Irfan (Volume 2) IRFAAN 2

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And that verse, which mentions the darkness of ignorance, is the following:

Or as darkness on a vast, abysmal sea. There covered him a wave, above which is a wave, above which is a cloud. Layer upon a layer of darkness (24:40)

Here, in the former verse, is mentioned the Noor of Allah and in the later verse are mentioned the Hijaabaat of ignorance and heedlessness against the Zikr of Allah. 'Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth………... (24:35)' can never mean the Essence of Allah Almighty as He is sacrosanct and free of likenesses and metaphors of 'light' and 'darkness' and He is the Creator of the light as well as the darkness as is clear from this verse:

And has appointed darkness and light (6:1)

We have explained the above in detail in the first part of our book Irfaan . In short, in the Maratib and the (efficacious) effectiveness (and the impact) of the Zikr of Allah and the Words of Allah is caused difference and dissimilarity of this Noor and the Darkness. Due to these degrees, the different names and the different kinds have been mentioned concerning the Holy Quran. Due to this variance, the Holy Quran has been remembered with different names. Thus, at different places the different titles like Quran Majeed, Quran Kareem, Quran Azeem, Quran Hakeem, Kitaab Azeez and Kitaab e Maknoon have been given and these titles are not baseless but instead these various names bear various kinds and calibers of the Holy Quran which we illustrate hereunder in detail with reference to separate verses:

1. One form of the Holy Quran was also that which came down on the heart of the Noble Prophet Sal Allahu Alaihe Wa Aa-lehee Wa-sallam and became stored and residing in the it forever and that Holy Quran was always remembered by him without any effort of memorizing or repeatedly reading it to memorize and he never forgot it. On the other hand, when a poet says some couplets, he cannot keep these remembered in his mind for long as long as he has not copied these on a paper. Nevertheless to this that keeping a poem memorized is easier to prose and the Holy Quran is totally prose which is very hard to preserve in bosom and mind. Hence, in the earlier days of Wahi, the Holy Prophet Sal Allahu Alaihe Wa Aa-lehee Wa-sallam feared this and he had started repeatedly saying Revelations of Wahi again and again in fear of any risk of lapse of memory that if the verses of the Holy Quran happened to forget by him, what will he do then to bring it to people and how would he able to compile it.

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Hence, Allah Almighty instructed him to not take the pain of iteration and took the responsibility of the preservation and compilation of the Holy Quran as He said:

Stir not your tongue herewith to hasten it. Lo! upon Us (rests) the putting together thereof and the reading thereof. And when We read it, follow you the reading. Then lo! upon Us (rests) the explanation thereof (75:16-17-18-19)

In short, this is a great marvel of the Holy Quran it pervades into his marrow, that is, the heart and spirit on him it comes. This unique power of the Holy Quran is still present that when, with the favor and munificence of Allah Almighty, it enters the heart and spirit of a person, it gets memorized and remembered in mind without reading and repeated recitals and is all the time being read by such person. There are many examples of this that the Subtle Tongue of heart and spirit completely recites all Quran within fractions of a second. Thus, it is famous concerning Hazrat Ali Karram Allah Wajhu that he used to finish complete recital of all Quran within a gap of time between setting his foot in one stirrup and the other in the other stirrup of the saddle of a horse! One should not feel it as impossible.

In the 'Tazkira Tul Aulia ', it has been reported concerning Hazrat Bayezid Bastami Rahmatu-Allahe Ta-aala Alaihe that he says that once he was doing Tawaaf of the Holy Ka'ba that he saw a Wali-Allah that a Tajalli of Noor came down upon him from heavens. Thus, in order to get the Beneficence and blessing, he went behind him and started setting his foot where the foot of that Wali was set on ground while walking. At last, he turned and saw him and said that 'O simpleton! You will gain no benefit of waling on my footsteps as long as you will not act according to that which I do'. Hazrat Bazaid Rahmatu-Allahe Ta-aala Alaihe thought 'God knows what action he uses to do'. That Wali-Allah faced to him again and said 'this is my Amal : I finish compete recital of all the Noble Quran seventy times daily'. I thought he must be reading so much Quran in his thought as practically it feels impossible.