Nevertheless, when one has good health, youthful vigour, and sharp eyesight, that is when one disregards the truth.
He becomes a Pharoah; haughty and stubborn.
He forgets that he too shall become one with the soil.
He rejects the truth.
And one day, he too departs...
The Fear of Time and Death
Anyone who comes into this world has to return one day or another.
Who has ever come here forever?
Fortunate are those who please the Lord before they depart the world.
Otherwise, everyone must depart.
You cannot live here forever.
This is your temporary abode.
All will depart.
One whose heart is sound and one who has had a heart attack, both will depart.
Everyone will depart.
Nevertheless, when one has good health, youthful vigour, and sharp eyesight, that is when one disregards the truth.
He becomes a Pharoah; haughty and stubborn.
He forgets that he too shall become one with the soil.
He rejects the truth.
And one day, he too departs.
Pleasing the Lord before your departure is a difficult task.
Take HDE Gohar Shahi's name once with love before you depart.
Just once.
Before you depart the world.
For everyone must depart.
It seems as though we will never die and our life shall continue the way it is,
it feels as though everything from our businesses to our homes shall remain the same.
[However], everything is temporary.
Just like youth.
When you're young, you feel...especially when you see older people, you think, 'You walk too slowly' or 'Can't you carry anything?'
When old people complain about their pains, the young ones mock them and say, 'You're always in pain!'
Until one day they become old themselves.
For instance, when a child is born in someone's house, they feel so happy, they shower their love on the baby.
When the child grows up a little, they play with the child.
The child at this age doesn't know anything apart from the love he receives from his parents.
So the child expresses his love for his parents; he runs to his mother when she calls, he runs to his father when he calls.
Then the child grows more and starts going to school and making friends.
So he begins to share his love with his friends and his parents complain, 'You couldn't live without us before...'
'...and now you only think about your friends'.
Then when he reaches adolescence, his love shifts to other places.
Either towards physical activities or pop culture or professional athletes and so on.
So his love shifts from one thing to another.
So the concept of our child in our minds - the fact that we feed them, take them out, fulfil every single one of their desires, good and bad -
a time comes when that era passes.
Then it feels like you've lost your child. When the child grows up, that era passes.
Therefore, everything is mortal.
This era too is mortal.
The era of adolescence is also mortal.
The joy of marriage... that too is short-lived.
When the honeymoon period ends, one begins to wonder why they married in the first place.
So, everything has a life span and it's within that duration you find enjoyment, pleasure and satisfaction
after that, it comes to an end.
So our life is a collection of all these things.
The one who shuns all of this enjoyment and pleasure to please the Lord finds eternal bliss.
Everything else has to be abandoned.
I was fortunate that HDE Gohar Shahi rendered Their attachment to me when I was very young.
I met HDE Gohar Shahi when I was 17 or 18 years old.
Therefore, I was protected from that period of misguidance in my life.
Then when I met Azam in England, he had already experienced a lot of fun.
One day, I was quite upset with Azam.
I opened a bank account - this happened some 30 years ago.
When I opened a bank account - there used to be a Switch card back in the day.
It was my first Switch card, so I was excited to show Azam.
He goes, 'I've had plenty of credit cards, used them and disposed of them. You just got one, why're you so excited?'
So, there is an era in which one reaches the peak of one's virtue and vice.
That era will elapse before one reaches 30.
The optimal time to obtain guidance is between the ages of 15-30.
This is the age when our chests are overflowing with violent torrents of emotions.
We are extremely emotional and we don't even feel tired.
And we vilify absolutely everything.
But then that age also passes.
Life is very cunning.
It feels as though you have all the time in the world.
But gradually and discreetly, life slips away from us like sand under our feet.
Slowly and silently, life slips away from us.
This is exactly what the Devil wants - for your time to end quickly, so that you reach the age of 40 and become useless for God.
Therefore, do not be concerned about life and death.
Be concerned about whether or not you have found God.
For instance, Raja Bhai's father passed away yesterday.
He came here when I called him and lived in England for a few years.
One day he said, 'I want to go to Pakistan for a few days and then I'll come back'.
'I have a property to sell. I want to sort that out and return'.
I told him, 'Don't go. You won't come back'.
He said, 'No, I will, I'm telling you'.
But he wasn't able to return.
And he passed away yesterday.
Some angelic creatures appeared before me and asked, 'Do you know him?'
I did not respond.
'Do you know this man?' They asked.
Then, I responded.
'Don't ask me. Ask him if he knows me or not'.
So, your life passes just like that.
You think, 'This son of mine is sincere with me and loves me, but the other son is not sincere'.
And the truth is, whoever loves us is persecuted by people.
For example, Raja. He loves me and that's why his father didn't trust him.
And the one [his father] trusted deceived him.
I wanted to furnish his destiny and grant him elevated ranks.
40 years ago, he hosted a gathering in his house in Karachi.
A long time ago.
The gathering was at his house and I was delivering a speech.
He had a glass table in his house.
I was speaking about HDE Gohar Shahi's love and out of sheer passion, I struck the table with my hand and the table shattered.
I approached Ikram Bhai and apologised about breaking his table.
He said, 'No worries, everything can be sacrificed in the name of Sarkar'.
What he said pleased me immensely.
I honoured his words until the end.
Even yesterday, when he was being questioned in the grave.
I said, 'Go ask him if he knows me or not'.
Because if he says, 'Yes, I know him', then that's that.
Do not fear death.
You have to die one day.
Don't fear death.
Be fearful of the immigration when you travel to America...
but do not fear feath.
Complete the task for which you have come here.
We did one better.
We went searching for God and found Gohar.
We found Gohar and Gohar said, 'Tease the angels in your grave'.
Now tell me, who should be afraid of the grave, us or the angels?
Who should be afraid?
What would be really interesting is if the 360 questions asked by the angels could wake Ghafoor Bhai up...
They will ask the questions as Ghafoor Bhai continues to sleep.
They will wake him up a couple of times and then Ghafoor Bhai will say, 'I answered all the questions and emailed them to you'.
'If you haven't read the email, that's not my problem. Get lost and let me sleep'.