No matter how many calamities befall you, although you will feel the pain
but you will still be connected to the Spiritual Master.
And those who don't have this inner connection with the Spiritual Master run away when they are faced with a minor inconvenience.
This is the absolute best thing to maintain the connection to the Spiritual Master.
This stage is known as Fana fi Sheikh.
Connection with the Spiritual Master & The Test of a Disciple
The teachings of Tariqat are incredible, however, greater than the teachings of Tariqat is its culture.
The centre point of Tariqat, the focus, is on connection with the Spiritual Master.
It all depends on what kind of connection one has with the Spiritual Master.
If your connection with the Spiritual Master is one in which you do not see anyone but the Spiritual Master
then this is the instant completion of the spiritual journey.
Having a connection with the Spiritual Master, being spiritually affiliated and loving your Spiritual Master.
But it cannot be said that you have to love your Spiritual Master.
Because no one is capable of loving the Spiritual Master.
Technically.
If the Spiritual Master grants you his love then you will fall in love with the Spiritual Master.
You cannot acquire the Spiritual Master's love without purification of the Lower Self.
You will not be granted the Spiritual Master's love until your Lower Self is purified.
What is the reason behind it?
The reason is that the Spiritual Master's love has to do with the spiritual entity within the Spiritual Master.
It is not a verbal claim.
So what is the love of the Spiritual Master?
This here is the depiction of an activated heart.
I am using a diagram to explain Tariqat to you.
How do you establish a connection with God?
So, God's name has entered the heart.
Once God's name begins echoing in the heart
the divine energy from the heart travels upwards
and it connects to God.
This is called Sirat al Mutaqeem (The Straight Path).
This wire [of divine energy] that reaches God maintains your connection with God.
Even if you try to wander away from God, you will not get far because this wire will keep you attached to God.
So what is the love of the Spiritual Master?
This is your Spiritual Heart.
These are the other subtleties.
This is your Lower Self.
The Spiritual Master will firstly purify your Lower Self.
Once your Lower Self is purified, the Spiritual Master will transmit one of his spiritual entities within you.
And the spiritual entity of the Spiritual Master will grasp onto your inner faculties.
The sub-spirit of the Spiritual Master within you will keep you connected to him.
You will always be inclined towards your Spiritual Master.
No matter how much the world pulls you towards itself,
no matter how many calamities befall you, although you will feel the pain
but you will still be connected to the Spiritual Master.
And those who don't have this inner connection with the Spiritual Master run away when they are faced with a minor inconvenience.
This is the absolute best thing to maintain the connection to the Spiritual Master.
This stage is known as Fana fi Sheikh.
The more you think about your Spiritual Master the more divine energy you will generate.
The more emotions of love develop in your heart for the Spiritual Master, the more purified you will become.
The gist/nectar of Tariqah is to cultivate a relationship of affection between the disciple and the Master.
After purifying your Lower Self, the Spiritual Master inserts one of his spiritual entities within you.
That spiritual entity of the Spiritual Master will keep you connected to him.
Now, when you sit in the company of such a person, a Fana fi Shaikh, just sit in his company with anything you wish to say
to His Divine Eminence in your heart because through him, the desire of your heart will very discretely reach the Spiritual Master.
Because the Fana fi Shaikh is looking at you and his heart will attract all the good desires from your heart.
His heart has this power to pull the desires from your heart and take them to the Spiritual Master.
Therefore, the most important thing in Tariqah is a connection with the Spiritual Master.
Nothing is of more importance in Tariqah.
There are tests in Tariqah however they pertain to love, not the Sacred Law.
There are tests of love. The disciple is tested to see whether he loves the Spiritual Master or someone else.
Such a situation will be created when the disciple is tested...
in which he has to choose either the Spiritual Master or everyone else.
If you choose your Spiritual Master then everyone else will become your enemy
and cut off all contact with you but if you choose others, you will lose your Spiritual Master.
These are the tests of Tariqah.
Sometimes, the tests are pertaining to love and other times the tests have to do with belief.
For example, if the Spiritual Master says something very nonchalantly, in a very general way, like,
Listen, don’t take money from anyone’.
So he says this and the very next day, you are faced with a dire need for money
that if you don’t ask someone for money, you would have to starve and at the same time you can’t take any money because your Master told you not to.
So the test here is of belief.
The Spiritual Master told you not to take money from anyone,
so he is testing to see if you trust him.
This is why you are tested, your belief is tested.
If you trust your Spiritual Master then no matter what happens,
you will not ask anyone for money because he told you not to do it.
So when you reach a point where you are completely obedient to your Spiritual Master and do not ask anyone for money,
the Spiritual Master will arrange for some money himself.
And if you think what if you don’t get the money - this is just an example
- and you’re worried about the consequences [then you fail the test].
So you are tested on belief and love,
and then a time comes when you are tested on the Sacred Law
but it is not in accordance with the Sacred Law but rather according to Tariqah.
What is the test of Sacred Law according to Tariqah?
Whether you follow the Sacred Law or you follow your Spiritual Master.
If you follow the Sacred Law then you have to disregard the Spiritual Master
and if you follow your Spiritual Master then you have to forget about the Sacred Law.
This is the stage where many people become misguided.
This is the stage where the love of your Spiritual Master helps you, provided you have been granted it.
If not, your faith is destroyed.
How do you pass this stage successfully?
