Can You Call Your Spiritual Mediator God?
Naseer Taji from Rawalpindi, Pakistan says,
Gohar Shahi Marhaba
My question is that I love my Spiritual Mediator dearly,
and I consider my Spiritual Mediator to be God
Please tell me, Is this polytheism?
I don't feel inclined to anyone, except my Spiritual Mediator, I believe he is everything.
Please kindly answer my question in the name of your Master.
A Spiritual Mediator can be called God.
But when?
Only when,
Example: Look at this glass, if there is water in this glass,
then you will say,
this glass is holding water.
You will say water is in the glass when you see water inside the glass.
However, if the glass is empty,
and you still say there is water in it, then you are lying.
To call the glass a water bearer is incomplete.
What is the correct thing to say?
If the glass contains water, only then you can say that the glass is holding water.
If the glass doesn't contain water, then you must say the glass is empty.
It is only right to call your Spiritual Mediator God when God himself is present in your Spiritual Mediator.
Calling your Spiritual Mediator, God
is permissible only if God resides within your Spiritual Mediator.
And only if your Spiritual Mediator has reached the stage of Fana Fil Allah.
Because Sultan Haq Bahu said,
A glimpse of my Spiritual Mediator is worth millions of pilgrimages to the Holy Kaaba.
There have been Spiritual Mediators like this in the past who had the presence of God in them.
Those with the presence of God,
can be called God if God's presence can be sensed in them.
To call those Spiritual Mediators God is only the truth.
Not just God, but his Messenger should also reside within your Spiritual Mediator.
Mevlana Rumi said, 'If you believe in your Spiritual Mediator, both God and the Messenger are within him.
'If you believe in your Spiritual Mediator, both God and the Messenger are within him.'
If you believe in your Spiritual Mediator
then don't forget,
both God and His Messenger are within him.
You can only call it a glass of water if there is water inside the glass.
If God is present within your Spiritual Mediator, only then you can call him God.
Do you understand?
'Bulleh Shah's Poetry'
He [Bulleh Shah] witnessed the Splendour of God in his Spiritual Mediator.
God was within the Spiritual Mediator.
I am not saying that your Spiritual Mediator does or does not hold the presence of God.
I am speaking generally.
If God resides in your Spiritual Mediator, then there is no harm in calling him God.
How will you know if God is present in your Spiritual Mediator?
If you approach fire, you will feel hot, right?
If your Spiritual Mediator has the presence of God in him,
by adopting his company, your heart will begin to commemorate God.
If God is present in him, then those around him will commemorate God also.
A Prophetic Tradition of Prophet Mohammed PBUH states,
Those who commemorate God are the best amongst my Ummah.
They are the best.
Therefore, calling your Spiritual Mediator God is perfectly fine if God is within him.
If you believe so, then it's good.
The higher you think of your Spiritual Mediator, the better it is for your faith.
However, the generation now is corrupt.
Make sure you have done your research
Make sure your Spiritual Mediator is not an impostor.
Don't be too quick to call your Spiritual Mediator God, first find out if God is within him.
If God is present in him,
whenever you approach him, your heartbeats will rise and chant Allah Hoo repetitively,
It will happen involuntarily.
You will know your Lord is within him.