like my murshed, i've seen no other! | by major ghulam muhammad

Like My Murshed, I've Seen No Other!

The Mystical Accounts of a Sufi's 45-year Journey into Islamic Spirituality

Major (Retd) Ghulam Muhammad

Like My Murshed

I've Seen No

Other

The Mystical Accounts of a Sufi's

45-year Journey into Islamic

Spirituality


Translation: Aves E

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First Printing, 2015

Awaisia Publications www.Awaisiah.com

In the loving memory of my Murshed

Hazrat Maulana Allah Yar KhanRA

The honorable Shaykh of Silsila Naqshbandia-

Awaisia

Contents

Preface ................................................................................. 7

Chain of Succession ..................................................... 10

Certificate of Succession ........................................... 12

Special Instructions..................................................... 15

His Words Are Full of Fragrance ........................... 18

Keep Praying for Your Steadfastness .................. 31

The Last Guide ............................................................... 38

Memories of Him .......................................................... 43

Conversation with Spirits ......................................... 68

Fana Baqa ........................................................................ 78

In Idols You Have Hopes ........................................... 88

My Head is Bowed to Thy Will ............................ 101

Those Who Forgot their Place ............................. 109

This World is of No Use to You ............................ 115

The Companion Jinn ................................................ 126

Aetkaf in Awaisia Mosque .................................... 140

Dying before Death .................................................. 151

Did You Even Know?................................................ 155

I Keep Waiting for You ............................................ 168

The Games that Destiny Plays ............................. 174

The One Who Caused Us to Err ........................... 184

He Could Not Shut the Door ................................. 191

Little Did We Know… .............................................. 197

Involuntarily, I Cried ............................................... 204

From the Windows of the Past ............................ 210

Preface

On one hand, it's an honor that I have been blessed

with the opportunity to write this preface. But on the

other hand, I do not consider myself worthy to write

the introduction to the articles written by my highly

affectionate and respected teacher and Hazrat Allah

Yar Khan'sRA Authorized Successor, Major (Retd)

Ghulam Muhammad. My tongue and my pen are not

at all worthy of commenting on what Hazrat Ghulam

Muhammad has written. However, as it was my

Hazrat's wish, I am daring to write these lines in the

compliance of his orders.

Major Ghulam Muhammad Sahib is a resident of Wan

Bhachran district Mianwali. He was just two months

old when he lost his mother. He had not started going

to school when his father also expired. His parental

aunt raised and educated him. He earned

scholarships throughout his schooling, from the fifth

grade to the university, so he didn’t face any problem

in completing his education. He got a commission in

the Pakistan Army in 1966. He met Hazrat Allah Yar

KhanRA in the last month of 1969. That was the day

he stepped into the field of Tasawwuf and Salook,

and since then, he never stopped walking on this path

to this day. He is now the leader of a Jamaat of Silsila

Naqshbandia Awaisia.

Hazrat Ghulam Muhammad's father's name was

Muhammad Ramzan. He has three sons: Abdul

Ghafoor (Late), Ghulam Hussain, and Ghulam

Muhammad. How lucky his father must be, that all of

his three sons are present in the ProphetSalAllahu-alaih-

Wasallam's Court. Major Ghulam Muhammad's spiritual

Baet took place in 1970, and he was blessed with the

position of an "Authorized Successor" by the Holy

ProphetSalAllahu-alaih-Wasallam in 1974. His way of

preaching is unique. He casts down the Lights from

his Station upon the person that he wants to bring into

the Silsila, and prays to Allah every day after

Tahajjud, that Allah may accept that person for his

remembrance and Zikr. If that person does not join

the Zikr for five to six weeks, he considers him

unlucky and thinks that he doesn’t have it in his

destiny that Allah should accept him for His

remembrance. Hence, he stops thinking about that

person.

Major Ghulam Muhammad Sahib has been a part of

the Silsila Naqshbandia Awaisia for over 45 years. He

hasn’t gathered any worldly effects. He lives in a

shack, practices Allah, Allah, and make others do

Allah, Allah. He recited the Darood Shareef ten-million

times in twenty-six years. He also wrote the Quran

with his own hand in 2013.

Hazrat Ghulam Muhammad holds a distinct place

among the Authorized Successors of Hazrat Allah Yar

KhanRA. The reason is the exalted honor that was only

bestowed upon Hazrat Ghulam Muhammad, that the

Holy ProphetSalAllahu-alaih-Wasallam inscribed his name

with his own blessed hand in the list of the successors

presented by Hazrat Allah Yar KhanRA.

These writings of Major Ghulam Muhammad Sahib

are a precious asset for our comprehensive guidance.

These articles consist of the feelings, observations

and experiences that he went through during his

journey on the path of Salook, and constitute an

extremely rare collection of principles for acquiring the

'subject-specialty' of Salook.

May Allah, The Most High, bless Hazrat Ghulam

Muhammad with higher Stations and rewards, and

keep the link between our hearts, and may his

blessed shadow stay on our heads forever. Ameen,

again, Ameen.

Nacheez Fazal Mehmood

Chain of Succession

Prophet Muhammad Sall-Allahu-alaih-Wasallam

(1)

Hadhrat Abu Bak Siqqique Razi Allah Anhu

(2)

Hadhrat Imam Hassan Basri Rehmatullah Alaih

(3)

Hadhrat Daud Tai Rehmatullah Alaih

(4)

Hadhrat Junaid Baghdadi Rehmatullah Alaih

(5)

Hadhrat Obaidullah Ahrar Rehmatullah Alaih

(6)

Hadhrat Maulana Abdul Rehman Jami Rehmatullah Alaih

(7)

Hadhrat Abu Ayub Muhammad Saleh Rehmatullah Alaih

(8)

Hadhrat Sultan-al-Arifeen Khwaja Allah Din

Madni Rehmatullah Alaih

(9)

Hadhrat Maulana Allah Yar Khan Rehmatullah Alaih

Certificate of Succession

Hazrat Major Ghulam

Muhammad

From Chikrala

28-9-1974 Nacheez1 Allah Yar Khan

In the service of my dear Ghulam Muhammad Sahib,

Assalam-o-Alaikum,

Islam started off from an apparently very low point.

Soon, it will again be observed at a very low point.

This is the age of waywardness. It is pitch darkness

all around. It's a black night, and as the storms of

darkness blow all around, you people are shining like

luminous lamps.

The lamp that Allah has Himself lit will not be affected

by the hostile winds of blackness at all.

1 Out of humility, Hazrat Allah Yar Khan used to write "Nacheez" with his name. It literally means "nothing".

You've written about the people who oppose Baig

Sahib and other Zaakireen2. My dear, these people

are not against you or Baig Sahib. In fact, they are the

enemies of the Deen3. They harbor enmity against the

Deen and against Allah, the Glorious. They are the

wayward, the faithless.

You can advance anyone who you think is capable.

However, you have been granted standing permission

only till Salik-al-Majzoobi4. When you come to

Chikrala, you'll also be given the written certificate to

the effect. And you have also been granted an

Appointment. Whatever (Appointment) was decided

for you by Allah SWT, Huzoor-e-Anwar5Sall-Allahu-alaih-

Wasallam, and the senior Mashaikh6 has been given to

you.

Your affair is unlike it used to be. Now, you are an

Authorized Successor and Abdaal7. You are among

the five companions whom Allah SWT has blessed

with His permission.

Today, the Jammaat8 has sent Rs 400 from Quetta as

the air fare, but it's difficult to go there in the month of

Ramzan. Three or four letters from Quetta also

2 From "Zikr". Those who do Zikr. Those who remember Allah. 3 Deen-e-Islam. The true faith of Islam. 4 It's a destination of Salook. 5 The Holy Prophet Peace be upon Him 6 Plural of Shaykh. Spiritual Elders or Guides. 7 An Appointment in Salook 8 A group of people, in the religious sense, is called a Jamaat.

arrived today, including one from Maulana Abdul

Qadir.

A tour of Chakwal (3-4 days), Moohra (1 day) and

Munara (2 days) has been planned just after Eid, from

26-10-74. Assalam-o-Alaikum to the whole Jamaat.

Your main responsibility in Quetta is to prepare Maulvi

Abdul Qadir, so that he may do a good job after you.

Special Instructions

Hazrat Allah Yar KhanRA

I'm observing that in these treacherous times, the

people's spiritual capacity is declining day by day.

Moreover, I also feel a lack of effort and hard work

among the companions of the circle (of Zikr). Some of

our companions are inclined towards personal fame

and projection, and are afflicted by a rot in their

affairs.

With this background, the following special

instructions are being issued for the proper spiritual

training and guidance of my friends.

1. By Allah's blessing, the Spiritual Baet9 is solely

in my domain. The seeker's ability is a

precondition for this (Baet). Only those who

obey the Shariah and have the ache (to spread

this light to others) will be bestowed with this

supreme blessing. This will usually take place

during the Aetkaf or the annual congregation at

Munara, after performing due diligence.

9 In Awaisia, the seekers that have the capability are blessed with a spiritual oath of allegiance at the blessed hands of the Holy Prophet

.(ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص)

2. No one except me is authorized to take people

to the Upper Destinations. If someone has

been taken to these Destinations without me,

it's merely an illusion or wishful thinking.

Moreover, if someone has been taken beyond

the Triple Meditations without me, he should

not think that he is cleared for those Stations.

The people who have been duly Authorized

and appointed by me can take others till the

Triple Meditations and the Triple Circles, and

can also give spiritual attention till their own

Stations. Out of these people, today I authorize

the following for taking others to the Stations till

the Prophet'sSall-Allahu-alaih-Wasallam Court.

1. Malik Muhammad Akram, 2. Col

Matloob Hussain, 3. Syed Bunyad Hussain

Shah, 4. Hafiz Abdul Razzaq, 5.

Muhammad Ahsan Baig, 6. Hafiz Ghulam

Qadri, 7. Ghulam Muhammad (Wan

Bhachran, Mianwali), 8. Khan Muhammad

Irani, 9. Maulana Abdul Ghafoor, 10. Syed

Muhammad Hassan (Zhob)

3. The people who are not Authorized, but are

blessed with the Spiritual Baet, can teach the

Lata-if10 to others and can also give spiritual

attention until the Triple Meditations. They are

not permitted to give Attention to others

beyond that. However, the appointed Ameers

10 The subtle points located in the chest.

of the Circles of Zikr in foreign countries are

permitted to take others till the Triple

Meditations, provided that they (Ameers) are

themselves blessed with the Spiritual Baet.

Moreover, it should always be remembered that in the

path of Salook, complete adherence to the Shariah of

MuhammadSall-Allahu-alaih-Wasallam, the seeker's sincerity,

the link between his heart and the Shaykh's heart,

and his obedience to the Shaykh are extremely

important affairs.

Nacheez Faqeer Allah Yar KhanRehmatullah Alaih, from

Munara 30-8-1982 (CE)

10 Zeqad, 1402 (AH)

His Words Are Full of

Fragrance


I'm not going to make a speech, just teach a few

things. Remember them.

The first thing is, why do we come here11? Do we

come here to look at these walls? The land is not

ours, nor is the sky. Nor do we come here to look at

the grave. We come to this congregation only for

pleasing Allah, because people get a lot of benefit by

coming here. Other than this, we have no purpose.

Secondly, it is the mutually agreed belief of Ahl-e-

Sunnat wa-Al-Jamaat12 that Faiz (or spiritual benefit)

can be acquired from the spirit. The spirit is alive.

Death takes place when the connection of the spirit

with the body is severed. This phenomenon is known

as the demise of the form. Death, as we know it, is

the separation of the spirit from the body. The spirit

itself never dies. This is also the mutually agreed

11 This excerpt is from Hazrat Jee's address at Langar Makhdoom, the resting place of Hazrat Allah Deen Madni Rehmatullah Alaih 12 A branch of Muslims that follows the way of the Sunnah and the way of the righteous ancestors.

upon belief to which all religions testify. We have an

origin, we were created, but we'll never perish. Just as

the Paradise and the Hell will never perish and will be

eternally present. In the same way, the Guarded

Tablet, Kursi13 (Allah's Throne), the rewards of the

Paradise, the virgins and the servants will never

perish.

Now, we come to our affair. Understand this. Even if

we keep sitting beside the grave for a hundred years,

we can never acquire Faiz until we are not connected

to the Shaykh and his spirit. The connection can only

be established if a living person connects us with him.

There are thousands of veils between us and them

(the dwellers of the graves). We think of the grave to

be a mound of dust, but actually there are countless

veils that separate us from them. So, there has to be

such a person who tears through these veils, takes us

to the other side and establishes our connection and

relationship with the person of the grave. Only then

can the Faiz be extracted. For acquiring Faiz, it is

imperative to have a Shaykh.

A few days back, I was sitting in Nowshehra when a

Maulvi Sahib came to see me. He was quite learned

and educated (in the matters of the Deen) and had

been teaching Hadees in Akora Khatak for a long

time. He asked two questions. The first one was: can

the Faiz be acquired from the spirit or the grave

without having a Shaykh? I said no. He asked: then

13 Allah's Chair or Throne

how come you were able to extract Faiz from the

grave? I said: I have also reached there through a

living person. My teacher, who established my

connection with my Shaykh, was the means of my

knowledge.

The second question he asked was: what is the

difference between an Arif14 and a Zakir15? I replied

that it's a logically sound principle that defines the

two. Every Arif is a Zakir, but every Zakir is not an

Arif. To be a Zakir, no teacher of Shaykh is needed.

One can keep doing Zikr all one's life by oneself.

However, to be an Arif, it is mandatory to have a

Shaykh. He cannot progress without a Shaykh. In

order to tread on the Destinations of Salook,

obedience to the Shaykh is just as crucial as if

someone is holding the staff of a blind man and

leading him along the bank of a river. The blind man

will walk directly behind his guide. He will not dare to

take a step left or right, because he knows that if he

does not follow the guide, he will drown and perish in

the river, or will be eaten by a crocodile. He follows

completely and without fail, matching each step with

his guide.

Or take the example of a blind man following

someone holding his stick as he climbs to the top of a

mountain. He will follow straight behind his guide,

because he knows that if he does not follow the guide

14 Arif comes from Irfan, which means 'knowledge'. Arif is someone who has the knowledge of Allah. 15 The person who engages in Zikr regularly

precisely, he will fall to his bone-crushing death.

Scavengers will feed on him. In the same way, one

has to walk behind the Shaykh in Salook and obey

him completely. Or take the example of someone who

is standing on a rooftop or mountain top and flying a

kite. The kite soars high and may fly two or three

miles away from the person flying it, but if the string

breaks, the kite will crash into the trees and be torn

apart and destroyed. Why? Because, the string that

connected the kite to its flyer breaks. The connection

breaks. The relationship breaks. However, the kite

does not fall immediately. It is carried by the wind,

circles for some time, and finally, crashes. Similarly,

when the connection with the Shaykh breaks, even a

person having the highest Destinations falls gradually

and is destroyed.

Obedience to the Shaykh is also mandatory for the

Lata-if. For instance, if a sick person goes to a doctor

or a physician, the latter prescribes medicine and diet

for the patient. He tells the patient what is beneficial to

him and also advises the patient to refrain from

certain things. And the patient has to follow the

instructions. On the other hand, there are certain

prerequisites for becoming a Shaykh as well. Many a

people have been ruined as a result of following

ignorant and wrongful guides. The first condition for

the Shaykh is that he must be an Aalim16. It's not that

only the person who has read many books is an

16 A person who is knowledgeable in the matters of the Deen

Aalim. The illustrious Companions17Razi Allah Anhu did not

read any books. Most of the Tab'een18 did not read

books. They memorized everything that the Holy

ProphetSall-Allahu-alaih-Wasallam said. Then, the Shaykh

must know the beliefs of the Ahl-e-Sunnat-wa-Al-

Jamaat. Remember! This thing (Salook) is not to be

found except from Ahl-e-Sunnat-wa-Al-Jamaat. It is

not there in any other sect. There is no one in the

world who can say that they have it, except Ahl-e-

Sunnat-wa-Al-Jamaat. I have seen in all the four

Schools (of Fiqah). There's more Light in Hanfia, and

the majority of the Sufis belongs to the Hanfia

School.. So, it's mandatory for the Shaykh to be an

Aalim. It is strictly forbidden to do the Baet with an

ignorant person. The person taking and doing such a

Baet are both sinners and wrongdoers. The other

thing is that the Shaykh must be a follower of the

Shariah. He must be a regular performer of the

mandatory worships (Farz), obligatory worships

(Wajib), and compulsory Sunnah worships

(Muakkida). He may or may not perform the voluntary

worships (Nafl), but the performance of the Farz,

Wajib and Sunnat Muakkida is a must. Nafl is not a

compulsion. But, if he does perform them, he should

perform Tahajjud and Awwabeen, and should look

after his Heart. All these things are extremely

important for a Shaykh. All the Ulema19 are

unanimous on this. He must be an expert at the

17 Sahaba Karaam, or the Companions of the Holy Prophet (SAW) 18 The successors of the Sahaba 19 Plural of Aalim. Knowledgeable persons.

knowledge that he has gained (Tasawwuf). It is not

necessary that he is more pious and righteous than

his disciples. Piety is another thing. We know that if

the whole Jamaat is weighed against Qazi Sahib in

piety, Qazi Sahib alone will weigh heavier. It's

obvious, but it's not a condition for becoming the

Shaykh. However, he must be an expert in the

particular knowledge that someone wants to acquire

from him. It must not happen that he distorts that

knowledge.

The Quran has laid down four conditions for the

Shaykh. (1) He should be hardworking and tough like

a camel, (2) He should have a determination as high

as the sky, (3) He should be steadfast like a

mountain, (4) He should be balanced like the earth;

that is, he must have the humility and selflessness. If

you get such a Shaykh, become the dust in his feet.

Become a lace in his shoes. I have taught you this

lesson (Tasawwuf) on these very conditions. Among

the etiquettes with the Shaykh, let me mention the

major things that I have observed and that harm the

seeker. Do not stare at the Shaykh's face. The doctor

or the physician must be obeyed for taking the

medicine. If the patient does not follow the

instructions, he will not be healed, or he may even

die.

These days, the biggest trouble is that the knowledge

of Tasawwuf has become extinct. Its experts are no

more, and the world has denied it. There's no spiritual

physician, no guide. If you read the Quran, from the

beginning to the end, it detaches one from the world

and invites attention towards Allah. Get focused on

Allah and connect with Him.

The gist of 104 heavenly scriptures is included in four

Books; and the gist of these four Books is in the Holy

Quran; and the gist of the whole Quran is in Surah

Baqrah; and the gist of the whole Surah Baqrah is in

Surah Fateha; and the gist of the whole Surah Fateha

is in Bismillah; and the gist of the Bismillah is in the

letter "20"ب. This is the "ب" of togetherness (with

Allah). The purpose of sending the Prophets is that

the people who have broken their link with God and

are trapped in the claws of the Satan are set free and

joined with Allah. The Prophets are deputed to

connect the whole mankind with Allah. This is the

verdict of the Quran that people should be distracted

from the world and joined with Allah. The one who

refutes this (Tasawwuf) is deprived of this reward and

blessing. Some of them are absolute deniers. Some

are copy cats and color-sellers. Then, there are the

ordinary folks, who do not appreciate the difference

between a color seller, a color copier, and a color

maker. They do not distinguish a doctor from a

pharmacist. They are unable to differentiate between

a patient and a healer. All of them are suffering from

the disease of the Heart, barring very few.

There are three degrees of Tasawwuf. The first one is

to do Zikr with the tongue, that one should just repeat

20 Arabic letter B

Allah, Allah. One should say Subhan-Allah, or La-

Ilaha-il-Allah. The Darood Sharif or the Astaghfar

should be recited. This is the degree where the

medicine is being prepared. This is not Tasawwuf.

The condition will not improve unless the medicine is

used. The second degree is Lata-if, where the person

starts using the medicine and the treatment has

started. Then come the Destinations, as if the patient

has used the medicine and gained the ability to walk

about and run around. Allah SWT has commanded

that the houses where Allah's Zikr is carried out must

be kept free from filthy and stinky things. There

should be nothing evil at that place. There should be

solitude, and the light should be put off. If there's light,

you can cover your head with a piece of cloth. Our

master the Holy ProphetSall-Allahu-alaih-Wasallam adopted

solitude in the cave of Hira. Detachment from the

world and engagement in worships is the practice

(Sunnah) of the ProphetsAlaih as-Salam.

The floor where Zikr is being done should be

considered sacred and kept clean. When Prophet

MosesAlaih as-Salam was conversing with Allah, it was

decreed: 'take off your shoes. This is a holy place.'

The water supply coming from outside, from a lake or

through pipes, is polluted by impurities. Block this

external supply, so that nothing from the outside world

enters into your Heart. That's we close our eyes, ears

and mouth, so that they stop letting in the impurities

from the external world. Now, bore a hole into your

Heart with Zikr-Allah. Install the pump of Allah's Zikr

on it. And fountains of Divine Lights will spring forth

from it. When this water of Lights will flow, it will

cleanse others' Hearts as well, and from this water of

Lights, Kashaf21 will be achieved.

Some Ulema and even Sufis have said that the non-

believers also have Kashaf. Upon research, it was

revealed that Kashaf depends upon the Light of Faith

(Iman). Without the Light of Faith, there's no Kashaf.

The Light of Faith is intensified by good deeds. A

person of Faith does have the capacity in his/her

Heart. The Light of Faith is present in it. Kashaf is

related to the Light of Faith. For example, it's not the

eyeballs that see, but the light behind them that does.

The loud speaker does not speak, but the person

behind it does. The Qalb does not see by itself, but

the Light of righteous deeds inside it does. How can a

non-believer possess the Light of Faith or do

righteous deeds? There are non-believers who

become monks. Through tough training, their flesh is

reduced to an extent that they become the likes of

skeletons. The blood in their bodies is reduced. When

the blood is reduced, whiteness is born in the Heart. If

anyone has doubts, you can do a simple experiment.

Take an animal's liver and place it in the sun. After

some time, you can see your reflection in it, just like

you can see it in a stainless-steel utensil or a mirror.

In the same way, when the blood is reduced, the

Heart will start shining. It will reflect whatever comes

in front of it. If it's a mountain, you'll see the reflection

of it. If it's a tree, you'll see a tree. And if a person

21 Paranormal Vision

comes in front of it, you will see that person's

reflection. This is not Kashaf. Kashaf is related to the

Light of Faith. You cannot see an angel or Jinn in a

mirror. You cannot see the retribution and reward of

the grave in it. Nor can you see the Paradise, the Hell,

or any other subtle or ethereal entity. Whiteness is

born in a non-believer's Heart because of a lack of

blood and flesh, which people mistake as the Kashaf.

The non-believers' condition can be explained by the

analogy of an ocean, in which there are gigantic

waves. A wave comes, followed by the next, and they

are covered by the shadow of the clouds—darkness

upon darkness. A non-believer's actions, his words,

and the beliefs in his heart are nothing except

darkness. A person's hand is the closest to him or

her. You can take your hand to your eyes, or your

head, and can move it about. But the non-believer

cannot see even his own hand in this pitch darkness.

If Allah has not created the Light for a particular

person, from where can the Light possibly come to

such a person? It's a common misconception that

non-believers have Kashaf. We can present not a

thousand, but several thousand Sufis. In our Circle of

Zikr, there are 800-900 companions who are blessed

with Kashaf and who can talk to spirits. They can

perceive the punishment of the grave and the reward,

and can converse with angels. But, for this to happen,

a Clean Heart is a must. No personage is greater than

the CompanionsRazi Allah Anhu. Many illustrious

personalities came after the Prophets, but no one can

reach the status of the CompanionsRazi Allah Anhu.

An Aalim once stated the superiority of Imam Mehdi

over the Shaykhs (Companions). I said to him to

come to his senses and listen to me. We consider

Imam Mehdi to be a very high personage, but he does

not rival even the shoes of Hazrat Abu Bakr Siddique

Allah Anhu and Hazrat Umar FarooqRazi Allah Anhu. Imam

Mehdi will come centuries after them. There is no

comparison between him and the Companions of the

ProphetSall-Allahu-alaih-Wasallam. Even then, Allah warned

them, "say to them (O Prophet), that unless your

fathers, sons, wives, tribes and families, the money

that you earn, the business in which you fear a loss,

the houses where you live, if all these things are

dearer to you than Allah and His Prophet, you just

wait! Allah does not guide the sinners." Father, son,

wealth, or anything else, when someone brings it at

par with Allah and His ProphetSall-Allahu-alaih-Wasallam, then

such a person is a sinner. His Heart is not intact, but

is stained with the love of the other. If the Quran has

warned the CompanionsRazi Allah Anhu, where do we

stand? There is but a single Heart, not two. Allah says

that if someone else enters this house (Heart), it is as

if you are ascribing that person or thing as My partner.

This will lead to anxiety. So, a man must think. The

age that we live in is a transient age. Keep in mind

that our relationship with our wife and kids, wealth,

property, business, or the livestock that we own, must

be a relationship of protecting and managing these

things, so that they are not destroyed. The link of

Heart must only be established with Allah. The

worships also depend on this link. When Zikr-Allah

comes, it brings the Love of Allah. It expels other

things from the Heart.

Hazrat SulaimanAlaih as-Salam wrote a letter to Queen

Bilqees, that she must quit the headstrongness, vanity

and pride that occupy her mind and come to him after

becoming a Muslim. She understood that this letter

was from a man of Allah, because he made no other

demands. She called her deputies, advisors and

generals, told them about the letter, and asked for

their advice. All of them said that they were a

formidable power. They had a lot of strength and a

huge army. They were a warlike nation. However,

they said that the Queen's verdict was the final

command for them. They would do exactly as she

said. The Queen said that when a king enters a city

with his brutal force, he ravages it and humiliates the

honorable of that city. If their city were attacked, they

would be routed.

We, all of us who are sitting here today, are

respectable people. If pride and vanity entrenches in

our Hearts, we shall be humiliated too. Allah's Zikr

expels this cursed sentiment from the Heart. As a

result, a Clean Heart is born, in which only Allah

resides. A young relative of mine once asked Qazi

Sahib that he had read explanations of the Quran

(Tafseer), but could not understand what a Clean

Heart22 is. I said to them, let me tell you about the

Clean Heart. Imagine that the earth, the heaven, and

22 Qalb-e-Saleem

the creation that they contain, is a chicken. Then,

slaughter that chicken. What will be left behind then?

Only Allah, and nothing else. How can the Heart go

elsewhere? It will go straight to Allah's door. This is

the Clean Heart.

Keep Praying for Your

Steadfastness


My Murshed Hazrat Maulana Allah Yar KhanRehmatullah

Alaih wrote the following on November 7, 1963 in reply

to a letter from one of his students:

"You don't know that I have also spent 16 years (on

the path of Salook). It was after 16 years that tiny

water droplets emerged. After 20 years, the waves of

a river started. After 22 years, the river swelled up into

a storm. And after twenty-three-and-a-half years, the

waves of a sea were born. Remember that Salook

starts from the Station of Ahdiyyat, and half of it

finishes by the Kamalaat-e-Ulul-Azmi. From there on,

the remaining half of Allah's Friendship belongs to

Prophet MuhammadSall-Allahu-alaih-Wasallam. Beyond the

ninth Arsh, the Realm of Amazement or the Realm of

Commandment starts, in which several Destinations

are located. The last Destination is the Station of

Tasleem, where the Friendship (with Allah) of the

Aulia23 ends. From there, the Friendship of Prophets

starts, which includes the Stations of Khulah,

Muhabbat, Takleemi, Muhibbiyat-e-Khasa, Hub-e-

Sarfa, Raza, and onwards the Station of Kamalaat-e-

Nabuwwat, Kamalaat-e-Risalat, and then, Ulul-Azmi.

From there, the Friendship of our master Hazrat

MuhammadSall-Allahu-alaih-Wasallam starts, in which there

are gigantic waves of the sea. This wrongdoer is

swimming and diving in these waves. Remember that

none of the Aulia-Allah has ever reached beyond the

Station of Khulah, except Shaykh Abdul Qadir

JilaniRehmatullah Alaih. This is the bounty of Allah, which

He grants to whomever He wants. This is beyond the

capability of a human.

My dear friend! Always keep praying to God. This is

not anyone's personal excellence. Beyond the Station

of Raza, the kind of relationship between a Wali-Allah

and God becomes similar to the relationship between

God and the ProphetsAlaih as-Salam. Beyond this Station,

the Wali also starts acquiring Faiz from Allah in the

same way as the Prophets acquire Faiz. This

knowledge and understanding was revealed after (I

crossed) the Station of Raza. However, the Wali

acquires this Faiz because of his obedience to the

Prophets and by properly following them. It is

impossible without following the ProphetsAlaih as-Salam.

The Prophet acquires this Faiz directly. [Arabic

Verses from the Holy Quran] "You are Perfect, I have

23 Pl of Wali. Means friend, but used in the sense of Allah's Friendship.

no knowledge except that which you granted me. O

my Lord, increase my knowledge." Dear friend, do not

speak about these things openly.

My dear! I now preach because I am tasked to do it

by the Mashaykh and Huzoor24Sall-Allahu-alaih-Wasallam. I

teach of the books, and engage in the worldly

business to some extent. I give my Attention, conduct

Zikr and teach Salook. But, my heart just wants to be

alone with Allah, without anyone else coming between

us. What I did not know, God has blessed me with. I

thank His Being a million times. Only He is the fulfiller

of all my needs. Only He is sufficient. Only He is to be

trusted, worshipped and prostrated before. Only He is

the purpose. There is no other god but Allah, Allah,

Allah.

Keep these things in your heart. My Lord will ask me:

O Allah Yar, what have you written? Why have you

revealed the secret? Did anyone out of the previous

(Aulia) mention these Destinations?"

Six year later, on November 9, 1969, my Shaykh

wrote in reply to another student:

"Received your letter. You have asked about the

Doubts25 (that the Satan puts in the hearts). Dear

friend, the same thing is not written again and again.

Remember it once and for all, the Doubts do not

24 An expression of respect used for Prophet Muhammad Sall-Allahu alaih Wasallam 25 The actual word is "waswasa". These are the negative thoughts that the Satan injects into the hearts of people.

affect the Friendship, nor do they undermine the

excellence (achieved in the way of Salook). There is

no dichotomy between the Doubt and the Friendship.

The Friendship stays intact even when the Doubt

keeps happening. Even Hazrat AdamAlaih as-Salam was

affected by the Doubt, even though he was a Prophet

of Allah. The Doubt just causes anxiety of the Heart.

Secondly, the pests do not enter the house in which

there are no grains (of rice, wheat, etc). The Doubt

also happens to the person who has this treasure.

Thieves and dacoits only commit theft or robbery

where there is wealth. When the Lights are born in the

Lata-if, when the treasure of Lights is created,

Iblees26, who is the thief and the dacoit, gets an ache

in his stomach to break into that house and plunder

this wealth. Before the Lata-if were lit up, it was all

darkness in the inside world. The thief Iblees used to

steal easily. Now, when the Lights have illuminated

the inside because of the Light of Allah's Zikr, and the

Lata-if can also be heard chanting Allah, Allah, this

thief cannot fully achieve his aim. He wants to adopt

every tactic to get what he wants. The seeker who

understands that Iblees is the enemy and wants to

rob him by every means never cares for the Doubt,

and remains steadfast upon Zikr.

The reality is that the Jamaat of Sufia Arifeen27started

toward the end of the fifth century (AH) and their

numbers remained substantial until the beginning of

26 Satan's name 27 Pl of Sufi and Arif

the tenth century. They had ample presence in all

territories. The Jamaat of the Ulema was huge. Until

the fourth century (AH), the disciples of the Taba-

Tabaeen28 were alive. Upon their demise, Allah SWT

created this Jamaat of Aulia in large numbers. The

accomplished personalities that I see in the Barzakh29

belong to the times between the fifth and the tenth

century (AH). Those from whom we have acquired the

Faiz also belong to the same age. Then, after the

tenth century, their numbers dwindled. Then, in the

14th century, God save us! Only shopkeepers remain.

There's no shortage of the shopkeeper Sufis. They

are the color mixers, color sellers, but none of them is

a color maker. However, it does happen sometimes

that when the rain of Allah's Lights pours down, it

showers upon these people. Allah SWT keeps

creating the Aulia from time to time. Their affair is

similar to that of the Prophets, out of whom some are

Ulul-Azam30, some are Rasools31, and some are

Nabis32. The Ulul-Azam are born once in every few

centuries. The Rasools are also sent with longer

gaps. The Nabis have been coming in every day and

age. With the Prophethood of Allah's RasoolSall-Allahu-

alaih-Wasallam, all types of Prophethood ended forever.

28 Followers of the followers. The generation that followed the Tabaeen 29 The sojourn place between this world and the Judgement Day. 30 Literally means "highly determined". It's the status of certain Prophets. 31 The Prophets who are sent with scripture and a Shariah (code of life). 32 Pl of Nabi. Just any Prophet who calls people towards Allah.

