There is a particular Sunnah
on which every religion is founded, based and built.
No matter which religion you follow,
it is like a solid, concrete foundation for you.
It is the foundation for the entire building of the religion.
And that is…
Which Tradition of the Prophet (s) Must be Revived?
Sunnah is an act.
Any act that the Prophet (s) performed
and declared that it is for the Ummah to follow is a Sunnah.
There were a few actions of the Prophet (s),
which the Prophet (s) limited to themselves,
[such acts] do not qualify as traditions.
Now, we must analyse what sort of acts the Prophet (s) would engage in.
People only remember a few Sunnahs,
that of consuming desserts, getting married and growing a beard.
That's all they remember.
The Prophet (s) witnessed the divine splendour,
is this not a Sunnah?
Because the witnessing of God was a tradition
that the Prophet (s) did not limit to themselves,
there were many saints and companions from the Ummah of the Prophet (s)
and many of the Imams from the Ahle Bayt also witnessed God.
Therefore, this was not confined to the Prophet (s).
However, perhaps,
the Prophet (s) did not speak about the Sunnah of witnessing God
because this is neither possible nor in the control of a human being.
Only those can get to that point whom God has chosen.
There is a particular Sunnah
on which every religion is founded, based and built.
No matter which religion you follow,
it is like a solid, concrete foundation for you.
It is the foundation for the entire building of the religion.
And that [Sunnah] is the awakening of the spiritual heart.
When the Prophet (s) rendered this advice to his Ummah,
even then he addressed the entirety of humanity.
He said, 'O Son of Adam, there is a lump of flesh in your body,
which, if rectified, rectifies your entire body,
and if left corrupted will deem your entire body to corruption.
Remember well, it is your heart’.
This is the tradition, the revival of which is of utmost importance.
Without reviving this, one is not rendered faith.
And it has been noted that this is the Sunnah
which has been abandoned by the Muslims.
Nobody wonders about the revival of the heart.
Henceforth, the Muslims were divided into sects,
their salah became corrupt.
They continued to worship
but remained engaged in loot and plunder and fraud
because the foundation was corrupted.
And many religious organisations ran many campaigns,
some raised the slogans of the Oneness of God,
some attempted to raise awareness of the eminence of the Household of the Prophet (s)
and some raised slogans of the Sunnahs,
however, even those that spoke of the Sunnahs,
they spoke of the physical Sunnahs
that of wearing an imama sharif, growing a beard,
holding a miswak and getting married.
But, no one revived the tradition of the Prophet (s), which states,
'My eyes sleep, but my heart does not sleep'.
‘yunamu aini wa la yunamu qalbi’.
My eyes sleep but my spiritual heart doesn’t sleep.
No one has fulfilled this Sunnah.
Now, people managed to easily adopt a myriad of traditions
and they left themselves deprived of the original tradition.
The most prominent reason I find for this is
that this is one Sunnah
which cannot be obtained without God’s help.
It was for the acquisition of this,
God hinted at in Alhamdo Sharif
when he commanded us what to pray for and how to pray for it.
'Iyyaka na’badu wa iyyaka nast’aeen'
'O Lord, make us capable of performing sincere worship
and for that, we seek your help'.
It is not possible to practise this Sunnah without earning God’s approval and pleasure.
And what is God's help?
What does the Qur’an say when you find God's help?
'Ihdinas sirat al mustaqeem'
'inform us of and lead us to the straight path…’
‘ihdinas sirat al mustaqeem, sirat al lazeena an amta alayhim'
'the path of those whom you have bestowed upon your favour'.
So, God has you come to encounter those he has bestowed his favour upon,
he leads you to a divinely ordained spiritual guide.
And a spiritual guide is one who is authorised by God [to guide].
The Qur’an states about Prophet Muhammad (s),
'The personality I sent unto you as Shahid, Nazeer, Basheer
and Sirajun Muneer,
I have sent with my permission’.
We find from this that
any personality that God has sent
shall come with the permission of God.
For one to obtain guidance from him would be to obtain guidance from God.
So, to find divine authorisation
is the appointment [of one] for the sake of guiding humankind,
this knowledge is known as 'Izn o Irshad'
which is the knowledge pertaining to the gnosis of God.
What does 'irshad' mean?
Irshad means 'guidelines'.
'Rushd' means 'guidance'.
So, God has decreed humanity to make this prayer to God,
and says, 'If you want to be made capable of worship,
then seek help from me'.
No one else can help you with this.
What is that help?
Your spiritual heart, when it is in a dormant state,
it is called Qalb e Snobar - it is senseless.
Snobar means senseless.
It does not have the power of comprehension.
This is the reason
that when people's hearts are unenlightened and senseless,
they are unaware of their prayers,
they are unaware of attaining the Prophet’s (s) love,
they are unaware of piety and they are just mindlessly worshipping.
They are still sinning,
they are still deeply flawed,
they still lie and commit fraud
and they offer salah at the same time
and their hearts are senseless, they are not guided by their hearts.
Now, the task of reviving the religion
is appointed by God to someone
who God has spiritually prepared.
Then it is God's discretion
to have such an individual be spiritually educated by the Prophet (s)
and is appointed as the vicegerent of the Prophet (s),
or God has to spiritually educate that individual himself
and then that person is appointed as the vicegerent of God.
If someone is appointed as the vicegerent of the Prophet (s),
then that individual will take people onto the path of the religion of Prophet Muhammad (s),
however, if someone is appointed as the divine vicegerent,
then such an individual shall have people walk straight towards God [without religion].
Now, this practice has been abandoned for 400 years.
Allama Iqbal wrote in his works over a hundred years ago,
'The taverns of Hind have been closed for the last 300 years.
O wine-giver, you must now make abundant your benevolence'.
Then, HDE Gohar Shahi arrived
and revived the tradition of the revival of the spiritual heart on a global scale.
And to date, this campaign of reviving the hearts
is progressing, just like the Long March.
The masses of people are ever-increasing.
So, that’s it.