147-148 By
'killing the Nafs', it does not mean that it should be killed through Riyazat
,
Mujahida
and hunger and thirst. This would be a suicide of a kind and suicide
is Haraam. Instead it should be made free of the despicable animal like desires
and the evil sensual habits and should be endowed with the fine religious,
ethical and pure spiritual calibers and in this way, it should be driven out of
the 'lowest of the low' (95:5) All
others die onetime but the poor Jami died many a times. We
now give argument from the Noble Quran in support of 'killing-Nafs ' and the
life of the heart. Allah Almighty * Here,
'birds' mean different human traits and calibers like the 'Cock of Shahwat
', the 'Peacock of Pomp, the 'Pigeon of Desire' and the 'Crow of
Greed (and grasping)' etc. If these are wild and beastly, they are
unruly and disobedient but if they are tamed and trained like a hawk, they obey
the orders of their lord. In the same way, a Faasiq (Miscreant), Faajir
(sinner), Mushrik
(Polytheist) and Kaafir person who does not follow the
Code of Islam, his traits and habits are like a wild and uncontrollable wild
beast that he goes wherever he wants without any restriction. However, when a
Saalik
lord ties the bridle of the Shariyat
and the Religion Islam on its mouth,
then he drives it where he wants. Afterwards, comes the turn of the Spiritual
and Inwardly
Death of the Marifat
and Muhabbat
of Allah
Almighty in Tareeqat
for the Saalik
such that when the Saalik
kills his Nafs
with the knife of the
Muhabbat
and Ishq
of Allah
Almighty, then at that time, the Sensual-Desires
and
human emotions become extinct in a way as if someone has thrown these on
distant mountains after crushing these under feet and breaking these into small
pieces. This thing can be understood by those people only, who have set foot in
the true dale of this Muhabbat
or at least have observed how a person forgets
his carnal desires even drinking and eating when he has fallen in some worldly
love affair as has been expressed by an Arif
in this couplet: Camel
closes its mouth and does not wish to eat grass even when it is drunk, If
you are the real Aashiq
(Lover) Must by Love, why will you desire for thorns of
greed? That
is, Ishq
is that Fire, which burns every that thing to ashes which is besides
the Muhabbat
of the Beloved 
ditch of the beastliness and elevated to the
'best stature' (95:4)
of the high humanity. It should thenceforth be
raised to the supreme Maratib
of the Malakoot
from the Sifli
Maratib
of the
Nasoot. This in turn becomes a virtual death like 'Die-before-Death'
and
Spiritual Existence. Moreover, the Saalik
has to pass through many events on
the Inwardly
Course
of Salook
as Jami Rahmatu-Allahe Ta-aala
Alaihe
says:
says: And when Ibrahim said (to his Lord): show
me how do you give life to the dead, He said "Do you not believe". Ibrahim said
"yes I do but (I ask) in order that my heart be at ease". (His Lord) said: "take
Four of the Birds and cause them incline to you, then place a part of them on
each hill, then call them, they will come to you in haste. And know that Allah
is Mighty Wise (2:260)
. A very little example of this is that, when in
the severely hot days of summer, the person Fasting feels thirst, he forgets
his hunger although he is hungry also but because of the intensity of thirst it
becomes extinct. We can understand the human feelings and the carnal desires on
the same pattern that these two things become totally vanished at the time of
the intense Muhabbat
in the body of the Saalik. Then, when he becomes watered
and blessed with the Wasal
of Allah
Almighty, then Allah
Almighty calls all the
natural and human emotions of the Saalik
after wakening these things again with
His Command and these things come to the body of the Saalik
with the Order of
the Mighty Wise.
سروری قادری سلسلہ میں بعت حا صل کریں
