Irfan (Volume 1) IRFAAN 1

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Some people here have shown their dissatisfaction and anxiety up to such extent that they have torn their clothes after losing self-control like madmen and have become totally naked. Peace of heart could not have become their share in exquisite and costly dresses. All these are the symptoms and effects of cordial restlessness and Inwardly anguish which are shown in these capitalistic nations in different forms. These people are sensing this discontent and frustration of the Inwardly heart disease in them and are striving heard like mad people in order to find its cure but their material efforts, Outwardly tries, external endeavor and superficial struggle is totally fruitless.

Disease became severer upon trying newer remedies.

[Momin]

In reality, the only remedy for this disease is the Zikr of Allah but this panacea is so rare and hardly to find like Phoenix on their land. So, their all efforts and tries in finding material remedies and outward cures besides the Zikr and worship are absolutely vain.

One day Hazrat Esa Alaihis-Salaam humbly asked Allah Almighty that 'O Allah! Let me see this world in its real form and real color'. Allah Almighty said that 'Soon I will let you see the world in its real face'. Thus, one day he was crossing across a jungle and he saw a lady at a distant place wearing a veil which was sparkling in the sunlight due to the silky and golden flowers and patterns woven on the veil. He assumed that must be some nymph with countenance like moon behind such charming and decorated golden veil. That veiled lady came nearer him and as soon as she lifted the veil on her face, he was struck with wonder and astonishment as the face of a very old, extremely heinous, ugly and shockingly hideous, black woman with uncombed hair.

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Seeing her could be a hair-raising experience. Hazrat Esa Alaihis-Salaam asked her that 'O hag! Who are you?' She replied that 'I am Dunya (World)'. He asked her 'O hag! For what this golden, decorative, and beautiful raiment is on this hideous, ugly and deprecatory figure!' She replied that 'I tempt people and make them fall in my love with this apparel I have otherwise the real face and the original figure that I have is that which you are seeing'. When he focused upon her hands, her one hand was red with blood and blood was trickling from it while the other hand was colored with henna. He asked her that why her one hand was dirty with blood and she replied that 'he who becomes my husband, I use to murder him at once. I have just slaughtered one husband right now and this hand is covered with his blood'. He asked her that why her second hand was dyed with henna and she replied that 'now I am going to become the wife of another husband'. He was surprised and asked her if her new husband does not learn any lesson from her hand red with blood and she replied that 'O Esa (Alaihis-Salaam)! You should not be surprised by this that I kill and murder one brother in same house and at the same time the second brother becomes ready to acquire me'. In short, many such questions and answered full of lessons and homily were dialogued between Hazrat Esa Alaihis-Salaam and that hag of world due to which the original reality of the world was exposed to him. To many Inward seers and the reality aware Ahl-e-Allah (the People-of-Allah) the world is seen in its real color and original form whereas the Outward seers (materialistic people) blind by eyes smells of lust carnal people die for its apparent raiment and are killed and destroyed by it.

An Arif , in dream and contemplation,

Saw the World (Dunya (World)), in form of a virgin,

He asked her why was she still virgin,

In spite of having so many husbands,

She said she will speak the truth in one word,

All those proved impotent, who married her,

Whereas those who were really potent, liked her not,

That is why her virginity is still intact!