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Noor-e-Ilahi, Noor-e-NabooatGrand Spiritual Master Thanks to contributor Roohani Digest Translated by: Saima Naveed (Boston, United States) February 2003 About Writer: For three decades Khawja shams-ud-Din Azeemi is striving to equip us with insight and vision to view the universe in its real perspective. His every effort is aimed at the spreading of his message that cognition of the soul is the only way to cognize our Lord Creator and realization of hidden potentialities of the soul is essential for peaceful living in harmony with nature Noor-e-Ilahi, Noor-e-Nabooat And when your Lord said to angles: I am going to create a vicegerent on earth. They said: Will you depute therein the one who will make mischief and shed blood, while we hymn your name with praise and glory? The Lord said I know what you know not. And He taught Adam the knowledge of all the names and placed them before the angles and said: Tell me these names if you are right. They said: You are the glorious! We have no knowledge more than you have taught us. Surely, you are the Knower, the Wise. [The Quran: Surah Baqarah, Verses 30-32] When God deputed Adam, the angels said that he would raise a tumult on earth. In order to demonstrate that there is a raging ocean of prosperity and welfare in Adam along with the wickedness and violence; cogitation makes it clear that God’s universal program is created in two ways; good and evil, because whatever the angels said was not ruled out. It comes to conclusion that as long as the knowledge of God’s attributes is not transferred to Adam, he is wicked and violent from head to toe, and after the transfer of the knowledge of creation, he is an identity of welfare. Before the existence of Adam, angels were present, who are free of wickedness and violence. Therefore a creature was brought into being, who has all the elements of good and evil, so that he can ignore the evil and propagate the good; he will stick to the good (the righteous path) himself and also invite his brothers and sisters to it. This is the same invitation to spread which, one hundred and twenty four thousand prophets were sent. And this is the same invitation as we call ‘preaching’. Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, said: "I swear to God who possesses my life that your welfare lies in guiding other people to the good and prohibiting them from bad habits. Otherwise a time will come upon you that if you pray, your prayer will not be accepted." To invite and preach Islam is the mission of Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him. Therefore keep in mind that the method of this invitation should be adorned with wisdom and skill, and in all respects should be appropriate, opportune and dignified. Speak in accordance with the intellectual and mental state of the addressee. Persuade the emotions of well gesturing, well wishing and sincerity in other people and eliminate the obstinacy, prejudice and hatred. While preaching someone, do not stress so hard upon the punishment and fear that people should lose hope in God’s kindness. Instead, in comparison to a brief aspect of punishment and fear, present God’s unlimited and extensive embrace of kindness in which the whole universe is adorned, and which is the foundation of the existence of all the creations. It is essential for us that whatever we present in front of the world, we first address it to ourselves. Our own life should first become the picture of the facts, in whose acceptance we foresee the betterment of the world. In the matters of individual actions, domestic relationships, moral affairs and connection with the God, we should prove our life as the model of what we say. Describing the Meraj Journey (his holly ascent to heavens), Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, mentioned the painful condition of some people, and said: "I asked Gabriel, who are these people? Gabriel answered these are the speakers amongst your followers who instructed virtue and piety to others but had forgotten themselves." The effective way of achieving God’s consent and to spread the invitation towards his path is to serve his creatures selflessly; the kind of service that is based on pure human values and the feelings of sincerity, love and well wishing, and not based on exchange and cheap bargaining. Affirming the relation with God’s creatures, and serving them because they are His creations, is the best way to win the consent and delight of the Creator. Before embarking on the journey of learning this spiritual knowledge, it must be kept in mind that the knowledge we intend to learn, in the coming days, is the Presented one. Presented Knowledge (Ilm-e-hazoori) is the knowledge that enables us to enter the world of the Unseen and makes us to acquaint with the Unseen. It is that knowledge, which is a sort of direct information, bestowed upon the mind of the person learning this science, that is, the unconscious stimuli start functioning in that person. |
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