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Book of Healing - Qur'anic Healing - Some Important Suggestions

Some Important Suggestions

Tags: Rizwan, Anger, Humility, Forty, Well-wisher, Age of hell, Intercession, Ethical diseases

1. Every Muslim believes in and is certain of the sublime Paradise, the way it has been praised and described in wisdom-filled words in many places in the wise Qur'an. Yet, there is still a supreme rank which is far better and greater than Paradise. Can you tell us what that rank is? Yes, it is the pleasure of Allah (Rizwan) (9:72). How can the pleasure of Allah be attained? Through acting upon every command of God and the Prophet, with such a pure intention that, except the pleasure of God, no other purpose has been taken into consideration. This is called the purity of intention, namely, the purity and soundness of the will of heart. Indeed, according to an Hadith of the holy Prophet, the rightness and wrongness of actions depend on the intentions. Thus the root and foundation of every good deed is intention, followed by speech and then action.

2. In order to attain good success and guidance of the heart from God (11:88, 64:11), you should pray not only after every namaz (daily prescribed prayer), but also all the time. During the prayer, extreme humility and expression of indigence is necessary, so that no trace of ill-will may remain in the heart and then recourse may be taken to the Divine court. You can also pray in your own tongue, so that the heart may melt due to the painful supplication according to your state and may God, the Benevolent, have mercy upon you due to this condition. However, this point should be remembered that as far as the sacred essence of God, the Exalted, is concerned, there is no change in it. It is not the case that sometimes He becomes angry and sometimes He has mercy. This change according to the states of the people, takes place in those rays of the light of God which continue to fall on the heart and mind of every human being. Thus during prayer, if you have serious giryah-wa zari, or your heart becomes softer and softer, then you should be sure that God, the Exalted, casts the glance of mercy upon you.

3. If people praise you for certain virtues, then shedding tears of gratitude, you should drown yourself in the ocean of the safety of humility, so that you may not suffer from the disease of pride and vanity. If people oppose you, you should follow the path of (having) patience. In every circumstance you should remember God abundantly, for it is He, in Whose Hand is everything and it is He Who is the Wise. As there is the proverb: "God may create an evil in which lies our goodness". That is, God is so powerful that if He wills, He can create good even from evil.

4. You can cure your intense anger in several ways:

  1. The anger which hurts the heart and is severe and futile is dangerous. The cure of such an anger is necessary, which you should do by learning tolerance. Otherwise, its consequences can be bad.
  2. Ire and fury is like a bitter medicine which you should continue to swallow every time. As it is said: "If you wish to be cured then drink bitter medicine". You should study verses (3:133-134) carefully that, the Paradise which is equal to the universe is prepared for the righteous, some of whose prominent qualities are: "Those who spend in ease and in adversity, those who control their wrath and are forgiving towards mankind; God loves those who do good." In this manner you should continue the course of cure of your anger for forty days, God willing, your anger will be appeased to a great extent. If the goal is not achieved in one course, you can repeat it.

5. Number forty has immense importance in the religion of Islam and in the noble Qur'an. One reason for its importance is that the entire human body is renewed in the duration of forty days. That is, each and every particle or each and every cell is made anew. This process of dilapidation and construction of human existence is life long. Thus, if a faithful servant, in addition to fulfilling obligatory duties, remembers God abundantly in a special manner, or he does i`tikaf, or he does some hidden `ibadat, it is hoped that some (kind of) change will occur in him. For in these forty days, both body and soul become cleansed.

6. He whose knowledge is limited, becomes the well-wisher of a few people, but he whose knowledge is extensive can be the well-wisher of all people, such as the great angels, who are living treasures of knowledge and wisdom. They are the well-wishers of all the people of the earth, without any difference and discrimination. For, they seek forgiveness for all of them (52:5) and intercede for them (53:26), although this law stands in its own place that the final decision is made by God Himself. In short, you should keep extending the circle of well-wishing with the increase of knowledge.

7. You should be the well-wisher of Muslims in particular, for they believe in the holy Prophet with soul and heart and also believe in this command of the holy Qur'an that he has been sent by God, the Great, the Exalted, as a mercy for all worlds (21:107), by which are meant all human beings. This means that the holy Prophet, through the mediation of all prophets, is the mercy for the human beings of all ages. Yet, you may ask this question: "Without differentiating between believers and unbelievers and despite the eternal existence of Paradise and Hell, how is it possible for him to be a mercy for all people equally?" My answer to this question is that, there cannot be any doubt for a Muslim in what God has said about believers and unbelievers and Paradise and Hell. Yet, it is also a Qur'anic proof that the holy Prophet is a mercy for the entire world of humanity. It is my suggestion that you should reflect profoundly on verses (11:107-108), God willing, you will find the answer to your question to the fullest satisfaction.

