Mysticism : A Truth , A Reality

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like your parents, your father, and your kith and kin. Your sweet hearts or whatever it is. But do it a littlemore (remembrance of Allah). And he need preference for all he created things, but the first principal liesin mind, not in heart. You have to analyze things. You have to see what is more important for you in theentire life. For a short period you have your priorities different. For a student who goes in college oruniversities, you can say education is his top priority then you say marriage is his top priority, and thenyou say job is his top priority. Then after retirement you say pension and rest is his top priority. But thefact is very different; there is a priority of whole life. It is not partial priority. It is total priority. When we

consider the whole life of human being and we say, he came here for God and he should know God andleave this earth with knowledge of God and with afraiding God. This is what the Sufi does. Right from thevery beginning he sorts out the priorities of life. He arranges, he knows what is more important and what isless important. And he passes through this earth like a traveler. May be the things are refutable in the way.We are not supposed to reject things; we are not supposed to refuse. We are supposed to create a balance

in our desires, where the strongest desire is for the truth, for God and for reality. When we come back afterfinding out the truth in our mind, then we go to the lesser. God does not refuse us any love for woman orlove for children, family or country. He does not refuse us any facility, He gave all these facilities. Life is aprotocol made for human beings to arrange all those facilities. He made it possible for man to be

comfortable on earth and to look for Him and to search for Him, to refuse Him, to deny Him and to acceptHim, is the main project of the human life on earth.Q # 6: Explain the Sufis path and its achievements.Answer: let me say, how can you limit the search and how can you place a destiny when finite being ismoving into infinite side, so there is no destiny. It is a continuous movement of mind and heart in to theinfinite, so I dont think; anybody can say that there is any destiny or an end of going towards God. All I

know is; you keep on living. A man, who stops thinking, creates a kind of a citadel for him, a kind of barrierfor him. But a man who thinks about God, who constantly thinks about God, keeps on moving till his life,till his last breath and he is in a progress and thats what we feel like. Everyone stops somewhere, thepeople who dont have the God as an end in their mind or dont think about the ultimate reality, they stopssomewhere in their way. May be somebody dies with the woman he likes. Somebody dies with the office hehas created. Somebody dies with the lot of money, he has created, and he does not have time to use it anddies of a heart attack. But a man who lives with God, lives till his last breath of life. So there is no end, no

particular end, when you are moving with God. You keep on thinking, progressing and keep achieving somenew phase of thought. Every day you are in a new thought, in a new mood and new creativity. So God iscreating everything in all moments, so you keep on also creating within your own self and all mysticism isoutgrowth, remember this thing. We keep moving from one state of mind to other state of mind, because,this is the progress, in fact it is intellectual progress, it is thinking progress. May be we are only intelligentlike animals and then we move on and we see we are intellectuals and then we move on and re-

concentrate that we have intuitions but a last degree of the most refined intellect is ILHAAM, which is inmystics and men of God. And ILHAAM has no bound. It is unlimited, till you live, till your last breath.

Fragrance of their knowledge of God and also your own study of yourself, its keeps on increasing. There isno end to the intellectual capacity of a mystic. So I always thought wherever is a mystic, he is the topintellectual of his time. Mystic always remains in a good humor. There are two kinds of honesty. If anhonest man is a pungent and bickering man, he does not belong to God. But any body, who is honest, ishonest to good temper.Q # 7: How would you define the state of Fanaa and Baqaa?Answer: These terms have been very much misused by the lesser mystics. Perhaps they are not mystics atall. They talked like mystics, but they didnt have any sense. Fanaa does not mean, the way, that we get

lost in God. No, there is nobody who gets lost in God. Fanna means to do away with our over physicalinstinctive qualities. And to fill in the better ones that are given by God. Suppose I am a mean man, so Iwas a mean man. Suppose I am a grabber, so I have been a grabber. Suppose I am a liar so I have been aliar. I know I have these bad qualities so I have to finish them. I have to march on to learn truth, insteadof mean. I have to de-possess myself of those qualities. And when I do change over from those set ofqualities to the other set of qualities, it means Fanaa and Baqaa means to be stable with those qualitieswhich are gained. It does not mean that you fall into the lap of God and he covers you up. It does notmean that. These are terms which have been always misused. They create a lot of confusion in the mindsof people perhaps. But over the end when you lose all your qualities then God takes you over. I emptymyself with anger, with grief, with desire and I saw God take me over with his own qualities. And what arethose qualities? He is Rehman, He is Raheem, He is Kareem, He is Salaam, and He is Mommin. So a personlooks like God, (he is not a God) but he feels like God. People feels like that he is as kind as God could be,he is as nice as God could be, and he is as truthful as God could be. So that is Fanaa. It is almost anachievement, an achievement of qualities. First we try to follow our Prophets, because the best of the

qualities a human being could have from God has are our Prophet, then we try to follow over. This iscalled Fana-fil-Rasool. Even below that, we call Fana-Fil- Sheikh. Suppose my students say, we would liketo end like our teacher, but the teacher is not the end. So they will say, we will end like the teacher of our


