Irfan (Volume 2) IRFAAN 2

145-146

And when they visit the Blessed Tomb in the Holy Madinah, the Noble Prophet Hazrat Muhammad Sal Allahu Alaihe Wa Aa-lehee Wa-sallam welcomes them after coming out of his blessed grave and honors them with seeing his blessed face and makes them rich in Inwardly Wealth by shaking hand with them and hugging with them and the Noor of the Harmain Sharifain is displayed in their heart forever. Their condition becomes like that as is evident from the Persian and Hindi Abyaat of our Spiritual Mentor Hazrat Sultan-ul-Arifeen Hazrat Sultan Bahu May his secret be sanctified:

I see Ka'ba in my heart and shower my life on it,

I always live in the company of Hazrat Muhammad Sal Allahu Alaihe Wa Aa-lehee Wa-sallam in Madinah.

Here Hazrat Sultan Bahu Rahmatu-Allahe Ta-aala Alaihe says that: the season of spring has set in my heart and the narcissus of my heart has opened its eye on the soft bed of honor and pride. I have found the sacred Ka'ba of Ishq and Muhabbat where the Seekers of Lord, in their devotion for the Harem of the Beloved, day and night do Tawaaf and die on the Candle of His Beauty like moths. All curtains and veils have lifted between us and our Real beloved by virtue of offering this Noori Hazoori Hajj and that Sweetheart of Azal has favored us with His Didaar and we have become Haji Bey-Hijaab. Hazrat Sultan Bahu Rahmatu-Allahe Ta-aala Alaihe has given some kinds of Haji in his books where he says that common people do Tawaaf of Ka'ba and after offering other formalities, earn Sawaab and are called Haji Sawaab. However, when the Special Devotees of the Sanctuary reach the Inwardly Harem of Allah Almighty, are honored with the unveiled and unrestricted Didaar of Lord and are called Haji Bey-Hijaab. Hence, there is great difference between Haji Sawaab and Haji Bey-Hijaab and Haji Karam.

In the First Part of Irfaan, we have already thrown some light over the reality of the Nafs in our discussion concerning to Hazrat Adam Alaihis-Salaam that when the lifeless body was being prepared, the accursed Iblees had spited on him in wake of jealousy and vindictiveness and his spit had fallen on his navel because of which the foundation of the Nafs was laid inside the body of Adam Alaihis-Salaam and a vice-like grip of Satanic Arrogance, Egotism and Self-Conceit established in his race. This had also proven cause of his expulsion from the Garden.

Kaafir Nafs is very adverse blight of the inside,

The Nafs of Adam was the caue of his expulsion from the Garden.

[Jalal u Din Rumi]

Now because of barring this Nafs and Desire and controlling it, of Adam and man again becomes worthy to be entered the Garden.

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Allah Almighty says: But as for him who feared to stand before his Lord and restrained his soul from greed. Lo! The Garden will be his home (79:40-41)

Unless the I-ness, egotism and selfness of the Nafs is exterminated, the Malakooti Bulk of the Subtlety of the Qalb of the human being does not turn alive in the absence of this pure Heavenly Bulk, man cannot enter the Garden. Don't you notice that the seed and grain does not becomes lush green and cannot grow as long as it has not destroyed its self in earth. Hence, Baqaa of the Nafs is in its Fanaa and upholding its ego and sustaining it is the cause of its ruin because doing so makes it becomes partner of God. That is why in a Hadis-e-Qudsi Allah Almighty says that 'Highness is My mantle. I share it with none'. In a Hadis this has come 'That person cannot enter the Garden in whose heart there is haughtiness and Egotism even of the volume of an atom'.. See how fine collation of this Hadis is seen with the aforementioned verse 'But as for him who feared to stand before his Lord and restrained his soul from greed. Lo! The Garden will be his home (79:40-41)'. Now if a person still does not identify his Nafs and elevates its Ego, then it will be a sign of his disconnection with Allah Almighty and his ignorance because the Identification of the Nafs is the Identification of Lord.

HADIS

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

He, who identified the Reality of his Nafs , verily he identified his Lord.

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And he, who identified the Secret of the Fanaa of his Nafs on the Course of Allah, he identified the Secret of the Baqaa of his Lord.

HADIS

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

That person, who identified his Nafs , he identified his Sustainer. He, who identified his Nafs with Fanaa , he identified his Lord with Baqaa .

That is, that person, who Destroyed his Nafs on the Course of Allah Almighty, he became the ever living one with Allah Almighty. This Hadis collates fully with this Hadis-e-Qudsi:

HADIS-E-QUDSI

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

? That person, who wanted Me, he found Me; and he, who found Me, attained unto My Marifat; and he, who attained unto My Marifat, he became My Loving Friend; and he, who has become My loving Friend, he becomes My Lover. I kill him. And whom I have killed, compensation for his blood is obligation on Me. And I pay the compensation for blood in such a way that I Myself become of his.

That is, that person, who identifies Him, he becomes His lover and later that lover becomes His Aashiq and he, who has become His Aashiq, He kills him and he, who is killed by Him, his ransom and compensation is due on Him and in lieu of his bloodshed, He becomes him and makes him the everlasting through His Noor.