Spiritual Experiences - The Wisdom of Spiritual Quake
The Wisdom of Spiritual Quake
Tags: Quake
1. In verses (51:20-21) God says: "And there are signs (miracles) in the earth for the people of certitude (muqinin i.e., the people of recognition) and within yourselves (also). Can you then not see?" From these verses it is clear that things which exist in the physical world also exist in the personal world spiritually. Therefore, it is true that a mu'min on the path of spirituality undergoes the arduous experience of spiritual quake many times when sleeping, dozing or being awake.
2. The severity of the quake of resurrection which is mentioned in the Qur'an in verses (22:1-2) should be studied carefully. Here, only a few wisdoms are mentioned: "It is because of the severity of the quake of resurrection, every suckling mother will forsake her suckling." Wisdom: When the spiritual quake occurs in the teacher's personal world, then due to its severity, he forgets his students. "And every pregnant female will drop her load". Wisdom: The spiritual particles that are in the teacher's personality are his pregnancy (load i.e., the children and students) all come out because of the severity of the quake of resurrection. "O salik! you will behold the people drunk, yet they are not drunk, but the punishment of Allah is terrible." Wisdom: human being's physical intoxication is that state where they forget things related to the intellect and thought. Therefore, when resurrection comes, it brings with it the greatest universe of the secrets of recognition and passes by while people are intoxicated (unaware and unconscious). Thus, in reality, this intoxication is an intellectual punishment, which is a big punishment.
3. Read surah-yi Zilzal in the Qur'an (99:1-8): "When the earth will be shaken with a severe shaking". Wisdom: compared to the intellect, the soul is the earth and compared to the soul, the body is the earth. Therefore, the meaning of the quaking earth on the day of resurrection is that the mu'min-i salik will be severely shaken bodily and spiritually. "And the earth will throw up her burdens". Wisdom: The personal world throws up every kind of load, so that he gets ready for spiritual states. "And man will cry - What is the matter with her?" Wisdom: The salik will be bewildered by this great miracle. "On that day earth will declare all her tidings". Wisdom: At that time the earth of the personal world will have spiritual conversation. "For the Lord will reveal to her". Wisdom: Since it is a resurrection, according to His promise, Allah will speak. "On that day will men return in groups, so they may see their deeds". Wisdom: It is inevitable for everyone to go to the place in the personal world where resurrection takes place. "Then, anyone who has done an atom's weight of good, shall see it! And anyone who has done an atom's weight of evil, shall see it!" Wisdom: Here is alluded the record of deeds which consists of spiritual particles.
4. By the grace of God, there is powerful information in this for the people of wisdom related to the recognition of one's self. Whatever secrets of the Qur'an have been revealed to you up to now, `azizan, are so very precious and priceless that all the treasures in the world are nothing compared to them. May you be blessed with these treasures of wisdom. We should continue to fear being ungrateful. May God always grant us His help. Amin.
5. Read verses (33:9-11) carefully, in which there is the mention of spiritual war and representative resurrection, that when an army of particles attacked the salik and the particles of mu'mins, God, through His mercy, sent the hurricane of sur of Israfil (May peace be through him) and an unseen heavenly army against it, as the Qur'an says: "When the enemy's army [of particles] attacked you from above and below, then your eyes were not able to work because your soul was coming out and you were imagining various thoughts about Allah. At that time, the believers were tried and were shaken severely".
6. It is said in verse (2:214): "Or do you think that you would enter paradise (today in the spiritual paradise and tomorrow in the permanent one), while there has not yet come upon you the like of what befell those who passed away before you? They were surrounded by a variety of problems and illness and were so severely shaken by a quake that the Messenger and the believers who were with him started to say: when will the help of Allah come? Verily, Allah's help is near".
7. This is the recognition of the spiritual quake i.e., the quake of resurrection, so that in this way, some Qur'anic wisdoms and secrets of spirituality may gradually reveal to the people of wisdom as there is a trial for the believer everywhere and the biggest trial, rather greatest trials, are in the Qur'an. Thus, we pray with great humility that may the Sustainer, through His revealed Light (nur-i munazzal), help us all, so that we may be blessed with the wisdom of the wise Qur'an. Amin.
Karachi, 21st June 1997
Saturday, 15 Safaru'l-muzaffar 1418 A.H.
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