‘...yarisoonal Firdaus
'We have made them the heirs of Jannatul Firdaus’.
Now, those whom God has made heirs of paradise,
and they say,
'I am responsible for your hereafter and your paradise',
then who are you
to object when God has given them the license of inheritance?
You say it is an act of shirk to seek from them
but they have been made heirs of Jannatul Firdaus by God…
Who Are The Heirs of Paradise?
‘Alif Laam Meem. Zaalikal Kitaabu laa raiba feeh;
hudal lil muttaqeen’.
You must know what guidance means.
Similarly, you must also know what faith means.
Guidance doesn't mean right or wrong,
it means direction,
as to which way you are to follow.
Guidance doesn't mean you are wrong or right.
For example, misguided,
it doesn't mean you are wrong,
it means that you are lost on the path,
and once shown the path, you'll find your destination.
So, misguidance means going astray.
What does it mean to go astray?
It means that you do not know which path to follow and where to go.
For example, I wish to go to Norbury,
however, I'm going in circles in Croydon.
Someone will ask me, 'what are you doing?',
and I will say, 'I am trying to go to Norbury,
but I'm still here because I don't know how to get there'.
To not know your destination
or how to reach your destination is to be misguided.
Being misguided does not necessarily mean you are wrong
or have become a disbeliever.
Similarly, being guided doesn't mean that you are good or bad.
So then, what does it mean?
For example, everyone is making efforts to please God
and obtain paradise,
this is why they offer salah, grow beards,
they try to adhere to the religion.
What are all these things? Our efforts.
We are making efforts to obtain paradise,
some are trying to find God.
Therefore, all these things - salah, fasting, Hajj, zakat,
All these are our efforts.
However, we do not know how to obtain paradise.
If someone knows how to obtain it, they should tell us.
So, we do all these things to attain paradise, however, we do not know how to find the path to paradise.
We are trying to reach God
but we have no clues about God.
So, what do we need now?
For someone to direct us, to give us direction.
When we are given a direction,
then we shall know
that if we do a particular act, it will lead us from point X to point Y.
Now, all these people that are wandering about in pursuit of paradise or God,
however, it is down to God's will as to whom he gives the directions to paradise.
Although everyone is making efforts,
the decision of who shall reach the destination
and be given directions lies with God.
This is why we say, 'Guidance is in God's hands'.
But what is guidance?
To distinguish your destination
and know how to reach your destination is guidance.
Then, providing the means for you to reach your destination
is God’s duty.
Now, for example,
you want to go to Manchester,
but you are going here, there and everywhere [but Manchester].
So, what do you need now? Direction.
Then you are directed [and you're told], ‘board M25.
Then from M25, get into M40 then M42, from M42 to M6
and then take A56 to Manchester Airport.
Then, when you reach Manchester Airport,
follow the signs to the city centre and reach the city centre’.
Now, you have arrived in Manchester.
Then, you call someone and say,
'I've arrived in Manchester,
but now I need the address to the home I wish to travel to, so please provide me with the address'.
Those who cannot reach Manchester from London
are ‘misguided’ between the two cities.
Now, those who have reached Manchester from London
have obtained guidance,
because they've reached there.
But now if they say, 'now we need directions to a particular house',
it means that they need further guidance.
Right? If you say, 'but you've already been given guidance,
have you already become misguided?'
then what would be said?
'I required guidance (direction) to Manchester,
but now I need to go to a specific house in Manchester,
and I need directions to go there’.
So, what does faith mean?
To be filled with divine light.
First of all, it is the divine light of the name of God,
of Kalima e Tayyaba
When the divine light of [God’s name] enters your heart, you are recognised as a momin.
Then, what is it to have faith in the attributes of God?
It is when an attribute of God, in the form of divine light, comes and enters your heart.
Now you have attained faith in the divine attributes.
Then, when you have witnessed the divine splendour,
now you have the divine gnosis, of God's person.
Now you have become a ‘Momin Billah (Believer in God)’.
The Qur'an says, 'wa man yu’min billahi
'And those who wish to believe in God’s person…’
‘yahdi qalbahoo (God guides their heart)'.
Now, let’s say you have boarded a bus to Manchester
and there are 50 people on the bus.
You want to find out the directions to Manchester.
Who will ask for the directions?
If the driver were to ask, he would already know it, right?
Do the passengers need to know the directions?
No, right? Who is taking you there? The driver.
Similar is the human body.
The human must reach God.
Who shall be given the directions?
It won’t be your entire body.
‘Yahdi qalbahoo’.
You shall reach God through your spiritual heart and it is your spiritual heart that shall be directed.
It is through the spiritual heart that you shall reach God,
so God shall provide direction to the spiritual heart.
So, these are various standards of faith.
For example, Surah Al-Mominoon,
although this chapter is called 'momin',
however, the traits defined in this chapter
are not found in the common momin.
