Dar-ul-ehsan :: learningcentre - Words of Wisdom V4 :: Dedicated to Sheikh Hazrat Abu Anees Muhammad Barkat Ali (QSA)

Words of Wisdom Volume 4

3400. THESE rivers are for you and so also the mountains, the winds, the firmaments, the plantation, the minerals, the fruits, the flowers, the victory, the conquest, the wisdom, the government, the Sun, the Moon, the beauty, the majesty, the Earth, the Exalted Throne, the heavenly maidens, the heavenly servants, the Holy Prophet's

Messengership, his grandeur and the whole of the creation.
   If you do not accept it, then tell what can anyone else do?
   Wa ma 'alayna illalbalagh!
   Al-hamdu-lil-Hayy-il-Qayyoom!
   FAlla-hu Khayr-ur-Raaziqeen!

3401. YOUR REFUGE is the door of the Most Gracious, Allah the Almighty; yet you are the greatest begger.
   This is the state of shame.
   Wa ma 'alayna illalbalagh!
   Al-hamdu-lil-Hayy-il-Qayyoom!
   FAlla-hu Khayr-ur-Raaziqeen!

3402. IF you had put this request before the Provider for all Needs, it would have been granted unconditionally.
Al-hamdu-lil-Hayy-il-Qayyoom!
FAlla-hu Khayr-ur-Raaziqeen!

3403. THESE rivers are for you and so also the mountains, the winds, the firmaments, the plantation, the minerals, the fruits, the flowers, the victory, the conquest, the wisdom, the government, the Sun, the Moon, the beauty, the majesty, the Earth, the Exalted Throne, the heavenly maidens, the heavenly servants, the Holy Prophet's

3404. YOUR REFUGE is the door of the Most Gracious, Allah the Almighty; yet you are the greatest begger.
This is the state of shame.
Present every need of yours to the Provider for all Needs (Allah the Almighty). It will be fulfilled, you will never return empty-handed. Allah the Almighty, the Lord of the Worlds, the King of kings, has Himself proclaimed: "Ask Me. I shall give. Allah the Almighty never breaks the promise."
....

3405. MY DAUGHTER! This shalwar of yours is outwitting the skirt. I wonder why you do not hesitate wearing it! The whole body is visible, and that too from so far off.
Al-hamdu-lil-Hayy-il-Qayyoom!
FAlla-hu Khayr-ur-Raaziqeen!

3406. LOOK THERE! How Bibi Pathani, wearing shalwar made from ten yards of thick cloth, is sitting on her own in her barn. She is not at all afraid of anyone, and you - may Allah the Almighty help, may Allah the Almighty help!

3407. WHY does not the father stop?
The father is not of much worth. The poor fellow cannot even dare say 'Fie'.

3408. NONETHELESS, he does appreciate!
Al-hamdu-lil-Hayy-il-Qayyoom!
FAlla-hu Khayr-ur-Raaziqeen!

3409. YOU take an hour preparing a meal at one time, whereas it should require only ten minutes.

3410. THE DEED of which you are ashamed, the Holy Prophet

used to take pride in.

3411. ADOPT some character-trait. Oratory is nothing. It does not promote anything whatsoever. Nor does it bring about any flower or fruit.

3412. I SAW YOU AND YOU SAW ME! Is it not enough? Whoever is not satisfied by privilige of seeing would not be satisfied by any other means.

3413. CONTINUOUS DHIKR'R is the pillar of the stage and one of the well-known three explanations of Salat-ul-Wustaa.* Establish 'continuous dhik'r'!
Al-hamdu-lil-Hayy-il-Qayyoom!

3414. CONTINUOUS DHIK'R is the Great Number of the stage. The other Adhkar (pl. for dhik'r) are the supporters.

3415. CONTINUOUS DHIK'R is not dependent on wudu (ablution), time and number. It goes on in all circumstances and at all times.

3416. CONTINUOUS DHIK'R alone is, O my dear, your Ism-e-Azam (The Great Name) and well-wisher.
Al-hamdu-lil-Hayy-il-Qayyoom!

3417. AVOID the idle and dirty pursuits, and completely too, so that the blessings of the continuous dhik'r may descend. Maa shaa Allah!
Al-hamdu-lil-Hayy-il-Qayyoom!

