There is a hadith which states,
‘A fakir is not dependent on anyone in the world,
neither the creation nor God'.
This is mentioned in a hadith.
A time comes when a fakir is no longer dependent on God either.
What does this gesture towards?
When he strips away the attire of the desire of God.
Now, God is radiating within him without any desires.
When nought but God is within him then who shall he be dependent upon?
Therefore, even the desire to attain God must be abandoned.
Abandon Even the Desire of God!
Thankfully no one has asked this question yet,
I thought someone would have asked,
but anyway,
perhaps this thought didn’t cross anyone’s mind.
It is said
that God created paradise for human beings only,
the djinns shall not enter paradise.
This is what is said, right?
But we have also heard that
before we enter paradise or hell,
especially before entering paradise,
the Qudsi Nafs (pure lower self) shall be inserted in our bodies.
So, is the pure lower self not a djinn?
That’s the question.
Is the pure lower self not a djinn?
The answer is, yes, it is not a djinn.
And according to the Qur'an,
paradise will fulfil all the desires of the lower self.
So now where is this confusion coming from?
Tell me what you think.
Paradise shall provide everything the lower self desires
and the lower self is from the nation of djinns
and the djinns cannot enter paradise.
So now, what about the desires of the lower self?
Is this question valid or not?
Djinns cannot enter paradise, right?
They can’t, right?
But the lower self is also from the nation of djinns.
The paradise-goers shall be given a pure lower self because there is no feeling of enjoyment without it.
This means the pleasure and enjoyment experienced by human beings is not their own.
The human experience of enjoyment is attributed to the lower self that is present within them.
As they say, Ali Raza (lower self) experienced all the maza (enjoyment)...
what enjoyment are you supposed to experience?
No, seriously, tell me.
So what has God done?
He gave it the same name, ‘nafs’
‘Everything the lower self desires shall be fulfilled’.
So when we posed this question [to God],
he said, ‘I have referred to whatever the lower self desired in the world’.
So, everything the lower self desired in the world,
it shall obtain in paradise.
So the desire shall originate in the world.
Then I said, ‘But everything in the world was fake
and everything in paradise shall be real’
and then you (humans) shall say, 'Our desires were in accordance with the world, not paradise'.
[They shall then be told], 'Come on, move along'.
Then what shall happen?
And those pure lower selves which have been called ‘lower selves’ will not actually be djinns.
They shall be angelic creatures
that shall be inserted into you as pure lower selves.
The angels, Harut and Marut, that came into this world and they did not possess a lower self, did they?
No, they didn’t.
So what caused them to become disobedient to God?
Harut and Marut were angels, right?
Who made them do it?
They didn’t have a lower self.
At the time Satan led Eve astray,
she also did not have a lower self.
Neither Adam nor Eve had a lower self,
they were living peacefully in paradise.
That’s the whole point.
Now, let’s wrap it in silk and present it.
God is absolute power.
Now, the luxuries of paradise that God created,
where did this idea of luxury come about and who told him what luxury means?
That’s a point to ponder, too.
We didn’t know what luxury meant, right?
Did we? Did you? You didn’t, right?
So who brainwashed us into thinking ‘this is luxury’
and ‘this is what luxury looks like’?
And how did God know about luxury?
Had he seen and experienced such luxury before?
The pleasure of a woman’s body and beauty…
how does God know about it?
Has he experienced it?
I mean, I’m just asking. Don’t be offended.
So we were told, ‘These are the luxuries of paradise’.
So, all of this was pre-planned.
What we consider luxury today
is not a notion of our own creation, it is God’s philosophy.
God has defined it as a luxury.
We’re not saying it, we didn’t even know that it’s a luxury.
We didn’t know at all.
Now, we came into the world and lived here
and God had already informed us of the luxuries of the world.
So, the luxuries of the world have also been created by God.
You shall only relish a certain luxury if you have the desire for it.
The more desires you have, the more layers shall shroud your soul.
If you have the desire for one luxury,
it shall create one layer over your soul.
The desire for one luxury created one layer over the soul.
