) whoever rational will interfere in the affairs of the Universe. The symphony of this universe, the events happening under this symphony when approached rationally truncates the Real. Doing research on this symphony by analyzes derides us from the whole, who made this symphony, where did the notes comes from, listening to music is something different, but if we start to research it who wrote it, where did it come from is another discipline. Like while checking the internet the cursor comes across. Researching a song of Nur Jehan will unable us to listen to the song. To listen to the symphony we have to disable the filter of analyzes.

Question: How can we understand the exegesis of the Quran to our satisfaction as explained from different points of views by numerous translations?

Answer: As written by Hazrat Wasif Ali Wasif R.A ‘To understand and write the exegesis of the Ilhami kalam has to be revealed.’ needs a Rumi R.A as revealed on his heart in the form of a Masnawi, and an Iqbal R.A, when Bala e Gabriel was recited in the form of higher poetry , otherwise everyone will have their own tafaseer and point of view, the Sufis who wrote the tafaseer never mentioned or claimed as such only later on people thought so. As Iqbal R.A said once ‘Oh God if what I have written is not correct do not give me guidance’. Like the poems of

Iqbal R.A when sung make a person say namaz, like for the dreams we cannot discern rationally, we seek such and such person having a revealed knowledge of decoding, when the dreams have such am importance, what about a revealed book. So mantiq and dalil is not accepted here, another way of understanding this point is keep all the tafaseers on one side, when Who revealed is Here, on whom it was revealed is here, and for whom it was revealed are here, read without a tafaseer, so that the understanding which will be revealed will be one for you. Once a pious man said I have four tafaseers , and I read them one by one, so I asked him how do you know which one to follow.

Read like a column, for Quran e Pak there are seven grid, from mutual understanding , so whichever grid we are standing start there the next grid will open up. This is the kalam of the Creator. Once Allama Iqbal R.A was asked by an English gentleman, when Newtonian physics ruled and atheism prevailed, when the one talking about particles was accepted and those talking about waves was not accorded acceptance. Dr Iqbal do you believe only the meanings of the Quran were revealed, or the whole words? To which he replied when on me the whole poems are revealed including the words. Not that a thought (khayaal) comes first and then I try to find the words, if a person like me having the poem revealed

as a whole, then what to talk about the Quran. Because if we consider only the meanings then the status of the Quran is put in abeyance. Then the objection can be raised that the khayaal comes over saints and poets too will reduce the legal importance. If you want to read the exegeses, then read the tafseer of Baba Nur Wala R.A who was first recited a verse by the mureeds , as he could not read and write then narrated the tafseer Fazli verbatim, so read tafseer a Fazli if you want a spiritual rendering of Quran e Pak. Who once said what kind of tafseer is that you have designed maps and related geography in the story of Moses and Pharaoh, the tafseer is Pharaoh is the one who is full of his desires, and immersed in the river of desires in which he ultimately drowns. How Pharaoniat drowns in the river of its desires and pride. The moral of the lesson should be there, otherwise becomes a book of history, those events that have passed; now we need to draw lessons till the kaymaat from them.

Question: Can we read the Quran while lying down?

Answer: We should keep the decorum, for otherwise if we do not respect will loose the meanings. If we want to hear then it is fine. The people of gulf read the Kalam e Pak like an ordinary book, storing it in the same column as the rest, without respecting it. Do not keep in the same column as the rest of the

books even religious, the Quran e Pak has a preference over all other books, as like Khuda e Zul Jilal has over the whole of His creation, a mustanad hadith(A solid saying of the Prophet, May peace and blessing of Allah Almighty be upon him).

Question: What is the philosophy of Namaz?Answer: The concept of Namaz is to leave the ways

of evil, otherwise it has no meanings. Forgetting the last day, the day of judgment, not considering the difference between right and wrong, not feeding the poor, stopping others from feeding, telling people to stop feeding, for feeding is a sacred task, the maskeen who cannot say he wants food, not a beggars, the system of langar in a spiritual system and in tassawwuf is against the capitalist way, if a westerner comes to data darbar and see the food being distributed will be bewildered. And those showing off, the munafaqoon, there masjid zarar was ordered to be destroyed. Going in the presence of the Prophet Sallalallahu Alahi Wassallam, the other point is not giving and sharing with the needy, not facilitating each other, for example we should share with each other things of daily use, example being the charger or the phone, or the car in trying to make the life of our fellowman easy. Those who are just praying namaaz and do not taking care of the needy. Fazail are not in namaaz but in ammal and khayaal. Fazal is the intiha of

khyaal and the fazail are in ammal. These are the few important points, in all ibadaat, the end is Qurbaat Illalahe, to find Qurbat and the root is Medina, if the goal for ibaadat is denied then fazail of ammal are confusing, producing a pride on ammal and not on Fazal.

‘Happiness is in the naseeb of shukar guzaar, the corollary of shukar guzaar is to remain contended and be glad’.

Question: How do we make our ammal pakezza?

Answer: Like you asked how the khayaal becomes concrete, does not wander becoming sold, otherwise in a liquid state it will most likely deviate, it is not a mathematical question having a mathematical answer, there is no answer, there is no theory, it is an experience by doing, like driving a bicycle is by doing, by practicing it by falling and then standing up again until one gets to know, it is project of life for the whole life, a whole book, becoming Qaim is the willaayat. Those whom we call wali are the ones who are able to maintain there khayaal. The answer to your question in your own words on how khayaal can be established is. ’ The way the khayaal is established is where the Qaim Maqam of the khayaal resides’. If you discover the Qaim Maqaam of a khayaal , then reside your khayaal there.

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Mehfil with Dr Azhar Waheed sahib April 19, 2014.Question: muatu kablan anta mautu death before death, what is its meanings?Answer: muatu kablan anta mautu what is its meaning and how is it possible?, there is a beautiful sentence by our Baba je on this chapter, ‘If one is able to understand the maqam status of death before death then the inaamaat blessings and elevations acquired after death begin to shower and unravel before death.’ If before dying the status of death is understood then the blessings showered after deaths are showered before death. Make a heading of this sentence in order to understand and this chapter will open up, there is a hadith e Pak, die before you die, and this hadith e Pak is part and parcel of the basic syllabus of the Sufia, there is a sanad reference in the Quran e Pak if we relate the two the meanings will become clearer, then you will understand, inaqa myatun winahu myudun, certainly you will also be mamet , people relate it differently, though the context of this verse is die before you die, a verse for ashab e suffah, telling them your Hade Azam Prophet Pbuh has passed before this stage long ago, and you will too, what a theme you have reminded us JazakAllah God bless you, those thinking it as tankhess is actually shane Mustafa highest and greatest esteem held by the Prophet Pbuh, dying before dying what are its practical meanings not just the academic ones? . It is

said about death a quote by Maula Ali karamAllah wajhu, Death is a termination of lazaat lust, living in this world of senses leaving lazaat lusts one acquires a state of death before dying we experience death like form. Since others death is isztarare the laws of nature, not leaving anyone, some at 60, 70,89, 90, the old man has to go even with the best medicine, that is bilkarahat on everyone, this dying before dying is by choice, example the death by shahadat, not acquiring it would mean regular death, those who have acquired the state of death before death have narrated this passing of the stage of fear, or its shadow, a common experience of people who have experienced death before death have stated a state of death accompanied by the fear. A person who acquires a desire which eats all the smaller desires, at one stage that one left desire is swallowed too, leaving that person with the kaifiyaat state of death before death. An example being of a mother who acquired a son by prayers, if his son dies, we say that women died before death, so is the with salik traveler can acquire a state with sahib e tasleem o raza obedient people of God, do not complain when one of their arzoo desire is expunged leaving them with no desire, one fine morning they do not have a single desire. This is meant by the quote death before death. If the wajudi lazzat addictions of the body by practice drift away, the second stage is of the salik seeker is engrossed in the desire of love with majazi earthly love, and one fine morning that is also done away with, a karam like the shahdaat, what else can be explained in reference to this question. Rohainiat in all religions is the base, is the instruments to