3418. IN THE WORLD OF HEARTS, the continuous dhik'r is the king of adhkar and the best friend.
Al-hamdu-lil-Hayy-il-Qayyoom!

3419. ONCE ESTABLISHED, continuous dhik'r is never falsified, instead it falsifies the opponent.
Maa shaa Allah!

3420. CONTINUOUS DHIK'R makes you satisfied with everything else. Do it and see!

3421. BLESSINGS of continuous dhik'r are shorn of the confinements of life and death. Continuous dhik'r is the complete rejection (of everything) which is most blissful.

3422. CONTINUOUS DHIK'R is the news for everlasting life. By continuous dhik'r the Dhaakir's (remembrancer's) grave is eternally alive and beneficent.

3423. CONTINUOUS DHIK'R is a chapter of history. And Allah the Almighty keeps it going by the tongues of His accepted servants. Maa shaa Allah!

3424. WHEN columns of the continuous dhik'r are built firmly from ground to the Exalted Throne, a scene is set, putting everyone to wonder.

3425. WHEN continuous dhik'r is established, it purifies the thoughts. When thoughts are purified, they are united together in harmony and, having pinned at a centre, they are exalted.
O Companion, the addresse! Remember it firmly! Sublimity of thoughts is the basic rung of the ladder of human ascension to Heaven.

3426. WHEN continuous dhik'r makes the body its home, it never lets near itself any worry and grief, disappointment and affliction. O Comrade, there four things are Satan's, the outcasts's fatal weapons.
Continuous dhik'r is the surety for the Dhaakir's guidance at each and every issue and every step. It tells you how to do a job; refrain from this; never do that. It tells you the way and the technique to do it. It informs about the danger involved thus saving him.

3427. Continuous DHIK'R is not within our means. It all depends upon the Divine bestowal.

3428. NOT EVERYBODY KNOWS Ism-e-Azam (The Great Name). However, continuous dhik'r has the effect of Ism-e-Azam. It will not be far-fetched to say that it is the better substitute of Ism-e-Azam.

3429. CONTINUOUS DHIK'R is the reality of Allahu Ma'eey Wa Howa Ma'akum (And He is with you wherever you may be! - Al-Qur'an 57:4) and the only means for union of Dhaakir (the remembrancer) and Madhkoor (the remembered i.e. Allah the Almighty). Maa shaa Allahu La Quwwata illa billah!

3430. HOWEVER deeply you think over Fadh kurooni adh kuru kum Washkuroolee wa laa Takfuroon it is not ehough. Promise of dhik'r in lieu of dhik'r is the foundation of union.

Fadh kurooni adh kuru kum Washkuroolee wa laa Takfuroon
(Then do ye remember Me; I will remember You. Be grateful to Me, And reject not Faith.)
-(Al-Qur'an 2:152)

3432. IF YOUR SOUL is not alive in the body, your life is no life in the bazaar of lives. And this is final on this subject.

3433. WHEN the soul enters the valley of honour having reached the lowest stage of dishonour, (a man said), it becomes independent of and free from everything of the Universe and never lets enter into his heart any grandeur of anybody. And this is final on this subject.

3434. UNTIL the soul has seen the scenes of the pangs of death, the torture of grave, and the Doomsday, it remains ensnared in the quagmire of stages. To those in Tareeqat (Islamic Mysticism), this holds no stage. It is not even the children's play.
All states and stages of Tareeqat are the product and outcome of the continuous dhik'r. Maa shaa Allah!

3435. THE HIGHEST STAGE OF HUMANITY is the honouring of humanity and honouring is a characteristics with multifarious meanings. It is not the name of the ritual 'come on, come on in'.
Only Allah the Almighty, the Exalted, the Glorious, grants this characteristic to whomsoever He wishes. And this is final on this subject.
Maa shaa Allah La Quwwata illa billah!

3436. THE LOVE for and welfare of the Ummah are the foremost reverence for the love of the Holy Prophet

. And there is no reference whatsoever available for such conversation as when we talk about love amongst ourselves.

3437. DISUNITY is opposed to Millat (The United Ummah) and the Millat complains of disunity. Put an end to disunity, do it for sure and by whatever means.