8. An accurate translation of the above wisdom-filled verses is: "They will always abide in it (Hell) so long as the heavens and the earth endure save for that which your Lord wills. Lo! your Lord is doer of what He wills. As for those who will be blessed they will be in Paradise, abiding there so long as the heavens and the earth endure save for that which your Lord wills. (They will be granted) a gift which shall never be cut off." (11:107-108).

9. In order to reflect and ponder on the above-mentioned verses, it will be more appropriate if we use the method of question and answer. For instance:

  1. Is the command of God in the verses in question, applicable to the macrocosm, or to the microcosm, or to both? It is applicable to both of them. Why? For both are under the same law of God, the One.
  2. If that is the case, then we have to take into consideration the realities and recognitions of the personal world also. For whatever symbol (mithal) is in the personal world or microcosm, the object (mamthul) of it is in the macrocosm.
  3. What is the duration of Hell in this noble verse? So long as the heavens and the earth will remain, Hell will remain.
  4. Is there any such allusion in this verse which implies that the external and the internal universes will be annihilated one day, or it will be rolled up in the Hand of God? Yes, such an allusion is there.
  5. Will the age of Hell not come to an end in such a case? Yes, it definitely will.

10. In the example of the personal world, when God, the Great, the Exalted, rolls up the heavens and the earth in His right Hand (21:104, 39:67), then it is the day in which Hell becomes extinct and Paradise is brought near (50:31). For whatever is in the Hand of God, is the good and the kingdom of Paradise (3:26, 36:83). But He does not hold Hell in His blessed Fist, for it is evil. Thus He eventually destroys the evil and falsehood (21:18).

11. If we understand this law of the glorious Qur'an that the journey of everything is circular (21:33, 36:40), then we have to accept that as the people were one community sometime in the past (2:213), similarly, they will be united again in the future. Further, as they were a single individual in azal, they will be the same in abad also (6:94). Furthermore, there is also a great wisdom hidden in this point that, the word "insan" in the wise Qur'an, which is singular is revealed (usually) in this form except in verse (25:49) in which it is revealed in the plural form as "anasiyy", where all human beings are exhorted making them liable to one habit and attaching them to one single "I" (ana). Islam is a universal religion, perhaps because of this fact human unity has paramount importance in it. Thus, the well-wishing of all human beings is among the higher qualities of mu'mins.

12. This great secret of well-wishing of all people is in the blessed verse (4:85): "Whoso makes a good intercession will have a share in it, and whoso makes a bad intercession will have a part of it." What is a good intercession? It is well-wishing of people, prayer for betterment and service of humanity, namely, intention, speech and action. If such an intercession is made in the light of knowledge, it can be more profitable. It is obvious that whoever will make such an intercession will benefit from it. What is a bad intercession? It is malevolence, taunts and curses, brawling, imprecation, mischief and destruction. Whoever will be guilty of making such an intercession will suffer from it.

13. May God save us from ethical diseases, such as jealousy, enmity and rancour! Every such disease is an heavenly punishment which befalls due to disobedience. Thus the wise mu'mins are those who make their heart the abode of Divine remembrance and well-wishing. No bad thought can enter such a heart. If by accident it does enter, it cannot stay there. For Divine remembrance is the torrential source of blessings (55:78, 29:45), with whose inundating flow, everything is swept away and nothing can cross these waves and reach the heart. This happens only when the Supreme Name of God, the Great, the Exalted, due to abundant remembrance causes Resurrection.

14. As long as you live, keep the mighty Book (Qur'an) of God, the Exalted, close to your heart with faith and respect, act upon its teachings with heart and soul, continue doing spiritual exercise as it ought to be done, to understand its wisdom-filled secrets (wisdoms) and thus be aware of the secrets of Qur'anic Healing! If you attach yourself to the holy Qur'an and serve it in this tormented age, it is not strange that God, the Exalted, may shower His favours upon you in both worlds as a reward of this good deed. For, the reward of the service of the Qur'an is extremely tremendous.

15. There are as many subjects in the wise Qur'an, as there are different meanings of words with respect to root. Even if a word is not frequently used and is used only once or twice, still it is a complete subject for every Qur'anic word has synonyms relating to its form and meaning. Thus it is a great miracle of the noble Qur'an that it contains the explanation of everything (16:89). My last suggestion is that you should consider the holy Qur'an a wisdom-filled and unprecedented university of God and continue to study its realities and recognitions, step by step, with the concept of progression, so that you may attain complete healing! Amin!

28 Ramazan al-mubarak, 1406
7th June, 1986.

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