How is Spiritual Benevolence Rendered When Saints Speak?
Purifying your Lower Self is not so easy.
[Somebody asked if it would be 70% purified by watching us live]. If that were the case, then the remaining 30% would be taken care of by watching our videos [uploaded on YouTube]!
It is not that easy to purify the Lower Self.
However, if you do continue to listen to lectures on spirituality, especially
if you listen to speeches on spirituality from a man who has attained a spirituality rank -
- then by listening to him, divine energy enters the [subtleties] in your chest.
That divine energy does not come by listening to just anyone.
When the spiritual personalities who are Enlightened Consciences speak -
- when the Fuqra and the Sauliheen speak -
- then listening to their speeches is something entirely different from listening the lectures by the religious clerics.
By listening to a religious cleric's lecture, you will acquire nothing for except knowledge.
But when you listen to a Saint's speech, then you obtain spiritual benevolence along with knowledge.
HDE Gohar Shahi said that the saints who are Majzoob render benevolence by swearing at people and hitting them with sticks.
And [HDE Gohar Shahi further said] that the saints who become Mehboob (Divine Beloveds) render benevolence through their words.
They will speak and you will listen - and the divine energy from their words will enter your chest.
Do you understand?
So how is spiritual benevolence rendered through curse words and speeches? Let me explain it to you.
TOP: Ana; LEFT TO RIGHT: Qalb (Spiritual Heart), Sirri, Akhfah, Khafi, Rouh.
All your thoughts are stored in your mind. This is your brain [modeled on the top right].
Brain. B-R-A-I-N. Your brain.
Now, you think in your brain.
When you read a book, the knowledge you obtain goes into your brain.
Because your brain has the ability to understand and think.
Right?
So all the knowledge you receive when you listen to lectures and read books - and all the associated thoughts - will go into your brain.
Do you understand?
Now when you are asked to speak about what you have read -
- when you will speak about that knowledge, there is a process [that your thoughts go through to reach your tongue].
What is that process?
The thought in your brain -
- now, all you understand is that the tongue is verbalising [your thought]. You don't understand anything else.
You are unaware of the various stops the thought has to go through on its way [from your brain] to your tongue.
Now this is the spiritual anatomical structure of a human being.
And all functions are carried out through the proper channels.
A person's thoughts travel from the brain to the heart first.
The heart.
From the brain to the heart. Yes.
Since the thought has to eventually be verbalised by the tongue, it comes through the proper channels.
Do you understand?
For example, if you want to get to the 3rd level of a building, why are you climbing the stairs to the 1st level?
Because from the 1st level, you will get to the 2nd level.
And then from the 2nd level you will get to the stairs of the 3rd level.
That's why.
Similarly from the brain, all knowledge and thoughts travel to the heart.
Do you understand?
If there is divine energy in the heart -
- then divine energy will be mixed with the thought or knowledge that has entered the heart [from the brain].
And when that knowledge will be verbalised, it shall be verbalised with divine energy.
Right?
Now whether it is the knowledge of the Koran, Prophetic Traditions or his own words and thoughts -
whatever he verbalises will first pass through the heart.
So if he has divine energy in the heart, divine energy will be mixed with those thoughts.
For example, there is a a saint - and he isn't talking about the Koran or Prophetic Traditions. He is just expressing his own thoughts.
Let's assume he isn't talking about anything of consequence.
Right?
But when those inconsequential remarks passed through his heart, divine energy was mixed with them.
And when he uttered them, they were uttered in the form of divine energy.
Now the people sitting there listening to him should receive two things:
1 - knowledge coming from his mind and 2 - divine energy coming from his heart.
If he is talking about knowledge, then along with the divine energy you will also receive that knowledge.
And if he is just expressing his thoughts and not presenting knowledge, then despite not obtaining knowledge,
you will still receive the divine energy [coming from his heart].
Therefore even if such a man is not talking about anything important, continue listening to him.
Because he is exuding divine energy.
Do you understand?
Now [what happens] if that saint gets angry and swears at you?
When that thought travelled from his mind to his heart, divine energy was mixed with it. So when he utters the swear word, there is divine energy in it as well.
So even [his] swear words have divine energy mixed with them.
So divine energy is mixed into their swear words. This is how a Mazjoob's words render spiritual benevolence to people.
Even if he swears at them, they receive spiritual benevolence.
So these are the effects of the [words] of enlightened people.
Now, the people who don't have divine energy in their hearts - rather their hearts are occupied by Satan and filled with negative energy -
- they have corruption in their hearts -
- then even if they are scholars who study the Koran, they -
- even if they are scholars of the Koran, when the knowledge travels from their brain to the heart, the corruption of the heart will be mixed in.
That corruption will be mixed into the knowledge and by the time it reaches the tongue, it shall become mischief.