3438. IF the coquetry of the humility of the independent does not make the dependent carefree and independent of everything else, what to say then of tht coquetry and that dependent.

3439. REACHING the door is important, but not entering the inside. Reaching the door of the Beloved is probable, but success (of meeting) is improbable.

3440. Be content at attendance. We cannot bear the grandeur of royal formalities.

3441. O COMPANION! However grievously we cry over our destitution, it is not enough. Tell, what characteristic of Muslims have we adopted?
   The Muslim would not fear anyone except Allah the Almighty. Nor would he pin any hope on anyone. Free from any fear he treads on his journey having regarded Allah the Almighty All-Present and All-Seeing, and with him.
   He is independent of and free from everything of the Universe having been intoxicated by the drink of Allahu Ma'eey (Allah the Almighty is with me!)
   He would not stop short of doing a job which he once made up his mind to do; nobody could stop him.
   He never goes near the evil and shamelessness. He would not do anything in seclusion what he would not dare do in public.
   He never told a lie, nor did back-bitting, nor carried tales, nor felt jealous, nor put anyone to shame and reproach.
   In short he always kept his heart free from avarice, never claimed any perfection. He prostrated in thankfulness regarding every perfection as a bestowal from Allah the Almighty, never attributing it to himself.
   If he ever suffered from any misfortune, he repented considering it as a calamity of his own sins.
   Himself a paragon of submission and obedience he admitted every sin, never cursing anyone else.
   He would repent. If he turned off the path, he would repent again; if he still strayed he would repent once again until the benign Rubboobiyyat (Lordship) embraced him thus forgiving him. And he would not do it again.
   He let slip his own honour for the sake of the honour of the Millat. He annihilated himslef, but he did not allow a bad spot on the honour of his Millat. And we, O Companion, we have broken to pieces the Millat, knocked out the united crowds.
   Why did you go there?
   For the sake of name i.e. fame.
   Why did you say such like?
   For the sake of name!
   Had it all been for the Millat, The Millat would have prized it most highly.

3442. Until and unless you discover the Satan's mischief in the thought of your soul and the deeds of your body, you cannot become the gnostic. This is final on this subject.

3443. THE thing worth seeing is the manner in which Satan is working in your system at this moment in time.
Al-hamdu-lil-Hayy-il-Qayyoom!

3444. CONTINUOUS DHIK'R is Rustam (the powerful man) of the domain of the soul, never allowing any opponent to intrude in. It pushes him out. Whoever flies in, he knocks him down. When at the end Satan, the cursed, hears the news that none of his troops has succeeded, instead they are utterly crushed , he himself comes down to the field. O Companion, this is the Jihad-i-Akbar (The Greater Holy War) to which the Holy Prophet

alluded on his return journey from the Battle of Badar in his address to his

Companions (may Allah the Almighty be pleased with them all): "We are now returning from Jihad-i-Asghar (The Lesser Holy War) to Jihad-i-Akbar."
   A hand to hand combat of the Satan and a Salik in a field is something worth seeing. The galls of many great men thin to water. The dwellers of earth on earth and the dwellers of the highest Firmament there, watch and appreciate this combat. The commentators accompany. They are completely impartial. However, they do understand the worthy feat, may it be by Satan.
   This battle is final. The battle goes until one of the combatants is defeated or runs away from the field.
   Overwhelmed by the light of the continuous dhik'r, when Satan seeks to escape the field, the angels of light of the continuous dhik'r round him up with fiery maces, back to the field, so much so that at one point they overpower and confine him and stigmatize his forehead.
   Satan is the outcast, the cursed. You are on the right - even if you give him further bad names. Yet, he is extremely enviuos. He puts up a hue and cry at his failure. For a period of time he sits there lamenting where the young man (i.e. Salik) might have defeated him and thus put a brand of infamy on his forehead.
   The well-known idiom of 'Kalank ka teeka' (brand of infamy in use in Urdu literature) is the same as is put on the forehead of Satan having crushed him.
   The real manliness is to defeat Satan. And the Satan has been the teacher of the angels. He does not worry over superiority and disputations of yours and mine, does not take them to his heart. Satan's knavery and cunningness are far above our comprehension. No reasoning of anyone can convince him. Nor can any blow open his head excpet dhik'r and only dhik'r.

