The divine energy of RaRiaz is not compatible with you.
This is why I tell you all to engage in the Zikr of ‘Allah Hoo’.
I tell you to engage in the Zikr of Allah Hoo and come here.
Why do I tell you to come here?
The Zikr of RaRiaz
‘Please tell us about the quality of the Zikr of RaRiaz’.
There is no quality of Zikr itself,
it is rather the quality of divine energy.
This is something to be understood.
Those of you who are the new generation -
you don’t know how lassi is made.
You don’t know, right?
How is butter made? You don’t know, right?
It’s important to know that
the more you churn the cream, as you mix it vigorously, the more butter you will have.
In a similar way, it varies from heart to heart
on how it [the heart] uses the Personal Name of God to produce what kind of divine energy
It’s not necessarily dependent on God’s name alone - let’s say all hearts are enlightened with God’s name,
it doesn’t mean that everyone will generate the same amount of divine light.
No.
Now, look here.
Forget about the heartbeats
because the heartbeats are limited to the physical body,
therefore, synchronising God’s name with the heartbeats is just the initial step,
whereas Zikr e Qalb is something else.
Qalb is a spiritual entity which has to be awakened and articulate the name of God.
Only those who have managed to awaken the Qalb (spiritual heart) will have a stable and steadfast faith.
The Zikr that is limited to the heartbeats,
and is not entering the spiritual heart, can be terminated at any given moment.
This is the reason why a Zakir e Qalbi has a three-year probation period
after obtaining Activation of the Heart. For three years, the Zikr is limited to the heartbeats.
This is to establish whether the aspirant develops any negative conjectures for the Spiritual Master
and if the aspirant says anything against the Spiritual Master,
the Zikr is immediately confiscated.
For three years, the Zikr is confined to the physical heart
and the divine energy accumulates in the heart.
After three years,
all of the accumulated divine energy is transferred to the spiritual heart.
Now, let’s talk about Zikr e Qalb.
Let’s say, for instance, you are churning cream to make butter.
You’re churning away, faster and faster, and then someone joins in to help you churn faster,
it means you will yield more butter, right?
Yet another person joins you - now there are three sets of hands churning the cream.
Yet another person joins - now there are four sets of hands. Imagine how much butter you will have!
If you have activated Qalb e Saleem, Qalb e Muneeb and Qalb e Shaheed [the three spiritual entities of the heart],
although another person’s heart is also enlightened with the name of God,
the quality of divine energy in their heart will be totally different from from your heart.
The same is the case with the name ‘RaRiaz’.
In the same way, there is the invocation of 'RaRiaz'.
Although it has entered you,
your interior system is not 'Riazified', because you have been created from the clay of this world.
You do not have a soul of 'Riazian' genus inside of you,
you have a soul, the origin of which is this very universe,
so [with the Zikr alone] you will add some shine and sparkle to your soul, that's it.
However, if you keep company of a man who carries a Riazian genus within him,
then through his gaze and his company,
all the celestial souls within you shall be coloured with the Riazian dye.
This cannot happen with Zikr alone.
If I were to say,
‘Sacrifice your life for me and I will give you Gohar’,
that would be a bargain, right?
If I were to ask you to give me all your time
and in return I would give you eternal life.
The divine energy of RaRiaz is not compatible with you.
This is why I tell you all to engage in the Zikr of ‘Allah Hoo’.
I tell you to engage in the Zikr of Allah Hoo and come here.
Why do I tell you to come here? Because the Zikr of ‘Allah Hoo’ will keep your heart illuminated
but by being here, you will be coloured in that dye.
Then a time will come
when you will suddenly say, ‘I was practising another [Zikr] but something else is echoing within me’.
Even the personal name of God has layers.
The first layer is that of ‘Alif’.
First, this layer has to be removed and it is removed though esoteric Sharia.
The question came from you, the answer is coming from me
and it is coming from wherever it is coming from,
whether you believe it or not.
When the [first] layer of God’s name is removed,
one enters the esoteric Sharia.
Then, in order to enter into Spirituality, the layer of esoteric Sharia has to be nullified.
Now, the lassi that is being churned in you will not be a result of Zikr ‘Allah’
because the name ‘Allah’ isn’t enough on its own to ‘make lassi
(generate enough divine energy)’; it has to shed one layer.
For instance, when you want to make fresh orange juice,
you will first remove the outer layer of the orange,
and then press the flesh for the juice.
So, you will have to remove the first layer of God’s name.
When the spiritual dignitaries, as well as the Qur’an, told us about ‘Alif Laam Meem’
they have just mentioned one word;
one raw product.
It is a seed
whereas ‘Alif’ ‘Laam’ and ‘Meem’ are the layers.
Similarly, the name of God (Allah) is also enshrouded in four layers.
