Irfan (Volume 1) IRFAAN 1

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Or sometimes, meeting with such people is done in dream which he has never seen before in the world but they feel friend, known and relatives in dream. Or sometimes he has a chance to see the blessed persons like a Wali or Saint or a Holy Prophet and we identify them well in dream with their face and name and converse with them like known persons and insiders of secret though they have passed away from the world long time ago yet our heart and spirit identify them well with this Taufeeq. So, there are many such kinds of experiences by which it is known that spirit bears a distinct and separate existence from the body and will survive after the Destruction of this corporeal body and it had been existent in the Station of Azal before entering the corporeal body. And those Stations which were unseen before or those persons which were strangers before which we identify and recognize sometimes in a dream, these are those same Stations of the Azal and are those same acquainted persons or friends of the Azal with which the spirit had been familiar and knower on the Day of Azal. The corporeal structure and the material Bulk of the human being is subject to Destruction and after death we see it that it mixes in soil after getting decayed but the Inwardly Bulk of the Nafs Qalb and Spirit etcetera and their Inwardly Senses and faculties that is the Visualization, Tafakkur and Tawajuh are not eaten away by earth nor are these things perishable but their involuntary existence without some repository and vase is impossible. Therefore, these Inwardly Senses, Faculties and Thoughts etcetera are provided Invisible Subtle body. Thus, the objective and aim of the entire Selk-Salook and Spirituality is this that the human being should prepare such a Noori (Photic) Subtle Compound during his life in world which is possessor of these Inwardly Senses and Faculties etcetera which should be capable of leading life, living and spiritual progress in the Next Everlasting Subtle World whose incomplete and immature form we occasionally find in a dream like a free sample. A Subtle Incorporeal model of the human being becomes the carrier and composite of the human senses, faculties and thoughts.

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That Subtle Bulk sees, feels, moves about, thinks and understands in the Subtle World in dream and sometime the dreamer understands this also that what he is seeing, is the phase of a dream but since this Bulk of the corporeal being is still in imperfect and incomplete condition, therefore, complete awareness and sense is not got concerning this Bulk, so, he takes this world of dream as a world of fantasy. Nevertheless the world of dream is not just a hollow reverie nor every dream is a collection of the scattered thoughts of worries of daily routine matters but instead the dreams of the favorite and pious slaves of Allah Almighty are the true samples of the forthcoming incidents and a motion picture of the Loh-e-Mahfooz and solid truths and these dreams are proven valid and correct like a true dawn. The Arifeen , when exercise Muraqiba , they enter the Subtle Invisible World of dream with consciousness, wisdom and senses and reach wherever they want and do whatever they want. Since this Subtle Bulk of common carnal people is still lifeless and irresponsive like the embryo in the womb, therefore, the senses, perception and consciousness are not handy to them. But the Subtlety (Latifa) of the Qalb of the Arif is living and from inside as well outside like the Incorporeal child and takes birth and becomes eminent in the Realm of the Unseen like a healthy and fit human being and enters and leaves it with senses and perception and consciousness and sees the conditions and occurrences of the Realm of the Unseen and the Abode of the Hereafter with his eyes. In the Terminology of Tasawvuf this Subtle Body is called Latifa.

This Subtlety, like the corporeal body, is a complete Incorporeal human being made of all Inwardly Subtle organs and senses. It comes in and goes out of the Realm of the Unseen at will after putting the corporeal body off like a dress and cover. It is very easy to read about these Lataif (Subtleties) in the book on Tasawvuf and conversing and talking and Qeel-O-Qaal but it is extremely hard to become himself the Subtle Incorporeal human being and the model of Noor of the Condescension (with complaisance) of Allah Almighty.