Is It Necessary to Respect the Syed Family?
There is an ID here [in YouTube Live chat], MD Akram.
And he has asked, 'Is it not necessary to respect the Sadaat (Descendants of Prophet Mohammad)?'
Yes, absolutely. We should respect the Sadaat.
But consider this: is there a caste system within Islam?
Hindus have a case system, but does Islam?
Now what exactly is the caste system?
On one hand, there is the Progeny of Prophet Mohammad.
So what does that make people who are not from the Progeny of Prophet Mohammad? Chamar (untouchables)?
Does that make them Chooray (a low caste)?
They are the progeny of a Prophet too!
They are the progeny of Adam the Eminent One.
Do you understand?
So the Sadaat are the Progeny of Prophet Mohammad, meaning the descendants of a Prophet.
And the people who are not from the Sadaat are also descendants of a Prophet.
We are from the progeny of Adam the Eminent One, are we not?
So doesn't that make us the descendants of a Prophet as well?
What do you think?
Okay, so the Sadaat are from the Progeny of Prophet Mohammad and we are from the Progeny of Adam the Eminent One.
Is there a single person on Earth who is not from the progeny of a Prophet.
Show me just one person who isn't from the progeny of a Prophet.
Think about it, give it your attention. Is there any such person?
So the Sadaat are the Progeny of Prophet Mohammad and we are the Progeny of Adam.
Then whom did God create hellfire for?
It is something to think about, isn't it?
They are the Progeny of Prophet Mohammad and we are the Progeny of Adam. Everyone is descended from Adam, right?
Nobody is descended from elsewhere.
So then whom did God create hellfire for?
Here, laws are implemented.
The greatest issue that comes to the forefront here is: God can declare anyone to be from the Progeny [of a Prophet] -
- do you understand? -
- for example, Noah said to God that his son was from his progeny.
And he requested God to forgive his son.
Now think about it: had God saved Noah's son, who was a disbeliever -
- and Noah's son would then go and spread more disbelief [in opposition of his father] -
- then God would become responsible for the misguidance of everyone [influenced by Noah's son].
So if God grants someone immunity - spiritual immunity,
he will make sure that the person he declares to be part of the progeny [of a Prophet] will stand by the Prophet and uphold God's name.
Because now his name is attached [with that person].
If somebody is a saint and his children become involved in indecency,
and they spread corruption and mischief in the world,
then what do people say? 'He is the son of a saint and look at what he is doing!'
Isn't that the case?
Therefore God has a law according to which
if someone is given respect on behalf of God then God will make sure that that individual becomes completely worthy of respect.
For example, what did the Koran say about the Progeny of Prophet Mohammad?
God said in the Koran 33:33 that he intends to purify the Progeny of Prophet Mohammad of all types of impurity.
Until God intended to purify them, they obviously had something in them that needed to be purified, right?
Right?
So on one hand there is the Progeny of Prophet Mohammad.
We have heard of an example from Prophet Mohammad's era [in regards to the Progeny].
We heard that Prophet Mohammad included Salman Farsi in his Progeny.
So this act of Prophet Mohammad proves that it is not necessary to be a blood relative in order to be included in the Progeny of Prophet Mohammad.
What do you think?
If only the blood relatives could be part of the Progeny, then why did Prophet Mohammad include Salman Farsi in his Progeny?
Salman Farsi had come from Iran.
So there was this incident in which a man from another country came and believed in Prophet Mohammad - and Prophet Mohammad included him in his Progeny.
He was not related to Prophet Mohammad by blood. So how did Prophet Mohammad include him in his Progeny?
How?
The answer to this question was given by Ghous Pak Abdul Qadir Jilani.
Go read his books - it is written there that every Mutakee (Pure One) is part of Prophet Mohammad's Progeny.
And His Divine Eminence Gohar Shahi granted the spiritual benevolence of this.
It is not as if the Sadaat are on one side and the rest of the world is meant to just stand with respect for them.
Remember what Prophet Mohammad said during the Last Sermon.
He said, 'No Arab is greater than a non-Arab.'
'No non-Arab is inferior to an Arab.'