When the first layer is moved from ‘Allah’, it becomes ‘Lillah’.
When you embark upon the path of Spirituality, the mystical formula of ‘Lillah’ will churn within you.
‘Lillah’. Only one veil has been removed.
You make further progress and [the name of God] transforms from ‘Lillah’ to Lahoo’.
Another ‘L’ has been removed,
so two layers have been lifted and the quality of divine energy also increases.
You progress further into the stage of Haqiqa and then yet another ‘L’ [from God’s name] is removed.
Now, only ‘Hoo’ remains
For this state, Lal Shahbaz Qalandar said,
‘Aya Usman Marwandi, charan masti darin aalam?
Bajuz ya Hoo wa man ya Hoo digar cheez e nami danam!’
People asked, 'O' Lal Shahbaz Qalandar,
tell us the reason for why you are always in a state in which you are obliviously frolicking in divine love?
Where did you get this incessant state of divine frolic?
[Poetry] 'Aaya Usman Marwandi charan masti darin aalam'
which means, 'Where did you get this state of eternal frolic and movement from?'
And he said, 'Bajuz ya Hoo wa man ya Hoo digar cheez e nami danam',
which means, 'I know nought else apart from the reverberation of Ya Hoo and the Person of 'Ya Hoo''
by which he means that ‘I am with the Lord’.
Now, the miracle would be
for your spiritual heart to become able to withstand the intense heat of the Zikr of ‘Ya Hoo’
which was endured by the Subtlety of Ana alone -
imagine the state of your heart then!
Those who are destined to become Zakir e Qalbi or saints of God,
they have to engage in the Zikr of ‘Allah’ and ‘Hoo’ together
just like people drink alcohol mixed with either coke or water [to dilute it].
Don’t they mix it and then drink it?
In a similar way, you were given the wine of ‘Hoo’ mixed with ‘Allah’
so that you are able to feel a light buzz from the intoxicating rhythm of ‘Allah Hoo’.
However, those who were submerged in divine love -
they don’t engage in the Zikr of ‘Allah Hoo’, they engage in the Zikr of ‘Hoo’ alone.
Since they engage in the Zikr of ‘Hoo’,
the quality of the divine energy of ‘Hoo’ is totally different.
And if the Zikr of ‘Hoo’ settles in the heart,
it transforms the heart completely.
His Divine Eminence frequently gave an example
and said, ‘Whenever I told people about the Zikr of ‘Allah Hoo’’
This is about the very early days.
So in the beginning, people would be fearful
and say, ‘The Zikr of ‘Allah Hoo’ is very powerful, it has lead people towards insanity’.
They would give examples of a phoenix that lived in the jungle
who heard a Dervish engage in loud chanting of ‘Allah Hoo’ in the jungle,
so the phoenix imitated the Dervish and started chirping ‘Allah Hoo’.
Saying ‘Allah’ did not affect him
but when the phoenix would say ‘Hoo’, he would start to heat up.
When he started feeling hot,
he thought he was as clever as Azam
so the bird decided to gather sticks and leaves around him
because he thought when he heats up with the Zikr,
the sticks and leaves will catch fire and not him.
But when [the heat of the Zikr] caused a fire to erupt,
the sticks and leaves burned along with the phoenix.
Such was the intensity of heat of the Zikr of ‘Hoo’.
When the bird was burnt to ashes,
even his ashes were chanting ‘Hoo’.
Then the bird was reborn from the ashes.
Then it burns to ashes again and remerges as a newborn bird and burns to ashes again.
It is stuck in this constant cycle.
His Divine Eminence Gohar Shahi said,
‘That phoenix bird burns to ashes because it had only heard the Zikr of ‘Allah Hoo’
but had it also head ‘Muhammadur Rasool Allah’, it would never be burned.
The name 'Muhammad' has beatific divine energy [as compared to 'Allah Hoo' which has majestic divine energy].
The beatific divine energy [of 'Muhammad'] would have cooled down the phoenix.’
This is when you are required to obtain the intermediary of Prophet Muhammad (saw).
You will need the Prophet’s name, you will need to send salutations upon the Prophet (saw)
because it will work to cool down [the heat generated by the Zikr].’
Right now, you only have the Zikr of ‘Allah Hoo’ and you cannot forbear it,
You are required to say the Prophet’s name to cool you down,
so imagine the intensity of heat of the Zikr of ‘Hoo’ alone.
Then you’ll need to call 999.
Actually, you won’t even call the doctor, you will call God himself and say,
‘Your name has me in flames! Come and help me!’
And if cannot withstand the heat of ‘Hoo’
then don’t even think about the Zikr of ‘RaRiaz’.
The human soul is like the phoenix when it comes to the name ‘RaRiaz’.
It burns, becomes ash, remerges as a soul and burns once again.