3445. WHAT HAS SATAN to gain from his low, down-trodden and mean person? Satan is lying in ambush for the shaykh of the shaykhs. He never lets slip any opportunity off his hands. He defrauds and makes fun of the famous claimants whom he encourages time and again thus cultivating friendship and finally taking him high up in the sky and addressing him chuckling: "Now tell me my slave how shall I throw down." His knavery touches the highest peaks. And this is his daily routine.
This way he has defeated not one or two, but hundreds of thousands of folks.

3446. WHAT has he to gain from Banna, the conjecturer. Satan is in wait for you.
O my Companion! If you did not catch him upside down and let him fall by his face, and did not drag him and tied him by his legs, what would then your maniless and shaykhiyyat mean?

3447. O MY YOUTH! Time is your precious property. Do not waste it. Wherenever someone valued his time, he succeeded. Today we do not feel the importance of time, none of us does. The young man's whole day is spent listening to the radio songs. Nations progressed because of hard work. The nation that progressed in the world did so having united at a centre and having worked hard.
   Do diligently whatever work you undertake. Do it industriously till you sweat completely. And sweat is the Zakat (religious due) of the worker's labour.
   The young man from the rich community, God forbid, does not work. Instead, he hates work. He leads a life of comfort and luxury. He regards work as the job of labourers, and not that of the rich. The rich have not come to the world of work, but to enjoy themselves. He wastes his days and nights in one idle pursuit. That is, continuously, he spends his day and night occupied in some hobby, maybe a fighting contest of grouse. Allah! Allah!
   The whole world is awake and we lie asleep without any worry and streched straight. We are in deep slumber in that we do not change sides and open eyes, not knowing when and how would we awake!

3448. O MY YOUTH! Build up rows upon rows of dhik'r which are straight and strong from Earth to Empyrean and with no empty space in between not even that of a hair's breadthwhich would never fall and nobody could ever break.
   May your continuous dhik'r break the curtains of ignorance, force the veil to rise, burn the listlessness, enlighten the heart, burn to ashes the impurities because of the heat of its majesty and bring to light the hidden subtlety.
   Maa shaa Allah! la Quwwata illa billah!
   Al-hamdu-lil-Hayy-il-Qayyoom!
   FAlla-hu-Khayr-ur-Raaziqeen!

3449. HAVING READ the excellences of repentance, one began to repent a thousand times a day and night without giving up evil deeds and acts of shamelessness. What kind of repentance is this?
   Make firm repentence with the sincerity of heart and only once. For instance, say "O Allah the Almighty, I repent firmly and with sincerity of heart in front of Your Most Exalted and Honourable Presence; O Rabb, the Majestic and Benign, from this moment until death I shall never commit such an evil deed and shameful act."
   Then remain steadfast as it. This is repentance.
   Al-hamdu-lil-Hayy-il-Qayoom!
   FAlla-hu khayr-ur-Raaziqeen!

   *As Rabb, the Majestic and Benign, Allah the Almighty listens to the calls by His creatures and answers them.

3450. INDIFFERENCE towards the world and inclination towards the Deen is the root of wisdom.
   A wordly man cannot come into the influence of Deen and a man of Faith under the world.
   Al-hamdu-lil-Hayy-il-Qayoom!
   FAlla-hu khayr-ur-Raaziqeen!

3451. IN ANSWER to Maqala No. 3412 which states; "O my daughter, your shalwar (baggy trousers) is beating the skirt: it is not known why you do not hesitate to wear it. The whole body is visible, and at a distance too."
Now we do not need to say this. What about the tehband (a sheet of cloth wrapped round the groin)? Don't they beat the shalwars? Watch carefully one day. It is absolutely true.

3452. THE STATES ARE SUBJECT TO DEEDS: Undesirable deeds lead to undesirable states. In the wake of undesirable deeds there emerge undesirable states. The undesirable deeds in the eye of Allah the Almighty generate the disliked states of man.
   Every greed, every grief, every pain,every affliction, every disease, every discomfort, every evil, every feud, every calamity and every epidemic is an unbearable state of your own deeds.
   If undesirable deeds are put to an end, the undesirable states disappear.
   Maa shaa Allah!
   Al-hamdu-lil-Hayy-il-Qayoom!
   FAlla-hu khayr-ur-Raaziqeen!