increase religion, the form differs, getting disfigured but the seed can be easily located. For example in Christianity though the sharia has been abrogated, but any progress in it or progression according to them is because of their saints, we are trying to blunt this instrument which cannot be replaced by jehad bil saif, that saif has no tongue, tongue is also called saif, the basic postulates are found in Buddhism in Hinduism in Sikhism, if we make a chart the major characteristics are the same for all the saints if we make a chart we will find common charactertics. For rohainiat in Islam our Sarkar has also defined as Islam having reached NUR others only till the Ruh reaching from kiblah to medina, rohainiat in Islam is that the saint will have a gumbad shrine will get faiz there, there other saints too like Khalil Gibran going to his tomb in Lebanon or Ralph Amaldo Emerson in last century died in the 18th century, has a total saint hood in his books, we get no kaifiyaat what was written was written, the rohainiat spirituality of Islam is zinda javed live, that is the true death before death complete in itself, hundred percent in the heart. In other places there is no perfection, because they are not following the perfect zaat, the footsteps of the zaat.Question: Recently this question was asked from a scholar who has come to Lums University from India, he showed us videos on tasawwuf and on inner experience, and life of Khawaja Moinuddin chisti, and other religions, a student asked him a question, rohaniaat and the inner experience can be achieved by a Hindu yogi or a Buddhist monk what can we think about them, not on sharia. Is it an

assumption that following shariat will be the correct path.?Answer: An Islamic saint even apparently not on sharia will still be complete. The experience of an Islamic Saint, or a Muslim saint will be following the salik and amin personality not only sharia which is a formula but following sahib e shariat, moves from form to essence, sharia is the form the essence being following the righteous personality the fragrance of the personality, loosing in the personality and his fragrance, that is why his experience will be very strong and concrete. A fact which we cannot describe in a forum or a platform. Question: The answer that scholar from India gave also said that we cannot contemplate from just following sharia if the experience of a traveler is real, because namaz of shariat needs additionally namaz e tariqaat for an inner experience. What is the significance of this statement?Answer: Could be hearsay, while the experience of a salik will be concrete due to his following a personality.Question: The Prophet Phub never deviated from the Shariat, enjoined on to follow namaz and sharia strictly, even the sahaba did so, and the strong insistence on following sharia, what can we deduce from that?Answer: We proclaim martial law on this subject in history; but if we see in the same history and its various jharakoon meen corridors, we can see many exceptions , there is an ayah in sura kahf in the shan status of ashaabe e sufha wa la tatlu bilazena yaduna rabahum bilgharate those who

want the blessing of the Divine morning and in the evening do not turn from them, there act should be left to them ,let us see where there are the exceptions in your statement that you just gave. There way was only to see the face of the Prophet Pbuh, and when he was praying they used to break the lines and come forward to see his face written in history, some sahaba e ikram objected complaining while they were praying these crossed the lines, this verses appeared in the glory of the ashaabe suffah, those who turn to face of their Lord do not say anything to them, hafez sahib will better explain it, so exceptions are there from that period, saying this statement is like saying all sahabe ikram went for Jehad, that is not so, according to their temperament the companion of the Prophet Pbuh, Hasaa bin Sabat did not, like in the castle of Khyber a furious battle was being raged , he being of a poetic temperament was asked to protect the part containing women, where it is said in history janabe safia r.a the aunty of the Prophet Pbuh, saw an enemy soldier on the walls trying to ascertain them, fearing he may go back and tell them that there were only women might attack them, asked the companion of the Prophet pbuh, Hasaan bin Sabat to go and kill the intruder, to which he replied it was not in his temperament to kill, as he being of a poetic nature, he wont be able to do it, it is said in the history books that the aunt of Prophet pbuh, herself took a tent peg and killed the intruder, she asked him to at least cut the enemy head pick it and throw it off the wall so that the enemy could get upset, to which the Prophet pbuh companion again expressed his inability to cut and throw the enemy soldiers

head never having done so, not having killed an ant, to which the Prophet pbuh aunt herself did that and then again asked him to at least throw it off the walls, to which he again stated his inability, meaning exceptions are there we cannot define one formula, as there were exceptions there are so now. It is believed that the syllabus of tasawwuf started from the ashaabe e sufha, it is assumed that taswwuf started from them there are statements that can be given in the public and others we cannot disclose other wise you will cut our necks. It’s assumed that all the ashabe e suffah were poor people who for wont of dire needs lived in the Masjid e Nabvi, on the contrary there were men among them who belonged to the rich, the brother of Hazrat Umar being one among them.Question: Again in respect to death before dying it is said everyone has a day with death, now we talk of medicines delaying it, what is the state of this death?Answer? Is there a day of dying and can there be maneuvering, Question: Is there a paradox or have we wrongly understood it? Answer: Well the answer is a day of dying is standard and there cannot be any delay in time. Like the date of birth, the difference is that of niyaah, an example being there is of dish before us, if we will eat it without niyaah, nothing will happen, but if we eat with the wrong intention we would suffer consequences. There is an example in history, when Hazrat Ali R.A going to a mosque left the horse and saddle to a arabe , when he came out of the mosque he found the saddle missing, he left without

saddle and left for home, then he asked to buy another saddle which was found to be the same saddle that Hazrat Ali R.A had lost stolen. To which he narrated that I had a niyah that who ever will take care of my horse I will give him 2 dirham but this thief had missed the opportunity to seek food through the right means, so as rizq food is destined so is life. Science spoils the pleasure of life, let them die peacefully, artificially prolonging life has now become a lucrative business.Question: In regards to a Murshid as we talked before a second question and a paradox regarding the sharia that you have been discussing, reading books of Hazrat Wasif Ali R.A and Ashafaque sahib R.A their adherence to Sunnah, what is the answer?Answer: We think those who are not accepting form are wrongdoers, but they may have transcended the form, not outside the form, but having gone into essence, because although the formula is straightforward and certain till the day of judgment, but we have other exceptions, like we have to stop at the signals to wait for the other traffic to pass to move to the right , but there are exceptions for traffic police, the regular police, and ambulances, breaking one way, infact if they do not break the traffic signal and reach late will suffer reprimand. They cannot make an excuse that they were waiting at the stop sign saying namaz prayers, since there duty was there.Questions: There are exceptions in regards to the Sharia like in the Qalandar silsila , and even regarding Sufia Karam, even Data Hazur

following Sharia formula because they have to become a guide how about them?Answer: A good question there are some Sufia karam, who are very strict in following Sharia having no exceptions all their lives, while other appear to be deviating from the form, in this regards what I feel, is that those saintly figures who are engaged in the Dawah missionary work and Arshad speech use the standard formula, although possessing the formula of exception also, but will not teach it to their congregations , while others who are assigned specific tasks, like the traffic sergeant, the ambulance people, will avail the exceptions during their duties, but will not teach others to follow.Question: Takhaulaq be akhlaque Allah assimilating the color of Allah SWT, what is their Tafheem meaning?Answer: It is in the Quran Sigbatullah wa manahsanu is to assimilate the color of Allah SWT, what it is better than the color of Allah SWT, until we do not see, we cannot assimilate the color, is not possible to assimilate without seeing Mushaidah experience we cannot assimilate the color, will be an academic discussion or topic, even people use it for a name, everybody will claim to be in the color of Allah SWT, we cannot understand it like this, unless we read the Quran describing the Shan e Risalat status of the Prophet Pubh, inaqala kaqhulaqe, ‘Verily we have send thee with the best of Akhlaque manners’ in the Hadith e Pak too, the Prophet Pbuh describes, inambeuztu maqaramam e akhalaque, ‘ I was send to follow the best manners’ so assimilating and following the manners of the Prophet actually consist of being in Takhauaq be

