There are mainly two types of saints.
The first are those that have Accomplished Shariah (Kamil Shariat)
and then those that have Accomplished Tariqah (Kamil Tariqat).
There is a Kamil Shariat in every single era,
[whereas] the Kamil Tariqat are rare.
A Ghaus uz Zaman is known as a Kamil Shariat,
and he doesn’t have the power nor the doctrine of Zikr e Qalb.
2 Tarah Ke Wali Hotay Hain - The Two Types of Saints
What would be ignorant is,
if you were to make someone who has played cricket all their lives,
a football coach.
Similarly, observe what’s been happening in India and Pakistan over the ages.
There are mainly two types of saints.
The first are those that have Accomplished Shariah (Kamil Shariat)
and then those that have Accomplished Tariqah (Kamil Tariqat).
There is a Kamil Shariat in every single era,
[whereas] the Kamil Tariqat are rare.
A Ghaus uz Zaman is known as a Kamil Shariat,
and he doesn’t have the power nor the doctrine of Zikr e Qalb.
Even now, you’ll come across so many charlatans all across Pakistan,
[such as] Golra Sharif, or X Sharif and Y Sharif,
so many self-proclaimed descendants,
those who tell you great stories and fables.
And all of the heirs [in their families]
have been taking pledges of allegiance [from people],
[whereas] they are fake people.
There had been one Kamil Shariat who was their great-grandfather or their great-great-grandfather,
perhaps even higher up in their lineage.
The actual saint [of their ancestry], the Kamil Shariat,
he wasn’t able to render Zikr e Qalb,
and these people are having people pledge allegiance at their hands.
For example, what’s the greatest con in Pakistan right now?
If someone finds out about a particular person that they are spiritual, that they are a saint,
then they make his entire family a saint.
Essentially, there are two types of accomplished spiritual guides.
One is known as a Kamil Shariat,
they bear the post of Ghaus uz Zaman
and having taken your pledge,
they purify your lower self and within twelve years,
they present you in the Court of the Prophet (s)
in the Realm of Nasut.
Then, one is approved for Zikr e Qalb from there.
[The saint] makes you carry out a period of austerity for twelve years.
So, a Ghaus uz Zaman, one who is the Ghaus of the era,
even if you pledge to him, it is for the purification of the lower self,
they aren’t ones that can render Zikr e Qalb.
And contemporarily, those from the lineage [of a saint],
those who aren’t even Kamil Shariat
and are self-proclaimed heirs,
they are destroying the faith of people, they are looting people.
Like in our country, Pakistan,
we deliver the thieves and crooks to the assembly by voting for them…
our naive and ignorant nation votes for feudal lords,
ignorants, detestable individuals like Rana Sanaullah and delivers them to the assembly,
similarly, our population
blindly takes their entire families and has them pledge allegiance,
[whilst] they don’t even know why one must seek for a spiritual guide,
they don’t even know what a pledge of allegiance is.
And they are told, ‘keep gifting [us money] and we take responsibility for [the accountability of] your graves’.
Now, one thing is to blindly follow [someone],
in which you don’t use your intellect.
[They think], ‘my father has told me to pledge myself
and that I must not say anything before the holy man, remain silent, do not question him’.
Fair enough, that’s blindly following [someone] and certain people do that,
but then some people become educated.
They go to the college, university, study Islamic books
and books of Sufism, they then ask questions, they ask,
‘what is this? The task of a holy man is supposed to do this and that’,
they don’t see any trait nor any attribute of a holy man in that individual,
they become disillusioned.
And it’s not as if they become disillusioned and say that the individual is not a real holy man,
[instead], they say that ‘all spiritual institutions are falsehood,
it is an innovation in the religion and it is outside the fold of Islam’.
So, HDE Gohar Shahi came and revived the concept of a spiritual guide.
They have depicted to the world what a spiritual guide must be like
and they have distributed the criteria.
HDE Gohar Shahi said, ‘we are not taking any pledge from you,
[rather], we wish to render you a criteria’.
They then gave an example, that if you wish to trade in diamonds,
then you must first learn to identify a diamond.
