Those who fall in love do not sleep.
I was listening to a qawwali one day and there was a verse that said: those who fall in love do not sleep so how did you fall asleep?
At first, I thought these are just the musings of a poet.
A voice from above said, 'No, this is true'.
I asked, 'Really? How is it true?'
And I was told to pay a visit to the Realm of Souls.
When I reached the Realm of Souls, that's when I saw it.
What did I see?
Temporary Death of the Soul
When God had asked the souls what they desired and all the affirmations were made,
then what happened?
After that, God induced all the souls in a slumber.
And that is called temporary death.
All of the souls in the Realm of Souls were put to sleep.
And then I saw a handful of souls in the Realm of Souls -
all the other souls were fast asleep -
and just a handful of souls were roaming here and there.
I asked, 'Who are these souls?' I was told that these are the souls who love their Spiritual Master.
And then I found out that those whom His Divine Eminence promised to grant His love to
although those souls were also put to sleep, they awoke and started to roam [the Realm of Souls].
Whereas, all the other souls, including the paradise-bound souls, were fast asleep.
Whether they would enter Dar ul Khuld, Dar ul Salam, Dar ul Qarar, Eden, Mawa, Naeem, Firdaus
all of the paradise-bound souls were in deep slumber.
Just a few souls were awake and wandering.
Why weren't they asleep? Because they were in love with someone.
The souls who loved His Divine Eminence did not fall asleep in the Realm of Souls.
They stayed awake.
You may not understand this right now.
You will not understand it now but perhaps later on, you will.
God puts the souls into deep sleep-
a temporary sleep-like state and it is akin to death.
This is what the Prophet (saw) was referring to when he said 'sleep is the brother of death'.
You go to sleep at night, right?
It is your body that sleeps.
But [in the Realm of Souls] it was the soul that was put to sleep.
Then you were born in this world and your soul is still asleep.
You lived 50-60 years without finding a Spiritual Master
and your dormant soul remained dormant after you died and even when it went back to the higher realms.
Such are the people who will be at a loss on the Day of Judgement.
Why? Their souls will say they were not even aware when they were sent into the world.
They will say it's not fair because they never knew when they were sent into the world.
God will summon them
and ask, 'How is this unfair? You were supposed to revive your soul.
How? You were granted intellect so that you think about finding a Spiritual Master.
So why didn't you find a Spiritual Master?'
True guidance is to revive your soul.
Fasting, salah, hajj and zakat do not constitute guidance.
If this was guidance then all the worship you had done in this world would remain in this world
and your soul goes back up completely dormant. Had it obtained guidance, it would be aware.
Therefore, true guidance is to revive the soul.
True guidance...
is to revive the soul and one who has revived their soul has acquired guidance.
Therefore, those who truly fell in love did not fall asleep.
This is why Sultan Haq Bahoo said, 'Some are asleep while they are awake and some are awake while they sleep'.
This means that there are some who stay up all night worshipping but God considers them asleep
because their heart and souls are dormant.
And then there are some who are fast asleep but God considers them awake because their hearts are enlightened.
Do you understand my point?
So what it means is that one whose soul is revived never dies.
However, that does not mean that one whose soul is revived will literally never die.
No, everyone shall face death.
When God says that one has found immortality from the Elixir of Life, and that such a person shall not taste death having found eternal life -
God here refers to the awakening of the souls.
Because the souls enter the world in a dormant state and [if unawakened] they return in a dormant state.
The Qur'an states 'one who is blind here will be blind in the hereafter' - and this is what it means.
It doesn't mean those who were physically blind in the world will not be given eyes in paradise.
That's not what blind means here. Some saints said it means those who do not witness God's splendour in the world will not do so in the hereafter.
However, we have also carried out our own in-depth study into this matter.
We can't just go by whatever the saints say.
Many saints say what is written in the Qur'an about blindness here and in the hereafter means one who does not see God in this world will not see God in the hereafter.
But I say it means one whose soul is dormant in this world, their soul will be dormant in the hereafter.
If your soul is not revived here, it will not be revived by anyone in the hereafter either.
The hell-bound souls will be given new bodies and sent to hellfire in their dormant state.
And what would be the state of the awakened souls, that have been restless and in search since they were in the Realm of Souls.
The souls that plead, 'We long for him [the Lord], where is he?'
