In the books of Sultan Haq Bahu,
his followers, his progeny, his disciples have all written his title as Sultan ul Arifeen (King of the Arifeen),
whereas he was a Sultan ul Fuqra (King of Spiritual Poverty).
And people are avid readers of the translations given by those who don’t even know the difference between Sultan ul Arifeen and Sultan ul Fuqra.
The Reality of the Tifle Noori
Kiran Zulfiqar from Lahore says,
‘The Jussa e Taufeeq e Ilahi and Tifle Noori are the reflections of God
but as we know God does not have subtleties so why do his reflections have subtleties?'
'The subtleties of human beings are in fact archangels
so what type of creation are the subtleties of the Jussa e Taufeeq e Ilahi and Tifle Noori?’
Actually, the Jussa e Taufeeq e Ilahi and Tifle Noori are not the reflections of God.
The Tifle Noori is the embodiment of God’s light.
It is not a reflection.
I have read the translations the clergymen have done of the books of Sultan Haq Bahu
in which they say that the Tifle Noori is the reflection of God but this is wrong.
It is not the reflection of God.
When God moved rhythmically seven times, divine energy emitted from his body just as when you exercise and you begin to sweat.
Similarly, when God moved in a rhythm, divine energy came out from his body
and that divine energy took a shape and that is what a Tifle Noori is; it is made of divine energy.
It is not a reflection.
Now, since there are seven Tifle Noori,
God installed seven small entities in each Tifle Noori which are known as subtleties
but they are not like the subtleties within human beings.
Now, none of you can become a Sultan ul Fuqra,
therefore, you don’t even need to know about the Tifle Noori.
Don’t think that you will become a Sultan ul Fuqra one day.
Nobody can become one.
This is because those who were to become Sultan ul Fuqra have already become Sultan ul Fuqra.
Since you don’t know about the Tifle Noori, you don’t need to make logical calculations about it.
Sultan Haq Bahu gave an example in one of his books.
He gave an example and said:
the Tifle Noori are like the images of God.
However, this is just an example.
In reality, it is the divine energy that came out from God’s body and took a shape.
That’s what it is.
Now, Jussa e Taufeeq e Ilahi.
The Jussa e Taufeeq e Ilahi is actually a manifestation of God that has come out from his body.
Do not say that it is a reflection.
His Divine Eminence has made the Jussa e Taufeeq e Ilahi and Tifle Noori common knowledge now
otherwise no one really knew about it.
Who knew what the Jussa e Taufeeq e Ilahi is?
When people don’t have any knowledge about something, they apply whatever knowledge they do have on everything else.
This is why they say that a half-baked doctor is a danger to lives and a half-baked scholar is a danger to the spiritual lives.
We didn’t even know that there is a Zaati Tifle Noori and a Sifaati Tifle Noori.
Now, when God moved in rhythm seven times, seven Zaati Tifle Noori came into existence
so when did the Sifaati Tifle Noori come into existence?
That’s another story; where did they come from?
In a similar way, there are Zaati and Sifaati Jussa e Taufeeq e Ilahi.
Similarly, there is the Rapturous Love of God which is obtained by witnessing the divine splendour.
Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani also witnessed the divine splendour, so he must have obtained the Rapturous Love of God.
However, Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani had the Sifaati Jussa e Taufeeq e Ilahi,
therefore, it is said in the esoteric realm that he did not have the complete Rapturous Love.
However, he did obtain Rapturous Love through witnessing the divine splendour.
So how can it be incomplete?
It means it is another type of Rapturous Love.
The Rapturous Love obtained through witnessing the divine splendour is just Rapturous Love,
however, the Rapturous Love obtained through the Zaati Jussa e Taufeeq e Ilahi is the Love and the Beloved.
Those who have the Zaati Tifle Noori are called Sultan ul Fuqra
and those who have the Sifaati Tifle Noori are called Sultan ul Arifeen.
Now, here’s something interesting.
In the books of Sultan Haq Bahu,
his followers, his progeny, his disciples have written his title as Sultan ul Arifeen (King of the Arifeen),
whereas he was a Sultan ul Fuqra (King of Spiritual Poverty).
And people are avid readers of the translations given by those who don’t even know the difference between Sultan ul Arifeen and Sultan ul Fuqra.
In fact, they pose to be Sultan ul Fuqra themselves and teach people the knowledge of Faqr (Spiritual Poverty)
but they don’t even know what Sultan ul Arifeen means.
They don’t know the difference between a Sultan ul Fuqra and Sultan ul Arifeen.
