Alif (A). Alif (A) for ‘Allah’.
That is all you can know, you cannot know beyond this.
That God’s personal name is ‘Allah’,
what does this mean? It is the name of the entire caste of God.
What Does ‘The Names of the Caste of God’ Mean?
Q: In the way that God's personal name is 'Allah',
what is HDE Gohar Shahi's personal name?
The trouble is that
it's very important to know what is meant by 'personal name'
and what are the shadows of meanings.
Let's first analyse the word 'zaat'.
This is a really tricky word, zaat.
The word 'zaat' is used to refer to one's own person,
[such as], ‘my zaat (being)’,
and also used to refer to an entire caste,
[so one may say], ‘don’t speak ill of my zaat (caste)’.
So, it has two meanings.
Now, if someone is - for instance, he is Qazi,
and that’s your caste, right?
He is Qazi and that is his caste.
Now, if someone is Rana - Rana would be his caste.
If someone is Shaykh, that's his caste.
If someone is Arain, that's his caste.
If we ask someone, 'what is the name of your zaat?'
If you are from the Arain family, you will say, 'my caste is Arain'.
[We ask] 'No, what is your own name?'
And then you shall say, 'My name is X, son of Y'.
In the way that there are so many tribes and castes, and we are human beings.
Just as there are smaller classifications of castes,
such as, he is Arain, he is Shaykh
and he’s a Chicken, sorry, an Idiot, oh sorry…a Frog.
So, you have Arain, Shaykh, Rana, Bhatti and Rajput,
These are all smaller classifications,
but your main classification is: human.
Similarly, ‘Allah’ is also a caste.
Just as human beings are a caste [from among God’s creation].
Similarly, ‘Allah’ is also a caste.
The name of that caste is ‘Allah’.
If the name of the caste is ‘Allah’,
what are the names [of the individuals]?
‘Ar Rahman’, ‘Ar Raheem’ [etc] - these are the names.
What is the connection [between the individuals in this caste]?
‘Alif’. Allah is from 'Alif'.
That's all you can know, you cannot know beyond this.
Now, the personal name of God is 'Allah',
what does this tell us?
This is the name of his person.
Similarly, the name of HDE Gohar Shahi is 'Ra'.
And, when there are many manifestations of 'Ra',
it will be known as the Garden of Ra,
and in other words, 'Riaz'.
‘Riaz’ means ‘many manifestations of Ra’.
This is how it shall be known as the ‘name of the caste’.
Various manifestations of ‘Ra’,
meaning, each personality of ‘Ra’
represents the Person [of Ra].
Now, there are two types of zaat [in the Unseen World].
There is the zaat (caste) in which each individual is separate.
So, it is one zaat (caste) but with separate entities.
However, if you go further into the Unseen World,
you will find that there is one entity
which has separate entities [of itself]
which form a [separate] caste.
So, zaat is classified and unclassified.
There is the classified one,
in which there is one manifestation which has multiple manifestations of its own which form a caste.
They formulate a caste, a nation.
On the other side, you have [separate] individuals,
and there is the treasure,
which must be manifested to go any further.
A hadith states, ‘kunto kanzan makhfiya' - I was the hidden treasure’.
So when he manifests,
he is going to form a caste of his own.
Rehman, Rahim, Bari, Musawir, Rasheed, Hadi, Ali, Wali.
These are all his names,
the names of his attributes,
the caste which has been formed.
So, what is the personal of HDE Gohar Shahi?
‘Ra’.
So, there is a caste in which there are individuals
and the other caste, which is classified,
that particular caste consists of multiple manifestations of a single manifestation.
This is how it became a caste, meaning a ‘community’.
There is a community in which everyone belongs to the same caste,
everyone is of the same species,
however, everyone is a separate individual.
The other community is one in which there is only one individual,
however, he has multiple manifestations which have taken the form of a community.
So, that is the ‘Ra’ community.
They are the various manifestations.