Besides the Khannas (Evil Whisperer),
God has also placed four birds inside your chest.
There is a cockerel which sits atop the spiritual heart
and constantly instils lust.
There is [also] a pigeon, a crow and a peacock.
Four Esoteric Birds Within the Human Body
It's not only the lower self that commands you to do wrong.
God has specifically placed miniscule,
elephant-like creature two inches beneath the human heart,
the trunk of which is attached to the heart.
And the evil whispers are inserted into the heart via this trunk.
Now, the evil whispers don't come from the lower self,
they come from that elephant-like creature,
which the Qur’an has named ‘Khannas’.
'The mischief of the whispers of the Khannas'.
This elephant-like creature, the Khannas, cannot be purified.
The lower self can be purified,
however, the Khannas cannot be purified.
So, how are you relieved of it?
Once your chest has an abundance of divine light
and that creature can no longer tolerate the potency of divine light,
it feels like it shall burn,
it then escapes from your chest.
Now, when it escapes,
then either the satanic forces
or sorcerers take control over these creatures.
We have seen the following statement written all over the walls in Pakistan
and it's probably the same in India too:
‘Come to Sanyasi Baba, your beloved will fall in love with you!',
'How to enslave your husband!',
‘How to make your wife love you!’,
‘How to control someone’s mind!’
So, how do they do it? This is exactly what they do.
The Khannas that they have taken control over,
they insert it into someone and it makes that individual insane.
The Khannas cannot be purified,
it escapes due to the abundance of divine light in the chest.
If the extremity of divine light in your chest remains at such a level
then the khannas will never approach you.
People think that they have become Zakir e Qalbi
so they have obtained sainthood.
You have become a Zakir e Qalbi and taken the very first step,
don’t think so highly of yourself just yet.
You still have a lower self and the Khannas within.
A Sufi, a dervish is one who has a purified the lower self
and relieved of all other [evil] things.
Besides the Khannas (Evil Whisperer), God has also placed four birds inside your chest.
There is a cockerel which sits atop the spiritual heart
and constantly instils lust.
There is [also] a pigeon, a crow and a peacock.
Due to the peacock, you harbour ‘bukhl’.
There are two aspects of ‘bukhl’, internal and external.
The external aspect of this trait is 'miserliness'.
One who doesn't like to spend money,
who wants to save money and suffer.
Such a person is called miser.
The external definition of 'bukhl' is miserliness.
So, bukhl is due to the peacock.
The birds, too must be purified.
Now, when the birds are purified, what comes of them?
The birds leave your body and make the jungles their abode.
Then, those appointed to duty,
they are given authority over these birds.
If someone is to be [spiritually] cured,
what [the spiritual guide does] then is
he sends such birds to 'go and cure someone in Hyderabad, Deccan'.
The birds enter that person for a month or two
and then once the person is completely cured, they take their leave.
And the individual thinks,
'I haven't even been blown upon, how will I be healed?'
Be faithful, you do not know what the guide does esoterically.
So, there are these four birds in the human body,
there is the Khannas
and there are 180,000 veils upon the heart.
There is no power in the universe, but the spiritual attention of the spiritual guide that can burn away these veils.
And HDE Gohar Shahi gave a wonderful example.
When the Lord gave this example one day, they asked me,
'Son, you study science so much,
so tell me what do you think of this example?'
I said, 'Lord, it is incredible.
I have never heard such an example'.
And HDE Gohar Shahi smiled and said, 'And how could you have?
This is the knowledge that was taught to us by the Prophet (s)'.
HDE Gohar Shahi said, 'If someone is not aware of the qualities of an egg…’
This is the example I’m talking about.
‘If you tell someone who is unaware of the qualities of an egg
that a chick comes from an egg and it chirps’
Because we know that an egg holds a chick and when it hatches,
it starts to chirp.
But someone who does not know the qualities of an egg,
‘and you tell them that it will fly and chirp,
they will say, ‘’Are you insane? How can it chirp and fly?’'’
Then, HDE Gohar Shahi said, 'The egg was created by God
only as an example and a mode of education for you to learn.
There was no other purpose for it.’
‘So now,’ the Lord said,
‘there is an egg within you too,
and that egg is known as Beza e Nasuti (Terrestrial Egg - the spiritual heart)’.
The Lord said, 'There are three layers on the hen's egg'.
