A pulse becomes prominent on the right side of the chest.
Just as you have a pulse where your heart is,
a similar pulse is felt on this side.
There is no heart on this side,
so why do you feel a pulse on the right side?
What Are the Signs of the Awakening of the Soul?
When the zikr of ‘Allah Hoo’
is bestowed with God’s permission,
either directly by HDE Gohar Shahi
or through the representative of HDE Gohar Shahi,
in this instance, the name of God is settled into the spiritual heart.
Then, it is synchronised with the heartbeats.
This is done with the permission of God.
Therefore, whoever God chooses
will have the name of God implanted in the heart,
it settles therein
and the heartbeats begin to resound with ‘Allah Hoo, Allah Hoo’.
Now, the spiritual heart is of utmost importance in Sufism.
Why the spiritual heart?
Because all the other ethereal spirits are enclosed within the spiritual heart.
To unpack them is the opening of the heart
which is Sharha e Sadr.
What is Sharha e Sadr (Opening of the Breast)?
It is for all the celestial spirits - all five of them:
Sirri, Khafi, Akhfah, Ana, Rouh.
All five of these spirits are enclosed within the spiritual heart
which itself is caged within 180,000 evil webs.
Nothing but the spiritual attention of a divinely ordained spiritual guide can break through those evil webs.
When the spiritual guide casts his spiritual attention on the spiritual heart,
it tears the evil webs apart
and then God’s name is implanted within.
Thereafter, the other celestial spirits emerge from the spiritual heart and settle into their places in the bloodstream.
Now, the function of the spiritual heart is to produce divine energy.
How does the spiritual heart produce divine energy?
When the heartbeats collide with each other,
they produce kinetic energy.
The more your heart beats, the more agility you have in your body.
As you grow older, your heartbeats begin to decrease and so does your agility.
For instance, if you exercise often - if you’re sitting around, you will feel dull and lazy but if you exercise daily,
the moment your heartbeats rise, you will feel energetic.
So the rapid heartbeats are constantly producing kinetic energy,
so when the name of God collides with the kinetic energy produced by the heartbeats, it generates divine energy.
It creates divine light.
What happens to the divine light?
The divine light is mixed into the blood.
When the divine light is mixed into the blood,
those celestial spirits are floating around in the blood.
So the divine light also collides with the celestial spirits.
But it doesn’t mean that the soul is activated within the first contact.
No.
The divine light continues to collide with the souls floating in the blood and gradually,
as the quantity of divine light increases,
then the soul is surrounded by divine light
and that is when the soul is activated and begins to throb.
When the soul is activated and begins to throb,
a pulse becomes prominent on the right side of the chest.
Just as you have a pulse where your heart is, a similar pulse is felt on this side.
There is no heart on this side, so why do you feel a pulse on the right side?
You feel it because now your soul is awakened.
Now, if you ask about the feelings of the soul
at that moment, the soul has no feelings other than being activated.
Now you go to the spiritual guide
and tell him you feel a pulse on this side
and the spiritual guide shall contact God.
What will he say to God?
‘His soul is being activated.
Do I have permission to grant him the zikr of the soul?’
If God grants permission, it means two things.
What does it mean?
One meaning is that
now God wishes to take you further than the stage of faith.
He wants to grant you something greater than faith
because faith pertains to the spiritual heart, not the soul.
And if God says,
‘No, he is destined to have faith.
He shall not be granted zikr of the soul’,
then the spiritual guide does not bestow it on you
because he is not permitted by God.
Your soul shall be granted the personal name of God, ‘Allah’, when God permits it.
When your soul is enlightened with God’s personal name
and begins to commemorate ‘Allah, Allah’,
then after a few days, you will begin to notice a change in your character.
Because now the characteristics of your soul shall gain prominence.
What does it mean [for the characteristics of the soul] to gain prominence?
Before [activation of the soul], you would feel jealousy because your lower self was impure
, however, when your lower self started to become purified along with the presence of divine light in your heart,
you will no longer feel jealous.
However, what happens when your soul is activated and enlightened?
Then you shall despise the emotion of jealousy and those who harbour jealousy.
This is not the case for a zakir e qalbi.
