A Letter of Knowledge in Modern Style (1)
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1. My cazizan in Dallas (USA): Ya cAli Madad! cAli is the name of God, cAli is the name of Murtaza. `Aliyy-i acla is the supreme name of God, and the mighty Qur'an commands to invoke Allah by the supreme name (7:180). Thus, by saying "Ya cAli Madad", we call God by His beautiful names. Am I writing a religious letter of knowledge or doing worship through knowledge? Or am I doing both at the same time, whatever may be Allah's mercy. Every time I think of my cazizan, I am filled with extreme joy. Where can there be such happiness and such joy? It is only in paradise. Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the worlds!
2. The cazizan of my soul and heart: Shamsuddin Jooma, Karima Shams, KamaÜiya Hasan, and Karima Hasan. All these office-bearers and Life Governors are the subtle gardens of my heart, in which there are very beautiful spiritual flowers and very delicious fruits. They are my beloved, my adored, my support and my very dear Salman. They have all become an element of my soul while living in my heart. Har chih dar kan-i namak raft namak shud (Everything that went into a salt mine became salt).
3. God had cast a reflection of His pure and miraculous love on Hazrat-i Musa (20:39) to create a special love for him in the pure heart of Asiyah (Pharaoh's wife). In the same way, God casts a reflection of His holy and blessed love on all cazizan, so that I may love them as fervently as a loving mother loves her beloved child, and that I may work for their progress in knowledge at all times, whether I am in good health or ill.
4. By merging all believing men and women with the Imam of the time, God has made them eternally alive and has given them light (nuruhum, 57:12, 57:19, 66:8). Moreover, Hazrat-i Imam desires that all those followers to whom ism-i aczam (Supreme Name) has been given should see this light through special knowledge and special worship. Thus, carifs and the perfect ones (kamilin) see the light along with the spiritual resurrection. The light has several stages, but its original place is the Sacred Sanctuary (hazirah-yi qudus), where there is the hidden treasure that contains all the secrets of recognition.
Margala Towers, Islamabad 23 April 1998
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