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teacher. That is Fana-Fil Sheikh. And then we know that our Prophet leads us to God and all those qualitiesare found in the Prophet. They have been on inhuman level, unearthly level. They have been transferredfrom God.Q # 8: Sufi can know God or not?Answer: He certainly knows God. Nobody else can know God better than him. Because if he is not sure,(there are three steps; first you have mental argument with God, every literate, every Sufi passes throughthis torture. He goes to skeptics; he goes to all what Marxism tells you. He goes to logical positivist. He

goes to skeptics of east and west (agnostics). He goes to all forms of denials.) That is what Kalma is alsoLa IllHa Illal-allah (try to establish what is not God, before you say, there is God.). When we finish ourarguments, when we complete and there is no doubt left in our mind and this search should be at the topmost level, whether you are challenging or you are being challenged by the new Darwinism or oldDarwinism, whether you are crossed by a logical positivist or an anthropologist. We see all these skeptics

points about God. We say they are not wronged people. They have raised right kind of questions. And wetried to know validity and truths of those questions. And we answer them back and have more powerfularguments. And when we get out of this ordeal of curiosity, we say, we have no doubt in our mind, there isGod, and then we tried to get closer to him i.e. mysticism. Once when we have found God and once we are

sure about God, when there is no doubt in my mind about the existence of God, then I analyze everycriticism against God. And I have got over it. And I have sort this oldest flings then I go ahead and say nowI found you, now I like to be with you. This is mysticism and another starts!Q # 9: What is the relationship between God and man?Answer: I have told you before that we did not create this world and we have not come out of an accidentalcombination of amino acids. It was meant to be so. You see the sun would not have been in such a place if

it had not been set by God. You see, about 10 millions around us, it would have burnt us and 10 millionsbeyond, it would have frozen us. So the man and all these constellations are placing. They are notaccidental. They have been set to create a life belt. A life belt in this universe in which special experimentswere done by Almighty Allah to create human beings. And then not only to create; he gave us somethingvery extraordinary. I believe we are all like robots. And he created so many numerous kinds of unlimitedrobots. We have 13 millions sorts of creation on earth. There could be 13 millions in the skies also.Different sorts of creativity, he has been doing. And He thought; I need somebody special, I should given

my choice. Because he gave choice to nobody, not to people, not to Jinn and not to angels. He thought thisis what I forced in them. Things believe in me as God; as there is no other option. So he made a decisionto give somebody an option. Whether believe me or not. And so for that he created a special instrumentthat we called our mind, our thinking process. He gave us thinking. He gave us mind an apparatus. Andthen he gave us the choice Do you believe in me or do you not believe in me? That is a classic maneuverGod made with human being. And in lieu of that choice he made us more superior than anybody else. He

gave us superiority over the rest of the things. And then he gave us the credit that even if you made thelittle effort and you reach the recognition, you will be awarded . Somewhere in the skies, somewhere in the

universe you will be awarded a reign over, my very special utopia that is called Heaven. There are othercontainers also; angels thought they deserve that utopia, jinns thought they deserve that utopia which iscalled Janaat (heaven). And Janaat is not imaginary as we know the immensity of universe around us,billions and trillions of stars. Its not a simple idea. If you look at the mountains, when the green streakcomes and we know it is emerald in this mountain. You can always suppose after 50 more billion years,perhaps that all mountains turned into emerald, similarly there could be stages and places in the universein which the whole mountains turned into emerald. The ground could be very different of combination. IfHe has given this (earth) he could create much finer places up there. So nothing is imaginary and people

thought, it must be an idea, Dozakh (hell) will be an idea. Heaven or hell is not an idea. They are notimaginary creations. God does not tell a lie. When he tells; you have to go there, you have to go there.These are the chosen paths and when you end up show life, you go those paths. If you have discovered thetruth and reality, you have another way. It is just like when the pup and people come from outside, theyput them in containers. Because they are afraid, may be they have brought big diseases in this earth. Theyare poured, they are examined and then they are brought out, similarly we have put in graves. Its a kindof a container; its a gateway to higher galaxies beyond us. They squeezed time of 70 years and ultimatelygo to millions and trillions. So the way is very clear. It is well understood means and matters. But the job isalso very clear. Over here all these things you do or you enjoy, you dont say we live once. We only dieonce over here. If we are dead we are dead. If we have learnt our lesson, we are not dead at all. So welive for centuries, for trillion years of years. Unimaginable vastness of life is here. So nobody should takethis life casually only for life. They should understand, they have big choice to live eternally or die eternallyor to burn eternally or suffer eternally.Q # 10: What is the difference between mystic of ecstasy and mystics of sobriety?