3453. THERE are two stages of Sulook, the real and the artificial. Every Salik passes through an artificial stage and then enters the real stage.
   Multiplicity (kathrat) is artificial and One-ness (Wahdat) is real.
   Multiplicity is because of One-ness, but no amount of it can, at all, subsist in it.
   Al-hamdu-lil-Hayy-il-Qayoom!
   FAlla-hu khayr-ur-Raaziqeen!

3454. ALIENITY (GHAYRIYYAT) is an unreal stage and One-ness (Ahdiyyat) the real.
   And throughout the world there are hardly a few people who are free from alienity. They are usually invisible to the onlookers. And they are the ones who regard Allah the Almighty alone as the Real Dispenser of every deed, may be good or bad. They believe that whatever is happening today is taking place exactly the way it ought to, and that the Universe is not independent, but only marching on in motions and movements under the Divine Intention!
   Al-hamdu-lil-Hayy-il-Qayoom!
   FAlla-hu khayr-ur-Raaziqeen!

3455. INTELLECT is the artificial stage and madness the real.
(The bird of intellect cannot fly over the peaks of madness, wonder-struck it falls down. Sometimes it loses its consciousness and sensibilities.)

3456. WANDERING from door to door is artificial and sticking to one niche is real.

3457. THE incidents of the artificial stage are mirage abd illusions and those of the real stage, omnipresence (of Allah) and rectitude.

3458. THE ARTIFICIAL STAGE is anticipant of blessings and the real stage, a source of blessings.

3459. DESIRE AND ANTICIPATION are an artificial stage and Faq'r (asceticism) and Ghina (contentment), the real.

3460. THE ARTIFICIAL STAGE is marked by quest. The real stage is renunciation, complete renunciation.
The quest ended on reaching its stage. Maa shaa Allah!

3461. ATTACHMENT is an artificial stage, and absorption in attachment is the real stage. It is absorption in one's musings like chakore (a bird in love with the Moon) has in the Moon.

3462. THE PROFANE STAGE is all manifestation and imagination. The real stage is Eemaan (Faith), Yaaqeen (Belief) and Ehsaan (Blessing). Whereever these three met together, they created a great effect.

3463. THE STAGE OF REASONING is artificial, and that of submission and acquiescence, real.

3464. THE ARTIFICIAL STAGE smacks of disappointment and worry. The real stage inspires contentment and peace.

3465. CENSURE which you regard as an insult is, in fact, the ladder to saintliness and deliverance and the sharpener for Faq'r. Until a toll is rubbed on the sharpener it is not useful.

3466. CENSURE is the gaberdine of Faq'r. There is dress under the gaberdine which is real though invisible to the eyes.

3467. WHEN love manifests itself hiding behind veils of heresy, it bears the stage of Kun Fa Ya Koon!(Be, and it is done!) And this is final on this subject.
Al-hamdu-lil-Hayy-il-Qayoom!
FAlla-hu khayr-ur-Raaziqeen!

3468. ABSORPTION is the highest stage of Tareeqat (Islamic Mysticism) and the centre at which the attendant's attention once centred can never be dislodged from its place even though it might be stretched to yielding point.
   The history of absorption is litered with tales.
   The stage of absorption which my master, my well-wisher, my dear Hadrat Sayyedina Makhdoom 'Ala-ud-Deen Ali Ahmad Sabir Kalyari, (may Allah the Almighty sanctify his exalted secrets) was granted, was unique, praiseworthy and commendable.
   He stood holding the branch of a wild fig tree absorbed in Allah the Almighty for twelve years continuously! Allah! Allah!
   He beat all the records set by the descendants of the Prophet Adam (peace be upon him).
   Similarly, there is another stage of absorption of a servant of Allah the Almighty who sat by a sea shore completely absorbed in the thought of the Exalted King. When he failed in all his attempts in order to distract him from the centre of his attention, Satan came to him in the appearance of his mother. He said: "Whoever you may be and whatever stage you may bear, I am, after all, your mother, the mother who bought you up and promoted to this stage. I have right over you; that you look after me, take due care of me and pay attention to me. If you would not do this, I will jump into the sea thus laying my life in front of you."
   When at last there was no reaction to these entreaties, he (the Satan) waited a bit and then jumped into the sea. But he, the servant of Allah the Almighty, was not moved at all. He remained absorbed continuously in his musings. That is, he succeeded!
   Al-hamdu-lil-Hayy-il-Qayoom!
   FAlla-hu khayr-ur-Raaziqeen!