Upon the demise of the Respected ProphetSall-Allahu-

alaih-Wasallam, the earth cried bitterly, as is mentioned in

Qazi Ayaz's Al-Shafi Haqooq Al-Mustafa, and its

explanation by Mullah Ali Qari, Tanzeel Makka, and in

Naseem-ul-Riaz by Allama Shahab Khafaji. Allah

SWT pacified the earth, that I shall bring forth

Siddique33 and Qutb-e-Wahdat34 in the earth. Your

Shaykh's Appointment is also Qutb-e-Wahdat. And

Allah said I will bring forth Afraad, Qayyum and

Ghaus35. Someone will be Qutb-e-Irshad, someone

will be Qutb-e-Madaar, someone will be Qutb-al-

Aqtaab, and someone will be Qutb-e-Abdaal. And

there will be Abdaal too, who will be the peons of the

Qutb-e-Abdaal. And I shall not leave the earth empty

(of these noble souls). The lower Ranks get the Faiz

from the person at the highest Appointment. If there's

a Siddiq present, who is not present today, the Faiz

descends from him. If there's a Qutb-e-Wahdat

present, all the rest of the Appointments get the Faiz

from him. If he is not present, it's because of the

Qayyum that the others get the Faiz, and if there's no

Qayyum, then because of the Ghaus. The Qayyum

and the Afraad, and the Qutb-e-Wahdat, and the

Siddiq—these people Allah creates rarely, after

several centuries. These are the Appointments for the

Ulul-Azm. As for you people, despite being occupied

in your (worldly) businesses, and eating the Haraam36

33 An Appointment of Salook 34 An Appointment of Salook 35 These are all Appointments 36 Things that Allah has forbidden. Here, it means the livelihood earned by unfair means.

earning, and living in the company of sinners,

listening to music, making your eyes guilty of (looking

at) the Haraam37, despite all this, you are still a

member of this Jamaat, and the Lights of Zikr don't

get taken away from you, this also is the blessing of

your Shaykh's spiritual power, and the Mercy from

Allah. Otherwise, far be it from paid servants to

acquire this extreme delicacy. Son, you must be

thankful to God. Always pray for your steadfastness.

Read this letter to your companions, all of it. But only

to the selected few, not to everyone.

Nacheez Faqeer Allah Yar Khan"

37 Ex nudity or obscenity

The Last Guide Hazrat

Maulana Allah Yar KhanRA


He was born in 1904. His ancestral country is the

town of Chikrala. The town is located 10 kilometers

north of the highway connecting Mianwali and

Talagang. Most of the population here belongs to the

Awan tribe. He was also an Awan. His father's name

was Zulfiqar. These were the times when education

was not very common. A fifth-grader was considered

to be well-read and learned. The British were ruling

India. The twentieth century was beginning to unfold

and the signs of sever disturbance and unrest were

beginning to emerge across India. When the

movements against the Turk began surfacing in the

Balqans in 1907-1908, the Muslims of India also felt

severely agitated. It was the same feeling of

restlessness that incited the leader of Deo Band38

Maulana Mehmood-ul-Hassan to launch a new

movement among the Muslims. Hazrat Maulana Allah

Yar KhanRehmatullah Alaih was still in his childhood, but a

disdain for the British settled into his heart.

38 A major Islamic school in India

One night, his mother dreamed that a saint had come

to their house. He gave her two pouches and said that

they were for her son. The two pouches represented

the knowledge of the visible and the subtle. The

Shaykh left for DeoBand to acquire the knowledge of

the apparent. He had to go to Delhi for the course of

Hadees, because the Deoband School was closed

those days on account of the Silk Handkerchief

movement. The teachers of Deoband had either been

imprisoned by the British or exiled. Those who were

free had diverted to the Ameenia School in Delhi,

which was being run under the supervision of

Maulana Mufti Kifayatullah. After graduating from

Delhi, he went to Langar Makhdoom, where he met

Hazrat Maulana Abdul RaheemRehmatullah Alaih, through

whom his spiritual link was established with Sultan-ul-

Arifeen Hazrat Allah Deen MadniRehmatullah Alaih. He

acquired the Faiz through the Awaisi Method from the

resting place of his Murshed. Here, he was initiated

into the learning of the subtle. Because it was the

Awaisia Silsila39, the completion of his mystical

education took place at the hands of our master

Hazrat Muhammad MustafaSall-Allahu-alaih-Wasallam.

Once Hazrat Maulana Allah Yar KhanRehmatullah Alaih fell

sick, and I went to Chikrala to inquire after his health.

Doctor Ghulam Mustafa from Joharabad was also

there. Hazrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih told us that when he

was at Langar Makhdoom, and when his Murshed

39 Can be loosely translated as a spiritual order or chain of succession

Hazrat Allah Deen MadniRehmatullah Alaih took him

through the Destinations of Fana-Fillah and Baqa-

Billah, he returned home after taking permission from

his Murshed. When he was home, he fell sick with

severe fever that refused to abate. The stomach was

repulsing food and drink. Vomiting and motions made

him extremely feeble. This condition persisted for 40

days, and he used to offer Namaz40with gestures. On

the fortieth day, his family and friends lost hope of his

recovery and started reciting Surah Yaseen41.

"My eyes were closed, when suddenly, a saintly figure

appeared. He said to me: 'I'm your Murshed. You did

not have the strength to progress further, so your

body was made weak to strengthen the spirit.' He

said—'Go to Ahdiyyat42'. Then he took me through

Maeeyat and Aqrabiyyat, and then performed Fana-

Baqa. Then, he said—'Go to Salik Al-Majzoobi'. Then

he took me through the River of Rehmat, and gave to

me new clothes to wear. 'From here, the Upper

Friendship starts. The clothes that are given to the

spirit at Ahdiyyat only last till here. The attire for the

Upper Friendship is different.' He said that I was well.

The fever subsided immediately, and I sat up. My

family members asked me to lie down, but I said that I

had recovered. They touched my skin and found out

that the fever was really gone. It had been sixteen

years since I started Zikr. It was now that I started to

see, with my eyes closed.

40 Salat in Arabic. Generally translated as "prayer" in English. 41 Surah Yaseen is recited to ease a person on his deathbed 42 The first of the Triple Meditations

After about a week or ten days when I went to Langar

Makhdoom, I narrated the whole incident to Maulana

Abdul RaheemRehmatullah Alaih. He was exasperated. He

angrily stepped out towards the tomb of Hazrat Allah

Deen MadniRehmatullah Alaih. I also followed. Upon

reaching the tomb, he said to the Murshed that he

had been superseded while his disciple had been

advanced. This was an insult to him, he said. Hazrat

Allah Deen MadniRehmatullah Alaih counseled Maulana

Abdul Raheem that you are my grave's caretaker,

whereas he is Shaykh-e-Silsila43. It is he for whose

training I've been sent here from the luminous city of

Madina. Be warned! Never try to rival him, or you'll

suffer a great loss. After this incident, our position

became rather awkward. I considered him my teacher

and respected him like before, whereas he started

respecting me considering me Shaykh-e-Silsila. Allah

SWT did not allow this situation to continue for long,

and called Maulana Abdul Raheem to Him. Maulana

Abdul Raheem himself used to say that doing the Zikr

on the Lata-if at Hazrat Allah Deen Madni'sRehmatullah

Alaih tomb is far more beneficial than doing it

elsewhere."

Hazrat Maulana Allah Yar KhanRehmatullah Alaih told us

that he is the Last Shaykh of Silsila Naqshbandia

Awaisia. There is just a single chair that has been

kept vacant in the Court of the ProphetSall-Allahu-alaih-

Wasallam, and that is reserved for Imam Mehdi. He said

43 The Leader of the Awaisi Silsila is the person who extracts the Faiz from Barzakh and reintroduces the Silsila into this world.

that there's a gap of not more than five to six hundred

years between him and Imam Mehdi. And that the

people trained in his Silsila will insha-Allah meet

Imam Mehdi.

Memories of Him


This was February 1970. I was in Risalpur. After a few

days, when Muhammad Ahsan Baig arrived at

Risalpur, many new things came to my knowledge. I

had a couple of meetings with him, during which he

mentioned his respected teacher Hazrat Maulana

Allah Yar Khan. He was among the top Ulema of

Pakistan. He was an exalted debater against the

Shiah sect. I had seen large posters of his speeches

and meetings, but had not met him so far. One day, I

went to Ahsan Baig to get some paint. My unit was

due for a technical inspection, and nobody in Risalpur

had the requisite paint, but him. Captain Ahsan Baig

promised to give me the paint the next day, and told

me that Hazrat Maulana Allah Yar Khan Sahib had

come to visit him. There was going to be a session of

Zikr that night. He urged me to attend the session. I

was connected to Khanqah Sirajia in Kundian, and

was linked to Hazrat Maulana Khan Muhammad for

almost eleven years. I was confused about whether I

should go there or not. We had planned to watch a

movie in the club that same evening. Two or three

cars arrived at my home to pick me up for going to the

club before the appointed time. I was double-minded.

If I didn’t go to Ahsan Baig's house, he would be

angry and might refuse to give me the paint. Hence,

my technical inspection could be ruined. So, keeping

the paint in view, I declined to go to the club and

changed into a shalwar qameez and went to Ahsan

Baig's house. As I entered the drawing room, the

respected Hazrat had just come out (of the bathroom)

after doing the Wazu44. Ahsan Baig introduced me. I

extended my hand for a shake-hand, but the

respected Hazrat ignored my hand and stepped by

me. For the first time, I felt that perhaps I was not

even worthy enough that a person of Allah should

shake my hand.

I started walking behind him. Hazrat Jee crossed the

road and entered the small Cantonment Board

mosque to lead the Namaz. I also performed the

Wazu and joined in the Jamaat. As soon as Hazrat

Jee started the recitation, I felt myself being

overwhelmed by a strange urge to cry, and I kept on

weeping spontaneously throughout the Namaz. When

the Namaz was over, everyone gathered at Ahsan

Baig's house. I also sat in the front row along with the

other officers, including Capt (Brig) Muhammad

Haneef, Capt (Maj) Umar Hayat, Capt Zain-ul-

Abideen, and Flt Lt Hadi Hussain Shah. A tall man

stood up and started telling everyone that their Silsila

was Naqshbandia Awaisia. They practiced the Zikr by

the method of Paas-Anfaas45. He explained that they

44 The ablution performed before the Salat 45 Literally means "guarding each breath"

would sat down in rows on the left side of their

Shaykh, facing the Qibla, close their eyes and

mouths, switch off the lights, and the make the Zikr of

Allah-Hu strike their Lata-if repeatedly, with each

breath. He said that they acquired the spiritual Faiz

through the medium of their Shaykh, directly from

MuhammadSall-Allahu-alaih-Wasallam, the Prophet of Allah.

After giving this introduction, he inquired from Hazrat

Jee about me, that whether I should keep sitting in the

session of Zikr. Hazrat Jee said that the dust of the

town from which he comes does not possess the

capability to absorb the Faiz. He said the only thing

we had learned from our elders was to oppose Allah's

Friends. "How can he do Zikr?" he said. Upon hearing

this, the tall man sternly ordered me to get up and

leave. I stood up, but the humiliation and insult had

drained me of the energy to leave. I sat on the

sandals at the back. Meanwhile, the light had been

switched off, and Hazrat Jee started the Zikr by

saying "Subhan-Allah-e Wal-Hamdu-Lillah-e wa La-

Ilaha IlAllahu wa Allah-o Akbar wa Lahaula wa la

Quwwata Illa Billahil AliYil Azeem; Auoozu Billahe

Minash-shaitaanir Rajeem; Bismillah Ar-rahmanir

Raheem; Allah Allah Allah Hu; Chalo pehla Lateefa

Qalb."

After 15-20 minutes had passed, I felt as if there was

light in the room. I instinctively closed my eyes. After

a few minutes, I could feel that the light in the room

had become extremely intense. I opened my eyes,

and they almost popped out to see what was

happening. The Lights were from Hazrat Jee's

blessed chest in the form of Flashes that were

enveloping the others, and these Flashes of Light

were making the room incredibly bright. I was

stunned. "What kind of a person he is, O Allah? We

had read about such people in books. How can he be

born in this day and age?"

By the time the session was over, I had become fully

convinced of Hazrat Jee's spiritual excellence. I had

decided that I shall never let go of such a person,

even if he does not consider me worthy of his

company. As soon as the light was put back on, I got

up and fell at Hazrat Jee's feet. I broke down in tears

and kept crying involuntarily. When the burden on my

heart had lifted, Hazrat Jee put his hand on my head

and said, "Son, the feeling of guilt is a big asset that

man has. Whenever a person feels that he has sinned

and strayed, he can come back on track. But if this

feeling dies, this life is useless. Whatever time of life

you are left with, spend it in the remembrance of

Allah. Join the people of Allah. Be regular in Namaz.

Appreciate the difference between the Permissible

and the Forbidden."

The conversation about the Deen continued for quite

some time in that company. When I returned home, it

was late and I was starving. When I asked my wife for

dinner, she said I should ask for food from the same

people with whom I had spent the evening. So, I had

to sleep on an empty stomach that night. Because of

the marital disturbance, I could not visit Hazrat Jee for

the next two days. On the third day, Hazrat Jee was

sitting in a buggy and proceeding towards Sergeant

Muhammad Ashraf's house, who was a companion

from the Air Force. I was busy tending to the

flowerbeds in my lawn when Ahsan Baig asked me to

grab my bicycle and come after Hazrat Jee. I followed

him on my bike and reached Sergeant Muhammad

Ashraf's house. This was my second Zikr with Hazrat

JeeRehmatullah Alaih.

After I was connected with the Awaisia Silsila, both of

my elder brothers also joined me. The three sons of

my uncle Hakeem Muhammad Hussain, my father in

law, and a few others from my family also joined the

Silsila, and the like of a Jamaat was created in Wan

Bhachran. Whenever my uncle Muhammad Hussain

would see me, he would advise me to recite La Haula

wa La Quwwata. He was sure that I was involved in

some Satanic activity. He observed us closely for a

whole year. One day, he said to me, "I don't know

whether you people are right or wrong, but I have

seen that my sons have become righteous after

joining the company of Hazrat Maulana Allah Yar

KhanRehmatullah Alaih. They did not even bother to offer

Namaz before, but now they've kept beards. They

have left bad actions and become regular in

Tahajjud46." He said that he also wanted to practice

Lata-if with me. I performed Lata-if on him for two or

three days. After a few days, Mufti Ghulam Samdani

came to Wan Bhachran and took uncle Hakeem

through the Meditations till the Masjid. My elder

46 The early morning Namaz

brother Ghulam Hussain wrote to me that something

unexpected had happened. Our uncle was still shaky

(about Zikr and Lata-if), and Muft Ghulam Samdani

had taken him all the way till the Masjid. I replied to

him not to doubt the Destinations performed by Mufti

Sahib, and give the Attention to uncle Hakeem till the

Masjid. Meanwhile, Hazrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih wrote to

uncle Hakeem and invited him to visit Munara. He

obeyed Hazrat Jee'sRehmatullah Alaih order and reluctantly

went to Munara, but he still kept on having doubts

about the Destinations that he had been taken to.

One day, Maulvi Muhammad Sulaiman was

performing the routine with the Jamaat. When they

reached Sair-e-Kaaba, a spell of crying overtook him.

He kept weeping and praying while holding on to the

covering of the Kaaba. Meanwhile, the Jamaat had

reached Masjid-e-NabviSall-Allahu-alaih-Wasallam. Maulvi

Muhammad Sulaiman asked Mufti Ghulam Samdani,

"Have you ever seen a prayer that's been accepted?

If you want to see it, look at Hakeem Muhammad

Hussain, who is still clutching the covering of the

Kaaba, crying and praying, as his prayer is hitting the

Higher Arsh47". My uncle later told me that he was

astonished to hear about his condition from Maulvi

Muhammad Sulaiman. How could he tell all this? The

rest of the Jamaat had already reached Masjid-e-

Nabvi. After that, my uncle's heart was satisfied, and

he got attached with Hazrat with full conviction.

47 Translated as the Throne. It's the higher Sky or Level where Allah says He has settled.

In the beginning, I also used to wonder about Hazrat

Jee'sRehmatullah Alaih spiritual power. I wrote a letter

about it to my previous Shaykh Hazrat Maulana Khan

Muhammad (the Caretaker of Khanqah Sirajia,

Kundian). The letter also included some excerpts from

Dalail-as-Salook and some incidents and

circumstances that I had witnessed in the company of

Hazrat Jee. He replied: "My dear! Maulana Allah Yar

Khan is the Shaykh of Silsila Naqshbandia Awaisia.

Only someone from Awaisia can speak about him.

You, in any case, continue to practice regularly the

Recitations that I have prescribed."

I travelled alongside Hazrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih towards

the end of 1970. We travelled from Rawalpindi to

Karachi. Muhammad Yousuf and Basheer were also

travelling with Hazrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih. I was tasked

with the service of my Murshed. When Hazrat Jee

went to the train's washroom to do Wazu for the

Namaz of Asr, I sat close to Yousuf sahib and asked

him about my parents, who were deceased. I asked

him to tell me about their condition in the Barzakh. He

told me that my mother was in Salvation, but my

father was being Penalized. I did not believe him,

because my father was a very pious person. I got up

and went towards the washroom. When Hazrat

JeeRehmatullah Alaih came out, he told me that the

accursed Satan had thrown a piece of rotten flesh at

his back as soon as he had entered the washroom. It

had made his shirt filthy. He had tried to wash it, but

the stain still remained. After the Namaz, when Hazrat

JeeRehmatullah Alaih sat down at his seat, I asked him

about the condition of my parents in the Barzakh.

Hazrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih stared out of the window for

some time, and then said: the mother is okay, but the

father is under the Retribution. Now, I had no other

option but to accept. Muhammad Yousuf requested

Hazrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih to pray for the deliverance of

my father. Hazrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih prayed, and my

father was released from the Retribution of the grave.

This was confirmed after a few days by Captain Zain-

ul-Abideen in Risalpur. He was sitting at my house. I

requested him to tell me about the condition of my

father in the Barzakh. He often used to refrain from

revealing the matters of Kashaf. I persuaded him with

great difficulty. He said that as he had not seen my

father's grave, I should lead him there. So, I said to

him: let's go to my father's grave. Just to test him, I

thought about another grave in the graveyard of

Ghundi (Kundian). When he saw the person in the

grave, he opened his eyes and said that the person

was saying he was not my father. I asked him what

that person looked like and he told it correctly. Then, I

asked him to see if anyone with the five Lata-if was

buried in that graveyard. He told me that there was an

old man who had the five Lata-if. (This was the

disciple of Maulana Ahmed Khan from Khanqah

Sirajia). I told him to ask the old man whether he

knew me. In reply to the question, the old man

touched my armpit. Zain-ul-Abideen said that he had

not understood why the old man was acting this way. I

told him that when I was seven years old, my mother

brought me to this old man for Dum48. He had recited

something and touched my armpit. Thereafter he had

died and this was our first and last meeting. This

incident also proved Hazrat Jee's saying that a person

in the grave remember even the person whom he has

met just once in his lifetime. Then, I asked Zain-ul-

Abideen if there were any people in that graveyard

who had the Qalb. He said that seven people were

standing in a row. The last person was covering his

face. I told him that it was the Qureshi family of

Ulema. I knew the person standing at the last. He was

known as the Maulvi with Covered Face. He never

uncovered his face except when he was in mosque,

and I had offered Salat behind him in my childhood.

After that, I took him to my father's grave in the

graveyard of Wajhara in Wan Bhachran. He said that

my mother was also buried in the same graveyard.

"How do you know that?" I asked him. He replied that

he had seen my parents together and my father had

told him that she was my mother. I was amazed at the

power of the Kashaf of graves that Allah had blessed

this person with. He was telling everything correctly

while sitting hundreds of miles away from those

graves. Then, I brought Zain-ul-Abideen to the grave

of Maulana Hussain AliRehmatullah Alaih, and asked him

what type of students and successors he had left

behind. Zain-ul-Abideen told me that Maulana

Hussain Ali had bowed his head upon hearing this

48 The practice of reciting something and blowing on the patient for healing an illness.

question. Then, I took Zain-ul-Abideen to Hazrat

Maulana Ahmed KhanRehmatullah Alaih in Khanqah Sirajia.

Zain-ul-Abideen told me that he was Fana-fir-

Rasool49. Maulana Abdullah's Stations were below

him. Maulana Abdullah asked Zain-ul-Abideen to

convey to our respected Shaykh that he may kindly

teach Salook to his successor Khan Muhammad.

In October 1970, Hazrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih came to my

house in Risalpur. Zain-ul-Abideen's car (in which

Hazrat Jee was coming) had met an accident on the

way, and Hazrat Jee had sustained injuries. So, he

stayed for 16 days instead of 10. He could not

perform Wazu and used to do Tayammum50. The

bricks that he used for Tayammum are still with me,

and I have made a will that these bricks be used in

my grave. During this stay, one day Mufti Ghulam

Samdani went from Risalpur to Nowshehra with

Basheer. When they came back, Basheer told Hazrat

JeeRehmatullah Alaih that during the journey, Mufti Ghulam

Samdani uttered a cry so loud that everyone was

looking towards him. Now, he was declining to tell

why he had shrieked. Hazrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih asked

Mufti Ghulam Samdani to narrate the whole incident.

Mufti Ghulam Samdani said that when they boarded

the bus, he saw that the round-shaped thing that is

located right at the front in the bus, the thing behind

which the driver sits, he saw that a monkey was

clutching onto that thing. The monkey was rotating

49 Literally means 'lost in the Prophet'. It's a Destination of Salook. 50 Ablution without water.

that thing right and left. When he saw this spiritual

appearance of the driver, he let out an involuntary cry.

Professor Muhammad Aslam was also present when

this conversation was taking place. He was a

renowned mathematics teacher from the Corps of

Engineers. His Third Dimension Theory was very

famous, through which he used to prove the existence

of Allah and the angels. He asked Hazrat Jee whether

it was really true that Neil Armstrong had reached the

moon. Hazrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih said: let's ask this

person who calls the steering-wheel a round thing".

Then, Hazrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih asked Mufti Ghulam

Samdani to concentrate on Hazrat Jee's Heart, follow

the Lights to wherever they were going, and describe

the details of those places. Mufti Ghulam Samdani

narrated Neil Armstrong's whole voyage and

described the place where they had reached.

Professor Muhammad Aslam was amazed that a

person with such a low education was narrating such

details that the astronaut had himself not described

after his return.

After this incident, Professor Muhammad Aslam

became so fond of Hazrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih that he

took all of us to his house, and called all his children

before Hazrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih. He requested Hazrat

Jee to take their Baet. Hazrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih said

that he was not a traditional Peer51, but a spiritual

teacher who did not believe in the apparent Baet. He

51 A word for Shaykh or Murshed generally used by non-Sufis and common people.

said that he trained his students spiritually and

presented them in the Prophet'sSall-Allahu-alaih-Wasallam

Court for the spiritual Baet on the sacred hand of

Huzoor Nabi Kareem ملسو هيلع هللا ىلص. Meanwhile the tea was

served, along with some snacks. Hazrat JeeRehmatullah

Alaih only took one of the different things that were

there. He said that the rest of the things had been

bought readymade from the market, and he did not

eat such things. Professor Muhammad Aslam said

that the thing that Hazrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih had

accepted had been prepared by his daughter, who

was regular in her Namaz and fasting. The rest of the

eatables had indeed been fetched from the market.

During the same stay, another incredible thing

became clear. One day, I was standing with Maulvi

Sulaiman. He was doing Wazu. There were eight

servant quarters behind my house, out of which I had

given two to a poor old horse-cart driver. His wife and

daughter used to work in my house. When Maulvi

Sulaiman happened to look at the uninhabited

quarters, he exclaimed, "What the heck! What kind of

monsters you are keeping?" He said that a Jinn52 was

looking towards us from one of the windows.

Suddenly, the Jinn ran and disappeared into the cart-

driver's mare, and the mare lied down. My batman

Muhammad Zakir was standing beside us. He said,

ever since Hazrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih had come, all the

residents of the quarters and their mare had fallen

sick. Maulvi Sulaiman told us that the Lights from

52 The Jinn are a creation of Allah. They are created out of fire.

Hazrat Jee's chest were illuminating the whole

neighborhood. The ground, the houses, the trees, etc

all became extremely bright. It became difficult for the

Jinns to live there, so they were forced to seek refuge

inside living things like humans and animals. The

Jinns living in my quarters had hidden inside the

unreligious people and the mare. As soon as Hazrat

JeeRehmatullah Alaih departed from my home, they were

well again.

When Hazrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih went for Hajj for the first

time, I also accompanied him till Karachi. When he

returned from Hajj, all the senior companions were

present to receive him in Karachi. When Hazrat

JeeRehmatullah Alaih came out of the airport, he was

wearing colored khaddar clothes. My heart suddenly

had this desire that if Hazrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih granted

me that dress, it will be a really great gift for me.

Hazrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih was staying in the Navy

quarters near Tooba Mosque. All the senior

companions expressed their wish for Hazrat Jee's

clothes, but he kept quiet. He exchanged his

handkerchief with someone and gave away his rosary

too, but did not give the clothes to anyone. I dared not

to express my wish, as I was just a beginner. On the

journey back home, the companions from Chakwal

hid away Hazrat Jee's luggage, so that he could not

change into another dress and give the clothes he

was wearing to anyone. When we disembarked (from

the train) at Jehlum, Hafiz Ghulam Qadri had

arranged for a sojourn at a nearby mosque.

Everybody placed their baggage in the mosque and

went out, and only Hazrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih and I were

left inside. Hazrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih asked me to bring

a dhoti. I picked up someone's dhoti and gave it to

Hazrat Jee. Hazrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih donned the dhoti,

put off the shalwar-qameez that he was wearing, and

gave it to me. "You were the first one to wish for this

dress at the airport, so I give it to you," he said. When

the others returned after some time, they saw that

Hazrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih was sitting wearing only the

dhoti. They immediately produced Hazrat Jee's

clothes from wherever they had hidden them. Hazrat

Jee's clothes are still preserved with me, and remind

me of the gift and the Kashaf-e-Quloob53 of my

esteemed Shaykh.

Salamat Pura, street number 6, house number 4—this

was Maulana Fazal Hussain's address. Maulana

Fazal Hussain possessed the Certificate of

Succession from Hazrat Maulana Fazal Ali

QureshiRehmatullah Alaih. Maulana Fazal Ali Qureshi,

Maulana Hussain Ali (Wan Bhachran) and Maulana

Ahmed Khan (the founder Shaykh of Khanqah Sirjia,

Kundian) had got the Certificate together. All three of

them belonged to the Naqshbandia Mujaddadia

Silsila. Maulana Fazal Hussain was an established

Peer of Lahore and his disciples numbered in

thousands. He was very well off, had a car and

house, and a transport business. Maulana Fazal

Hussain wrote to Hazrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih that his

Shaykh had taken him till the Destination of

53 Insight into the Heart. A type of paranormal vision.

Haqeeqat-e-Salat. He wanted Hazrat Jee's guidance

to progress further in Salook, as his Shaykh was not

alive anymore. Hazrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih wrote back

that when he's stop at Lahore on his way to Karachi,

Maulana Fazal Hussain could come and see him. He

reached the railway station along with all his disciples

and took Hazrat Jee to his house. After conversing

with Hazrat Jee, he realized that he had been

deceiving the people so far. He did not even have the

Spiritual Baet. So, he made an open announcement

that he had never been an Accomplished Sufi, and

the people who had been following him had been

deceived. He said that from that day on, Hazrat

Maulana Allah Yar Khan was his Peer and Murshed.

Whoever wanted to stay by their side was welcome,

and whoever wanted to leave was free to go. The

majority of the disciples left upon hearing this

announcement.

I was deployed in the Wahga sector during the 1971

war. I used to visit Maulana Fazal Hussain regularly

for Zikr every week. Immediately after the war was

over, I went to his house along with my fellows.

Maulana Fazal Hussain returned home on his bicycle

in the evening and conducted Zikr after Maghrib. After

Isha, he talked for some time and went to bed without

offering us dinner or anything else. Early in the

morning, he got up and conducted Zikr after the

Nawafil. When he was through with the Fajr Prayer,

he spoke to me and said that he was sorry for not

looking after us. Actually, he said, his family had been

starving for two days and there was nothing to eat at

his home. Then, he narrated the whole incident of

joining the Awaisia Silsila and ending up in such

circumstances. His circumstances had deteriorated to

such a stage that he was forced to take up a job at a

workshop located 13 kilometers away from Salamat

Pura. He used to commute 13 kilometer up and down

on a bicycle. I was taken aback to learn about his

condition. I went straight to my Unit, loaded some

groceries into my vehicle, and returned to Salamat

Pura. Maulana Fazal Hussain was not pleased to see

this. He said this was not the objective of narrating his

circumstances to me. I apologized and requested him

to accept that stuff just that one time. It would not

happen again. Later on, when I stated the ordeals of

Maulana Fazal Hussain to Hazrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih, he

said that he had never seen such a devoted person

among the Peers, who had sacrificed everything he

had for him.

Then, in March 1972, Hazrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih stayed

at Dr Riaz's house in Gulberg. Maulana Fazal

Hussain came to see him. When Hazrat JeeRehmatullah

Alaih inquired about his circumstances, he started

crying. "I don't regret losing anything," he said, "but I

fear that I may not lose my relationship with you".

Hazrat Jee consoled him and said that the

circumstances don’t always stay the same. Allah

burdens everyone according to their capacity. After

some time, Allah SWT changed his days and he

migrated to Abu Dhabi, where he also called his

family. In his last days, when he was sick, his

employer company offered to send him to any country

for treatment. Maulana Fazal Hussain preferred to

come to Pakistan, and breathed his last at his revered

Shaykh's feet.

On December 29, 1972, I visited Maulana Shams-ul-

Haq Afghani at his residence in Bahawalpur after

Isha. I was in uniform. I had travelled 150 kilometers

from Cholistan to reach him. When he saw me, he

said that General Iqbal's residence was next door. I

said, "Hazrat, I've come to see you, not him". He

offered me a seat and inquired about the reason for

coming. I respectfully said that I had come to him for

learning Salook. I had read the books of the Mashaikh

from all the four Silsilas, had read about the

Destinations of Salook, and was wandering in search

of a person who would be my guide on the way of

Salook, I said to him. "I have come to you with great

hope that you will surely guide me." After a brief

pause, Maulana Afghani said that I should recite 2000

times Astaghfar54, 2000 times Darood Sharif55, and

3000 times Nafi-Asbat56 consecutively for 40 days. If I

happened to miss any of these recitations on any

single day, I had to restart counting the 40 days

again. After 40 days, I had to tell him my feelings

through a letter or personal visit. The next lesson

would start after that. I came back and narrated the

whole episode to Hazrat. Hazrat Jee said, "Maulana

Afghani has gotten rid of you. He has merely told you

54 Asking for forgiveness from Allah. 'Astaghfirullah' 55 A recitation for sending blessings upon the Holy Prophet, 'SalAllahu alaih Wasallam' 56 La ilaha illAllah. There's no god but Allah.

the recitations for saving his face. He knew that it

would take at least five hours to recite the things that

he had prescribed, and a uniformed person could

never spare five hours. You'll do this Wazifa for a day

or two, and then, you'll miss a day. You'll feel

ashamed that you could not perform even this

beginners' Wazifa. Out of embarrassment, you'll not

go to see him, and even if you do, you'll never again

take the name of 'Salook'. His stature will remain

intact and he will not have to teach Salook too.

Nobody has the time for doing Wazaif, so whoever

comes to us, we perform Lata-if on him straightaway.

If the seeker has the capability, he will progress.

Otherwise, he'll quit by himself."

One of my friends was a pious person since his

childhood. He read the book "Sword of Allah"

authored by General Akram, after which he became

inclined towards adultery. I was with Hazrat

JeeRehmatullah Alaih in Karachi, when I bought this book

from a bookstall. I was confused about why the author

had chosen this topic, whereas he belonged to the

Shiah School. For him, Hazrat Ali RAA was the

Zulfiqar (the title of Hazrat Ali RAA, which means

sword). Why had he made Hazrat Khalid RAA the

topic of his book and called him Allah's Sword? When

I read the book, I found out that it was based on a

malicious intent. The characters of Hazrat Khalid RAA

and Hazrat Umar RAA have been attacked and

insulted throughout the book. In other words, we

Sunnis have been shown the 'true' picture of our

heroes, the hero of warfare and the hero of justice.

When I told Hazrat Jee RA about this book, he told

me to go through it in detail and point out the pages

that were objectionable, so that its rejection may be

written. According to his instructions, I was reading

the book while sitting in Qari Yar Muhammad's

mosque in Quetta. Hazrat Jee was present in the

Hujra57. It was about the time of Ishraaq58when a

person entered the mosque. He came to me and saw

me reading an English book, upon which he burst out

in anger, "what's wrong with you Maulvis? You

sermon others about the Quran and yourself read

English books in mosques. Stop this drama!" I

stopped reading the book, and that person went and

sat in the company of Hazrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih. When I

also entered the chamber after a while, he

complained to Hazrat Jee that 'this Maulvi reads

English books in the mosque'. Hazrat Jee introduced

me to him and explained the whole situation, after

which he calmed down.

