When his spiritual heart is activated, the spiritual guide stops him from sinning.
However, the disciple fluctuates between sinning and refraining from sin.
If in that moment, God says, 'You took a guarantee for this person but he hasn’t rectified himself,
the spiritual guide then taunts God in return, 'You know the future, didn’t you know he would commit these sins?
Did you not know his future when you had accepted him for your friendship?'
Why the Spiritual Guide Becomes the Disciple’s Guarantor
There is only one way to be saved from misguidance.
First, the divine light of God's name enters your heart and then your heart begins to commemorate God’s name, then it doesn't matter what happens in life. Let it happen.
Once your connection to God has been established - what happens?
In the way that a wife and husband taunt one another,
a spiritual guide and God often taunt one another.
The spiritual guide taunts God and God taunts the spiritual guide.
This taunting is common between the two.
How do they taunt each other?
The spiritual guide takes your appearance to Bait ul Mamoor when you come for Zikr e Qalb.
There's a special creature in Bait ul Mamoor, whom God addresses, and asks,
'Why did you bring him here?’
and the spiritual guide says, 'In order for you to befriend them',
they are then questioned and then if God says, 'No, I do not want to befriend them'.
Your file is returned.
Once God has said, 'I don't want to befriend him',
now your heart cannot be activated.
Once God declared, ‘I do not wish to befriend him’,
this is the stage for which God had said,
'thumma radadnahu asfalas saafileen
(I have rejected them and banished them to the lowest of all lows'.
‘Thumma’, and then it says: radadnahu
(those whom God has rejected),
asfalas saafileen (are banished to the lowest of all lows).
This is that point.
After this, no matter what you do, whether you perform salah, make sacrifices; even if you sacrifice an entire camel instead of a sheep,
and perform hundreds of pilgrimages, it doesn't matter.
However, if there are talks of your guarantee and once God is made ready to befriend you, he then asks, 'Who shall be his guarantor?
What if I accept him for my friendship today and tomorrow he flees from this path?’
The spiritual guide takes his guarantee and says, 'I shall keep him in check'.
The spiritual guide tells [God] that he shall be the guarantor.
When the spiritual guide has become the guarantor, then the spiritual guide supervises over that person, too.
For example, one man came here 20 years ago, when we used to live in Manchester.
He was stopped at the airport and said to the immigration that he knew us.
So, I was called and they asked me, 'This man has come from Hyderabad, Pakistan.
Do you take his guarantee?'
Now, the individual was a Naatkhwan - I don’t know where he found my number and address, but he came here.
So, I said to the immigration officer, 'Who is it?'
They assumed I didn't know this person, so they told me to speak to him.
He said to me, 'I’ve come from Paretabad, Hyderabad and I know so-and-so. We would go to Kotri, and this and that’.
Then he said, 'I beg you in the name of Sarkar, help me'.
Now, if someone asks in the name of the Lord, how can they be denied?
So I told him, ‘Alright, let me speak to the officer’.
I spoke to the immigration officer and he said, 'If you take guarantee of this person, we shall issue a 15-day visa’.
I asked, ‘How shall I take his guarantee?’
So, they kept my passport with them and released him.
So, now I shall keep after him and make sure that he leaves in 15 days, because if he don't, then the guarantor is locked up.
Similarly, when the spiritual guide becomes the guarantor, he makes sure the disciple does not run away;
he keeps an eye on him.
Once the spiritual guide becomes his guarantor, his spiritual heart is activated [with God’s permission].
When his spiritual heart is activated, the spiritual guide stops him from sinning.
However, the disciple fluctuates between sinning and refraining from sin.
If in that moment, God says, 'You took a guarantee for this person but he hasn’t rectified himself,
the spiritual guide then taunts God in return,
'You know the future, didn’t you know he would commit these sins?
Did you not know his future when you had accepted him for your friendship?'
God then remains quiet.
He can’t say anything to that, can he?
The spiritual guide and God are at it, back and forth, and you are busy in your own affairs, completely unaware of [whatever is happening between the guide and God].
Then HDE Gohar Shahi said, 'Once God has accepted you and your heart begins to resound with God’s name,
then it doesn't matter what you are like for God says, ‘He is mine’’.
Precaution is before being accepted,
after you have been accepted, then it's progress alone.
Even if you’re not taking precautions, you’re safe because you'll remain fastened [to the spiritual guide].
We've seen a practical example of this.
What is the practical example?
We are. We never did any worship, and recited the Qur'an ritualistically, never to earn rewards.
We didn’t recite the Qur’an out loud, just sat with book of Qur’an to read it.
We didn’t worship at all. We didn’t do anything at all.
We had only one thing: faith in the person of the spiritual guide.
And with the help of that, we reached where we have.
Faith and belief in the person of the spiritual guide; the spiritual guide’s benevolence, and loyalty to the spiritual guide.
We are not loyal, our spiritual guide is loyal.
Why are we not loyal? Because we are human beings.
We are not capable of doing anything completely.
We do not know what will happen tomorrow or the day after.
We have no control over our faith. We don’t have control of our lives, nor our actions.
Our Lord owns everything that belongs to us.
Should he wish, we shall become his.
Should he wish to send us to paradise, that’s where we shall go.
Should he wish to send us to hellfire, so be it.
Neither religion nor worship will have helped us in such a scenario.
And if we are to be sent to paradise, none of our prayers will be taken into account, nor our deeds.
Once God has made the decision, that's all that will matter. This is the main point. No questions will be asked.
All the rituals - fasting, praying, pilgrimage, almsgiving, Zikr e Qalb, etc. - are fine in their own standing,
but I have understood that, from Shariah to Muarifah,
being lost in the thoughts of the spiritual guide, being loyal to the spiritual guide, being obedient to the spiritual guide,
servitude to the spiritual guide, constantly thinking about the spiritual guide, being engulfed by the spiritual guide and to lose yourself under the spiritual guide’s feet.
That’s what spirituality is.
This is the path of spirituality.
This is the path of God.
And this is what God rewards.
This is the epitome of divine bounty.