What is Zikr e Qalb?
Naveed Amjad
[from] Dammam, Saudi Arabia
Assalamu Alaikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuhu.
Q: After receiving permission for Zikr e Qalb (Activation of the Heart), what should one do next, and how should one engage in it?
Please guide me. Forgive me if I have made any mistake in asking the question.
Q (cont): I watched your video in which it was explained that the spiritual guide takes our zikr to God, and then it’s up to God whether he befriends us or not.
So how can I come into the sight of the spiritual guide?
How will he bless me especially among the millions of followers of His Divine Eminence Gohar Shahi?
What should I do to gain that special attention?
Many people who talk about Zikr e Qalb have a misunderstanding about it,
which I want to correct.
Zikr e Qalb means the invocation that takes place in the Qalb (spiritual heart).
So it becomes clear that this zikr must be done by the spiritual heart, not by you.
You can only perform verbal zikr.
So when someone says, ‘Let me do zikr e qalbi’ — that is incorrect.
How will you do it?
It is the spiritual heart that has to do it, and you don’t even have access to your own spiritual heart.
So then, how is Zikr e Qalb obtained?
A Perfect Spiritual Guide (Murshid Kamil) has to be found.
Then the spiritual guide spiritually transmits the Ism e Zaat Allah (Personal Name of God) into your heart.
This is a spiritual transmission.
Zikr e Qalb is not earned through effort (Kasbi).
Zikr e Qalb is a divine gift (Wahbi).
It is conferred upon you by God through your spiritual guide.
Zikr e Qalb is a divine bestowal, it is not achieved through your personal striving.
Zikr e Qalb is a gift of God, it cannot be achieved with your efforts.
And when the Perfect Master inserts the personal name of God into the heartbeats with God’s approval -
it begins to settle in your heart’s rhythm.
Then for a few days,
you are instructed to practice silent zikr (Zikr e Khafi) and visualisation (Tasawwur),
just to awaken the spiritual heart.
Once the spiritual heart is awakened, you don’t have to do anything further.
It’s just like if your heart had physical issues or blocked arteries,
you can’t fix it yourself.
You go to a doctor or a surgeon.
He operates on you.
They perform an operation, install a stent or do what’s needed.
Then stitch you up and send you home.
You did nothing, your heart was healed for you. Somebody did it, right?
In the same way, Zikr e Qalb is a gift of God.
It is a gift of God
and the permission of this comes from God through your spiritual guide.
And once God’s name has entered into your heart,
the heart thereafter engages itself in the invocation of Allah involuntarily.
It will happen automatically.
It will happen on its own — you don’t need to do anything.
f you had to activate all the celestial spirits on your own —
there are seven celestial spirits and nine sub-spirits, your mind would collapse.
“Qalb, you do it; Rouh, you do it; Khafi, you do it; Akhfah, you do it; Ana, you do it;
Nafs, you do it; Body, you too.”
How much can you manage?
All this happens on its own.
These souls in you, they volunteer themselves in the engagement of Zikr e Allah.
They do it on their own, that’s why zikr continues even while you’re asleep.
If you were doing it consciously, how would it continue during sleep?
After receiving Zikr e Qalb, at night before sleeping,
meaning when you’re about to sleep, when you go to bed -
His Divine Eminence Gohar Shahi says, ‘When a person lies down to sleep,
they think about what they’ll do tomorrow.
But it's not guaranteed those thoughts will become reality.’
So, His Divine Eminence said, ‘Let go of those thoughts.
And as you fall asleep,
feel your heartbeats and synchronise one beat with Allah and the next with Hoo (Allah Hoo, Allah Hoo).
(Allah Hoo, Allah Hoo). This is called Zikr e Khafi, and visualise that ‘Allah’ is written on your heart.
If you cannot visualise that,
then imagine that His Divine Eminence Gohar Shahi is holding your index finger and writing Allah on your heart.
In the beginning, this exercise is prescribed for a few days to facilitate awakening.
But once the heart is awakened,
you no longer need to do outer zikr, it keeps running on its own.
After that, you perform your salah while zikr continues internally.
In fact, the inner zikr intensifies during prayer.
Q (cont): How do I gain the special attention of HDE Gohar Shahi, when there are millions of followers?
To be noticed,
start spreading the divine images of His Divine Eminence Gohar Shahi that have appeared on the moon, the sun,
and the Black Stone as divine signs from God.
Do this and you will automatically come under His Divine Gaze.
These divine images are signs from God.
Spread them and you’ll also come into God’s sight, as well as under the spiritual gaze of His Divine Eminence Gohar Shahi.
But if you reject these signs after your spiritual heart is activated,
your zikr will cease and you will be rejected from God’s court.
So it is better to first research these signs.
Can a human being create an image on the moon?
If you claim we created it, then go ahead, make another.
We made one, you make ten.
Right?
Such ignorant statements come from those who know nothing of science.
How big must that image be if it is visible from the earth? How massive must it be?
Can you imagine its sheer size?
Do you think you can see something like the Empire State Building from the moon?
It’s huge but you can’t see it, right?
Then how enormous must this image be to be seen from earth?
Its size must be at least equal to the combined area of Canada and the USA.
From the East Coast to West Coast, the USA spans about 5,000 kilometres.
And then from here to there is even longer.
If the image spans such an area — five thousand square kilometres —
a human couldn’t have created it.
What God can do, humans cannot.
And the acts which humans are incapable of performing — those are called miracles.