In 1974, when the annual Ijtima59 was going on at

Munara60, I was doing the Company Commanders

Course in Quetta Infantry School. I could not join the

annual congregation because I could not get leave. In

the last days of the congregation, I wrote a letter to

him, regretting my missing the Ijtima and begged for

57 A chamber inside or beside a mosque 58 An optional Namaz offered about 30 minutes after sunrise 59 Congregation 60 The "Ijtima" used to be held at Munara in the days of Hazrat Jee Rehmatullah Alaih. After him, the Munara congregation is not the same, as his heir took to the pursuit of worldly effects and forsook his Shaykh

his prayer and special attention. In his reply, Hazrat

JeeRehmatullah Alaih broke the amazing news that I had

been selected among the new Khaleefa Majazeen61

of Silsila Naqshbandia Awaisia. He wrote that I was

now a Majaz and an Appointment holder. In

compliance with Hazrat Jee's order, when I went to

Chikrala to receive my Certificate, he treated me very

kindly. He told me that my name was not included in

the initial list of Majazeen that was presented to the

Prophet of MercySall-Allahu-alaih-Wasallam. Huzoor Nabi

KareemSall-Allahu-alaih-Wasallam deleted some of the names

from that list, and wrote my name. After this, Hazrat

Jee Qibla Alam used to love me dearly.

Multan is famous because of Ghaus Bahawuddin

ZakriyaRehmatullah Alaih. Hazrat Ghaus Bahawuddin

belongs to the Suharwardi Silsila, and is the student

of Shaykh Shahabuddin Suhrwardy. We used to hold

our Thursday evening Zikr session at his resting

place. I and Haji Aslam Kunboh used to go there often

on other days too. Until the beginning of 1976, Hazrat

Jee's stay at Multan used to be limited to the time for

which the train stopped at the railway station. It had

been a year since I had been posted at Multan.

Whenever I'd visit Hazrat Ghaus Sahib, he'd ask for

Hazrat Jee'sRehmatullah Alaih visit to Multan. I quietly

presented his request to Hazrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih,

which he accepted, and said that indeed Ghaus

sahib's demand was justified. After that, Hazrat Jee

came to Multan and scheduled a Zikr at Ghaus

61 Pl of "Majaz". Authorized person.

Bahawuddin Zakriya's shrine. The Jamaat present in

Multan also accompanied him. Ghaus Bahawuddin

Zakriya was taken to the Higher Destination. When

Hazrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih was returning from there,

someone said to him that Hazrat Rukn-e-Alam was

also requesting for a meeting. Hazrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih

smiled and said: let's go. Then, he meditated there for

some time.

The Jamaat had swelled in numbers after the return

of the POWs of 1971. Maulvi Muhammad Sulaiman

had added two additional things to the routine of Zikr.

He used to conduct loud Zikr and the Meditation of

Istehzar after the Asr prayer. Because Hazrat

JeeRehmatullah Alaih had never conducted these, I used to

feel upset. I'd sit in their group but keep feeling

restless inside. Maulvi Muhammad Sulaiman had

instructed almost all the people conducting Zikr that

they should hold loud Zikr at Asr. In Multan, I did not

use to hold this particular Zikr. When Maulvi

Muhammad Sulaiman came to know about it, he and

Bashir took me to a side during the Ijtima at Munara.

They reprimanded me strictly and said that I

considered myself as someone special, and that they

could terminate my Authority for conducting Zikr

(Majaziyyat) in a minute. "If you want to progress

further, you must do the loud Zikr and the Istehzar

Meditation regularly after Asr," they said. I kept quiet.

For two years, Maulvi Muhammad Sulaiman remained

angry with me. I was afraid that he'd ask Hazrat

JeeRehmatullah Alaih and get me expelled from the

Jamaat. Hazrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih was staying at Haji

Altaf's home. When everyone had left for dinner, I

grabbed Hazrat Jee's feet and started crying. Hazrat

Jee asked me what the matter was. I narrated the

standoff with Maulvi Sulaiman and beseeched that he

was bent upon getting me thrown out of the Jamaat. I

requested Hazrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih to conduct the loud

Zikr and Istehzar Meditation just once, so that it

should be a precedent for us, and we should adopt

these as a part of our daily routine. Hazrat

JeeRehmatullah Alaih asked me if I had never done these

Azkaar62 until then. I replied that how I could do the

Azkaar that were never taught by my Shaykh. Hazrat

JeeRehmatullah Alaih was very pleased. He said, "how can

he expel you from the Jamaat, when he has himself

been kicked out of it?" Then he took out a book from

under his pillow and gave it to me and said that

Maulvi Sulaiman had written a book to compete with

Dalail-us-Salook. I was astonished at this person's

senselessness.

In March 1981, when Hazrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih came to

Multan, he accepted the dinner invitation from

Brigadier Khadim Hussain and the tea invitation from

Major General Hamza. These two officers held a

unique position in the Army because of their

gentleness and piety. When I was transferred to the

Northern Area in 1982, Major General Hamza wrote a

letter about me to Major General Warraich, who was

the commander there. Hazrat Jee visited Gilgit in the

third week of May, 1982. He was scheduled to stay at

62 Pl of Zikr

Dasu on the night of May 17 and have lunch at my

home in Jaglot. However, Hazrat Jee unexpectedly

skipped Dasu and reached my home in the evening of

May 17. He looked quite worn out by the travelling. I

immediately informed Rasool Mir, and the both of us

srranged for the night stay of Hazrat Jee's small

entourage. The next morning, a jeep from the 90 Light

came to pick me up. The General was in the area and

was inviting me for tea. I told my Colonel that I could

not go to see the General, because my esteemed

Shaykh was with me. I could not leave him and go to

anyone else. My Colonel told me not to ruin his career

by refusing to meet the General. He said he'd sit with

Hazrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih while I was away. He took off

his boots and sat with Hazrat Jee. However, I wasn't

going to leave, and I didn’t. When the jeep returned

empty, the General didn't like it, as I was later

informed by the people who were present with him.

Later on, Hazrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih told me that he had

not seen the sincerity in my Colonel. I humbly said, he

had not come to you out of admiration, but only to fill

in my place and send me to the General. He had

never believed in the acquisition of Faiz.

The 1983 annual Ijtima was held at Munara from July

25 to September 2. This time, I took leave for two

months and reached Darul Irfan in the beginning of

the first week of Ijtima. Hazrat Jee was worried on

account of his son and brother. Every other day, a

messenger from his home would arrive, adding to his

worry. One day, Hazrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih called for me

and asked me to go to Chikrala to defend his land. He

also told me to take along five or six men, and to send

them back after a week. I reached Chikrala with these

men and set up a post to defend the Murshed Abad

land. Allah SWT helped us and no one dared to

occupy the land. I kept on receiving fresh

reinforcement from Darul Irfan every week.

When the Munara Ijtima was over, Hazrat

JeeRehmatullah Alaih returned to Chikrala and ordered me

to stay there. He allowed me to leave two days before

the Eid-ul-Azha. I presented myself before Hazrat

JeeRehmatullah Alaih to say goodbye. Hazrat JeeRehmatullah

Alaih was sitting outside his house in the shadow of the

wall. Raza Quraish from Sri Lanka was also with me.

Both of us sat on the ground before Hazrat

JeeRehmatullah Alaih. "Are you leaving?" asked Hazrat

JeeRehmatullah Alaih. I said yes. Many hours passed as we

sat there. The shadow of the wall had receded, and

half of Hazrat Jee's cot was in the sun. We had also

began sweating because of the heat. It was now that

Hazrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih permitted me to leave. He got

up from the cot. I embraced him and fell at his feet. I

held both his feet and beseeched, "Hazrat, life is so

uncertain. I don’t know if I'll ever see you again or not.

If I have made some mistakes, please forgive me.

Hazrat Jee, please always be happy with me." Hazrat

Jee held me by the shoulders and stood me up. He

said, "you are among the people in the Jamaat with

whom I have an association of the heart. How can I

be angry with you?" I departed after that, and praise

Allah SWT's Highness, that it indeed turned out to be

my last meeting with him. I received the news of his

demise through a telephone call from Rawalpindi

when I was at Jaglot. Indeed, we are from Allah, and

to Him we shall return63. When I arrived at Chikrala,

Hazrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih had already been laid to rest

in his final abode. I presented myself at his grave

along with the Jamaat from Gilgit and did our routine.

The same Lights and Flashes that used to be there

before were still there. Hazrat Jee used to say that

more Faiz will be received from him after his death,

provided that the spiritual connection is intact. May

Allah SWT keep our link with our respected Shaykh

intact and keep his Faiz flowing until the Day of

Qayamat. Aameen.

63 Inna Lillah-e- wa inna Alaihe Rajeoon.

Conversation with Spirits


الذی انعم علینا وھدنا الی دین االسلم الحمد للہ

(Praise be to Allah who blessed us with rewards and

guided us on Deen-e-Islam.)

I state before you that my Shaykh Hazrat Allah Yar

KhanRehmatullah Alaih visited Karachi in 1970. I was also

with him. Our stay had been arranged at a living

quarters that belonged to the Navy. In the evening,

Hazrat JeeRA was describing some aspects of Syed

Ahmed Rafai'sRA life. He said that Allah had blessed

Syed Ahmed RafaiRA with the power that when

delivered a sermon, everyone heard him equally loud

regardless of the distance between them and him.

Whenever anyone came to visit him and he did not

have anything to serve the guest, he would ask the

visitor: "ask me to pray for you, as I am on the

example of the Holy ProphetSall-Allahu-alaih-Wasallam at this

time".

When Syed Ahmed RafaiRehmatullah Alaih went for Hajj

and presented himself at the shrine of the ProphetSall-

Allahu-alaih-Wasallam, he addressed the MessengerSAW and

said: "O Prophet of AllahSAW, I keep presenting myself

before you spiritually. Today, I have come here

physically. Please extend your blessed hand out of

the grave, so that I may kiss it and satiate the thirst of

my love that I have for you." Upon this, the

Prophet'sSAW sacred hand came out of the grave so

that Syed Ahmed RafaiRA could kiss it. Hence, Syed

Ahmed RafaiRA kissed the Prophet'sSAW blessed hand

and the thousands of people who were present there

witnessed this scene. A few other fortunate ones who

were present nearby also got the opportunity to kiss

the Prophet's hand.

"What is the proof of this incident?" inquired a person

who was attending Hazrat Jee'sRA sermon. We did not

like his question. Hazrat JeeRA asked him: "are you

legitimate or illegitimate?" He replied that he was

legitimate. Hazrat JeeRA asked him if he had any

proof. He said that the wedlock between his mother

and father was the proof. "What is the proof of the

wedlock between your mother and father?" asked

Hazrat JeeRA. He said that the proof of the wedlock

was the two witnesses that were present on the

occasion. Upon this, Hazrat JeeRA said: "how strange,

that the wedlock between your mother and father has

just two witnesses, and nobody challenges its

authenticity. But you ask for the proof of an incident

for which there are thousands of witnesses. You

ought to know that the most credible eyewitness of

this incident is Shaykh Abdul Qadir JilaniRA. Tell me

the truth about who you are. He told that he belonged

to the Jamaat Islami64. Hazrat JeeRA said that the

people of Jamaat Islami do not believe in Hayat-e-

Anbiya and Conversing with Spirits. What was he

doing there in the first place? Hazrat JeeRA asked him

to leave.

This was 2004 when my Shaykh Hazrat Allah Yar

KhanRA said to me: "Son, if you want to communicate

continuously with me in my grave, and your health

permits, you should adopt a Chilla for 40 days in order

to enhance the lightness of your spirit. During this

Chilla, you should stay awake and pray during the

nights and stay thirsty during the days (i.e. fast)".

Following the word of my Shaykh, I went into the

Chilla for 40 days, from April 25 to June 3. This made

a huge difference to my Kashf and Conversation with

Spirits, which became much clearer. Hazrat JeeRA

said that the Sufis had been practicing this through

every age, although I would not have needed it had

Hazrat JeeRA been alive. I keep speaking with my

Shaykh in his grave from time to time. I quote a few

instances.

This was probably 2003. One of my fellows Squadron

Leader Salman Ahmed and his wife Doctor Nosheen

called me on telephone from Lahore and requested to

ask Hazrat JeeRA for his permission for them to visit

him. HAzrat JeeRA said that they could both come.

After a few days, they came to Mianwali from Lahore.

They stayed at the PAF Base for the night and came

64 A political party in Pakistan

to me in Wan Bhachran in the morning to take me

with them. Right at that time, my spiritual

conversation with Hazrat JeeRA started. Hazrat JeeRA

asked me to stop Dr Nosheen (Mrs Salman Ahmed)

from coming and leave her at my home. I became

worried and started thinking whether my previous

Conversation was correct, in which Hazrat JeeRA had

granted the permission, or this one, in which he was

declining her. Why had he allowed first and then

forbidden? Dr Nosheen stayed back. When both of

us reached Danda Shah via Moosa Khail, we found

out that it had been raining the whole night and the

whole area had become submerged in water. The

earthen track leading to Murshed Abad from there

had become un-drivable, and after going two or three

kilometers, we had to leave our car there and walk

through rainwater and mud all the way. It was then

that I realized why Hazrat JeeRA had stopped Dr

Nosheen from coming. A few months after that, the

two of them came to Murshed Abad again. This time,

they requested for Hazrat Jee'sRA permission to adopt

a child. Hazrat JeeRA asked me to tell them that they

were going to have their own child, why adopt?

Actually, the two of them had been married for six or

seven years at the time, and they did not have a child.

They therefore did not adopt a child after Hazrat Jee

forbade it. Later, they became the parents of two

daughters who are studying in a school these days.

Another companion of mine Amir Jalal is a pilot in an

airline. His younger brother Kashif is a Lecturer in one

of the universities at Jeddah. Kashif had been

speaking to an expat Pakistani family living in

America, and had reached an understanding for a

marriage of exchange for himself and his sister. (His

sister would marry their son and he would wed their

daughter). Later on, that family came to Pakistan and

met the boy and the girl, whom they liked and

finalized the arrangement. When I spoke to Hazrat

JeeRehmatullah Alaih about this marital arrangement, he

asked me to stop Kashif from going ahead. He said

that the boy to whom his sister was to be wed did not

possess a good character. When I told them this, they

cancelled the arrangement. The information about the

boy's character was later on confirmed too.

Doctor Abid Ali Minhas received his doctorate degree

from Austria on government expense. He visited me

in 2002. As we sat beside my Shaykh Hazrat Allah

Yar KhanRA's grave in Murshed Abad for Zikr, he

expressed his intention to go for PhD in a foreign

university at his own expense. Hazrat JeeRA told him

to wait for that year, as he would be sent abroad for

PhD on government expense the next year. And it

really so happened that PhD vacancies were

advertised the next year for foreign study. Abid Ali

Minhas appeared in the test and interview and the

Government of Pakistan selected him for doing PhD

in Austria. While studying in Austria, he became

disinterested and lost heart because of the biased

behavior of his instructors. The reason was his large

Sharai65 beard. I went to Murshed Abad and

65 Conforming to the Shariah, the Islamic code

presented the issue of his doctorate before Hazrat

JeeRA, and also complained about his instructors'

behavior. Hazrat JeeRA told me to keep those tutors

before me and do Alqa66 upon them for a few days.

Insha-Allah, they will come on track. And so, it

happened. After the Alqa, the tutors' behavior with

Abid Ali Minhas improved, and he returned to

Pakistan after completing his doctorate and securing

the highest grade from the same instructors. He is a

professor at the Bahria University these days.

Another one of my companions Muhammad Suleman

lives in Chashma. His daughter was doing her house

job at a hospital in Lahore when she fell sick. Her

condition did not improve even after her extensive

treatment. When I went to Chashma to conduct Zikr,

he took me to his home and requested me to write

something for his daughter. I started inscribing the

Taweez67. I was going to write 40 of them. When I

had written fourteen or fifteen, I started hearing

Hazrat Jee's voice coming from his grave. He said it

was no use. She would not survive till she could take

all forty of them. So, I stopped writing. Suleman sahib

said that I was going to write 40 of them. I said he

should give her these Taweez, and I'd write more

when these are finished. Allah had planned it like that.

The girl could not survive for 40 days and met Allah

66 It's a term of Sufis. It means casting down the Lights from one's Destination upon the seeker or anyone else. 67 Inscriptions meant for healing an illness, repel the Jinn, or for other purposes

before that. Inna Lillahe wa Inna Alaihe Rajeoon.

(Indeed we are from Him and to Him we shall return.)

Several months had passed since we had visited our

respected Shaykh in Murshed Abad. The armies of

India and Pakistan were facing each other on the

borders. Then, by Allah's grace, the risk of war was

averted and the armies of both the countries

retreated. The Air Force also flew the aircraft back to

their home bases. My friends from Mianwali Base

informed me at 10 p.m. that there was no flying the

next day, so they had planned to pick me up and go

to Murshed Abad. They had planned to take three

cars, which meant that about 14-15 pilots were going

to accompany me. I had still not gotten up from the

prayer rug after my morning routine that conversation

with Hazrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih started. He asked me not

to let the Air Force pilots come to him on that day. I

got up and informed all the pilots that the program

had been cancelled for the day. It was hardly 8 or

8:30 a.m. when the pilots received the orders to fly to

their forward operating bases. They immediately flew

their aircraft to their respective wartime positions. Had

Hazrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih not stopped me, a big issue

would have been created. The pilots could not have

returned to the base before 11 a.m. It would have

been a fiasco with so many pilots suddenly

disappearing, and the aircraft could not have been

dispersed too.

On August 14, 2003, I visited Murshed Abad with

Wing Commander (Air Commodore) Zia Khan. Five or

six other officers also accompanied us. Zia Khan had

come to Murshed Abad with me on August 14 two

years ago. Hazrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih asked me to tell

Zia Khan that he had made Hazrat Jee wait for too

long. He then said: "You don’t know yet what waiting

is. When you'll die and come to the Barzakh, and

you'll wait for your loved ones and they won't come,

only then you'll realize what waiting is". Upon hearing

this, Zia Khan's eyes brimmed with tears. He said he

didn’t know Hazrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih had so much love

for him. Hazrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih was also aggrieved

by the fact that Maulana Akram Awan had stopped his

followers from visiting Murshed Abad.

It was in January 2003 that I visited Air Vice Marshal

Abdul Razzaq's official residence in Islamabad

regarding some matter. Wing Commander (Air

Commodore) Fazal Mehmood was also with me. It

was a palatial house. We were waiting for AVM Abdul

Razzaq when my conversation with Hazrat

JeeRehmatullah Alaih started. He said that this man (AVM

Abdul Razzaq) was going to stay in that house for just

a few more days. I thought that maybe he'd be

transferred elsewhere. During our meeting, he also

expressed his intention to study Tasawwuf more

deeply, but God had other plans. Probably, the Angel

of Death had already received the orders to take him

away from this world forever. Air Vice Marshal Abdul

Razzaq departed for the Barzakh leaving behind his

grieving parents and bringing tears to thousands of

eyes.

Once upon a time, Colonel Naseem came to me with

his sons Captain Ashfaq and Taha. Captain Ashfaq

moved closer to me when I was parting with them

after presenting ourselves at Murshed Abad. He told

me that he had made a request to Hazrat Jee and

wanted me to tell him what Hazrat Jee was saying

about his request. I told him that I didn’t know what he

had said to Hazrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih, but there was

something that HAzrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih had asked me

to tell his father (Col Naseem). He started insisting

that I should tell that thing to his father right there in

his presence. I called Col Naseem to me and told him

that Hazrat Jee had asked me to tell him that he

should immediately arrange for Captain Ashfaq's

marriage. When Captain Ashfaq heard this, he said,

"Uncle, I got the answer to my request. I had in fact

requested Hazrat Jee about my marriage".

I had planned to spend the night of May 2, 2013 at

Murshed Abad with Group Captain Rizwan Haider

and his family. The General Elections were going to

be held on May 11. Imran Khan's Tsunami appeared

widely popular. It seemed that Imran Khan will sweep

the elections and become the next Prime Minister. In

the evening, when we sat by Hazrat Shaykh-ul-

Mukarram's grave for Zikr, Rizwan asked me who was

going to be the next Prime Minister of Pakistan. I said,

"Let's ask Hazrat Shaykh-ul-Mukarram68 who will

become the Prime Minister after the elections". When

I asked Hazrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih, he said that Nawaz

68 The Honorable Shaykh

Shareef was going to be the next Prime Minister. We

also asked who we should vote for. Hazrat Shaykh-ul-

Mukarram asked us not to vote for Imran Khan, as he

is not a religious minded person.

Fana Baqa



Praise be to Allah who blessed us with rewards and

guided us towards Deen-e-Islam.

الرحمن علی العرش استوی

The Most Merciful [who is] above the Throne69

established. (20:5)

موت واالرض فی ستۃ ایام ثم استوی علی الذی خلق الس ان ربکم اللہ

العرش

Indeed, your Lord is Allah , who created the heavens

and the earth in six days and then established Himself

above the Throne… (10:3)

موت واالرض فی ستۃ ایام و ان عر ہ علی الماا وھو الذی خلق الس

And it is He who created the heavens and the earth in

six days - and His Throne had been upon water.

(11:7)

69 The actual Arabic word is Arsh, which means a level beyond the seven heavens

When someone asked Hazrat Imam Maalik the

meanings of The Most Merciful [who is] above the

Throne established, he started sweating profusely. He

bowed his head and started tapping the wooden stick

that he was holding. Then, he raised his head and

said that it is something beyond the comprehension of

the mind; and that Allah's Astawa (establishment) is

not unknown and it is mandatory to believe in it; and

that to inquire about it is a Bidat70. He said that he

thought that the inquirer was a Bidati71 and got him

expelled from there. He received knowledge from 900

tutors, out of whom 300 were Tabaeen. He used to

say that knowledge is not acquired through excessive

studying. It is a Light that Allah SWT emlightens into

one's Heart.

It is in the Hadees72 that before the heaven and the

earth were created, Allah SWT was in an Ama'

(Cloud) that had air above and below it, and his

Establishment on the Throne had not yet taken place.

ان الرب تبارک وتعالی قبل خلق السموت واالرض کان فی عماء ماتحتہ

ھواء ومافوقہ ھواء

We have read that الرحمن علی العرش استوی (The Most

Merciful [who is] above the Throne73 established), and

that انہ ینزل فی کل لیلۃ الی السماء الدنیا (Allah SWT descends

70 Innovation in the matters of the Deen. Adopting a practice that has no precedence considering it to be a part of the Deen. 71 Anyone who engages in Bidat 72 The sayings of the Holy Prophet SalAllahu alaih Wasallam 73 The actual Arabic word is Arsh, which means a level beyond the seven heavens

to the lower heaven every night) وانہ یحول من المرء وقلبہ

(and Allah SWT comes between a person and his

Heart). We have also been informed that وانہ نادی من

Allah) شانب اللور االیمن فی الببعہ المبارکہ من اللشرر ان یا موسی

SWT called out from the right side of the mountain

that was situated in a blessed place, called out from

the tree: O Moosa) and that انہ تشلی للشبل فشعلہ دکا (God

manifested Himself upon the mountain and turned it

into particles). Allah's ProphetSall-Allahu-alaih-Wasallam has

also told us that the Arsh creaks because of Allah's

presence just like a camel's saddle creaks under the

weight of the rider. When Allah's Personal Lights

become extremely intense, it seems that the Higher

Arsh will break any moment.

Hazrat Shah Ismail ShaheedRehmatullah Alaih has written

in "Abqaat" that Allah has established Himself on the

Arsh for the sake of His creations. Man's physical

qualities are closely related to the Brightness from the

Arsh. For example, a Flash of Light comes, which

becomes man's speaking power. Another Flash

comes, which becomes man's hearing power. Another

Flash comes, which becomes man's sight, and

another Flash comes, which becomes man's

movement. In this way, this never-ending series of

Flashes perpetuates human life. If you want to

understand, the Higher Arsh is up there, and the

Smaller Arsh is the Qalb. The two of them are at the

distance of a single breath. While breathing in, you

stretch Allah's Name and take it all the way up to the

Arsh. On the way back, this breath brings the Lights

from the Arsh to your Heart. On the Judgement Day,

your luminous Qalb will become the scope through

which you will observe Allah, the Most High. The

person whose heart is not illuminated will remain

deprived of Allah's sight.

Allama IqbalRehmatullah Alaih has written the dialog

between the mind and the Heart. The Heart says to

the mind:

You are concerned with time and space, whereas I'm

the bird that knows the Sidra;

See how high my status is, that I'm from the Throne of

the Almighty Lord

On the Night of Ascension74, the Trusted Angel

JibrailAlaih as-Salam stopped at Sidra-tul-Muntaha,

because this is the last limit of the Realm of the

Created. Sidra is a tree about which he told Allah's

ProphetSall-Allahu-alaih-Wasallam that it's a blessed tree that

has its roots extending to the seventh earth. The

Qalb, Rooh, Sirri, Khaffi, and Akhfa75 belong to the

Realm of Command, just like the spirit. It's obvious

that there's no comparison between the Qalb and the

mind, but the intellectuals consider the mind to be

everything.

One day my Shaykh Hazrat Allah Yar KhanRehmatullah

Alaih said that الل نورالسموت واالرض (Allah is the Light of

the heavens and the earth). If Allah is the Light, his

74 Meraaj. The night when the Holy Prophet (SAW) ascended to meet Allah. 75 Names of the Lata-if

word is also Light. How can Light contain sound and

words? Also, the Wahi76 was descended upon the

Qalb, and the Qalb is Amr77 and not a creation. He

said that in the times of Imam Ahmed bin Hanbal, it

was argued very forcefully that the Quran is a

creation. But, Imam Ahmed bin Hanbal remained

adamant that the Quran is Allah's Word and hence,

it's not a creation. He was also punished for this, but

remained steadfast. As a reward for his

steadfastness, he was also granted the Appointment

of "Siddiq" from the Prophet's Court by Allah's

approval. Hazrat JeeRA used to say that there had

been only two Siddiqs in history (after the disciples of

the Tabaeen)—Imam AhmedRA and Imam GhazaliRA.

oکرام یببی وشہ ربک ذوالشلل واال Al-Rahman) کلل من علی افان o و

Chapter 27).

Everyone here will perish, except for the one who

faces towards Allah; in other words, the one who is

fortunate to acquire the Lights of Allah, the Respected

Rubb.

Al-Baqarah) صبغۃالل ومن احسن من الل صبغۃونحن لہ عابدون

138). The Color of Allah, and which color can be

better than the Color of Allah's Lights?

The Almighty has kept Himself behind veil after veil

for the sake of our safety. Otherwise, man cannot

sustain even a single Flash of His Light. My Shaykh

76 Message from Allah 77 Allah's Commandment

Hazrat Allah Yar KhanRehmatullah Alaih used to tell us,

"look, how the Flash has hit the hill and turned it into

charred dust, and how Hazrat MoosaAlaih as-Salam has

fainted on the other hill, unable to bear the Light.

ا تشلی ربہ للشبل شعلہ دکاوخر موسی صعبا۔ فلم

"But when his Lord appeared to the mountain, He

rendered it level, and Moses fell unconscious." [7:143]

The Holy Prophet'sSall-Allahu-alaih-Wasallam condition used

to be precarious when the Wahi78 used to descend

on his Qalb. His breathing used to accelerate and he

used to be oblivious to his surroundings. In the

beginning, he tried to repeat the words in order to

remember them by heart, but Allah SWT forbade him

that التحرک ب لسانک 'Do not move your tongue' and ان

it's Our job to preserve the Wahi in your' عیلنا جمع

Qalb. You'll never forget it'.

اناارسلنک لاھدا ومبلرا و نذیرا وداعیاالی الل باذنہ وسراشامنیرا

"O Prophet, indeed We have sent you as a witness

and a bringer of good tidings and a warner. And one

who invites to Allah , by His permission, and an

illuminating lamp." [33:45-46]

Because the Final ProphetSall-Allahu-alaih-Wasallam is an

illuminating lamp, people will continue drawing Faiz

from his Sacred Heart until the Judgment Day. Fana-

Baqa holds great importance among the Stations of

Salook. For conducting Fana-Baqa, the Shaykh

78 Quranic Revelation

presents his disciple, whomever he considers worthy,

before Hazrat MuhammadS-A-W. HuzoorS-A-W writes with

his blessed index finger the word "Allah" upon the

Qalb of the seeker. Then, heS-A-W writes "Muhammad"

on the Latifa Rooh. Then, he writes "La Ilaha IlAllah"

on the Qalb, and writes "Muhammadur-Rasoolullah"

on the Rooh. Then, heS-A-W writes "Allah-humma Sall-e

Ala Muhammad-e Nin-Nabi-el Ummi-yi wa Aalihee wa

Ashabihee wa Barik Wasallam" upon the Qalb and

upon the Lata-if of Rohh, Sirri, Khaffi and Akhfa. Each

letter written by the Holy ProphetS-A-W look bright and

clear. HeS-A-W then writes the Darood on each and

every limb of the body. After this heS-A-W recites کل من

and the seeker's whole body morphs into the علی ا فان

Darood and turns into the Light. Then, the Holy

ProphetS-A-W recites ویببی وشہ ربک ذوالشلل واالکرام, and the

seeker returns to his original state. (It's apparently the

Shaykh who is conducting Fana-Baqa, but he is just

acting as the announcer).

If the above sequence is conducted in the Prophet's

Court, it's called "Fana-fir-Rasool"; and when the

same sequence is repeated on the Arsh of the

Almighty, it's termed "Fana-fi-Allah Baqa-bi-Allah".

The Spiritual Baet with the Holy ProphetS-A-W is a

precondition for Fana-Baqa. The honored Shaykh

advances the seeker through the Triple Meditations

(Ahdiyyat, Maiyyat, Aqrabiyyat), takes him through

Sair-e-Ka'ba, Sair-e-Salat and Sair-e-Quran, and

takes him to Roza-e-Athar79 to connect him with the

79 The Holy Prophet's Grave

exalted spirit of the Holy ProphetSall-Allahu-alaih-Wasallam.

After that, the Shaykh ushers him into Masjid-e-

Nabvi80, where people belonging to all the Silsilas of

the Prophet's Ummah are present. Those who

become worthy of the Spiritual Baet move to the front

row in their own Silsila. Then, upon receiving the Holy

Prophet's orders, the honorable Shaykh presents

them for the Spiritual Baet. After being blessed with

the Spiritual Baet, they are progressed to Fana-fir-

Rasool and then, to Fana-Baqa. A single prostration

by such a person is superior to the worships of a

hundred years, or, rather one hundred thousand

years by others. In some of the Ahadees, the holder

of Fana-Baqa (or the holder of the Smaller

Friendship) has been likened to an "illuminated

house", whereas a heedless person has been likened

to a "dark house". May Allah, the Exalted Truth, keep

me and you among the holders of Fana-Baqa, and

may our Final Judgment be carried out with them.

Aameen!

A person who is Fana-fi-Allah gives up his own will

and choice, and relies only on Allah. He refers to

Allah for all his affairs…Allah, who is his Master and

the Master of the Universe, the Being who knows

what's in the hearts. Shaykh Abdul Qadir

JilaniRehmatullah Alaih says about such people that

because their Hearts are closer to Allah, they neither

heed nor look at beings other than Allah. His

Nearness keeps them dazed, His Might holds them in

80 The Prophet's Mosque

awe, and His Love keeps them captivated close to

their Beloved. Humans, Jinns, Angels, and other

types of creations remain at their service.

Hazrat Allah Yar Khan Rehmatullah Alaih used say that

when a person achieves Fana-Baqa, his Lata-if start

working by themselves. Every moment, each second,

the Flashes from the Greater Arsh pour down upon

their Lata-if, and the Lights descend on them. The

continuity of Flashes and Lights creates a sort of

column of Light, or a tower of Light that extends from

their chest all the way to the Higher Arsh. All types of

creatures see this column, except humans, to the

extent that the creatures in the bottom of the oceans

also recognize them and pray for them.

Just as disbelief and denial have become stronger,

significant progress has been made in the field of

Tasawwuf and calling people to Allah. When the

movements against tyranny and oppression gathered

steam, Allah SWT created the being of Hazrat Allah

Yar Khan to quench the thirst of the people calling out

to Allah, and spread Salook to all corners of the world.

Be it Kashaf or conversing with spirits, be it the

Stations of Salook or the rejection of false ideology

through argument, you'll not find a parallel to Hazrat

Allah Yar Kahn Rehmatullah Alaih in these times. He used

to tell us: "you people are the specialists of the

subject of Salook. Concentrate on your specialty.

