47-48 This
Faqeer
was once in a Masjid for Eitikaaf
in the last ten days of the Holy month
of Ramadhan. Another person was also staying there with same intention who
seemed to be great vigil and hardworking. He used to say 'Allah Allah' all the
night since Esha Prayers till dawn. One day I asked him that O slave of God!
You toil so much. He told me that his Murshid
has instructed him to say 'Allah,
Allah' for twelve thousand times a day and he very hardly completes this in the
whole night. I asked him that for how long you have been working so hard. He
told me that he had been regularly exercising this effort and Mujahida
for about
last ten years. I asked him if he had achieved some Mushahida
in Inward
or not.
He said: Not. Only up to this extent that he is just obeying the orders of his
Murshid
and his heart feels happy and satisfied under a psychic effect that he
has done his duty and heart remains worried in case he has not done that
completely. I said to him that O dear! Your effort is great but the reward is
nothing. He said that it is essential to act upon the saying of the Murshid. I
said that what the outcome of such vain and unfruitful order is. Well! That poor
fellow continued to do that and I did not feel good to disturb him more. Many
such people exercise hard and do lengthy Riyazat
without need and through wrong
vain modes and they get nothing other than pain and trouble as 'Toiling, weary
(88:3)' * That
Zikr
, Fikr
, Prayer, Worship, Alms, Sadqa, quick effect and result is not seen
and the slave is left without having received an Alaam
or Ilhaam
from Allah
Almighty in dream, Muraqiba
or wakefulness, it should be understood that that
Prayer, Sadqa
and Worships etcetera has not touched the pole of Acceptance and
there has been some overlooking in its conditions and prerequisites and because
of the Inwardly
Fault and Imperfection, that thing has not met the Acceptance
of God Almighty in His Court otherwise good tidings and Unseen Beckons of
different kinds are got by the virtuous slaves of Allah
Almighty after every
Amal
and each Worship! Allah Almighty The
human being should consider the Hazoori
of heart as essential and mandatory in
the worship, obedience, Dawat
and Zikr
Fikr. He should focus his gaze
upon his
intake and outtake of air and Damm
so that no Damm
and gulp of air should be
without the Zikr
of Allah
Every breath of every moment of life that passes away, It
is such a jewel having worth equivalent to the worth of Both-the-Worlds
. [Hafez
Sherazi] 
. Allah
Almighty is the Hayyu-Qayyum
and
He is the All Hearer and the All Seeing and He is also the Near and the
Responsive. Allah's Essence
is not (heaven forbid) a solid idol that He will not
reply 'O Slave! I am Present'
when the slave calls Him and there is no
reason that He, in spite of being the Ghani
(Rich) and Kareem (Noble and
Generous), will not award His slave with compensation and reward if he worships
Him with Pure (holy) intention or spends his Pure (holy) and clean wealth in
His name without Riya!
says: Lo!
Those who say: Our Lord is Allah, and afterward are upright, the Angels descend
upon them, saying: Fear not nor grieve, but bear good tidings of the paradise
which you are promised. We are your protecting friends in the life of the world
and in the Hereafter
(41:30-31)
as that breath which is released along with
the thought and Visualization
of Allah
Almighty, it deposits as a priceless
pearl for the Zaakir
in his treasure for the Hereafter.