And all the predestined loving and paradise-bound souls are fast asleep.
You think it was a great miracle when the Companions of the Cave were put to sleep for 300 years
but the souls up there have been sleeping for aeons.
Those souls have been sleeping for many hundreds of thousands of years
Those whose souls learn the secret can also go back to sleep.
For instance, we could say, 'We will wake up when His Divine Eminence arrives. Let's sleep for now'.
No one can do anything about it.
When troubles and calamities increase, the lower self sometimes says, 'Go to sleep.
At least you will be rid of the liars in this world.
The deceiving, terrible people of this world.
The terrible men and women of this world.
You will be rid of all these hell-bound people.
Go to sleep.'
Then the soul says, 'Running away from calamities is cowardly.
Remain steadfast'.
Otherwise, it's as simple as letting the soul sleep until His Divine Eminence arrives.
But this is not acceptable to me.
Reap the benefits of the time you have in order to learn the trade of love.
The most invaluable item we have is love.
The most important thing we have to give to you is love.
We also have money, we have luxuries.
But if you opt for money from a place where you could have obtained God
then what a cursed life you will lead.
A place where you can obtain God
where you can obtain Gohar.
It is not easy to find Gohar.
The main thing is to revive the soul.
This is why His Divine Eminence said that you have not entered into the religion of God until divine energy enters your soul.
When your heart is activated, you have simply become a Momin and that's merely the tip of the iceberg.
However, when the divine energy from your heart begins to travel towards your soul, it will be considered as your progress towards the religion of God.
Once the divine energy enters the soul then you have entered the religion of God completely.
Not before that.
This is why this entire process is called the religion of God.
Although many messengers came before [the introduction of the religion of God]
Adam, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Muhammad
Their teachings were about the enlightenment of the subtleties, it didn't go beyond this.
However, the religion of God is for the Fayli Ism e Allah to enter the soul.
In the higher realms, the gatherings of the Lovers of God (Aashiq) is different to the gatherings of the believers (Momin).
The gatherings of the Aashiq is different.
This is why a Momin does not understand an Aashiq
and an Aashiq doesn't understand a Momin.
An Aashiq looks at a Momin and says, 'You just say the name of God. It's better to witness the divine splendour'.
'You haven't amounted to anything if you haven't seen God's beauty'.
God also wants to see.
He says, 'God is beautiful
and he loves beauty'.
God loves beauty.
But it doesn't mean that God is always looking at himself.
If you think there is beauty in you, then present yourself before God.
If you are truly beautiful then God shall look at you too.
This is one of God's pastimes, perhaps the best one.
God's favourite pastime is for someone to gaze upon his beauty and for him to gaze upon theirs.
Many Sufis said that they don't recall the incidents in the primordial times.
Whereas, some Sufis say that they remember everything, even who was standing around them.
They must be the ones whose souls were granted love.
They did not fall asleep. They were not dormant.
Not all the souls stayed asleep. If that were the case then Jesus would not have been able to converse in infancy.
If Jesus Christ can converse in infancy then why can't another disciple of HDE Gohar Shahi do the same?
If Jesus Christ can do it - Imam Mehdi (as) is the Spiritual Master of Jesus
How can it be possible for one disciple of Imam Mehdi to be Jesus Christ and the remaining are third-class disciples?
Then [Jesus] would have the upper hand.
There are many diamonds (individuals) meticulously carved by Imam Mehdi (as).
Some of those disciples, when their mothers were pregnant
I am not talking about Jesus Christ, I mean the common disciples of Imam Mehdi (as)
When the mother of a common disciple of Imam Mehdi (as) was expecting, the soul of the child came into the dream of the mother from the Real of Souls
because that soul was awake up there
So he came into the dreams of his mother from the Ream of Souls and instructed her what she should and should not eat and do
and he told her what he would and would not like to be fed when he is born.
He knew he would be coming into this world.
He called out to his mother from the Realm of Souls.
'Don't go here, don't go there'.
Directly from the Realm of Souls.
So, speaking in infancy isn't such a great miracle.
People crucified Jesus for speaking the truth.
He spoke in infancy yet he was crucified.
And those who had begun speaking before being born remained silent.
Imagine what they would do to the one who spoke before birth when they crucified the one who spoke in infancy?
[Jesus] spoke in infancy and they crucified him.
And if someone says they were able to speak before being born, who would believe it?