What I'm going to tell you now
has pleased me greatly
because since Ghaus Pak has narrated this hadith,
it authenticates the hadith.
He said, ‘Our creator is present and can be seen’.
And then Ghaus e Azam narrates a hadith.
God Can Be Seen!
‘Adopt the company of pious righteous scholars
because for you to adopt their company will be prosperous for you.
And do not adopt the company of those scholars
who do not put their knowledge to practise
because adopting their company shall prove ominous for you.’
‘O servant, when you adopt the company of the one
who is greater than you in piety and knowledge,
this company shall prove prosperous for you.
But if you adopt the company of the one who may be greater than you in age
but possesses neither knowledge nor piety,
such a company shall prove ominous for you’.
Sayedna Abdul Qadir Jilani
quotes a narration of the Prophet (s) and says,
‘The honourable Messenger of God (s) stated,
‘’Weaken the devil by reciting La Ilaha Illa Allah Muhammad Rasool Allah
because the recitation of the Pure Word weakens the devil
similar to how one of you would exhaust a camel
by burdening it with cargo.
And listen well! It’s not just about verbal recitation of the kalima,
you must recite it with sincerity and weaken your devils’.
‘Toheed burns both evil humans and djinns
because it is fire for the djinns and light for those who believe in God’s oneness’.
‘How can you say ‘La Ilaha Illa Allah’
when your heart houses other creators?’
If you verbally recite ‘La Ilaha Illa Allah’ while your heart is occupied by something else
This is not going to weaken your devil.
‘Everything you depend and rely upon other than God makes you an idolater’.
‘If the heart is a polytheist,
the tongue’s declaration of monotheism shall not benefit you’.
‘If the heart is impure,
the purity of your body shall not benefit you’.
Your body is clean and your heart is dirty,
this will not benefit you.
‘He who believes in God’s oneness weakens his inner devil
whereas the inner devil of a polytheist weakens him’.
‘If you listen and act upon my discourse,
it shall extinguish the exuberance of your current nature, it shall shatter the lofty grandeur of your lower self’.
‘O fool!’
Ghaus Pak has used a word for ‘fool’ here:
juhayloo.
There is the word ‘jahil (ignorant)’
but he has used the word ‘juhayloo’.
He said, ‘Ya juhayloo! Hujja ilaya awalan -
- (O fool!) First perform my hajj’.
Before performing the pilgrimage of hajj.
Ghaus e Azam said, ‘First bound towards me
and only then can you intend to perform Hajj in the House of God’.
‘Thumma hujja ilal baiti thaniya’.
‘And after you come to me…’
‘thumma - after…’
‘hujja ilal bait - then go to perform hajj in the House of God’.
And then Ghaus e Azam said, ‘Ana baab ul kaaba’.
Ghaus e Azam (rh) states,
‘Ana baab ul kaaba
ta’ala hatta ulama kaifa tahajju’.
He said, ‘Come towards me
so that you can communicate not with the Kaaba,
but with the One of Kaaba’.
‘Come - kaifa tahajju -
- and let me teach you how to perform hajj’.
And then he said,
‘Hajj is pointless without the reformation of the heart’.
‘I am the Door of Kaaba.
Come, that I may teach you how to perform hajj’.
‘I shall teach you how to communicate with the Lord of Kaaba’.
‘When the fog is lifted from your hearts
then you shall come to realise the truth’.
What I'm going to tell you now has pleased me greatly
because since Ghaus Pak has narrated this hadith,
it authenticates the hadith.
It authenticates it, doesn’t it?
Ghaus e Azam cannot quote a false hadith, can he?
Veracity is attributed to any hadith that is uttered by the blessed tongue of Ghaus e Azam
just because it is narrated by Ghaus e Pak.
So, he said,
‘Man ra’a muhibal lillah faqad raa’.
‘He who has seen a beloved of God has seen God’.
‘Man ra’a allahu izza jal bi qalbihi wa dakhla ilayhi baseera’.
He said, ‘He who has seen the one whose beloved is God,
he has seen God’.
‘And he who has seen God with his spiritual heart
shall enter the Divine Court spiritually’.
He said, ‘Our creator is present and can be seen’.
And then Ghaus e Azam narrates a hadith.
‘Qala nabihu (s)
satarona rabbakum kama tarona shams
wal qamar la tadamoona fi royatihi’.
Amazing.
He said, ‘The Prophet (s) declares:
‘A time will come when you shall see the countenance of your Lord
just as you see the Sun and the Moon’’.
Now, the other books that quote this hadith have no mention of the Sun.
