Irfan (Volume 1) IRFAAN 1

219-220

Prostration in front of Adam Alaihis-Salaam, though, apparently was a disapproved form of Shirk and actually was like a very bitter and sour syrup for the models of Ilm and Worship (and obedience) like the Angels are but since this syrup proved like panacea for the disorder of vanity and Self-conceit. Thus, acknowledging the Prescription of This Wise Doctor of Azal , the wise and foresighted Angels drunk this bitter and unpleasant syrup of abjectness and Waseela after closing their eyes and making their heart enduring and got rid of this fatal disease of arrogance and egotism.

Say, a thousand books are under your armpit,

But what will your Kaafir Nafs do with these books?

You should not just lay your head alone on earth in prostration,

You should lay that thing on earth in prostration which you keep in your mind!

When Satan became accursed by not prostrating himself before Adam Alaihis-Salaam, he became a determined enemy of the children of Adam Alaihis-Salaam by making them astray.

He said: Then, by Your might, I surely will beguile them every one (38:82)

Thus, first of all, he inclined Adam Alaihis-Salaam towards the Shajra Tul Khalad (Tree of Immortality) of the Self in the Garden in wake of which 'self' and 'sensuality' aroused in him and the start of this was like this that in the very first stage when the body frame of Adam Alaihis-Salaam was being created in the Paradise, the Angels humbly asked Allah that what He was creating. Allah Almighty replied them He was creating one of His viceroys. This was time when Satan started burning in the blaze of envy and jealousy as he thought himself to be become the viceroy. Satan approached near that body and gazed upon it. When he ascertained the novel and queer structure of Adam Alaihis-Salaam and noticed his greatness, because of jealousy and sensuality, he spit on his body frame.

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That spit of Self-conceit and self-adoration fell on the navel point of the body frame of Adam Alaihis-Salaam due to which the foundation of the Nafs was laid there and from this place a link and relation of the children of Adam Alaihis-Salaam established with Satan and the seed of astray was sown in the body of Adam Alaihis-Salaam. Thereafter that day, the Arsh e Mualla was revealed of Adam Alaihis-Salaam. In this state of Kashf , the Kalimah-e-Tayyeb Laaa-Ilaaha Ill-Allahu Muhammad-ur-Rasoolu-Allahwas seen by Hazrat Adam Alaihis-Salaam on the balustrade (shank) of the Arsh. He humbly asked Allah that it was who whose name was with His Name. Allah Almighty replied that this is the name of the Last Prophet Muhammad who will be of your progeny and will be My Beloved Friend and that he will be the Guide and Overlord of all Messengers (of Allah) and their people and will be the Interceder of all these on the Day of Decision. At this instant, Satan aroused the sense of his sensuality and emulation in him and casted this whim and suspicion in his mind that how unfair it would be that the son is being made the Interceder of the father. In short, here took birth the elements of devilish jealousy, selfness, emulation and Self-conceit in the body of Adam Alaihis-Salaam and outcome of this was the establishment of the (Ontological) existence of the Nafs in him which was made by Satan his abode, resting place and ambuscade. From this ambuscade, he strayed Adam Alaihis-Salaam by misguiding him about the false 'self' and the Tree of Eternity due to which he ate the fruit of the Forbidden Tree and was exiled from Paradise. Since Allah Almighty needs the test of His creation, so He reprieved Satan till the Day of Resurrection and accompanied him by a very big supporters and army equipping them with every weapon of making the people astray of which the most effective weapon is of 'selfness' and 'Self-conceit' which is the original prehistoric weapon with him using which he is very expert. This same ego and I-ness were first the cause of his own disorientation and curse and now he fires these same poisonous arrows on every human from his ambuscade whispering in his mind that 'there is none who is equal to you'.