What about the one who was sleeping in Maula Ali (a)’s lap?
Maula Ali (a)’s salah was missed so the sun changed its position, but the Prophet (s)’s salah was also missed. What about that?
Did Maula Ali (a) Miss Salah?
Wasim Ahmed says, ‘Sir, I have a question regarding an incident retold by the clergymen,
that one day, Maula Ali (a) missed the offering of Asr prayer, so God returned the Sun into its previous positions.
And then he offered the [missed] prayers. How true is this incident?
And why do they emphasise on physical salah so much,
when he [Maula Ali] would offer esoteric salah?’
Certain things occur in the company of Prophet Muhammad (s) that are not one’s own miracle,
rather due to the personality that one is in the company of, God does something special in their honour.
For example, there is a particular incident. Now, I need you all to broaden your minds as you listen.
Both the Sunnis and Shias,
because the Shias already can’t get enough of this incident.
Prophet Muhammad (s) was sleeping in the lap of Maula Ali (a).
This is why Maula Ali (a) missed the salah.
Maula Ali (a)’s salah was missed, but what about the one who was sleeping in his lap?
What about the Prophet (s)’s salah?
They talk about Maula Ali (a)’s salah being missed but what about the Prophet (s)’s salah, he was sleeping?
Maula Ali (a)’s salah was missed so the sun changed its position, but the Prophet (s)’s salah was also missed.
What about that?
So the cleric who told you of this incident,
Wasim Bhai, go back to him
and say, ‘Alright, the Sun returned to its position when Maula Ali (a) missed his salah.
But the personality due to whom he missed his salah - he was asleep, so what about his salah?’
Did the Sun return to its position and did he also offer the missed salah?
Did he lament that he missed his salah?
Now, I’m going to present another point to you which you must listen to attentively.
Can any action of the Prophet (s) prove to be a hindrance in what has been obligated upon them?
If you say that due to the Prophet (s), Maula Ali's salah was made void, this is a great kufr.
Prophet Muhammad (s) has come to teach people the religion and how to perform salah.
God forbid, [according to you], the Prophet (s) was so heedless that they did not care about salah and continued sleeping?
This is a recurring issue with people [that prioritise] materialism.
Maula Ali's salah was not made void. Ask me why.
Both the Prophet (s)'s and Maula Ali (a) ethereal bodies were engaged in salah.
One was sitting while the other slept but their inner systems were neither asleep nor sitting.
It was the body that was sitting.
Neither Prophet Muhammad (s)’s nor Maula Ali (a)’s salah was missed, their esoteric spirits were engaged in salah.
When HDE first came to England, according to me anyway.
I hadn't met HDE Gohar Shahi exclusively in Pakistan.
I only saw Them once a year on the occasion of Giarwhien or when the Lord would come to Karachi, I would listen to them from afar.
There was no personal interaction.
There was only one personal interaction.
One day, when there was an office in Moin Steel Market in Karachi, there was a meeting for the officials of Karachi which I also joined.
Everyone was asking HDE Gohar Shahi some questions so I too presented forth a question.
That was the only incident whereby there was personal interaction between HDE Gohar Shahi and me.
Then, when HDE Gohar Shahi came to England, they first came to London.
They presided at the residence made available by Anwar Siddiqui, and then HDE Gohar Shahi went to Bradford.
They stayed in Bradford and that’s when I received a call from HDE Gohar Shahi,
and they said, 'I am coming to your residence, to stay with you'.
I was overjoyed.
Then, HDE arrived and they did not leave, they stayed there.
This was the first time it happened and I was unable to control the happiness [of knowing that] the Lord were in my house!
I kept repeating it, ‘HDE are in my house?!’
So, a while later, HDE called me and said, 'Do you have any painkillers?’
I said, ‘I shall bring some right away, Master’.
I went to the local pharmacy and there was this medicine called, 'Solpadeine' - I had no idea what was in it.
It actually has codeine in it which numbs your entire body.
You take this medicine when you’re in a lot of pain.
I never used to bother reading the box either.
I told the man to give me painkillers, he handed me a box and I took it.
Now, it was a soluble one.
So I brought them to HDE Gohar Shahi and HDE said, ‘Okay, put two tablets into water’, so I did.
