Irfan (Volume 2) IRFAAN 2

171-172

It is not expedient to lift the curtain from the secret,

Otherwise, is the assembly of the real men knows not that it is!

[Hafez Sherazi]

As compared to the Realm of the Unseen, ours this physical world is as narrow and short as is the womb of mother is narrow and dark as compared to the world. The Invisible Kingdom is so vast and spacious that this world look like a grain of poppy before it.

It has been said in the Tafseer of Shaikh Akbar that 'in the Realm of the Unseen are heavens, spheres, mountains, oceans, Arsh, Kursi, sun, moon and stars and ours this material world is as if a drop as compared to an ocean as compared to the Realm of the Unseen. Thus, it has been reported as words of the Holy Prophet Sal Allahu Alaihe Wa Aa-lehee Wa-sallam that once a person died and the Holy Prophet Sal Allahu Alaihe Wa Aa-lehee Wa-sallam offered his Funeral Prayers and went to his grave along with his dead body. hence, when the Holy Prophet returned his home after this funeral ceremony, Hazrat Ayesha Siddiqa Radhi-ya-Allahu Ta-aala Anha welcomed him and after touching his blessed turban, she said 'it is strange that your blessed turban and dress are wet whereas there rained no rain today'. Thus the Holy Prophet Sal Allahu Alaihe Wa Aa-lehee Wa-sallam realized that Hazrat Ayesha Siddiqa Radhi-ya-Allahu Ta-aala Anha was sensing the water of the Realm of the Unseen.

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Then the Holy Prophet Sal Allahu Alaihe Wa Aa-lehee Wa-sallam asked her 'O Ayesha! With what thing you have covered your head today'? Hazrat Ayesha Siddiqa Radhi-ya-Allahu Ta-aala Anha replied that 'I have covered my head with your mantle'. The Holy Prophet Sal Allahu Alaihe Wa Aa-lehee Wa-sallam said 'O Ayesha! Curtains have risen from your eyes by virtue of my mantle on your head. That is why the water of the Invisible Rain is seen by your eyes'. 'O Ayesha! In the Realm of the Unseen exist earth, sky, sun, stars and rains which cannot be seen by anyone else other than the Kaamil Aulia '.

The Realm of the Unseen and the Realm of the Witnessed are linked with each other and are overlapping in a way as our soul and body are interlinked and blended together. Dead-hearted sensual people can only see the material world and the physical bodies alone and consider them everything. They are totally unaware of the Subtle Invisible bulks of the heart and spirit and their respective Inwardly Realms. The Subtle Invisible Bulk of the heart and spirit is hidden and potently present inside our body in same way as embryo is inside egg and tree is inside the seed and fruit. When the egg is incubated, it hatches and chick comes outside it. The seed and fruit, though, looks very small but when it is sown in earth and is watered and its cultivation is done, it gives out a big and powerful tree. Similarly, though the physical body of the man looks very small, yet a very potent Bird of Lahoot is present inside its egg of material and Nasoot. If this Egg of Nasoot is provided the warmth of the Zikr of Allah and the Visualization of the Name-Allah-the-Essence (Ism-e-Allah-Zaat), that Bird of Lahoot comes out of this Egg whose place of rest is the Sacred Mount and the Lahoot Lamakaan .