The Reality of Spiritual Insight and Spiritual Journey
'Muraqiba' is an Arabic word.
The meaning of 'muraqiba' in the Arabic language is radar.
What is it?
Radar.
What is the practical meaning of muraqiba? It means that God Almighty has created different realms and there are all these different spirits within us.
For example, we have the Spiritual Heart and the Soul, Sirri, Khafi and Ana - these souls have come from the different realms.
The Lower Self relates to the Alam-e-Nasut (Phenomenal World).
The Spiritual Heart relates to Alam-e-Malkoot (Realm of Angels).
The Main Human Soul relates to the Alam-e-Jabroot (Realm of Souls).
So these souls hail from different realms.
A muraqiba is for a person to obtain access to all those esoteric realms while physically being on Earth.
Make sense?
So what happens in a muraqiba?
If it is a muraqiba to Malkoot (Realm of Angels),
then what happens is that your Spiritual Heart takes flight from your chest and enters the Realm of Angels.
When your Spiritual Heart reaches the Realm of Angels, it is like a satellite; everything it will see there will be visible to you on Earth.
Therefore, it is a spiritual journey.
Then there is the muraqiba of the Main Human Soul in which you reach Bait ul Mamour.
Make sense?
Now, for example, if we want to travel to the Realm of Angels -
the common perception is that we would travel with our thoughts and imagination.
That's incorrect.
You do not reach the realms with your thoughts and imagination, it is your souls that go there.
However, your souls will only go there once they are capable of doing so.
These souls have to be revived first
and then they have to be empowered with divine energy.
When these souls become empowered and strengthened with the divine energy that is when the spiritual journey will take place.
After that, you simply have to close your eyes and your spirits will reach their respective realms.
The spiritual journey of the lowest scale is performed by the Spiritual Heart.
For this to happen, it is necessary for the Lower Self to be purified and the Spiritual Heart to be revived.
Many people have translated 'muraqiba' in English as meditation.
Now, when it was being translated as meditation, then people began searching for the meaning of meditation in the dictionaries.
The word meditation comes from the word meditate.
Meditation means to concentrate.
Meditate means to concentrate, to ponder.
So then they sit and think.
And they play soft music.
And then, in a very husky voice, they say, 'Now, close your eyes. Your journey begins now.'
'Imagine there are lush green fields, birds are chirping.'
'You have arrived at paradise.'
'There is a cool breeze. Feel the breeze.'
Even if it is scorching, feel the cool breeze.
It's basically like forcing people to feel it.
This is not a muraqiba.
A Prophetic Tradition states: a muraqiba of one Sa'at is greater than the collective worship of Saqlain.
It means: a muraqiba of one hour is greater than the collective worship of Saqlain.
Saqlain comprises all the realms of this universe; the collective worship of all the creatures within this universe, the angels, etc cannot amount to a single moment of the spiritual journey you perform.
Therefore, a muraqiba is a great form of worship.
If muraqiba was to sit and concentrate then does that make the angels foolish?
They will also begin to sit and concentrate.
Muraqiba is a spiritual journey in which your inner faculties reach their respective realms.
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