Those who have the spiritual benevolence of God’s attributes or they have the Sifaati Tifle Noori/Sifaati Jussa e Taufeeq e Ilahi,
they are considered as spiritually incapable in the esoteric realm.
I am not trying to blaspheme anybody here,
I am not disrespecting anyone. I am just giving you an example.
For example, Bayazid Bastami was a Sultan ul Arifeen.
What would happen with him was that as he would be offering Salat, he would often utter, ‘My grandeur is the greatest’
or if the Friday sermons are ongoing in the mosque, he would say, ‘My flag will be higher than Prophet Mohammad’s flag’.
When the Sifaati Tifle Noori enters your body, you lose control over yourself, you cannot control what you say
because it has to do with the outer
whereas the Zaati Tifle Noori has to do with the inner.
There is the Zaat (person) of God and then there is the Reflection.
The Zaat has spiritual saturation,
whereas the spiritual molecules in the Reflection are dispersed, so it is an unsaturated entity.
When it is unsaturated, it allows for other cells to mingle but it does not happen when there is saturation.
In the Suryani language, the word ‘Ahad’ means saturated soul.
What does it mean?
It means it is just one, it cannot mingle with anything.
This is why it is said that God is one.
Now, we know about Lal Shahbaz Qalandar.
We heard of these things from His Divine Eminence
that when one witnesses the divine splendour, the love is replaced by the Rapturous Love of God.
Therefore, Rapturous Love can be obtained through witnessing the divine splendour.
So which Rapturous Love is obtained through the Jussa e Taufeeq e Ilahi?
It must be another type of Rapturous Love.
It is something else.
And then there is the common Jussa e Taufeeq e Ilahi and one which is known as the Batini Shahbaz and it has the ability to fly.
If anyone has that Jussa e Taufeeq e Ilahi which can fly, they will be able to physically fly.
One day, His Divine Eminence told me of an incident.
I had said to His Divine Eminence that I felt so-and-so’s faith seems shaky
and His Divine Eminence said, ‘No. He is among those who has seen me flying’.
And then His Divine Eminence said, ‘Once I was driving in Gujarkhan and people were following behind me
and I didn't even notice anything or feel anything but I heard a ruckus from people down below
and when I looked down, I saw that my car was flying in the air’.
The car was flying!
So I heard about this incident from His Divine Eminence and I felt curious,
although I definitely believed what I heard, I desired to see with my own eyes how His Divine Eminence flies.
When the Nishtar Park programme happened on the 17th of October in 1996 in which His Divine Eminence said,
‘Imam Mehdi is in Pakistan. He is the leader of a religious organisation’.
I accompanied His Divine Eminence to the programme in His car.
I was standing there and His Divine Eminence told me to sit in the car.
I was about to sit in the back but His Divine Eminence asked me to sit in the passenger seat next to Him.
So I sat down.
Those who come from Pakistan know about this.
His Divine Eminence covered the journey from Kotri Sharif to Nishtar Park in 25 minutes.
Honest to God!
I saw it with my own two eyes.
His Divine Eminence was in a different mood that day.
I noticed that His Divine Eminence is driving quite fast.
Now, when we reached the highway
when the tyre is on the road, you can feel it moving on the road
so I felt the tyres on the road for a little while but then, I didn’t.
I kept thinking that His Divine Eminence isn’t driving, He isn’t even holding the steering.
He is just sitting like this, pensive, and the car is moving but I couldn’t even hear the car moving.
Then I found out that the car was hovering above the ground.
This was not a dream.
I even looked out of the window, the car was hovering.
It was obvious.
So I said to His Divine Eminence, ‘Master, I don’t think the car is on the road’.
And the response His Divine Eminence gave left me completely blank.
It was such a strange feeling.
His Divine Eminence said,
‘These roads are driven on by a lot of trucks which has caused a lot of bumps on the road and if I drive the car on the road,
it will damage the car. This is why I have lifted the car off the road’.
Just casually, ‘I don’t want the tyres to get punctured’.
The car was flying in the air.
This is the criterion.
But there is another criterion. Ask me what it is.
That criterion is that if, for example,
His Divine Eminence has accepted Ashfaq and a connection is established and then Ashfaq sees in his dreams
that he is massaging the feet of His Divine Eminence, His Divine Eminence will literally and physically call him.
If there is a spiritual connection established.
He would go there physically and massage His Divine Eminence with his hands.
When he will open his eyes, he would think it was just a dream but it would have been completely real.