One Soul, Many Bodies
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My very cazīz, dear friends, Rafiq Jannat Ali and Amin Abdul Malik, may you always remain happy and prosperous!
With everlasting love and brimful of truth, I say Yā `Alī Madad to you both and all other cazīzān. May the Holy Lord accept this pure prayer for the sake of all the devotees. How lovely were your letters! and so was my expectation; I am extremely happy. May the Lord of honor grant you all superiority of knowledge. You always serve K̲h̲ānah-yi Ḥikmat, offering sacrifice and devotion. Similarly, Al-Amin and Arif are also very devoted. My purpose is to beautifully mention all four secretaries of K̲h̲ānah-yi Ḥikmat and Idārah-yi cĀrif who are working together unitedly and with mutual affection, and with respect to unity and harmony, the office bearers and members of both sacred organizations are unique.
According to most prescriptions of Greek medicine, several medicinal herbs are crushed together in a mortar for an extended period. It is very difficult, rather impossible, to analyze the color, smell, taste and efficacy of such a compounded medicine. More than this example, we have become one soul in the mortar of monoreality. Even though physically our individuality appears to be there but internally this individuality has transformed into unity.
For example, each one of us is a medicinal herb and all medicinal herbs (i.e., our souls) are made one (a powder) by pulverizing them. This powder that contains all the medicinal herbs is then packed in a small bag and given to each of us. Thus, in every bag there are samples of all medicinal herbs. That is to say that in every soul there are the particles.
Second example: There are 1000 bottles, each one filled with a [different] fragrance extracted from 1000 different flowers. Then this fragrance is mixed together in a large container and re-placed
into each bottle. Now each bottle contains the fragrance in which 1000 samples have become one. This is an example of the soul which represents all souls.
Third example: The sacred Qur'ān draws attention to the amazing Divine signs in the making of honey by honeybees. The bees miraculously make countless fruits and flowers which are different in color, fragrance and taste into one sweet honey in their abdomens. With this background in mind, if this honey is divided into a thousand portions, each portion will have the same narrative, such as the same garden, flower-bed and fruit and the efficient work of the innumerable honeybees will be identical. This is an example of the uniformity of the state of the soul.
The wise Qur'ān mentions everywhere the spreading and gathering of souls, such as nas̲h̲r (spreading) and ḥas̲h̲r (gathering), as God says in verse (17:104): "And after this We said to the children of Israel: Dwell peacefully in the land, but when the promise of the hereafter (spirituality) comes, We shall bring you all enfolded [in one]." When the religion of Prophet Mūsā was everywhere, it was said to the mu'mins of the children of Israel that they should disperse to the twelve islands (jazīrahs) of the earth through the hierarchs of religion, and then when the time comes God would bring them enfolded together (17:104).
30th April, 1984
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