Then He says, ‘I become his tongue with which he speaks.
I become his hands with which he holds.
I become his legs with which he walks’.
That’s how it happens.
This happens at the Stage of Divine Union.
Now, as far as ‘halool’ is concerned,
the word ‘halool’ is derived from the word ‘hal’.
Hal in English means to solve,
however, the original meaning of ‘solve’ is for something to be mixed into something in such a way that it loses its identity.
The Difference Between Wasl and Halool
Wasl (Divine Union) is for one of God’s entities to enter your being.
So, this is Wasl.
Now, there is a way for it [God’s entity] to encapture your being.
For instance, in organic chemistry, in order to make a chemical equation, the [chemicals] have to be radicalised.
Such as methane (CH4), in order to make a chemical equation, it first has to be radicalised.
First, one hydrogen atom has to be removed to make CH3, and it becomes methyl.
So, there is a carbon (atom) and attached to each of its four corners is one hydrogen (atom).
So each corner of [the carbon atom] is occupied by a hydrogen atom.
So if anything else wanted to attach [to the carbon atom], where would it go?
Therefore, one of the four [hydrogen atoms] has to be removed, to vacate one seat and then a new (atom) would be able to be attached.
So now, once it becomes a CH3 methyl radical, now any equation can be attached to it,
because one of the corners of (carbon) is vacant.
Since it is vacant, a new bond can be made.
In a similar way, there has to be space in order for one of the divine entities to enter your being;
all seven of your souls have a stronghold in your body, so where would the divine entity fit?
Isn’t that right?
It can’t stay, can it?
It’s not like you can fit it anywhere you please.
That’s not how it works.
For Wasl - just as we removed one hydrogen atom in chemistry; there were four hydrogen atoms attached to carbon, CH4.
One of those atoms had to be removed to create a vacancy for a new atom.
In a similar fashion, for Wasl, it is necessary for one to acquire Fana (spiritual annihilation). What happens on the Stage of Fana?
When the divine entity is sent, whether it is the Tifle Noori or the Jussa e Tofeeq e Ilahi;
it comes and tells the sub-spirits of the lower self to embrace it.
They [sub-spirits] embrace it and cannot endure [the divine majesty] and are incinerated. Finish.
Then it tells the spiritual heart to embrace it, and the sub-spirits of the spiritual heart are also incinerated.
Then it embraces the soul and its sub-spirits are also incinerated.
It does this to make space [inside your body].
This is the time when your death takes place in the eyes of God. You are dead.
You shall face no accountability.
Everything is ceased because you’ve died. I’m not joking.
So now when the sub-spirits of the spiritual heart, lower self and soul are obliterated, what comes in their place?
The divine entity comes and settles within.
The divine entity has its own set of sub-spirits and those souls then maintain the inner system.
When these souls maintain the inner system - the Akhfah of the divine entity controls the person’s tongue,
then He says, ‘I become his tongue with which he speaks.
I become his hands with which he holds.
I become his legs with which he walks’.
That’s how it happens. This happens at the Stage of Divine Union.
Now, as far as ‘halool’ is concerned,
the word ‘halool’ is derived from the word ‘hal’.
Hal in English means to solve,
however, the original meaning of ‘solve’ is for something to be mixed into something in such a way that it loses its identity.
For instance, you add salt to water and mix it.
What happens when you mix salt in water?
The salt dissolves in the water.
And so, the water becomes a solvent of salt.
Once it becomes a solvent, the salt and the water mix together in such a way that you cannot separate them.
Now, this is the thought that crossed the mind of Mansoor Hallaj that ‘my soul has dissolved in God’.
Now, why this thought crossed his mind, only God knows.
However, perhaps it was due to a lack of vocabulary,
because in the end, his spiritual guide had abandoned him.
Whether his spiritual guide abandoned him or he abandoned his spiritual guide, only God knows better.
We do not know what transpired.
But even so, in the end, he was no longer with his spiritual guide or his spiritual master told him not to return to him anymore.
Perhaps he was displeased about something.
God knows better. So, he was displeased about something.
Now, what happened was [Mansoor Hallaj] was experiencing something spiritually and he was seeking verification from someone.
For this purpose, he went to Baghdad to meet Junaid Baghdadi.
When he presented himself in the court of Junaid Baghdadi, he said, ‘I would like to spend some time in your company’.
Junaid Baghdadi refused him and said, ‘You’ve abandoned your spiritual guide. I shall not accept you’.
So he too shunned him.
However, his state was uncontainable.
He required a powerful spiritual guide to cool the state that he was in.
He had become subject to a state of [spiritual] recession, a state of spiritual ecstasy.
And even Junaid Baghdadi felt no pity for him in such a state.
So since even Junaid Baghdadi didn’t help him out,
he became stagnant at that point and the state of spiritual ecstasy increased uncontrollably.
Since the state of spiritual ecstasy increased, he would involuntarily call out ‘Ana al Haq (I am the Truth)’ wherever he went.
