103-104 HADIS (Saying of the Holy
Prophet of Allah In
the sacred Timizi, it has been mentioned that Hazrat
Abdullah Ibn e Abbas Radhi-ya-Allahu
Ta-aala Anhu Similarly
like the Hajr e Aswad, the Sauda
Sweda of heart is that a nature that when the
heart of the Arif
has become Living and full of life through the Zikr
of Allah It
is said that once Hazrat
Bayazid Bastami Rahmatu-Allahe Ta-aala
Alaihe * As
he entered the bazaar and started eating that bread overtly and openly bit
by bit in presence of people there and kept on moving. Seeing this unlawful
act of Bayazid Rahmatu-Allahe Ta-aala Alaihe What
Pharaoh
got through his claim to be god almighty, The
Slave, when parts from his ego, finds God Almighty. [Nazir
Akbar Abadi] We
also elaborate the word
'Nafs ' here as not only the common people but also the
proper ones often make a mistake in understanding the reality of the Nafs. In
Arabic language, Nafs
means 'soul', 'body' and 'essence' as Allah
Almighty
says: Allah
bids you beware (only) of Himself (3:28) That
is, one should not try to employ his fancy to understand the Essence
of Allah
Almighty and he should also refrain from Chun-O-Chara. Some people
become victim of Satan
that he indulges them in such thoughts as Waswasa
that
'how God came into being or who had created Him or what was there when there
was no God'. Regarding such Waswaas
, Allah
Almighty says: And
he has coined for Us a similitude, and has forgotten the fact of his creation
(36:78) Hazrat
Muhammad
Sal Allahu Alaihe
Wa Aa-lehee Wa-sallam
)
reported that he heard the Holy
Prophet saying 'Hajr e Aswad was descended from the Heaven. At that time, it
was more white than milk. Sins of the children of Adam have made it black.
, his Sauda
Sweda becomes
bright and able to see like the pupil of eye and when the Saalik
becomes a
celebrity in people, then due to so much respect and esteem and abundant kisses
on hand and feet cause the sins of people absorb in it and turn the luminous
and bright heart of the Arif
Saalik black and dark. Hence, the Arif
Saalik
should try his utmost to avoid fame and Rujuaat-e-Khalq
and should not wish for
the unreasonable admiration and deference of the people.
saw
his tyke Nafs
that all his body is weak, feeble and slim but its head is very
big and healthy. He asked his Nafs
'O Nafs! Your whole body is weak and frail
yet why your head is so huge?' Nafs
said 'this thing is not to be disclosed'.
He said 'you have to tell the reality'. Nafs
said 'thing is that, you have made
my body quite weak and poor in health through Mujahida
, Riyazat
and hunger and
thirst. However, due to the excessive Rujuaat, reverence and honor and extol
and praise, an ecstasy and intoxication reaches my head. Due to this thing, my
head enlarges and becomes fat. This is the reason why the head is so much huge'.
Hazrat
Bayazid Bastami Rahmatu-Allahe Ta-aala Alaihe
thought
that he should do some treatment for such Inwardly
Kufr and Egotism. Thus, it
was the month of Ramadan. In wake of this Inwardly
disorder of the heart, he
did not keep a Fast but instead took a bread and went to bazaar along with his
Mureedain
and Seekers.
, people
turned against him and his said act which was against Shariyat
was discussed
with displeasure all over the bazaar. After this incident, he saw his Nafs
and
found that its head had also become very small and weak. Nafs
said to him 'I
ruined myself by disclosing unto you the cause of my head's fatness'. Bayazid Rahmatu-Allahe
Ta-aala Alaihe
said
'O Nafs! Thanks God! Your Kufr
has broken. It is easy for me to expiate for
losing one Fast as per the religious law whereas breaking your Egotism down was
very hard and difficult thing for me. Praise be to Allah! I found a way out. O
Nafs! It better for me and you that you should remain weak and frail. Your
welfare and betterment lies in your death and Fanaa. Unless the seed has
destroyed itself inside soil, it cannot become green, high and living. Regrets
are for those people who elevate their egotism. Satan
raised the emblem of ego
and Anaa
and fell straight and became an Outcast of
the Sanctuary'.