Book of Healing - Qur'anic Healing

The Book of Healing

Tags: Nafs-i Ammarah, Nafs-i Lawwamah, Censuring Soul, Nafs-i Mutma'innah, Satisfied Soul, Wisdom, Durr, Maknun, Durr-i Maknun

1. O Allah! Your most humble servant weeps and prostrates at your sacred door to beg for the fulfilment of his countless needs. O the Knowing and Seeing Lord! Nothing of the conditions of the hearts of your indigent servants is hidden from you. O Spiritual Physician! O Heavenly Physician! You are the Knower of the unseen and hence nothing of the external and internal worlds is hidden from Your all-inclusive knowledge. O Physician of love! O Physician of the soul and the intellect! O Physician of physicians, O the Universal and the Absolute Physician! You know all our diseases without any kind of diagnosis. The eternal physician who is nearer to us than our jugular vein used to tell us repeatedly in the language of the holy Qur'an to beware and to follow the teachings of Islam completely and to remember God abundantly. Indeed the health and security of body, soul and intellect were also taken into consideration in this perfect guidance. Alas! Had we followed this guidance and been righteous! Had we not suffered from the diseases (of soul)!

2. The miracle of the Qur'an/The miracle of Muhammad (s.a.s.): Almighty Allah has granted His beloved Messenger Muhammad (s.a.s.) (may my soul be sacrificed for him) such a magnificent and glorious miracle that its example cannot be found among all the great miracles of the previous Prophets. That supreme miracle is the holy Qur'an, which is his intellectual as well as permanent miracle. It is the heavenly guide book for the people as well as the treasure of knowledge and wisdom; it is the Divine medicine as well as the heavenly hospital. In short, the noble Qur'an has unbounded and limitless grace and blessings, which can never be duly described and praised by a humble person like me.

3. Three levels of the human soul: There are three major levels of ethical and spiritual progress of the human soul, i.e. nafs-i ammarah, nafs-i lawwamah and nafs-i mutma'innah. These respective names of the human soul indicate the concept of its progress. The nature of nafs-i ammarah is mentioned in verse (12:53) as: "I do not exculpate my soul. Verily, the (human) soul commands to do evil, save that on whom my Lord has mercy." This is the nafs-i ammarah which is very refractory. However, when a great mujahid of the major jihad subdues it and makes it obedient, it abandons its bad habits and transforms into nafs-i lawwamah, as mentioned in verses (75:1-2): "Nay, I swear by the Day of Resurrection; nay, I swear by the censuring soul."

4. Here the allusion of wisdom is that the censuring soul by constant progress, enters the destination of the first annihilation (destination of `Izra'il), in which the spiritual death which causes resurrection is experienced in this life. Regarding the magnanimity and sanctity of the nafs-i lawwamah or censuring soul, it suffices to say that God has sworn by it together with the resurrection. After the censuring soul is mentioned the nafs-i mutma'innah or the satisfied soul which is related to all levels of the personal resurrection. The satisfied soul means the soul which has attained the satisfaction from higher realities and recognition. By this soul is meant every perfect `arif who, after experiencing the luminous and bright observations of the eye of certainty (`aynu'l-yaqin) has also observed the extremely great and sublime secrets with his inner eye without which the purpose of universal or total satisfaction remains incomplete, as mentioned in verses (89:27-30): "O satisfied soul! Return to your Lord well-pleased and well-pleasing! Enter among My (chosen) servants (Sacred Sanctuary)! And enter My (universal) Paradise."

5. The medical aspect in Islamic worship: In Islam, which is the religion of nature, there is no worship which does not have an aspect of spiritual medicine. It is well known to everyone that the supreme purpose of every worship is the pleasure of God and in order to attain which it is necessary to follow the excellent example of the holy Prophet, in which there is necessarily the perfect health of intellect, soul, heart and mind. Contrary to this, if there is illness within oneself, then this amounts to unconsciousness or semi-consciousness, in which the correct worship is not possible. Therefore, there is paramount importance of the sound heart (qalb-i salim) in the wise Qur'an (26:89; 37:84). In other words, we can also say that every Islamic worship is a worship as well as a spiritual treatment. For instance, fasting on the one hand is a worship of Almighty Allah, and on the other, a treatment. Similarly, prayer (salat) and other kinds of worship too, are a treatment.

6. Wisdom is a heavenly medicine: It is a great intellectual disease if there is ignorance among the individuals and nations of the world. The most efficacious medicine for this disease is sent by God, the Physician of the physicians, from the heaven and which is called "wisdom (hikmat)" and which is in the Qur'an, as described in verse (2:269): "He grants wisdom to whomever He wills, and he who is granted wisdom, has been granted abundant good." It is not surprising if by the abundant good is meant the universal good, because in the Sacred Sanctuary, there is a unity and an integrity of haqa'iq and recognitions, which cannot be divided. Thus, wisdom is the universal good and the universal good is wisdom. Since, the body is under the soul and the soul under the intellect, therefore, wisdom which is the heavenly medicine for the intellectual diseases can also affect the soul and the body.

