A Custom of Prophet Mohammad Revived by None!
Tariq Mughal has asked a question from Prato,
‘Peace be upon you and God's mercy and blessings.'
'I hope you are well. I am from Prato, a city in Italy.'
'I would like to know what we must do in the near future in terms of religion and worldly affairs, such as in terms of business
and most importantly, what is the best method of upbringing our children?'
'Should we teach them military and defence expertise along with religious knowledge?'
'And if so, to what extent?'
'How should we, along with our children thrive in the Era of Trials?'
The Era of Trials is what we are living in concurrently.
But what we must focus on is how to become Momin (devout believers).
We will only obtain faith once we become devout believers.
When faith has not entered our hearts and we think we are devout believers, then any small thing will make us falter.
So the most important thing in the Era of Trials is
for us to bring the name and light of God in our hearts through esoteric knowledge
and become Enlightened Hearts.
Having faith in the heart is what connects you to God.
If we continue to offer Salat physically and recite the Quran verbally
however our hearts are heedless of God, our hearts are void of God’s light
then our Salat and our fasting is wasted
nor do we obtain a connection with God.
Therefore, I believe the most important thing in this Era of Trials is to enlighten your heart with the name of God
because God said that guidance has to do with the heart.
‘Waman yumin billahi yahdi qalbahu’
it means that when someone has faith in God, God grants guidance to his/her heart.
A lot of people, a majority of Muslims think that divine energy enters their hearts automatically.
When they recite the Motto of Faith verbally, they think they are reciting whole-heartedly.
But that’s not what it is.
We are not being taught the correct method.
We were not taught by saints, we were taught by the religious clerics.
There have not been any saints in our time and if there was any saint, he would be out of our reach.
One becomes a devout believer when the Spiritual Heart recites the Motto of Faith just as the tongue recites it.
A spiritual dignitary said,
‘Verbal recitation of the Kalima is commonplace but heart-recitation is a rarity.'
'The heart-recitation is done by the Divine Lovers.
Allama Iqbal also said,
‘What did you obtain by verbal recitation of the Kalima? It is useless if your heart and mind are not purified’.
The Holy Quran also states,
‘Qalatil arabu amanna' - The Arabs say they are devout believers
‘Qul lam tu'minoo' - tell them they are not devout believers
‘Wa lakin qulu aslamnaa' - Rather, they have become Muslims
‘Wa lamma yadkhulil emaanu fee quloobikum' - and they will become devout believers when the Kalima (faith) enters their hearts.
The religious clerics do not have the method for bringing the Kalima into the heart in their books.
This power comes from the saints and spiritual dignitaries.
They settle the Kalima and God’s name into our hearts with their spiritual glance.
When the Kalima settles into your heart, you can practically feel the Kalima echoing in your heart.
In fact, it is mentioned in a Prophetic Tradition that Prophet Mohammad said to Moula Ali,
‘O Ali, close your eyes’.
‘Ghamad ainaka Ya Ali' - O Ali, close your eyes
‘wasma fee qalbik La Ilaha Ilallah Mohammad Rasool Allah’.
Prophet Mohammad said, ‘And you will hear the sound of the Kalima from your heart’.
This is not imaginary.
If Prophet Mohammad has said ‘’you will hear the sound of the Kalima from your heart. Listen’’.
You can only listen to something that you can hear, right?
So the heart also recites the Kalima.
And making the heart recite the Kalima is not in the hands of a common person.
In order to make the heart recite the Kalima, you need a Perfect Spiritual Guide.
Therefore, if a Spiritual Guide makes your heart recite the Kalima and you can hear it echoing in your heart, it proves he is a Perfect Spiritual Guide
and one who cannot do this must be disposed of immediately.
The rest doesn’t matter.
Now, I want to ask that when Prophet Mohammad said
I am asking everyone.
I am asking those who never tire of propagating the customs of the Prophet.
The ones who talk about reviving the Prophet’s customs.
The ones who have fabricated customs of Prophet Mohammad along with the actual customs of the Prophet.
For instance, the method of cutting cucumbers.
The method of doing this and that.
I am addressing these people.
I am also addressing the Shiite community. They are our brethren.
We are Sufis.
When we address people on these matters it is because it’s a concerning matter.
We wish to guide you.
We wish to raise awareness about this.
Those who talk about the Prophet’s customs should listen carefully.
What is the custom of Prophet Mohammad?
Prophet Mohammad granted the Kalima to the hearts of his followers and they practically heard it echoing in their hearts.
