Irfan (Volume 1) IRFAAN 1

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When these verses were revealed upon him, his blessed color turned pale and he at once left that place and went behind Hazrat Abdullah Ibne Maktoom Radhi-ya-Allahu Ta-aala Anhu and held his hand with love and affection and brought him back to the Masjid of the Holy Prophet and spread his blessed mantle and sit him with respect and honor and attended him with great affection and tenderness and sympathy. he used to give him respect and made him two times the Vice Caliph of Madinah in his absence when he had to undertake a journey. He says that when Hazrat Jibraaeel (Gabriel) Alaihis-Salaam had revealed upon him the above verses, the awe of Allah's Glory overtook his blessed heart and his heart remained trembling in fear until the time the verse 'Nay, but verily it is an Admonishment (80:11)' was heard by him and his heart took comfort thence. And the meanings of this verse are 'this Quran is universal advice for everyone without any restriction or discrimination about anyone'.

Another incident is also remembered in the Holy Quran and this is that a good number of some poor and destitute Holy Companions Radhi-ya-Allahu Ta-aala Anhumwhich are known as 'Ashaab e Suffa' was with the Holy Prophet of Allah Hazrat Muhammad Sal Allahu Alaihe Wa Aa-lehee Wa-sallam. These people had left their homes and homelands and learnt the Orders of Lord and had gathered in the place of the Holy Prophet Sal Allahu Alaihe Wa Aa-lehee Wa-sallam for (Advanced level) Learning the course of Salook. Since there was no house for their living and residing, they, therefore had prepared a vast and flat high place made and filled with mud (Suffa) for their accommodation.

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Since such high flat place like this is called Suffa in Arabic, these Companions of the Prophet were known as Suffa Companions (Ashaab e Suffa). Some Saints believe that the word 'Sufi' is derived from this Arabic Word 'Suffa'. In short these People had completely forsaken the world and had only the Tawakul over Allah. They possessed nothing in the worldly stuff. Hardly a piece of cloth or jute garment in order to hide the body up to the extent that should be kept covered for reverence of women and they lived on the 'Quwwat e La Yamutu' (undying force). Their all the day food was the Remembrance of Lord, Seeing the blessed face of Muhammad Sal Allahu Alaihe Wa Aa-lehee Wa-sallam and his Companionship and Tawajuh. When he used to visit them, these people gathered around his Candle of Beauty like moths. It has been a norm that the worldly rich and well off persons always feel hatred against the Faqeers and destitute persons and they mind it in sitting with them and feel their insult in meeting them. Hence, the times when the elites of society and lords of locality visited him and saw him sitting in Dervishes with tangled hair and untidy appearance, they hesitated and showed reluctance for sitting along with those people. One day those peers and lords said to that Holy Prophet Sal Allahu Alaihe Wa Aa-lehee Wa-sallam that whenever they come to see him, he is sitting in those unclean and partially naked tipsy people. When we come to hear your words, we request you to please leave them and give us time at some separate place where such people may not interfere or at least give us time after turning your face away from these people. Since he was Harees (that is, of full concern) about the religion and propagation, he was about to say some option regarding this that Hazrat Jibraaeel (Gabriel) Alaihis-Salaam came there with these Verses:

Allah Almighty says: Restrain yourself along with those who cry unto their Lord at morning and evening, seeking his countenance, and let not your eyes overlook them desiring the pomp of the life of the world; and obey not him whose heart We have made neglectful of Our remembrance, who followed his own greed and whose case has been abandoned (18:28)