When you have performed the obligatory worships, do

your Lata-if and Meditations. Revise your lessons.

Don’t be a miser in doing the Alqa and paying

Spiritual Attention. If my Authorized Successors are

occupied by worldly pursuits, their affairs will

deteriorate. The actions will become spoiled and the

sincerity will vanish from the hearts".

Hazrat Allah Yar Khan's apprehension turned out to

be true. We are all aware of the condition of Silsila

Naqshbandia Awaisia today. [Urdu Verse]

Those who used to sell the medicine of the Heart

have packed up and gone.

He used to say this is the Jamaat of Allah's Friends.

"This is the last Jamaat of Sufis. The people from this

Jamaat will reach the times of Imam Mehdi. Take care

of this Jamaat's honor. Take care of my honor. Never

give a bad name to my Jamaat."

In Idols You Have Hopes


خرر کمایء الل ار من اصحاب الببور قدیءسوا من اال

They have despaired of [reward in] the Hereafter just

as the disbelievers have despaired of [meeting] the

inhabitants of the graves [60:13].

What hope can one associate with the people in the

graves? After passing away, they cannot act like living

people anymore. They are in Barzakh now, where the

spirit is active and the body is inactive. The spirit is

subtle, subtler than the angels, because it has been

created from the angle's breath, and the angels are

created from Light. Hearing, seeing and speaking are

among the characteristics of the spirit. The author of

Jam'e Asool al-Aulia writes that Ali Al-QarshiRehmatullah

Alaih has said that he has seen four saints act like living

beings inside their graves. (1) Shaykh Abdul QadirRA

(2) Shaykh Ma'roof KarkhiRA (3) Shaykh Aqeel

ManijiRA (4) Shaykh Hayat bin QaisRA. Shaykh Abdul

Haq Muaddis DehlviRA has also mentioned them in his

Persian commentary on Mishkat "Al-Mauta wa-al-

Qaboor".

Abu Bashar HaafiRA narrates that he entered his

house once and saw a tall man praying there. He

says that he was frightened, because the key to the

door was with him. That person completed his Namaz

and said, "do not be afraid. I'm your brother Khizr". He

asked him (Hazrat Khizr) to teach him something

because of which Allah would benefit him. So, he

said: "say that I seek forgiveness from Almighty Allah,

and repent before Him for every sin that I again

committed after repentance81. And I seek forgiveness

from Almighty Allah, and repent before Him for each

of those promises that I made to myself for Allah's

sake, and then broke them. And I seek forgiveness

from Almighty Allah, and repent before Him for each

of the bounties that he bestowed upon me all my life,

and I utilized it for disobeying Him".

Ahmed bin Abi Al-HawariRA says that KhizrAlaih as-Salam

taught him a prayer for relieving pain, and said that

whenever he feels pain anywhere in the body he

should place his hand on that place and recite:

(Bani-Israil 105) وبالحق انزلناہ وبالحق نزل ل

"So, I always recite this and blow where I'm feeling

the pain, and it's immediately relieved."

81 The word is Tauba, which means asking for Allah's forgiveness for sins with a firm resolve not to commit those sins again.

The majority of the Ulema and Jurisprudent

Muhaddiseen82 believe in Tawassal83. So, if a person

says in his prayer like this: "O God, please fulfill my

such and such need for the regard of such and such

person, or with reference to such and such person, or

because of such and such person", there's nothing

wrong with praying like this. It is allowed and is a

Neutral Act84. Reciting the Darood Shareef is also a

type of Tawassul. Hazrat Saadi'sRehmatullah Alaih "O

God, for the sake of Bani Fatima" is commonly

recited, that 'O Allah, for the sake of Hazrat Fatima'Razi

Allah Anhu progeny may I die a faithful!' It is written on

page 47 of Qaida Jaleelia that adopting the Waseela

of the ProphetSall-Allahu-alaih-Wasallam after his demise has

precedence from the CompanionsRazi Allah Anhu,

Tabaeen, and Imam Ahmed bin HanbalRehmatullah Alaih.

One should do the Twassul once a day, and the best

time for doing it is after the Tahajjud. If one can do it

twice in a day, it's even better. The way to do it is to

recite Surah Fateha once and Surah Ikhlas thrice, and

then say, "O God, whatever I have recited, please

send its reward to the exalted spirit of HuzoorSall-Allahu-

alaih-Wasallam, and to the spirits of all the Prophets and

Messengers, and to Your dear angels, and to the

82 The people knowledgeable in the Hadees (sayings of the Prophet) and who are authorized derive Islamic Jurisprudence from the Hadees. 83 Can be loosely translated a "intercession". Means to pray or ask something from Allah with reference to His favorite people. 84 "Mubah"—an action for which there's neither reward nor punishment.

Sahaba, and to the Tabaeen Aulia85 and Saliheen86,

and especially to the spirits of the people of

Naqshbandia Awaisia.

The Murshed is doubtlessly a means87 to reach Allah.

Allah SWT has decreed: O those who have embraced

the Faith, fear Allah and search for the means to

reach Him (Al-Ma'ida).

وابتغوا الیہ الوسیلہ یا ایل االذین آمنو ااتبوا الل

Hazrat Shah Abdul Aziz Muhaddis Dehlvi says that

the way to seek (Allah's) help is that the needy person

asks Allah SWT to fulfill his need with reference to the

spirituality of someone who is dear to Him, someone

who is closer to Him and more elevated in that sense.

And the needy person says: "O man of God, O Friend

of Allah, please intercede for me and ask Allah SWT

to give me what I need, so that He may satisfy my

need." The person being asked is merely a Waseela

or interceder. Only the Almighty is the Giver and the

Authority. Tawassul is permissible through the

agreement of the Jurispruders. How, then, can

Tawassul become prohibited after death? Because,

the spirits of the Accomplished act after death just like

they act in this world. This subject has been

discussed in detail in Shrah Mishkat, and in Shrah

Sadoor by Allama SyutiRehmatullah Alaih88.

85 Friends of Allah 86 The righteous 87 The actual word is "Waseela", which comes from Tawassul. 88 Fatawa Azizi Vol 2, Page 108

I person visited the Caliph Hazrat Usman bin AffanRazi

Allah Anhu at different times for some matter, but Hazrat

UsmanRAA did not respond warmly towards him. That

person met Hazrat Usman bin HaneefRAA to ask for a

solution to this situation. Hazrat Usman bin HaneefRAA

is the eyewitness of the incident, when a blind person

had come to Huzoor Sall-Allahu-alaih-Wasallam and begged

for his eyesight. Upon his insistence, the ProphetS-A-W

had told him to recite with him:

ہ الی حمۃ یادمحم انی اتوش ہ الیک بنبی دمحمنبی الر اللہم انی ا ءلک واتوش

ربی بک ان یللف لی عن بصری اللہم ل عہ فی ول عنی فی ن سی

Upon reciting this, Allah SWT returned him his

eyesight. Imam Tirmzi has reported this Hadees in his

book. Hazrat Usman bin HaneefRazi Allah Anhu told that

person to go to the ablution place and do the Wazu,

offer two rounds of Salat-e-Hajat89in the mosque, and

then pray like this:

ی محمد صلی الل علیہ وسلم نبی نب ہ الیک ب اللہم انی ا ءلک واتو ش

ہ الی ربی بک فیبضی حا شتی۔ حمۃ یامحمدصلی الل علیہ وسلم انی اتوش الر

(O Allah, I ask of You, and to you I present as my

interceder my ProphetSall-Allahu-alaih-Wasallam, who is the

Prophet of Rahmat, that my need may be fulfilled.)

"After that, mention your need, and then come to me,"

said Hazrat Usman bin HaneefRazi Allah Anhu. Shaykh

Abdul Qadir Jilani'sRehmatullah Alaih saying on page 337

of Balghtul Hairan, "call me in times of distress", has

89 A prayer offered for the fulfillment of one's need

been explained to mean that "Azkurni, or "call me"

implies to pray with the Saykh's Waseela.

According to the above-referred Ayat of the Quran

لل ارمن اصحاب الببورا only the non-believers can deny the

drawing of Faiz from the people of the graves. The

very basis of the Awasia Silsila is that it is aimed at

connecting with the person in the grave to extract or

impart Faiz. If you are not linked to the people in the

Barzakh and don’t have the capability to acquire the

Faiz from, and impart it to, the people of the graves,

then you are not an Awaisi. The last Shaykh of Silsila

Naqshbandia Awaisia Hazrat Maulana Allah Yar

KhanRehmatullah Alaih used to train his disciples spiritually

and present them before the Holy ProphetSall-Allahu-alaih-

Wasallam for the Spiritual Baet. Hundreds of people

benefited from the Spiritual Baet, and are still getting

this blessing due to our Shaykh.

Hazrat Shah Ismail Shaheed has written in "Abqaat"

that each Sajda of a holder of the Station of Fana-

Baqa is superior to one hundred years of worship, or

even one hundred thousand years of worship by

others. The criterion for the superiority of this Sajda is

not knowledge or intellect, excess of worship or Zikr.

Rather, it is an act of bestowment, through which

Allah the Most High shines His Light upon these

people's Hearts, because of which they become

worthy of such qualities.

[Urdu Verse]

That Faqeer is better than Darius and Alexander

Whose Faqeeri carries the scent of Asadullah90

The Qadri, Chishti and Suhrwardi Sisilas flow from

Hazrat AliRAA, whereas Silsila Naqshbandia flows from

Hazrat Abu Bakr SiddiqRAA. Hazrat Hassan Basri is a

common figure in all the Sisilas. Silsila Naqshbandia

Awaisia is as follows: Hazrat MuhammadSall-Allahu-alaih-

Wasallam, (1) Hazrat Abu Bakr SiddiqRAA (2) Hazrat

Hassan BasriRAA (3) Hazrat Daood TaiRA (4) Hazrat

Junaid BaghdadiRA (5) Hazrat Obaidullah AhraarRA (6)

Hazrat Abdur Rahman JamiRA (7) Hazrat Abu Ayub

Muhammad SalehRA (8)Hazrat Sultan-ul-Arifeen Allah

Deen MadniRA (9) Hazrat Allah Yar KhanRA

HazratRA said that in order to extract Faiz with the

Awaisi Method, one should think as if each Lateefa

(that he is doing) is placed before his Murshed's

Lateefa, which is placed before the same Lateefa of

his Murshed, until the chain reaches Hazrat

MuhammadS-A-W, as if mirrors are placed before his

Lateefa, from which his Lateefa is acquiring the Faiz.

He said that Hazrat Shah WaliullahRA has described

the same Method for drawing Faiz the Awaisi way in

his book "Hujjatullahil Balighah". Hazrat Shah

WaliullahRA claims to be the first Awaisi in the

Subcontinent.

متمل نورہ ولوکرہ اللافرون والل

90 It's the title of Hazrat AliRazi Allah Anhu, from whom 3 of the 4 major Silsilas issue forth.

"Allah shall spread His Light, however the disbelievers

may detest it." [As-Saff Chapter 28, Ayat 8]

What do you think, that the acquisition of the Faiz is

over after the demise of the ProphetS-A-W ? The

people of Allah are always connected to the Prophet,

and they always keep supplying the nourishment to

people's Hearts. The Hearts of the believers around

the world are connected to Hazrat Muhammad'sS-A-W

sacred Heart through thin cords, and receive the Faiz

according to their capacity. As their love for the

ProphetS-A-W keeps growing, the cord keeps getting

stronger. If this cord is connected, the person is on

the True Faith; and if the cord breaks, the person has

lost his Faith. In the latter case, his worship also

becomes meaningless. After he dies, the blessings

sent by his family and friends do not reach him. If

someone wants to conduct Lata-if on him, he is not

benefitted, and that unlucky person remains deprived.

The Lata-if are the first lesson for the acquisition of

the Faiz. These are the Qalb, Rooh, Sirri, Khaffi,

Akhfa, Nafs, and Sultan-ul-Azkaar. When the Lata-if

start shining, the spirit gets the power to fly, and it

cruises through the Stations of the Triple Meditations.

The space between the Teht-us-Sira and Sidrat-ul-

Muntaha is the Realm of the Creation91. If the height

from the earth to the Sidrat-ul-Muntaha is divided into

three equal segments, the lowest portion is known as

the Ahdiyat, the journey through which spans over

91 Aalam-e-Khalq

fifty thousand years. The middle portion is known as

Maeeyat, which is also a distance of fifty thousand

years. The upper portion is known as Aqrabiyyat, to

cross which it takes another fifty thousand years on a

galloping horse. The Lights of Ahdiyyat are white in

color, and the Lights of the Maeeyat and the

Aqrabiyyat are green and deep-red.

It was some 40 years ago. It was the last 10 days of

the month of Ramzan and we had planned to stay

awake through the night. I requested our grand-

Murshed to take us through the Ahdiyyat in slow

motion, because we wanted to know all the details.

He seated us by his side and started taking us

through the Ahdiyyat slowly. We had deputed a

person who had Kashaf to do a running commentary

and narrate to us whatever he saw. We kept cruising

through Ahdiyyat till 2 am. We had to arrange for the

Sehri92 too, so we asked the grand-Murshed how

much of Ahdiyyat was still left. He said that we had

not even seen one-third of it yet. Hence, we had to

get up with Ahdiyyat still unfinished.

The colors of the Lata-if that I see are as follows. The

color of the Qalb is red, the Rooh is golden, the Sirri is

bluish, the Khaffi is silver-white, and the Akhfa is

green. The color of Latifa that is brighter than the

others becomes more dominant. Then, the miracles of

the Prophet with whom a seeker gets connected issue

92 Morning meals before fasting

forth from him as Karamaat93. The Qalb is related to

Hazrat AdamAlaih as-Salam. The Rooh is related to Hazrat

NoohAS and Hazrat IbraheemAS. The Sirri is related to

Hazrat MoosaAS and the Khaffi to Hazrat EesaAS. The

breath of the person connected to Hazrat Eesa Alaih

Salam becomes a cure, and he can heal Leprosy,

abscesses and pustules by blowing on them. The

Akhfa is related to Nabi AkramSall-Allahu-alaih-Wasallam. The

person spiritually connected to him lives in Fuqr94. He

never lets (love of) money enter into his heart.

The Gaddi Nasheens95 know nothing about Salook.

They merely arrange the Urs96 every year at the

grave, where nothing is to be found except Naat97,

Qawwali98 and big pots of food. I had the opportunity

to converse spiritually with Hazrat Data Ali Hajveri on

the occasion of his Urs. He said, "out of these

thousands of people who come to attend my Urs,

more than half are not having human appearances.

Their spiritual faces are distorted. Most of the other

half is in a state of filthiness. They don’t know the

correct way to take a bath99. The rest of them come

93 Pl of Karamat. The supernatural happening at the hands of a Wali-Allah (Allah's Friend) 94 The state of living where one is making do with the bare minimum 95 Caretakers of the Aulia's graves 96 Death anniversary celebration 97 Singing the praise of the Holy Prophet (SAW) 98 A type of chanting Asian music usually (but wrongly) associated with Tasawwuf 99 According to the Shariah, one is required to rinse his mouth and nostrils with water thoroughly and pour water three times on the whole body, so that no part remains dry.

with the kind of needs that I don’t feel like praying for

them. No one comes to take my life's earnings that

I've brought with me here. Then, every person's body

either emits Lights, or it emits blackness and

darkness. Hence, the pilgrims leave behind piles of

darkness. Because I've been disconnected from the

Place of Actions100, I cannot dispel this darkness by

doing Zikr like you, and it bothers me. I wait anxiously

for someone to come and do the Lata-if here, so that

that darkness may be cleaned. I wish I had a Jamaat

like your Shaykh, which would do the Lata-if on my

grave everyday and light up the environment".

Once I happened to pass by Peer Mahal, where my

convoy had halted. There was a beautiful house right

in front, from which an affluently dressed, clean-

shaven person came out and invited us for tea. We

went to his house because he insisted. He told us that

he is a Peer by lineage and the town was named Peer

Mahal because of his ancestors. The photographs of

his father, grandfather and great grandfathers were

hanging on a wall. All of them were without beards.

He then told us that their followers numbered into

hundreds of thousands. I asked him spontaneously,

"do you conduct Lata-if?" "No," he said, "we conduct

Urs101". I could not control my laughter. Like other

Gaddi-Nasheens, he too had no clue about the Lata-

if. He thought it must be a type of Urs. Such people

have told their followers, "If you come empty handed,

100 This world 101 Death anniversary

you'll return empty handed". Whoever comes holding

a rope with a cow or sheep on the other end will

return with his heart's desires. Hundreds of cattle are

thus collected during the Urs, which are sold in the

market held right after the Urs and the Peer Sahib's

budget for the next year is prepared. Hence the so

called Peers use their followers' money to accumulate

properties worth millions of dollars. They are busy

exploiting their disciples with both hands.

The Creator of the Universe is also aggrieved by such

people's behavior. He says twice in the Quran:

حق قدرہ ماقدرو الل

"People did not value Me as they should've." Allah

also says:

اصیل ۱۹دہر رکوع ) (۲۵)واذکراسم ربک بلرر و

Remember My Name in the morning and in the

evening (Dahr 25). But people are oblivious to and

uninterested in Allah's remembrance. Even Allah took

notice of their heartlessness and said: People did not

remember Me like I was supposed to be remembered.

When Allah SWT ordered Hazrat MoosaAlaih as-Salam to

go to the Pharaoh and stop him from tyranny, he

became worried about his wife whom he had left

behind. Allah SWT asked MoosaAlaih as-Salam what was

in his hand. He replied that it was his staff. Allah

asked him to hit the rock that was lying before him.

When he hit it, it broke into particles and another rock

emerged from it. Allah asked him to hit it too. When

he hit the second rock, it also disintegrated into dust

and another rock emerged from it. Allah asked him to

hit it too. When he hit it with his staff, it also

disintegrated and a living creature emerged, which

had a green leaf in its mouth. Allah SWT said to

Hazrat MoosaAlaih as-Salam that when He could arrange

for this creature's provisions (inside the three rocks),

were his wife and kid beyond Allah's reach? Allah

said:

اذھب انت واخوک بایاتی والتنیا فی ذکری

"Go forth, you and your brother, with My Signs, and

do not slacken in My remembrance." Allah has also

complained about his people at another place. He

says:

الم یان للذین امنوا ان تخل قلو ب م لذکر الل

"Is it not time yet that the hearts of the faithful become

subdued with Allah's Zikr?" [al-Hadeed 16]

My Head is Bowed to Thy

Will


الذی انعم علینا وھدنا الی دین االسلم۔ الحمد لل

Allah the Exalted Rabb has said:

O باذنہہ وسراشا منیرا انا ارسلنک لاھداو مبلرا ونذیرا O و داعیاالی الل

"Indeed We have sent you as a witness and a bringer

of good tidings and a warner. And one who invites to

Allah, by His permission, and an illuminating lamp."

[33:45-46]

The five qualities of the Holy ProphetSall-Allahu-alaih-

Wasallam have been mentioned here—a witness, a

bringer of good tidings, a warner, one who invites to

Allah, and an illuminating lamp. Being a witness

means that the ProphetS-A-W will be the witness for the

Ummah on the Judgment Day. In this regard, a long

Hadees narrated by Hazrat Abu Saeed KhadriRazi Allah

Anhu has been reported in the Sahi Bukhari, Nasai,

Tirmzi, etc. According to the excerpts from this

Hadees, when Hazrat NoohAS will present himself

before Allah on the Day of Judgment, he will be asked

if he delivered Allah's message to his Ummah. He will

say that he had conveyed it. Then, his Ummah will be

presented, and they will deny receiving any message.

At that time, Hazrat NoohAS will be asked if he has a

witness to support his claim that he had indeed

delivered the message of Truth. He will reply that

MuhammadS-A-W and his Ummah are the witness. His

Ummah will argue that these witnesses were not even

born in their times. How can they be the witness? The

Ummah of Prophet MuhammadS-A-W will be asked to

reply to this argument. They will say that although

they were born much later, they had received this

knowledge from their ProphetS-A-W, whom they fully

trust and believe. Upon this, the Holy ProphetS-A-W will

be asked to testify to his Ummah's claim. The

ProphetS-A-W of Allah will confirm and endorse his

Ummah through his testimony. The reality is that the

Ummah's actions are presented before the ProphetS-A-

W every day, morning and evening. This is the reason

why heS-A-W will be made a witness of the Ummah on

that Day (narrated by Ibn al-Mubarik via Saeed bin al-

Musaib, Mazhari). The actions of the Ummah are

replayed in 3D, as reading through written text is

farther from logic. If a satellite can replay (what it

records), can Allah not do such a thing for his

Prophet? Moreover, the Dawwat 102is also an

extremely difficult task. It is beyond human capacity,

unless Allah allows and helps him.

102 Inviting people to the Truth

Another quality described here is that Hazrat

MuhammadS-A-W is an illuminating lamp. Hazrat Qazi

SanaullahRehmatullah Alaih has written in Tafseer-e-

Mazhari that the quality ―invites to Allah‖ pertains to

the apparent and the spoken. And the quality

―illuminating lamp‖ pertains to the Prophet’sS-A-W

blessed Qalb. Just like the whole world receives light

from the sun, in the same way, the Qalbs of all the

believers are illuminated by the Light of the

Prophet’sS-A-W Heart. This is the reason that the

illustrious Companions, who benefited from the

Prophet’sS-A-W company, are superior to the whole

Ummah. Because their Hearts received the Faiz and

the Light directly from Nabi Kareem’sS-A-W noble

Heart, whereas the rest of the Ummah received this

Light through the medium of the illustrious

Companions, from whom it travelled through the

generations, from chest to chest. It is an established

belief that Rasool-AllahS-A-W and all the other

ProphetsAS, after having transitioned through this

world, are alive and living in their graves. Because of

this life, the believers’ Hearts will continue to draw

upon the Light of the Prophet’sS-A-W holy Heart. The

more one respects and revers him, and the more one

remains particular about the Darood Shareef, the

greater the share of this Light that that person will

receive.

The term ―enlightened moderation‖ has become a

buzzword in the recent years and religious

fundamentalism is the target of the whole world.

Following the ProphetS-A-W and the illustrious

CompanionsRazi Allah Anhu one hundred percent is now

considered extremism. I present before you some

Verses from the Holy Quran.

بصیر تعملون بما انہ ل تلغوا وال معک تاب ومن امرت کمآ فاستبم

So remain on the right course as you have been

commanded, [you] and those who are in your

company after having repented,, and do not digress in

the least. Indeed, He Sees what you do. [11:112]

بلنا ر قالوا الذین ان ل موا استبا م الل المل لۃ علی م تتنز

Indeed, those who have said, "Our Lord is Allah" and

then remained on the right course—the angels will

descend upon them. [41:30]

متعنابہہ ما الی عینیک التمدن ن م ازواشا م

Do not (even) cast your eyes toward that by which We

have given for enjoyment to [certain] categories of the

disbelievers, and do not grieve over them. [15:88]

ن برکت علی م ل تحنا واتبوا امنو البری اھل ان ولو واالرض السماء م

And if only the people of the cities had believed and

feared Allah, We would have opened upon them

blessings from the heaven and the earth. [7:96]

How can anyone embrace enlightened moderation

after reading these Verses? In moderation, one has to

follow the West, and not the Prophet and his

Companions. One is supposed to imitate the western

attire. One should offer his Namaz if one feels like it,

and skip it if one does not. One should fast if one

wants to, and not fast if one does not. Even if he

keeps a beard, it should resemble Ghamdi’s103 beard.

There’s no shortage of enlightened spiritual guides,

who do not offer Namaz at all. When asked the

reason, they reply, ―You pray five times, we pray all

the time‖! I also happened to meet in Jehlum one

such Peer ―Baba Jee‖104, who did not at all look like a

Baba Jee by his appearance. When asked how he

had gained the Wilayat105, he said, ―I was eighteen

years old. One day, I was on the rooftop, when

suddenly, the Peer of the Peers106 appeared and

poured everything he had upon me‖. He has served in

a bank all his life, and is now the spiritual guide of the

bureaucrats. He uses a stick to ward away illness and

suffering. He told me that he was looking after

Pakistan, whereas his brother was responsible for

India. He said he was living hand to mouth, and only

possessed that 'shack' and a CNG station. The

building that he was referring to as the shack must be

worth tens of millions rupees, and I've heard that a

CNG station involves investment to the tune of 100 to

120 million. I stayed there from Zuhr until Isha, and he

did not say even a single prayer. Colonel Azmat told

me that he says: "You pray five times, I pray all the

time". In other words, he is all the time in the state of

praying. Air Commodore Fazal Mehmood is an

eyewitness of this whole incident.

103 The name of a self-styled Islamic scholar 104 Baba Jee is an expression of respect used for an elderly person with a beard. 105 Allah’s Friendship. 106 A title used for Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani Rehmatullah Alaih.

We have turned away from the path of Allah's

ProphetSall-Allahu-alaih-Wasallam, to please our western

masters. We befriend them in the hope that that they

will honor us, but they are themselves facing defeat

and decline. How can they honor anyone? Another

Ayat of the Quran describes the way to get strength

and honor from Allah.

ال والعمل اللیب الللم یصعد الیہ فعہ یر الص

This Ayat prescribes the Kalma Tayyaba or the Kalma

of Tauheed107 (in other words, the knowledge of

Allah's Being and His Qualities) and righteous actions

(or acting upon the Shariah) as the recipe for

acquiring honor and power.

Hazrat Shah Abdul QadirRehmatullah Alaih has written in

Mauzah al-Quran that this formula for gaining respect

is indeed true and effective, provided that one should

be consistent in doing Zikr-Allah and performing

righteous deeds. When this consistency reaches a

certain preset threshold, Allah SWT blesses that

person with such unending honor in this world and the

Hereafter to which there is no comparison. The truth

is that reciting the Kalma of Tauheed and glorifying

Allah are insufficient unless righteous actions are

performed. In the same way, righteous deeds also

remain unadorned without doing Zikr Allah in excess.

Only the excess of Zikr-Allah beautifies the deeds and

makes them acceptable.

107 The First Kalma, "La Ilaha Ill-Allahu Muhammad-ur-Rasoolullah"

It doesn’t end here. My Allah says to his Prophet:

الدلنیا الحیور اال یرد لم و ذکرنا عن تولی من عن فاعرض

"So turn away from whoever turns his back on Our

Zikr and desires not except the worldly life." [53:29]

The relaxation of "eat and drink"108 is meant for

common folks. All such relaxations end for the person

who treads the path that leads to Allah and makes

Allah's Friendship his motive and objective. Allah then

tests such people to see who is with Him and who is

with his carnal desires. Shaykh Abdul Qadir Jilani

says that he had not eaten anything for several days,

when he met a person who gave him a pouch

containing some Dirhams. The Shaykh bought some

flat bread made of fine flour and some Halwa109 made

of dates. Just as he sat down to eat, he found a

parchment on which it was inscribed: 'Allah SWT has

mentioned in some heavenly Books that He has made

wishes for the weaker among his people, so that they

should take help from them for obeying Allah. As for

the stronger, they have nothing to do with wishes.'

The Shaykh says that he left the food and walked

away.

Shaykh Abu Al Hassan Banan bin MuhammadRA says

that he saw Allah's ProphetS-A-W in his dream. The

ProphetS-A-W said, "Banan". He said, "I'm here, O

Prophet of Allah". The ProphetS-A-W said, "Allah blinds

108 Translation of an Ayat 109 Name of a dessert

the sight of the heart of the person who eats because

of the desire of his Nafs110, and I also don’t meet such

people". Shaykh BananRA woke up and promised to

himself that he would never eat to his stomach's fill

ever again. He says that he had eaten two loaves of

flat bread and a bowl of pulses that night.

110 Nafs can be translated as soul. It is the name of the spirit or the Rooh when it's inside the body, and is influenced by certain material factors and desires.

Those Who Forgot their

Place


Hazrat Allah Yar Khan started spreading Silsila

Naqshbandia Awaisia from Chakwal. His first student

was Qazi Sanaullah, after whom, Maulvi Muhammad

Sulaiman and Professor Abdul Razzaq of Chakwal

started the Zikr. Maulvi Muhammad Sulaiman was an

Arabic teacher in the Chakwal High School and was

the Khateeb111 of a mosque. He had a unique style of

recitation. His Kashaf was intense, and his

conversation with spirits was very clear. All of us used

to go to Chakwal first, where Maulvi Muhammad

Sulaiman used to conduct a session of Zikr, after

which we used to go to Chikrala to present ourselves

before Hazrat Qibla Alam. As a result, we used to

reach Chikrala by 10 pm. When Hazrat would enter

the mosque for the Tahajjud prayer, he would find us

there. We were strictly not allowed to consume

anything from the market during our journey. But

more than the hunger, we were driven by the passion

to meet our respected Shaykh. We would often walk

111 The one who delivers Khutba (Islamic sermon)

the ten miles distance from Bun Hafiz to Chikrala,

however, a bus would be available in the morning

from Chikrala to Bun Hafiz.

Everyone in the Silsila Awaisia was a fan of Maulvi

Muhammad Sulaiman. People started giving him gifts

to win his approval. They would gather around him to

ask matters of Kashaf. Whenever Maulana Akram

Awan would see people surrounding Maulvi

Sulaiman, he would say, "Thank God I don’t have this

disease of Kashaf, otherwise people would have kept

bothering me". Maulvi Muhammad Sulaiman was also

the Khaleefa Majaz of Hazrat Allah Yar KhanRehmatullah

Alaih, and was second only to Qazi Sanaullah of Laitee

with respect to the Destinations. Whenever we used

to ask our honorable Shaykh about the people that

were the closest behind him in the Destinations of

Salook, he used to say that Qazi Sahib was behind

him, and Maulvi Sulaiman was behind Qazi Sahib.

Maulvi Sulaiman, who was traversing the Destinations

of the Realm of Astonishment, was viewed with much

reverence. In the journey of Salook, a stage comes

when the seeker starts drawing Faiz directly from

Allah. Times can change, and that's what happened.

A time came when Hazrat Qibla Alam gave the tiding

that Maulvi Muhammad Sulaiman would be leading

the Jamaat after him. After that, Maulvi Sulaiman's

behavior started to change. He started conducting

Loud Zikr and the Ihtezar Meditation after the Asr

prayer. I knew that he did not have Hazrat

Jee'sRehmatullah Alaih approval for conducting the Loud

Zikr and Ihtezar Meditation. When Maulvi Muhammad

Sulaiman noticed that I did not concur with him about

these practices, he personally called and threatened

me that if I did not join him he would get me sacked

from the position of a Majaz and would get me

expelled from the Silsila Awaisia. Allah, the Exalted

Lord has done me this favor, that I also did not join

Maulana Muhammad Akram Awan when he founded

"Al Ikhwan". I never attended his political rallies and

meetings.

I don’t know how Maulvi Muhammad Sulaiman made

the blunder of thinking that he no longer required a

Shaykh to progress further. Somehow, he started

thinking that he had become self sufficient in drawing

the Faiz. Then, he established links with another Peer

Sahib. He started saying that the Ahdiyyat, Maeeyat

and Aqrabiyyat (or the Triple Meditations) are

performed inside the Qalb. Hazrat, our respected

teacher, warned him many times to get hold of

himself, but he never mended his ways. Hazrat Qibla

Alam was staying at Haji Altaf's house in Peshawar.

When I informed HazratRehmatullah Alaih about Maulvi

Sulaiman's threat, Hazrat said, "how can he get you

expelled, when he has himself been expelled from the

Silsila. He has even dared to write a book contesting

'Dala'il-as-Salook'". Then, he produced a book from

under his pillow and told me it was Maulvi Sulaiman's

book. When I opened the cover of the book, I was

astounded to see that the foreword of the book had

been written by Professor Abdul Razzaq.

Woe, that when a person forgets his place, he falls

flat on his face. Maulvi Muhammad Sulaiman lost

everything. He was deprived of his Appointment and

Destinations. He was expelled from the Prophet'sS-A-W

Court. The world also turned its back on him. He fell

into poverty and was afflicted by disease right to his

very end. When he died, his face turned dark. The

grave also refused to welcome him. Did you see the

result of Iblees's friendship? Now he says, "I was

ruined because of pride and delusion. Would that I

had not let go of my Shaykh's hand and his

company!"

Now, hear the story of another person. His name was

Basheer. He hailed from Fort Sundaiman,

Balochistan. He practiced traditional medicine and

would often use Hazrat's preparations. He used to

serve in the police at one time. Talkative and sharp,

he claimed he had Kashaf and used to orientate the

new comers and introduce them to the Silsila. We

also heard a lot from him. He used to stay in Chikrala

more than in Fort Sundaiman. Smooth talking,

outgoing, tall, and fair, he would often go to the other

seekers and hold sessions of Zikr and Meditations.

He had a brother who served in the navy. When

Hazrat, our respected Shaykh, used to go to Karachi,

he stayed at his brother's naval quarter situated near

the Tooba Mosque.

This was 1970. Hazrat Qibla Alam was in Karachi.