akhlaque Allah. If we combine the two, instructions from the Quran and Hadith sayings of the Prophet pbuh, we are led to believe that inducting into the character of the Prophet pubh, is actually what we mean by Sighabat Allah and also Takhaulaq be akhlaque Allah, accepting the colors of Allah SWT. In this we see that in akhlaque allah, the predominant quality is Rabubiat, that Raab is nourishing the people, foremost being Sattar alayubi seeing the sins and mistakes of the people and covering them not exposing them, until the human himself exposes them, feeding people irrespective of their religions and beliefs, do not the Wali the friend of Allah have the same akhlaque qualities, feeding people, having langar food stores, not telling the sins of one to the other, even spreading the Faiz message, irrespective if someone accepts him or not, so the protocol of the Waliat the characteristics are being elaborated here, so you should do rabubiat, also hide the sins of others, feed people, zaat not lowering itself to the level of zatiaat personal, so the Wali does not reject people for not accepting him. So in one sentence takhauq akhlaque allah means to follow the character of the Prophet pbuh through a Wali Allah a friend of Allah and his akhlaque allah. Reading seerah through books is very easy, but putting it into practice is difficult, what is forgiving the other but a practice, akhlaque mannerism is infact is a practice or practical, to see someone who is a sahib e akhlaque in reality is when we travel with that person, when we deal with that person, in daily idiom we cannot call someone sahib e aklaqaue until we deal with him, anyone giving a lecture on manners or writing a book or talking

about we cannot say good about , we usually mentions a sahib e akhlaque by saying that person has insaaniat humanity, otherwise we say he does not have humanity anyone far from manners. Meaning the perfume and the scent of insaniaat humanity is cognizant with and of Al-Insan. The more we follow in the character of Al-Insan Prophet pbuh’ leaving bashariat , moving from bashariart Shariat and gaining rohainiat and nurianat and acquiring humanity, the practical meaning of Takhaulaq be akhalaque Allah will so defined, we can make it into a sentence ‘Tasawwuf itabhai karadari Mohammadi hai ‘Question: Do we follow a person who has acquired itabhai karadari Mohammadi living in these times, or do we read seerah books on the life of the Prophet pbuh?Answer: A very good question a very basic question, clearing all the concepts, happy to hear this question, opening a chapter or a book, there will be as many answers as people writing the tahfeems explanations, the greatest book is Quran e Pak, all great scholars have written the explanations , so we see Pervaiz sahib, so has Sir Syed explaining with maps the miracle of Nile a tidal behavior, as well as the Shaq al Qamar, splitting of the moon to Nile as having scientific explanations, the book is there, treating Salah prayers as establishing the order of charity asking those going to Hajj of instead of wasting of money to give it to the poor and start a welfare project , so taking the person out and leaving it to books would result in such a meaning, having great intellectual level, perception and wisdom, people treating them as great scholars, there level of

intellect not like ordinary maulvi sahib , those following them are led to as many explanations of the Quran as many tongues, the followers perplexed of following the book or these personalities, leading to schism when we take out sahib e kirdar role model of a character , at cross roads do we follow this person or directly the book. Peaceful only for those following them, other being critical, leading to individual scholars, in the book Pehli kiran there is a philosophical sentence, us na kaha kese ke baat na mano, kese baat ko tasleem na karo, pass hum na uss ke baat ko tasleem kya pass hum na uss ke baat ko tasleem nahi kya. Following them one cannot establish a jamaat e mohammadya. Those who are after Tazkia purification of the soul are after sahib e Tazkia, is a basic formula, if everything is written in the books why do we need a guide, we are not going to read it directly, because we are not interested in philosophy but a living role model who will help change us, for mental luxury libraries are enough, not bringing transformation in their character. This is an important paradox, a very important question. Why can we not implement from the book? But instead read with a reader.Question: In atabai e rasul do we read from the books of hadith, and then will have a role model to explain it by his character and role as a model? Answer: We are at the juncture again, will we acquire a role model by reading books, or will we decide what and how to read Quran e Majeed in the light of the guide and the role model dictating to us. There are so many books on physics, and in this age of

internet we read it on the internet. Will we read the books first and then ascertain the way a teacher of physics teaches or first listen to a professor teaching and then ascertain physics. Claiming to be a scientist. Observation: The physicist Max Planck was an excellent researcher but not a good teacher, not having the quality to teach.( as described by Rudolph Peirls.)Continuing: The role model is going to ascertain the model role in your practical life, the role model can be judged to be imperfect. This becomes a question, combining the two questions, are we to read the book first, or read it by the consent of the model. Taking it to a superlative degree your concept, let me ask you a question? Have we recognized the Creator by following the prophet pbub or the other way round? Observation: Believing in the prophet pbuh first then following the book.If we are reading the Quran e Pak in the light of Hadith e Pak, would reading one book under the light of the other.Question: Now we need a role model, as told by the Prophet pbuh we believed in the Kalama and then studying the Quran e Pak, as we do now either following the imam e masjid or the teacher, making two plus two of our information. Do we need a role model two understand the Quran e Pak?Answer: Until we know about itaba following the Prophet we learned it from book, we do qayaam stay at one place, we will be still doing two plus two, in your question, we have the answer, either

following some imam, maulvi sahib, or teacher, we have heard from someone without accepting the personality, an academic discussion, a scholastic study, until we remain at one place, the start of the Ilm can be done only when we take a permanent teacher. We will not able to have tarseel e ilm or tarseel e khayal, only an academic discussion. A concept of basic nature.Question: Is there a problem with us, having read these books and not following the teacher who taught us and making him our role model, even Khawaja Ghareeb Nawaz R.A, Data Ganj Bahksh?.Answer: There were people at that time even doing two plus two, making objections, when he made a mosque people objected, when Hazrat Ali Hajeveri R.A said, that Islam has 6 pillars, the 6th being food and distribution of food, in the baheshti dervaza door to paradise objecting that paradise is in the hereafter how come this door. So there were people even then doing two plus two. When we are in apparent state, either the listener or the speaker a doubt remains, whether a teacher or a student, when the doubts are removed we become, sahib e yaqeen, do not need Qutb ul Aiktab, a matching or match making, like we say in English for a marriage, when the match making is complete we do not need a Prince Charles and Lady Diana for that.Question: In these times, we need a role model, in the time of ashab e suffah, all the suhaba were not together all the times, and eating and drinking together, in the time of Data Hazur R.A , people could get together more, now we can meet once a week, there

was more time before with the Murshid. Now we have to go work and other pressures of life, how can we manage our time and how far can we go in this path ? Answer: In these times due to corporations and going to work distracts us from meeting the guide. Did we understand the question, if Muzaffar sahib can explain, will be good, as he is sitting next to you, Qurb nearness, is not physical, it is not physical, which should then be most prominent with our family and wife, if Faiz could be due to nearness, then the wife should be most nearer, we have read in the books that a saint travelled from Bukhara to Ghazni in six months and left after a short time, this nighabani blessing exists even in absence, example a langari food server, is doing his work making food, with someone taking food before us, many complaining they have been sitting nearer and the other person took food before us, it depends on sheddat e jazbaat the degree of passion with the khayal idea before the physical closeness. Let me explain, first and foremost if there is no khayal idea, nearness does not have any meaning, a few moments is enough, many people who meet others say that your advice changed us, I am not talking about myself, completing a six month quota, as the child grows from primary or elementary class undertakes longer number of hours under surveillance by the father or teacher , later on as the child grows a lecture is enough, writing takhti tablet stops, 99 percent work is done by khayal, physical presence just needs a match to light on the bonfire, so we need dry leaves, have to keep on cleaning the pot, so that a few drops could clean it, in

transformation tazkia purification a sentence is enough, because without the khayal idea, “ Going away lighted the fire, saying a big thing in the ears”. It is not volume of work, but depth of the work, a live sentence, since without the sublimity of the khayal, we cannot undertake tazkia inner purification without physical presence generates negative questions, role model modifying and proclaiming our own khayal on our entity, until it does not done it is just an academic undertaking a theoretical thing, bringing no change in our personality, needs a physical presence a physical stick, the question you asked these are a refinement and addition to it how to make it practical, in the books there are six Kalama, first tauheed, second shadaat, third majeed, fourth fifth asthagfar, and the six .So who ever sticks to the first kalama and practices we say, that is the last one on this person, after reciting the Kalama is should also descends on the person, warid with tawaraad continuously descending like a water fall continues to fall in the northern areas. Making arid lands fertile with ever increasing presence of water, a continues process, so is with the heart needs a continues downloading of the khayal, there must be something when Kiblah Sultan Bahu R.A said, when the “Kalama was recited by the Murshid and I found bliss”. Basic question to clear the meanings of Shariat and Tariqaat. He had a great knowledge of zahiri and sharia books. These are basic questions to understand Tariqat and Shariat.Question: When we read the books from a role model whether Quran e Pak and Hadith and their tahfeem; would he explain them as the

