Book of Healing - Spiritual Healing - Preface
Preface
Tags: Spiritual happiness, Spiritual diseases, `illiyyin, Twelve springs, Hazrat Musa, Hazrat Harun
In the name of God, the Beneficent, the Merciful
1. The meaning of true gratitude for every great bounty of the Sustainer of the worlds consists of many parts. One of these parts is spiritual happiness, the true state and nature of which is entirely different from external and physical happiness. For instance, the miracle of spiritual happiness turns into an ocean of humility and ardent love and drowns the grateful mu'min in it, due to which he scatters the precious pearls of tears in the path of God and prostrates in His court with the utmost yearning of his heart and soul. Alternatively by such a miraculous and ma`rifat-filled gratitude the fire of love intensifies and the true mu'min completely melts in his heart. It could also be that he receives the pleasant, sweet and enrapturing shocks of spiritual electricity, or that internally he feels an extremely sweet and wisdom-filled fever of miraculous purification and that a special quake occurs between sleep and wakefulness.
2. From the preceding statement we come to know about another alchemic prescription which is that, true gratitude filled with ardent love, acts as a complete cure for all spiritual diseases, as indicated by the wisdom-filled statement of the glorious Qur'an: "If you are grateful, I will certainly give you more (bounties)" (14:7). It should also be remembered that according to God, the Beneficent, the Merciful, there is only one bounty which is the compendium of innumerable bounties and pleasures of the intellect, the soul and the body. But for His servants this bounty is like a universe which is full of manifold bounties. Thus, if we are grateful to God in the sense of knowledge and good deeds for the bounty He has given us, then there will certainly be an increase in the collective bounty. Indeed, every kind of health is also a Divine bounty. Thus the improvement and progress of health also depends on the act of gratitude. Now you have to know how the obligation of gratitude can be truly fulfilled.
3. My most esteemed and dear friends and companions! Let us express our gratitude to God, the Great, the Exalted, through supplication (munajat) and the shedding of tears (giryah-u zari), for this intellectual and spiritual bounty, that due to His mercy and kindness, after "Qur'anic Healing" and "Healing through Knowledge", "Spiritual Healing" is also complete. I wish that in the destination of effacement and annihilation, we were rendered into particles and had become the world of particles `Alam-i dharr) and in harmony with the echo of the sur of Israfil, we were doing His tasbih and tahlil (i.e. reciting subhana'llah and la ilaha illa'llah), for these heavenly bounties which He, through His grace and benevolence, has showered upon us. Even though we are not able to thank Him adequately, yet the feeling of the lack of this exalted `ibadat will create a special, blessed pain in our heart and mind, which God willing, will cure all other pain, the example of which is given at the end of this book.
4. It is a marvellous coincidence, that last year (from 6th September to 4th October, 1988), I was in London with my dear friends. During this time, the first seven articles were completed and the remaining part of this book was written in Pakistan. Now again these pure souls of London, through the pull of their spiritual attraction, have brought me here so that I may write the last portion of this book, the Preface, thus completing a circle, and may this good work be accomplished in the same blessed home where it was commenced.
5. In my opinion, although the importance, usefulness and greatness of this work needs no praise, it is necessary to give a simile of the revolutionary work of those learned people who have translated my works, as extremely sweet and as attractive as the bounties of paradise: autumn ruled over the garden and rosarium of the book. Praise be to Allah that now the sovereignty of perennial spring has been established! In other words, there were some gems lying scattered in a dark corner, and a perspicacious jeweller saw them; they were picked from there and placed in a lofty position. Or there was a lucky girl, a paragon of beauty as well as good nature, whom her foster father made a bride, adorning her with elegant and splendid clothes and precious ornaments and gave her in marriage to a prince fond of knowledge.
6. I do not shed tears on occasions of personal calamities and afflictions, but on the occasion of supplication I do shed tears. If one of my friends encourages me, I feel a burning and melting sensation and tears flow from my eyes. However, this blissful state happens only occasionally. Another occasion to shed tears is when an excellent translation of my books is done. The translation of my works is a miracle for me, by which I am extremely affected and drown in the ocean of tears (giryah-u zari). This happens perhaps because of the fact that I am a helpless person. I did not have any skill and was devoid of knowledge and good deeds. Then who gave this treasure and what can be the cause of this gift?