When Basheer returned from the city before the

evening and after the Asr, he was furious. He started

telling Hazrat that he had been to a grave, but the

person in the grave had not stood up in his honor, nor

had he answered his questions. Basheer said he had

not seen such indifferent behavior from anyone in the

grave. "All of them get up when we go to them," he

said. He kept speaking out of vanity and said a lot.

When Hazrat Jee concentrated toward the person in

that grave, he saw that the person was a Companion

of the ProphetS-A-W. Hazrat told Basheer to go back

immediately and apologize from him. Basheer went

back and apologized, but the CompanionRazi Allah Anhu

did not forgive him. He said to Basheer that he was so

dumb he could not distinguish between a Companion

and an ordinary person. He asked him to tell his

Shaykh that he should not garland every Tom, Dick

and Harry; and there was no room for forgiveness for

his student. When Hazrat heard this, he said, "What

can I do? I keep collecting pebbles. Some out of them

turn out to be diamonds and pearls". Hazrat, our

respected teacher, presented Basheer's case before

the Mashaikh, but they also declined to help. His

matter was then presented in the Prophet'sS-A-W Court,

but was again rejected. After that, Hazrat Qibla Alam

expelled Basheer from the Jamaat. Had Basheer

stayed in his socks, he would not have seen this day.

The world also became constricted for him. One day,

he fell from the roof and broke his leg. I've heard that

he is living in dire straits these days. After his

expulsion, Hazrat Qibla Alam also stopped going to

his brother in the naval quarters. Basheer not only got

himself kicked out of an esteemed place, but also

deprived his whole family from receiving the Faiz.

This World is of No Use to

You


الذی انعم علینا وھدنا الی دین االسلم۔ الحمد لل

Allah's ProphetSall-Allahu-Alaih-Wasallam once saw the Angel

of Death by the bedside of an Ansari Companion, and

asked him to be gentle with his Companion. The

Angel of Death replied, "Please be at ease. I deal

gently with every believer". He further said, "I see five

times in a day each and every person living in the

cities, villages, forests, mountains or along the rivers.

So, I know all their whole lineage directly". He then

said, "O MuhammadS-A-W, all of this happens because

Allah has so Decreed. Otherwise, I don’t have the

power to collect the soul of even a mosquito, unless

Allah's Decree arrives about it".

In the Revered Quran, the creation of mankind has

been attributed to dust. In reality, the human being is

comprised of ten elements, out of which five are from

the Realm of the Creation, and five are from the

Realm of Command. The five elements from the

World of the Creation are fire, water, earth, air, and

Nafs, where as the five from the latter Realm include

the Qalb, Rooh, Sirri, Khaffi, and Akhfa.

After a person dies and gets buried, he comes to life

inside the grave and answers the questions of the

angels, after which reward or punishment is dished

out depending upon how he answers those questions.

This is very clearly proven by 10 Ayaat of the Quran

and 70 authentic Ahadees, so there is no room for

any Muslim to have any doubt about life in the

Barzakh. According to the explanations of the Ayaat

and the Ahadees, Allah SWT has written the destiny,

age, Rizq, happiness and troubles for every person

even before the creation of mankind. When a child is

born, the angels are notified about all these things

with regards to him. Then, every year in the Night of

Qadr, the plan of events for that year is handed over

to the angels for execution.

A certain number of guardian angels are detailed with

each person. They protect that person from accidents,

such is something falling on him or him falling into a

ditch or suffering harm from an animal or another

person. These guardian angels protect a person from

the troubles and calamities of the world and the Deen

whether that person is awake or asleep. Hazrat Ka'ab

AhbarRazi Allah Anhu says that if this shield of Divine

protection, the Jinns will make their lives miserable.

However, this protection only works until the Destiny

written by God permits. And when Allah SWT has

decided put someone into duress, this protective

guard is revoked. Clay is the dominating element of

man's construction, but when he is hit with a piece of

clay, he does feel pain. Similarly, fire is the dominant

element of the Jinn, but pure and intense fire burns

them too. It is proven by several historical accounts

that the earth and the sky weep when any righteous

person dies.

Hazrat Hassan BasriRehmatullah Alaih is reported to have

said that if a person is affected by someone's bad

sight, the effects can be neutralized by reciting the

following Ayat and blowing on the affected person.

اسمعوا بابصارھم لیزلبونک ک روا یلادالذین وان انہ ویبولون الذکر لم

ذکرللعلمین (البلم)لمشنون ہ وماھواال

It is not allowed to alter the words of the Hadees. The

Holy ProphetS-A-W once instructed a person to recite

the following prayer when going to bed.

ارسلت الذی ونبیک انزلت الذی بلتابک امنت

That person recited رسولک instead of نبیک , upon

which the Holy ProphetSall-Allahu-Alaih-Wasallam again

instructed him to recite the word نبیک . Hazrat

Abdullah bin AbbasRazi Allah Anhu says that he has not

seen any Jamaat better than the Jamaat of

Muhammad'sS-A-W Companions. Despite having a

keen interest in the Deen and extreme love of Allah's

ProphetS-A-W, they asked very few questions. There

are a total of 13 issues about which they have asked

questions. HuzoorS-A-W said: ""It should not happen

that I find amongst you such people, who, while

reclining idly against their pillows, say about my

orders and prohibitions that we don't know them. For

us, the Book of Allah is sufficient. Whatever we find in

it, we follow." (Tirmzi, Abu-Dawood, Ibn-Maja, Beqahi,

Imam Malik). There are people today who want to

confuse the world about the collection of the Hadees

reported in the books. They say that the Hadees is

unreliable, because it was compiled much after the

Holy Prophet'sS-A-W era. Their assertion is absolutely

wrong, because, to begin with, the preservation and

recording of the Hadees had started in the times of

the Holy ProphetS-A-W. Secondly, the Hadees of the

ProphetS-A-W is, in fact, the explanation and meaning

of the Quran. Allah SWT has taken the responsibility

of protecting these meanings. How can it be possible

that only the words of the Quran are protected, and its

meanings, i.e. the Hadees, are lost?

Safeguard your private parts. This injunction includes

adultery and homosexuality, and other ways of sexual

gratification such as masturbation. They are all

forbidden and Haraam. The Great Imam Abu HanifaRA

has said that the one who engages in the unnatural

sexual act should be punished in the same way as

Allah punished the nation of LutAlaih as-Salam, who were

hit with stone showers before the ground was inverted

on them. Therefore, such a person should be pushed

down from a high mountain and showered with

stones. Hazrat Khalid bin WaleedRazi Allah Anhu wrote to

Hazrat Abu Bakr SiddiqueRazi Allah Anhu that there was a

man with whom people did what is done with a

woman. Hazrat Abu BakrRAA gathered the respected

CompanionsRAA, and Hazrat AliRAA was also present.

Hazrat AliRAA said that it's such a sin that has been

committed by none except for one nation. He said

everyone present there knew what Allah, the Most

High, had done to that nation. He opined that the man

be burnt in fire. The other respected Companions also

concurred and Hazrat Abu Bakr SiddiqueRAA issued

the verdict to burn that man by fire. Allah's ProphetS-A-

W has said that when you see someone doing the

unnatural act like the nation of Lut, kill both the active

and the passive partners participating in the act.

Allah's ProphetS-A-W attended an Ansari Companion's

funeral. The grave was still being prepared, so he sat

down and the Companions quietly sat around him. He

lifted his blessed head and said that when a believer's

time of death arrives, angels with fair, shining faces

descend from the heaven. They carry the burial cloth

and the scent from the Haven, and they sit beside the

person who is about to die. Then, the angel of death

IzraeelAlaih as-Salam arrives and addresses his spirit, 'O

content spirit, come out for the Forgiveness and the

Pleasure of your Rubb112'. At that moment, his spirit

leaves his body as smoothly as water flows out from a

water-pouch when its mouth is untied. The angel of

death holds his spirit in his hands and gives it to the

other angels, who then ascend with that spirit.

Whenever they pass by a group of angels, the latter

ask, 'whose blessed spirit is this?' The carrying angels

mention the best of the names with which that person

112 An Arabic word that has meaning similar to the Caretaker or the Guardian

was known in the world, and say that he is so-and-so

son of so-and-so. In this way, the angels reach the

gate of the first heaven along with the spirit, and get

the gate opened. More angels join them from there

and they continue ascending all the way to the

seventh heaven. At that time, Allah, the Truth, issues

the Decree that the His slave's record of deeds be

inscribed in the Illiyeen113 and turn him around. This

spirit returns to the grave, where the angels of

accountability make him/her sitdown and ask the

questions: "Who is your Rubb and what is your

Deen?" He/she says, "My Rubb is Allah the Most

High, and my Deen is Islam". Then, the angels ask,

"Who is this saintly person that was sent for your

sake?" He/she says that this is Allah's ProphetS-A-W.

At that moment, a heavenly calling is heard: "My

servant is truthful. Lay down for him/her the floor from

the Paradise and dress him in clothes from the

Paradise and open a window for him into the

Paradise". The breezes and fragrances of Paradise

start reaching that person from that window, and

his/her pious deeds come to him/her in a beautiful

form to make him/her feel comfortable.

In contrast to the above, when the time of a

disbeliever's or denier's death arrives, dark faced,

deadly looking angels descend from the sky along

with a coarse, rough cloth, and sit opposite to that

person. Then, the angel of death draws out the spirit

113 The higher place where the good spirits live after death until the Judgment Day

from his body like a thorny branch is wrapped in wet

wool and is pulled from it. When this spirit comes out,

its stink is more repugnant than the stink of a dead

animal. The angels start rising holding that spirit. The

other angels that they meet along the way ask who

that wretched person was whose spirit they are

carrying. The carrying angels mention the worst of the

titles with which that person was called in the world,

and say that he is so-and-so. When they reach the

first heaven and ask for the gate to be opened, the

gate is not opened and the Decree is issued to place

the record of his deeds in the Sijjiyeen114, where the

records of the disobedient are kept. That spirit is then

thrown back into the grave, where it reenters the

body. The angels sit him down and ask the same

questions that are asked from the believer's spirit. In

reply to all of those questions, this person says:

ادری ال ھاہ ھاہ

"Alas, I know nothing!" The carpet of Hell and the

clothes from Hell are provided to that person, and a

window is opened towards Hell, through which he

keeps receiving the heat and fire from there. And his

grave is made constricted upon him.

Unless they openly renounce Judaism or Christianity,

the Jews and the Christians are included among the

People of the Book regardless of how distorted their

beliefs and how dark their actions may be. It is

114 The lower place where bad spirits live from death until the Judgment Day

permissible to consume dry food items such as

wheat, pulses, rice and fruits that have been touched

by a non-believer, and there's no disagreement about

this permissibility among the different schools. The

reason for permitting the slaughter and marriage with

the women of the Christians and the Jews is that

despite being riddled with hundreds of alterations,

their religions conform to the Islamic way in these two

matters. However, if a Muslim becomes an apostate

by converting to Judaism or Christianity, such a

person is not included among the People of the Book.

That person is an apostate and his slaughter is

forbidden (Haraam) by the unanimous agreement of

the Ummah. Huzaifa, Taha and Kaab bin Maalik

faced this situation when they married the women of

the People of the Book because of the Verse of

Ma'ida115. When the Great FarooqRazi Allah Anhu learned

about it, he was very upset and ordered them to

divorce those women. These women usually don’t

have chastity and innocence. (Mufti Muhammad

Shafi, Mu'arif-ul-Quran)

Someone asked Allah's ProphetSall-Allahu-Alaih-Wasallam

who out of the Mujahideen qualifies for the highest

reward. HeS-A-W said that whoever remembers Allah

the most. He was then asked who, out of the fasting

people, qualifies for the biggest and most reward. He

replied that whoever remembers Allah the most.

Similarly, he was asked about Namaz, Zakat, Hajj,

and charity. Every time heS-A-W replied the same, that

115 A Chapter in the Holy Quran

whoever performs more Zikr-Allah qualifies for a

higher reward. (Reported by Ahmed via Ibn Kaseer)

The real spirit of the whole universe is Allah's worship

and His Zikr. That's why when this spirit leaves the

earth and there's no one left who says "Allah, Allah",

everything will perish. The Companions humbly

asked, "Do the angels have nothing to do except

praising Allah? If they have other tasks to perform,

how do they continue to praise Allah alongside

everything else that they are doing?" (Allah's Prophet)

said, 'Does any of your activities or pursuits keep you

from breathing? Praising Allah is for angels just like

breathing is for us.'

It is reported in Sahih Muslim's Hadees of the Night of

Ascension that Allah's ProphetS-A-W said that when he

met YousufAlaih as-Salam, he saw that Allah SWT had

granted him half of the entire beauty in the universe,

and distributed the left over half among the whole

world. YousufAS and Binyamin were two brothers who

had lost their mother. They were raised by their

maternal aunt . AllahSWT had bestowed upon

YousufAS such splendor that whoever set eyes on him

couldn’t help but fall in love with him. His aunt also

adored him so much that she could never let him out

of her sight. Hazrat Yaqoob also felt the same way.

When YousufAS started walking, YaqoobAS thought of

bringing him back to live with him. When he asked his

sister (Yousuf's aunt), she hesitated. Upon

YaqoobAS,s insistence, she finally allowed YousufAS to

go with his father. However, she had a plan to get

YousufAS back. She had a waistband that she had

inherited from Hazrat IshaqAS and that was

considered very valuable. The aunt tied this band

around Yousuf'sAS waist under his clothing. After he

had left with his father, the aunt made it known that

the waistband had been stolen. When a search was

held, the band was found with YousufAS. According to

Hazrat Yaqoob'sAS Shariah, the aunt now had the

right to keep YousufAS as her possession. That's why

when later on the theft was proven against Binyamin,

Hazrat Yousuf'sAS brothers said:

قبل من لہ اخ سرق فبد یسرق ان

"It is no wonder if he (Binyamin) has committed theft.

His brother had also committed a theft like this

before."

After the death of Aziz of Egypt, the King of Egypt had

wedded Hazrat YousufAS to Zulaikha. Two boys,

Ifraeem and Mansha, and one girl, Rehmat binte

Yousuf, were born out of the wedlock between

YousufAS and Zulaikha. Rehmat was married to

Hazrat AyubAS and from Ifraeem's progeny was born

Yusha bin Noon, who was a Companion of Hazrat

MusaAS. When Allah ordered Hazrat MusaAS to leave

Egypt along with Bani Israil, Allah SWT also

commanded him not to leave behind the body of

YousufAS and to carry him to Syria for burial close to

his ancestors. Hazrat MusaAS discovered his grave,

which was encapsulated in a marble coffin. They

carried the coffin with them to Arz Kin'an in Palestine,

and buried him beside Hazrat IshaqAS and Hazrat

YaqoobAS.

Hazrat Abu HurairaRazi Allah Anhu says that one day he

came out with Allah's ProphetS-A-W, and his hand was

in the Prophet'sS-A-W hand. They happened upon a

person who seemed disheveled and extremely

worried. The Prophet asked him how he had reached

this condition. He replied that sickness and poverty

had made him fall into such circumstances. The

ProphetS-A-W said, 'I'll tell you a few words. If you

recite those, your sickness and poverty will be gone.'

Those words were:

الحمد الیموت الذی الحی علی توکلت لم لم الذی لل لریک لہ یلن یتخذولداو

116تلبیرا وکبرہ الذلل من ولیل لہ یلن ولم الملک فی

And say, "Praise to Allah , who has not taken a son

and has had no partner in [His] dominion and has no

[need of a] protector out of weakness; and glorify Him

with [great] glorification." [17:111]

After some time had passed, the ProphetS-A-W again

went in that direction and found that person in good

circumstances. The ProphetS-A-W expressed his

pleasure. That person told him that he had been

reciting daily the words that the ProphetSall-Allahu-Alaih-

Wasallam had taught him.

116 Bani Israil, 111

The Companion Jinn Major (Retd) Ghulam Muhammad

This was June, 1973. Bhutto was in power. The

Murree and Bugti tribes were up in arms against the

government. I was posted to 173 Engineer Battalion.

My unit sent me to Quetta to survey a worksite. I had

guards with me for security, as it wasn’t safe to travel

without them. I could not get the accommodation at

the Mess, so I had to rent a room in Imdad Hotel. I

asked the soldiers to sleep inside the room instead of

standing guard outside, so that no one could know

that an army officer was staying there. When I woke

up for the Tahajjud prayer and was going to the

washroom, I saw that one of my soldiers Shaukat was

sleeping with his knees to his chest. I thought that he

was feeling cold, so I picked up a sheet from my bed

and threw it on top of him. As soon as I covered him

with the sheet, he started speaking: "I am in

possession of him, and his sister too. If you want him

to be well, take him to a witchdoctor117". I took out my

gun from under my pillow and aimed at him. I had

117 The Urdu word is "Aamil", or the person who dispels the Jinn or breaks magic spells

sensed that he had been possessed by a Jinn. The

Jinn spoke at once: "Don’t fire, because I'll separate

from him instantly, and he will be killed by your hand."

I asked the Jinn: "Don’t you know me?" He said, "I

know you. You are a disciple of Maulana Allah Yar

Khan. I asked him how he knew Hazrat Maulana Allah

Yar Khan. He said who didn’t know Maulana Allah Yar

Khan. "His chest is brighter than the sun, and we can

see this light from far away," he said. I asked him

whether he had seen Maulana Allah Yar

KhanRehmatullah Alaih. He replied that he had seen him

from a distance, as he could not go close to him. I

asked him why he was possessing Shaukat. He said,

"He's not one of his disciples. Had he been connected

to Maulana Allah Yar KhanRehmatullah Alaih, I would have

never ever possessed him." I told the Jinn to let go of

Shaukat immediately, and threatened him that if he

did not leave him, I would burn him to ashes with the

Lights. He asked me to give him one hour, after which

he would leave him forever. But he said he would not

leave his sister. Shaukat remained unconscious for

one hour. I called his name and shook him several

time during this period, trying to wake him up, but he

remained motionless. Exactly after an hour had

passed, the Jinn spoke again and said, "Assalam-o-

Alaikum". I told him had he been a Muslim he would

never tease people like this. He said he was leaving

him because of me, and would never come close to

him again. He said he wished he could get a Kamil118

Shaykh, but they only got Aamils who made them do

118 Accomplished

wrong things. After that, he again said Salam and left.

Now when I called Shaukat's name, he got up at

once. I narrated the whole Jinn episode to him. He

told me that the Jinn had possessed him and his

sister right since their childhood. He said whenever he

went through an episode of possession, his sister also

used to show the same symptoms. The stage had

reached when the Jinn had started holding them after

every couple of days. After a few days when I visited

Hazrat Allah Yar Khan, my respected Shaykh at

Chikrala, I brought the incident to his knowledge.

Hazrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih said that even if a Jinn

touches a person, that person becomes unconscious.

And when someone has been under the influence of a

Jinn for some time, that person starts feeling restless

even if the Jinn thinks about him or her. There are

also women who fake being possessed just in order

to get their demands fulfilled by their family. Hazrat

JeeRehmatullah Alaih narrated the incident of Shah

Waliullah Muhaddis DehlviRehmatullah Alaih that he was

sitting in his room, writing with a quill pen, when a

snake entered through the door. He hit it with his pen,

which pierced the snake's head and it died on the

spot. Hazrat Shah Waliullah got up from his seat to

retrieve his pen, but the snake had vanished. He

looked for it everywhere, but could not find it and

returned to his seat. After a while, two strangers

entered the room and asked him to accompany them

to their king's court. Hazrat Shah Waliullah asked

them the reason, and said that he was a Faqeer and

had nothing to do with kings. He said that they must

had been mistaken. The strangers said that if he did

not come with them willingly, they would carry him by

force. He had to agree, and they lifted him and took

him to the King of Jinns at Koh Qaaf. He saw that the

court was in session and his case was being

presented before the King. The King said that he had

murdered one of their Jinns. Hazrat Shah

WaliullahRehmatullah Alaih replied that he had not

murdered any Jinn. However, a snake had entered

his room, which he had hit with his pen and the pen

had pierced into its skull. That was all that had

happened. The King said that the snake was actually

a Jinn, and he was guilty of a Jinn's murder. Shah

Sahib recited a Hadees of Huzoor Nabi KareemSall-

Allahu-alaih-Wasallam, according to which if a Jinn adopts

the form of a snake and is killed by a human, it is not

considered to be a murder. The King asked him to

wait, and said that they ha d a Companion Jinn. The

King would send for him and the Hadees would be

recited in his presence. If the Companion Jinn said

that the Hadees is right, Hazrat Shah Waliullah would

be acquitted. The Companion Jinn came and the King

vacated his throne for him to sit. When everyone had

settled down, the King asked Hazrat Shah Waliullah

to read the Hadees again. He recited the Hadees and

the Companion Jinn testified that it was indeed true.

Hearing this, the King ordered that Hazrat Shah

Waliullah be returned to his home. After this incident,

Hazrat Shah WaliullahRehmatullah Alaih used to say that

he was a Tabaee119, because he had sighted a

Companion Jinn.

I came by an old man at the bank of the River Kabul

in Akora Khatak. He had been fasting continuously for

six or seven years. People used to come to him to ask

about their lost or stolen things. Upon our questioning,

he told us that our Shaykh Hazrat Allah Yar

KhanRehmatullah Alaih was appointed to the highest rank

in the Hidden120 World at that time. We asked him if

that was the Appointment of a Ghaus. He replied in

the negative, and said it was a higher Appointment

than that. The people of the area were quite in awe of

this old man's worships, piety and struggle. He used

to claim that he could talk to spirits and asked

whatever he needed to ask from Hazrat Khwaja

Moeen-ud-Deen ChishtiRehmatullah Alaih. He told us that it

was Khwaja Sahib who had told him about Hazrat

Maulana Allah Yar KhanRehmatullah Alaih,s Appointment.

Later on, we happened to pass through Akora Khatak

with Hazrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih and I asked him about

that person. He told Qazi Sanaullah of Laitee to

observe that old man and see if he possessed

anything, as he could see that he had nothing. Qazi

Sahib said that he indeed had nothing except for

Muakkils121, from whom he asked different things and

told people the answers. Hazrat said to me, "Son,

there is no one in the world at this time who has

119 A person who has seen a Sahabi or Companion 120 "Batini", which means things that cannot be seen or perceived. The opposite of it is "Zahiri" or the apparent. 121 The Jinns that are under an Aamil's control

access to the Barzakh or can converse with spirits,

except for our Jamaat. However, some people

suppress their Nafs and get Jinns and Satans under

their control." After some time, my Bridge Battalion

was relocated to Nowshehra. I discovered that the old

man was in fact a civilian employee of the Battalion. I

called him to my office and asked him why he didn’t

work and was still drawing his salary. He started

weeping. He said, "Major Sahib, I strive against my

Nafs day and night in order to keep the Muakkil Jinns

under my control. I fear that they will kill me if I don’t

follow this arduous routine. I have quit eating and

drinking just to save my life. They don’t even let me

visit my wife and kids, and I have to stay in their

company all the time". He said he had once gone to

Risalpur to see Hazrat Maulana Allah Yar

KhanRehmatullah Alaih, but the Jinns had forced him to

come back immediately. I asked him why he didn’t

just quit them. He said, "It's not possible. Now only

death can rid me of them."


From the year 1970 to 1983, we used to present

ourselves along with our Murshed at the shrine of

Hazrat Khwaja Allah Deen MadniRehmatullah Alaih at

Langar Makhdoom every year. We usually stayed

there overnight. The next morning, Hazrat

JeeRehmatullah Alaih used to take everyone along and

proceed to Changranwala for visiting the shrine of

Hazrat Khwaja QutbRehmatullah Alaih. A session of Zikr

used to be held there, followed by Dua122, after which

he used to return to Langar Makhdoom. People used

to return to their homes after the Zuhr prayer. After

the demise of Hazrat Maulana Allah Yar

KhanRehmatullah Alaih, the final Shaykh of Silsila

Naqshbandia Awasia, the lifetime Chief Manager of

the Silsila Colonel (Retd) Matloob Hussain continued

this annual program. Other than this, we also

122 Prayer

presented ourselves several times at the shrines of

Hazrat Shah BilawalRA (Danda) and Hazrat Data Ganj

Bakhsh Ali HajveriRA in the company of our Hazrat

JeeRA and attended sessions of Zikr. Hazrat Maulana

Allah Yar KhanRA always held a high view of Hazrat

Maulana Hussain AliRA (from Wan Bhachran), Hazrat

Sultan BahooRA and Hazrat Shahbaz QalandarRA.

However, he also felt sorry about the fact that out of

Maulana Hussain AliRA's students, Ghulamullah Khan,

Inayatullah Gujrati and Tahir Panj Peeri (Major Amir's

father) denied and contested the extraction of Faiz

from Barzakh throughout their lives. Whenever Hazrat

JeeRA used to go to Multan, he used to visit the

shrines of Ghaus Bahawuddin ZakriyaRA and Hazrat

Shah Rukn-e-AlamRA, and sessions of Zikr were held

at those graves.

In the beginning of 2011, my fellow seekers' long

standing demand of visiting all Aulia-Allah's shrines

assumed a new fervor. Hence, they reached Murshed

Abad on Wednesday, January 12. Usman from

Sialkot; Hafiz Usman, Hannan, Najam and Abdul

Basit from Gujranwala; Hassan, Usman, Hafiz Adnan,

and Umer from Lahore; Mohsin from Multan; and from

Karachi, Group Captain (Retd) Abid Jafri along with

his wife Shameem, daughter Fatima and son Hassan

Qasim, were included in this convoy. We spent the

night with our Murshed and started our journey with

his permission after the morning Zikr. Danda is

located at a distance of 7 kilometers from Murshed

Abad, so it did not take us long to reach Shah

SahibRA. The caretakers have extended Hazrat Danda

Shah Sahib'sRA grave and made it three times as long

as a regular grave. We sat down by his headrest

(there was no room in front), performed Zikr, and

stated the purpose of our visit. We were going to

travel to Karachi and present ourselves at all the

shrines of Sufi Saints along the way, and were also

going to do Zikr there. Hazrat Shah SahibRA

complained that we had stopped visiting him after the

demise of Hazrat Maulana Allah Yar KhanRA, with

whom we used to come to him. Departing from

Danda, we got onto Mianwali-Talagang road and

entered the Motorway after travelling through

Talagang and Balkasar. After a drive of about three

hours, we said goodbye to the Motorway at

Makhdoom Interchange and turned our cars towards

Langar Makhdoom from Sial More. After driving for

about 10-11 kilometers, we turned left onto the

dilapidated side road, on which we travelled for

another 2-3 kilometers to reach Hazrat Allah Deen

Madni's RA shrine. It was a Thursday and a working

day, so our fellows in Zikr who had regular jobs had

not been able to join us here or at Murshed Abad.

Hazrat Khwaja Allah Deen MadniRA was very pleased.

He welcomed us and prayed for our success in the

worldly and religious matters. After a 30-minute

session and Dua, we left for Changranwala, although

Hazrat Khwaja QutbRA had also attended the Zikr

session at Langar Makhdoom. I have observed that

when we do Zikr at Langar Makhdoom, Khwaja

QutbRA also joins, and when we sit for Zikr with him at

Changranwala, Hazrat Khwaja Allah Deen Madni also

joins us there. Hence, the effect of the Zikr becomes

twofold.

Hazrat Maulana Allah Yar KhanRA used to tell us that

Hazrat Khwaja QutbRA was the Qutb-e-Madaar of his

time, and he is also a person whose prayer is never

rejected. Hazrat Khwaja Muhammad says that if he

raises his hands for a prayer, the sky and earth can

shatter, but his prayer cannot be rejected. If upon the

request for prayer, Khwaja QutbRA asks the person,

"you pray and I'll say Aameen", it means that the

chances of acceptance are 50 percent. Hazrat JeeRA

used to say that Qutb-e-Madaar is the pillar of the

heavens. The Appointment of Qutb-e-Madaar will

exist until the Judgment Day, and when it ceases to

exist, the Qyamah will be established. Everything will

shatter into dust. After presenting ourselves before

Hazrat Khwaja QutbRA and holding a session of Zikr,

we resumed our journey on the Motorway to Lahore.

We said the Zuhr prayer in the mosque in Sukheki

(Rest Area). After reaching Lahore, we went straight

in the service of Hazrat Ghaus Ali HajveriRA at Lahore

Fort, but he did not allow us to sit near his grave. He

said if he allowed us, other people would follow us

there. They would burn lamps and engage in other

innovations (Bidat), he said, so we should perform the

Zikr at Allama IqbalRA's shrine and he would join us

there. As directed, we held the Zikr at Allama Iqbal's

grave. Most of our companions from Lahore were

present, and many of the companions from

Gujranwala had also arrived. You ought to know that

Allama Iqbal also used to perform the Lata-if and

Meditations during his lifetime. He has written about

the Lata-if in his book "Reconstruction of Religious

Thought in Islam". According to him, doing Zikr

actually means doing the Lata-if. The objective of

Salook is not to perform paranormal acts, but the real

objective is to become a slave of Allah. To quote

Iqbal: "The ultimate aim is not to see something, but

to be something."

We could not present ourselves in Hazrat Data

SahibRA's service because a suicide bombing had

taken place there recently, and he had instructed us

to perform Zikr at someone's house in the streets of

Peer Makki. So, we performed the evening routine at

Hafiz Adnan's house and also stayed there for the

night. The next day, Ali and Umer had arranged lunch

at their house in Peer Makki. After lunch, a session of

Zikr was held exclusively for women.

We could not start our journey from Lahore before 10

am on January 14, 2011, because the Motorway was

closed due to fog. We had planned to reach Hazrat

sultan BahooRA by the time of Zuhr, but it was already

Maghrib when we reached there. It wasn’t safe to

board our cars on boats for crossing the river, so we

had to take the longer route to reach Hazrat Sultan

BahooRA's shrine. The scene that we witnessed upon

our arrival at the shrine was heartbreaking. A person

was prostrating before the grave and was crying out

his miserable ordeals. When we lined up for the Zikr,

the people managing the shrine started yelling at us

to switch off our mobile phones and get out of there.

They were telling us to get into the mosque for the

Maghrib prayer. We rushed through the Lata-if and

came out of there. With heavy hearts, we headed for

Shorkot, where Sarfaraz was waiting for us. He took

us to his house where Hussain also came. We did the

evening Zikr at Sarfaraz's house. Half of us went to

Hussain's house to sleep at night. I saw Sarfaraz's

and Hussain's kids after many years. They had grown

up well. May Allah make them righteous and give

them permanence in His Zikr. Aameen!

On 15th January, a Saturday, we had planned to go

to Multan to present ourselves in the service of Hazrat

Ghaus Bahawuddin ZakriyaRA. Sarfraz and his family

also accompanied us. I travelled with them in their

car. We went straight to Hazrat Ghaus Bahawuddin

ZakriyaRA. Our companions from Multan were also

present there. We performed the Zikr with peace and

our fellows from Lahore, Gujranwala and Karachi also

joined us via mobile phone. A servant of Hazrat

Ghaus Bahawuddin Zakriya is buried toward his feet,

outside the door. He is Fana-fir-Rasool. I located his

grave and we said the Fateha there. Afterwards, we

went to the shrine of Hazrat Shah Rukn-e-AlamRA and

performed the Zikr there. Hazrat Ghaus Bahawuddin

ZakriyaRA complained that I did not visit him more

often. I submitted that I had to present myself at the

grave of my Shaykh Hazrat Maulana Allah Yar

KhanRA at least 33 times in a year, because 33%

marks are required to pass an exam. Therefore, I was

unable to go anywhere else. Hazrat Ghaus

Bahawuddin ZakriyaRA honored us b y accepting our

visit and praised my work for the esteemed Silsila. He

said that the Rawafiz123 had gained a lot of influence

in Multan, and there was a dire need to work against

them. The dinner and night-stay were arranged at

Mohsin's house. Sarfraz returned to Shorkot along

with his family.

On Sunday, January 16, we had to reach Sehwan

Shareef. It was a long journey, so we had to sojourn

at Sukkur. We spent the night at Mister Abid Jaffrey's

relatives, whose hospitality I shall always remember.

On January 17, we reached Sehwan Shareef to

present ourselves at Hazrat Shahbaz QalanderRA's

shrine. Someone high-up was coming to place

coverings at the grave and the decoration of the

shrine was in progress. Beggars were crowding the

place. We held a session of Zikr despite the

disturbance. Hazrat Shahbaz QalanderRA said that

someone had come and performed the Lata-if at his

grave after years. He said people only came to him to

dance the Dhamal124. Unfortunately, he said, his

grave had been occupied by the Rafizis, whose

innovations and rituals had nothing whatsoever to do

with Tasawwuf and Salook. Departing from there, we

drove straight to Group Captain (Retd) Abid Jaffrey's

residence at Baloch Colony (Karachi). We had plans

to go to Thatta after the Zuhr prayer, where a

CompanionRazi Allah Anhu of the ProphetSALL-ALLAHU-ALAIH-

123 A faith with beliefs and actions contradictory to actual Islam. However, the insist on calling themselves a sect of Islam. "Shia" in common laguage. 124 A kind of folk dance performed at shrines

WASALLAM is buried in the graveyard of Makli. Another

car was added to our convoy when Hassan Kashif,

Tahir, Adnan and their families joined us to go to

Makli. The Companion of the Prophet said that his

name was Abu Sultan. He said he had come to Iran

during the time of Hazrat Umer's caliphate. From

there, he came to Karachi. He was a trader of

livestock and had come to Thatta for business, but

death didn’t give him much time, and he had to make

Makli his abode in Barzakh. He said someone had

come to his grave for practicing the Lata-if after

centuries. Many people come, but for other purposes.