3469. A TRUE MUSLIM is not only bound to the limits laid down by Allah the Almighty but is also their guardian, even though he may come from a lowly profession. As long as he remains alive he never lets any limit be infringed. Nobody dares flout any limit in his presence.
   It was in 1947 that during the migration there was a camp for refugees established in Saddhuan, in Jugraoon (District Ludhiana, India). One day a few hindus equipped with guns arrived at the camp. They caught hold by hand an old man's young daughter and began to force her to accompany them. They would have hardly walked a few steps that a young police officer who wore the sergeant's uniform and was busy cooking, got up briskly. He looked around but could not see any fire arms. He pulled out of the hearth a burning piece of wood and pounced upon them so much so that they lost their senses and stared, lost, at him. The police officer advanced, struck head of one of the Hindus with the burning log of wood so forcefully that his head split open into pieces like a melon. He reached Hell even before falling on to the ground.
   Although this honourable young police officer died a martyr's death with the Hindu's friends bullet, yet such a prestige was established that during the many months of this camp no Hindu ever dared to enter it.
   The blessing and excellence of one instance of martyrdom became the guardian and shepherd of the honour of the whole of the camp.
   Al-hamdu-lil-Hayy-il-Qayoom!
   FAlla-hu khayr-ur-Raaziqeen!

3470. INTELLECT is the knowledge of the soul.
Manifestation is the knowledge of the heart.

3471. INTELLECT is reliable.
Manifestion is unreliable, doubtful and subject to authentication.

3472. INTELLECT has preference over manifestation, similar to that of the soul over heart.

3473. "THE HOLY PROPHET (SAW)

never hoarded anything for the morrow."
-(Tirmidhi, Anas)
"The Holy Prophet (SAW)

left behind after his death neither any Dinar* nor and Dirham*, nor any goat, nor any camel, nor a will concerning anything."
-(Muslim, A'yesha)
The Holy Prophet (SAW)

said: "If there was as much gold as the Mount of Uhad, I would not like it that it lasts (with me) for three days; rather (spend it thus) only leaving behind that much only as would pay off the debt."
-(Bukhari, Abu Huraira)
Islamic Mysticism insists that this sacred Sunnah of the Holy Prophet (SAW)

is also fulfilled in order to deserve and inherit the claim of complete ittiba' (obedience).

*The gold coins in use during times in trade - Jordanian and Mesopotamian countries.

3474. O THE COMPANION, the addressee! Ubderstand it well that Deen (Faith) and the world are two entities. Not a single sight can ever accommodate both of them together. Only when you take your sight off the world will it fix on the Faith.
Al-hamdu-lil-Hayy-il-Qayoom!
FAlla-hu khayr-ur-Raaziqeen!

3475. THE WORLD, which you run after desperatley, is like a corpse. And nonbody except the dog and the vulture is desirous of a dead body.
Al-hamdu-lil-Hayy-il-Qayoom!
FAlla-hu khayr-ur-Raaziqeen!

3476. The Dog does not eat the dead dog. But do we eat our own kind? Allah the Almighty says:

... Would any of you like to eat the flesh of his dead brother? Nay, ye would Abhor it ...
-(Al Quran 49:12)

3477. THIS IS WHY there is no sparkling in your eyes. Nor is there any fearlessness in your speech. Otherwise who could bear these sights?
Al-hamdu-lil-Hayy-il-Qayoom!
FAlla-hu khayr-ur-Raaziqeen!

