Irfan (Volume 2) IRFAAN 2

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At least, Nimrood could easily have said this in reply that 'Sun also rises with my command. O Ibrahim! If your Lord causes the sun to rise in the East, so you ask Him to cause it come up from the West'. However, he did not say this because Hazrat Ibrahim Alaihis-Salaam adhered to his former argument of 'giving life and causing death'. However, here Allah Almighty has expediently described in the words and terminology of 'from Outward to Inward and from virtual to real' of the 'giving birth and causing death' and since the matter of 'giving birth and causing death' pertains to Ruh (Spirit) and Amar (Command) and this is affair of the Realm of Ability instead of the Realm of Sources, therefore, this has been mentioned in an Inwardly Enigma and Spiritual Shade. Now we raise curtain from this reality.

The Invisible Form of the Subtlety of the Spirit in the body of the human being is like sun that it is keeping the body alive and lively, that is, warm and bright. At the time of death, when the sun of spirit sets in the darkness of death and Fanaa , the human body becomes cold, dark and disconnected and a total darkness of death and Fanaa overlaps him. That is why the person dying, at the time of his death, feels the time as that time of Asar (afternoon) when sun is nearing its setting in the west as Ibne Maaja has reported a Hadis with reference of Jabir Bin Abdullah that he said that he heard the Holy Prophet of Allah Hazrat Muhammad Sal Allahu Alaihe Wa Aa-lehee Wa-sallam saying 'when it is the time of death of a person, he sees sun setting and he, rubbing his eyes, says that let him free so that he might offer the Assalaat of Asar as his Assalaat ul Asar appears him being missed'. There are also other Dictums of this kind and that is why some Commentators have called the Assalaat (Prayers) of Asar the 'Assalaat ul Wustaa'. Moreover, we have also heard some Persons who offer Assalaat regularly saying at the hour of death 'give me water, my Assalaat ul Asar feels being missed'. In addition, the Holy Prophet of Allah Hazrat Muhammad Sal Allahu Alaihe Wa Aa-lehee Wa-sallam used to instruct and advise the Holy Companions Radhi-ya-Allahu Ta-aala Anhumto fight with more zeal and enthusiasm at the time of Asar as the time of Asar deeply resembles and feels like the time of death and death occurs easily and quickly.

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Now we revert to our principal topic. Hazrat Ibrahim Alaihis-Salaam has said to Nimrood that his Lord is He, who gives life to people and causes them death. Since the head of Nimrood had been preoccupied by the supposition of being 'god', he said that he gave life to people and caused them die and his command ruled over the living and dying of the people. Here, Hazrat Ibrahim Alaihis-Salaam applied the Inwardly Tone and said to him that his Lord was He, who makes the Sun of Spirit rise inside the body of every living being from the East of the Azal and causes this Sun set in the West of Fanaa. If he (Nimrood) was god and the Sun of Spirit rises and sets in the bodies of the living beings, then why was it that that the subject of your country and especially your near and dear ones daily pass away the world without his desire, permission and intention and why did the Sun of Spirit of their bodies set down, although, you do not like them die and you weep over their deaths. Hence if you (Nimrood) is god and the life and death of people is in your authority, that is, the rise and fall of the Sun of Spirit is in your control, then ask that Sun of Spirit rise from the West where it has set and cause him life who has already died without your (Nimrood's) will but you will never be able to do this and O brainless! Even you are going to taste death one day and your Sun of Spirit will also descend in West. In addition, Allah the Hayyu-Qayyum only is the Real and Original Lord and Owner of the entire universe including this Spirit of Sun and all affairs of universe run under the Will of Allah Almighty and He is the Original Sustainer and O Accursed! You are just a powerless, disable and subdued earthly mortal slave of Him. Hence, against this powerful argument and logical reason, that Kaafir became astonished, stunned and answerless because he had been clearly shown his inability and powerlessness with proof and every person indentifies and believes in Allah Almighty because of his inability and powerlessness against His Decree of Death as a poet says:

Death has made man helpless otherwise he is that tyrant,

That will never acknowledged God if there is no death.

[Zauq]