Answer: These are two states of minds. Some people have very strong nervous system and some peoplehave less strong nervous system; some people have very vast knowledgibility and some people have lessergrade of knowledgibility; some people can control their feelings. It is difference between chemistry. May be


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they all look for God but some people cannot possibly tolerate their chemistry; they sort of those higherlimits of understanding. So those people were stuck right away. They were not capable of over growth.They are called majzoob. They are of God and they are known as saints of ecstasy. They are like majzoobbut he is not allowed to talk. Because he will see a lot many things which other people dont see. Theirsensory perception goes to a maximum extent and they can have the visitation. They can see the filmrolling on, who is coming; who is going and what is future and what is behind? But they are not allowed toexpress because this is not Allahs way (normal people have normal way of living) this is odd. So, saints of

ecstasy are excluded from the society. And the other way of those people who learn; who teach; who arecapable of conceiving an idea fully, perceived the truth and then they are capable of teaching also. Theyare better people. They are known as saints of sobriety.Q # 11: Explain the different ways of exercises; zikar, fikar muraqaba, and mujahida?Answer: These are patterns and manners which few people have adopted; they thought they are better.

But in fact you see all Tareeqa s are one and the same. How can you separate a man of God from the otherman of God, except for his rank? We start all together. May be Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jillani, Khawja Moe-u-deen Chishti Ajmeri, and Khawja Faree-ud-deen Ganj Shaker; all these people start as the same simplehuman beings, whether very very strong desires for God and for love. Now we see there can be no

difference between these people. It is not there. No man of God is jealous of another man of God. Thereare brothers of same profession; of the same trade. So they love each other, according to the verse ofQuran.These people love each other for God sakeSo no difference! But the people who came after, they created all these differences. They created all thesemannerism in them. You can be balance and you can move without any concentration towards God. It

depends on your mind the way you choose; what kind of method. Suppose I feel hungry. My way ofremoving hunger is; I would eat less, according to the Prophet, I would say its ok! I will not eat full. Maybe I distribute my food to somebody else, the brother of mine and I eat less and my brother should eatwith me that I should not eat full stomach. I should remain under size. The other person will say, No! I willstarve, so that I could get over this hunger. Starvation is of harder way, one day; two days; three daysand he will persist. They were very strong willed people. They knew they had certain faults which would notgo without hard exercises. But people like me very weak. We were very small people and we thought we

should only love God more. When I think my body makes a fault, I say I should love God more. I try tocompensate things with love to God rather than starving my own self. Because according to MahatmaSiddhartha Buddha; even after twelve years of Tapasia he said, it does not lie in killing in your body; itdoes not lie in starvation; it does not lie in hanging yourself on the twenty thousand height of Himalaya. Itlies in understanding. So, we use our mind rather than starving our self. People have their own means andmethods but not all of them turn Sufi out of those means and methods. And as Quran said,

These people have taken to the harder way of understanding reality and the truth and some of them gotthrough, some of them fall apart.

Q # 12: Do you think the golden age of Sufism is ended in Pakistan? Answer: I think it is the beginning of golden age of Sufism in Pakistan. Pakistan- Sufism, Sufism Pakistanis one and the same! Frankly telling you, this country is not politically made country. This country wasbasically made with one slogan. And the slogan which I already told you, which is the greatest priority ofthe saints; the whole earth is made for God. They used to raise slogans Pakistan ka matlab kya La illa haillal Allah (there is one God and no God). So the whole country is basically made out of a mystic law; of aSufi law and it belongs to God. And it is made by the people of God and then we fell apart. We deceivedourselves, we deceived our ideals and then we suffer and till now we are suffering. But now there is a

movement of revival. All movements should be in time! All revolutions come when God wishes them tocome. Not me, not you! So the time is come and Allah means so. People are reviving their old faith. Theyare coming back to their Unitarian concepts. They know they have made a mistake and the mistakes theyhave made are very bad rulers. So they are starving. There is short of electricity; there is short ofeverything where as this country is richer than hundreds in practical. So we have to back to God; we haveto beg Him. So back to Sufism; it is not Sufism, back to real Islam, back to real believers. Sufi is just aword; the real word for this is a Momin, (to gain that Imman; to gain that Islam and Imman) Islam is ageneral condition of faith.Imaan is a very particular condition of faith. Imman is equivalent to Sufism. Sufiis rather a word given to a Momin (A man who has high faith in God) so in Pakistan we are turning back.(Every thing goes back to its origin.)So we are also going back to our Prophet and God, Inshallah!Q: 13 How does a Sufi maintain harmony between his mind and heart?Answer: You are looking for harmony outside. Harmony is a basic law. When you go to search and look forsomething, if you are divided within heart and mind; you get divided in action also. So this is a basic thinga Sufi gains in this search i.e. the heart and mind co- ordinate; they co-realate; they re-unite in their