Prophet pbuh practiced them and provide the explanations by doing it?Answer: The one on whom are of inam and kalama is warid on them, would certainly explain and then provide the reference, the listener understanding the connect. Question: When it is said that the deen came to overcome dominance of one group of people on the other, taking one from the slavery of the other to give them under the slavery of Allah, how do we explain it and become a slave of a person?Answer: Yes it is difficult to become a slave of any person, as the names Ghulam Hussain, Ghulam Muhammad, Ghulam Rasul, are not used in Saudi Arabia should be Ghulam Allah.Observation: The main crux of a deen is to free slaves from the slavery of people and make them the slave of Allah SWT.Question: So how do we explain this formula how is it implemented?Answer: If we make an essay of this sentence and have all humanity live in a jungle, will not be easy as everybody would have their own rules and regulations a chaos, so there is even in a secular society a hierarchal order, some of them have to become a Ghulam slave of the other, if there is no subordinate, and no one will accept the order of the other.Infect we have to accept to the slavery of their slaves. When people say what kind of quackery is this peeri e mureede, deen code of life was brought not to enslave but to emancipate, this is because people do not know the meaning of Insaan, as said

in Punjabi we say bandaa ka puttar baan, until we submit to a person the start of the story does not begin. When it was said, La sajaad u la ibless. The system of thought or school of thought is just of seventy years old, unlike the Ottoman empire as they were naming Ghulam Mustafa as well as Ghulam Hussain, for 500 years they ruled, now the government is different, for example if Iran takes over would we follow them, the way they say there prayers, a political activity. It is said follow what is happening at the Markaz center, for a long time Hijr Aswad the black stone in Kaaba, was transported to Yemen. Hajjaj bin Yusuf cannot be accepted as role model having his authority and government, this question of yours is elevating to a point providing solace, what is the next logical question, can we ask is Insaan ghair, what is ghair is insaan GhairUllah, is insaan GhairUllah or AinUllah. Question: Sarkar Wasif sahib has explained that in the end to reach Allah SWT, we reach a person, a Murshid a role model, but we have to help the layman, there are those who do not believe, a layman, to reach Allah is this person helping the layman the required goal?Answer: We do not reach many people, wahaadat illuminates the ahdaayat ones , love plays the role of transforming our conscious from kassrat many to whadiyat ones leading to ahaadyat, this wahidyat introduces us to the ahdiyaat, is insaan ainUllah or Ghairullah, ain means eye, inssaan the eyes of the Creator but not the creator himself, ain means eyes, you know the subject of grammar being a professor of Arabic, the meaning of insaan is from insss eye, the pupil of the eye, when the Creator has

to see His creation through this eye, He has to see through his eye, when He wanted to know Himself, He created a human, kuntu kanzun mage feun fibtu fakhratu khalaq, insaan is very big thing, if we are able to sit next to a true guide that is an epic moment in one’s life, we are using inssaan as homo sapiens a misnomer, using wrong term of using inssaan as species a general term instead of a personality, making a mistake in our concept. The definition of tasawwuf as described by Hazrat Ali Hajevr R.A in Kashaf ul Majub is “ Tasawwuf is describing the ausaf e insaaniat qualities of a true human being”, If we keep on remembering Inam yafta, the true insaan we will be able to transform and able to some degree be recipient of the inaam, on this question another platform can be created let me give you one, a further step, since the beginning of history or creation of Adam, has been divided into two camps, first ones who attested to the greatness of man, and the other ridiculing one. Like Habeel and Kabeel, a separation both within and without religion, takdeem e insaiaat respecting human, and takreem insaniat respecting man, and the other not doing so tazleel e insaaniat ridiculing, whenever a dichotomy results in describing this concept, whether in a mosque we have to see if there is praise for man or otherwise, if not just leave that place. If there takreem e admiat respect for man then admit to it, intellectual postmortem has two things, takreem e insianaat dignity of man or adaam tazleel e insaniaat lack of dignity, do not be misled by form or similar words, otherwise the first attack by those who damage intellectually make an appealing form, this person uses tasbeeh beads,

says his prayers a lot, keeps fast, these are the forms, but if this person goes against takreem e insaaniat dignity of human, then leave that congregation so as not to waste time. The book will not provide falah salvation a person will, the book will not be a source of help a person will. The book will prosecute applying all clauses, a person will provide the means, saying this person is good and had tried his best.Question: In respect of safaarish, insaan has to change as he is ashraaf al maqhloqaat until we change from Homo sapiens to an insaan, what steps are needed as the Quran e Pak was sent?Answer: What are the steps to change from a biological being to becoming an insaan, there are 124,000 steps according to the Sharia, each Prophets pbuh taking one step, seeing the rising sun at the heights of Faraan otherwise not possible, cutting short the journey homo sapiens to mard e admiaat we do not know the steps, but from mard e admiaat to marde inshaaniat was 124,000, so this journey is not as a species, but of an individual.Question: Assafleen lower animal, the life of an animal is to be avoided, but how, having a choice to be a true insaan or perish as dust?Answer: In the journey of rohainaat, we say we do not wont to die as an animal, but then we are challenged and told to live like a human, those having conscious see people being born as animals and dying as animals, not wanting a biological death in the this life of fragrances. Potential is there.

Question: When it is said, that the purpose of creation of human beings, was for God to know

Himself, in this journey the teacher may not want to describe the end, what is the goal or the end?Answer: Taklqaue be AkhlaqueAllah, is the goal, in tasawwuf it means the Qatra’s drop of water’s eventual desire is to become part of the ocean. Baba Bulleh shah says: “Who I made a friendship, became like them”, and our Sarkar said : “jaade yaad saade dil which ude sade ako goot” so its Takhalaque bil Akhaqlat Allah, not having any Individual desire to become the desire of the Creator, there is nothing to be afraid of, are we afraid to die, that is why we say “Qalo Ina Liilah ha inalillah rajoun” Question: Wahadat ul Wajud could damage Tauheed(unity) matwali of khana kabah saying so?Answer: They say so, reading wahadat ul wajud could damage tahueed, but until you reach wahahadt ul wajud it there will be duality, One Him and one creation, will never reach tauheed until reaching the fragrance of wahadat ul wajud.Question: We say La illaha, there is not God but Him, and how do we explain it?Answer: In algebra we start with assuming the value of this thing is La , then we read it as this was the answer, a very arefana answer, we need a black board to write, the ghair seperation is doubt, maybe it is not ghair separate, as the conscious develops ghair and ghariat disappear, negating the negative, and sanwait separation does not exist, Quran e Pak says “Allah ho nuraas samaawat wal ardh”,” Allah is the light of heavens and the earth “we should question our question instead of defining separation,

kabah is not ghair separate , even it is concrete, cement and sand, we still say Kabbah cannot be ghair separate, but we call wajaullah ghair, ina ma tulu suma wajaullah ,” Which ever direction you seek will find the face of Allah”the one we are seeing with the eye of separation, if we see with love then the separation will disappear.Question: In regards to wahaadat ul wajud, a debate was going on whether Quran is makhlooq or not what is the meaning?Answer: Is Quran makhlooq or not, if it is then it is Kalam e Muhammad, some people contending that kalam aur kalamat were of a human , although there was an inspiration, but the words were of Muhammad pbuh, but this would result in the kalam and kalamat being distorted , would lead to humanly addition , leading to imperfection, so to negate this concept people gave their lives, as this was being implemented by the rulers of the day, the true concept is Quran is not makhlooq but it is Nur as there is no distance, for if we call it maqhlooq separation will exist, the inspiration came and people started to use their own language, light is here and in the heavens, but if Quran is makhlooq then the language is earthly and there will be no separation. So tuheed is the diminishing of distance, to follow any latif pure thought we need to clean the earlier slate of concepts , if we follow the chapter of primary class, along with algebra, we get confused, in the age of multimedia, there is no slate, only concepts are discussed, these concepts can be further elaborated.

