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Therefore,
he fall in severe perplexity (and inner turbulence) and waiver. He falls in
between the devil and the deep sea. We seek refuge in Allah
against such a situation
of pain and Rijat. Hence, a Seeker
who is still in the initial stages, he should
not leave his wife and children and should not go in wilderness. What nice has
been said by a poet:
ABYAAT (COUPLETS)
A
person left his house and went towards desert,
He
abandoned his wife and sons in his Demand
for Lord,
He
had thoughted that only his wife and children were debarring him from Didaar
,
And only this wall was that which halts (and intervenes) in front of the desired
destination,
He
was finding Him in ocean and in desert,
He
was searching for Him in every water and the land,
He
lost himself but could not find Him,
This poor availed nothing after sacrificing everything he had,
His heart broke like a foot in despair,
He
wasted his life like a fleeting shadow,
When the time of his death approached nearby,
That
time, his ears heard this cry,
O
Seeker
of Haq
! Haq
was stationing inside your house,
That
place, which you left for Me, I was there.
[Mir
Hasan]
Therefore,
the Seeker
should not ever change his condition in the light of his Waham
and
thoughts. Instead he should wait till the time that Allah
Almighty Himself
changes it after making the conditions suitable and the situation supportive.
Hence,
when, such a condition arises because of the heat of the Name-Allah-the-Essence
(Ism-e-Allah-Zaat )
and the thoughts of dread of Tark
(Abnegation) and Tawakul
come in mind, the
Seeker
should cool down and absorb this Jalaaliyat
and Heat through the Visualization
of the Name Muhammad
or through the abundance
of the recitation of the Sacred Darood
because the Name Muhammad
is Jamaali
and vast perseverance, endurance and courage (and mettle) take birth
in the Seeker
by virtue of its coolness and Jamaaliyat
and he can bear the
Jalaali
Weighty Load of the Name-Allah-the-Essence
(Ism-e-Allah-Zaat ) in every way and does not
lose patience, courage and peace.
*
Sometimes
a person cannot offer Outwardly
Worship
completely due to the overwhelming
hotness of the Visualization
of the Name-Allah-the-Essence
(Ism-e-Allah-Zaat )
and a person shows
lethargy towards offering Outward
Nawafil
and verbal Zikr
and physical
exercises and the importance and worth of these things comes so much down in
his mind that he quits Obligatory Assalaat
even. Hence, the Seeker
should avert
this condition and should never come out of the ambit of obeying Obligatory
Assalaat
(Prayers) and the Codes of Shariyat. This is also a big trick and plan
of the Satan
so much so that the Satan
shows to many people, in their initial
stages of Visualization, very fine shows and Inwardly
Spectacle
in dreams and
Muraqiba
and when such person inclines towards the Outward
Worship
and
Obligation
Assalaat, these Inwardly
Satanic spectacles and dramas start
becoming less and short. So, the Seeker
becomes a victim of these daydreaming
of the Devil and quits abiding by the regularity of Assalaat
and Shariyat. In
this way, he becomes an Outcast and the Banished one from the Course
of Inward.
Thousands of Seekers have been observed as entangled in such disorientations
and Rijat. He does not see the shore of deliverance for his entire life, who
has once drowned in such Whirlpools!
Many boats capsized in this whirlpool,
Even
a part of them could not touch the shore.
[Saadi
Sherazi]
At
times this happens that when the Seeker
does the Visualization
of the Name-Allah-the-Essence
(Ism-e-Allah-Zaat ),
it feels as if his all organs are being pressed or he is being wrenched and
after the conclusion of the Exercise
, his body feels excruciated and lazy. His
body feel broken and overthrown. In case such is the condition, then the Seeker
should face towards the Outward
Worship. In this way, the Seeker
should never
keep his Nafs
idle against the Zikr
of Allah
Almighty as the opposition of the
Nafs
is the Zikr
of Allah
.