Whereas, Ghaus e Azam has mentioned the Sun here, too.
‘Satarona rabbakum kama tarona shams wal qamar
la tadamoona fi royatihi -
- a time will come when you shall see the countenance of your Lord just as you see the Sun and the Moon, without any difficulty’.
Now, Ghaus Pak has elucidated this hadith.
There is nothing better than to have in our possession the elucidation of a hadith by Ghaus e Pak!
He said, ‘Yara al youm…’
‘Al youm’ means ‘today’.
‘Yara’ means ‘you see’.
‘Yara al youm bi ain ul quloobi -
- today, you see your Lord with your spiritual heart…’
‘wa ghadan - but tomorrow…’
‘bi ainur ruoos’.
‘Ruoos’ is derived from ‘raas’ and raas means ‘head’.
‘Yara al youm bi ain ul quloobi -
- today, you see your Lord with the eyes of your spiritual heart…’
‘wa ghadan - but in the morrow…’
‘bi ainur ruoos - you shall see God with the eyes on your head’.
This is what Ghaus e Azam (rh) has stated.
‘Wa aslihu quloobikum - reform your hearts…’
‘fa inna iza salahat - because when the heart is reformed…’
‘lakum sa’iru ahwalikum - it reforms them’.
And then he referenced this hadith
and said, ‘Reform your hearts
because when the heart is reformed,
everything is reformed’.
And then he said, ‘This is why the Prophet (s) said:
O Son of Adam, there is a lump of flesh in your body,
when it is rectified,
your entire body is rectified,
and when it is corrupted, the entire body is corrupted’.
When I lived in Karachi and would speak to the people in my area about these things,
the clergymen would taunt,
'Yes! All you want to do is do "Allah, Allah", the rest is useless, is it not?!'
And then they would say,
‘What will your ‘’Allah, Allah’’ do for you if you don’t have this?’
‘What will your ‘’Allah, Allah’’ do for you if you don’t have a beard?’
This just proved their sheer ignorance.
The Messenger of God decreed that if the heart is made to engage with the name of God, everything shall be rectified.
If the heart is enlightened…
So, such people in the mosques were devils,
and today, every mosque is full of them.
So then he said, ‘When it [the heart] is corrupted, the entire body is corrupted.
And that is the spiritual heart’.
He said, ‘Abstinence is for the heart to be reformed’.
What is true ‘zohd’ (abstinence)?
Enlightenment of the spiritual heart.
Purification of the heart.
For the name of God to settle in the heart,
for the heart to be activated with Zikr Allah.
He said, ‘It comes from sincerity in one’s belief in God’s oneness
and one’s actions and its corruption comes from these qualities being destroyed.
The heart, therefore, is like a bird
and the body is the cage'.
Your heart is like a bird and your body is like a cage.
The cage has no value, the bird has the value.
If the bird is dead, the cage has no value.
So, your heart is like a bird and your body is like a cage.
‘The heart, therefore, is like a bird,
in the cage of the body, or like a pearl within an oyster
or like treasure within a chest.
But it’s the bird that is of value, not the cage.
The pearl is of value, not the oyster.
The treasure is of value, not the chest’.
I shall recite a few excerpts from Ghaus e Pak’s book every day
so that you know the spiritual knoweldge we dispense here
is not our homemade recipe.
It is the same doctrine rendered to people by the Prophet (s)
and Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jilani (rh) and Khawaja Ghareeb Nawaz of Ajmer Sharif.
All the spiritual dignitaries from all the spiritual orders
whether it is the Chishti order or the Soharwardi order
or the Shazliya order, Rafayi order, Naqshbandi, Soharwardi, Qadri, Chishti… any of them!
They rendered the same knowledge.
Because this knowledge connects one to God.
Anyone who has found a connection to God has done so through this knowledge,
through the reformation of the heart.
Whether he was a Chishti, Soharwardi, Naqshbandi or Qadri,
the doctrine was the same.
I have done this so that your hearts are at peace
that everything you hear and we say here on ALRA TV is not newly concocted.
Even Ghaus e Azam rendered this knowledge a thousand years ago which has now been forgotten.
Even Khawaja Ghareeb Nawaz spoke about this knowledge,
he also rendered this doctrine.
And it was not just the Muslim Sufis,
even Baba Guru Nanak rendered this knowledge
as well as Sant Kabir.
‘You have acquired all the knowledge of the world but it shall not make you a pundit…’
‘Learn the doctrine of love for it shall render you a pundit’.
You've learned all the knowledge of the world, but you were unable to become a pundit.
Learn the knowledge of Love, this is what will make you a pundit.