Question: In Kaaba there was there no presence of Allah when Kaaba was being kept? With their keeping so many idols?Answer: The concept of lat and manat idols were that they followed and negated the concept of Tauheed, they did not believe in concept of wahadat ul wajud, kuffar polytheists used to say, that all idols were bundled together into a unity, when the Prophet pbuh proclaimed his Prophet hood. There conscious was technically negating wahadat.Question: There concept were not cognizant with wahaadat ul wajuud? Answer: They had compartmentalized into various directions, if they had gathered on wahaadat ul wajud they would then have no objection, kuffar used to object on this unity. Alaham a wahid, were there is belief there is no concept, only following the commandments of the Prophet pbuh, being kuffar, only to understand we propose it like this among ourselves.Question: What is Shirk?Answer? Shirk is giving preference to another concept then the sayings of the Prophet pubh , shirk is compromising on adaab e risalaat, you must be telling your students, to adding in the zaat and siffat of Allah anybody else is shirk, we consider shirk, let us go back which Allah, the one that is written in book, that is raab e Mohammad, to define shirk not doing bookishly. For example while living under capitalism, propagating socialism, the verdict of tahueed according to the Prophet pubh. Considering money as the savior, or power and money. We are victimizing Allah wala saint, barzao ragbhat where the paigam e tahueed message of

tahueed is coming we are attacking then, as coming from the tombs of the saints we call it shirk, where the message of tauheed is coming. Question: Talking to saints at their tomb is not shirk as contacting them is possible, for them it is not Ghaib hidden, is that so? For us there is purdah gaib hidden, for any kaifiyaat coming to us, how do we explain?Answer? Those who are not contacting that won’t be shirk, will not those who are able to contact shirk? The contact can be one sided, not necessarily can also be one way, not always two ways not be shirk, If speaker is not working or the battery is down, the signal is coming one way, One way communication is going on, when we go to a saint, one possibility could be they are sitting next to us we ask them a question, or we know they are in purdah in their hujrah, if we go to meet someone a saint and come to know, that they are in purdah, so we leave a note, and when he is available, he will take a notice, why are we not coming out of time and space. Why have we restrained people by time and space.Observation: We cannot perceive this communication.Answer: Yes we leave a message why we have made insaan and ourselves constrained by time and space, like our Kiblah Wasif Saheb could be contacted before, 18th Jan 1993 and not later, we have put a restrain. Our own perception, bounded by time and space, which he is our own guess.Question: We have been attuned to thinking like that, contacting or asking for any help is shirk for those not present before us, why is it like that?

Answer: If they take help of Jinnat is shirk, like we say we can ask sahib officer, Bill Clinton or Bush is sitting before us, we can ask them for help, but those passed away a little time ago, we cannot, then what is the concept of wasta or Wasilla, it is not point to point, not at the same frequency, there is a library on both sides, having read the books before.Question: Wiping out what is before on the plate needs to be wiped out to entertain new concepts, is that so?Answer: We are in a friendly opposition zeeshan sahib is pointing to a theory of shirk, we can ask anyone before us, but asking from one who is not before us is shirk, until we have mushaida things do not clear up, when people go to medina pak, however far we from the tomb, a prayer comes out, Oh Prophet guide us, there experience. This distance is diminished in masjid e nabvi, not have a feeling of separation, time and distance can make us move a couple of thousand years here and there, as soon as we board the plane is because of the location or we are in the special state, so the separation is in the mind. As soon as the 14 days of ummrah is gone, our desire to put up an application ends, all the secretariat is there, all the pen and paper is there. All the daily activity is there. Changing Qal into Hal, this is the truth, your concept of mijaz e khuda, in our student life he did not believe, all of a sudden he fell into love, calling his beloved as ya, one day his friend said here you are saying ya and not there, all the thing is about yaad, whoever has yaad remember will say ya,

Observation: A Prophet saying “You’re saying daarod e pak is narrated by the angels and that with love myself”Continuing( Dr Azhar sahib): He told his friend “What I can do but say ya” take it at a singular level at your own level not a level of jammat not as a group, were there is love it is true, where there is intelligence will be ghairat, when the heart is together keep on moving. Once talking about lewdness, and reading a column in order to explain it you, sorry about that, the women who wear a burqa is alright, according to their concept, who leaves a burqa without cap, is not good, she says I am alright but the women who wears a chadder is not. There is hijab keep on removing it, and feel shirk will start, stop there. Question: Answer: The answer should be mushaidadate based on observation, I had a friend who went to Data sahib, and saw a girl in bad shape, I saw she belonged to our office, whose parents told me she had problems, but when we took her upstairs she got fine, any kahayal thought at Data Saheb will be good, the first khayaal will be fine and the second we will be translation, a friend who is retired IG police , could not understand, he told me, what is the difference, Hindu worship in the temple, you in the tomb, his thesis was long, but the practical solution I told him, you are from Lahore, there are temples here, in Shadara for the minorities, go to one night at Data sahib, and the other at that temple, and you will find the difference between nur and zulamaat.Question; The difference is there, why is it so?

Answer: Sitting at home it will be an academic discussion. For tarbiaat if one get faiz there, will ask you to go a live saint.Question: What is being transferred from person to person?Answer: The thing about Kiblah Wasif sahib R.A was there is no purdah of munafaqat, when they said we go on morning and day in your company, but this person who and got instant faiz, so true people are trying to find true people, apart from the format path,for tarbiaat you will be send to a person being transparent, So once you go to the tomb of a saint and acquire Faiz, you will be directed to a live person . The contact does not entertain any munafaqaat, or nifaaq, with transparency. Try to unravel the purdah, coming to a stage saying I am mohed, being tauheed parasaat, when things move to friends. I do not know how I remembered this column of Kishawar Naheed, that is the murshid who is going to friends and telling everyone. The one who is kissing the stairs is doing shirk, I just went out of love, doubting others love.Question: The mushaida of Riyaz sahib what do we learn?Answer: All these sahib e nisahanat e manzil are all milestones, ask a traveler of the importance of the milestone, going to Islamabad when we see we are 40 miles away, out of love grabbing the stone, the person is just giving directions, for the traveler there is no shirk, the one who is not there is shirk, in the journey of saafar janab ayaz was a milestone, a mountain and Everest of determination.Observation: Was a great joy to visit the tomb of Kiblah Wasif sahib today.

Answer: A combined effort of our friends, we give apne our love a grade but giving a derogatory remark to the other, one who is pak by reciting Kalama, how can he do shirk, one who is well dressed and having come to masjid, how can we treat him otherwise, practically the shirk for a Muslim is loving money that is shirk for him, depending on money.Observation(Zeeshan sahib): Hardly anyone can claim to be devoid of the love of money.Continued( Dr Azhar sahib): Hadith e Pak, the world is opened up on you, Observation: ( Humair sahib) A hadith e pak says. Every ummah has a fitna and the fitna of my ummah is maal possessions. Now a day’s people main objection is bidat and shirks while hoarding money and taking interest is not considering that a business..Question: Hoarding money is shirk while takreem e insiaant is getting acceptance in our society why?Answer: We call this shirk hoarding money is based on concepts, one of my friend narrates of his pir, the pir was quiet old, while going to Sahwwn shareef being very hot, when the train got close to ghotki I raised him and put him on a bed in June and July, while I was taking care of him, after about 20 minutes, a malvi sahib who was observing us in the traditional getup came to us, and asked who is this gentlemen, I told him he is my father to avoid fitna , he said to pir sahib you have a very nice son. When the maulvi sahib left my pir sahib said, you did the right thing and avoided fitna. Deen has come to give najaat to humans from humans while what we