'According to God, the standard for respect is piety.'
'The more pious one is, the more respectable he will be in the eyes of God.'
What is it that we call piety?
Technical language and the language of a Sufi are [different].
A Sufi will say that you will only become a Mutakee (Pure One) when you rid your heart and body of the Devil and bring God in.
That is when you are a Mutakee.
In other words, you purified your body, soul, Lower Self and heart of the Devil.
And inside there is only purity; there is only divine energy left inside.
That is when you are a Mutakee and part of the Progeny of Prophet Mohammad.
What is the rank of the Sadaat?
They are Noori (they have divine energy within them).
His Divine Eminence Gohar Shahi said, 'Take the Opening of the Spiritual Heart (Zikr-e-Qalb).'
'When divine energy enters your bloodstream and reaches every vein in your body -'
- right? -
'- then at that time, you will be at the Station of Divine Energy.'
When divine energy reaches all your veins, then you and the Progeny of Prophet Mohammad become one [and the same].
Being a servant of HDE Gohar Shahi, if you become station at any point [in spirituality],
and you spend your entire life standing in front of the Progeny out of respect -
- this is simply not possible.
This happened in the past, in Imam Abu Hanifa's time.
Imam Abu Hanifa obtained knowledge from Imam Jafar Sadiq [who was from the Progeny of Prophet Mohammad].
And then he greatly surpassed Imam Jafar Sadiq, so much so that he managed to see God himself 99 times.
And God blessed him.
And Prophet Mohammad declared Imam Abu Hanifa to be the Imam-e-Azam.
So he surpassed the Progeny, didn't he?
He progressed further than the Progeny, didn't he?
So you should test your fate too.
Test your fate.
Now tell me who can become what.
The Progeny will [at most] be descendants of a Prophet, that is it.
Through spirituality and the teachings of His Divine Eminence Gohar Shahi, do you have any idea what you could become?
His Divine Eminence Gohar Shahi said that according to a Hadith-e-Qudsi, there comes a point in proximity [to God]
where God becomes yours hands with which you hold things.
He becomes your legs with which you walk and the tongue with which you will speak.
You have the knowledge available through which you can become God and God can become you.
And here you are, still stuck [going after] the Progeny of Prophet Mohammad and the Sadaat!
Why don't you think about becoming [one with] God?
'Whoever reaches culmination in Faqr (Spiritual Poverty) becomes God.'
So why do you need to become part of the Progeny? Become God [instead].
'I become his hands with which he holds things, his legs with which he walks and his tongue with which he speaks.'
You can attain this station [in spirituality] - and here you are, still [lost] in the matters of the Progeny.
There is another relevant incident: Bulleh Shah was from the Sadaat.
So what did he go to Inayat Hussain, an Arayan, for?
Inayat Hussain was an Arayan and Bulleh Shah was from the Sadaat.
Bulleh Shah's era was long ago.
At least a few centuries must have passed since then.
So [Bulleh Shah], a Syed in that era thought to himself that he had nothing inside, so he had better go to a saint of God and learn spirituality.
So today, 4-5 centuries later, what state must the Syeds be in?
The Syeds in Bulleh Shah's era had nothing, that is why Bulleh Shah bowed his head at the feet of an Arayan.
Even though Bulleh Shah's sister and the rest of his family cursed and taunted him for it.
He wrote in his poetry that his sisters tried to tell him not to go to an Arayan [being a Syed].
He wrote that, didn't he?
'Being a Syed, the Progeny of Prophet Mohammad, why are you degrading yourself?'
Bulleh Shah became so cross when they said this to him
that he declared, 'Whoever calls me Syed should be sent to hellfire as punishment.'
Meaning, 'God will send whoever calls me a Syed after today straight to hellfire.'
The Syeds [today] have nothing.
The divine energy [they were born with] stayed with them for seven generations, then it diminished.
Now there is no difference between a Syed and a common man.
And then there is the decisive poetry by His Divine Eminence Gohar Shahi.
*Urdu poetry by HDE Gohar Shahi*
'For [everybody], there is just one statement: whoever is heedless of God's remembrance is like an animal.'
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