When you are able to identify a diamond,
then whenever you shall identify a diamond, you shall find a real diamond, you won’t be deceived.
Similarly, [HDE Gohar Shahi] said, ‘I do not ask you to come and pledge yourselves,
I am rendering you a criteria.
Take this criteria
and wherever this criteria indicates that the individual before you is a saint,
then go and pledge at his hands’.
HDE Gohar Shahi has revived the concept of a spiritual guide.
Prior to this,
no one knew who a spiritual guide is,
what you can attain from a spiritual guide,
what is the protocol of a spiritual guide,
what are the rights of a disciple over the spiritual guide
and what are the rights of a spiritual guide over the disciples.
[Charlatans simply take] gifts and offerings from you…
the contemporary saints of God in Pakistan are destroying your faith.
These holy men that are sitting around here and there,
they are besmirching the honour of your women,
they are looting you and they are destroying your faith!
When HDE Gohar Shahi arrived,
they revived the concept of a spiritual guide
in the light of the Qur’an and hadith,
and they presented before you what an accomplished spiritual guide is actually supposed to be like.
Now, when HDE Gohar Shahi did this,
and obviously, the entirety of Pakistan is full of charlatan saints.
HDE Gohar Shahi told the common person that this is the recognition [of a spiritual guide].
[HDE Gohar Shahi] gave the tool of recognition to people
and people took a stand.
The disciples [of the charlatan saints] broke off and ran away.
You cannot doubt the intentions of HDE Gohar Shahi,
because they do not seek any offerings from anyone nor are taking any pledge from anyone.
They receive no material benefit [from anyone]
so why would they seek to squander someone's bread and butter?
However, HDE Gohar Shahi declared, ‘You are selling God’s name,
you are selling the religion!
You are very close to infidelity!
You are carrying out a crime against the nation of the Prophet (s)!’
This is the ideology that HDE Gohar Shahi rendered.
They revived the concept of a spiritual guide.
Then, HDE Gohar Shahi told of the spiritual guide,
that [Bulleh Shah says], ‘To witness the spiritual guide is equivalent to a hundred thousand pilgrims of Hajj’.
[HDE Gohar Shahi explained that] a spiritual guide, whose witnessing is greater than a hundred thousand Hajj’s,
such a spiritual guide is one who has witnessed God.
When he witnesses God, God’s image is transferred upon his Ana,
from his Ana it is transferred into his eyes
and from his eyes into his heart.
When the image enters his heart,
then God says, ‘now descend [unto Earth],
now whoever witnesses you, witnesses me’.
One in whose heart resides the image of God,
to witness such a spiritual guide is to witness God.
Today in Pakistan, the descendents of Sultan Sahib…
Well, we can’t really call them descendents, rather relatives.
They are ruling over the books of Sultan Sahib
and they are fraudulently deceiving people by blowing the name of God over them.
We have heard of these things for the last 30-35 years.
For the last 30-35 years,
those that claim to be relatives of Sultan Haq Bahoo,
have been deceiving the people.
So, our history tells us,
we learn from the lives of the prophets
that it is not necessary that the son of a prophet is a prophet.
When the son of a prophet cannot necessarily be a prophet, then how can the son of a saint automatically be a saint.
Prophethood and Sainthood is in God’s accordance,
he may render it to whomsoever he wishes.
All things aside,
the father of Abraham (a) was a pagan.
God rendered the son of a pagan, prophethood.
Not just prophethood, an entire nation of prophets.
It is all in God’s accordance.
HDE Gohar Shahi came and gave us the formula
that prophethood is not inherited,
neither is sainthood,
and then they told us that faith too, is not inherited.
Only those that God decides shall become a momin.
It is not necessary that if you are a momin that then your off-spring will also be a momin.
But what do we find today?
[We find that] if someone is noble or has become a saint,
God has rendered them with a post;
then people look at their off-spring and taunt them,
[they say], ‘look at them! Their father thinks he’s a saint and look at what the off-spring is up to!’
I mean what’re you saying?
Guidance and misguidance are both in God’s accordance,
why did you object as to why the son of a saint is engaged in such indecencies?
Is the saint responsible for that?
God is responsible for guidance.
