During a Muraqiba, your soul is travelling to a location where even your body cannot go.
You don’t have to book a seat, you don’t have to pay anything. You don’t need anyone.
You don’t have to go live in tents and bear the heat.
You can stay in the comfort of your own home,
spread the prayer mat,
bend your neck towards your heart
[then say] ‘Ya Gohar Shahi Almadad’ and commence the Muraqiba.
Your soul will come [out of your body] and reach the feet of Prophet Muhammad (s) or it will travel to Bait ul Mamoor.
It’s such a beautiful thing, so there must be some requirements for it.
When Must One Perform Transcendental Meditation?
There are many people who practise Muraqiba (Transcendental Meditation).
When I lived in Karachi - in North Nazimabad, Sakhi Hassan locality,
there used to be a Sufi order called ‘Silsila e Azeemiya’.
Khwaja Shamsuddin Azeemi had opened Muqariba halls in Karachi,
and they would teach Muraqiba and telepathy.
So I went there on numerous occasions.
I sat there and took part in the Muraqiba.
When they were being taught to practise Muraqiba, they were not told which soul in the human breast pertained to Muraqiba.
They were taught to focus their mind and concentrate on one point.
Muraqiba is a spiritual journey.
A journey, a spiritual voyage in which one of your celestial souls comes out of your body and travels to the realm from which it hails.
Muraqiba is only possible after the purification of the lower self and enlightenment of the spiritual heart.
This is the minimum requirement.
Someone once asked HDE about the Azeemiya Order and their practise of Muraqiba,
HDE said, ‘Muraqiba is not possible without purification of the heart and mortification of the lower self’.
But what can you say [to those who don’t want to understand]?
So, brothers, before you practise Muraqiba, you need to awaken your heart and purify your lower self,
then once your heart is awakened and becomes Qalb e Saleem,
it remains at the stage of Qalb e Saleem for three years.
It’s like if you’re employed by the government,
the first three years are probational, which means they can terminate your employment at any time.
And then a few years later, you become a permanent employee.
Then you’re relaxed.
When someone gets a permanent governmental job in Pakistan, they stop going to work because now no one can get rid of them.
They just need to sign in.
In a similar way, when you acquire Zikr e Qalb, you’re a temporary Zakir e Qalbi.
The slightest disagreement with your spiritual guide will terminate your progress.
So the Qalb e Saleem remains for three years.
If you manage to strengthen your relationship with the spiritual guide within three years,
your heart shall became Qalb e Muneeb the very next day.
The purification of the lower self and the spiritual heart are not imperative for faith alone but also for Muraqiba.
It’s not going to be a simple task, is it?
For example, if someone from Pakistan goes to perform Hajj...
I don’t know the exact figure, so I’ll give an estimate - it costs around 500,000-1,000,000 rps.
An average person would have to spend their life savings
and then begin the arduous journey, having to bear the sweltering heat,
and it would be an absolute divine blessing if the tents don’t burn [in the heat], and they return safe and sound.
And what is Muraqiba?
In Muraqiba, your body doesn’t go anywhere.
The thing greater than [the body] which guarantees God’s acceptance.
During a Muraqiba, your soul is travelling to a location where even your body cannot go.
This is a Muraqiba isn’t it, with the help of which,
I mean, if you wanted to enter Prophet Muhammad’s spiritual gathering with your body, would you be able to? No.
However, Muraqiba is so powerful that the spiritual gathering of the Prophet (s) that you cannot see with your physical eye,
you can reach it with your soul through Muraqiba.
You don’t have to book a seat, you don’t have to pay anything. You don’t need anyone.
You don’t have to go live in tents and bear the heat.
You can stay in the comfort of your own home, spread the prayer mat, bend your neck towards your heart
[then say] ‘Ya Gohar Shahi Almadad’ and commence the Muraqiba.
Your soul will come [out of your body] and reach the feet of Prophet Muhammad (s) or it will travel to Bait ul Mamoor.
It’s such a beautiful thing, so there must be some requirements for it.
It’s not like any Tom, Dick and Harry can gain access.
God has set a standard, right?
God has set standards for everything.
What does God say in the Qur’an when it comes to accepting the divine signs?
‘Only those revere the divine signs whose hearts are purified’.
If someone does not accept the signs of God but mocks them, then understand their heart is impure.
This is why I say that if you can see the likeness of HDE Gohar Shahi that have become prominent on the Moon, Sun and Hajr e Aswad
you look at them, you identify them and you have faith, it is a guarantee that your heart is pure and it’s proven by the Qur’an.
