You see, sainthood is of two types.
Now I’m talking about some advanced stuff. Super advanced.
Forget about the aarif and muarif saints. This is beyond that.
Sainthood is of two types.
The Secret of the Two Types of Sainthood
Sainthood is of two types.
One type of sainthood is the one in which God grants sainthood to the souls that he selected for his friendship.
Those whom God has loved since the beginning are genuine saints.
The second group of saints
shall consist of those who awakened and enlightened their spirits with the commemoration of God’s name,
and they even witnessed the divine splendour.
This is the second group of saints.
So these are the two types of saints.
Those whom God loves since the beginning,
those upon whom God conferred his friendship since the very beginning.
Such saints are a breed apart.
However, the type of sainthood about which [HDE Gohar Shahi] said, ‘Even the child of a disbeliever is born with the secrets of sainthood’
This type of sainthood is acquired through the path of spirituality,
through which you awaken and enlighten your inner spiritual system.
Now, pay close attention to what I’m about to say.
The first group of saints,
the one that consists of those whom God loves.
They enjoy God’s exclusive friendship.
Exclusive.
And these saints display an array of tantrums, too.
They have such high standards that they won’t speak to anyone in this world,
specifically human beings.
They don’t care to allow humans to sit in their company for their own benefit,
they don’t care about activating anyone’s heart for their benefit. No.
They say: to hell with the world.
It’s just me and my beloved. No one else matters.
So, the second group of saints
that attained sainthood through spirituality,
they had no relationship with God, no friendship.
The purpose behind initiating the second type of sainthood
was to utilise these saints for the betterment and supervision of humanity.
God granted sainthood to these saints
so that they guide his creation.
Now, since the very purpose of granting sainthood to them
was to provide guidance to the creation,
hence these saints were appointed on duty.
Now, only those saints from the first group
accept an appointment (amongst human beings), who feel sympathy for them.
If not, they do not accept it.
They refuse even God.
If you were to know how they are,
you would kill them,
thinking they are disbelievers
by the way they speak to God.
For instance, if God says,
‘Listen, do me a favour and leave this place for ten days’.
And they say, ‘Why don’t you leave yourself? Why should we leave?
We are comfortable where we are’.
The relationship they have with God is entirely different.
There was a man in Birmingham who we went to see with HDE Gohar Shahi one day.
He was from Rawalpindi.
I don’t recall the poor guy’s name.
However, HDE said about the man
that he is close to God.
But when I heard him speaking, I was irate.
The way he was speaking…
but the Lord later said that he was absolutely correct
and that is the nature of his relationship with God.
There are certain people with whom God exhibits an extreme form of familiarity,
so much so that it would seem like disrespect.
Such individuals are not appointed on duty.
When God asks them to take on a duty (amongst the creation),
some accept it while some reject it.
However, those who attained sainthood through spirituality,
God does not behave with them in the same manner.
God meets them with seriousness.
He upholds his majesty.
He doesn’t joke around with them to prevent them from becoming too familiar.
In other words, he doesn’t let them cross their limits.
I’m talking about the second group of saints.
This is why they are always apprehensive; they don’t even quit the Customs of the Prophet (s).
Whereas, the other saints… they say,
‘What customs? What salah?’.
That’s their friendship.
And it’s not from now, this friendship was established well before.
Your mindset is like that of the frog in the well
but there are some individuals who belong to the other (former) group of saints.
Such as Sain Saheli Sarkar from Pakistan, who lives near Muzarrafabad.
He belongs to that (former) group of saints, the first group.
Which consists of the saints whom God genuinely loves and has a deep bond of friendship with.
What these saints have, Baba Farid and Data sab do not.
In fact, even Sultan Haq Bahoo doesn’t have what they have, despite being a Sultan.