Nobody ever comes for doing Zikr. However, he said,

there was a person named Ubaidullah, who had come

there once and performed the Zikr and Meditation.

Since then, he had been yearning for such people.

His heart was very pleased to see us on that day, he

said. 'Keep visiting if possible, so that the intensity of

the filthy darkness left behind by wrongdoing masses

is reduced a bit. Convey my Salam to your

ShaykhRehmatullah Alaih, and say to him that his parallel

cannot be found (in times closer) to the Doomsday.'

Aetkaf in Awaisia Mosque

at Murshed Abad Major (Retd) Ghulam Muhammad

لنورہ من یشاء نورالسموت واالرض۔۔۔ یھدی اللہ اللہ

Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth…Allah

guides to His Light whomever He wills (The Quran

24:35)

I've been attached to Silsila Naqshbandia Awaisia and

been practicing Allah, Allah for forty-two years. I

submit as a token of gratitude (for the blessing Allah

has bestowed upon me), that I find the Lailatul Qadr

every year. When I sit for Zikr in the evening and

close my eyes, I see the atmosphere illuminated. The

nights of the blessed Ramzan are many times more

luminous, and the night of Lailatul Qadr appears

many, many times brighter than other Ramzan nights.

The flashes of Allah's Lights descend to indicate it's

Laitul Qadr. It doesn’t end in an instant, as commonly

believed. The Lights keep descending the whole night

and those fortunate souls who are awake (and

remembering Allah) get their share according to their

individual capacities, and satiate their need for

spiritual nourishment (Faiz).

My fellows never wait for the announcement by the

Moon-sighting Committee. As soon as the sun goes

down, they start calling me, asking whether or not it's

the first night of the blessed Ramzan. Then, in odd

nights of the last ten days (of Ramzan), the calls and

messages again shoot up, asking whether it's Laitaul

Qadr that night. Everyone has a mobile phone these

days, so it doesn’t take long for the secret of Lailatul

Qadr to get out. The downside of this is that the

fellows don’t give as much importance to other nights

and don’t worship as keenly and as devotedly. That's

why Hazrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih has forbidden me from

disclosing the Lailatul Qadr if it falls on the initial

nights (of the last ten days). This time, the Lailatul

Qadr fell on the twenty-first of Ramzan. The

congregation (Ijtima) was planned on the night of

twenty-seventh. Had they known that the Lailatul

Qadr had already passed on the twenty-first, they

would not have come to Murshed Abad with as much

fervor and passion. When they asked me at Murshed

Abad, I told them that the Lailatul Qadr had passed.

The validity of Kashaf depends upon Piety (Taqwa).

When my respected ShaykhRehmatullah Alaih was alive,

there was little probability of the Kashaf being wrong.

Thanks (Allah) that the fellows still kept performing

the Zikr and worships with the same zeal and

keenness.

This year, the Moon-sighting Committee held its

session on 20th July, 2012 to sight the moon of

Ramzan. I saw that the night was brighter than other

nights, which meant that the blessed Ramzan had

started. I informed my fellows at 7 pm that the next

day would be a fasting day (Roza). But, the Moon-

sighting Committee adjourned their session at 9 pm,

announcing that the moon had not been sighted

anywhere in the country. I was myself perplexed how

it had happened. I contacted Hazrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih

and he also confirmed that it was Roza125 the next

day. My companions had also performed the

Taraweeh126 prayer upon my words. After some time,

it was again announced on TV that the next day

would be the first Roza. Hence, my Kashaf proved to

be right and my fellows' faith was reinforced further.

Aetkaf was planned at Murshed Abad last year too,

but it could not be held because of certain reasons.

This year's program issued by the Chief Manager also

included the Aetkaf during the last ten days of

Ramzan. The fellows were prepared to join in large

numbers, but arrangements could not be made to

accommodate everyone, so fewer of them were

granted the permission to sit in Aetkaf. We were 11

people who reached Murshed Abad on the 9th of

August. Those joining the Aetkaf included Khalif

Majaz127 Major (Retd) Ghulam Muhammad, or myself,

Group Captain Rizwan Haider, Wing Commander

Muhammad Mumtaz Khan, Hassan Farooq Hameed,

Najam, Kashif Iqbal, Saifullah, Mueez, Hafeez-ul-

Ameen, and Malik Allah Yar. Murshed Abad is

situated 11km away from the GT Road and no local

125 A fasting day 126 A special prayer performed only during Ramzan nights. 127 Authorized Successor

transport is available for going to the main road, so

everyone joining the Aetkaf had to have their own

transport. Najam, Faisal and Kashif Iqbal had arrived

at Hassan's house from Gujranwala the previous

night. Hassan drove with them from Lahore via

Sargodha to Wan Bhachran, and reached me at 10

am on 9th August. I asked them to take bath one by

one because bathing is not permitted during Aetkaf. I

and Saifullah joined them from Wan Bhachran and we

reached Ban Hafiz at 2 pm. We did not say the Zuhr

prayer behind the local Imam because these people

do not believe that the Prophet's are alive128 and the

dead can hear. We reached Murshed Abad at 2:30

pm. Group Captain Rizwan and his son Mueez had

already arrived there. After performing our Namaz, we

presented ourselves before Hazrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih

and asked if we could perform Zikr near his grave

during the Aetkaf. Hazrat MurshedRehmatullah Alaih said

that we were in Aetkaf in Allah's house. 'You cannot

leave Allah's house and come to me during the

Aetkaf,' he said. After this, Malik Allah Yar also arrived

for joining the Aetkaf. Wing Commander Mumtaz

Khan arrived from Islamabad after Asr. Hazrat's

grandson Hafeez-ul-Ameen stepped in just before the

sunset. In this way, we became 11 people who would

be sitting in Aetkaf.

Hafiz Ameer Muhammad finished the Quran during

the evening Taraweeh. It was decided that during the

128 It is an important tenet of Islam that all the Prophets are alive in their graves, as are the Sahaba, Aulia-Allah, and the martyrs. Although we cannot perceive the nature of their existence.

days of Aetkaf, we would perform Zikr five times a

day, so that the half-century of Zikr sessions could be

completed. Everyone would recite three parts of the

Quran, so that everybody completes the Quran. And

everyone would recite the Darood Sharif 1000 times

every day. The Zikr sessions were held at the

following times: 4 am, 10 am, after Zuhr, after Asr,

and after Maghrib. We recited the Quran three times a

day: after 7 am, after the Zuhr Zikr, then after the Asr

Zikr. The remaining time included reciting the Darood

Sharif and sleeping hours. Mueez took a bath before

the Jumma prayer. Hafeez-ul-Ameen told him that he

cannot take a bath during Aetkaf, unless it is enoined

by the Shariah129. We said the Jumma prayer in the

White Mosque at Chikrala. Hafiz Ubaidullah led the

prayer. Before him, our Shaykh Hazrat Allah Yar

Khan used to lead the Jumma prayer.

Hafiz Usman and Adil arrived from Gujranwala at

midnight. When asked the reason for getting so late,

he (Hafiz Usman) said that he had left after leading

the Jumma prayer in the Madni Masjid, Gujranwala.

That's why they had arrived late. He stayed with us

until the morning of the next Friday, but Adil returned

on the Sunday afternoon. A severe windstorm blew at

night and everything got covered in sand.

The Chief Manager, Colonel Matloob Hussain, arrived

on evening of Saturday, 11th August. Aslam Sahib

and Umer Tajarab were also with him. We were

129 According to the Shariah, a bath becomes obligatory after sexual intercourse or gratification or a wet dream.

waiting for the Iftar130 when Hazrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih's

voice came, "why don’t you break the fast?" So, we

did the Iftar on his orders. Colonel Matloob returned to

Lahore early Sunday morning, the next day. Colonel

Sahib was very pleased that our longing to sit in

Aetkaf near Hazrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih had finally been

fulfilled. We prayed the Tarawih behind Hafiz Ameer

Muhammad. He appeared to have a soft

temperament and moved around gently, as if tired.

One day, when we saw him beating the kids who

were learning to read the Quran, we found out that he

wasn’t as soft of temperament as we had thought.

The Tarawih prayer started at 9 pm, and so did the

load-shedding. Hence, we used to take bath every

night without water, in our own sweat.

When we lied down after the Tarawih on Sunday, the

honorable ShaykhRehmatullah Alaih's orders were received

to conduct the Spiritual Baet of everyone except

Mueez, who was still not 18 years old. When I told my

companions, their faces started glowing. Their

happiness was worth seeing. We decided to wake up

at 1:30 am and sit down for the Zikr at 2 am, after

performing the Nawafil. So, we performed the Zikr

before taking our Sehri131 in the morning of 12th

August, 2012. I had 9 or 10 mobile phones placed

before me on the ground, through which our families

also joined us in the Zikr. During the Zikr, when we

reached the Prophet'sSALL-ALLAHU-ALAIH-WASALLAM

130 The time of Maghrib, when the fast is broken. 131 The early morning meal take before starting the fast.

Mosque, I saw that the respected Shaykh Hazrat

Allah Yar Khan was ready to present the seekers for

the Spiritual Baet. One by one, I presented for the

Spiritual Baet Hafeez-ul-Ameen, Mumtaz Khan,

Rizwan Haider, Saifullah, Muhammad Faisal,

Nadeem Arshad Najam, Kashif Iqbal and Malik Allah

Yar. Hazrat the respected Shaykh himself seated

them before Huzoor AkramSALL-ALLAHU-ALAIH-WASALLAM

and led them through the Spiritual Baet. Then, they

were presented before Hazrat Abu Bakr SiddiqueRazi

Allah Anhu and Hazrat AliRazi Allah Anhu for a handshake,

and their Baet was recorded with Hazrat AliRazi Allah

Anhu. (We were even shown our names and serial

numbers in the Spiritual Baet Register). After this,

they were awarded the Holy Quran and rosaries by

Huzoor Nabi AkramSALL-ALLAHU-ALAIH-WASALLAM himself.

Now, they have to live their lives according to the Holy

Quran and spend their time in remembering Allah.

Hazrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih was overjoyed on this

occasion, because eight of the companions of the

Silsila had been honored with the Spiritual Baet

together, at his hands, and they also included his

grandson. The next day, he told me to conduct Fana-

fir-Rasool on them. So, according to Hazrat, the

respected Shaykh's orders, the fellows were blessed

with the treasure of Fana-fir-Rasool on the following

times and days:

Hafeez-ul-Ameen on 13 August, 2012 at 4:30 pm

Hafiz Usman on 13 August at 6:00 pm

Hassan Farooq Hameed on 13 August at 8:00 pm

Mumtaz Khan on 14 August at 4:30 am

Rizwan Haider on 14 August at 10:00 am

Saifullah on 14 August after Zuhr

Muhammad Faisal on 14 August after Asr

Najam on 14 August after Maghrib

Kashif Iqbal on 15 August at 4:30 am

And Malik Allah Yar on 15 August at 10 am

Hazrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih used to recite the following

Ayat of the Holy Quran after conducting the Spiritual

Baet:

انمایبایعون یبایعونک الذین ان فانما نل فمن ج ایدی م فوق الل ید ل الل

علیہ ع د بما اوفی ومن ج ن سہ علی ینل فسی تیہ الل اشراع یما

(48:10)

Then, he would tell the seekers, "My job is over, I've

given your hand in the sacred hand of the ProphetS-A-

W. Now, you are yourself answerable to HuzoorS-A-W.

You have to keep the promise that you've made with

the ProphetS-A-W. Now, you will be held accountable

directly. Be warned, that now there's no room for a

mistake."

The 27th night of the blessed month of Ramzan fell

on 15th of August. People reached Murshed Abad for

a night stay from Peshawar, Kamra, Risalpur,

Islamabad, Sialkot, Gujranwala, Gujrat, Hafizabad,

Lahore, Faisalabad, Multan, and Mianwali. The

mosque came alive with activity. The thirst for Zikr

and the love of Hazrat, the honorable Shaykh, had

attracted people from all ages, including children,

young men and old fellows. They were overwhelmed

by the urge to get their hearts and spirits nourished by

the Lights and Flashes of Allah. They were crying out

of emotion. The Mosque was filled with the echo of

Allah Hu and bursting with Light. Every eye was wet.

Every sinner was regretful. When they were leaving

the next morning after having spent the night in

worship, they were taking home a renewed

determination and passion for doing Zikr-Allah. The

respected ShaykhRehmatullah Alaih was also saying

goodbye to everyone like a kind father, and praying

for their steadfastness on Zikr and their success in the

efforts to spread the Silsila. After all, it's his Silsila. He

is the last Shaykh of Silsila Naqshbandia Awaisia.

We, his Authorized Successors, are supposed to act

as his assistants and train the seekers, so that the

Silsila is transferred to the next generation and we are

absolved of our responsibilities. It's up to us to see to

it that our duty is fulfilled.

If each one of us had a different schedule to worship

separately, we would have isolated ourselves from

each other by hanging curtains around each person,

so that no one is disturbed. Some would be doing

Zikr, some would be reciting the Quran, and some

would be taking rest. But, we used to sleep together,

wake up together, do Zikr together, and recite

together, we had no need to get secluded from each

other. We placed our beddings in the open verandah

and carried out congregational Zikr, recited the Quran

together, and completed our Tasbeehat132. We just

had three hours to sleep at night, so we used to catch

up on sleep after the morning Zikr. The electricity

load-shedding also stayed with us throughout the

Aetkaf, and proved to be a friend right to the end.

My son Saif-ur-Rehman's tenacity is worth a mention.

He travelled 70kms each way on a motorcycle

everyday to spend the last three nights with us. As the

Moon Night was approaching and our Aetkaf was

nearing its conclusion, we were already starting to

feel sad at the prospects of having to leave each

other. The sessions of Zikr would be no more, nor will

there be the same spiritual feelings. There was a

special type of Feeling descending upon us from

above, and we were beginning to fear its end. The

inevitable happened, and the last day arrived. We

were looking at ourselves, then looking at the grave of

our ShaykhRehmatullah Alaih, from where the whole world

draws the Faiz. Hazrat, the Qibla of the world, was

also sad. We said our prayer after the last Iftari, and

sat by Hazrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih's grave for the farewell

Zikr, through which we kept crying. Then, we got up

from there and boarded our vehicles for the journey

back home. Wing Commander Mumtaz Khan dropped

off Malik Allah Yar at his home after 7–8km. The next

day, which was the Eid day, we learned that Malik

132 Pl of Tasbeeh. It means the prescribed words for praising Allah SWT. EG Subhan Allah, Alhamdulillah, etc.

Allah Yar had had a stroke before the Eid prayer. He

was rushed to a hospital in Mianwali, but he could not

survive, and departed for Barzakh on the next day to

the Eid. Inna Lillah-e wa Inna Elai-he Rajeoon

(Indeed, we are from Allah and to Him we shall

return.) Later on, when I focused on him to see his

condition, I saw that he was sitting with Hazrat

JeeRehmatullah Alaih in the respected Shaykh's grave, and

was very happy. How lucky a person he is! His luck is

enviable in a positive way. Malik Allah Yar was in the

esteemed Silsila since the times of Hazrat

JeeRehmatullah Alaih. Perhaps, the Angel of Death was

waiting for his Spiritual Baet and Fana-fir-Rasool to be

accomplished. As soon as these conditions were met,

he came, drew his spirit, and took him along.

Dying before Death


It was the beginning of the year 1970. I was stationed

at Rislapur. My Shaykh Hazrat Maulana Allah Yar

KhanRehmatullah Alaih was staying at my house. It was a

short stay, but became an everlasting memory of my

life. It was during this stay that I was blessed with the

honor fully joining Silsila Naqshbandia Awaisia, and it

was during this time that I had the opportunity to

practice for the first time the Meditation of "Dying

before Death". After doing the Lata-if, Hazrat

JeeRehmatullah Alaih started conducting the Triple

Meditations. When the Meditation of Maeeyat started,

Hazrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih announced:

"Let's go to the Meditation of Mootu Qabl an Tamootu.

See, the angel of death has arrived before you to

draw your spirit. Look, your spirit has been drawn

from your body. Here's your corpse. See, it's being

bathed. Now the bath is over and you have been

wrapped in the burial cloth. Look, people are here to

pick up your coffin. Look, they're shouldering your

coffin. See how many of them are with you. See, your

final prayer has been said. Now they're taking your

body to the grave. Look, they're lowering you into the

grave. Look, now the grave has been covered and

your heirs and relatives are going back. Look, the

Munkir and Nakeer133 are here and the questioning

has started. Look, a window has opened to your left.

Look, you can see scorpions and snakes the size of

donkeys. Allahu-Akbar! This is the condition of lovers

of the world."

I saw that the fellows attending the session were

crying bitterly, and I was also crying. The scenario

was so horrible that our courage failed us.

Then, he said: "The window on the left side has

closed. Now, a window has opened to your right side.

See, how the breeze from the Paradise is coming

from this window. Look, now the Judgment Day has

arrived. See how the human race is heading towards

the Field of Accountability134. No one cares about

anyone else on this day. Now, the scales have been

erected. Look, your actions are being weighed. The

side of the scales in which your good deeds are

placed is higher than the other side. Look here, it's a

piece of paper on which La Ilaha ill-Allah Muhammad-

ur-Rasoolullah is written. The side of good actions

becomes heavier the moment this piece of paper is

placed in it…Allah, Allah! Come towards the Siraat

Bridge135 now. It's the bridge over Hell, the bridge

133 Names of two angels who question the dead after he/she has been buried, cremated, etc. 134 The Field of Hashr 135 A bridge between the Field of Accountability and the Paradise that everyone has to cross. Those who can't fall into the Hell down below.

that's thinner than the cutting edge of a sword. Look

how people are falling into Hell. Come and stand

behind me. Allah Hu!" And I saw that everyone

crossed to the other side of the bridge. Hazrat

JeeRehmatullah Alaih asked us to bear this in our minds

that an accomplished Shaykh guides his followers all

the way, right through the grave and the

Accountability.

I was fortunate to avail Hazrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih's

company until 1983. During this time, I had the

chance to practice the Meditation of Dying several

times each year. While the Annual Ijtima of 1983 was

going on, Hazrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih sent me to his

lands, the area now called Murshed Abad. The Chief

Manager sent 6–7 companions with me. They used to

stay with me for a week and then get replaced by

other companions )from the Ijtima). When the Annual

Ijtima was over and HazratRehmatullah Alaih, our respected

Shaykh, had returned to Chikrala, he sent me a

message one evening in Murshed Abad that I must

conduct the Meditation of Dying before Death in my

routine with the companions that day. Complying

Shaykh's orders, I was blessed with the opportunity to

conduct the Meditation with my fellows. I remember

everything. When I look back even today, the journey

that I started with Hazrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih comes to a

halt when it reaches Mootu. I am unable to stop my

tears. Now, I'm really waiting for Mootu (the areal

death).

The separation from the Shaykh, who taught me the

Meditation of Dying before Death, keeps me filled with

grief. He departed from this transient world on 18th

February, 1984. The earth did not cry on his death,

nor did the sky shed any tears, because he had made

the earth his abode, and the sky would still keep

bathing in the Lights of his Spiritual Stations. It was

we who were left helpless. We lost the roof over our

heads. Had Mootu been permitted, we would have

wished for death and joined our beloved Shaykh

without delay.

Did You Even Know?


When Hazrat Abu Bakr Siddique used to eat anything

in which there used to be doubt (that it's not clean), he

used to induce vomiting by inserting his finger into his

throat, and used to pray that Allah may not hold him

accountable for whatever had already been digested.

Two black streaks had appeared on Hazrat UmarRazi

Allah Anhu's face because of excessive crying (before

Allah). When the grief overtook him, he used to take

off his clothes, dress in a short piece of cloth that

barely covered his thighs, and kept wailing and crying

and asking forgiveness for his sins. His eyes were

continuously wet, until he used to faint. Whenever

such an episode happened, he used to stop coming

out of his house, and people used to go to inquire

about his health, considering him to be ill.

Hazrat Abu Al DardaRazi Allah Anhu's wife Umm-e-Darda

used to say that she had strived in multiple types of

worships, but had not found anything better and more

healing for her chest than the assemblies of Zikr-

Allah. People used to go to her for doing Zikr and she

also used to do Zikr with them.

When Hazrat Urwa bin ZubairRazi Allah Anhu went into

recluse in his palace in Yemen and stopped coming to

Masjid-e-Nabvi, people asked him the reason. He

said that he had seen that the mosque had not stayed

the same. They had become sports arenas, centers of

useless talks, and dens of obscenity. Therefore, he

felt it was more peaceful to be at home.

Hazrat Umer bin Abdul Aziz kept seeing KhizrAlaih as-

Salam frequently. He used to send his messenger to the

sacred Madina regularly just to convey his Salam to

Allah's ProphetS-A-W, Hazrat Abu BakrRazi Allah Anhu, and

Hazrat UmerRazi Allah Anhu.

Hazrat Sabit bin Asad BananiRehmatullah Alaih has said

that when the practitioners of Zikr sit down for doing

Zikr, all their sins are forgiven by the time they get up,

even if the sins may be as big as mountains. He used

to pray that, "O Allah, if You have blessed any of your

creation with the goodness of performing Namaz in

their grave, bless it to me as well. When he died and

his grave was lined with bricks, one of the bricks fell

down, and people saw that he was standing up in his

grave, praying Namaz.

Hazrat Maalik bin Dinar used to buy salt worth two

Cheh and used to take his flat-bread with it for the

whole year, other than the days of sacrifice, when he

used to eat meat because the virtue of eating

sacrificial meat has been mentioned in the Hadees.

He used to tell his family members that whoever could

live with him within meager resources was welcome

to stay; otherwise, they were welcome to leave.

Imam Ahmed bin HanbalRehmatullah Alaih used to say that

Allah distributes the treasures of knowledge only to

the people whom He considers His friends; and had

He preferred only particular people for receiving

knowledge, He would have preferred those with a

good family background. Ata Habshi was a slave.

Hassan Basri was a freed slave. And, indeed, Ibn

Sireen was also a slave set free by the Ansaar136.

When Hajjaj cut off Saeed bin Jabeer's head, the

latter said La Ilaha Ill-Allah twice and was about to

say it the third time when he was slaughtered. He has

said before he was killed that 'O Allah, do not give

Hajjaj power over anyone after me,' and that was

what did happen. Hajjaj lived for 15 years after him.

His stomach hurt as if it were on fire. For as long as

he lived, he kept crying aloud that Saeed bin Jabeer

was not letting go of him.

Hazrat Sufyan SuriRehmatullah Alaih was known among

people as the Ameer-ul-Momineen137 of Hadees. He

used to say that the two angels138 can smell the

fragrance or stink of good and bad deeds. He was

asked about a person who toils for the sake of his

family. He cannot look after his family if he says his

prayer with Jamaat. How should that person act in

such a situation. He replied that he should work for

136 The original inhabitants of Madina, the sacred city. 137 Ameer-ul-Monimeen means "leader of the believers". It's a title usually reserved for the Caliph. 138 Kiram-ul-Katibeen, the two angels deputed with every person for recording his actions.

the sustenance of his family and say his prayers

alone. Someone narrated his trouble before him.

Hazrat Sufyan SuriRehmatullah Alaih told him to leave.

"Was there no one lower than me in your eyes that

you could complain about Allah before him?"

Imam Shaf'I used to say that he had availed the

company of Sufis for 20 years. Whoever wishes that

Allah SWT should open his heart's door to the Light

must sit in solitude, eat sparingly, quit mixing with

fools, and consider worldly Aalims to be his enemies.

Imam Maalik used to walk barefooted in the streets of

Madina, and said he would feel ashamed before Allah

to trample under animals' hooves the dust that

contains His ProphetSall-Allahu-alaih-Wasallam's grave. He

stayed in his house for 25 years and did not join

congregational prayers because he feared that they

no longer had the power to eliminate evil.

Ibrahim bin Adham hailed from Balkh and belonged to

the progeny of kings. When he could not find

Permissible food to eat, he used to eat earth for a

month. He used to say that he would have eaten

nothing other than earth if he had not found Halal

food, but he feared that his Nafs would become fond

of eating it. He used to reduce his diet as much as he

could and said that there was no room for

extravagance in Halal earning. He used to perform 15

prayers (Namaz) with a single Wazu.

Hazrat Zulnoon Misri has stated that when his feet

were shackled and he was being taken from Egypt to

Baghdad, they happened upon a disabled lady on the

way. She said to him not to fear Caliph Mutwakkil

when he is presented in his court, and not to think that

the Caliph was superior to him. She also advised him

not to present any argument to prove himself right,

because he would be trying to prove what Allah

already knew. Therefore, he should pray to God for

help and not to help himself, otherwise Allah will leave

him to himself. So, when he appeared before

Mutwakkil, and was asked to explain his position

regarding the charge of being a disbeliever and a

heretic, he kept quiet. Mutwakkil asked him why he

was not saying anything. He replied: "O Ameer-ul-

Momineen, if I refute these charges, I'll be

pronouncing as liars the Muslims who have brought

this charge against me. And if I accept these charges,

I'll be telling a lie. Therefore, I'll not say anything in my

defense. You can decide the case as you deem fit."

Upon hearing this, Mutwakkil said that he was

absolved of the charges against him. He returned to

that disabled woman and asked her wherefrom she

had learned such wisdom. She replied that she had

learned it from the incident narrated in the Quran

where the Woodpecker talks to Hazrat SulaimanAlaih as-

Salam. (Part 19, Ruku 17, Verse 21 to 24)

Hazrat Bashar Hafi says that one day, when he

returned home, he saw a man sitting inside. He asked

the man why he had entered his house without

permission. The man said that he was his brother

Khizr. Hazrat Bashar requested him to pray for him to

Allah. KhizrAlaih as-Salam prayed that Allah may make it

easier for him to obey Him. Hazrat Bashar requested

for a bit more. Hazrat Khizr said that Allah may not let

him become proud of his obedience.

Hazrat Sirri Saqti has said that the person who

becomes satisfied with people calling him a Wali-Allah

is indeed a captive of his Nafs. He said that if he

came to know that his staying at home was better

than going to the mosque, he would not go out. And if

he came to know that it was better for him not to mix

with people, he would quit sitting with people. And

three things indicate that Allah is angry with a

particular person—excessive playing, joking and

laughing aloud, and backbiting.

Hazrat Bayazeed Bastami saw Allah, the Lord of

Honor, in his dream. He asked: "O Almighty, how can

I find You?" It was replied: "Leave your Nafs and

come to Me." Hazrat Bastami was asked about the

distinguishing quality of an Arif. He replied that the

condition of an Arif was similar to that of the

inhabitants of Hell, who can neither die nor live.

Hazrat Suhail Tastri says that the Karamat of Aulia

stem from four Names—al-Awwal, al-Aakhir, al-Zahir,

and al-Batin (the First, the Last, the Apparent, and the

Hidden)139. The people of al-Zahir (the Apparent)

observe the wonders of nature. The people of al-Batin

(the Hidden) witness what goes on inside the hearts.

Those who have been given a share from al-Awwal

(the First) are engaged with past incidents. And the

139 These are the Names of Allah.

people of al-Aakhir (the Last) are focused on future

happenings. The quality of their paranormal insight

depends upon their individual spiritual power. He

states that he met a companion of MaseehAlaih as-Salam,

who was wearing a robe that appeared a special kind

of fresh. He told him that he had been wearing that

robe since the time of MaseehAlaih as-Salam. When

Hazrat Suhail expressed his astonishment, he said,

"Suhail, the body does not cause the clothes to be

worn out. Rather, it's the stink of sins and Haraam

food that make them old." Hazrat Suhail says that he

asked him if he had also seen our Prophet

MuhammadSALL-ALLAHU-ALAIH-WASALLAM. He replied in the

affirmative and said that he had believed in him at the

time when the Jinn had believed in him. That's the

reason why KhizrAlaih as-Salam's clothes don’t get worn

out, because he does not commit sin or eat Haraam.

Hazrat Ahmed bin Muhammad says that when

AdamAlaih as-Salam committed the disobedience,

everything in the Paradise cried for him, but gold and

silver did not. Allah SWT asked them through Wahi

why they did not cry for Adam. They said they would

not cry for someone who disobeyed Him. So, Allah

SWT swore by His Honor and Anger that He would

make the progeny of Adam their servant, and would

make them the standard for determining the value of

everything.

Hazrat Abu Al-khair used to say: "Look. Be warned.

Never ever request Allah SWT to bless you with

patience (during distress). Rather, pray to Him to deal

with you softly, because people like us find it very

hard to bear the bitterness of having to be patient."

When ZakriyaAlaih as-Salam ran from the Jews, a tree

called out to him to come towards it. That tree parted

for him and he went inside it, after which the tree

closed itself again. One of his enemies followed him

and held his robe and called out to others that

ZakriyaAlaih as-Salam was inside the tree. They produced

a saw and began sawing the tree. When the saw

reached ZakriyaAlaih as-Salam, he let out a loud scream.

At that time Allah SWT sent a revelation upon

ZakriyaAlaih as-Salam and swore by His Respect and

Anger that if ZakriyaAlaih as-Salam let out another cry,

Allah would delete his name from the Office of

Prophethood. ZakriyaAlaih as-Salam exercised his

patience and was sawed into two without letting out a

whimper. Allah does not like it at all that you should

ask anyone other than Him for help.

Hazrat Abu Bakr Katani says that there are 300

Naqeebs, 70 Najeebs, 40 Abdaals, 7 Akhyar, 4 Amad

(Qutb), and one Ghaus140. The Naqeebs live in the

west, Najeebs in Egypt, and Abdaals are in Syria. The

Akhyar keep roaming around the world, and Amad

live in all corners of the world. And the abode of the

Ghaus is the exalted city of Makkah. The Naqeeb

keep begging for the prayer to be granted, followed by

the Najeeb, Abdaal, Amad, and finally, the Ghaus.

And the Ghause has barely spelled out his need when

his prayer is granted.

140 These are all Appointments of Aulia-Allah

Once upon a time, a group of Faqeers and

Faqeehs141 gathered before Hazrat Shaykh Abdul

Qadir Jilani at the Nizamia School. He started

delivering a talk on Divine Will and Destiny.

Meanwhile, a snake fell from the roof, seeing which all

the attendees fled the room, and only the Shaykh was

left behind. The snake entered his clothes, slid over

his body, got its head out near his neck, and wound

itself around his neck. Despite all this, he neither

broke his sermon nor moved from his seat. Then, the

snake slid down to the floor, stood before him on its

tail, shouted something that nobody among those

present could understand, and went away. When

everyone had returned, they asked the Shaykh what

the snake had spoken. He replied, "he told me that he

had tried many Aulia, but had never seen the kind of

resilience he saw in me. I told him that he was just a

worthless worm. He is moved by the same Divine Will

and Destiny that I was speaking about." The next day,

the Shaykh happened upon a ruin where he saw a

person. When he saw that person's eyes, he

understood that it was a Jinn. The person told him

that he was the same snake. He had tried many Aulia.

Some of them were perturbed inside, but remained

calm on the surface, while others were shaken

internally and also visibly. But the Shaykh had shown

no sign of distress on the inside and out. The Jinn

requested him that he wanted to repent on the

Shaykh's hand, so the Shaykh led him to repentence.

141 Someone who is knowledgeable in Fiqah, the Islamic Code of Conduct

Shaykh Abu Bakr bin Hawar used to commit

robberies. One night, he heard a voice from Ghaib142

asking him if time had still not come for him to fear

Allah. So, he immediately repented and was the first

person whom Hazrat Abu Bakr SiddiqueRazi Allah Anhu

clothed in a robe and a cap in his dream. When he

woke up, he found both the things on his body. Ibn

Hawar gifted these clothes to Shanbaki. Shanbaki

gave them to the Crown of the Cognizant Abu Al

Wafa, who passed them on to Shaykh Ali bin Haiti.

Ibn Al Haiti gave them to Shaykh Ali bin Idrees, after

which those clothes got lost.

Three Maulvis went to see Hazrat Baqa bin Batoor.

During Salaat, the Shaykh's recitation of the Quran

was not up to the expectations of the Maulvis, so they

thought negatively of him in their hearts. They stayed

for the night at the seminary. Looking to refresh

themselves after the tiring journey, they went to take a

dip in the nearby canal. When they were inside, a lion

appeared from somewhere and sat on their clothes.