Someone heard him and reported it to Junaid Baghdadi who sanctioned his death by hanging.
So, he was crucified.
Now, let me tell you something, and I swear by God’s honour,
whenever I am going somewhere or am travelling,
and someone crosses my sight who has spiritual potential but is unable to progress to their destination, I swear by God’s honour,
I don’t even say anything to them and I solve all their problems with my spiritual concentration. I swear by God.
Complete strangers. If someone’s just standing on the road and suddenly I see some divine energy, andI wonder where it came from.
and realise that the person standing there possesses divine energy in his heart but is facing some kind of problem,
due to which he cannot progress, so I simply cast my spiritual attention on him and solve the problem for him.
Without saying anything to him.
So [Mansoor Hallaj] was in the state of spiritual ecstasy and he was in dire need of a spiritual guide.
Now, there are different kinds of spiritual guides.
A Kamil Murshid is one of Sharia, an Akmal Murshid is of Tariqah and then there are the spiritual guides of Haqiqah.
Now, he was in need of a spiritual guide of Haqiqah.
There are ‘Kamil (divinely ordained)’ spiritual guides of Shariah, Tariqah and Haqiqah.
The Kamil spiritual guide of Tariqah will engage your souls in the commemoration of God’s name,
he will extract the sub-spirits (from the souls), and enable them to embark on spiritual journeys.
However, the ethereal destinations following these are not attained through zikr, they are attained through the (spiritual guide’s) spiritual attention.
Now, do you think every saint is capable of taking you to those destinations with their spiritual attention? Not at all.
It’s not something every saint can do.
It has to be one who is an expert of Haqiqah. Who is an expert of Haqiqah?
The one who takes you to all your further destinations through his spiritual attention.
Now, these things do not make sense to you because as soon as you hear that such things occur with the spiritual attention,
you immediately ask for your spiritual journeys to be completed with the spiritual attention.
No, you must first progress to the stage in which your journeys are completed with the spiritual attention.
Zikr e Qalb, the seven souls, Zikr e Qurbani, Zikr e Sultani are various destinations within Tariqah,
they are not attained through the spiritual attention.
Those elevated destinations are acquired through the spiritual attention, only after your souls have been thoroughly purified and enlightened, and your sub-spirits have been taken out.
Thereafter, you attain the elevated destinations, [the culmination of which] is to reach God, and that is done via spiritual attention.
You have to reach the Station of Mehmood, the Realm of God’s Oneness,
you have to reach the veil in the Realm of Divine Union, you have to reach the Divine Throne, Ankabut.
All these destinations are attained through spiritual attention of the spiritual guide.
Now, if you had a spiritual guide and he has passed away,
do not assume that he must have been a Kamil of Shariah, Tariqah and Haqiqah.
That’s not how it works.
Some are Kamil of Shariah, some are Kamil of Tariqah while some are Kamil of Haqiqah.
And then it also depends on their individual duties.
It is possible for a spiritual guide to be perfect in Shariah, Tariqah and Haqiqah, however, he is deputised in Tariqah.
If his duty is in Tariqah then he cannot render his spiritual attention to a student of Haqiqah.
Even if he holds the power to do so, he cannot. Why?
God has not appointed him for this task.
You do not know the mechanisms, so you think that if there’s a saint, he’d be capable of doing everything. Come on.
There are various departments in sainthood.
One is vested in the department they’re allotted.
So ‘halool’ - [Mansoor Hallaj] had a misunderstanding due to his state of spiritual ecstasy.
God declared, ‘I am closer to him than his jugular vein’.
God made this statement but whose going to elucidate it?
Your jugular vein is right here, so where is God?
God said, ‘I’m closer than it’,
but what it actually means is that ‘I am him’.
[God is saying] ‘It is me, not him’. That’s what it means for [God] to be closer than the jugular vein.
It means: you think it’s you but it’s not you, it’s me.
Now, if God has said, ‘It’s me’, then what else would he [Mansoor Hallaj] say but ‘Ana al Haq (I am the Truth)’?
So how was he supposed to grasp what was happening?
There should’ve been a powerful spiritual guide to render him the knowledge.
And when Mansoor Hallaj’s spiritual guide abandoned him, perhaps it was because he did not possess the required knowledge.
The spiritual guide was lacking - he didn’t know how to tame and control the lion.
[Mansoor Hallaj] needed a spiritual guide of Haqiqah.
Although Junaid Baghdadi was a Perfect Saint,
it doesn’t necessarily mean he was perfect in Haqiqah.
Junaid Baghdadi felt guilty [about his decision] but it was too late.
After he had him crucified, he said, ‘Oh no, what has happened?’
Well, what you did is what happened.
There has always been an influx of those that adhere to Shariah, in every era.
It’s almost as if God and the Prophet (s) do not uphold Shariah as much as these great adherents of Shariah in the world.
They must abide by Shariah even if they must reject God.
Shariah must be victorious even if God has to be rejected.