People hear secrets from the Sufis in regards to Qur’an e Maknoon
but then refer to the clergymen for their issues [in regards to Qur’an e Maknoon].
Since you have heard [of Qur’an e Maknoon] from someone who expertises in that knowledge,
you must refer to the same individual for a verdict relating to an issue [of Qur’an e Maknoon].
What is Qur’an e Maknoon?
For example, Bulleh Shah said,
‘Consume kebab, consume alcohol
and burn a blaze within your bones.
Purloin, then wreak the house of the Lord
and loot the greatest of all looters’
if you refer to the clergyman for a verdict [on this],
they will say that Bulleh Shah is a kafir.
If you come to me however,
I will say that is a lover of God.
You will object and say, ‘he called God a looter!’
and I shall say, ‘of course he is a looter’.
[Why?] ‘The entire matter is enclosure within one point’,
[whereas] we’ve been told, ‘Engage in Allah, Allah’, and [thus] we brought God into our heart
and then he looted our entire being,
we now belong to nobody else.
We belong solely to God now.
‘Consume kebab…’,
why did Bulleh Shah feel the need to tell people to eat kebab,
people used to eat kebab anyway, right?
People used to consume alcohol too, right?
So, this is another sort of kebab, another sort of alcohol.
Another sort of alcohol, another sort of kebab.
Have you ever burnt your bones? No, right?
Whereas, the kebab is cooked on coal.
[And Bulleh Shah refers to the] kebab that is cooked on blazing bones.
Now, how is this cooked?
Those that blaspheme in the court of Hazrat Abu Bakr should pay heed.
The state of Hazrat Abu Bakr Siddique (rh) was that
he would spend the entire day with the Prophet (s),
and when, late at night, he’d return home to rest,
he’d stand all night in the longing of the Prophet (s).
And the state of his heart in the longing of the Prophet (s)...
physically too…
his family were able to sense the odour of burning flesh.
The Prophet (s) summoned his family and said to them,
‘There is nothing wrong with your house,
in which you sense the odour of burning flesh,
this odour comes from the heart of Abu Bakr,
which is set ablaze with my love… that is what you sense.
The love of the Prophet (s) used to flow through every bloodstream of Abu Bakr Siddique.
When the love of the Prophet (s) flowed through every bloodstream of Abu Bakr,
and [you claim to] follow the traditions of the Prophet (s),
then why can’t you follow the tradition of the caliph of the Prophet (s)?
The love of God should flow in your bloodstreams too.
The love of the Prophet (s) too shall flow in your bloodstreams.
When that love flows in your bloodstream,
then you too shall sense that burning odour.
When you sense the odour of burning from love,
that is what [Bulleh Shah] refers to as ‘kebab’.
Someone also said,
‘I have become the infidel of love, I do not need the creeds of the Muslims,
Every vein of mine has become taunt like a wire…’
esoterically, fire is ablaze in every vein of mine.
‘Every vein of mine has become taunt like a wire,
I do not need the girdle of fire…’
I am burning in the fire of hell right here,
what would you achieve from submitting me to hellfire?
‘Every vein of mine has become taunt like a wire,
I do not need the girdle of fire’.
So, that Qur’an is different
and this Qur’an is different.
The Qur’an that we elucidate
resides in the chest of the Prophet (s).
For this Qur’an, you require white paper,
whereas for that Qur’an, you need a white chest.
When you inscribe this Qur’an, you need a blank paper, don’t you?
And if you want that Qur’an, you require a blank heart,
which has nothing else on it.
Now, Qur’an e Maknoon,
which resided in the chest of the Prophet (s),
it had only two portions.
Where is the rest of Qur’an e Maknoon?
For the next two portions,
we’d have to excavate the next ethereal spirit.
We then go towards the ethereal spirit of Khafi.
The two portions of Qur’an e Maknoon [from Khafi]
were rendered to Lord Jesus Christ.
There are a total of ten portions of Qur’an e Maknoon.
Those ten portions are enclosed within the five ethereal spirits.
Each ethereal spirit has two portions of Qur’an e Maknoon.
Why are there two portions?
One portion was for the messenger, himself,
and the second portion was the saints [of his nation].
Now, open your ears and open your eyes.
If there were two portions,
and the same knowledge was found in the second portion,
which was already found in the first portion,
then what is the point of two portions?
The knowledge that was rendered to the prophets was one portion,
and the knowledge that was rendered to the saints was the second portion
which will be different, won’t it?
And then you object, ‘you’re not abiding by the traditions [of the Prophet (s)]...
tell us where in the hadith does it say this, 'show us’
The ahadith make mention of [the knowledge of] the first portion.
The second portion, which was reserved for the saints;
and when the saints abide by that second portion
how would it be accordance with the first portion?
It won’t be like the first portion, would it?
You shall say, ‘the Prophet (s) offered salah, whereas this person doesn’t even offer salah’
[because] it’s prescribed in the first portion, not the second.
It’s prescribed in the first portion…
we have now decided to gradually reveal more.
So, how many portions of Qur’an e Maknoon are there?
[Audience] ‘ten’.
What portions are enclosed within the chest of the Prophet (s)?
[The portion] that relates to the prophethood and messengerhood of the Prophet (s).
What about the rest?
The rest of the portions are with the rest of the messengers.
This is a very simple thing [to understand].
Two portions were rendered to every messenger,
so the rest of the portions are with the rest of the messengers.
Had you forgotten?
I am asking, ‘had you forgotten?’ and he’s saying, ‘yes, indeed’.
Now, what you must decide is,
which Qur’an do you relate to?
