Defeating the Devil: Sincerity with the Spiritual Master
Sanam Baloch asks, 'Why does Satan bother human beings so much? He leads people astray.
How do we evade the Devil in your opinion?'
Sister, my opinion doesn't matter.
We must abide by the Quran and Prophetic Traditions.
We are not the enemies of Satan.
He actually bore animosity for Adam the Eminent One.
He is our ancestor, the father of the entire humanity.
Adam the Eminent One.
When God created Adam and granted him the special knowledge,
the knowledge of God's names, etc.
God summoned all the archangels to come and bow before Adam.
All of them prostrated for except Azazel who we know as Iblis (Devil).
He refused to prostrate and said, 'I will not bow down before him'.
God asked, 'Why not?'
He said, 'You created me with fire and him with clay. I am greater than him'.
He said, 'I am greater than him'.
God said, 'How can you be greater when I have granted him special knowledge?'
When he inspected this special knowledge
It was the knowledge of the soul and the subtleties;
the Spiritual Heart, the Main Soul and the Ana (Higher Self).
These subtleties are not present in Jinns.
And the Devil is from the nation of Jinns.
He does not have subtleties. So when he saw Adam has been granted this special knowledge
and realised it is for the souls in human beings which the Jinns do not possess
it became the reason for his animosity.
He realised that even if he attained this knowledge it would be useless for him because he cannot supersede Adam.
He cannot supersede Adam. So he decided.
And it is written in the Quran that the Devil decided to bear fierce enmity against Adam.
And the Devil said, 'I will sit on the Straight Path and I will not let anyone cross!'
And at one point, he said something to God.
The Devil said, 'Fa bi 'izzatika la ughwi yannahum ajma'een illa 'ibadika minhumul mukhlaseen'.
He said, 'O my Lord!'
Look at his manner of addressing God
and how he speaks, 'By your glory, my Lord!'
He says, 'My Lord, my Master, I swear by your glory...'
Qala fa bi izzatika - 'I swear by your glory'
La ughwi yannahum ajma'een
'I will misguide them all'.
Illa ibadika minhumul mukhlaseen
'But those I cannot misguide who are Mukhlis (sincere)'.
Mukhlis meaning 'Khalis' (special).
Those who have awakened and enlightened their inner.
Khalis does not mean you worship God for the sake of paradise and damsels. This is not sincerity.
Khalis does not mean you love His Divine Eminence Gohar Shahi for the sake of Activation of the Heart.
You cannot say 'I will believe in Him if my heart is activated'.
This is not sincerity.
His Divine Eminence taught us this important lesson: do whatever you do unconditionally.
Selflessly.
Unconditionally.
Having learnt this lesson from His Divine Eminence, I stopped caring.
About what?
Whether I am a devout believer or a hypocrite or a disbeliever.
Whether I am lying or telling the truth.
No.
We must take the name of His Divine Eminence and propagate about Him.
''Whether you love me or not, I will never stop loving you''
I mean, whether His Divine Eminence loves us or not -
Actually, this is incorrect.
It is not possible that His Divine Eminence doesn't love us but we love Him.
It's not possible.
We don't realise what is really going on
but anyway
let's just suppose that His Divine Eminence is not casting a merciful and loving glance upon us
or He is not casting His spiritual concentration on us,
or we are not being visited by His Divine Eminence in our dreams.
He doesn't have to.
Our faith is not strengthening, divine energy is not increasing. That's fine.
I just want to love Him.
I want to love Him so I will continue to love Him.
Why must I wait for His reply?
He will do it when He pleases.
And He is the King so if He doesn't want to, He does not have to love me.
It is up to Him. I am the one who wants to love Him.
So I will just love Him.
Unconditionally and without greed.
What do I mean by unconditionally?
Suppose a man spends all his life worshipping God, he sacrifices his entire life for God
but he does not think that in return God will send him to paradise.
He doesn't even care about the Day of Judgment.
He sits peacefully.
The angels ask, 'Where are you going?' He says, 'Wherever God sends me'.