are seeing in this example is different. Meaning if he been doing that activity for his father would be alright, but for his spiritual father will be shirk. For a salek e tariqaat the easy path is to avoid nazairi discussions, and keep on doing his work and practical quietly, the unfolding of the path by travelling will be due to his sincerity at whatever level. For the one having niaayah for him the hajj starts at Lahore airport otherwise will not happen in Jeddah. Everything depends on Niayaah intentions and not the distance. Nawazshaat unravel from niyaah intentions and one sign is acquiring shauq and then salamati in shauq then zauq in shauq, and when zauq in shauq is achieved then it will be forever.Question: Why is there is no stability in a human mind ,what are the ways and conditions to acquire that?Answer: The instability in a human is by default, different ideas occuring, by being unstable in sooch thought, when the synthesis of the thought is done, when a khayal is acquired then the stability occurs, the other thing being opposed to khayal are the ambitions be followed in the zahiri and batini, in achieving any target, the target should be to become mukhlas sincere, if there is ambitions outside there will be depression and anxiety, I had asked Sarkar Kiblah Wasif Ali Wasif R.A, sir how is isteqaamat achieved, he said to me why do you want to attain stability, if it’s a power outside then why attain it, if the question is outside should not exist, otherwise the achievement of power may result in becoming a Pharaoh, if its inside then it’s a Mubarak sign,

Question: This is a journey of the inside?

Answer: It does not mean being stationary, like a doctor going to lectures and wards, starting practice some refresher courses are carried out, the sadaqeen keep on having discussions, few and far between ,there dimension might change.Question: Talking about time and space how can get out? The journey keeps on.Answer: In reality time and space exist and the desire for getting out of time and space should be taken out, for we might end in another reality, why not remain where our Creator has decided. Question: What kind of ammal action will one do? Because we cannot understand many things being in time and space.Answer: Time and space belongs to the Creator, that is journey of a salek travelling in a cable car, how it moves depends on the cable car, we just have to review, like in Fortress stadium, have cups of play land moving around, we just have to sit and watch, some charge 50 rupees some charge 500 rupees, for a watch and able use all of them. So it is buying one watch and selling oneself.Question: We pray kalama tauheed, la ilaha illAala, and then mohammad au rasul Allah why is it so?Answer: First it is Mohammad au rasul, for if we do not climb it we will not take the first step. The meaning of LaillAllah is all the faculties, any hindrance should be said no to, until the soul knows itself, it will not know where to go, and being resistant to authority, when the nafs understand itself does not remain ghair. Ghairat remain till Law amah.

Question: As it is said namaz is a difficult path for all except those who know they will meet and return to Allah?Answer: Until a person comes to one’s path and goal one does not understand. For nafs mutminnah is a whole chapter. Yahyu la nafs mutminah, meaning in easy terms, ghatkah program, tere mere aik marzi, Your and my desire are the same, will not change after that, while lawamah acts like a monkey going back and forth, to and fro is of lawamah, the difficult thing is everything is practical, have to do it.Question: Then how do he view the shaar? When he is in nafs e mutminah?Answer: Now he becomes part of khair being nafs e mutminah, sees like the little brother as being ignorant, viewing like a bigger brother with wisdom, seeing a younger brother, khairr aur sharr the basic difference being khairr knows its end, the train is coming while the sharr does not, whether farz aur wajab, not for sawab blessing but as duty to protect from disaster, knowing the end, not saying let’s leave it. When we are tuning our car or changing the tyres, we do not think it is farz aur wajab, the car has to be in the best condition.Question: Is Astagafar Hal in nafs e mutminah or in lafs e lawamah, or just nafs e mutminah? The contact Allah with a banda human or of banda human with Allah is through astaghar due to weaknesses. Astafaghar Answer: Can you please clarify why you have used it in HAL, the word Hal is related with Maqam, so I thought why have you used it.

Question? I have used Hal as a kafiyaat, when a human know the weaknesses, a malamat on nafs e lawamah, is that so?Answer: For example if you will ask me if astaghafar is not in nafs e mutminah, if it is not in nafs e lawamah, the Prophet pubh used to say astagafar 70 times in a day. Are you saying it to be kafiyaat. Then what is the question otherwise will be bookish.Question: If it is a kafiyaat as a concept then what are its implications? Is it valid in lawamah or mutminah, while asking for forgiveness..Answer: Astagafar is in lawamah, in mutiminah its “ Meen alhamad da wired kumia menu bholia astagafar” a thing for the ummah, so in mutiminah inbasat the kafiyaat ,state of bast expansion this statement will be valid “Meen alhamad da wired kumian menu pholia astagafar”while in the state of qabz contraction, astagafar is for the present state, a forgiveness for the higher states of being climbed by the traveler. I do not know if I am able to explain it, since taubah forgiveness, means to return, a state in lawamah going back and forth, while tauba we have tawab and anaba, in mutiminah the kafiyaat is of qalb e muneeb so the chapter of forgiveness recedes. Depends on the boiling point like that of water if there is a candle will take four days to heat, if there is tandoor may take a few minutes does not care if it takes days or mintues, the goal being arriving at nafs e mutminah even a few seconds before death. Question: When having reached nafs e mutminah, what is this the fear of return? Answer:The Marifaat is both in the chapter of Khair and Shar, there is a constant fear of breaking the

abulation, even one without abulution reaches babe marifa but through shar but does not reach the end, even after entering babe a marifaat there are many a slip s between the cup and the lips, mutiminah is not a certificate for passing.Question: In Quran how is nafs e mutinah defined?

Answer: When it was asked at roze alast the day of pledge, am I not your Raab Lord, some said it right away, , and some said we will think and decide, ya hayu al nafs e mutimah ,is a feast, feast of nigah, feast of ziyafaat, feast of najaat, a poet says” Ankh uttah ka na deekhen batarfe e habib yoon roze e mahshaar me meen sharam saar hoaa “ of a very famous Sufi possibly our Wasif Saheb , I was so lost I could not concentrate, becoming a mutiminah all the way is different, as seen from the sayings of the Sufia.

Question: If a person is not able to reach nafs e mutinah, before death, and after death what happens?Answer: Yes one who has passed to nafs e mutiminah, transcends or bypassing Barzakh, otherwise has to wait for eternity.Question: Why are three stages of Nafs soul? However Allah created the three stages we cannot question, He did it is right but to understand , what is Hikmah of the three stages, why not reaching and transferring and transformation directly to Nafs e mutiminah?Answer: Perhaps that is the law of life, like a seed remaining in zulmaat darkness, for months and years is ultimately brought to life and creates a bud,

eventually becoming a Pine tree and the Fir. A Law of life, zulmat darkness was created to remind of nur light. We were created finite reminding us about the infiniteness of the Creator. The angels are in malkoot are not in nasood , but do not have marifaat, insaan is in nasood even after doing mistakes, is qualified and greater then who never walked. One who is made to be Vice-gerant is made to visit all the departments, starting from scratch, as is known in the Saigol family, those who are to be made the head, start from the desk of a peon, then clerk and so on having to take over the Vice-regency of their business. Nasood is necessary, mistakes are forgiven, to be able to see and walk on.Question: Is matter ghaib or khair? Answer: This is a difficult question, Wahadat ul Wajud is addressing the whole body not just matter, and it is jai jalwa gare e siffat, aik zzat ke mttunwo aur muttadad kessam ke siffat ke liya jolanga hai ,is an arena, since we are in intermediate now, not saying to matter out of fear, who are beyond matter can say it. When a person is in a hijab, it is not permitted to pronounce its negative. Theoretically we can say it is not ghaib hidden.Question: On reaching nafs e mutminaah is it possible to still be not having marifah?could have reached nafs e mutminah and still not have its knowledge?Answer: No, what we call marifah knowledge/ cognizant is marifah knowledge/cognizant of the nafs soul.Question: There are people who are ahead of marifah knowledge, and find them at peace in everything, in taslim o raza, being mutmin