This is why Prophet Mohammad said, 'True scholars are those who shall receive spiritual benevolence from my chest.'
Today's religious clerics who roam about here and there and recite the Koran and Prophetic Traditions to you - don't even listen to their recitation.
Because when the Koran and Prophetic Traditions that they read travelled from their brains to their hearts,
[that knowledge] became subject to corruption there and then.
Now [the words] will just cause mischief. This is how sectarianism spread in the first place.
When the religious scholars read the Koran and Prophet Traditions in the madrassas,
and spent 12 years in this study and they read all the knowledge -
- then they went to the mosque and led the prayers, taught the Koran and gave speeches.
When that knowledge passed through their hearts, their hearts were corrupted.
When that knowledge was mixed with the corruption [in their hearts], it became mischief as it was uttered by the tongue.
And this is the mischief that led someone to found Wahhabism and another to found the Deobandi sect.
Someone else founded Shiism and someone else still founded Barelvism.
Someone founded Sunnism [on the basis of this mischief] and another founded the Ahle Hadith sect.
This is the entire system.
Thoughts do not travel directly from the brain to the tongue.
The thoughts travel from the brain to the heart; from the heart to the Sirri and from the Sirri to the Akhfah.
And from the Akhfah, it comes onto the tongue.
And the tongue utters the thought that has been mixed with whatever was in the heart.
If the heart was filled with corruption, then the words uttered by the tongue will cause mischief.
If there was divine energy in the heart, then the words will be uttered mixed with divine energy.
Now you are listening to a man whose esoteric being is enlightened.
Now, no matter what he says, it is guaranteed that when he speaks, divine energy will come out.
Even if what he is saying is incorrect, the words he speaks have divine energy. So they will render spiritual benevolence to you.
So Brother Ghafoor, how did sectarianism spread?
When the knowledge travelled from the brain to the heart, the heart was dark.
This is the reason why Prophet Mohammad said, 'Beware of the ignorant scholar.'
'Beware of the ignorant scholar.' Why?
People asked, 'How can they be scholars and ignorant at the same time, O' Messenger of God?'
Prophet Mohammad replied, 'They are scholars by the tongue but their hearts are ignorant, meaning black.'
A person who is a scholar by the tongue only and their heart is black,
when the knowledge passes through their heart, the darkness and corruption of the heart will be mixed with the knowledge.
And that knowledge will become a cause for mischief when uttered by the tongue.
Beware of such ignorant scholars.
So what is ignorance [in the true sense of the word]? It is the darkness, the blackness, of the heart.
A person who hasn't gone to school is not ignorant. He is unlettered. [Don't confuse the two].
A person whose heart is dark is ignorant.
Like Abu Jahl (The Father of Ignorance). Why is he referred to with this title?
Because when Prophet Mohammad cast his Merciful Glance -
- when Abu Jahl ran into Prophet Mohammad on the street, he asked Prophet Mohammad to tell him what he had hidden in his fist.
Prophet Mohammad replied, 'Isn't it better if the things in your fist tell you who I am?'
So Prophet Mohammad cast his Merciful Glance.
And Prophet Mohammad's Merciful Glance first fell on Abu Jahl's heart.
But the darkness was so thick in his heart that the Merciful Glance could not pass through.
And when that same Merciful Glance fell upon the stones [in his fist], they began to recite the Motto of Faith.
The invocation of God's name could not penetrate his heart.
Therefore he was known as Abu Jahl.
And God has mentioned it on many occasions in the Koran.
He mentions hearts that are harder than stone; so hard that the invocation of God's name cannot enter them.
God said that a person whose heart is so hard that divine energy and God's name cannot enter it is in open misguidance.
These days, people think misguidance is if a person goes to the cinema, dances, etc.
No! These are sins.
Misguidance is when God's name cannot enter your heart.
This is misguidance.
To do things like dancing [at clubs] were sins.
Okay, let's suppose you never danced or committed any sin.
Yet God's name could not enter your heart. In that case, all your piety was rendered useless.
Or suppose I become cross with you today and stop your Spiritual Heart [from invoking upon God].
Then will the fact that you never danced take you to paradise?
Audience: No.
Misguidance in when God's name cannot enter your heart.
People don't understand this secret. They think to sing and dance are major forms of disbelief.
[For example], someone committed sins all his life.
After that, he came under the Merciful Glance of a saint and God's name entered his heart.
People were astonished as to how someone who had been dancing and singing all his life could suddenly become a Devout Believer.
Yes.
Yes, God became merciful upon him and despite his sins, God accepted [him].
And you didn't commit a single sin yet God wouldn't even look your way.
This is a matter of the heart, isn't it?
For God made [that person's] heart to invoke upon his name. So God's name entered his heart.
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