Punjabi Kalam i Bahu (r)

Punjabi (61):

Roman:

Zikr kanoon kar fikr hameshaa Eh tikhaa talwaaron hoo

Kaddhan aaheen te jaan jalaavan Fikr karan israaron hoo

Fikr daa phattiaa koee na jeeve Jaan putte mudh paarhon hoo

Haqq daa kalmaa aakhean (Hazrat Bahu ) Jand rahke fikr dee maaron hoo

Urdu:

English:

Hazrat Sultan Bahu Rahmatu-Allahe Ta-aala Alaihe says that 'exercise Fikr more than Zikr as the word of Fikr is sharper than sword. Zikr is useless without Fikr as has been said that 'Zikr without Fikr is like the voice of the donkey'.

On tongue is the Zikr of Allah but heart is full of worldly thoughts,

What (efficacious) effectiveness would this kind of Zikr and Fikr yield?

Some people do Zikr-e-Jehr with force and beat heart with the blow of Il Allah. If Fikr is not accompanying Zikr, such Zikr does not produce any (efficacious) effectiveness on heart no matter with how much loud voice and force this Zikr is done by moving shoulders and head. Zikr should be done slowly in heart but it should be accompanied by the Fikr. Then this Fikr cuts and kills the Nafs and Satan like a Sword. Such Zaakir, when roast their souls through the Zikr of the Name-Allah-the-Essence (Ism-e-Allah-Zaat) and cry through Fikr, they burn the Satan into black ashes, no matter they utter a word or not! Sword of such Fikr pierces across the root and tissue of the Nafs and that, which is wounded by this Fikr, does not stay alive. At the end, he says that 'it is right that the Seeker should never be afraid of this Fikr of Fanaa of Nafs and should not avert it as in this is the life of his heart and the existence and Baqaa.