ou cannot call someone your own until they belong to you.
And after they belong to you, it doesn't matter whether or not you say it.
It’s not merely about verbal affirmation, that holds no ground.
You must learn the knowledge in which you are made to be owned (by the Master). And I am teaching you that knowledge.
Who and How is Someone Accepted as [the Master’s] Own (?)
It’s not just about verbal affirmation, that you say you belong to me and I affirm, ‘yes, you belong to me’.
Verbal affirmations are only a worldly culture. Saying something doesn’t make it so.
If I say today that you belong to me, and tomorrow you go and loot some place, then it'll be very bad, right?
They'll say, 'someone that belongs to you is a thief'.
The one who has the desire to belong to the Master has to be accepted by the Master and then the Master furnishes their entire being as per their desire.
Standards shall be set; the standards of the lower self shall be set, the standard of his faith shall be set,
the standard of the spiritual heart, of the spiritual calibre shall be set.
The problems that we suffer from, we shall have such standards set that if you were to suffer from them, your faith shall not be disturbed.
There is a methodology and knowledge to being accepted by the Master.
It’s not something that occurs with verbal affirmations.
Now, what is that methodology?
See, our lower self... it doesn't belong to us. It is a satanic being.
We must live by it forever.
It is your partner in everything you do.
When you want to sit down, your lower self says, ‘Make sure you sit on a comfortable chair’, and you listen to it, don't you?
'Sleep on a comfortable bed', you listen to it, don't you?
'Eat something nice'. The lower self makes so many requests, and who do you listen to?
The poor wife is maligned for no reason, it is the lower self that is your real life partner.
A man doesn’t abide by his wife as much as he abides by the lower self.
- biwi ki maan li to maan li warna choona laga diya -
The wife has been given a bad reputation; a man is not his wife’s slave, he is subservient to his lower self.
He can fight with his wife, maybe even put his hands on her but I dare you to control your lower self, slap your lower self.
A true man is one who purges and negates the lower self through abstinence and refraining from all kinds of comforts and luxuries,
making them unlawful upon the lower self.
He is not subservient to his lower self.
Those who went to the jungles for 36 years, that’s all they did. What else would they do?
Is hanging upside down in a well declared worship in the Qur’an or Hadith?
Baba Farid hung upside down in a well, what was that? The negation of the lower self.
So, when the Master accepts someone as his, first the lower self is purified, then the idol of the ego is broken.
When that happens, the Master takes the lower self out of you and keeps it in his company.
When the Master takes the lower self out of you and keeps it with him,
then you find no enjoyment in eating food as this joy comes from the lower self, nor will you enjoy life. You will live joylessly.
You will have the most luxurious cars but find no pleasure in having them.
You will have the most delicious food but find no pleasure in eating it.
This pleasure is a disaster, isn’t it?
If you find no pleasure in anything then everything becomes distasteful.
For instance, when we eat food, in reality, it is to give our body sustenance as that is what the body requires.
However, we go through hell in order to find 'taste'.
You’ll go far and wide to find the best restaurant that serves the most delicious food.
These tastebuds on our tongue will make you go here, there and everywhere to find taste.
For example, how would you know that a dish is haleem?
When you take a spoonful of haleem, the tastebuds are so finicky that they remember the taste of a well-made haleem and it goes into their memory.
When Amjad Hussain makes it again the next day, they will remember the taste, ‘This isn’t as good, man. You’re lacking!’
The taste has gone into the memory. What a system!
Korma… when you eat it, you'll know.
And the day food is tasty, you always end up overeating.
This is where we know that you are not a Sufi, because a Sufi is not subservient to the lower self.
Do you know how strict Sufism used to be?
People claim that they are Qadri and Chishti, however, what did the Qadri and Chishtis do as adherents of Sufism?
They would chew on extreme spices to burn off their tastebuds, and then they would eat stale bread dipped in water. They did this. Why?
Because when the tastebuds are burned off, whether they are fed nihari, haleem, McDonald’s or Friday’s,
there is no taste whatsoever so what difference would it make?
This was just to enter into Sufism.
On the other hand, we have HDE Gohar Shahi.
The Master never mandated such restrictions upon us.
We say that we want to eat nihari, and HDE Gohar Shahi says, 'yeah, go ahead'.
We want to eat korma, the Lord says, ‘Go ahead and eat korma’.
We say that we want to eat McDonald's and the Lord says, 'Go ahead'.
Otherwise, the very first principle in Sufism is to burn off the tastebuds.
How would the lower self be controlled if the tastebuds are not burned off?
Think about it. Could it be controlled? It wouldn’t, right?
So first, the Master purifies the lower self, dyes it in his own colours and keeps it with him.
The person from whom the lower self is taken out, such a person loses the desire of this world, the joy in the taste of food and the luxuries of life, why?
Because it is the lower self that makes you feel the luxuries of life, and the Master has removed the lower self and kept it with him,
so that you are trained and you realise what life is without the luxuries of the world.
Then, the spiritual heart - Now, there is Zikr e Qalb in which your spiritual heart is made to recite, ‘Allah, Allah’ or ‘Allah Hoo’,
and then another situation is when the Master accepts you as his own.
That is when the Master takes your spiritual heart and places it in his own bosom for three years so that the spiritual heart is dyed in the colours of the Master’s souls.
This is not merely Zikr e Qalb.
This is for your spiritual heart to reside in the bosom of the Master.
For three years, your spiritual heart stays in the bosom of the Master.
After three years, a soul from the bosom of the Master comes into your chest.
It is a two-way attachment.
And when this happens, this is when you belong to the Master. The Master declares you his own. It is not from verbal affirmation.
If we say, these two people are father and son, why would we say so?
Because he has his father’s blood. This person is the husband of his mother.
The fertilised egg coagulated in the womb of the mother from their copulation, this is how he came to be, and hence, he is his son.
However, if nothing of the sort occurred and you just call someone your son, it’s just lip service, isn’t it?
That’s what an honorary son is.
That’s what an honorary mother is.
That’s what an honorary sister is.
If you verbally claim someone is your sister, does she become your sister in reality?
‘He is my son’, does he become your son in reality? For him to be your real son, you need to do the deed.
Similarly, in order to accept someone as your own, simply saying, ‘Yes, you belong to me’, doesn't make it so.
This doesn’t happen through verbal affirmations.
They will be taught the methodology.