Resurrection and Recognition
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1. Q. O my caz_z_n (dear students)! Tell me with what supreme purpose did God create jinn and mankind?
A. He created them for the sake of His worship.
2. Q. O my caz_z_n! Can you tell me what is the most essential pre-requisite for true worship?
A. Yes, the most important pre-requisite for acceptable worship is certainty, i.e. recognition, as the Holy Prophet has said: "There is no action without intention, no worship without certainty (recognition) and no nobility without piety (taqw_)." (Dac_'im, I. p.105).
3. Q. O my caz_z_n! How many levels of recognition are there in the sense of certainty and what are they called?
A. Certainty has three levels: Knowledge of certainty (cilmu'l-yaq_n), eye of certainty (caynu'l-yaq_n) and truth of certainty (haqqu'l-yaq_n).
4. Q. O my caz_z_n! Tell me, with respect to time which comes first for a mu'min, recognition or Resurrection?
A. One recognition is before the personal Resurrection, the second with the Resurrection and the third is after the Resurrection. That is, knowledge of certainty, eye of certainty and truth of certainty.
5. Q. O my caz_z_n! Tell me when does the individual or minor Resurrection take place? What is the difference between it and the major Resurrection?
A. The Resurrection of the one who dies spiritually before the physical death through the special cib_dat of the supreme Name and spiritual exercise, takes place, as the Holy Prophet has said: "He who dies, indeed his Resurrection takes place." (Ihy_'u'l-cul_m, IV, p. 106). The minor Resurrection takes place in the time of every Imam (17:71), and major Resurrection in the time of Hazrat Q_'imu'l-qiy_mat. However, spiritually and internally the minor and major Resurrections are alike.
6. Q. O my caz_z_n! Tell me in the light of the Holy Qur'_n, how can the word certainty be the synonym of recognition?
A. It is said in verse (6:75): "Thus We used to show Ibrahim the order (niz_m) of the kingdom of the heavens and the earth, so that he may be of those who have certainty (i.e. the people of recognition)".
7. Q. O my caz_z_n! Can you tell me the hidden secrets whose recognition is possible and those whose recognition is not possible?
A. Since the recognition of God is possible, the recognition of every great and secret thing is possible, such as the Throne, the Pedestal (Kurs_), the Tablet, the Pen, Paradise, Hell, heavenly Scriptures, angels, Prophets, Imams, souls, etc.
8. Q. O my caz_z_n! A senior caz_z amongst you should describe how the spiritual observation of every great thing is possible!
A. As said in the sacred Had_th of naw_fil (supererogatory work) God becomes the eye of His chosen servant by which he sees the realities and recognitions of the spiritual stages and intellectual places, and the eye in which the Divine light works can certainly see the secrets of azal (pre-eternity) and abad (post-eternity) in the Guarded Tablet.
9. Q. O spiritual brothers and sisters! Fortunately the secrets of Imamat are uncovered for you, therefore, one of you tell me, how are the Glorious Qur'_n and everything preserved in the sacred light of the manifest Imam which is the living and speaking Guarded Tablet?
A. (a) The Qur'_n is physically a book and spiritually it is a light and that light is spiritually together with the light of Imamat. (b) The intellect and soul of the holy Imam, by the name of the Universal Intellect and the Universal Soul, are two extremely great angels, also called the Divine Pen and the Guarded Tablet. They contain within themselves the Qur'_n and everything in their pre-eternal form and movement.
The higher world which is also called the non-spatial world is different from this material world. There is neither past, nor future in it. There is only the present, because in it is immovable time (dahr), in which all pre-eternal and intellectual things are constantly renewed.
10. Q. O my very dear spiritual brothers and sisters! Can you furnish a proof that the spiritual d_d_r (vision) of the single light of the Qur'_n and the Imam and its pre-eternal secrets is possible?
A. Yes, God willing. In verse (27:93), God says: "And say: Praise (al-Hamd = Hamd) belongs to God. Soon will He show you His signs (_y_t) so that you shall recognise them." That is, Hamd or the Universal Intellect belongs to God, and at the level of the Intellect He will show His signs (the Pen, the Tablet, the Qur'_n, etc.) and you will attain their spiritual and intellectual recognition. All the _y_t (signs, miracles 41:53) which are necessary for the attainment of recognition are encompassed and gathered in the single light of the Qur'_n and the Imam (36:12).
11. Q. O brothers and sisters in faith! You are aware of the fact that Mawl_n_ cAl_'s excellence in knowledge is almost universally accepted by all Muslims. Would you explain one of the wisdoms of the following verses composed by him:
"Do you think that you are a small body; While the great cosmos is contained within you; You are the speaking Book; By whose letters the hidden (secret) is revealed."
A. Although apparently this external universe is the macrocosm and man the microcosm, yet in reality, it is man who is the macrocosm, because the heavens and the earth of the external world are enfolded in him, as mentioned in verses (21:104; 39:67). This supreme miracle takes place when the mu'min on the spiritual path becomes annihilated in the true Imam. In this the mu'mins (male and female) attain the light (57:12, 19; 66:8) and they become the speaking Book which contains the secrets of recognition within it.
12. Q. O seekers of the truth! What is the way of benefitting fully in knowledge and recognition from the holy Imam who is the light as well as teacher of the clear Book (5:15) and also the speaking Qur'_n (23:62; 45:29)?
A. The way of benefitting from the holy Imam in knowledge and recognition is to annihilate oneself in him through absolute obedience and complete love and devotion, so that the minor Resurrection may take place and his light may act as the speaking Book and the record of deeds. All this is possible in this life so that the mu'mins (male and female) may be enriched with the everlasting wealth of knowledge and recognition.
13. Q. My very dear brothers and sisters in faith! May the salaw_t (blessings) of God and His angels descend upon you and all mu'mins (33:43)! Tell me what is the result or fruit of such salaw_t? Who are those great angels who send salaw_t upon the mu'mins?
A. Since this salaw_t is for the sake of bringing forth mu'mins from the darkness of ignorance towards the light of intellect, thus it is true to say that the soul-nourishing fruit of salaw_t is knowledge and wisdom and the great angels who send salaw_t after God are the Universal Intellect and the Universal Soul in the heaven and the N_tiq and the As_s on the earth, in whom are gathered all celestial and terrestrial angels. Thus, the blessings which the Imam of the time grants are in reality the salaw_t mentioned in verse (33:43).
14. Q. O true brothers and sisters! The soul is omnipresent in the entire universe. Tell me what are the most exalted attributes of soul?
A. Human soul is the reflection of Divine light, just like the reflection of the sun in the mirror. It is the shadow of God, the hidden treasure, Monoreality, the Reality of realities, the Single Soul, the Universal Soul, the Soul of soul, the Beloved, our Mawla and Mawla is our final and original Soul. Praise (hamd) belongs to God, the Lord of the worlds.
N.N. (Hubb-i cAl_) Hunzai, 12 Dhu'l-Hijjah, 1414/24th May, 1994.
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