If you relate to the material Qur’an,
then you should take your leave from here,
because we elucidate the second form of the Qur’an.
You won’t be able to understand the second form of the Qur’an.
And be just.
The Qur’an that we elucidate,
you must refer to a scholar that is a scholar of this Qur’an,
for a verdict [on what we have elucidated].
Is it possible for you to buy a car from a BMW garage,
but when it doesn’t work, you take your complaints to Mercedes?
No, right?
So, we are rendering the knowledge of Qur’an e Maknoon.
If you are in doubt over the knowledge of Qur’an e Maknoon,
then you must refer to a scholar
that is a scholar of Qur’an e Maknoon.
Yes.
The scholar of the material Qur’an will say that this is all kufr.
Because the scholars of the material Qur’an
label those of Qur’an e Maknoon, as kafir.
And, the scholars of Qur’an e Maknoon
label thee scholars of the material Qur’an as ignorants.
They say that they are ignorants.
And the Prophet (s) also warned [us] of them,
‘Beware of the ignorant scholars’.
‘Do not approach the ignorant scholars’,
[the companions asked], ‘O Messenger of God (s), what is an ignorant scholar?’
The Prophet (s) responded, ‘those who have knowledge only on their tongues, but their hearts are ignorant, as in dark’.
So, those that passed verdicts against HDE Gohar Shahi in the contemporary era,
were the “scholars”
that know only of the material Qur’an,
those that are ignorant of Qur’an e Maknoon,
those that are ignorant of the Qur’an
that resides in the chest of the Muhammad ar Rasool Allah (s).
I, the subservient of Gohar Shahi
elucidate the Qur’an that HDE Gohar Shahi has taught me,
which is Qur’an e Maknoon.
Yes, this Qur’an e Maknoon destroys Islam,
howver it revives faith.
Yes, it does destroy Islam, it does indeed,
however, it revives faith.
And faith is a greater stage than Islam.
And greater than faith is that of Ihsan.
Those that are limited to Islam are Muslim.
Those, in the hearts of whom has settled the kalima,
they are the Masters of Faith,
they are a Momin.
And those that witness the divine splendour,
they are at the stage of Ihsan,
they are a Mohsin.
Now, HDE Gohar Shahi
didn’t come to deliver to us the doctrine of Islam,
nor the doctrine of faith.
They have initiated us at the stage of Ihsan.
‘You look at me, and I look at you’,
they have to come to teach one how to witness the divine splendour.
Sultan Haq Bahoo also said,
‘Faith is oblivious of the destinations to which love can raise us,
Guard my love for you, evergreen, even if it destroys my faith’.
This is a spiritual journey.
First comes the stage of faith.
If you become stagnant at this stage, then you are only a Momin,
you won’t become a saint, will you?
You won’t become Godly, will you?
You shall become one of faith.
If you become a momin, it means that you’ve become one of faith
and if you become stagnant at this stage,
you shall remain a momin,
whereas, if you wish to become a saint,
then you must go beyond the stage of faith.
You must move towards love,
towards witnessing the divine splendour.
The entire issue is that
HDE Gohar Shahi is initiating you from the stage of Ihsan,
from the stage of witnessing the divine splendour,
and you object, ‘why aren’t they speaking about Islam?’
The subject of HDE Gohar Shahi is not to speak about Islam,
there have been many that have come to teach Islam.
Was Data Ali Hajveri not enough to teach Islam?
Nizamuddin Auliya, Baba Farid…
they taught you Islam, didn’t they? They didn’t make you Hindus.
Khawaja Gharib Nawaz converted 90,000 people into Muslims, didn’t he?
How many did he make a momin?
Similarly, these individuals spread Islam.
Islam wasn’t spread by the clergymen,
Islam was spread by the saints.
So, there have been many that came to spread Islam,
and then those that spread faith were lesser in number.
And now, we are in the last era.
Now, God has sent HDE Gohar Shahi, ordained as Imam Mehdi,
to confer the stage of Ihsan.
What is the stage of Ihsan?
That when you worship the Lord,
you witness the Lord in your worship.
You witness him!
In the divine ordinance of Imam Mehdi,
this is the message of HDE Gohar Shahi, which you must comprehend.
You then come and object, ‘HDE Gohar Shahi has never addressed the issues of ablution!’
and sometimes you object, ‘HDE Gohar Shahi has never addressed the issues of charity’
This is simply not the subject of HDE Gohar Shahi.
But what do you understand instead?
[You think that] the followers of HDE Gohar Shahi do not believe in ablution.
Does that make sense?
When you go to a school or a college to study,
then you’ll find that if there is a chemistry lecturer in a school, college or a university,
they shall come into their class and teach you chemistry.
And if you then say, ‘do you not believe in physics?’
[the teacher] will slap you across the face.
Yes. He’d say, ‘what on Earth are you talking about?
Is physics God, for me to have to believe in it?
My subject is chemistry, that’s what I have come to teach’.
And then when the English lecturer arrives
and he doesn’t mention science at all,
you’ll say, ‘he’s ignorant!
He hasn’t said a single thing about science!’
but it is you that is ignorant.
One will only teach what their subject is.
HDE Gohar Shahi’s subject is not Shariah.
What is HDE Gohar Shahi’s subject? Love!
And in order to elevate you to love, HDE Gohar Shahi has initiated [you] from Tariqah (the Spiritual Path).
Why have [they] initiated [you] from Tariqah?
Because, through Tariqah,
the door of your spiritual heart is opened,
and the spirits with which you can elevate to love,
they are enclosed within the spiritual heart.
They cannot be released for as long as the spiritual heart is caged.