7. A humble attempt to describe wisdom:

Wisdom is the illumination of the Absolute Physician
Wisdom is that treasure of the secrets of God which He has granted to His beloved Messenger Muhammad (s.a.s.)
Wisdom is a chain of the fruits of the Qur'anic Paradise
Wisdom is the fountainhead of the water of life
Wisdom is the travelling in the heaven of the intellect and the soul
Wisdom is the outcome of spirituality and luminosity of the personal world
Wisdom is the name of the essence of knowledge
Wisdom is spiritual science and the foundation of secular science
Wisdom is that precious thing which used to be the possession of the mu'mins, but is now lost
The original form of wisdom is the recognition of the secrets of azal
Wisdom is the spiritual medicine and the heavenly treatment
Wisdom is the essence of the essences
Wisdom is a Divine gift
Wisdom is an universal treatment and eternal healing
Wisdom is a present of Paradise
Wisdom is the fruit of the intellect and the soul
Wisdom is the capital of the intellectual ones
In wisdom there are the great secrets of fana' fi'llah (annihilation in God) and baqa' bi'llah (survival in God)
Wisdom is the folded universe of knowledge
Wisdom is the abundant good/universal good

Thus, together with other good things there are, in wisdom, superb medicines for inner diseases. May Almighty God grant universal healing to the physical and spiritual patients! Amin!

8. Three books in one book: The present collection is given the pleasant name "Book of Healing (Kitabu'l-`Ilaj)". It is not a new book, it is a collection or set of three successful and well-known books (Qur'anic Healing, Healing through Knowledge and Spiritual Healing), which are related to inner healing and have already been separately published. The method of treatment of these books is in the light of knowledge and wisdom or spiritual science, which method it is true, is both new as well as extremely useful for the acquisition of knowledge, therefore it is felt necessary to reprint them in the present form.

9. Golden words for the future: There is an endless chain of marvels and wonders in the wise Qur'an, therefore I am trying to serve its wisdom individually and together with friends without being disappointed by my lack of knowledge. I feel tremendous happiness from every wisdom of the holy Qur'an. The wonderful and lovely Qur'anic name, Durr-i maknun, gives me great happiness. The word durr is taken from the verse of the lamp (24:35) and maknun is mentioned in four places of the glorious Qur'an (37:49; 52:24; 56:23; 56:78). Durr-i maknun means "the hidden pearl". (God willing) in this lovely name many blessings are hidden. The greatest one of them is that Life Governor Durr-i maknun, the daughter of Zahir, who is now a suckling baby, will grow and see her lovely name in the noble Qur'an and by the command of God will attach herself to it. Durr-i maknun has many good signs.

10. Record Officer, Life Governor, Zahir Lalani and his begum, Record Officer, Life Governor Ishrat Rumi, who is also a Medical Patron and their beloved daughter, Life Governor, Durri (Durr-i maknun) are among the angels of my personal world. The reason for this is the abundance of service and intensity of love. How blessed is the love which is for the sake of Allah. The fruit-bearing trees, lush and verdant plants and fragrant flowers and smiling buds of my garden of Britain are progressing in such an enviable way that may they be protected from the evil eye of the time!

11. Zahir Lalani and Ishrat Rumi are among my closest and dearest `azizan. These two and other angels are rendering service for the cause of knowledge even greater than before in the "Markaz-i `Ilm-u Adab", London. There is also a great increase in their yearning for knowledge. By the mercy of Allah, Durri is born with many blessings, therefore, my `azizan Zahir and Ishrat are making their lovely house a workshop of knowledge and worship so that children may be brought up in the best possible way in it.

12. Golden words about the fourth personality: It is mentioned in a Hadith: "The souls are (in the form of) assembled armies (in every personal world)". (Hazar Hikmat, ). According to this law, when all my `azizan were present in my spiritual revolution, then the souls of Durri, Zahir, Ishrat and Rubina cannot be excluded from partaking in this (spiritual) battle. These words are about Record Officer, Life Governor, Medical Patron and the Chairperson of Karimabad Branch, Rubina Barolia. She has many virtues and all of them are gathered together in her ardent yearning for knowledge and service for knowledge. Further, she is rendering numerous services as a Medical Patron, since the teacher, due to his old age, falls sick time and again. Our dearest daughter in knowledge, Rubina Barolia is progressing by leaps and bounds. However, I would like all the students of Danishgah-i Khanah-i Hikmat to progress even more than this! Amin!

13. I, as a darwish pray for every `aziz (student) and their companions who spread the knowledge and wisdom of the Qur'an from this organisation. Watch and experiment that, God willing, the zakat of knowledge engenders countless blessings and calamities are repulsed by the charity of knowledge.

Nasir al-Din Nasir (Hubb-i `Ali) Hunzai,
Tuesday, 9 Dhu'l-Hijjah, 1418/7th April, 1998.

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