If prophets [were responsible for guidance] then the son of Noah would never have been a kafir
nor would have his wife been a kafir.
If prophets [were responsible for guidance] the wife of Lot (a) would never have been a kafir either.
If prophets [were responsible for guidance] the wife of Samson (a) would not have been a kafir
nor would she have him assassinated.
It is in God’s accordance.
Prophethood is in God’s accordance,
sainthood too is in God’s accordance
and faith is also in God’s accordance,
only Islam is in your accordance,
hence you can make whomsoever you wish a Muslim.
However, sainthood and faith is in God’s accordance,
whomsoever God renders guidance.
When faith is in God’s accordance, then how can you observe to be the descendent of Sultan Haq Bahoo
and deceive the entire world?
And people are silent [thinking],
‘if we say anything to them, they are the descendents of Sultan Bahoo,
what if God becomes displeased with us, what if he descends his wrath upon us?
What if this happens, what if that happens?’
this is why people quietly bear and tolerate kufr and paganism and eventually become accustomed to it.
Speak the truth! Study the truth! Study it in the Qur’an.
Study it in the ahadith, learn it from the saints
and when you have learnt the truth then do not fear
to speak the truth from the wife of the spiritual guide or the son of the spiritual guide, no!
Once you have learnt the truth, then [know that] the spiritual guide is with the truth.
So, when HDE Gohar Shahi came and elucidated the [concept of a] spiritual guide.
When HDE Gohar Shahi revived anew, reestablished the real concept, the Mohammedan concept of a spiritual guide,
then all the charlatans, pseudo-claimants and fraudsters were exposed.
It’s obvious that they would have bore enmity.
Otherwise, the world didn’t know what a spiritual guide is,
what they are supposed to do,
why one must pledge to them and what they shall attain from the saint that they pledge themselves to.
People did not have the concept of the types of spiritual guides
and what you can attain from various types of saints.
Now, why had this concept become extinct?
When there aren’t real spiritual guides…
for instance, if you want zikr e qalb, you shall go to a Kamil Tariqat,
[and] if you wish to purify your lower self, you shall go to a Kamil Shariat.
Now, if you seek zikr e qalb and you end up at a Kamil Shariat…
and if he’s really a Kamil Shariat, he won’t deceive you,
he will say, ‘Son, why’re you here?’,
[you shall say], ‘I have come for Zikr e Qalb’
now, he’s a saint, isn’t he?
He’s accountable before God.
He will say, ‘I am Kamil Shariat,
go to that particular holy man, he is a Kamil Tariqat’.
When there used to be saints in the world,
even if someone seeking something more came to them, they would be told,
‘we do not have that knowledge, you can go to that particular individual’,
however, such saints do not remain [in the world].
Now all you have are these thieves and crooks.
And they are such great thieves and crooks
that they apply the greatest of [spiritual] ranks along with their names,
[they claim], ‘we are Kamil Shariat as well as Kamil Tariqat and Kamil Marifat’,
and what they don’t understand, they claim, ‘we are also all of what we are unaware of’.
HDE Gohar Shahi taught us classification,
as to the various types and functions of a saint.
HDE Gohar Shahi said to us that ‘it is the responsibility of a Kamil Shariat to purify your lower self within twelve years
and to take you to the Nasuti Court of the Prophet (s),
this is his responsibility’.
Within twelve years.
Now, when HDE Gohar Shahi expounded the traits and qualities of an accomplished spiritual guide
and at the same time, HDE Gohar Shahi rendered the benevolence that the elitest of saints could,
for free to people.
They rendered recognition of an accomplished spiritual guide, [they] didn’t even take any pledge of allegiance from anyone,
didn’t make any disciples, yet continued to render benevolence.
People continued to attain an enlightened conscience,
people began to become [spiritually] stable
and a time came when the clergymen surrendered [and said],
‘we cannot suppress the people of Gohar Shahi’.
So [then], all the [fraudulent] holy men united against HDE Gohar Shahi,
however, today the concept of a spiritual guide has been revived.
Today, humans are questioning,
‘can we attain the wealth of zikr e qalb?
What is zikr e qalb?’.
Today, this awareness has been revived.