Prophet Mohammad granted the Kalima to the hearts and those whom he granted this benevolence,
he asked them to listen to their hearts and hear the sound of the Kalima therein.
Is this act of Prophet Mohammad not a custom?
You don’t tire of mentioning the Imama Sharif and whatever-Sharif.
Why don’t you pay attention to this custom?
The custom of granting the Kalima to the hearts when will you fulfil this custom?
Secondly, I would like to address our Shiite brethren.
Prophet Mohammad granted the Kalima to Moula Ali’s heart and he heard it echoing in his heart.
Would it not be a custom of Moula Ali for your heart to recite the Kalima too?
You cannot accept that your heart should also recite the Kalima.
You say for Moula Ali’s heart to recite the Kalima speaks of his eminence but doesn’t this eminence of his become a custom for you and me?
I also believe in Moula Ali.
So doesn’t this eminence of his become a custom for me and you?
So should we just mention the name of Moula Ali or should we endeavour to adopt the lifestyle of Moula Ali?
Moula Ali’s heart would recite the Kalima.
What kind of followers of Moula Ali are we when we did not make any efforts to adopt the teachings of Moula Ali?
We have just become sloganeers.
‘Moula Hussain. Moula Ali’.
Why don’t you pay attention to the teachings of Moula Ali?
You should pay attention to that as well.
And then we have those who propagate the Prophet’s customs.
For example, Maulana Ilyas Qadri [who is known as] Shaikh of Spirituality.
Who is a Shaikh of Spirituality?
One who grants the knowledge of spirituality to his followers.
What is the first step of spirituality?
The knowledge of spirituality begins with the Activation of the Heart.
You talk about the customs,
you call yourself a Shaikh of Spirituality
and when someone asks you to activate their heart,
you say, ‘Who said hearts are activated?’
You are an ignorant fool!
You wear an Imama and deceive people!
You talk about the customs and deceive people, you are making divisions in this nation.
The heart does recite the Kalima, it speaks!
This is mentioned in the Prophetic Tradition!
Then there is the one in Canada who says that there is no such thing as Heart Activation.
It is written in the Prophetic Traditions!
The ones who talk about Nizam e Mustafa and Ishq e Mustafa,
when HDE Gohar Shahi granted spirituality to the common public, they rejected these teachings too.
And today they say they will implement the Mohammadan Revolution.
And they talk about the Prophet’s customs.
It is clearly written in the Prophetic Tradition.
‘O Ali, close your eyes and listen to the sound of La Ilaha Ilallah Mohammad Rasool Allah in your heart’.
If you have an issue with the teachings of HDE Gohar Shahi why don’t you reject these Prophetic Traditions?
Haven’t you heard him saying, ‘There is no such thing as Heart Activation, I have activated every pore of your body!'
What nonsense!
The Heart Activation that we talk about is what Prophet Mohammad said to Moula Ali.
‘Close your eyes and listen. Your heart is reciting the Kalima’.
And look, it is not a coincidence neither is it pretence.
This is a beautiful fusion of the characters of Prophet Mohammad and HDE Gohar Shahi.
These are the words of Prophet Mohammad, ‘O Ali, close your eyes’.
And what does His Divine Eminence Gohar Shahi say?
‘Close your eyes and silently repeat Allah Hu’.
The same words!
The same teachings!
The same effect!
The same benevolence!
Even the words are identical.
‘Close your eyes’.
Even the words are the same.
This is what I call a customary practice.
This is the perfect customary practice.
Not only is His Divine Eminence activating the hearts of people but He is also using the exact same words as Prophet Mohammad to do so.
This is the miracle of the Prophet’s custom.
Firstly, activating the hearts on its own is the custom of Prophet Mohammad,
secondly, the words being used to activate hearts
‘Close your eyes’,
His Divine Eminence Gohar Shahi is using the same words.
‘Close your eyes’.
Therefore, those who preach the customary practices and talk about Prophet Mohammad’s love are simply spewing nonsense.
Why are the customs of Prophet Mohammad not reflected in your characters?
Why are the teachings of Spiritual Poverty not reflected in your characters?
You are just robbing the nation of Prophet Mohammad.
You are in the business of loot and plunder
under the banner of Minhaj ul Quran and Dawat e Islami and Tableeghi Jamaat.
You thieves have disbanded the nation of Prophet Mohammad.
You are nothing but thieves.
Snakes in the nation of Prophet Mohammad./