That person, who is steadfast (and
persistent) on the Course of Deen (religion) in his
life and is on the Course of Istiqamat , his end will end
in good and will be with intact Eimaan in the realm of death
(Mamaat )! HADIS (Saying of the
Holy Prophet of Allah That person, who
said 'Laaa-Ilaaha Ill-Allahu
Muhammad-ur-Rasoolu-Allah Sal Allahu Alaihe Wa
Aa-lehee Wa-sallam' [from core of truthfulness of heart and with absolute
sincerity], will enter the Garden without facing Retribution and Punishment. ABYAAT (COUPLETS) He, who get bright
visionary power due to the compassion of His Qurb, Then, they, the
"eyes with vision" are left with no worry of any sort, Eye can hide that
only which is not visible; I am, but, the Seer of Ain
(the Essence
of
Lord), I tell what is Ain
(the Essence
of Lord This Arif finds
this Station by a great deal of Taufeeq , He visions the Outward
and Inward with gaze, How can the
Born
blind and the blind by birth see Liqaa
(and Didaar) ? (He, who is
Inwardly) blind
will not believe even after seeing. Allah Thus, Murshid-e-Kaamil should,
first, demand from the Seeker the Martaba of being
Seeker and the Seeker should enquire from the Murshid the terms
and conditions of being Murshid. The Martaba of Seekers
is making the Nafs dead like Mamaat during their Hayaat (life)
and the Martaba of the Murshid is the Fanaa-Fi-Allah-Zaat
(Destroyed in Allah
the Essence)! BAYT (COUPLET) I have become Fanaa
(Destroyed) in the Essence (Zaat ) of Haq! They, in Teer-Sair
of (the Stations
of) Sifaat (Calibers ), cannot understand this? This Course of Faqar
the Marifat and Tauheed can never come in [the ways of
customs and practice] of Taqleed . In the event that, speaking
and listening (Qeel-O-Qaal ) is all Taqleed, whereas refining
the seeing and showing is all Tauheed . ABOUT ISTIQAMAT
AND KARAMAT: Uprightness
is called Istiqamat which implies that the Faqeer should remain
safe against unrighteousness and should never allow the taint of Nafs
and Satan
in him. It also implies that he should never be desirous of anything
else besides Allah. That unusual outcome that apparently seems impossible, if
that happens by the Aulia-Allah
Rahmatu-Allah Ta'ala Alaihim 
Hazrat
Muhammad
Sal Allahu Alaihe
Wa Aa-lehee Wa-sallam
)
) and know what is
Ain, is sufficient;
everything other than Allah is just lust (and greed)!
, then it is
called Karamat and if such happens by a non believer, then it is called Istadraaj
. Since, in Karamat , there is possibility of the taint of the Nafs
that is why Istiqamat is above Karamat.