wishful thinking. It is not that only mind thinks of God. Basically the basic emotion gets out of the heart. Itburns for God, it wishes for the truth. Thats how the mind also in the b eginning does not agree but finallyit also moves along. So this is absolutely a very fair very fair balance of mind and heart that leads you to


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God. Its not half mind or half heart; its full heart and a full mind and now again you know the basicapproach is not illiterate; illiterate has no way toward this. But illiteracy is of two kinds; academic illiteracyis of two kinds. Academic illiteracy may be he is not PhD, not post graduate nothing at all. But still he isvery much literate about his inner self. All this knowledge which is on earth in degrees in class ways,engineering, medicine; this is vocational knowledge. You mean to earn out of all these professions. Even anartist makes a picture for earning money, for recognition or money. So we say there is only one pureknowledge; the knowledge which is looking for the ultimate truth which is not rewarded by any earthly king

or queen. Its only rewarded by God, rest of all branches of knowledge leads to vocational and professionalachievements. And this bit of understanding only leads to the ultimate height of truths. And this is basicallymental literacy, no illiteracy. Even God curses rather and blame those people and feels very strongly angryabout those who do not think or do not consider Ayah/ verses in their mind. They do not think at all. Theyjust have blind faith in God. He does not like blind faith. Again He says; anybody who dies; dies of a bad

argument, he dies of a wrong argument and anybody who lives; lives with a good argument. So Allah is allfor knowledge; for argument; for constantly thinking and He created us for thinking. Not for this likeanimals. That is the difference between animals and us. Animals have blind faith. We do not have.Q: 14 Define Nafs Qalb Rooh.

Answer: Well! Many things have been said about these. Actually you dont know anything. You always passa confusing statement about those things. When people did not know much about Nafs they said; it is thegreatest enigma in the history of mankind (what is nafs) but it was not difficult. Nafs is actually the basicpacket of your instincts, when get together they create a self that is nafs. And Qalb is a place; its veryequivalence place where wisdom and nafs both act. It is a place. If I dont have a place for anger in my heart I wont get angry. Even if the Satan works very hard with me we provide him something from inside

so it is a kind of land where he cast his seed. Heart is a place which lives with God. It only remains happywith God. But when it is not with God it is land of mischief. So everybody can come and puts some wrongin it. So I already told you when things go cracked, Qalb and nafs from a bad way of thinking moves ontoo. As Quran says:God has created every thing in balance.Nafs is fifty percent wisdom and fifty percent of the satanic impression. When you do get balance, heartgets balance, even Rooh gets balance. But when it gets corrupted, heart gets corrupted even the spirit gets

corrupted and you go to Hell. When these are impaired, when they are not properly functioning, when theyare not fulfilling the purpose of their creation they go to Hell. And if they succeed in knowing themselvesEven a particle of faith will not die. Even a particle of faith will take you to the heaven if you are sincere. Sobasically there is no difference. We use people, use the mystic the mystic, use these words for facility. Theydont have any worthwhile explanation, what is heart? What is this? May be a teacher explains it asmetaphysically, others mystically, the third one scientifically. And basically they use these words and

phraseology for explaining certain conditions of mind so nafs is a word which is used for all negativequalities of man. And Qalb is a name which is used for a balanced sheet which has fifty percent both. And

Rooh is used for the utmost purification of life. There are three mental conditions. I have never found adifference between Rooh and nafs and all this because to me they all work together this way or that way.Q: 15 Is there continual between them?Answer: Sometimes there is a contradiction between them; your mind wants something different and yourheart something else. But those contradictions are ultimately solved when they converged on a decision.They have to reach a decision. If they are not coming to a compromise that man will be considered to bevery indecisive. So naturally they have to come to a decision. The moment they come to a decision;suppose the heart wants to eat and mind forces not to eat but normally heart rules, wishes rules, desires

rules, emotions rules and centre of all these blind forces is not mind. Mind is a computer; in half of asecond you give a feeling to mind and it intelligently interpreters, gives its clothing, give it words, makes asentence, express a desire but basically the emotions are born at heart.

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