satisfied in everything, believing everything is being done by Allah, but marifah knowledge is not there subject why?Answer: Mutiminah does not mean peace in everything. It is not subject to a command. Not meaning that one cannot do anything and says he is in peace. There is a difference Taslim is not with compulsion is subject to free will, you have full right to reject and still come under obedience, not just taslim o raza being a big subject should not be called just taslim o raza it is a big universe, does not mean just to accept.Question: Could be a Wali and not congnizant of it, he is in darga e waliaat, and hence though could not know he is in nafs e mutiminah ?Answer? Waiiayat is a department a special proceeding, could be a Wali, as narrated in Kash ul Majoob of there being more than 4000 in descending order, not knowing of their Waliyaat nor of the others, it akin to administration , studying in a staff college, not knowing what post or what power will be assigned to him, but will definitely be from the college, marifa is totally different a person could have marifah but still not on the pedestal of a Wali, it is not mandatory to having marifah knowledge, and be a Wali at the same time having marifah does not Question: In regards to nafs e mutiminah is it possible not to have the knowledge of marifa?Answer: The journey of marifa starts from nafs e lawaamah, it is possible a person can have marifa, but still make mistakes, not having determination, making mistakes and knowing it; it is not possible to

have nafs e mutminah and not having marifa, cannot be possible, in nafs e mutminah not knowing, is like a cattle being a brother of a cattle, saying whatever I receive is enough, not a short cut for a simpleton.Question: My question maybe is like listening to a Hadith all night and asking in the morning whether Zulekha was man or women, maybe quite irrational. is marifia e nafs the crux and the most fundamental as you just described everything is marifa e nafs, whether a thought has arisen due to our nafs or according to the Will of Allah what is meant by marifa e nafs. Answer: It is one of its manifestation, what is called marifaat , If we want to understand it in context and background of literature, philosophy want to define is of juz getting to know its relation with Qul, what is my relation with the whole , its frequency and positioning.Question: I realizing that I am nothing it’s all about the Will of the Creator and so on?Answer: This is there but not everything, to understand like children, let us suppose there being a big setup, with lacs of people working a big company with different departments, from a qasad, to peon working for a salary, not familiar with the aims and objectives of the company and its projects, what the company want to do with them, we can call them abideen and not arafeen, whereas there are other positions, people who know what is the requirement of the company there own contribution and activity, like working for a company Nespak, we can say this person knows the 5 year plan of the company has marifah e nafs and marifaat e kar,

a person discovering the equation and its relation with Qul, the reference point, like a big graph which has a point on it and having y axis and x axis all the drawings having a reference point, until this point discovers it is equation and knows its relation with the reference point all it struggle is absurd.Question: When the juz one discovers an equation with the Qul, is that discovery individual for every soul? Having discovered can tell us what to do?Answer: Yes it is not jaamat sazi, not the congregation, falah salvation is individual.Question: If I have discovered my equation can I correlate it with the equation of another person? A big figure like Hazrat Ali Hajveri R.A? Is there such example who have written book, like Baba Fared R.A?Answer: Yes it is an important point, does discovering ones equation helps in correlating with another equation.Question: We can get a sketch from other equations which were discovered before us , discover our being, our status in relation to the Qul our own postion ,like the statistics of a graph with the amount of production, getting to know the equation. Like the production in 1970 was so and so?Can reading some ones equation who discovered it before us helps?Answer: Yes some formulas can be derived, but the discovery is individual, can get some help in understanding one’s own book, for example if we a salik reads about Allama Iqbal R.A, we are amazed thinking him being our class fellow, thinking the same thought as we are. Some matching occurs, but

this discovery is made by traveling, as Wasif sahib R.A said, “Knowing about a path and traveling on a path is not the same”. Question: My question is a childish question.Answer: Do not belittle yourself all of us benefit, when we gather together, some of us the host getting better food courtesy the guest, khayal is rizq food is also revealed, a question is never small or big, insaan human has to be sincere at the point where he is at on the footstep of the ladder, requiring us not to climb four step of the stairs in a rush, would become difficult otherwise.Let us find the gist, draw a lesson from our discussion, before we leave , the lesson being we have to be mukhliss sincere So taking home some lessons for tonight, the goal would be that we should travel towards transparency, whoever is transparent at whatever point, starts getting wisdom, personal ambition creates opacities, take out your own self-interest, doesn’t not our view transparent, making it more practical, “ Not having any material interest in our spiritual journey, if we decide on it our journey states, sped and give our self, not let other spend, not becoming or slaughtering others sheep. Observation: We slaughtered.Answer: Exactly. Baqra bana qasai da. In this journey, the spiritual elevation attained by the one who sacrificed.Question: In the rohani spiritual journey can a desire to become a wali or reaching waliaat is it self-interest or?Answer: Mafad is zahairi and hijab batini. Please reconsider your earlier concept and observations step by step, without being accountable, so many

people have passed who we call inaam yafta, were they all doing shirk, all doing bedat, from 1350 years, we just learned it 50 or 60 years ago, this is wrong that was darkness, the biggest destruction is fikari idea being destroyed, waylaying one without realizing and making him go to another path, the biggest signs of fitare natural path in reference to fikari path is it opens up, and never experiencing a wall, not letting us into a closed alley. And in ghair fitari a wall comes up a closed alley after a few steps. Having to find a Question: When talking about shirk and its definition related to zaat and siffat, the siffat of Rauf, Ghaffar and Kreem are basic definitions also used for His Prophet pubh in Quran e pak, so this does not hold? What is the answer?Answer: This definition should have been applied to non-Muslims, in the Rab that we believe these are His traits, if you have another god and using these traits for him, instead we have used it for the Muslims. These are actually the definitions unfortunately of the Saudi syllabus, if we read the books of 6th standard on Islamayat on tauheed, the alqaab saying someone the remover of difficulties, and provider of sustenance. The definition comes from the Gharijeen, who started applying the ayah applicable to the Kuffaar no-Muslims, they started implanting on the Muslims, hizb has two distinct categories, having two distinct entities as hizb e Allah and hizbe shaitain, as saying whoever said commander in chief committed treason, saying that in front of the commander in chief.

Dr Azhar Saheb’s mehfil on 3rd January 2015.

Question: Concept like Balai sabaab in Ilm aur Akhlas and Bila Saabab what do they mean, can understand without a cause, but what does beyond a cause means?Answer: Bypassing the cause, directly or overruling the fauq ul Asbaab, some time we write for linguistic beauty, does not infer anything deeper. Without cause Bila saabab means bypassing cause asbaab, Balai saabab is fauq ul Asbaab, here means the whole system of cause and affected is done with. Question: When someone falls ill, has to acquire some remedies or take medicines asbaab, but can we accept Shifa as bila saabab from the Creator as without a cause.?Answer: This life is based on cause and effect, but manifests by some cause and effect which in itself is not an opponent, but once cause comes it is itself manifested through some wasala means, could be construed as desire, mafad if only cause is accepted as the remedy Love is such an entity when

a cause comes in between love becomes mafad, As Hazrat Ali karaam Allah wajhu narrated who ever recognized Him through attributes siffat, will constitute shirk, doing away with marifaat.

Communication with leading Sufi’s:

Muhammad Harun Riedinger <muhharrie@gmail.com>|To:MOHAMMAD IMRAN KHAN <cosmic_solutions@hotmail.com>; Thu 8/27/2015 6:29 AMDear Mohammad Imran,wa 'alaykum salam warahmatullah – Ihope this finds you well and happy.Thank you for your kind words.Please forgive me the delay in responding... for one thing, I have quite a a few engagements and correspondence back-log, and secondly, I did not really know what to reply to your message...I can commend you on 'discovering' Sufism as a way of deepening your relationship with your Rabb (if I understood you correctly), and you should try to find and associate with people of a similar 'aqidah, and avoid confrontations and arguments with Muslims, who are opposed to it. If you think there is anything I can do to help you in the pursuit of your interest, please let me know.

With best wishes and du'aabu faydan (aka Muhammad Harun)

Lectures on Islam and Science:

Lectures on Islam and Science.

And to Allah belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth, and Allah has power over all things.

Verily! In the creation of the heavens and the earth, and in the alternation of night and day, there are indeed signs for men of understanding.

