What is Faqr (Spiritual Poverty)?
Ali Raza asks about Faqr
There are 100 stages of Faqr.
How many? [Audience repeats].
100 stages.
Now, what is Faqr?
Let's say that Faqr is 'minus'
and anything Godless is 'plus'.
The word 'Faqr'
The word 'Faqr' means...
'nothing'.
What does Faqr mean? [Audience: nothing].
People who have translated this word say that it means poverty.
So what does poverty mean? Broke. Hand-to-mouth.
Who is impoverished? One who has nothing.
So Faqr means nothing.
Alright?
Okay, now what does Faqr do?
This is the human body.
This is the Subtlety of Ana.
These are the five subtleties.
This is the Lower Self.
And that is the Subtlety of Ana.
Okay?
Now, these subtleties
five
The first out of them is the Spiritual Heart.
This Spiritual Heart has
180,000
evil webs upon it.
Which are known as Zannar.
180,000
You understand?
30,000 of lust; 30,000 of jealousy; 30,000 of enmity
and so on making it 180,000 evil webs or Zannar on top of the heart.
There are four other subtleties.
They all have the soul of a bird attached to them.
The Spiritual Heart is attached to the cockerel.
And this cockerel denotes lust.
What does it denote? [Audience repeats].
30,000 evil webs
are on your Spiritual Heart when you are not an Enlightened Heart
30,000 Zannar - 30,000 layers
are around your heart
making your heart a victim of eternal lust.
And you see
3-year-old girls and 6-year-old girls are being raped. Does it make any sense?
Satan has destroyed the minds of people.
And where is Satan?
This is eternal lust.
When this takes over a person, they become senseless.
Who can be a greater devil than the one who rapes a 3-year-old girl?
But why don't we see why this is happening?
It is happening because you already have lust from your Lower Self
and then there is lust in your heart too!
The lust which comes from the Lower Self is temporary, comes and goes
but the lust in the heart is permanent; it is stuck on your mind at all times.
This is why man is impure.
It's a loss.
It's filth.
This cockerel has lust
and it is attached to [the heart].
You understand?
Now, when the Spiritual Guide casts his spiritual concentration
he is able to burn away all of these evil webs with his merciful glance.
And this cockerel here
when the merciful glance of HDE Gohar Shahi falls upon it
on this cockerel here
half of its neck is severed.
And it becomes Murgh-e-Bismil.
It becomes a Murgh-e-Bismil.
And due to this, the heart is always at unease.
The only thing it cares about is whether the Spiritual Guide is upset.
That's the unease.
When are you freed from the Murgh-e-Bismil?
When the divine theophany falls on the heart making it a Witnessing Heart, thereafter the heart never wonders if the Spiritual Guide is displeased.
That uneasiness comes from the [Murgh-e-Bismil].
Until it was just a Murgh (cockerel)
it would be after women.
But once it becomes a Murgh-e-Bismil, it goes after the Spiritual Guide.
It wants to please the Guide.
It runs after the Spiritual Guide.
It wants to please him.
So the 180,000 layers
cannot be burned away by any worship for except
the spiritual concentration of a Spiritual Guide.
You understand?
And the remaining subtleties also have souls of birds attached to them.
One has a pigeon which has jealousy, another has a crow
Right?
All this filth is attached to your subtleties.
The Ana is enveloped in three layers, the Lower Self is impure
What is all of this? These are all the elements of godlessness and evil energy.
Elements of godlessness and evil energy.
Now this total cacophony of godlessness in you.
Let's call it '100%'
Okay? The total ratio of evil energy is 100%.
Now, when the divine energy enters you
For example, your subtleties have been engaged in the invocation for a year
and now you have 10% divine energy.
So when you have 10% divine energy, there is 90% evil energy remaining.
And you have reached 10 stages of Faqr.
10% of godlessness leaving your being is 10% Faqr.
Now, what does the Prophetic Tradition state? 'When you adopt Faqr completely'
When you have adopted Faqr completely and all of the godlessness leaves your being
'Adopt Faqr completely'
When you have adopted Faqr completely and all the godlessness leaves your being
'and you become God.'
So then you will only have God within you.
So then...? [Audience repeats].
This is how there are 100 stages of Faqr.
I hope you understood it.
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