Irfan (Volume 1) IRFAAN 1

173-174

COUPLETS OF AUTHOR [Rahmatu-Allahe Ta-aala Alaihe]

I am telling you the place of the spring of water, not showing a mirage,

Where are you wandering for it here and there, I have that water in my pot,

I am Mast by that wine, which I got on the Day of Azal ,

I am not sleepy but innated I am totally conscious and not telling you accounts of dream.

There are two methods of Zikr. One is Zikr Bil Lisaan that is, doing Zikr by tongue. Second is Zikr Bil Janaan that is doing Zikr through heart and thought. First Zikr is of tongue and lips. Second Zikr is of Visualization and thought that is, of the eye of the intuition (and insight). Allah Almighty describes both methods in this way

Did We not assign unto him two eyes, and a tongue and two lips, and guide him to the parting of the mountain ways? (90:8-9-10)

Thus, the way of tongue and lips is Outward Method of Verbal Zikr and the way of Zikr through Visualization and Tafakkur is of Zikr Bil Janaan. Hence, the time the Seeker does the Exercise (of Preoccupation) of the Name-Allah-the-Essence (Ism-e-Allah-Zaat ) and the Naqsh of the Name-Allah-the-Essence (Ism-e-Allah-Zaat ) becomes established on the heart of the Seeker, thence, emitted a flame of the Tajalli of the Anwaar through the Name-Allah-the-Essence (Ism-e-Allah-Zaat ) in which the Seeker becomes Drowned into the Anwaar of Didaar and the Inwardly Body of the Seeker becomes covered and Live in this Noor of the Essence and by this, the way of Didaar and Mushahida opens to the Seeker forever. Thus, the Zikr of Eye is superior, higher, more perfect, total and comprehensive Zikr amongst all kinds of Zikr. That is, the Visualization of the Name-Allah-the-Essence (Ism-e-Allah-Zaat ) is the kernel and origin of all Azkaar whereas all other Tareeq of the Zikr are all minutiae (Froaat).

Some people would say that the Name-Allah-the-Essence (Ism-e-Allah-Zaat ) is a word made of these letters of alphabet: Alif, Laam, Laam and Haa. When we utter this word by tongue or write it on paper or see it through eye, then like other words, we do not feel any gravity or any kind of higher or lower temperature or some taste or power of other sort.

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Then why should they admit that there exists affect, Noor , light or power to some extent in it by which the Hijaabaat and Darkness of the Nafs and Satan and vices and neglectfulness and it carries Inwardly heat and temperature of that extent by which the Shell of Nasoot of man may crack delivering the Bird of the Lahoot out from it. Or that, that kind of Inwardly Electrical power is hidden in it upon riding over the Fast Burraaq of the power and ability of which the Zaakir and the Master of Visualization can reach the sacred and high Sanctuary (Court) of Allah Almighty. Saying the Name Allah by tongue or writing it on page or just looking it through eyes is as if one is holding a tablet of some medicine in hand or is just looking it but by doing this is it sure that he will get its (efficacious) effectiveness (and the impact). [Certainly not] as medicine gives its (efficacious) effectiveness (and the impact) only when it has reached its particular Station like stomach or liver and especially it has diffused into blood. For example, if you want to see the (efficacious) effectiveness (and the impact) of arsenic (Senkhiya), you will have to engulf it so that it should reach the stomach and then you can get the effect and will notice that that crystal of arsenic, which was looking like a harmless thing like lime, in hand, when it reached inside body, it proved like atom bomb for life which destroyed everything. Similarly, a useful and beneficial medicine like antidote also gives its usefulness when it reaches inside the human body. Everything gives its result at its appropriate place and Station. Moreover, if the extract of medicine is injected in body through injection, it gives its harmful or useful effect with greater speed in body. In short, the Name-Allah-the-Essence (Ism-e-Allah-Zaat ) is the key extract of the whole Holy Quran and the Sanctified Names of Lord and stomach for it is the human heart which is its Inwardly appropriate place. If it's Wird is done by tongue and it taken to the Inwardly appropriate place of heart observing all necessary conditions and requirements, then it would show its effect or when it is delivered to some special part of the body through the injection of Visualization or Tafakkur by writing and Inscribing it there.