The water was cold, and the Maulvis became worried

that they would die. At that moment, Shaykh Baqa

appeared. The lion got up from the clothes and

started rolling lovingly at the Shaykh's feet. The

Maulvis were regretful.

The elders of Iraq used to say that Shaykh Jageer

had slipped out of his Nafs like a snake slips out of its

skin. He used to say that he had never accepted

142 The hidden. The invisible.

anyone's Baet until he had seen that person's name

in the Guarded Tablet, along with the inscription that

he was among his progeny. There's a saying

attributed to him that 'observation actually means that

the veils are lifted between Allah and the seeker.

Hence, the slave is informed about the Ghaib by

virtue of the purity of his Qalb and observes the

Grandeur and Highness of Allah, the Exalted Lord.

Shaykh Mohyyuddin has mentioned in Fatoohat that

he arrived at Koh Qaaf along with some Abdaals,

where they happened upon a snake that was

encircling the mountain. "One of my companions

asked me to say Salam to the snake, and said that it

would reply my Salam. So, I said Salam to the snake

and it replied. Then it asked us where we had come

from. We said that we were from Bajaya. He asked if

Abu Madin was fine. We replied that people accused

him of being a heretic. It said that by God, the

progeny of Adam had covers over their eyes, and that

he could never imagine that anyone could think badly

of a person whom Allah the Most High considers His

Friend. We asked it how it knew this. It said, praise be

to Allah, there was not a single animal in the world

that was unaware of this fact. He (Abu Madin) was

among the people whom Allah SWT had made His

Friends and had poured their love into people's

hearts. Only a non-believer or hypocrite could

consider them as bad."

Allah's Zikr intensifies the Light of the Qalb and

weakens the evil of the Nafs. The Nafs is indeed the

veil between the Master and His slave. If the Nafs

dominates the heart, it makes the heart its captive

and established its rule. It is because of the Nafs that

the love of this world does not leave a person's heart.

In such a situation, a person can neither do Zikr

sincerely nor attain the Stations of Salook. This is

because lust and avarice are the essence of the Nafs.

The Satan is its servant and the propensity for

polytheism is in its temperament. It is in its nature to

contest the Truth and object to the Truth. Love of

fame and popularity is the life of the Nafs. It is the

Nafs that wants to be worshipped and respected like

its Master. How can a slave get closer to his/her

Master with such an attitude? Therefore, it is

incumbent upon us to embrace the things that the

Nafs considers undesirable, and to avoid the things

that the Nafs is attracted towards. Whoever values

and nurtures the Nafs and considers anything else to

be lower than their Nafs indeed harm themselves. If

the Nafs continues to be strong, the Satan will not

separate from it, bad habits will not stop afflicting it,

and evil thoughts will not stop haunting it. The

treatment for the Nafs is not to quit the world. Rather,

only striving (in Allah's Zikr) can overpower the Nafs

and keeps it under control. Otherwise, there are

fellows who claim to have attained such Stations as

they have no access to, nor has the Shaykh lifted

them to those stations. Such people are surely being

deceived by their Nafs and are the victims of vanity

and self-deceit. We have seen many people who had

a grand stature but did not follow the footsteps of the

Shaykh. Ultimately, they lost the secret knowledge

that they had, and the Nafs knocked them out.

My respected Shaykh used to say that the (spiritual)

insight is not different from the (physical) eyesight.

Just like the eyesight is disturbed when a tiny and

worthless thing gets into the eye, the insight is also

blurred when evil qualities (of the Nafs) interrupt it.

One's intellect, will and thoughts are polluted by it (the

Nafs). The person can lose everything if they remain

adamant upon evil. If safety and salvation is the goal,

one must guard their tongue, limbs and Qalb. One

should not use the tongue for backbiting or telling lies.

The guarding of the limbs means that one should not

hasten towards sin nor harm another Muslim. The

guarding of the Qalb means that one should keep it

busy in Zikr, and must not let it engage in chicanery,

trickery, fraud, deceit, and jealousy. If you offer your

prayers and perform the morning and evening Zikr

regularly, angels will start shaking hands with you.

I Keep Waiting for You


There was a time when people used to come from

Moosa Khail to Wan Bhachran to get drinking water.

A well and mosque from Sher Shah Suri's era still

exist in Wan Bhachran. You will find similar wells after

every 24km along the GT Road. I took my

companions to this historical well once or twice, but

now the people of the city have started throwing

garbage into it.

My Murshed Hazrat Allah Yar Khan used to come

from Chikrala to Wan Bhachran on foot. From here,

he used to board a train or bus to go to Sargodha,

from where he used to go to Langar Makhdoom to

reach his Shaykh Hazrat Allah Deen MadniRehmatullah

Alaih. In those times, walking for 20 or 25 kilometers

was not considered to be unusual. I wasn’t surprised

when Hazrat, my respected Shaykh, told me this,

because I too used to walk 18 to 20 kilometers in my

childhood.

The fellows of the Jamaat used to visit Chikrala every

month in Hazrat Shaykh-ul-Mukarram's lifetime,

because illness and old age had made it impossible

for him now to travel like before. It always used to be

the instinct, passion of love, and respect for the

Shaykh that we were driven by fondness and

enthusiasm to see him in order to get our Lata-if

charged. We remembered by heart the dates notified

by Colonel Matloob Hussain, and we always reached

Chikrala on those dates even if we had to adjust the

rest of our activities. Hazrat, the honorable Shaykh,

never accepted money from the companions. He said

that even if a single unlawfully earned (Haraam)

rupee came through a donation, it would render the

Halal to be Haraam as well. He used to say that his

Jamaat is not the Jamaat of donations. "I am your

spiritual father, and your sustenance is my

responsibility. Therefore, eat of my Halal food when

you come here," he used to say. He forbade us from

eating from the hotels on the way.

Army officers and Navy employees dominated the

Jamaat. The majority of the Navy personnel was

Bengali. Saeed Bengali was Hazrat's favorite pupil.

Captain Zain-ul-Abideen's Kashaf was also famous.

Once we sent him from Risalpur to Chikrala to fetch

the respected Shaykh. On the way back, he banged

the car into a tree. We asked him how it had

happened, as he was a good driver. He replied that

he saw that everyone else was travelling high up (on

their Stations). "I involuntarily closed my eyes and

joined them. Meanwhile the car hit the tree," he said.

Hazrat Shaykh-ul-Mukarram was also injured in the

accident and Qazi Sanaullah received some minor

injuries.

Our companionship with Hazrat, the honorable

Shaykh, spanned over 14 to 15 years. We never

realized how quickly those months and years had

gone by. We were completely transformed by the

passion, the desire, the determination, and the love

that was born inside us as a result of his company.

We started spending our days and nights in

worshipping, making efforts (to please Allah), and

performing the Zikr. We were possessed by the

passion to follow our respected Shaykh in every

respect. Perhaps, this is what is called Fana-fi-

Shaykh in the terminology of Salook. In the beginning,

there were no more than 50 or 60 of such fully

committed seekers, but their numbers kept increasing

as days kept passing. Today, Silsila Awaisia has

spread to all corners of the world.

Hazrat Shaykh-al-Mukarram held sway and stature

over the whole country. His every ideological

opponent was hesitant to face him. He read books

very often, and used to ask the companions residing

in Iran, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia to send the original

books of Ulema and Sufis from those countries. He

did not read translated books because translators

make alterations in the books. He used to stress upon

us to keep seeing him, and said that a meeting (with

the Shaykh) has a very positive impact upon the Lata-

if. One should not stay away from the Shaykh for

more than three month, otherwise the Lata-if become

weak. In that case one starts missing the sessions of

Zikr. Slackness seeps into the prayers. The Nafs gets

attracted towards the world. He used to say: "I keep

waiting for you to come."

No mobile phones existed at that time. Letters were

the only mode of communication. The companions

kept writing about their troubles to Hazrat Qibla Alam,

making him worried. Even his own child didn’t let him

sit peacefully. His only son Abdul Rauf was more

inclined towards magic than Tasawwuf. That was the

reason why he had to hand over Silsila Naqshbandia

Awaisia to people outside his family. Instead of

keeping the Silsila united, those people have divided

it into their own domains for their own purposes.

Hazrat JeeRehmatullah Alaih departed from us on 18th

February, 1984. He had demarcated his burial place

six months prior to his death. He had told his followers

who would head the Jamaat after him, but

unfortunately, things did not stay as he would have

liked them to be after his death. The analogy of "the

eagles' nests are under the sway of vultures" was

realized. Political gatherings, processions, rallies,

litigation, and nepotism became rampant. The media

was used for self-projection. Scandals were made.

Hatred was born. And hence, Hazrat Shaykh-ul-

MukarramRehmatullah Alaih's 50-year struggle was

undone. The lifetime Chief Manager Colonel Matloob

Hussain is at work to control the damage, but it

seems it will take some time before the loss is

compensated. We hope from Allah that He will not let

this Jamaat fall apart.

Doctor Salman and Doctor Azmat started coming to

me in 1992. Then, by the Grace of Allah, dozens of

PAF fighter pilots joined us in Zikr. They made Allah's

remembrance the purpose of their lives, and got into

the Zikr with such conviction that when you see them

they remind you of Allah. The TV serial "Shahpar"

was being aired back in those days. All the actor-

pilots of the cast joined the Zikr. Group Captain (Air

Cdre) Sarfaraz , Group Captain (Air Cdre) Arif Kazmi,

Wing Commander Muzammil Jibran, and Squadron

Leader Mohsin Khan are worth a mention. They have

become guiding lights for others. Once, Mohsin

landed his aircraft on the runway without the landing

gear extended. The wheels had failed to come out

because of some technical fault. It was indeed his

Karamat that the aircraft did not explode despite

grinding against the length of the runway, and despite

being filled with fuel.

Hafiz Muhammad Usman had come to me for Zikr

along with Squadron Leader Fauzi (now Wing

Commander) in 1996. He again contacted me in 2007

and told me that he had completed his religious

education and wanted to come to me for learning

Salook. Since Hafiz Usman joined the Zikr, a large

number of his fellows from Gujranwala and Lahore

have also joined. I sometimes think that had Hafiz

Usman not joined the Zikr, hundreds of people from

Gujranwala and Lahore would not have been with me.

I have travelled more than 100,000 kilometers with

Hafiz Usman, and with Hassan Farooq Hameed from

Gulshan Ravi Lahore, just for the sake of Zikr. Allah

has blessed me with the ability to travel despite me

having undergone a heart surgery. I pray to Allah, the

Exalted Lord, that He may bless me with the strength

to keep going to people for the purpose of spreading

Silsila Awaisiah in the future also.

The cumulative distance from Wan Bhachran to

Mianwali, from Mianwali to Ban Hafiz, from Ban Hafiz

to Chikrala, and from Chikrala to Murshed Abad is

around 70–72 kilometers. Public transport is easily

available till Ban Hafiz. I often wait at Ban Hafiz for my

fellows, who pick me up from here to go to Murshed

Abad, and drop me off here on their way back. I have

set a target to present myself at Murshed Abad 33

times in a year. When no one else can come, I board

a local transport and get off at Dak Bangla. Murshed

Abad is 3km from there. I walk this distance. My

Murshed used to walk from Sial Morr to the shrine of

Khwaja Allah Deen MadniRehmatullah Alaih, a distance of

6km. I also walk for 6km up and down from Dak

Bangla. This distance looks daunting now, since I'm

not in good health like before. I have gone to Murshed

Abad 337 times in 11 years, from 2003 to 2013.

The Games that Destiny

Plays


He was still a pupil at the mosque. His family had

made him tasked him to take around their flock of

goats and sheep for grazing. The Chashma and the

Jinnah Barrages had not been constructed at that

time, so the Indus River used to be ferocious in the

rainy season. His village was located on the bank of

the River. Women used to wash their laundry sitting

by the river. When the River shrank in winters, the

Kacha land used to become arable. He used to haul

out his flock to the Kacha lands for grazing every day

after attending his Zuhr lesson. Those were the last

days of March, and suddenly the River began to

swell, trapping the boy amidst raging tides. The water

rose so fast that he could not reach home with his

flock. His goats and sheep were swept away in the

flood, and he saved his life by sitting on top of the

boundary wall of a well. He was sitting there and

crying, thinking about the beating that he would

receive when he returned home without the goats.

The evening came and darkness began to spread.

Now, he became worried about getting home,

because there was water everywhere that he could

see. When it was late and he did not come home, his

family became worried too. They sent two people to

look for him in the Kacha, and gave them water

pouches to use as life jackets. They inflated the water

carriers and swam to the area to search for the boy.

Fortunately, one of them reached the boy. He

dismounted the boy from the well's wall and brought

him home carrying him on his back. The boy was

shivering because of the cold and the fear, as he had

seen death up close.

His aunt used to recite the Quran after offering her

Zuhr prayer. She also used to listen to him repeat the

lesson that he memorized. One day, as he was

waiting to read his lesson to his aunt, he saw

something. It was something similar to a lizard that

was protruding its head from underneath the wooden

stand on which the Quran was placed, and was

looking at him. Then, just as that thing came out from

under the stand and was about to go into the room,

they realized that it was actually a 4–5 feet long

snake. They started shouting, and the noise attracted

people from the neighborhood to gather there. They

looked for the snake everywhere in the room, but it

had coiled itself around the leg of a cot just to save its

life. It was probably thinking of sneaking out of there

without being seen. Meanwhile, someone spotted it.

He hit it with a stick and it fell to the floor. Within a

moment, sticks were raining down on it. Everyone

made a strike as they had to narrate the story of their

courage after returning to their homes. But the boy

was standing aside, wondering why the snake had not

bit him when he was reciting the Quran. He had

thought it was a lizard, as he hadn’t seen a snake

before.

He was in college when this happened. He was

studying at the Agricultural University, Loyalpur (now

Faisalabad). A Nepalese Hindu, Giri, also lived in his

hostel. Giri was doing his PhD. It had been seven

years since he had come to Loyalpur. The boy, now a

young man, had known Giri for four years. A group of

Islamic preachers had just left their hostel after

speaking to them. He asked Giri why he did not

become a Muslim. "I'll become one if you say so,"

said Giri. He asked Giri to take a bath in the Islamic

way, after which he would make him recite the Kalma.

Giri took a bath in the way he had told him, changed

his clothes, and came to him for becoming a Muslim.

He made Giri recite the first and the second Kalma

and congratulated him for becoming a Muslim. In

reply, Giri recited all the (six) Kalmas and also recite

the Namaz. Giri then told him that one does not

become a Muslim like that. He would stay a Hindu

despite knowing the Kalmas and the Namaz. Giri

went on to say that the two of them were alike, except

that he had a Muslim name. What Giri had said

influenced him so much that he started going to the

mosque regularly to say his prayers. He also got

affiliated with the Tableeghi Jamaat143 and when the

143 A large group that claims to preach Islam. Mostly found in the Subcontinent.

summer vacations came, he went for a preaching tour

for 40 days. When he lived with them, he realized that

there is a stark contradiction in their words and

actions. They talk a lot, but don’t walk their talk.

He fought the 1971 War in the Kanjri Bridge sector of

Lahore. He prayed hard for martyrdom, but remained

unscathed despite intense shelling and firing by the

enemy. When the cease fire was announced, his

hope of embracing martyrdom was dashed.

Heartbroken, he wrote to his Murshed that he had

been unable to achieve martyrdom despite his

craving, and was still alive to commit more sins. After

a few days, he was granted leave of absence and he

went to Chikrala to see his Murshed Hazrat Allah Yar

Khan. His Murshed scolded him and asked if the

status of the Triumphant was below that of the

Martyr144. He warned him against wishing for death in

future. "Has Allah made you to be eaten by dogs and

cats? You don’t know the tasks that Allah has planned

for you," his Murshed said.

Once he talked to a companion of his about the

Station he was at. Hazrat Qibla Alam had lifted him to

the Third Arsh, so he asked his companion to see if

his spirit was still soaring to that place or if a

weakness had crept in. That fellow suggested that

they should go to Qazi Sanaullah in Laity, because he

used to speak out everything that he saw when he

used to conduct the Zikr. So, they went to Laity to see

144 The actual words are Shaheed (Martyr) and Ghazi (Triumphant)

Qazi Sanaullah. When Qazi Sanaullah started

conducting the Stations of the Arsh during the

evening routine, he stopped at the Thrid Arsh,

because his Murshed had only allowed him till that

Station. Qazi Sahib said, "Don’t stop Major Sahib, got

to the Fourth Arsh." Then, Qazi Sahib took him

through the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth

Arsh. He then asked him to keep going on his own.

Hence, the Stations of the Arsh were crossed, but

what happened to him later on was tragic. When he

was transferred to the next Unit (in the Army), an

inquiry for embezzlement and corruption was already

constituted against his Colonel. The Colonel wickedly

adopted the stance that he was afraid that the Major

Ghulam Muhammad would influence the findings of

the inquiry being held against him (because he knew

that Major Ghulam Muhammad would only endorse

the facts). He demanded that the inquiry was held

without Major Ghulam Muhammad being present at

the Unit, so he was removed from there attached with

the Brigade Headquarters. After that, the inquiry was

prolonged so much that 90 days passed, and the

orders for Major Ghulam Muhammad's demotion were

received. He could no longer wear the temporary rank

of a Major, because more than 90 days had passed

since he had been removed from his command. It

was strange, because those who had collaborated in

the financial corruption were spared, and he had to

lose his ranks. His rank was returned to him later

when he was posted back to his Unit and assumed

the command of a company. Hazrat Qibla Alam also

asked him the reason for his ordeal. He replied that

what had happened was inevitable, as Qazi Sahib

had took him across six of the Thrones (Arsh) in a

single session. He had to bear the squeeze because

those Stations were out of his reach when they were

granted to him.

He went to attend a course at Quetta in 1974. Mr

Qayyum was scheduled to deliver a lecture on the

topic "Striving to be a Muslim" at the Infantry School.

The talk started at 3pm. The hall was packed to its full

capacity of around 300 people. Qayyum Sahib did not

give any break for the Asr and the Maghrib prayers.

At the end of the lecture, Qayyum Sahib asked the

audience if they had any questions. He stood up and

said that he had fought to War of 1971 and never

missed a prayer even during the War. "Today, when

no war is going on and there's no emergency, and the

topic of your talk is also 'Striving to be a Muslim', you

have knowingly wasted the Asr and Maghrib prayers

of 300 officers. Is this how one strives to be a

Muslim?" he asked the speaker. Qayyum Sahib, in his

reply, recited the following piece of a verse:

Your heart is fond of Idols, what will you gain from

prayer?

Although he said his Missed145 prayers after he

returned home, but he still regrets wasting his prayers

listening to an enlightened English lecture-monger.

145 Qaza. If a prayer is not said at its time, it becomes a Qaza or missed prayer and has to be performed later.

You may know that Hujjaj bin Yousuf sent

Muhammad bin Qasim, along with 6,000 men, to

Sindh for the conquest of Dibal. Before departure, he

strictly told Muhammad bin Qasim that he would be

guilty and accountable if even a single one of his

6,000 soldiers missed a single prayer. Hujjaj bin

Yousuf is known for his brutality and cruelty, but he

did not compromise in the matter of Farz prayers.

In 1985, he performed the Hajj along on his own

expense along with an official delegation. General

Afzaal had included some woman's name with the

delegation, showing her to be his (Maj Ghulam

Muhammad's) Mehram146. General Asif Nawaz also

accompanied the delegation. He also tried to

convince him to become that woman's Mehram and

take her along for the Hajj, but he did not agree, as a

non-Mehram cannot become a Mehram. He had to

pay a heavy price for his refusal. His promotion board

was held the the same year, and he was not cleared

for a promotion. He had to retire at the rank of Major.

However, he was not concerned about the worldly

loss, because he had been promoted in the Spiritual

Ranks.

He spent 4 years in NLC (National Logistics Cell) prior

to his retirement. During this time he established good

relations with people at PSO (Pakistan State Oil), as

PSO used to supply fuel for the vehicles. He thought

he would open a petrol station and an automobile

146 A person from the opposite sex with whom it is permissible to intermingle; for instance, husband, brother, uncle, aunt, sister, etc.

workshop (after his retirement). However, when he

contacted PSO's Kundian Depot, he was told point

blank that he will only be supplied fuel if he could sell

adulterated petrol. He changed his mind upon hearing

this, and though about starting a fertilizer agency. He

went to Sargodha to see the related official in this

regard, who told him that he would only earn Rs 1600

per truck unless he sold fertilizers in black (for higher

rates). He gave up the idea of the fertilizer business.

He felt it wasn’t at all appropriate to sit in the market

himself and stock his fertilizers elsewhere, creating an

artificial shortage and telling people to get their

fertilizers from somewhere else after they had paid a

higher price. This time he planned to open a school.

He went to the Director Education. The Director told

him to first buy a piece of land along a road and

construct the school building, furnish it, staff it, and

start running the school. The Director would visit the

school while it was being run and issue him the

registration (with the Education Department). He did

as he was told. He purchased an expensive piece of

land and constructed the school's building. He

furnished it, hired teachers, and started running it. He

expected people to come and admit their children.

Two months passed, but no one came to admit their

children as the school was not registered. He went to

see the Director again and told him the whole story.

The Director told him that he was an overly simple

person. He should have displayed that the school was

registered with the Government of Punjab, and it

could have been registered later on. The Director

sympathetically issued him the registration. The

school started running successfully, by Allah's

blessing. One day, when he went to the school, he

saw that a person from his neighborhood had placed

a stall in front of the school and was selling note

books, pencils, erasers, sweets and biscuits to the

children. After some time had passed, the same

person started selling drugs to the kids. He went up to

the Interior Ministry in his struggle to put an end to the

sale of drugs, but to no avail. Ultimately, he was

forced to close down the school.

A sincere friend of his advised him to open a girls'

college in Sargodha. He told him that parents drop

their daughters at the gate and pick them up from the

gate of the college, so there was no chance of a brawl

or of someone bringing a knife or a pistol to the

college. So, he opened a girls' college in Satellite

Town. The college was advertised in a local

newspaper for a whole month. Eighty to eighty-five

girls joined the college. One day, he received a call

from some newspaper's editor to come and see him

at his office. He went to the newspaper's office to see

the editor the next day. The editor told him that he

had one week to get his office furnished. The

furniture, the curtains, the carpets…everything had

become worn, the editor said. He threatened him that

if he did not do as he was being told, they would print

such a shameful story about him in the paper that he

would not be able to face anyone. The editor said that

everyone knew there were cars parked outside his

college in the evening and early in the morning, at the

time of Tahajjud. He would not be able to explain to

the whole world that it was a fake news. He had never

thought that media people could play such a dirty

game. The cars that the editor was talking about

actually belonged to the people who used to come to

him for doing the Zikr. He left that office and went

straight to the college. He picked up his baggage and

came back to his village. The next day, he told the

college clerk to return to the girls their educational

certificates and tell them that the college had closed

down.

The One Who Caused Us

to Err



Praise and glory be to Allah SWT who rewarded us

with bounties and blessed us with Deen-e-Islam. And

He created our Father AdamAlaih Assalam with His

Powerful Hand. He breathed His special spirit into him

and made the angels carry him on their shoulders to

the Paradise. And He made AdamAlaih Assalam His

caliph on earth. He said:

Then, He asked all to prostate before Adam, but

Iblees refused. He held such a high status in

knowledge and Cognition (of Allah) that he was called

the Crown of the Angels. Because of his pride, Allah

SWT stripped him of the knowledge, sense and

cognition that He had blessed to him, and declared

him to be accursed. Allah warned AdamAlaih Assalam not

to listen to Satan. "Indeed Satan is your enemy."

Later on, Hazrat AdamAlaih Assalam somehow got

trapped by Satan's deceit and committed the mistake,

Allah, the Revered Lord, became Angry with him. He

ordered AdamAlaih Assalam to leave His neighborhood

and go away, and to take off the crown of honor that

Allah had bestowed upon him, because the one who

disobeys Allah cannot live in His neighborhood. So,

it's stated that AdamAlaih Assalam cried upon his sin for

200 years before his repentance was accepted. When

Allah SWT asked him his next wish, he asked to be

reunited with Eve. He did not ask to be reinstated in

the Paradise. From this, it appears that all the colors

of Paradise are present in woman. Hazrat AdamAlaih

Assalam ate the forbidden fruit because Eve had asked

him, so that he may continue to live close to Allah

forever. Satan had told this to Eve, and she had

believed him.

Behold the episode of Bal'am, a man from Hazrat

MoosaAlaih Assalam's times. He was Mustajab-ad-

Dawaat147. His prayer was granted whenever he lifted

his hands to pray. When Hazrat MoosaAlaih Assalam's

enemies went to him and asked him to pray for them,

he told them that the Prophet cannot be defeated and

his prayer against Hazrat MoosaAlaih Assalam would

never be accepted. They went to Bal'am's wife with

gold, gems and ornaments and obtained her

agreement that she would persuade her husband to

pray for them. The woman said to her husband that

they already knew that the prayer would not be

granted, so there was no harm if just lifted his hands

for prayer. This way, they would be able to keep the

147 A person whose prayers are always accepted.

money by doing what those people were requesting.

As soon as Bal'am lifted his hands for prayer, his

tongue hanged out right down to his belly. Allah SWT

stripped him of His Cognition and made him like a

dog. "So his example is like that of the dog…" (7:176).

Bal'am knew that he had been ruined. He said to

those people that he would tell them a scheme, by

which it was possible to defeat Hazrat MoosaAlaih

Assalam and his fellows. He told them to send 12

beautiful women to the 12 chieftains accompanying

Hazrat MoosaAlaih Assalam. If the chieftains committed

adultery with those women, Hazrat MoosaAlaih Assalam

would be defeated. They did exactly as he had told

them. Hazrat MoosaAlaih Assalam tried his best to stop

the chieftains from committing adultery, but the went

ahead and hence Hazrat MoosaAlaih Assalam was

defeated. Thereafter, Bal'am bin Ba'oor reached a

stage where he wrote a book claiming there existed

no creator of the world and the universe. Thus, he

denied Allah's Oneness and fell to Iblees's path. Allah

SWT says: " And recite to them, [O Muhammad], the

news of him to whom we gave [knowledge of] Our

signs, but he detached himself from them."(7:175).

There was a time that when he looked up, all the veils

and coverings until the Higher Arsh were removed,

and he observed the heavens and everything therein.

If he called upon Allah, Allah SWT replied him, and if

he asked for anything, Allah SWT granted it to him.

Even if he interceded on behalf of the whole world, his

intercession was accepted and he was made happy.

If he swore upon Allah, Allah SWT fulfilled his pledge,

and if he desired for something even in his thoughts,

Allah SWT granted him that thing without even his

asking. But he became of the sinners and did not

appreciate the value of these bounties. Instead, he

became inclined towards the lowly desires of the

Nafs, to which Satan attracts a person. Woman is one

of Satan's most effective weapons, and he uses her

quite aptly and skillfully.

Just as in the present times, the progeny of Satan

used to practice magic and witchcraft in the era of

Hazrat SulaimanAlaih Assalam. They had even involved

humans in such practices. Magic was popular in the

world, particularly in the region of Babylon. People

had started considering magicians as holy and worth

following, just as the craft of mesmerism is popular

today. In order to dispel their misunderstanding, Allah

SWT sent two angels Haroot and Maroot to Babylon

to inform people about the reality of magic, so that

they may refrain from it. When the angels started their

job, people started visiting them. They started

requesting the angels to teach them witchcraft. The

angels used to caution them before they taught them

magic, that it was Allah's way to test them. He wanted

to see who would abstain from magic after being

informed about its evil, and who would adopt that evil.

The angels used to warn the people that they were

learning the art of magic by telling the angels they

were learning it for self-defense; they should not get

involved in the evil practice and ruin their faith. Finally,

some people could not keep their promise and made

magic a way to tease other people. Hence, they lost

their way, because some types of magic cause the

practitioner to become an infidel. So they became

disbelievers and sinners.

I myself became the victim of witchcraft once. I felt

that someone had cast an evil spell upon my house. I

asked a companion, a person blessed with Kashaf,

who also confirmed my fears. He said that smoke was

rising from the corners of the room and from the place

of the (earthen) stove. I wrote a letter to my elder

brother with a drawing of the house, indicating the

locations of the Taveez148 that had been buried in my

house. When he dug at the places that I had

pinpointed, he found the Taveez. Meanwhile, I started

casting the Lights upon the house. Suddenly, a black

sheet appeared over the house and covered it. When

I continued throwing the Lights, the sheet

disappeared and a black bird started flying over the

courtyard. I clutched it and twisted its neck. At that

moment, a woman (whom I knew) appeared in the

courtyard without wearing a scarf. Her name was

written on her forehead. The magician whom she had

hired to cast the spell also joined her, with his name

on his forehead. I was casting down the Lights and

feeling bitterness in my heart. When I told this feeling

to my companion, he said, "you are standing at the

house's bathroom, please go up!". In my

understanding, I had started doing the Ilqa149 from

148 Taveez is an inscribed paper or parchment written for both good and bad purposes, such as healing and illness or causing harm 149 The process of casting down the Lights from one's Destination or Station

Salik-al-Majzoobi, but the magic spell was so severe

that it's evilness had dragged me down. So this time, I

thought of Aqrabiyyat, and started doing Ilqa while

holding my Murshed's feet with both my hands. My

companion broke into laughter. He said now I had

anchored myself properly.

There's a serious problem with us, that we don’t trust

Allah's word when it comes to the matters of Rizq,

despite the fact that Allah, the Lord of Honor, has

taken the responsibility for people's Rizq in His Book.

The affair of Rizq and relying on Allah is daunting, to

the extent that even the most pious of people cannot

get rid of the doubts created by Satan, who does not

lose hope in them despite their efforts, struggles and

worships. What is the reason that you don’t trust

Allah's promise, whereas He has repeatedly sworn?

Even then, your heart remains anxious and you keep

yourself busy in planning for and earning your

livelihood? Such a person becomes exposed to the

risk of losing Allah's Cognition and Deen. Allah has

said, "Say, 'Sufficient for me is Allah ; upon Him

[alone] rely the [wise] reliers'."[39:38]

People send their children to Europe and America for

the sake of earning their Rizq. When in Rome, they

have to do as the Romans do, hence, they lose their

religion and culture. Their children are raised in the

non-believers' culture and schools. Their thoughts,

beliefs and behavior become like those of the

Westerners. They don’t agree that Allah has created

the Jinns and the humans only for His worship. "And I

did not create the jinn and mankind except to worship

Me."[51:56] Instead, they think that:

God created mankind for the sake of the heartache

As there was no shortage of angels for obedience

[Iqbal's Urdu poetry]

Now, in the attempt to reduce the heartache, the

daughter of Eve is working and striving shoulder to

shoulder with men in the Western society. She has

taken this task as a challenge and is standing up to it

in offices, clubs and all types of social gatherings.

Women's sleeves have kept shrinking in size and

have finally disappeared. We watch and embrace the

latest fashion trends and semi-nude catwalks on TV

every day.

What a simple person Mir is that he takes his

medicine

From the boy of the perfumer who caused his illness

He Could Not Shut the

Door


Hazrat MuhammadSalAllahu-alaih-Wasallam traveled from the

Holy Makkah to the Bayt al-Maqdis on Burraq150. After

arriving at the door of Bayt al-Maqdis he tied Burraq

with a stone and stepped inside the Holy Mosque.

Burraq was shorter than a pony but taller than a

donkey. The Holy ProphetS-A-W performed two cycles

of Tahiyat-al-Masjid151. Thereafter, a staircase was

brought, through which climbed to the first Heaven.

The Holy ProphetS-A-W met Hazrat AdamAlaih Assalam on

the first Heaven, YahyaAS and EesaAS on the second

Heaven, YousufAS on the third Heaven, SalehAS on

the fourth Heaven, HaroonAS on the fifth Heaven,

MoosaAS on the sixth Heaven, and Hazrat IbraheemAS

on the seventh Heaven. Then, HuzoorS-A-W crossed

beyond the Stations of all the ProphetsAS and reached

a field where the Pen of Destiny could be heard

writing. He saw the Sidra-tul-Muntaha which was

150 A supernatural flying mare that carried the Holy Prophet(SAW) on the Night of Ascension. 151 An optional prayer that is said upon entering the mosque.

surrounded by angels. At the same place, Hazrat

MuhammadS-A-W saw Hazrat JibraeelAS in his actual

form and he had 600 arms. There was a green cloud

covering the skyline. Hazrat MuhammadS-A-W also saw

Bayt-ul-Ma'moor, beside which the founder of Kaaba

Hazrat IbraheemAS was sitting while resting his back

against its wall. Seventy thousand angels enter the

Bayt-ul-Ma'moor every day, and their turn won't come

again until the Day of Judgment. The Holy ProphetS-A-

W observed Paradise and Hell with his own eyes.

Thereafter, he returned to Bayt al-Maqdis and led in

prayer all the Prophets who were present there.

Hazrat Jibraeel, the trusted angel, introduced the Holy

ProphetS-A-W to all the Prophets.

