BAZM E IRFAN

The people who have lead an animal life throughout and have had no other occupation or object of life except eating and drinking and like the blind frog of the well have spent all their lives in the material world, are unaware of the boundless and spacious spiritual world. If you crave for eternal life and if you are destined to know, approach, observe and have union with God the most high, you must engage yourself with commemoration of Allah the Most High. Learn this essential and subtle knowledge from some perfect teacher: so that you may attain the object of life in this world of Bounties you may partake of such graces and esoteric relish which no eye has seen, no ear has heard and no heart has ever thought about. Remember that without concentrating on His personal Name Allah the heart cannot be revived: the esoteric path cannot be opened and God the Most High’s proximity, union and observation cannot be attained. Though a man may spend all his life in severe renunciation and ascetic exercises – keep watch full nights and fast in the day. Because though external physical performances, devotion and worship do purify the animal self but the heart remains dead and dark. Hence commemoration alone is the means of the slave’s reaching the master. It is the creation’s approach to the creator. It is the only key to the knowledge, proximity and union of God the Most High. Of all the commemorations that of his personal name Allah is the most comprehensive and best. And of all the methods of commemoration it is the best, sublimest, most perfect, easiest and safest. I mean writing the figure of the noun Allah with the finger of meditation through imagination and concentration. Of the places of commemoration the best is the eye which opens the way to observation. The observation of God the Most High is the aim and object of all worship, devotion, asceticism: all orders and fundamentals of the religious law, the path of truth and knowledge: as well as all the travel and Taswwuf. No bounty, rank and degree are superior to that of observation. Therefore the seeker should adopt the occupation of concentrating on His personal Name Allah. He should study from some esoteric teacher and a perfect guide the science of observation through concentration on His Personal Name Allah. All the grades of the church and state and all the exoteric and esoteric treasures are acquired through the science of observation.“He who has the lord, has everything.”When the seeker beings practising concentration on His Personal Name Allah, the Satan waylays him and through multiple doubts and thoughts he puts this thought in the heart of the seeker:“This concentration business is unaccomplishable: His Personal Name Allah cannot be impressed on the heart: it is waste of time to carry on this business: it is better to engage in some prescribed supererogations and recitations instead. Because this will carry some reward: at least”When the seeker occupies himself with external actions, worship and devotion and engages him self in outward worship, commemoration, recitation, supererogation, observation of the breath and breath control in a room day and night, the Satan takes possession of the room of his heart which is the real and true seat of commemoration. So that while his tongue and other limbs are busy with commemoration and worship, the heart fumbles about with its sensual thoughts, worldly affairs and Satanic passions and the Satan does not allow the commemoration to affect the heart.Moreover, the Satan makes him famous and popular in the eyes of the people giving it out that so and so is very religious, pious and keeps awake in the night. And fascinating him by public applause the Satan frustrates his labours and kills and destroys him with the dagger of pride and egotism. He thinks in his mind that he has rendered great worship and going round and round like the ox of the flour mill he conceives to have traversed a great distance. But on opening his eyes he finds himself in the same place. When a man is engaged in external devotion, commemoration meditation and worship and the devil over powers his heart, the Satan laughs and exhilarates standing beside.Hence the seeker ought to continue the hobby of concentrating on His Personal Name Allah thoughts His Personal Name Allah may not get fixed on the heart in the initial stage. Because the novice seeker is under the misconception that concentration on His Personal Name Allah means that the figure of His Personal Name Allah should be firmly fixed on the heart and the name Allah should remain ever illuminated so that when ever he turns and attends toward the heart he should see His Personal Name Allah impressed and written there. In other words, he means that his personal name Allah should come into his control. But this is a tremendous blunder! For this very reason the majority of seekers relinquish this blessed occupation. Remember that this Personal Name Allah is innate while man and his thoughts and concentration are created. The innate thing cannot be controlled by the created. It is the other way about. That is to say that through concentration the heart, mind, senses and all the limbs of the seeker come under the bondage of His Personal Name Allah. When a man submerges his person in the concentration of the name Allah, the body is lost in the Name. All the impurities, alloy, sloth, pollution, darknesses and invalidities of the person of the concentrator are repelled and removed through the light of His Personal Name Allah. Thus through constant concentration on His imaginary personal name the seeker reaches the real and true gate of His Personal Allah which lies concealed, like a trust in the body of man like the sun. At that moment, through His grace and mercy, God the Most High absorbs the seeker in the sea of light of His Personal Name Allah. If a perfect teacher, companion and guide his partner he unites the mature, personed, capable seeker with God the Most High through a single attention or enters him in constant attendance in the court of his Holiness the Holy Prophet (p.b.u.h). But in the beginning the seeker should not crave to bring His Personal Name Allah under his control and see it speedily impressed on the page of his heart. Unless the sprit and sensuality of the seeker is annihilated through concentration on this name Allah and through the heat in His Personal Name Allah and the attention of the perfect guide the innate boundless bird of the etheric personality of the heart emerges its head from inside the terrestrial egg, he should never think of seeing His Personal Name Allah impressed, established and illuminated on his heart, but should vigorously continue hi work day and night. Moreover, like a child, he should not hanker after trance, flight celestial travel, miracles, or other spiritual spectacles, esoteric feats. But he should always try perseveringly to so establish the print of His Personal Name Allah in his heart and brain as to banish from His person sensualist slothfulness, satanic darkness and dirt of the distracted worldly thoughts through the heat and light of the sun of His personal Name Allah.