This is the world's custom,
HDE Gohar Shahi said that when the child starts performing salah,
the parents say, 'Okay, fair enough, go ahead'.
However, then when he grows a beard,
they say, 'What are you doing?
This is not your age for religiosity!’
And then when he inclines towards Zikr e Qalb,
then the family turns against him completely.
What is Meant By ‘Run Towards God’?
‘Fafirru ilallahi’.
‘Fafirru’ means to run.
So, ‘run towards God’.
How are you supposed to run towards God?
The apparent meaning of this is to run.
However, it does not practically mean to run.
Rather, it means
that God must be your first priority,
so that you do not waste your life.
Your topmost priority must be to reach God as quickly as possible.
And then it says,
‘inni lakum - I am, for you…’
‘minhu - sent by God…’
‘nazeerum mubeen - the one who warns’.
This is a warning for us to realise that there isn’t enough time to be engaged in mundane life and save God for last.
Because isn’t this the custom of the world?
This is the world's custom,
HDE Gohar Shahi said that when the child starts performing salah,
the parents say, 'Okay, fair enough, go ahead'.
However, then when he grows a beard,
they say, 'What are you doing?
This is not your age for religiosity!’
And then when he inclines towards Zikr e Qalb,
then the family turns against him completely.
Because people -
- and don’t think this is specifically about Muslims or Hindus
or Christians, this custom is found in people of all religions.
Everyone,
including Muslims.
They give such importance to education and school
that they beat their children for not doing their homework
but they pay no heed to God and the Messenger (s).
And yet they call themselves Muslims.
Many people here are the same.
They do the same thing.
They will beat and curse at their kids for not doing homework
and when it’s about zikr…
‘Oh, you haven’t done zikr? That’s fine! Do it tomorrow.
It’s getting late, go to sleep, you need to go to school’.
We are plagued with these transgressions despite being Muslim.
We do not pay heed.
Our own people are only concerned about their own attachment with the Lord,
they don’t deem it necessary to teach their children.
However, this is completely wrong.
The only truthful person among you,
one who truly loves HDE Gohar Shahi,
is one who realises that if I have been endowed with the attachment of HDE Gohar Shahi,
I must ensure my children also receive the same, so I must explain it to them too.
But for 10-15 years, he explains nothing to his children
but when he returns from here one day, he decides to force his children to attend the mehfil.
Then the children fight with their parents because they don’t want to be forced.
At least explain to them first why they must go to.
Tell them about their relationship with Sarkar
and the importance of Sarkar’s attachment and what is spirituality.
But they don’t tell them anything.
The attachment and relationship that you have with HDE Gohar Shahi
it is enough to prove that you a liar
is that you are not rendering the same attachment and relationship to your children.
You are liars.
Because if you were truthful,
you would teach the same to your children.
You would say, 'Son, this is our Sarkar.
This is what zikr is
and this is what spirituality is,
and this is how you will benefit from it
and this is its importance’.
But alas, people only tend to realise when it’s too late.
By the time the child reaches 12 years old, their mentality has developed
and you cannot teach them anything new.
They develop a complete mindset in 12 years.
Hence, 'fafirru illallah' means to run towards God,
which means that you must give the act of reaching God
your first priority.
In other words, treat it as an emergency,
that this is the most urgent task.
All other tasks are less important.
You must increase the graph of its urgency.
This is what it is to run towards God.
The following words then state,
'inni lakum minhu nazeerum mubeen - we warn you…’,
and if you are being warned to run towards God,
it means that this time passes by very quickly,
so make sure that your foremost priority is to reach God.
Once you obtain God, the rest is just details.
First, obtain God.
And what is the custom in the world, among religious folks?
God comes last, the world comes first.
First comes marriage, the wife and kids.
And then when your wife says, 'You have white hair',
you say, 'Oh no, I’m still young. It’s just the flu'.
So why must you run towards God?
Because when you reach the age of 40 -
- God summons everyone’s book of deeds.
He says, ‘He is now 40. Bring forth his book
so I may render him grace’.
But when the book is presented to God, it says: I’m still young!
So, 40 is the age of retirement in spirituality.
There are two paths by which you can attain God.
The elusive path and the common path.
The elusive path is available to one till the age of 40.
This special path
of engaging your heart and souls in the commemoration of God’s name.
To awaken and enlighten your ethereal spirits is the elusive path.
Access to the elusive path is available till the age of 40.
From the age of 40 onwards, God seals the elusive path
and says, 'We now give you another 20 years
to make use of the common path'.
What is the common path?
It means that
now, the rosary of your heart has expired,
so you are given a physical rosary.
Now you must use the physical rosary to engage in Zikr Allah as much as possible.
If you then find a spiritual mentor in these 20 years,
who engages you in some form of physical worship,
you shall then attain some inferior spiritual rank.
However, if one wastes these 20 years,
God then becomes weary of such a person and seals their book.
God no longer cares about them.
This is why the Qur'an says,
'fafirru illallah', which means to make God your first priority.
‘Run towards God!’
Do you think it means to literally leap and bound towards God?
No, it means that you must give first priority to the task which shall bring you close to God.
First priority.