Irfan (Volume 1) IRFAAN 1

191-192

It should be kept in mind that the Zikr of eyes that is, the Visualization of the Name-Allah-the-Essence (Ism-e-Allah-Zaat ) is the superior one in the Azkaar and dependence of all the Salook and Marifat is on this because the purpose of the birth of the creation and of the beginning and the original intent and objective is just the Worship, Marifat, Qurb and Didaar of Allah Almighty.

I created the jinn and humankind only that they might worship Me (51:56)

And that they might identify Me.

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[Tafseer ] Because the objective and purpose of the Worship is attainment of Marifat .

HADIS

(Saying of the Holy Prophet of Allah Hazrat Muhammad Sal Allahu Alaihe Wa Aa-lehee Wa-sallam)

[O God!] Glory be to You! We could not attain unto Your Marifat up to that level to which it should have been! [O God!] Glory be to You. We could not offer as much Worship to You as You (really) deserved!

HADIS-E-QUDSI

(Saying of Allah reported by the Holy Prophet of Allah Hazrat Muhammad Sal Allahu Alaihe Wa Aa-lehee Wa-sallam)

[Allah Almighty says:] I had been a hidden treasure. Thus, I desired that I should be identified. Therefore, I created the creation [for My Marifat and identification].

Hence, the original intention and objective of the Creation and Beginning of the humankind is decided for the Marifat and Identification and the finest and most reliable tool and means for the congintion and identification is eye and eyesight and the identification of a thing is accomplished through seeing it. Other organs and senses are imperfect and weak devices. Therefore, the Zikr of Eye is the superior most, the higher and the nearmost towards Allah. The Zikr of Ain (Eye) is the Ain of Azkaar and this alone is the means of Marifat and Waseela of the Didaar of the Provider Almighty. Allah Almighty has resembled His Words often with Zikr or Eyes (Basair).

Allah Almighty says: Proofs have come unto you from your Lord, so whoso sees (6:104)

Allah Almighty says: This (Quran) is intuition (and insight) from your Lord (7:203)

Allah Almighty says: This clear indication for mankind (45:20)

And He has declared one's avoidance from Zikr as blindness.

Allah Almighty says: But he who turned away from remembrance of Me, his will be a narrow life (20:124)

Hence, it is clear that the Zikr through Ain (Eye) is the Ain (the essence). Thus, through Inscribing and Embossing the Name-Allah-the-Essence (Ism-e-Allah-Zaat ) inside him through Visualization and Tafakkur , the Zikr by effecting on the real marrow and the Inwardly Personality of the human being, makes it Living and Wakeful (and enlightened). And, in this way, perhaps the Zikr is focused upon its real Station.

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Moreover, by exercising Zikr through other methods, the Zaakir remains far away from its real and original intent. Thus, the real purpose of the Zikr is opening the Inwardly Eyes. And when the Inwardly Eyes of the Zaakir are open, his Marifat becomes correct and he becomes the Kaamil Arif. The fable of elephant and blinds fits on those who possess other senses. It is said that some blinds were sitting at a place that an elephant came there. Desire to identify the elephant rose in those blind persons, all gathered around the elephant, and started discovering it fumbling on its skin. He, whose hand was on its back, he cried: 'it is like a wall'. Other whose hand was on its leg, he said 'no you are wrong but the elephant is like a pole and post'. Third person touched its ear and said 'you both are mistaken but it is like a huge fan'. As many talks that much tongues! Each blind established an incorrect idea based upon his imperfect judgment and denied the rest and the identification of the elephant took the situation of a dispute and quarrel. Same as this, the original reason of the steering away from Haq (Truth) and the existence of the neglectfulness in all religions of world is the Inwardly Blindness.

Allah Almighty says: Whoso is blind here will be blind in Hereafter (17:72)

He, who is wrongdoer in this world, will rise with bad end in the Next World,

It is impossible that a blind person will wake up from dream as the one, who can see.

Allah Almighty says: For indeed it is not the eyes that grow blind, but it is the hearts, which are within the bosoms, that grow blind (22:46)

You consider the seventy-two Factions of the religion all disable in their battle of discord,

As they have not seen the face of reality at all, but have just chosen the way of confabulation.