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| Loh-e-Mehfooz (Preserved
Scripturum) Khawaja Shams ud Deen Azeemi Universe is such a program that existed and
exists in the Mind of God. When God wished to get this program enacted and
desired that countless creatures should display themselves according to
His program, He told them to be, i.e. He said, “Be (Kun)!” When God
uttered kun, all that was there in the mind of God, inscribed upon a
screen in the form of definite features of the creatures. The screen upon
which the whole program and the characters through which the program is to
be carried out are inscribed, in the religious terms is called ‘the
Preserved Scripturum’ (Loh-e-Mehfooz). Law: When the Conscious is mentioned, the
Unconscious automatically comes under consideration. The conscious, as we
know of it, is to know anything, which is before our eyes in a solid form.
If something is therefore before our eyes, it exists for us and if
something cannot be sighted, it is non-existing for us although we do have
a sense about the non-existents as well. And, having a sense about
something is evident upon the fact that that thing exists somewhere
anyhow. Name of this feeling or the sense is the Unconscious. In order to
get into the world of the Unconscious, it is necessary that we should be
free from the grip of the conscious world. The summery of the foregoing discussion is
that there is one single deity that has complete programming about the
universe in His mind. This program is such a complete program that
contains all the characteristics of every urge of life; like hunger,
thirst, shape, form, features, organs of sight and hearing, eyes and ears,
love, affection, hate, cruelty, forgiveness, friendliness, etc. to name a
few. This deity has inscribed the whole program in the form of a script of
a drama or made a motion picture of all the characters of the drama of
life. How this film is being displayed, this will be discussed later on.
At the moment just bear in mind that the unified program of the universe
is preserved in the form of a film and every individual of the cosmos, be
it a goat, sheep, lion or a human being, is one of the characters of this
movie. We do know that we are one of the characters of this movie but we
are ignorant of the laws and rules that govern our role or about the
lights that are causing us to play this role. To know all this, in
spiritual terminology, means to have the ability of seeing things in their
real perspective and remain aware of mental attitudes. In order to find
out the exact position of our role in the scheme of events of the cosmos,
we have to have an impartial and neutral approach of thinking. And, for
having the impartial approach and a neutral mind, we have to enter the
Unconscious realm, after liberating from the clutches of the Conscious and
this thing can only be achieved when the ability of Detachment (Istaghna)
is produced in a person. True definition of Detachment or Istaghna
is have this realization that God, the Lord Creator is the Provider of
subsistence resources for every urge, demand and the need of life. The
method of having Istaghna can be explored by taking the 112th Sûrah of
the Quran into consideration. “ (O’ Prophet} Tell that God is the One
and Only, Above of all needs, He is neither begotten nor begets. And,
there is none like unto Him.” When the Creator and creature are compared
with reference to the above text, five things become explicitly clear. In
this text the Creator has been defined. And, from the definition of the
Creator, the creatures would be defined inversely, i.e., if God is one,
the creatures ought to be multifarious and many. God is not depending and
the creatures are dependents; the Creator does not have a procreative
source and the creatures have to have one, Creator has no family but the
creatures do have one. Creatures are confined within the limits of their
needs and they cannot get out of the needs. Every emotion and every step
of creatures’ life is a need and necessity. Creatures cannot be
associated with the Creator because of their opposing and inverse features
but out of these five attributes of the Creator they can associate
themselves with the Creator if they could train themselves in considering
Him the only one who is the Giver of sustenance. When we analyse our conscious life, it is
observed that our mind remains dishevelled and unkempt because we are tied
to with small or large desires and needs in such a way that we cannot get
ourselves free from them even for a moment and this leaves no room for the
mind to be ever vacant. Our mind remains in pursuit of earning livelihood,
making house for us, or to get married and raise children. When a
spiritual associate after liberating from the clutches of the conscious
grip deliberates, it becomes his certitude that, in actual effect, God is
the sole provider of the sustenance. In this regard thousands of examples
are taken into consideration. For instance, the life in the womb of mother
and after birth the life of infancy, childhood and boyhood, in which no
individual exercises any authority or exerts his mind. Similarly, when the
life of countless birds is looked at, it also provides an irrefutable
proof of the fact that God alone is catering their needs and requirements.
A farmer or a peasant, after harvesting the
yield of the crop, gathers all the grains, even the waste are also picked
up for the consumption of cattle. This invites us to think, when the
farmer collects every grain of the crop then from where do these billions
and trillions of birds are pecking their feed? In order to have an established affinity
with God as the Lord Creator, it is necessary that we should get this
approach of thinking established in us that God caters for our needs as
caringly as He has created us. When this approach starts taking shape in a
person, that is, he starts actually believing that there is someone who is
catering for our needs and is taking every care of us, then, after getting
away from the Conscious, one starts heading towards that One. When
this thinking is established in a person that I am merely a toy in the
hands of someone else then his mind sets in one direction. All the lessons
that are taught in spiritualism, all the exercises and austere practices
that are considered necessary for learning spirituality are aimed only on
this one thing that somehow or the other man should be able to negate
himself after becoming neutral and learning to be impartial. Self-negation
is nothing but to have a vacated and free mind. The more one involves in
the program of self-negation, the more features of the Unconscious life
are known to him, so much so that he even manages to know the features of
the Unseen realm. In order to enter the Unconscious life it is important
to perform Murâqaba for having a vacated mind.
There are many types of Murâqaba that are
successfully practices by the spiritual associates. The direct method of
performing murâqaba is to sit with close eyes and the performer imagines
that he/she is a dot of light. This murâqaba is to be performed either
after mid night or early in the morning before the sunrise. For performing
this murâqaba, the spiritual associate sits in a relaxed and comfortable
manner facing the North and, it is imagined by the performer that a black
spot is circulating in his/her heart. Success in this murâqaba makes the
spiritual associate see that all the signs of life have terminated and
he/she is existing only in the form of a dot of light. When this dot
becomes clear, the darkness of the dot is replaced by the brightness and
the dot starts expanding, finally to take the shape of a screen upon which
the whole program of the universe is displaying. It is the very same
screen that has been denominated as the ‘Preserved Scripturum’, in the
Quran. Source: http://www.azeemiaspirituallibrary.coms.ph |