And it’s written in Surah al-Hajj. ‘zalika wa mayi yu'azzim sha'air allahi’ Who reveres the signs of God?
‘fa innaha min taqwal qaloob’. Those whose hearts become pious.
Those whose hearts become pure. This is God’s standard.
But you didn’t know about this, did you?
But you should remind yourself of this:
the divine signs that have become prominent; the likeness of HDE Gohar Shahi on the Moon,
the likeness of HDE Gohar Shahi on Hajr e Aswad.
These signs of God, it’s not that easy to believe in and accept them.
What is the condition to believe in them?
The one whose heart is pure will believe in them.
Who said this? It’s written in the Qur’an.
And what a marvel of Gohar Shahi - that the instant one looks at their countenance on the Moon, their heart is purified.
What a standard of purity!
Glorious is the purity of HDE Gohar Shahi, [such purity] that those that observe [the Lord], themselves, become pure.
So as I was explaining, God has standards.
For instance, if you want to believe in the divine signs, your heart has to be pure for you to revere them.
This is God’s standard that if you have arrogance the size of a mustard seed, you’re not worthy of paradise.
You shall not be allowed to enter paradise.
You may say, ‘What about my worship?’ ‘You and your worship can both go to hell’.
‘What about my fasting and hajj zakat?’ ‘Take it with you’.
You’re not going to be asked about your performance of worship there.
They will say, ‘You performed worship in the world, that’s fine but tell us why all the salah you offered failed to purify your heart?’
[And you say] ‘What?! Salah purifies the heart?’
‘Really, were you born today? Did you not read the Qur’an?’
It is written in the Qur’an: inna salata tanha anil fahsha wal munkir.
‘Verily! Salah shall prevent you from all wrongdoings and indecencies'.
‘But it didn’t stop me’.
Yeah, that’s because you were not offering salah.
‘Your heart is engaged with the world while you prostrate to God’.
What you offered was not salah.
So worry about Muraqiba later, first purify your lower self for this is the path to success as per the Qur’an.
qad aflaha man tazzaka. ‘Successful is one who purifies the [lower] self’.
This is the path to success.
Once you become purified, then all the doors are opened. Then you can perform Muraqiba or anything else.
Everything shall happen.
If you say, ‘I’m going to buy a Rolls Royce or a Bentley, what do you say?’
Well, why don't you make sure you’ve got enough to buy these cars first? When you’ve got enough then you can buy whatever you want.
You need to make sure you’ve got enough money first.
‘No I wanna buy it now!’ Alright, go ahead.
You can’t get them without money.
So Muraqiba is for the highly elevated spiritualists, those who have reached the top ranks in spirituality.
Now, we do not perform Muraqiba at all.
Ask me why.
It’s an unnecessary pain to endure, and once you go there, you do not wish to return.
You do not wish to come back here.
When the Lord would come to England - the day they’d be returning would be the end of the world for me.
I’d be a terrible state from crying so much.
It would be a grievous day for me when the Lord would leave.
HDE would console me by reassuring me that they would come back soon and telling me I cry like a woman.
But it was like the end of days for me.
And I’d play a song on full volume, ‘Don’t insist on leaving today…’
and the Lord would have me turn it off.
One day, the Lord were preparing to leave, they had a flight to catch.
I played this song in my car, windows and doors open and it’s on full blast so the Lord could hear it.
Now, they listened to it and it saddened them.
They sent someone to ask me to turn it off immediately, ‘I can’t bear to listen to this song’.
Now, this scene was unbearable for me. I was so fed up of it.
I wanted HDE to come here and stay here and never leave.
Just come. I didn’t want them to ever leave.
So when you perform Muraqiba, you have to come back [to this world].
‘My heart, my soul and all my sense have gone to Medina’ - everything else of his is there but the man returned.
This is why I don’t approve of it.
You ascend [to the higher realms] in Muraqiba and then they send you back and you have to come back into this filth, back with the same faces, same people.
Back into the same muck.
This is why it’s better to forget [about Muraqiba].
We shall go there once and never return.
Muraqiba is a good thing but only when your lower self and spiritual heart are purified.
And Muraqiba is nothing
HDE said, ‘When all your ethereal spirits are enlightened, your thoughts become a remote control.
You think about what the Prophet (s) must be doing and instantly your souls reach the Court of the Prophet (s).
You think about Bait ul Mamoor, they instantly reach Bait ul Mamoor from here’.
Forget about Muraqiba. You just have to think and your souls will be there.
Honest to God.
You just think and they go there - and yet, we don’t practise this.
What will we do there? We shall only go there once.
The constant back and forth makes one weary.
Constantly going back and forth.