A Letter of Knowledge in Modern Style (5)
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1. My cazizan in Atlanta (USA): Ya cAli Madad! Hazrat-i Mawlana cAli has said: "I am Allah's Countenance in the heavens and the earth" (Kawkab-i Durri, chapter III, manqabat 69). The folded heavens (matwiyyat, 39:67) are in the Sacred Sanctuary, where Mawla cAli, in the rank of [His] mazhar, is God's face and the Image of the Compassionate. Furthermore, pure Mawla is God's face on the earth in the sense that after the completion of the personal world, which is the model of the world of religion, one day the carifs have the [spiritual] observation and vision of … on water (11:7).
2. Our companions, whom we cherish with heart and soul, and our cazizan (students) of knowledge are: Ghulam Mustafa Momin, Mumtaz Momin, Nadia d/o Ghulam Mustafa, Nawshad Panjwani, Rozina Nawshad, Nizar Ali Bhai, Almas Nizar Ali, Nayab d/o Nizar Ali, Hina d/o Nizar Ali, Saba d/o Nizar Ali, Badruddin, Mah-i Mahal Badruddin, Sultan Ali. These thirteen cazizan are Life Governors. Mrs. Shawkat Sultan Ali is a very religious person. May no evil eye be cast on this branch as it has the largest number of Governors!
3. This is an extremely great revolutionary wisdom for all cazizan, that the folded heavens (matwiyyat, 39:67) are in the Sacred Sanctuary (hazirah-yi qudus) of the Perfect Human Being. If this is the reality, all those blessed verses that mention the heavens or heavenly things will definitely be esoterically related to the personal world or the Sacred Sanctuary. Such noble verses are in very large numbers.
4. Although merging (fana') is a chain, there are two great mergings: one is in the stage of Israfil and cIzra'il, and the other is in the Sacred Sanctuary (hazirah-yi qudus). In the first merging, there is pain, but in the second merging, there is no pain only comfort. Perhaps this is because here [in the Sacred Sanctuary] is paradise, where there cannot be any suffering. In paradise, only the pure vision is required for the merging, because the vision itself is merging in the origin. This is the return (rujuc). This is also the true repentance. The characteristic of this vision (didar) is that the moment you attain the sacred vision of the Image of the Compassionate (surat-i Rahman, i.e., wajhu'llah) in the world of Oneness, you become merged in Him. See in the Qur'an (28:88, 55:27) that everything and every individual becomes merged in the Image of the Compassionate or God's Countenance as soon as they reach its presence.
Margala Towers, Islamabad Wednesday 2 Muharram al-Haram 1419 AH / 29 April 1998
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