Those who remember Allah (always, and in prayers) standing, sitting, and lying down on their sides, and think deeply about the creation of the heavens and the earth, (saying): "Our Lord! You have not created (all) this without purpose, glory to You! (Exalted be You above all that they associate with You as partners). Give us salvation from the torment of the Fire.

"Our Lord! Verily, whom You admit to the Fire, indeed, You have disgraced him, and never will the Zalimun (polytheists and wrong-doers) find any helpers.

"Our Lord! Verily, we have heard the call of one (Muhammad SAW) calling to Faith: 'Believe in your Lord,' and we have believed. Our Lord! Forgive us our sins and remit from us our evil deeds, and make us die in the state of righteousness along with Al-Abrar (those who are obedient to Allah and follow strictly His Orders).

"Our Lord! Grant us what You promised unto us through Your Messengers and disgrace us not on the Day of Resurrection, for You never break (Your) Promise."

So their Lord accepted of them (their supplication and answered them), "Never will I allow to be lost the work of any of you, be he male or female. You are (members) one of another, so those who emigrated and were driven out from their homes, and suffered harm in My Cause, and who fought, and were killed (in My Cause), verily, I will remit from them their evil deeds and admit them into Gardens under which rivers flow (in Paradise); a reward from Allah, and with Allah is the best of rewards."The words Male and Female show the importance of women as those included in the Ulul Albaab. When verses 3:189 are read in conjunction up to verse 3:200.

When a traveler salek undergoes Tazkia e Nafs under the able guidance of a Shaykh, teacher, or mentor and acquires a divine thought khayal, is lead to view the inner eye of the heart (batin), able eventually to see the outer universe (zahir).Edward William Lane describes in his Arabic-English lexicon, Lub in Ulul Albaab as a purified heart. We need to claim our naming rights back when all the stars had ARABIC sounding names, when the word scientist was introduced around 1832, called Natural

philosopher’s before, having a Divine mission. We need to switch slowly but surely from naming a scientist as Ulul Albaab, giving to the Divine understanding of a Muslim naturalist. Unless the eye of the heart is not opened up, the eye of the telescope is meaningless.

From the following ayahs, we can easily discern between a western scientist, and a Muslim scientist who is also a Momin.

And had your Lord willed, those on earth would have believed - all of them entirely. Then, [O Muhammad], would you compel the people in order that they become believers?

No soul can believe, except by the will of Allah, and He will place doubt (or obscurity) on those who will not understand.

Say, "Observe what is in the heavens and earth." But of no avail will be signs or warners to a people who do not believe.

Ayah 10:99-101.

The outer eye of the telescope is of no use to the Ulul Albaab, until he or she undergoes through the opening of the inner eye or Tazkia e Nafs. Leading to Islam, Iman and Ihsan. Here it is worthwhile to note that ayahs 3:189:200 are addressed to both males and females, men and women of understanding, as the whole passage read in the context of a prayer, after acknowledging the importance of reflecting in the night and the day, the sky and the earth, the Lord replies no effort will go waste. We see in the Islamic countries girls’ schools being destroyed, acting against the injunctions of Quran and Sunnah.

Ulul Albaab’s are the Arafoon’s, a nursery for the Waliyah.

A process starting with the Iman in Allah Subhan-hu as the Creator having dominion of the entire Universe, full of galaxies, supernovae, double stars, Orion Nebula, Crab Nebula, Black holes, etc. And the men and women of understanding devoting their lives to such pursuits, also praying for forgiveness

from hell fire. Accepting Prophet Mohammad sallalahu alaihi waailhi wassallam as the last Prophet.Many years later, when the Prophet was in Medina, facing conflicts and wars, a Revelation in the heart of night turned his gaze towards another horizon of meaning: “ In the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the alternation of night and day, there are indeed signs for all those endowed with insight.” It is reported that the Prophet wept all night long when this verse was revealed to him. At dawn, when Bilal, the muezzin, coming to call for prayer, asked about the cause of those tears, Muhammad explained to him the meaning of his sadness and added: “Woe to anyone who hears that verse and does not mediate upon it”. In the footsteps of the Prophet by Tariq Ramadan.

Spider web:

Quran:

Quran is a book of healing, the healing of the body, the heart, mind and the soul. It establishes a long lasting relationship with its Qari (reader), extending into afterlife. The passage in this life is not only facilitated by its verses, but given a new meaning, the journey of the soul, in the company of the all-pervading everlasting being.

Until this Being is felt, closer than the jugular vein, science, reason and logic will reign supreme.Love HUB is the catalyst which brings a transformation in the Mizaj (perspective) of a human, who undergoes a metamorphic change in his or her personality. When a scientist, a person of logic reads the following verses.

Ha. Mim.

The revelation of the Book is from Allah the Exalted in Power, Full of Wisdom.

Verily in the heavens and the earth, are Signs for those who believe.

Seeing and hearing these verses bring no transformation, until one journey’s from Islam to Iman to Ihsan. Only then can one see the DNA transcribing its genetic information unfolding in the new creation in its mother’s womb, the flower communicating electromagnetically with the bee, advising it the amount of nectar it contains, all a sign in the Divine book of nature and the above verses in the Divine books of God, the Torah, Psalms, Bible and the latest version the Quran, reflecting on the interface, the consciousness of a Momin. This essay contains a repetition of the verses of the Noble Quran to prove and elaborate a point contained in its infinite dimensions, the miracle of the last book. As the fractals in nature written by the same Author, bringing order out of chaos in nature, so the verses of the Quran in endless repetition appearing a fractal in the book by the same Author, diminishing chaos and bringing order in our lives.

Birds

Fractal geometry mapping the nature outside, a kind of self-replicating and self-similar patterns in the entire universe in the formations of galaxies, the mountain structures, to snowflakes on earth, in our blood vessels, trees and the coral in the sea. The Quran following the same patterns of fractal geometry the speech of the same Creator and hence

the same style. To those whom it appears disjointed, monotonous, repetitive contains the order out of chaos, the bearer of life out of darkness, so often missed by a casual reader. Whether it starts with a verse on Moses (May Allah Peace be Upon him) in the first chapter, slowly building and mixing with other instructions throughout, like a seed growing in the earth with a stem, slowly bifurcating into thousands of shoots, leading to guidance for those of the past, present and the future, each verse connected with another instruction like pearls in a bead, keeping the old and growing into new ones, a web of never ending dimensions nor having any contradictions, spread in the entire chapters of the Quran and its extension the Universe, as ‘Tilka Ayaat Ullah’. Usually with a hard fact, a fruit, at the end of these stems, explained as signs and proved by modern science. Like the water and the food cycles spread in various ayahs.

In Surah Furqan: 25:48:53.

And it is He who sends the winds as good tidings before His mercy, and We send down from the sky pure water

That We may bring to life thereby a dead land and give it as drink to those We created of numerous livestock and men.

And We have certainly distributed it among them that they might be reminded, but most of the people refuse except disbelief.

And if We had willed, We could have sent into every city a warner.

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So do not obey the disbelievers, and strive against them with the Qur'an a great striving.

And it is He who has released [simultaneously] the two seas, one fresh and sweet and one salty and bitter, and He placed between them a barrier and prohibiting partition.

Green leaves

Telescope Project:We have found the telescope to be best way to connect with the sky and hence the universe. On the 10 May a day celebrated as the Astronomy day in America, we visited Fox observatory in Markham Park, Sunrise Fl.

Brothers Rafiullah, Obeidullah and Sajid observing the sun spots.

Sunspots reflected on metallic plate.

Further lectures by Dr Timothy Winter, a.k.a Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad, Lecturer Cambridge University school of Divinity. On Islamic Education.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQtGI20D1yYOn Free will and determinism.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMiiv6gfZD0

Lectures by Dr Azhar Waheed a Muslim Sufi and scholar from Pakistan.

When the heart weeps for what it has lost, the spirit laughs for what it has found The Mystics of IslamLove is not to be learned from men: it is one of God's gifts and comes of His grace The Mystics of Islam