A Thousand Wisdoms - O Pen! You are the movement of azal!
O Pen! You are the movement of azal!
Tags: Vicegerent, Khalifa, Hazrat Nuh, Salman-i Farsi
In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
The holy Qur’an says in verse (31:27): “And if all the trees in the earth were pens, and the sea with seven more seas to help it (were ink), the words of Allah could not be exhausted.” That is, the perfect words which are the infinite treasures of Divine knowledge cannot be exhausted.
O Lord of the worlds! For the sake of the reverence of your beloved Prophet, bless us humble slaves, with the tears of heavenly love and enable us to be grateful to you for your countless favours. O the Knowing, the Seeing! We are terribly ill, feeble and humble. We are in need of a potent and effective medicine like heavenly love. That is, the pure, wisdom-filled, sacred and blessed love for God, the Prophet and the Imam of the time, in which are hidden countless mercies and blessings for the prosperity and happiness of intellect and soul.
O dear friends! Let us together offer our prayers, supplication and giryah-u zari, shed the tears of love profusely and in that state prostrate in the Divine court. Let us forget every kind of annoyance, pray for the well-being of all people and be prepared for more and more service of knowledge, which is the most eminent, rather the sovereign service, which renders the servant not only unto the master, but also God willing, unto the king tomorrow in paradise. You can reflect well in the light of the Qur’an and the Hadith and discover the reason why the service of knowledge has such a great reward.
The unique service in this domain: It is agreed that no service in this world can be compared with the sacred service of Qur’anic wisdom. Our `azizan have to understand which service in this domain has priority over the rest and therefore the greatest importance. Truly speaking it is the golden services of the translators. There is no doubt that every translation is a very useful feat, yet the universal and ever-reaching service is the translation into the international language English, which has brought us numerous successes. For this translation we are all indebted to Professor Dr. Faquir Muhammad Hunzai and his angel-like begum Rashida Noormohamed-Hunzai (Samsam) and their devoted and dedicated companions.
Today I would like to state that Dr. Faquir Muhammad Hunzai is the greatest rabbani `alim in the world. He has a great treasure of the secrets of the Qur’an and the codes of `irfan. He is a darwish who rises at night spending it in prayers and prostration. His dawn prayer rises higher than the heavens, because he is a lover of the light and does giryah-u zari as an innocent suckling child. He has the good opinion that I am his teacher. However the teacher is someone else, and both of us and many more are students of his school. God willing, more such treasures of the knowledge of the exalted Imam will be born.
A part of the holy Prophet’s testament: “O groups of people! This is `Ali bin Abi Talib who is the khalifah (vicegerent) of God within you (fikum) and the khalifah of His Book, which is revealed to you and is its door and veil, in which nobody can enter without him and he is the qa’im after me and is the qa’im among you in my place. Thus, listen to him and obey him. He who obeys him and loves him is among the exalted ones and will ascend to the higher world and he who stays away from him and disobeys him will be among the greatest losers.” (Sara’ir, p.115).
The wisdom of Hazrat Nuh’s prayer: The prayer is mentioned in verses (71:26-29): “And Nuh said: O my Lord, do not leave a single dweller from the disbelievers on the earth. Verily, if you leave them, they will lead Your servants astray, and they will not beget except immoral ingrates.” That is, by the power of the spiritual resurrection, the representative particles of the people of the age in Hazrat Nuh’s personal world began to live in such a way that not a single disbeliever was left among them.
“O my Lord, forgive me, my parents and he who enters my (spiritual) house as a believer, and believing men and believing women, and increase not the wrong-doers in except ruin.” A great wisdom in this verse is that some true mu’mins by attaining the perfection of faith, enter the spiritual and luminous house of their Prophet and become one of the people of his house, such as Salman-i Farsi, who had attained this rank.
Nasir al-Din Nasir (Hubb-i `Ali) Hunzai,
Karachi,
Tuesday, 8 Jumada II,
1417/22nd October, 1996.
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