Irfan (Volume 1) IRFAAN 1

45-46

This case of the Test of Hazrat Yaqoob Alaihis-Salaam (Jacob) was similar exactly to the mother of Hazrat Musa Alaihis-Salaam (Moses) that when Allah Almighty Inspired her to place her son in a suitcase and place this suitcase on the river water and He promised her the same time that

Lo! We shall bring him back unto you and shall make (one) of Our messengers (28:7)

But despite of this true tidings and Inwardly Intuition (and insight), her heart remained restless and impatient.

Allah Almighty says: And the heart of the mother of Moses became void, and she would have betrayed him if We had not forfeited her heart, that she might be of the believers (28:10)

Hence, the Messengers (of Allah) and the Aulia remain influenced by the fear and apprehension despite having the True Kashf and Inwardly Intuition (and insight) due to the human infirmity and the stain of humankind does never part away and dispelled away from the human being and this same thing is that which distinguishes and verifies between the worshipper and the Deity and the slave and God. Had the special slaves of Allah not the Ilm of the Unseen, then why Allah Almighty had said this in the Holy Quran through the words said by Hazrat Esa Alaihis-Salaam (Jesus Christ) that

And I announce unto you what you eat and what you store up in your houses (3:49)

In short, the special slaves of Allah Almighty should not tag on themselves as has been said by Maulana Room Rahmatu-Allahe Ta-aala Alaihe:

Do not believe the actions of the Pure (holy) people like you,

Despite the fact that the words Sher (lion) and Sheer (milk) are similar in script,

But one Sher (lion) is a beast that pains people and other Sheer (milk) is drunk by people,

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If man were human being just on the basis of his appearance,

Then Ahmed Sal Allahu Alaihe Wa Aa-lehee Wa-sallam and Abu Jahl would have been equal.

[Jalal ud Din Rumi]

Hence, in Zikr the real affair is of heart. Merely of the outward form and verbal Zikr has not credit. Many people exercise Zikr for the whole night but their heart remains apathetic to the Zikr and there are some such Kaamil Arif Zaakireen who never move the tongue but the subtlety (Latifa) of their heart speaks with Zikr.

You should be the Zaakir of Allah by the Zikr done through your heart,

Otherwise parrot also says Kareem to God with word and voice.

Each breath of the Lovers of Haq and the Arifeen of Lord is as if is an Inwardly Message and Spiritual Letter filled with Muhabbat and the Fervor of Lord which is delivered in the Holy Sanctuary (Court) of Allah Almighty like an electrical pulse and wave and submits the condition of its Fervor and Muhabbat on the behalf of the Zaakir and then returns with the Anwaar of the Mushahida and the Qurb and Wisaal of Allah Almighty (in reply). Same like this the electrical pulse of "Therefore, remember Me, I will remember you" (2:152) and the wave of "He loves and who love Him" (5:54) continues between the Zaakir and the Mazkoor , the worshipper and the Deity of Worship and the Lover and the loving friend and the Beloved. Human being should say the Name Allah a thousand times through heart and one time through tongue but here the case is reverse. People say Allah Allah (through tongue) many hundreds of thousands of times and fingers become exhausted after having been rolled on the prayer beads and the chains of prayers beads break but heart stays without notice and news as is said by Hazrat Mir Rahmatu-Allahe Ta-aala Alaihe:

Although you have become Pir by Obedience (and worship),

Listen my word that it is not devoid of effectiveness (and the impact),

What will happen through the dexterity in rolling prayer beads?

Unless heart rolls like the bead, O Mir!