That is when Sarkar said,
‘We shall disclose an esoteric secret upon you…’
What was that esoteric secret?
That there is just one thing that proves the activation of the heart (zikr e qalb).
What Proves the Activation of the Heart?
It is God’s policy
that those whom God had deputised,
those who were not destined to obtain faith
yet God chose them for religious appointment,
God showed them the miracle of their heartbeats synchronised with God’s name.
However, that [particular] spirit was deactivated.
Now, you may find this hard to swallow
but it’s important for you to understand.
You see, when they castrate goats...
The goats then become infertile.
Similarly, when God says, ‘God seals their spiritual hearts’,
it means that God removes the soul from the spirit.
It then becomes lifeless.
Then, the divine energy from your heartbeats...
Since your heartbeats are synchronised with God’s name, divine energy is being generated,
but when there is no life within then how will it be nourished?
What is the disadvantage of this?
As in, how do you find out about this?
Such a person’s heart shall continue to engage in zikr
but there will be no changes in his character.
He still holds grudges,
he still bears jealousy and he is still prideful.
If you have obtained zikr e qalb and you can feel it,
and you still hold grudges, bear jealousy and malice,
then understand you are under deception.
Your spirit is not engaged in zikr,
it is only your heartbeats that have been synchronised [with God’s name].
This is the case of most of these people.
I believe Ghafoor Bhai said something of this nature to HDE Gohar Shahi.
What I had said was, actually what Sarkar said was,
I remembered now when you said this.
The Lord said, ‘Eight years later, I have just come to realise why your spiritual hearts are not activated’.
I remember the Lord said something like this.
You remember?
-Yes, I remembered when you said it.
Many such statements of the Lord are now coming to mind which verifies what you have just said
-For this, it is important for you to listen to what your spiritual guide is saying.
You say, ‘I cannot feel it’,
but he says, ‘It’s alright. Don’t worry’.
But you don’t pay heed to what he says.
You say, ‘But I can’t feel it’. Come on, let it go.
Even those who can feel it are hypocrites.
The secret isn’t for you to feel the heartbeats,
the secret is the transformation.
That ever since his connection was established,
ever since he has acquired the [spiritual guide’s] company,
his heart is developing an aversion to sins.
Jealousy is being vacated,
grudge and malice are being vacated,
and the love of the spiritual guide is increasing day by day.
This is what proves the activation of the heart.
As the love of the spiritual guide increases,
humility and servility also increase.
He will begin to detest sins.
This is the sign that he is progressing and his zikr is activated.
Feeling it in the beats of your heart is a deception.
The reason why it is a deception is that the one whose spiritual heart is activated is not made to feel it,
so that they remain in this confusion.
While those whose spiritual hearts are not activated
are made to feel it, and they carry on just like that.
The more they backbite and slander, the faster their ‘zikr’ becomes.
They say, ‘See, we have not slandered anyone nor gossiped,
We have not harmed anyone’.
They continue doing it fervently,
and their hearts recite ‘Allah Hoo, Allah Hoo’.
But that is a lump of flesh (the heart).
This is a great issue.
Now, recall the statement of HDE Gohar Shahi.
The Lord said, ‘Who shall recognise Imam Mehdi?
One whose spiritual heart is enlightened’.
Now, the question is
if the hearts of the members of Anjuman Sarfaroshan e Islam are enlightened, then why didn’t they recognise Sarkar?
(Shaykh Amjad Gohar) I remember
that we were going to Chicago with Sarkar.
Mir Sab was also with us.
Sarkar were in the car.
Now, I don’t know if this is related to that
but Sarkar said something.
And I don’t know what to call it but the way Sarkar spoke, their style,
it was so beautiful and that was the only time I saw that.
At first, Sarkar were resting.
Then Sarkar sat up straight and set their arm on the armrest.
The Lord turned around to look at me and in Pothwari, or Punjabi,
the Lord said, actually asked me,
‘Are we any lesser to anyone?’
Wow. Incredible.
How beautiful!
I said, ‘No, Sarkar. Not at all!’
The Lord said, ‘Sultan Haq Bahoo said,
‘’I activated the heart of a dog’’.
Does he think he has achieved a lot?’
And the Lord said, ‘We’ve only given [zikr] to dogs’.
The Lord said, ‘He spoke about one dog, whereas, we have given zikr to dogs alone!'
So it’s the same thing, isn’t it?
I believe a few months ago,
Sayyidi spoke about this in extensive detail
when many people said, and even still, many people say
that they cannot feel the zikr.
You spoke about this in great detail,
that those who can feel it in their heartbeats
should understand that something is fishy.
And what you have said is the truth,
that if you do not feel an increase in love for the one who has bestowed you with zikr, then your zikr has not been activated.
And if you cannot feel the zikr but you can feel Sarkar’s love, then it is definitely activated.
This matter of the activation of the heart and activation of the spiritual heart became quite dire for me
when I went to Hong Kong with Sarkar.
This matter became quite concerning for me and I was very troubled.
Ghafoor bhai was with us on that tour.
So what happened was,
we went to Hong Kong with the Lord.
We travelled to Singapore as well as Hong Kong,
where HDE Gohar Shahi had a lecture at Nathan Mosque.
So, I went to McDonald’s in the evening with Saeed bhai.
The both of us were having a conversation
about zikr and fikr in McDonalds.
There was a Pakistani woman there who was listening to us,
she approached us and said,
'These things that you're talking about,
about Zikr e Qalb and spirituality, etc.
Are all these things correct?'
I said 'Yes, absolutely'.
She said, 'Well, I would believe it if I experience it’.
I said, 'Okay, come with us. HDE Gohar Shahi is here,
we can take you to them for zikr'.