7. If my students who live in Pakistan, England, America, Canada, France, etc. had not co-operated with me in the service of knowledge, then by God, I, a weak human being in every respect, would not have been able to do anything. I am sure that a sensible historian, who would be interested in this work, will record their esteemed names and their meritorious deeds with reference to me, for the future generation. Yet, let us speak about that luminous history of mu'mins, which is written not by erring and forgetful men, but by the honourable angels (kiraman katibin; 82:11). That is, the book of deeds, which will be read in Paradise with great glory. Study carefully the verses related to the book of deeds in the wise Qur'an, particularly, the verse of `illiyyin (83:18), whose wisdom is extremely wonderful.
8. It is said in the noble Qur'an: "Nay! Most surely, the record of the righteous is in `illiyyin. And what will make you know what `illiyyin is? It is a written book, which those close (to God) see." (83:18-21). You will certainly feel overwhelming happiness to read that the above-mentioned living book is two heavenly and two earthly extremely great angels, namely the Universal Intellect, the Universal Soul and their two mazhars (manifestations), for the signs of plural "in" and "un" in the words `illiyyin and `illiyyun are used for rational beings. Thus, it is extremely necessary that you should recognise the record of deeds.
9. You might have understood the Qur'anic wisdom that God always creates two opposite things from one another, such as He makes the night to pass into the day and the day into the night (3:27). One meaning of this is that the additional existence (exoteric knowledge) of the student comes into being through the teacher and the additional existence (esoteric knowledge) of the teacher is due to the student, so that it may also be a circle. Although the mother gives birth to a child, yet on the other hand, it is also necessary to see that it is due to the child that a woman is called a mother and that milk is created in her. There is also a great wisdom hidden in the example that the stock of human milk in the mother's breasts is in the chest in front of the human heart, whereas in female animals the place of milk is opposite to this. Thus twelve springs (6+6) of the mother's milk are fixed for the child, as mentioned in the Qur'anic story of Hazrat Musa, may peace be on him (2:60; 7:160).
10. Hazrat Musa (a.s.) and Hazrat Harun (a.s.) were the spiritual parents of the mu'mins in their time. It is clear that the natiq has the position of the father and the asas that of the mother. Thus, according to the example of the milk of the mother, there was the stock of knowledge in the blessed heart of Hazrat Harun (a.s.) for the spiritual upbringing of the mu'mins and the mazhars of this knowledge were his twelve naqibs (Hujjats) (5:12). Another example of spiritual knowledge is that, although apparently it was a rock from which the twelve springs of water gushed out, yet its mamthul (esoteric meaning) was the heart of Hazrat Harun (a.s.) from which God caused the knowledge, consisting of twelve levels, to flow through Hazrat Musa (a.s.). Thus the above-mentioned twelve naqibs were the twelve springs of Hazrat Harun's knowledge.
11. Since this is the Preface of the book, as a principle it has to be recorded for the information of the readers and the future generations, how such an important, comprehensive and ever-reaching work has been accomplished. Who were the fortunate ones who participated fully in it in one way or another? I have indicated their names on different occasions. Nevertheless, the time is ripe for a booklet to be written in this connection and to that end the following personalities have been requested to compile it:
12. Fath `Ali Habib Vice President, Khanah-i Hikmat; Muhammad `Abdu'l-`Aziz, President, Muhyu'd-din Shah Sufi, Vice President, Idarah-i `Arif; Ghulam Rasul, President, Subidar (Retired) Yusuf `Ali, Vice President, Khanah-i Hikmat, Gilgit Branch; Ghulam Qadir, Adviser/Ex-President, Subidar (Retired) `Ali Dad, Chairman Burushaski Research Academy; Sultan Ishaq, Chairman, Idarah-i `Arif, Gilgit Branch; Amin Kotadia, Chairman, Idarah-i `Arif, London Branch; Nuru'd-din Rajpari, Chairman, Idarah-i `Arif, America Branch, Nur `Ali Mamji, Co-ordinator, America; Imam Karimdad, Co-ordinator, France. These personalities, with the help of other office bearers and members, will compile the above-mentioned history. God willing, this work is not too difficult.
13. I congratulate all my dear friends on the completion of this book and humbly pray that may the Sustainer of the worlds make this humble attempt of ours sincere and useful for everyone! Amin, O the Lord of the worlds!
N.N. Hunzai,
London,
8 Dhu'l-Hijjah, 1409
11th July, 1989.
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