In the book Irfan, the author Faqir Nur Muhammad continues," I cannot
resist mentioning that in the first edition of Irfan, I had included
some of my spiritual incidents and occular observations hestatingly;
lest people should ascribe it to my ostentation. Allah is my witness
that in this respect, I am neither a liar, nor a cheat, nor the one
cheated. But I am reproducing here some of my previous adventures and
occular observations by way of an example with the sole object that
their study may perhaps prove to be the cause of increasing the faith
and satisfying the minds of the readers.
Here are the details of the commemoration of my heart's
commemoration: Once I was engaged in concentration on His personal
Name Allah, when a sort of estoteric grandeur and awe of
commemoration overtook me wherein I got completely absorbed and
perfectly tranced. Then I observed that all the hair on my body along
with the skin were rotating around their roots and moving like the
grass at the time of a sever storm. Simultaneously, every hair was
loudly and clearly shouting Allah Hu ! Allah Hu!. I was watching this
natural and strange movement of all the hair of my body at the time
of the relish of illumination, while I was in perfect senses and
fully awake and hearing with my ears the unusual and most pleasent
noise of their commemoration. Dream, imagination whim and fancy had
no hand in it. Rather, it was a solid reality of the heart's
commemoration and Sultan ul azkar ( commemoration of the entire body)
which I heard with my ears and saw with my eyes. The description of
its true relish and real state is beyond the pale of writing. The
external intellect and material mind is unable to comprehend it.
In short, it would be proper to call the heart as an ocean of
spiritual light or a mountain of holiness. Because when through
divine grace the ethereal personality of the heart becomes alive and
being illuminated with its invisible and bright grandeur begins to
utter commemoration of Allah, the Angels crave for it. The
commemorator of the heart attains so much grandeur that the whole
universe appears to him like a Musterd seed.
Hence, the real object of the creation of man is Ma'rifa(gnosis) of
Allah the Most High. And the eye is the best and true instrument of
knowing a thing which is completely known through being seen. The
other senses are imperfect instruments of idenification. Therefore
the commemoration of the eye is most superior, higher and nearest to
Allah. The commemoration is the marrow of the commemorated. And this
alone is the means of knowledge and meditation of the Nourisher. Thus
the inscription of His personal name Allah with the esoteric eye,
concentration, meditation and the commemoration affects the real
marrow and esoteric (spiritual) personality of the person and revives
it. In this way, the commemoration is commemorated in its true place
so to say: while practicing commemoration in the other ways, the
commemorator is very far off from his real aim and true object.
In short, opening of the esoteric (spiritual) eyes is the real object
of commemoration. When the esoteric eyes of the seeker are opened, he
becomes a perfect Arif. Things seen are not like things heard. The
way of illumination and life of the heart, proximity, obsevation,
union, and interview with Allah can never be achieved without
concentration on his personal name Allah. though the seeker may bear
severe austerities and exertion all his long life and languish like a
hair but the heart remains dead and dark. Because external worship
and physical acts may cleanse the elemental body but the path of the
heart is quite apart and its method is quite different.
Listen to another incident. Once I saw a large earthen Mosque where
His Holiness the King of the universe, the Prophet of Islam (saw) was
acting as the Imam. This poor soul ( Faqir Nur Muhammad), along with
a few Prophets and cheif compainons(sahaba) were standing behind him
as followers and performing prayers. So great was the relish derived
from that prayer, that standing there we were moving like branches of
a tree, out of excessive love and joy. Contrary to our modern
practice and without turning to the left or right but keeping his
face towards the Qiblah as before His Holiness (saw) raised his hands
in supplication after he had finished performing the prayers. After
his Holiness (saw) had finished praying, I got up and submitted, "
Your Holiness! There are some prophets and companions in this
assembly. Will you kindly pray to Allah the Most High that this
humble slave may have the honor of seeing and meeting all the
Prophets." Thereupon His Holiness (saw) raised his hands in prayers a
second time. I saw myself standing at the outer platform of the
Mosque, facing the Qiblah, and all the Prophets comming towards me in
a line, shaking this humble slave by the hand then proceeding.
Through the kindness of his Holiness (saw) I saw all the Prophets in
a different pomp and show of nature in the various colours of their
attributes and separate state of their virtuous actions."
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