Intellect and the Lower Self
What is the intellect?
Intellect is a substance of calculation.
What is it? [Audience answers].
A substance of calculation.
Intellect is a substance of calculation.
And the intellect is dependant.
Just as a car is a dependant on the driver.
Just as? [Audience answers].
Similarly, intellect is dependant
on power.
A power that can
Now, God has placed this intellect in you
and a satanic veil has been placed upon it.
Thus the driver of your intellect is the Devil.
The driver of your intellect is the Devil.
Therefore, the intellect does what the Devil says.
Everything the intellect tells you will be satanic.
Prophet Mohammad said in a Prophetic Tradition: Mutu qabla anta mutu.
Meaning: die before you die.
Right?
What is the secret behind 'die before you die'?
It means the intellect - the Subtlety of Ana -
is veiled with three layers placed by God.
What is it? [Audience repeats].
One of the layers is Zulmani.
The layers of Zulmat (Ignorance).
The second layer is Noorani (of divine energy).
Once the layer of ignorance is removed, the layer of divine energy is at the forefront.
But it is also a veil.
After that, what happens?
When the intellect turns to God, then there is the third layer, the divine layer.
So there are three veils.
When these three veils are removed with the divine energy of Ya Hu,
then your intellect will become secured.
Thereafter, the intellect will become dependant upon the light of God.
When the intellect becomes dependant upon the light of God,
then it will be called Aqal e Saleem (Secured Intellect).
Before this happens, your intellect is the Devil's disciple.
And after this soul [Ana] is purified, your intellect becomes secured.
Do you understand?
Now, let's talk about Nafs e Kul.
Nafs, the Lower Self,
rests at our navel point
and our intellect is also controlled by it.
From the navel point to the head.
When our Lower Self is completely purified,
then our intellect is freed from the shackles of the Lower Self.
So what is Nafs e Kul?
The Commanding Self, the Blameworthy Self, the Inspired Self, the Contented Self -
you go through all these phases of the Lower Self, one by one.
The Commanding Self absorbed some divine energy
and reached the stage of Blameworthy Self.
After a while, with an abundance of divine energy,
the Blameworthy Self became the Inspired Self.
And when you endeavoured to please the Lord,
and God, having accepted you, showered his theophanies upon you,
and the Spiritual Heart became the Witnessing Heart; the Lower Self became the Contented Self.
When it becomes the Contented Self -
When it what? [Audience repeats].
That is Nafs e Kul.
And when the three veils [on the intellect] are removed,
it can be called Aqal e Kul (Aqal e Saleem: Secured Intellect).