If you have the desire for another luxury,
your soul is coated with an extra layer.
If you have the desire for yet another luxury, yet another layer covers your soul.
So, your soul is trapped in the middle, buried beneath the desires.
Imam Mehdi’s job is to strip your soul.
Imam Mehdi shall strip away all the veils of desires that clothe your soul.
There is a reference to this in the Qur’an.
‘Man and woman (husband and wife) are an attire to one another'.
‘Attire’ refers to the layer of desire between the two which acts as a hurdle between you and God.
I want to befriend Shakeel.
This desire for friendship becomes a layer that adheres to my spiritual heart and soul.
I want to befriend him, too.
This desire originated within me, right?
It becomes yet another layer.
This is why God has said, 'wa tabattal ilaihi tabteela (and abandon all else)’.
Rid yourself of all attires.
Desire nothing.
Even the desire of God becomes a layer.
HDE Gohar Shahi has decreed,
'Abandon even the desire of God’.
So that your soul is liberated
and you meet the Lord with a liberated soul.
Meet him without any desires, having liberated your soul.
Abandon even the desire of the Lord.
Abandon his longing, abandon his desire.
Don’t even say, 'I seek you'.
Seek him but do not say that you seek him.
Liberate yourself of this attire.
This desire is attire.
The Qur’an states man and woman are an attire for each other,
right?
Now you might think it has a superficial meaning that if you’re an attire to each other, you remain close to each other.
No!
The attire is the desire atop the soul.
Whatever you desire shall become a layer that covers the soul.
The attire you are wearing
these attires have an effect on people.
There are some attires that you like
and there are some attires that display your physical defects.
So, the attire makes a difference.
Similarly, whatever you desire, the stronger the desire is,
the thicker the layer that covers the soul.
Therefore, there is a stage in faqr (spiritual poverty)
when it was said, ‘izza tammal faqr
-When you reach the culmination of spiritual poverty…’
‘fahu Allah’.
Then, only God shall remain within you.
There is a hadith which states,
‘A fakir is not dependent on anyone in the world, neither the creation nor God'.
This is mentioned in a hadith.
A time comes when a fakir is no longer dependent on God either.
What does this gesture towards?
When he strips away the attire of the desire of God.
Now, God is radiating within him without any desires.
When nought but God is within him then who shall he be dependent upon?
Therefore, even the desire to attain God must be abandoned in the end.
‘I want God’
You have to strip away this desire, too.
There comes a point when you desire God.
Please, look at me.
When you want God,
you will go to God with the desire for God
but this desire for God will act as a layer of distance between you and God
and shall deem you rejected by God.
Whereas, when you are with a spiritual guide,
then the spiritual guide will teach you.
What will he teach you?
'You have found me so which God do you search for now?'
‘You have found me and so you have found God.
Now abandon this desire because you have found me’.
Then you shall be presented before God without this desire.
When the exposed soul stands in front of God,
the reflection of God adheres to the soul and the soul becomes a mirror of God.
Because the soul is completely exposed.
Even the desire for God would create a distance between the soul and God.
So, even God’s desire must be relinquished.
And when even his desire is relinquished,
then your soul shall become a mirror.
He shall reflect in the soul.
And it is said for this stage the hadith states,
'izza tammal faqr fahu Allah’.
Those that have become complete in Faqr,
‘fahu Allah - they are, in fact, God'.
You don’t understand any of it, do you?
This is the secret, t
hat when you enter paradise,
then take off the attire of these desires
and when you remove all these desires,
there shall be no distance between God and you.
And if you take an abundance of desires, such as 'I want this, I want that.
I want damsels, I want palaces'. All of these desires shall thickly cover your soul
and you shall not be able to see anything but these desires.
However, if you go to paradise with an exposed soul,
then your soul shall long for God
because your soul shall be naked,
without any desires clothing it.
Absolutely abandon the desires of damsels and palaces in paradise.
Curse the palaces and the damsels.
You want God
You want God!
Your soul shall only be exposed when the desires are stripped off,
then it shall long for God.