Irfan (Volume 1) IRFAAN 1

83-84

Those people, who take this corporeal Bulk that is the flesh and frame of bones everything, or call the Four-Elements and their Subtle Warmth the Ruh (Spirit), or call the blood the Spirit like the doctors, they are in grave misunderstanding. And also those people, who call the end of the unification of this material composition and the system of elements to be the end of human life, they are silly because all the People of Religions and the People of modern and ancient Philosophy and the People of Spiritual Ilm that is the People of Spiritualism and the People of Science all agree on this point that the Spirit is an Outsider thing in this corporeal Bulk and material body and the Spirit continues to exist and live even after the death of this corporeal body and the removal of this cover and now a day's experiments have touched the pole of success of inviting the spirits and talking with these. For this, there remains no need to give further verbal arguments and logical reasons. Those are stupid and short sided of greater degree who have taken this superstitious existence and the water like mirage of the world as the endless, infinite and everything.

You say you are present but God is not,

And there is no limit of this world of water and earth,

I am astonished at this Mushahida by you that,

That which is being seen by your eyes, really exists or not?

[Zakariya Razi]

Now if someone raises this objection that that Alwi (supernatural and celestial) Bulk of Spirit should be let them to be observed and then they will acknowledge (and) why they should admit that thing which is invisible and uncomprehending then what is the cure of such obstinacy. And this is such a question which was asked by the people of Hazrat Musa Alaihis-Salaam to him that:

Till we see Allah plainly (2:55)

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Such Shaqee blind by birth will continue sticking to their obstinacy and denial as they are handicap because of their blindness as their hearts are confined into the Impure (unholy) cover and the curtain of matter.

And they say: Our hearts are hardened. Nay, but Allah has cursed them for their unbelief (2:88)

Ishq has shown thousands of miracles,

But the ignorant wisdom is still following its fears.

[Hafez Sherazi]

Some will say that if the Spirit is something or it was present at the Station of the Azal before its arrival in world then why that place and time and those Spirits are not remembered by them. So, it should be kept in mind that the Spirit was wakeful (and enlightened) at the Station of Azal. The time when it took birth in this world and fell unconscious in slumber of ignorance covering itself under the blanket of dense body in the material world and therefore it forgot the living wakeful kingdom of Azal and its place and time in the similar way as we fall in sleep and forget the living kingdom of this world and its place and time. And if, say, we are confined in the world of dream and we are not waken for years, then since the imaginary and metaphorical world of dream in the likeness of this actual world is present before us, we will never keep this real world remembered by us nor will we wish to wake up. Same like this, the Quloob and spirits of the mortal people have been sleeping the sleep of neglectfulness and are neglectful of the real wakeful world of the Azal and are ignoramus about it. Thus, when in this world the Nafs gets suspended for its senses and faculties, it is as if a nature dies, then heart, sometimes, feels and finds this Station with its Inwardly Senses and he sees such unseen Stations in dream which he has never seen before in the world yet he is so much familiar and used to with these as if these were inside its house and he had been using these for a very long time.