The angels say, 'He has commanded for you to be sent to hell'.
'It is up to God. Send me to hellfire'.
That is a real man.
And those who worship God out of greed for paradise and fear of hellfire,
they are not real men.
This is the only way.
Now, you see if the entire matter of truth and falsehood is solved -
For instance, if you see a good act of mine, you stay but if you see a bad act of mine, you run away.
Wow!
Is this sincerity?
If you see a bad act of mine or a sin I commit and you run away, this is not sincerity.
It's not, is it?
And this is what the Devil said here.
He said, 'Fa bi izzatika la ughwi yannahum ajma'een'.
'My Lord, I swear by your glory, I will misguide them all!'
'Illa Ibadika minhumal mukhlaseen'
'For except those who have obtained the rank of Ikhlas (Sincerity)'.
What is the rank of Ikhlas?
It doesn't mean that you have obtained sainthood or something.
Do you understand?
Or you have obtained Kashf (Remote Viewing).
The rank of Ikhlas comes in the thought process, the mindset of people.
Where? In the mindset.
You think, 'This is my Spiritual Guide.
No matter what he does.
Whether or not he abides by Sharia,
whether he does good or bad,
whether he speaks to me with love or he kicks me away,
whether he sends me to paradise or hell,
whether he is truthful or false'.
You become indifferent to all such things.
Your connection, loyalty and love for the Spiritual Master should so strong that it cannot be weighed upon a scale.
Do not weigh the Spiritual Master on the Sharia scale.
Do not weigh the Spiritual Master on the truth and falsehood scale.
Regardless of who he is, regardless of what he does, you are bound to him.
This is the rank of Ikhlas (Sincerity).
Okay?
How can the Devil misguide such a person?
The Devil will say, 'Your Spiritual Master is false'. He will say, 'That's great'.
What do you think?
'Your Spiritual Master said this'. 'So what?'
This is the rank of Ikhlas.
If you weigh your love for your Spiritual Master on a scale
on the Sharia scale, on the law scale, on the spirituality scale
what kind of sincerity is that?
To be sincere is to love your Spiritual Master unconditionally.
Whether you are human, divine or the devil is inconsequential to me.
My heart is stuck on you.
I can no longer leave you.
So what did the Devil say? 'Qala fa bi izzatika la ughwi yannahum ajma'een'
[Literally:] 'I will kidnap the Lower Selves of all
and take them to Maqam e Asfal (Devil's HQ)'.
People translate 'ughwi yannahum' to mean misguide but that's not what it really means.
It's the same word we use in Urdu 'aghwa' which meaning kidnap.
Kidnap.
He said, 'Fa ba izzatika la ughwi yannahum ajma'een'.
Which means 'I will kidnap them all'.
What is meant by kidnap here?
The Devil extracts your Lower Self from your body, takes it to Maqam e Asfal and conducts its training there.
After completing your training and making your Lower Self an embodiment of the Devil, he returns it back to your body.
Your Lower Self is then returned to your body.
And then people say, 'What happened to him? He was never like this!'
'He was never like this! He used to love His Divine Eminence!'
'He used to love his father too'.
'What happened to him all of a sudden?'
It's not all of a sudden.
The Devil takes away the Lower Self and it doesn't happen in one day, it takes a long time.
The Devil kidnaps the Lower Self and takes it to Maqam e Asfal
where the Devil conducts the training
and once the Lower Self becomes exactly like him,
he returns it to the person's body.
He kisses his forehead and says, 'Now you and I are the same'.
This is why the Devil said, 'La ughwi yannahum ajma'een'
'I will kidnap them all'
Illa ibadika - 'For except those who belong to you'
Who belongs to him? Minhumul mukhlaseen.
Those who obtain the rank of Ikhlas.
Those who worship you without greed.
Those who love you without greed.
They are not looking for rewards.
They are not looking for benefits.
Whether you look at them or not.
Whether you keep them in a good place or bad.
They are content with whatever you desire.
This is the rank of Ikhlas.