Ailya, the head scholar of Bayt al-Maqdis, testified to

the truth this incident before Abu Sufyan in the court

of Harqil, the king of Rome. He said, "It was my habit

that I did not sleep at night until I had closed all the

doors of Bayt al-Maqdis. On that night, I closed all the

doors but one, which I could not close despite my

attempt. I called people from my staff and they all

tried together, but the door won't budge. I called the

handymen and masons. They inspected the door and

said that its hinges had been pressed under the

weight of the building, and there was no way it could

be closed before the morning. They said they would

come here the next morning and look for a way to

close the door." He said he was forced to return to his

house leaving the door wide open. He again arrived at

that door in the morning, and saw that a rock near the

Mosque had a hole in it, as if a horse or some other

animal had been tied there. Seeing that, he said to

the people who were with him that Allah SWT had

probably kept that door from closing the previous

night because some Prophet was coming to the

mosque. He then stated that the Prophet had also

said a prayer in their Mosque.

Constantinople was conquered in the era of Hazrat

Ameer MuawiyaRazi-Allah-Anhu. Later on, when the

Muslim Sultans adopted luxury and entertainment,

they started losing their grip on the Arab territories.

That was the time when Muslim countries started

getting impressed by Europeans and started

retreating. Evil forces challenged Islam, and the

Muslims could not properly defend their ideological

grounds. Instead, they started following the

Europeans. Jewish and Christian scholars refuted the

incident of the Ascension of the Holy ProphetS-A-W,

and challenged Muslim scholars for a debate in

Constantinople. People from both the sides reached

there to witness the debate. The non-Muslim scholars

overcame the Muslim scholars, who could not prove

that the Holy ProphetS-A-W had gone on the

Ascension. It was a big setback for the Muslims who

were present there. The news also reached Sufi

Abdul Rehman Kashmiri, who was residing in

Constantinople and living an ordinary life. He reached

the venue of the debate and said to the opponents, "I

will prove that my ProphetS-A-W proceeded beyond the

Heavens on the Night of Ascension." They said to Sufi

Abdul Rehman that the most renowned and

acclaimed scholars of his faith had been decisively

defeated. Who in the world did he think he was that

he would stand up to them?

Sufi Abdul Rehman Kashmiri replied, "Give me one of

your men and lock both of us in a room with no

windows or ventilators and just one door." They did as

he had demanded. Sufi Abdul Rehman asked the

person who was with him to stand on top of his feet

and hold him firmly. He complied. Sufi Abdul Rehman

loudly shouted Allah-Hu, and he instantly came out of

the room along with the other fellow. The lock didn’t

break and the door didn’t open, nor was there any

crack in the walls. He asked his opponents to lock

them up again. They locked them inside the room a

second time, and they again came out the moment

Sufi Abdul Rehman shouted "Allah-Hu". He said to his

opponents, "Look. I am a humble follower of my

Prophet, but even this denier came out of the room

because of me. When we can do this with Allah's

blessing, why can't Hazrat MuhammadS-A-W go on

Ascension?" Hence, he proved and demonstrated the

Ascension of the Holy ProphetS-A-W. The people who

were witnessing this incident became believers in

Hazrat MuhammadS-A-W and embraced Islam after

watching what had just happened. In this way, Sufi

Abdul Rehman Kashmiri saved the Muslims from

humiliation and held high the Deen of Islam.

Hazrat Muhammad bin Idrees Shafi used to say that

he had availed the company of Sufis for twenty years.

He had adopted residence of Egypt, although his

birthplace was the city of Ghaza in Palestine. It was

in the second century AH (after Hijrah) that he

participated in a debate with Jews and Christians in a

city by the River. The topic was whether the

Ascension of the Holy ProphetSalAllahu-alaih-Wasallam was

physical or spiritual. The opponents rejected all the

arguments that Imam Shafi presented. They were

adamant that the Ascension was spiritual and not

physical. When Imam Shafi saw that they were not

going to agree through argument, he picked up his

prayer mat and started walking towards the Nile

River, saying that the remaining debate would be held

upon the River. Reaching the River's bank, he did not

stop but continued walking on water. He reached the

exact center of the River, spread his mat, and sat

down. "Come on now, let's debate here on the water,"

he called out to his opponents. How could they go

there and continue the debate? So, they had to

accept that indeed the Ascension of the Holy

ProphetSalAllahu-alaih-Wasallam was physical, and not

spiritual. When no one joined Imam Shafi on the

River, he walked back on the water and returned to

them.

The word has reached us that Shaykh Jamal-ud-Deen

Yousuf used to narrate that "I had a wish to see my

relatives who lived in Hism Kaifa in Kurdistan. I spoke

to Shaykh Ibraheem Matboli about it after the Asr

prayer. Shaykh Matboli said that I would see them if

Allah so Willed. I went into solitude to recite the

Wazifa of Asr and found myself in my city. I entered

my home and said Salam to my parents. I stayed with

them and delivered sermons in the main mosque, and

taught the children for nine months. At that time, the

passion to see my Shaykh rose in my heart, and

asked for my parent's leave. They allowed me to go

and I left the house and came out of the city. I found

myself in solitude in Barkatul Haaj in Egypt and came

out to greet my companions. No one even said Salam

to me. I narrated to them the account of my journey,

upon which all of them said I had gone crazy. Finally,

when Shaykh Matboli learned about it, he asked me

to keep this incident a secret." After three years his

parents came to see Shaykh Ibraheem Matboli and

said that if it wasn’t for his sake, they won't have let

Yousuf return for a whole year.

Little Did We Know…


I praise and glorify my Revered Lord and present my

unlimited gratitude that Allah SWT blessed us with

rewards and with Deen-e-Islam. There was a time

when Egypt and Syria were the centers of Salook and

Tasawwuf. Thereafter, people travelled on harsh

routes and introduced it in India. The majority here

used to worship idols, but those who were destined

for guidance embraced Islam. They separated their

ways from those of the idolaters and engaged

themselves in the worship of the single God. It was

because of the charismatic personalities of the Sufis

and Aulia Allah that hundreds of thousands of Hindus

quit their religion and became Muslims. Mosques and

monasteries were established. Times changed and

the Muslims lagged behind the Hindus in acquiring

Western education. The British fielded Sir Syed

Ahmed Khan to impart the English education to the

Muslims. Sir Syed Ahmed Khan was an enlightened

moderate Muslim of the present times. He did not

accept Tasawwuf and Salook and did not believe in

the Arsh, Allah's Throne (Kursi), and the angels

recording good and bad actions (Kiraman Katibeen).

He also wrote a commentary on the Holy Quran on

the behest of his Western masters, but his

commentary did not gain traction with common

Muslims and was only confined to the students of

Aligarh. Allama Iqbal also disagreed with his concepts

and clearly stated:

We had thought education will bring us leisure

Little did we know that Ilhaad152 will also accompany it

I was in Multan in 1985. A few students from Nishter

Medical College came to me and requested me to

hold a session of Zikr with them at the mosque of

Nishter Medical College once a week. Upon their

request, we started going to the College's mosque

every week. When it was our fourth or fifth time, a

sizeable number of students sat with us for Zikr. The

leader of the mosque was Maulana Aslam Qureshi,

who was a well-known figure in the Tableeghi Jamaat

(Preaching Party). He used to given time to speak at

the annual Preaching Congregation. When Maulana

Aslam saw the boys sitting in Zikr, he could not

tolerate it. He came to me and said, "Here, in our

mosque, only the Sunnat way of Zikr is practiced. You

should conduct this practice, whatever it is, in your

own mosques". I was astonished at what he had said,

that what kind of a decree such a renowned scholar

was issuing. He should have inquired about the

details of our way of Zikr before declaring it

incompatible with the Sunnat. It did not suit his stature

152 The practice of misinterpreting Islam according to one's own thoughts and whims.

to issue the decree, "Don’t do this Zikr here. Do it in

your own mosques!" Even Shaykh-ul-Hadees

Maulana ZakriyaRehmatullah-Alaih has written on page 57

of his book Siqalatul Qaloob that the method of doing

Zikr with breathing is proven by the Hadees. For the

same reason, Allama Anwar Shah Kashmiri has said

that among the practices of the Sufis, the method of

Zikr with breathing is the closest to the apparent

Shariah. Little did we know whether Maulana Aslam

had forbidden us out of his ignorance or jealousy?

The next day, the pastor of my Unit came to me and

said that Maulana Aslam Qureshi had come to see

me. I excused myself from seeing him and sent him a

message that he can only meet me in the gathering

for Zikr, not in my office. After that, we continued

going to the Nishter Medical College Mosque for Zikr

every week, but he never joined us. It is because

Maulvis only likes to discuss the matters of the Fiqah.

They don’t do Zikr. It is my observation of 40 years.

In December 2000 a camp was established for us at

Munara, district Chakwal. Our only demand was the

enforcement of Shariah. We spent the whole month

listening to speeches against Pervez Musharraf. I was

told one day that I had to deliver a speech after Zuhr.

So, I delivered a thunderous speech, in which I called

Musharraf a sinner, fornicator, drunkard, usurper, and

dictator, and urged him to accept our demand for the

implementation of Shariah. Otherwise, we were

determined to go to Islamabad and hold a sit in. Our

slogan was "Shariah or Martyrdom". Little did we

know that this would merely a hollow slogan, and we

would return to our homes along with our hockey

sticks and black gram after a ignoble compromise

between our leader and the government. The

enforcement of Shariah would remain unfulfilled.

After a few days, when Squadron Leader Asif went to

his home in Qasur, he saw that my speech was being

aired on Zee TV. He told his wife and family that it

was Major Ghulam Muhammad delivering the speech

that he had made during the camp in Munara. After

returning from Qasur, he invited me to his home for

breakfast and told me that he had watched my

speech on Zee TV. He was surprised how my speech

had reached that channel. There are other

unanswered questions like this. For instance, why did

the Musharraf government supply our camp with

electricity for the whole month and cooperate with us

fully? Why did they shoot our videos and provided

those to BBC and Zee TV? Who bore the expenses to

the tune of Rs 1 million a day, or Rs 30 million for the

whole month? There were people from intelligence

agencies who had joined the camp under cover. They

were included in the calls for the Spiritual Baet and

their Baets were conducted. They shaved their beards

after the camp and reported to their agencies that the

Spiritual Baet was nothing but a hoax. Why was the

Awaisia Silsila brought into disrepute like this? Why

was the record not maintained for the donations

collected from within and outside the country? If we

had to return without achieving anything, why were

people's money, time and energy wasted?

"Alhamdulillah! One hundred thousand Mujahideen

from our camp, including Wazeeristanis, Punjabis,

Sindhis, and Balochistanis, one hundred thousand

Mujahideen from our camp alone have entered into

Afghanistan. And we didn’t say a word until they had

crossed over two weeks back. The government had

stopped us from sending more men. Alhamdulillah,

we have several hundreds of thousands such son of

Tauheed who are waiting anxiously to go, and they

are upset with us because they were not sent first."

(Al Murshed November 2001)

I went to Islamabad regarding my son's interview.

Doctor Munir told me that Al-Ikhwan had sent one

hundred thousand Mujahideen to Afghanistan. He

said they had then received the orders to collect and

dispatch money. They had collected around one

hundred thousand rupees that they were going to

send to Munara. Little did we know that our leaders

would pull off such an incredible feat, because Sufi

Ghulam Muhammad's ten thousand men were

arrested on the border and are still languishing in jails.

But our elders' plan was executed with such finesse

that one hundred thousand Mujahideen (nearly six

divisions of infantry) crossed the border along with

one hundred thousand rifles, ammunition, and dry

ration, and no one got the slightest hint. We can only

call it a Karamat. And Allah knows the best.

Ever since I became a member of Silsila

Naqshbandia Awaisia, we kept going to Langar

Makhdoom and Changranwala with our Murshed.

After the demise of our Murshed from this perishable

world in 1984, we still continued presenting ourselves

there. All the fellows from our Jamaat wait for October

each year to attend the annual congregation at both

the shrines and draw Faiz from there. Every year, our

Chief Administrator Colonel Matloob Hussain

schedules the dates of the presentation. He is also

arranges the night stay and logistics at Hazrat Allah

Deen MadniRehmatullah-Alaih's shrine, a responsibility he

has been efficiently discharging for the last forty

years. Allah SWT will surely reward him for this.

It was September, 2008 and the third week of the

month of Ramzan was in progress. When I requested

Hazrat Khawaja Qutb SahibRehmatullah-Alaih for a prayer,

he complained that the Jamaat only considered him a

prayer maker. He said we had made it a routine to go

to him just for prayers and went away after having him

pray for us. "Nobody considers me as his dear one

that they should come and spend a night with me," he

said. "You think that a few minutes are all that I need,

whereas I crave your company." I started crying when

I heard him say this. I said, "Hazrat, indeed we have

committed a grave negligence that we until today we

have made it a routine to just arrive (at your shrine),

sit for a few minutes, and leave. We beg your pardon

for this." Little did we know that our relationship with

Khawaja Qutb SahibRehmatullah-Alaih had grown so strong

that he had started expecting us to make him feel that

he is dear to us, and to spend more time with him.

Therefore, I planned to spend the night of 25th

Ramzan at his grave. Squadron Leader Salman

Ahmed and Group Captain Tanveer Tabassum also

accompanied me. We carried the items for Iftari and

Sehri with us and reached Changranwala after doing

Zikr with Hazrat Khawaja Allah Deen MadniRehmatullah-

Alaih. The three of us stayed awake through the night

that we spent with Hazrat Khawaja Qutb

SahibRehmatullah-Alaih, because that was the night of

Lailatul Qadr, and was totally different from the

previous nights. We performed several sessions of

Zikr and prayed extensively in the company of

Khawaja Qutb Sahib.

May Allah make you sick in His Love too

May I see you crying behind the wall too

Involuntarily, I Cried


My Shaykh Hazrat Allah Yar Khan travelled to Karachi

by a passenger train. Raja Yousuf and I also travelled

with him. Hazrat, my honorable Shaykh, had to fly to

Saudi Arabia for performing Hajj after a few days' stay

in Karachi. Many of our companions had also reached

Karachi to see off Hazrat Qibla Alam. There were a

few hours to go before his flight. All the preparations

were complete. Sadness was already in the air. It felt

like Hazrat Jee was leaning us and going somewhere

far away. Meanwhile, Maulana Abdul Haq Sahib

recited the following verse:

Cherish these moments when we're together

for the hour of departure is upon our heads!

Hearing this piece of poetry, everyone started

weeping. I also cried involuntarily. Hazrat Qibla Alam

pacified us and said it was just the matter of a few

weeks. Insha Allah we would meet again. He said all

the Appointments were going to be transferred to our

Jamaat, and it was not possible until he presented

himself before the Holy ProphetSalAllahu-alaih-Wasallam.

My house and Zain-ul-Abideen's house were located

at a walking distance of ten minutes from each other.

He used to drop in at the time of Asr and we used to

practice Zikr together. One day, when he didn’t turn

up on time, I went to his house. He was sitting in his

lawn, reading a letter and crying. I quietly went and

stood being him. He felt my presence and turned back

to see me standing there. Upon my asking, he replied

that he used to send money to her mother and sister

every month. Her mother had wrote to him that the

military men had raped them, and they were leaving

their home to live at some unknown place. Therefore,

he should not send them the money. When I heard

his, I could not control my tears and came back to my

house crying all the way. Zain-ul-Abideen crossed the

border overnight and people heard him speaking on

All India Radio that the chastity of their mothers and

sisters had come under assault by the army, and they

were no longer safe.

I had started walking on the road of Salook from

Ahdiyyat. A time came when the road disappeared. I

tried my best to come back on the road but felt as if I

was miles away. I also introspected myself to see if I

had committed any blunder, but there was apparently

no such thing. I kept on crying for two years but the

situation kept worsening. I was exhausted. My spirit

started losing consciousness. It seemed as if storms

were blowing all around me and they had engulfed my

spirit. I could not even sense my direction, how could I

find the way? My condition was such that I used to

wash my face with tears every day. One day, I

decided to inform my accomplished Murshed about

my affairs. I was hopeful that he would forgive me and

also get me out of this situation and put me back on

the road. So, I reached Chikrala. As soon as I found

the opportunity, I held Hazrat Jee's feet and narrated

the whole situation, crying all the way. Hazrat Qibla

Alam said that the place where I was walking was the

Realm of Astonishment. He asked me how I had

reached there so quickly. He told me that the road

finishes at the Ninth Arsh. Beyond that, the Circles of

the Realm of Command and Astonishment are

located, which the spirit crosses. Hearing this, I took a

sigh of relief and returned home happily after

obtaining Hazrat Jee's leave.

I missed a fast in the Ramzan of 1983 because I was

a patient of cystitis. I misses it because a senior

companion had advised me to, but I was so upset that

I kept crying for the whole day. Then, I decided to see

if I was the kind of patient who doesn’t become a

sinner for missing a fast. To determine this, I fasted

consecutively for five months in summers, from April

to August. I used to get a piece of flatbread from the

mess at night and wrap it in a cloth. In the morning, I

used to sprinkle salt on the flatbread and take it with

water to keep the fast. Nobody knew that I was

fasting. At times, I used to combine two fasts. I used

to break the fast with water and keep the next one just

with water the next morning. My body had become so

used to fasting continuously that I didn’t even feel I

was fasting. Now, I reached the conclusion that I

wasn’t such a serious patient that I would not be held

accountable for leaving a fast. So, I asked Allah for

forgiveness for missing the fast and pledged never to

miss a fast again.

Hazrat Qibla Alam had visited Gilgit the previous year.

His visit had not only benefited the Jamaat, but he

had also made the local Islamic scholars his

followers. He had also addressed the people before

the Jumma prayer at the main mosque upon the

request of the leader of the mosque. Then he deputed

my to conduct a monthly session of Zikr in the

mosque upon people's insistence. Whenever we

gathered there, we remembered the sayings of Hazrat

Qibla Alam. A full year had no passed when we

received the news of Hazrat Qibla Alam's death on

telephone. It was 18th February, 1984. It was such

horrible news that we had never expected. Tears

started flowing involuntarily and we kept on crying.

We were speechless and stunned. Finally, some

companions arranged a van and we departed for

Pindi. The snow kept falling throughout the way and

we reached Pindi with great difficulty. From there we

came to Murshed Abad where Hazrat Qibla Alam had

already been buried. Heartbroken, we were wistfully

staring at the grave. I conducted the Zikr Lata-if and

Meditations and presented my companions before

Hazrat, our respected Shaykh. HazratRehmatullah-Alaih

showed great affection. He embraced me and asked

me to take care of the Jamaat and myself.

I was blessed with the opportunity to perform Hajj in

1985. We disembarked at Jeddah Airport and

travelled to Makkah by road. Baitullah153 was in our

hearts and minds. When Allah SWT sent our great

grandfather Hazrat AdamAlaih Assalam to the earth, He

Ordered Hazrat Jibraeel Ameen to mark the

boundaries of Baitullah on the earth. Directly above

the walls of Baitullah, Bait-ul-Izzah is located on the

First Heaven and Bait-al-Ma'moor is situated on the

Fourth Heaven. These are the Kaabas of the angels.

The real Kaaba is located much above these. Hazrat

Shaykh-ul-Mukarram used to say that Allah's

Personal Lights either descend upon the Higher Arsh

or on Baitullah. We wanted to reach under the Lights

descending upon Baitullah as soon as possible.

Finally, the moment that we had been anxiously

waiting for arrived. Baitullah was in front of our eyes.

Baitullah is so awe-inspiring that we couldn’t control

our tears when we set our eyes on it for the first time.

We were standing there transfixed and crying. The

condition of our hearts was beyond words. We

couldn’t believe how lucky we were that we had

reached there. We stepped forward with tearful eyes

and kissed Hajr-e-Aswad154 and started circling

around the Kaaba, completing the seven revolutions

of Tawaf155. The footprints of all the Prophets, from

Hazrat AdamAlaih Assalam to Hazrat MuhammadSalAllahu-

alaih-Wasallam, were right before us. All of them had

presented themselves there and had run around the

153 Allah's House, or the Holy Kaaba 154 The Black Stone that pilgrims kiss before starting ambulation around the Kaaba. 155 Circling the Kaaba seven times for the performance of Hajj or Umra

Kaaba, crying "Labbaik Allahumma Labbaik". We

were also crying profusely and calling out "Labbaik,

Labbaik". Even today, we start crying involuntarily

when we revolve around Baitullah during the

Meditation of Sair-e-Kaaba. We get the same

feelings, the same Lights and Flashes. Nothing has

changed, and nothing will change until the Judgment

Day.

I underwent a heart bypass surgery on 4th August,

2009. The hospital's barber came to me on 3rd

August to shave all my body hair. He also cut my

beard to half its length because the surgeon had

asked him to. When I saw myself in the mirror, I

involuntarily started crying heavily. I was crying

because I had spent my whole life with a full beard,

but my beard had been reduced to half at a time that I

thought was the time of my death. The patient who

was taken to the operation theater before me had

expired during the surgery. I cried profusely thinking

what would happen to me if I died with the same

appearance. I begged before Allah not to give me

death with that face, because the beard with which

you go into the Barzakh stays the same. It doesn’t

grow longer or get shorter. Thanks to Allah, my

operation was successful and I returned alive from the

operation theater, otherwise it would have been an

eternal regret for me.

From the Windows of the

Past


Praise and Glory be to Allah SWT that He bestowed

us with rewards and blessed us with Deen-e-Islam. I

humbly state that after joining Silsila Naqshbandia

Awaisia, the spiritual pleasure that I get from doing

Zikr in the morning and evening is beyond description.

We always wanted more and more of it, so Zain-ul-

Abideen, Ghaus Muhammad and I formed a 'Lata-if

Group'. We used to practice just Lata-if for an hour or

two hours in a single sitting. When our hearts were

still not satiated, Zain-ul-Abideen and Ghaus

Muhammad shifted to my house. I asked my family to

stop serving meat, sweets and fruits, and only cook

vegetables and pulses for food. We were determined

to give our Nafs a tough time, but Ghaus Muhammad

couldn’t help but speak out after a few days, that he

wasn’t the kind of Sufi to live on pulses, and was

leaving. We tried a lot to stop him, but he left. I have a

letter from Hazrat Qibla Alam, in which he has written,

"we wanted to make him the same as his name, but

perhaps it wasn’t in his destiny".

Akber Khan Niazi and Ajmal Khan Niazi are brothers.

They had joined me in Zikr and used to go to

Chikrala. One day, Ajmal Khan Niazi and I were

coming back from Chikrala by bus. During the

journey, Ajmal Khan asked me to promise him that

whenever he dies in my lifetime, I'd attend his final

rites. I asked Ajmal Khan why he was thinking about

his death and funeral, whereas he was still young. He

said Hazrat Allah Yar Khan Qibla Alam had pointed

towards me and said to them, "if three people like him

attend someone's funeral, Allah SWT will definitely

forgive that person." Ajmal Khan said that I should

promise him and he would also make two more of our

companions promise him. Afterwards, Ajmal Khan

Niazi relocated to Lahore and was tied up there. He

came into showbiz and became a TV host. Perhaps,

he no longer remembers any of this. I've heard that he

has reached Irfan-ul-Haq156 in his quest for Haq.

Hazrat Qibla Alam blessed Lahore with his presence

a few months before the 1971 War. Druing the

evening Zikr, he ordered me to step forward, and hold

the sword that the Holy ProphetSalAllahu-alaih-Wasallam was

awarding me. After I got the sword, everyone was

sure that the Indo-Pak war was going to break out.

When the war ended, Shaikh Siddique and I

presented myself for Zikr before Hazrat Data Sahib

and the Ghuas Sahib buried under the Lahore Fort.

The Ghaus Sahib of the Fort asked us to get away.

156 This is the fake pir about whom Major Ghulam Muhammad has written in one of his articles.

We went outside and sat down facing towards him,

but he sternly asked us to get up from there too and

go further away. He said we shouldn’t face towards

him, but away from him while doing Zikr. So, we went

further away by about fifty feet and performed Zikr

facing away from him. We haven’t been able to forget

this Zikr to this day. Now, the Ghaus Sahib of the Fort

complains that we don’t go to him.

When I was stationed at Rawalpindi for three to four

months, Hazrat Qibla Alam told me that our Jamaat

did not exist there, and I should form a Jamaat during

my stay. I replied that because he had said so, Insha

Allah the Jamaat will be established. Iqbal Sahib's

soap factory was located in Ratta Amral and a main

mosque was situated opposite to the factory. We

started the routine of Zikr in that mosque. By Allah's

blessing, seventy people joined the Zikr within a

hundred days. I invited Hazrat Qibla Alam to

Rawalpindi. The night stay was also arranged at the

mosque. Hazrat Qibla Alam was very pleased to see

people such a large number of people. After I went

away, our people couldn’t maintain good relations

with the management of the mosque. Iqbal was

murdered, and hence, the Jamaat of Rawalpindi

disintegrated, as they lost the center of Zikr at Ratta

Amral.

I was transferred from Quetta to Multan in 1975.

When I was at Quetta, Major (Brigadier Retd)

introduced me to Major General Abdul Rehman.

Major General Abdul Rehman was an upright man.

Later on, he was sacked and sent home because he

refused to open fire on the demonstrators when he

was stationed at Lahore. In those days, Mufti

Mehmood's anti government campaign was at its

peak. In Multan, I expanded the Jamaat considerably

with the help of Haji Aslam Kumboh, Major Maqbool

Ahmed Shah Khagga, and Hakeem Gulzar Shah

Sahib. General Hamza offered us his mosque for

doing congregational Zikr. Although he was a follower

of Pir Dewal Shareef, but had much devotion for our

Murshed. Whenever Hazrat Qibla Alam blessed

Multan with his presence, General Hamza invited him

to his house for dinner. We used to go to Chikrala in

Major Maqbool Shah's car. He also used to take me

to his ancestors' graves and lands. As soon as he

used to get out of his car, he used to give the first

servant he came across a sound beating with his fists

and slaps without any reason. When I asked him why

he acted like that, he replied that if he didn’t do so

they would no longer respect his authority. Later on,

when one of our companions said something

disrespectful about Genral Sahib's Pir, he stopped our

people from coming to his mosque.

Major Doctor Azmat Iqbal Buttar founded the armed

wing of Al Ikhwan. In the beginning, the motto of this

weapon-carrying force was to prepare young me for

Ghazwa-e-Hind157. However, because Al Ikhwan was

registered under the Political Parties Act, these armed

157 A prophesied war that will be fought on the Indian subcontinent.

young men also became victims of politics. They were

assigned the task to provide security at Dar-ul-Irfan,

to encroach upon lands, and to get encroached lands

vacated. Doctor Azmat has now separated his ways

from Al Ikhwan and can be seen struggling to traverse

the Stations of Tasawwuf along with his family

members. We come across each other in the last

days of Ramzan in Murshed Abad and Langar

Makhdoom. He is maintaining his separate identity,

perhaps because he has been unable to convince

himself to join anyone else.

Sultan Wali from Gilgit was my class-fellow. We spent

four years together at the Agricultural University.

Whenever any shopkeeper from Gilgit used to visit

Lyallpur (Faisal Abad), he always came to see Sultan

Wali. He and I were roommates, so every shopkeeper

who came there also met me. I was the one who used

to serve them food and tea. When I was posted at

Gilgit later on, the whole market was my

acquaintance. Many of the people joined the Zikr

because they already knew me. Sher Jahan Mir,

Rasool Mir and Farman were leading among them.

Rasool Mir is no longer alive, whereas Sher Jahan is

a banker and is walking on the path of Salook at a

snail's pace. Whenever I remember him, I also

remember a song that he often used to hum.

"Whoever has a short wife has a big name; whoever

has a tall wife has a big name; place her by the wall

and there's no need for a ladder".

Somebody else was the leader of the biggest mosque

in Gilgit, but Qari Abdul Khaliq used to lead the

routine prayers. After I came back they expelled Qari

Abdul Khaliq from the prayer-leadership. Qari Abdul

Khaliq could not hold his place at the next mosque as

well. So he packed his baggage and came to Munara.

During my stay at Gigit, I had led him through the

Stations of Salik al Majzoobi and Arsh. He was

deputed with the task to conduct Zikr with the

students of Siqara Academy at Munara. Once, I

visited Munara with my companions who were pilots

in the Air Force. When everyone sat down for the

evening routine of Zikr, Qari Abdul Khaliq came to me

and said that he used to lead the Zikr with those boys

every day. If he didn’t lead the Zikr, they would think

that he had no status in the Jamaat. Therefore, I

should let him lead the Zikr, he said. That day I found

out how a pupil cleverly surpasses his teacher. I

permitted him to lead the Zikr and sat on his left side

for doing Zikr, so that his pretentious image could

remain intact.

Colonel Zafar and Colonel Mehdi were with me in the

Kharian Log Area. We used to practice Zikr together

every day. Colonel Zafar was fond of having Kashaf,

but it has been observed that those who wish to have

Kashaf are not blessed with it. Meanwhile, Colonel

Zafar's son got a visa for America. Colonel Zafar told

him that he should spend whatever time he was left

with in doing Zikr and worship. So he started coming

for Zikr. He had hardly practiced Zikr for a week or ten

days when he started having Kashaf. One day he

asked me after Zikr if his Kashaf would be lost after

going to America. I told him that if he didn’t get the

right food and a clean environment, his Kashaf could

not be guaranteed. He cancelled his plans to go to

America when he learned that his Kashaf could be

take away. Colonel Zafar belonged to the RVFC. One

day when I went to his office, he told me he had

reserved a well-bred young cow for me at the dairy

farm. If I accepted it, he would get it delivered to my

home. I said that according to the rules, a calf could

be given away, but not a cow, because it's retained by

the dairy farm. He said that they used to write a calf

instead of a cow in their record whenever they had to

oblige somebody, and used to deposit the price of a

calf. I didn’t consider it appropriate to accept their

offer, because I could not cheat and drink Haraam

milk.

Chauhdri Ihsan Advocate was my neighbor in Sialkot.

Whenever we used to sit together, he used to talk

about Hazrat Allah Yar KhanRehmatullah-Alaih. He told me

that when Hazrat Qibla Alam had come to the

Cheema Hospital in Daska he had stayed at Chauhdri

Ihsan's house. He was the elder brother of Colonel

Basheer and had also been the President of the

Daska Bar. One day, he knocked at my door early in

the morning. When I came out, I saw Chauhdry Ihsan

Sahib standing there with another person who was a

stranger to me. I had never seen him before.

Chauhdry Ihsan said that person was the biggest

trader of Sialkot. His son had come from America and

had been kidnapped. That person looked extremely

worried and worn in the grief of his son. I told

Chauhdri Sahib not to worry, as they would find his

son within two days. After that they left. When I came

inside, my wife asked me who was at the door this

early in the morning. I told her it was Chauhdri Ihsan,

and that some trader's son had been abducted about

which they had come to see me. She asked me what I

had told them. I said I had told them they would find

his son within two days. My wife asked how I was

able to predict so. I said I didn’t know why I had said

so. After that, I spread the prayer mat and fell into

prostration. I started begging Allah in tears to uphold

my word and have their son returned to them. I had

spoken without even thinking. The next morning,

there was a knock at the door again. I came out to

see Chahdri Ihsan Sahib standing there with the

trader again, but on that day he really looked like a

top trader. They presented me a box of sweets and

thanked me that what I had told them had indeed

turned out to be true. The trader's son had reached

home by the time he returned to Sialkot. His son told

him that his kidnappers had suddenly stopped the car,

made him get out, and driven away. He was

blindfolded. When he removed his blindfold, he was

standing at an unknown place. He asked some

people for directions and reached home. The

kidnappers had neither demanded any ransom nor

subjected him to torture.

I had constructed my house in Garden Town, Multan

before my retirement. However, when I realized that it

would not be possible for me to come to Murshed

Abad from Multan on every weekend, I sold that

house for a throwaway price and started living

permanently in my village Wan Bhachran. From here,

I can reach Murshed Abad on every Sunday. PAF

Base Mianwali is located at a distance of twenty

kilometers from my house. Being from the Defense

Forces, we get our medical treatments done at the

PAF Hospital. In 1992, I happened to meet Medical

Specialist Azmat and Flight Surgeon Salman Ashraf,

who started doing Zikr by the method of Paas

Anfaas158. Seeing them, the pilots also joined the

Circle of Zikr. By Allah's Will, more than eighty people

started doing Zikr within one year. The cast of the

drama serial "Shahpar" was also among these

Zakireen, and they started visiting me for Zikr at Wan

Bhachran. Let me tell you something interesting. One

day I was passing through the bazaar when someone

asked me to stop and said to me that he had heard

the movie people had started visiting me. I said, yes,

they did. He said, "You were a pious person who used

to practice Zikr and pray Tahajjud, how come you

were trapped by these film folks?" I told him that I had

not joined the film people, but the film people had

joined the Zikr. He was satisfied when he heard this,

and said he had been at fault to think the film people

had made me join them.

158 Literally means 'guarding each breath'. It's the Naqshbandia Awaisia way of practicing Zikr with breathing.

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