3478. THE COMPLETE RENUNCIATION means the renunciation of everything, even that of manifestations.

3479. MANIFESTATIONS flow from renunciation, not renunciation from revelations divination and miracles.

3480. MANIFESTATIONS are subject to renunciation, not renunciation to manifestations.

3481. IN TAREEQAT-UL-ISLAM, the eternal negation is termed as renunciation. and renunciation is ot two modes; renunciation of what is forbidden and renunciation of desires.

3482. (english translation of a poem)

WHAT nightingale went and saw in the orchard,
We saw that in every thorn of the wasteland.
O' Zulaykha*! Manifest in every star is the light,
That you saw in the Moon of Kin'an.**
Which would disturb in a moment the peace of the worlds,
We saw that magic in your ruffled lock of hair.

* She was the Queen of Egypt who cherished the love for the Prophet Yusuf (Joseph - peace be upon him).
** Kin'an - the name of an olden city in the Middle East, the native place of the Prophet Yusuf (peace be upon him).

3483. THE LIGHT of the Holy Prophet (SAW)

, the Mercy for the Worlds, is reflected in everything of the Universe.

3484. THERE is rubbish on the surface of the sea and pearls in the bottom.
    There are plants on the surface of the earth and minerals at the bottom.
    Surface is apparent and the bottom, unmanifest.
    Fik'r (reflection) and only fik'r can reach the bottom.
    If pearls and minerals were found on the surface, they would not have been valued; they would have been lost, in fact.

3485. FIK'R (REFLECTION) is the source of wisdom, the manifestor of mysteries and leading towards attainment of the desired goal. Consequently, in Tareeqat-ul-Islam, fik'r holds an important stage after dhikr'r (remembrance).
Fik'r leads to meditation and meditation to an obdervation.
And from observation alone is beneficence.

3486. ABSORPTION of the fik'r (reflection) of the thinker is the culmination of humanity.

3487. ONLY FIK'R helps a Faqir to recognise the 'self'. It pulls one out of darkness into light and leads one from disgrace to honour.

3488. SOME PEOPLE MAY NOT KNOW - this 'self' alone will take you to your Allah the Almighty and help to meet Him.

3489. THE COMPANY of the 'lower-self' has dirtied and entitled (you) with disgraceful appellations. Otherwise Allah the Almighty addresses this 'self' thus:

To the righteous soul will be said:

"O (thou) soul, in complete rest and satisfaction!

"Come back thou to thy Lord well pleased (thyself), and well-pleasing unto Him!

"Enter thou, then, among My Devotees!

"Yea, enter thou My Heaven"!
-(Al-Quran 89:27-30)

3490. FIRST go and ask them who wanted to be something. What did they become having become something and what happened to them. How nice would it have been if nobody would have been anything at all. Nor would he wish to be something. If he had landed on this path, having discarded the desire and wish, he would have received ranks, one above the other.

3491. NEGATION of perfection abounds in the manifestation of permanence. It is not possible any other way. And this is final on this subject.

3492. O MY YOUTH! Bringing the reality to the fore, break the existence to pieces and blend clay with clay. Becoming the dust of the street of the Beloved, annihilate yourself, hence become exalted.

3493. DUST is the humility of mound of clay. When the mound lets the abode of existence be plundered, it becomes dust. The mound is heavy, the dust light. The mound is stationary, the dust dynamic. The mound is weighted down, the dust rises up. Flying along, the dust reaches all over and everywhere; it reaches there, where nobody can. The dust is thoroughly humble. This is why it is exalted. In the world of stages, the dust holds no stage. The dust we look at in hatred reaches the stage of pride.
     The dust is colourless, but it overpowers every color. It renders the object eclisped wherever it sits. It is the feat of the dust that it reaches the cheek of the Beloved.
     The dust is ridden of respect but it is not without effect.
     It is without rank, but it is not without approach to the court.
     Relishing the flight of the dust, devotion wished for one thing alone:
    "How nice would it have been if it were the dust of the street of the beloved!"

3494. MEETING with and ground by the foot soles, dust becomes dust. At this time no one else than dust is lowlier in its stage. Having been ground repeatedly, it becomes collyrium. Then it begins to fly. In other words, this lowliest being reaps the benefit of the most honourable stage. It goes wherever it wishes without any let or hindrance. It settles on whomsoever it wishes.