My heart is revived by my Spiritual Master and he brought God’s name into my heart,
he has access to God,
therefore, I obtained guidance from him.
Therefore, everything that my Master does is the truth.
This should become part of your faith.
Thereafter, if your Spiritual Master shows you something which goes against the Sacred Law,
then as a disciple, you should think that the one who has granted guidance to you is always right.
This makes you successful.
You may have heard it in my poetry
‘How can one find benevolence in a Shariah that does not consist the fragrance of Gohar
And the Tariqah that is not coloured with the Colour of Gohar, is not Tariqah’.
So there are tests of the Sacred Law to see whether you are more inclined towards the Sacred Law or the Spiritual Master.
It will appear to you as if the Spiritual Master is doing something against the Sacred Law,
however, that is not the reality.
If you develop the belief that everything your Spiritual Master does is the truth,
then immediately you will realise that what you thought was against the Sacred Law was in fact the Sacred Law itself.
So these are the tests.
The Spiritual Master tests you through his words too.
I am talking about Tariqah.
For example, Baba brings food that Firdos Baji prepared for me.
Now, I will ask Baba, ‘Where did you bring this food from?’
Baba says, ‘Firdos made it’.
And I will say, ‘No, she didn’t make it’.
Baba will think but she made it right in front of me
but Sayeedi says she didn’t make it.
He will be worried.
Why is he saying she didn’t make it when she made it right in front of me?
But then, if he thinks, ‘No, what he is saying is correct and I am mistaken’,
as soon as this thought crosses his heart, he passes the test.
And as soon as he passes, he will be told that it was not Firdos who made the food because it was the love in her heart for me that made it.
She didn’t make it, it was the love in her heart for me
These are the kinds of tests of Tariqah which do not make sense to a common person.
What is the key to success in this?
You have to close your eyes and ears in the presence of the Spiritual Master.
You must do whatever the Spiritual Master says.
Whatever he says is the truth.
Spiritual people, it seems, are aliens to our world.
Their actions, deeds and words cannot be understood.
They will say one thing but you will understand another.
If they say something like, ‘No one comes here’, you will think it means they are complaining about people not coming.
But you don’t know who he is talking to,
whether it is your Spiritual Heart, your body or your Lower Self. You don’t know who he is addressing.
When this happens, you should ask him what you should do.
Do not do what you think is best.
Ask your Spiritual Master what you should do.
So, the tests in Tariqah are very sensitive and difficult
difficult but the only way to succeed is to remember that everything your Spiritual Master says is the truth,
everything your Spiritual Master does is the truth.
You must not vocalise your own desires in front of the Master. Do not say anything.
If he asks, ‘Is there light in the room or is it dark?’
You will obviously not understand what he means and since you don’t understand,
you will think he is talking about a physical room and because the light is on, you will say, ‘There is light in the room’.
You failed the test.
Even if you said, ‘The room is dark’, you will fail.
What would be the right thing to do? Since you don’t know what the Spiritual Master is talking about,
then you say, ‘Master, you know best’.
This is what Prophet Mohammad taught the Companions.
He told them that whenever they are asked something, they should say, ‘God and his Messenger know best’.
These are the protocols of Tariqah and being in the company of the Spiritual Master.
If you are weak when it comes to these things, you fail in the chapter of Zakooriyat.
Now, put all your subtleties to one side,
forget about the revival of your subtleties with Zikr for now,
if you have not established a connection with the Spiritual Master
in which your Spiritual Master says it is night time when the sun is shining and you do not argue with it but rather agree with him,
then in that case even if you verbally claim to love your Master, there is no point. This is the standard of belief.
And I have seen that the Devil captures the minds of people
- like when people feel strong emotions of lust,
a husband in such a state would disregard his own mother to take his wife’s side,
even when his wife is clearly in the wrong but he will still agree with her and blame his own mother.
Although he did not witness anything, he believes whatever his wife says
There are many people like this.
Or, if you have developed a negative conjecture for someone
and another person comes and spins a false story about them, you will definitely believe it.
Oftentimes people deceive you in love but your heart gives them the benefit of the doubt.
In all these situations, despite seeing the truth with your eyes, you choose to believe what someone else says.
You reject what you see with your own eyes.
Isn’t that true?
So why don’t you apply the same thing to the Spiritual Master?
This ability is developed in you when you are dyed in the colour of your Master’s love.
Thereafter, whatever your Spiritual Master says is the truth.
This is the only key to belief:
the Spiritual Master.
Just write ‘Spiritual Master’ in your fate and then erase everything else with a rubber
so that only the Spiritual Master remains.
Believe that whatever His Divine Eminence says is the truth, nothing else.
People have been hearing about Tariqah for a long time, the syllabus of Tariqah.
It would be a great injustice for you to know about Zakooriyat,
Kushiyat, Khashiyat
but you are unaware of Rang e Tariqat.
Zakooriyat is useless without Rang e Tariqat. You don’t get anything [without Rang e Tariqat].
You will only generate divine energy with Zakooriyat alone
but as soon as you doubt something your Spiritual Master says, you waste all that divine energy
Therefore, it is a must to establish such a strong bond and connection with the Spiritual Master
that no matter how hard the Devil tries, he cannot mislead you.
This is belief and trust in the Spiritual Master.
The test has nothing to do with Zikr or the Sacred Law, it is about belief and faith.