Irfan (Volume 1) IRFAAN 1

117-118

In short, what a nice allegory this Hikayat is of this darkness of the world but the carnal beings, when read parables of this kind in religious books, instead of learning lesson and coming or the right path, they mock at and disrespect these. The truth is this that the melancholia of materialism and the delirium of politics have disoriented the brains of those who believe in the modern Enlightenment. Like the shortsighted frog of well, they have taken this material world for all and in the arrogance and vanity of the their material approach and Outwardly Knowledge, they arrogantly yet ignorantly deny the Quranic Truths and Spiritual Mysteries but the day when this dust on the path will settle and the violent violence and mighty fist of Allah Almighty will catch them, their all haughtiness and air will release and the material intoxications will run away.

When the dust of the path will settle down, you will then realize,

If you are riding a horse or a donkey,

You will know all on the Day of Decision, that in this dark night of world,

What was the thing with which you had fallen in ardent love!

Very few people know the reality and significance of the Zikr of Allah and the Name Allah. The Lawgiver of Islam and the Saints of the Faith (Deen) have told the Zikr of Allah and the Name Allah to be the only way and means for the Marifat, Qurb , Mushahida and Wisaal of Allah Almighty because the Ism (Name) is the Fount of Musamma. It has been revealed in Hadis-e-Qudsi 'I accompany him who remembers Me'. In another Hadis it has come that 'When someone remembers me, I am in between his two lips'. It is apparent that the Infinite and Greatest Essence of Allah Almighty cannot accommodate in between the two lips of a human being.

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Only the Name of Allah can come in the lips of the Zaakir. Therefore, here the hint has been given about the connection and union of the Ism (Name) and Musamma that the Ism is the exact similitude and Ain ul Ain of the Musamma and this same Origin is the cause of the origin and resurrection and the means of creation of the Creation and the invention of the Worlds.

Now we want to explain the reality of the word 'Ism-e-Allah-Zaat (the Name-Allah-the-Essence ) '. It should remain clear that when a person is remembered, every reference and all talks concern to him only and all sentences end on his name. Names are of two kinds: one Zaati (of Essence or personal) and other Sifaati (of Calibers). Zaati name is that which has implication on someone essence who is the exhibitor of calibers. For example let Zaid is the name of a person, then this is his Zaati name and if Zaid has acquired Ilm , Aalim may also a name with which he can be remembered and if he has got the degree in medicine, he is also called doctor and if he has offered Pilgrimage to Makkah and Madinah (Hajj), people start calling him Haji also and if he has preserved the Holy Quran in bosom, he became Haafiz. On the basis of this assumption, Sifaati names like Aalim , Hakeem, Haafiz and Haji of Zaid will continue to increase in as much number as much he will become endowed with calibers. Hence, as much names a person will have as much calibers he is endowed with. But when will say Zaid, it will imply that he is that one person who is endowed with all these calibers like Aalim , Hakeem, Haafiz and Haji. Hence, Zaid is his Zaati Name and the rest are his Sifaati Names which were attributed to him later when Zaid got such attributes (and calibers).