I said, 'Lord, individuals like Amir Khusro etc.
were rewarded for their services, right?',
and the Lord said, 'No, it wasn’t a reward they earned’.
Then the Lord said,
‘Serving the spiritual guide comes under the rights of God.
Serving the spiritual master comes under worshipping God’. It comes under the Divine Rights.
God Has the Highest Authority Over You
Q: If we were to weigh on a scale who has more rights over you,
which would be greater, the rights of human beings or the rights of God?
People do say such things,
I have heard it directly from people who say,
‘You must fulfil the rights of people
for God shall waive his rights on you
but he shall not waive the rights of people’.
People do say such things.
Now, ponder,
has God created this world to promote humans or himself?
Does this nonsense make sense to you?
And the one who utters such nonsense
that God shall waiver his own rights but not the rights of people,
does he know what the divine rights are?
God’s right on you is for you to worship him.
So, you can abandon worshipping God and that will be forgiven
as long as you are fulfilling the rights of people…
If this is correct, all religions become futile.
The religions have not been established to teach us the rights of people.
The religions have been established to teach us the divine rights.
There is absolutely no truth to this notion, it is a satanic ploy.
A satanic ploy that is widespread by the clergymen.
Read the Qur’an.
God stated in Surah Muzzammil:
‘wazkur isma rabbik wa tabatal ilayhi tabteela -
- lose yourselves within the name of your Lord,
devote yourselves entirely and abandon all other attachments'.
This is written in the Qur’an.
‘Wa tabatal ilayhi tabteela -
- and devote yourselves entirely to God’.
God has first and foremost rights on you and then come the rights of people
but this is just phraseology.
The Muslim nation know nothing about fulfilling rights.
Otherwise, both husband and wife have equal rights on each other.
Is this practised in our societies?
It is always the woman that is suppressed by the man.
‘You stay at home. I will go out’.
The man only lives for himself.
Just as you have rights over your wife, your wife too has rights over you.
What do we say when it comes to children?
What does every mother and every father say?
‘You will never earn salvation from God or the Prophet (s)’
‘I will disown you!’
All the parents insist that their rights be fulfilled.
Don’t children have any rights over their parents?
Don’t they?
Of course, they do.
Both children and parents must fulfil their rights over each other.
Due to this unfulfillment of rights,
the bond of relations becomes so weak.
Children no longer respect their parents.
Why is that the case?
Parents do not fulfil the rights of their children
and since they don’t, their children do not rely on them
and this weakens the foundations of relationships.
Even your neighbours have rights over you.
Prophet Muhammad (s) declared,
‘Even if your neighbour is a disbeliever, he has rights over you’.
Your next-door neighbour has more rights over you than a biological brother who doesn’t live with you.
Do we uphold the rights of our neighbours?
We do not.
When we lived in Manchester,
HDE Gohar Shahi would reside at our residence
and people would come to visit.
A Caucasian man lived next to us,
and people would park in front of his driveway.
He had a driveway built for himself by the council
and people would park their cars in front of it.
Now, he would come out and be very angry with us.
One day he was shouting quite a bit
and HDE Gohar Shahi asked, 'What is happening?'
I said, 'Lord, the next-door neighbour is furious’,
the Lord asked, ‘Why is he furious? What has happened?’
I said, ‘Lord because people parked in front of his driveway and he is unable to move his car'.
And HDE Gohar Shahi said, 'He is your neighbour,
he has rights over you.
Do not park in his driveway and disturb him again'.
Even neighbours have their rights.
Now, our people are quarrelsome and egoistic.
If someone parks into another's driving space,
out of sheer arrogance they say,
'This is the road! It doesn’t belong to your father!
I’ve parked the car now, I won’t move it'.
God has the highest authority over you.
So what about all the other 124,000 prophets and messengers?
Both the Messenger and the spiritual master are included in the Divine Rights.
I once proffered a question in the Court of HDE Gohar Shahi and asked,
'Lord, those that serve you must be rewarded abundantly',
and the Lord said, 'Nope, those that serve us shall not be rewarded'.
I thought that the Lord was joking.
I said, 'Lord, individuals like Amir Khusro etc. were rewarded for their services',
and the Lord said, 'No, it wasn’t a reward they earned’.
Then the Lord said,
‘Serving the spiritual guide comes under the rights of God.
Serving the spiritual master comes under worshipping God’.
It comes under the Divine Rights.
Once I understood this,
I never again thought that I am serving the Lord
because we are only fulfilling the Lord’s rights upon us.
And the reality is that
you must devote your services, your wealth and your life at the feet of the spiritual master
and then pray,
'We dedicated our lives although it was He that endowed it upon us
and the truth is we cannot return his favours upon us'.
'We dedicated our lives although it was He that endowed it upon us
and the truth is we cannot return his favours upon us'.
God has the foremost rights.
Because if you say
that God shall waive his rights but not the rights of people,
then what about all the great saints of the past?
Some left for the jungles for 36 years -
- they didn’t fulfil the rights of people.
All these saints should be penalised, they should appear before a court martial.
Right?
They abandoned their parent, wives and children and went into the jungle,
so they should be penalised for this, right?
If we maintain to say that God shall reward the fulfilment of people’s rights and waive the divine rights,
in that case, all the saints abandoned their families in search of God.
HDE Gohar Shahi abandoned their family, their children,
their wife, their peace and leisure
and exiled themselves into the jungles for our sake.
So, God’s rights on us come first.
The problem is that people believe the physical performance of worship is what constitutes Divine Rights
whereas this is just your worship.
This is an obligation upon you, this is not God’s right.
The rights of God are something else.
It is not worship.
Fasting, offering salah, performing Hajj -
- all these are forms of worship, they are not Divine Rights.
Divine Rights are something else.