You'll have noticed that when you boil an egg,
it has a hard topical surface,
then there is a thick membrane and then it has a thin membrane.
The Lord said, ‘So, it has three layers.
And the Terrestrial Egg in the human being has 180,000 layers.
A hen is required in order for the chick to be hatched from the hen’s egg,
while a spiritual guide is needed to hatch the angel from the Terrestrial Egg.
The hen’s egg contains a chick
while the Terrestrial Egg contains an angel.
One needs a hen to hatch and the other needs a spiritual guide.
What will the hen do?
She will provide heat which hatches the egg.
What will the spiritual guide do?
He will provide divine light in accordance to your endurance.
When the chick is hatched from the egg,
without being taught, it will start to chirp, why?
Because to chirp is in its nature.
Similarly, there is an angel trapped inside [the Terrestrial Egg]
and when it is hatched,
it will begin to invocate God's name without being taught to do so,
because ‘Allah Hoo’ is in its nature.
When the Lord explained this,
I was immediately reminded of the Quranic verse in which God says,
‘I created man and djinn for worship’.
Since to chirp is in the nature of the chick,
the spiritual heart is naturally inclined to worship.
Now, look at this was the example the Lord gave.
What an example! Incredible.
This is the benevolence of Mustafa (s)
and the teachings of Muhammad (s),
which have been exclusively uttered by the blessed lips of HDE Gohar Shahi.
Have you ever heard of this before?
Although these are the teachings of the Prophet (s) but you have never heard it before.
It is specifically reserved to be uttered by the blessed tongue of HDE Gohar Shahi.
Then, the lower self is purified,
the Khannas is absconds and the birds have been purified,
then one becomes completely at ease.
Then, if someone says, 'so and so is a very bad person’,
such a person gets up and leaves, they don't listen to anyone.
He thinks, 'What does it have to do with me?
God is to decide on the Day of Judgement who is good and who shall be punished.
Why are you telling me?'
He does not listen to anyone.
And you too must know,
if you want to excel in spirituality, zip your lips.
Stop gossiping about where someone was standing,
who they were standing next to,
what they were doing or where they were going.
Leave all this behind. Is there any benefit of it?
There is only harm.
Do not spy on anyone, do not follow anyone.
Where is someone going and what are they doing,
to hell with that. Be concerned about yourself alone.
Yes, if there is a friend or relative
that is involved in something wrong,
then advise them in private and with a lot of love.
Say, ‘Please, don’t go to that place and please don’t do this.
It’s wrong’. That is it.
However, if you malign them to entertain yourself,
this will be extremely detrimental to your spiritual health.
You will never be able to please God
so long as you are targeting the creation of God in this manner.
This is God’s creation.
Even if someone has commited a sin, what is it to you?
Perhaps God will forgive them and what will you do
except become a sinner for degrading that person.
Do not pass comments on anyone’s flaws, on anyone’s sins
because they may be bad today
but it's possible that God bestows them with goodness in the future and they excel you.
You are worse than me today
but it is possible that tomorrow, you become better than me.
It is in God’s hands, right?
Do not speak ill of anyone and do not say that anyone is bad.
Of course, there are many people who do wrong things, but you don’t have to talk about it.
This is what the Prophet (s) said to Abu Bakr Siddiq.
You must have heard of this hadith.
'O Abu Bakr,
if you guarantee me of two things,
I guarantee the paradise to you'.
He said, 'What is that, O Prophet?'
The Prophet (s) said, 'The flesh between your jaws
and the flesh between your legs.
Give me the guarantee of [safegaurding] these two things and I guarantee you paradise’.
The former is not an immediate threat
since very few people actually go through with [committing adultery],
however, the flesh between our jaws, the tongue…
we do not realise how much we are sinning when we’re speaking!
We fear the mention of adultery,
however, we are not fearful when we’re running our mouths in gossip, we think it’s just a normal conversation.
That’s what is really tricky.
Control your tongues.
We sit and talk about other people
but wouldn’t it be better to engage in Zikr Allah
and talk about the Prophet (s) and the spiritual guide?
And this is especially common among women.
When two women are sitting together,
they must speak ill of another woman.
Stop doing this.
When you sit together,
talk about God and the Prophet (s),
talk about HDE Gohar Shahi. Speak about spirituality,
do not speak about other people.
Why are you wasting your divine energy?