Like Nadeem Bhai spoke on Jashan e Shahi:
There is gold
and then there is the philosophers’ stone
I thought I should explain this.
Difference Between Gold and the Philosophers’ Stone in Spirituality
There is gold and then there is the philosophers’ stone.
The philosophers’ stone is an alchemical substance
capable of turning metals into gold,
whereas gold itself stays the same.
Even if an elephant or a donkey sit atop [a piece of] gold, they won’t change; they’ll remain to be what they are.
Similarly, there is a momin (enlightened believer).
A momin has to earn himself and to feed himself.
Try to understand what this means.
A momin is related to the name of God.
As long as you have the light of God's name in you,
you are a momin. That’s it.
However, you shall become a Saint of God
when you have the light of God [himself].
You shall become a saint when divine light enters your [heart].
This is why there's a difference in between the way a momin thinks and a Saint of God thinks.
A saint does not have the same mindset as a momin.
A difference in mindset and the actions.
Now, let's say, you've become a momin,
your nafs has become Mulhima (the Inspired Self); you've purified your nafs.
You continue the efforts you have made to reach the stage of Mulhima.
You cannot afford any mishaps,
because you've strived and endeavoured to reach that stage.
So, you must continue to endeavour.
For example, when you run a business,
let's say your profit for a month is £1,000,000.
For as long as you do business and make a profit of 1m,
it'll equate to 12m for the year,
24m for two years,
36m for three years,
48m for four years.
That calculation will continue on.
However, when you stop, your graph shall begin to fall.
Because you reached that stage
because of the divine energy [you have accumulated],
and you must maintain it to secure your position.
This is why a Momin cannot afford to be oblivion or lazy.
Like the common person must work,
however, the Queen doesn't need to work.
The Queen is paid by the government every year,
so her profit shall continue to grow even if she never works a day in her life.
However, if the businessmen face losses,
the graph of their earnings plummets.
This is the same thing with a momin and a saint.
A Momin has to maintain his faith and purity of his lower self
because the maintenance is through the divine energy.
If the divine energy is being accumulated it will be maintained.
If divine energy is not being generated, there shall be a maintenance problem.
Whereas a Saint of God is one who is under the constant theophanies of God.
Now, let's evaluate, what kind of person is equivalent to a philosophers’ stone?
If you are a momin,
the spiritual guide shall never send you
to preach [the message] in an indecent place.
The Spiritual Guide will not send you to a disco or indecent place to promote this message,
why?
Because your faith is being maintained with divine energy
and that place is of sin,
you shall go there, be affected by sin and your graph of divine energy shall be affected.
However, if HDE Gohar Shahi has rendered your upbringing in such a way
that Their spiritual attention results in the constant purification of the hearts
and lower selves of people,
in such a way that you yourselves don’t have to put in any efforts
and you are not dependent upon your own production of divine energy
you wouldn’t be worried if there is a decrease in divine energy
because your dependency is upon the spiritual concentration of the Sufi Master.
Then the Sufi Master will say, 'You go to such [sinful] places'.
Why? Because the [Master] knows he shall be unaffected;
he knows his spiritual progression is dependent upon the spiritual concentraton of the Master.
When he goes there, it shall still be a sin
but the sin shall be ineffective on him
because of the constant shower of the Master’s spiritual attention.
A person equivalent to the philosophers’ stone is one who shall go into the mire,
he shall cleanse and purify the diamonds within the mire and bring them out.
Such a person is a philosophers’ stone
this is the definition of a philosophers’ stone in spiritual terminology.
One who shall go into the mire,
cleanse and purify the diamonds within the mire and bring them out.
However, if a common person goes into the mireto bring out the diamonds,
he too shall be left within the mire along with the rest.
A Saint of God is one whose qalb and nafs are under the constant theophanies of God,
which is why his graph of divine energy never decreases.
It's constant.
Because God has taken responsibility of the nafs of such an individual
of course, God’s responsible because God is showering the theophanies upon it
this is why God says, 'I am content' (Nafs e Mutmainna).
Why is God content?
God is content with the facilities he has provided [to the saint].
God is content with the arrangement he has provided
obviously, he has to be content with his own theophanies.
Even if [the saint] was to make a blunder, the theophanies would wash it away.
This is why God is content.
Secondly, the theophanies fall upon the heart.
Such a heart is known as 'Shaheed'
and about such a heart, it is said,
'Whatsoever such a heart says, obey it'.
Why?
Because, such a heart is protected from the interference of Satan.
Why is that so?
The Satan cannot approach such a heart, because it is under the constant theophanies of God,
if the devil tries, the divine energy shall repel any efforts made,
and this safeguards his heart.