So, then HDE drank it.
And then, HDE Gohar Shahi said,
'Switch off the lights of the room and cover me with this blanket.
Oh, and do not let anyone come, I am going to perform salah'.
Now, I was lost in my thoughts. I began to constantly revise the words,
'Cover me with a blanket, close the doors, don't let anyone in’, and then, 'I am going to perform salah'?
What does that mean?
I thought, If the Lord were to offer salah, they would have gone to the mosque or downstairs in the room,
I didn’t understand because I didn't have much prior interaction.
This was the first time I was seeing the Lord in such proximity.
They said, ‘I’m going to offer salah’.
So, HDE Gohar Shahi took the cover of a blanket, and according to our sight, apparently fell asleep.
An hour or two later, HDE Gohar Shahi summoned me and said, 'Bring tea'.
Following this, I was stunned.
I was surprised because HDE Gohar Shahi revisited an incident that occurred many years ago,
and they revisited it in such a way that it was being continued from where it was left off.
Years ago, there was an office in Ghareeb Nawaz Colony in Karachi.
In the early, days, I’m talking about ‘85.
In that small office, HDE said to me, ‘Is this where you live?’ I said, ‘No, Master, I live farther down’.
So the Lord said, ‘Alright, if you continue going down this road, turn left up ahead and you’ll come across a electric grid station.
There is a tea stall there owned by a Pathan. He knows me.
Tell him to make that tea for me. Bring me that tea’.
I said, 'Lord, what about the money?'
And the Lord said, 'Don't worry, he has an account for me'.
So, I went to him and said, 'The Lord has asked for tea',
and he said, ‘Come, come sit’.
And he prepared the tea.
I asked him, ‘How do you make the tea?’
He said, ‘Master likes to drink the tea with milk’.
It was a Dood-Patti chai.
So I’m talking about what happened in 1993 and this tea-related incident occured in 1985.
Eight years had passed.
And HDE Gohar Shahi said to me, 'Make the tea in the same way that it was made in Gharib Nawaz Colony'.
Then they said, 'That tea was Dood-Patti, right? Make it exactly the same'.
I made the tea and when I brought the tea closer, the Lord smelled the tea
and said, 'No, it's not the same. Make it again. This time, make it like this’,
and the Lord then told me how to make it and I made it again.
Then they approved of it.
Then, HDE Gohar Shahi said, 'I said to you that I would go to perform salah, whereas I was going to sleep, you must be perplexed.
When someone says they’re going to pray, they don’t go to bed, they go to the mosque.
But I went to bed. You must’ve thought I would go to the mosque’.
The Lord said, 'This is how one departs to offer salah where I offer salah’.
I said, ‘Master, which salah is this?’
The Lord said, ‘This is Namaz e Ishq’.
Then the Lord said, ‘Even Maula Ali would offer this salah’.
Then the Lord recounted an incident,
'When Maula Ali was inflicted by an arrow in his thigh, it could not be removed and he was in excruciating pain,
and then Prophet Muhammad (s) advised the companions to remove the arrow from his thigh when Maula Ali is engaged in salah because he would not feel the pain’.
HDE said, ‘Why didn’t he feel the pain during salah?
Because his soul would depart his body during salah.
This was the salah [that was performed] when the Prophet (s) would rest their head in Maula Ali’s lap and sleep in the Cave of Hira.
If you look at the apparent - because you’re talking about the apparent salah being missed,
that when [Maula Ali] missed his salah, the Sun returned to its former position.
So if you emphasise on the apparent salah, you’re digging a deep ditch for yourself.
If [in that moment in the cave] Maula Ali missed salah, then what about the one who was sleeping [in his lap]?
His too was missed, then.
Therefore, it had nothing to do with the apparent salah.
Maula Ali’s salah happened simultaneously with the Prophet (s) in the higher realms.
It wasn’t the physical salah.
He didn’t miss any salah. Now, as for the sun changing its position,
I firmly believe the celestial bodies would move to Maula Ali’s command.
Maula Ali possesses such power.
Whether it’s the Sun, the stars or Mars, he can move them to whichever direction he pleases.
He is Haider e Qarar, he wields the power.
Do not base [your creed] on this incident. Maula Ali did not miss any salah.