So she said, 'No, I heard it from you, you show me.
I want you to write God’s name on my heart'.
I said, 'I didn't say that I can do it,
I can take you to my spiritual guide'.
She said, 'No,
one learns of the greatness of the spiritual guide from the disciple.
So, you show me'.
I didn’t know what to do
and she said, ‘Go ahead, write it’.
Now, when this happened,
I was very concerned
and within my heart I remembered the Lord.
'Lord, please help me'.
I just started doing something like this.
I relied in HDE Gohar Shahi
and began gesturing the name of God [on her heart]
and she felt as if fire was being released from the tip of my finger,
and she saw the name of God etched on her heart.
She began to cry profusely and was extremely impressed.
We said goodbye to each other and went our separate ways.
The next day, she came to visit HDE Gohar Shahi.
HDE Gohar Shahi said,
'The lady you met in McDonald’s yesterday,
she's coming to meet us, so you should leave’.
She came and said to HDE Gohar Shahi,
'Yesterday, I met Younus
and he told me about your doctrine and he also wrote ‘Allah’ on my heart.
I have fallen in love with him.
Now that I have obtained zikr e qalb from you,
I have come to ask you for something.
Please bestow me Younus'.
Sarkar had already told me not to be there when she came.
HDE Gohar Shahi said to her, 'Don’t say these things.
We have already had him wedded.
He is a married man’.
But she insisted.
Anyway, that matter concluded and she left.
Then, later in the evening,
when we sat with the Lord,
that is when Sarkar said,
‘We shall disclose an esoteric secret upon you…’
What was that esoteric secret?
If someone's spiritual heart is activated;
then the personality that activated said person's heart...
There is just one thing that proves zikr e qalb,
that the love of that personality will enter your spiritual heart.
If you have obtained their love, then your zikr is activated.
Whether you feel it or not.
And if you do not have love for the personality,
then the zikr that you feel is a deception'.
That is the day I learnt this.
HDE Gohar Shahi said to me,
'You are now spiritually ready’.
This was in ‘96.
"We have spiritually prepared you,
however, we are not assigning you on a duty,
because whoever you give zikr to, they will fall in love with you
and we have just had you married.
I will have to deal with the complaints evey day’.
So, this is the esoteric secret.
And this is the criterion I possess.
When I see that
the love of HDE Gohar Shahi is increasing in this person’s heart,
it proves to me that this person is a zakir e qalbi.
And if the love of HDE Gohar Shahi is not increasing,
instead they become increasingly suspicious,
then it means that they have been rejected by God.
There is just one piece of evidence for this.
I am not talking about the activation of the physical heart.
I am talking about the activation of the spirit
because that spirit has nothing to do with zikr.
Zikr pertains to the physical heart.
Whereas, the spiritual heart has to do with divine energy, not zikr.
The physical heart is like a cleaner,
it strives to cleanse the heart,
and the divine light generated then enters the spiritual heart.
So, the spiritual heart has nothing to do with zikr.
The spiritual heart has to do with divine energy.
Whether that divine energy is attained through zikr
or the spiritual attention of the spiritual guide.
What divine energy is earned through zikr
or the spiritual attention - what does it know?
Nowhere does it say that one who works is wealthy.
No. One who has wealth is wealthy,
whether or not they work, or whether they have been gifted that wealth, they become rich.
So, there is one only one criterion of knowing whether someone has zikr e qalb
and that is, that they will bear the love of the personality from whom they have received it.
HDE Gohar Shahi also said,
'When the personal name of God, ‘Allah’,
is to be inscribed upon someone’s heart,
first the name of the spiritual guide is inscribed to the corner of the heart,
and then the name of God is inscribed.
And even if the name of God is not inscribed,
the name of the spiritual guide is definitely inscribed.
Whether you are a Sahib e Zikr (Master of Zikr)
or Sahib e Tasawwur (Master of Visualisation)
or Sahib e Ism (Master of the Name),
in all three stages, the name of the spiritual guide is written in the corner [of the heart].
It is a stamp’.
Then what happens?
Those upon whose hearts the name of God was inscribed
- now such people are not sitting in the company of God.
The name of God was inscribed,
and that's all that was inscribed therein.
Whereas, those whose hearts did not have God’s name written on them
but they had the name of the spiritual guide inscribed in the corner,
they were also in the company of the spiritual guide.
So they did not face any hurdles.
Nothing els was written on their hearts.
So, they remained in the company of the spiritual guide
and the name of whom is inscribed on the side of the heart
starts to gain more and more prominence.
Those in whose hearts God’s name is inscribed,
the spiritual guide's name doesn’t become prominent on their hearts
because [God and the spiritual guide] are mindful of each other’s rights.
‘No, this heart is for God’s name’.
So now, the heart which did not have God's name was empty, right?
So, it [the name of the spiritual guide] becomes more and more prominent.
Eventually what happened was,
the name of the spiritual guide became so prominent
that the spiritual heart became infused with the name of the spiritual guide.
Which means that there was overlapping.
Like the heart is wrapped around by the name of Murshid.
We have also seen such chests
which when we cast a glance upon, we cannot see their spiritual hearts,
rather, we see 'Gohar Shahi' written in the shape of a spiritual heart.
For example, the day before yesterday, my daughter, Nazo was speaking,
when I looked at her,
I could see the name 'Gohar Shahi' in place of her heart,
in the shape of a heart.
But it wasn’t a heart,
it was ‘Gohar Shahi’ written
and it was sparkling.
Those whose spiritual hearts are enlightened,
they shall recognise Imam Mehdi.
Why?
They have the stamp of Imam Mehdi, even before they believed [the Lord to be Imam Mehdi].
Their name is written there.