Because [aversion to jealousy] is in the nature of that soul.
The sign of a heaven-bound soul is
that such people have a natural aversion to envy, false pride and jealousy, even if they do not engage in worship.
When the soul is not activated, when it was just the spiritual heart activated
the spiritual heart does not have a human nature,
it simply stops harbouring jealousy once it is purified
but if someone next to you is exhibiting jealousy,
it doesn’t bother you.
However, once your soul is awakened,
it does not tolerate those who bear jealousy.
Your soul will not let you sit with them or befriend them.
You will begin to change.
It is not the spiritual heart that feels sympathy,
that forgives, these things happen when the soul is awakened.
This is the nature of the soul.
To sympathise with people, to help people,
to empathise and feel the pain of others.
The spiritual heart doesn’t do that because the spiritual heart is an angelic creature
It doesn’t know these things because it is not a human.
The spiritual heart is an angelic creature, it hails from the Realm of Angels.
Furthermore, the spiritual heart doesn’t feel a lot of excitement after obtaining enlightenment. Why not?
Because it is already an angel, its entire existence is based on divine light.
Therefore, when the spiritual heart begins to generate divine light, it’s nothing new for it.
However, when the soul begins to commemorate God’s name
and its senses are restored,
then it remembers the affirmation it made in the Primordial Times.
Then the soul becomes restless to gain what it had affirmed, the purpose for which it was sent into the world.
It is the soul that feels excitement, not the spiritual heart.
The spiritual heart goes into a state of ecstasy when it obtains zikr
[as the Qur’an states] ‘the contentment of the spiritual heart lies in Zikr Allah’.
Once it obtains zikr, it obtains its destiny.
For example, have you ever heard cats and dogs
asking for dessert after food?
Let’s say you have a dog or a cat at home
and you feed them and then they sit there
and say, ‘Where’s the dessert?’
No.
Similarly, the spiritual heart gains contentment through Zikr Allah and once it obtains this contentment,
it sits peacefully.
It doesn’t have to do anything else because it has reached its destination.
It acquired what it needed.
But the soul feels the excitement, it knows it has to go further and attain more.
So, all these original human characteristics
gradually gain prominence as the soul is activated,
and a radical change is introduced to one’s character.
One becomes soft-hearted and the ability to forgive increases.
Then [the soul] begins to search for its friends and companions
that were standing with it on the Primordial Day.
It relishes the company of such souls.
It searches for its friends [from the Primordial Day].
If it finds one such companion, you develop a strong bond of friendship with such a person.
If it does not find any of its companions,
then such a person remains secluded and does not make friends
because the soul can only befriend one that it has already been acquainted with in the past.
For instance, there was an individual
who obtained zikr from HDE Gohar Shahi,
his spiritual heart was activated, then his soul was activated
and then his soul began to search for its friends but it couldn’t find any friend.
Then, when he would go on spiritual journeys with HDE Gohar Shahi
and meet with spiritual dignitaries in the ethereal realm,
that’s where he saw the souls [he was familiar with]
such as Bulleh Shah, Baba Farid, Khwaja Gharib Nawaz, Nizamuddin Auliya and Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti.
He began to wonder why he felt a familiarity with these souls
and he was informed that it is because he was in their group in the beginning.
Such souls were his friends.
However, since he was a common person
and these souls belonged to great personalities,
he thought he would meet his friends again when he returns.
Over here, we are common human beings
whereas they were the likes of Ghaus Pak, Gharib Nawaz, etc., so perhaps they wouldn’t even recognise us here.
So, when we return then we shall sit amongst our friends.
HDE Gohar Shahi uttered a sentence in regard to their teachings.
The Lord declares, ‘This knowledge I bestow on you
can transform a common human being into the likes of Data and Khwaja’.
Such is the magnitude of these teachings,
to transform a common human being into a great saint.
Another quality of these teachings is
that should an angel be bestowed with these teachings,
the angel is made aware of its reality.
On the other hand, if these teachings are given to the most despicable.
They made aware of their reality.
These teachings make a heaven-bound soul aware of the reality of heaven
and drag a hell-bound soul to the deepest pit of hell.
This is extremely potent knowledge.