Ask me which traits.
A momin prays for paradise,
whereas, this verse states that these particular momineen are the heirs of paradise.
Which momineen are the heirs of paradise?
Mr Imaad ul Islam, who is a clergyman, attends our gathering.
He is a religious scholar.
So I say this in his presence
that if God is saying he has selected his friends as the heirs of paradise,
so if Data, Khawaja and Gohar Shahi say,
‘I shall grant you entrance into paradise’,
then who shall stop them
when they have been declared the heirs [of paradise]?
Now, in this verse, God says, 'qad aflahal mo'minoon'
"Success (on that day) belongs to the Momineen, alone'.
No one else shall be successful.
Now, who are the momineen?
'Al lazeena - those… ‘
‘hum fee Salaatihim khaashi'oon'
'Whose ethereal spirits ascend to God when they perform salah'.
'Wal lazeena - and those…’
‘hum - who…’
‘anil laghwi mu'ridoon - refrain from futile practises'.
Now, it's not like ‘futile practice’ is playing on a carom board,
that’s probably what people think about futile practices.
Because I have seen many interpretations by the clergy who define cricket as futile practice,
however, this is indicative of something else.
It means they do not do anything
that does not provide them with the benefit of divine light.
Then it says, 'wal lazeena - and those people…’
Now, this is all about the momineen,
the momineen who became successful (on that day).
‘Wal lazeena - and those people…’
‘hum - who…’ ‘liz zakaati faa'iloon - who practise the act of zakah'.
Those who practise the act of zakah; they do not pay the zakah itself.
'Wal lazeena hum lifuroo jihim haafizoon'
'Those who guard all their carnal and ethereal lust'.
And then - I’ve skipped a few…
‘wal lazeena hum 'ala salaatihim yuhafizoon'
'Those who guard their salah'.
Now, what is it to guard your salah? You do not know.
Do you know what it is to guard your salah?
Is your salah being stolen for you to have to guard it?
Then what is it to guard your salah?
Who are the momin that guard their salah?
They are those who go to sleep,
they didn't rise at the time of salah, so their salah was wasted.
They were unable to guard it, right?
However, a momin is one who remains asleep,
however, when it is time for salah,
his ethereal spirits depart his body and go and perform the rites of salah.
He continues to sleep while they do not allow the salah to be wasted.
This is what it means to guard the salah.
‘Wal lazeena hum 'ala salaatihim yuhafizoon'
'The momin who knows how to guard,
although he is asleep his ethereal spirits offer his salah'.
When you reach this stage, God says,
'oolaika humul waarisoon'
'These are the people whom we have made the heirs [of paradise]'.
And observe what follows,
it's not as if God made them heirs to the lesser paradises,
God says, 'Al lazeena yarisoonal Firdaus'
'We have made them the heirs of Jannatul Firdaus (the highest level of paradise)’.
If I inherit something from my ancestors,
it is down to me if I wish to give any part of it away to anyone.
Or can I not?
Now, those whom God has made heirs of Jannat ul Firdaus,
and they say,
'I am responsible for your hereafter,
and I am responsible for your paradise’,
then who are you to object to what they render?
God has given them the license of inheritance.
You say it is an act of shirk to seek from them
but they have been made heirs of Jannatul Firdaus by God.
Forget about them just helping you,
they can give anyone they desire the ticket to paradise
because God has made them the heirs of Jannatul Firdaus.
So, these people have also been referred to as momin,
but they cannot be common momin, right?
They must be special momins.
And then God says, 'al lazeena yarsoonal Firdaus
hum fee ha khalidoon'
'They haven't rented Firdaus for a week, 10 days, a year, two or ten.
‘Hum fee ha khalidoon - they shall reside there for eternity'.
For eternity.
This is why a hadith states, 'You shall be with the one you love'.
So, when God loves someone,
he makes them an heir,
because if someone falls in love with them, they shall obviously follow [God's beloved], so they will have to stay together.
Therefore, God has made them heir to paradise.
So, the difference is apparent before you.
There is a group of people
that renders misleading interpretations of the Qur'an
and divides and misguides the Ummah.
[They say], 'do not seek aid from Prophet Muhammad (s)’,
‘do not seek help from Ghaus e Azam’,
‘do not seek help from Maula Ali’,
‘do not speak help from HDE Gohar Shahi'.
They are those that do not work in tandem with the Qur'an, they work in opposition to the Qur'an.
These are the wretched people
that know nothing about God and the Messenger (s) or about the Holy Qur’an.
They just tell you twisted stories.
Although, the Qur’an provides a clear contrast to their creed.
If you seek guidance from the Qur'an,
we find out that God commands an Ummati to help the Prophet (s).
Now, if an Ummati is to help the Prophet (s) as per the advice of God
then would it be shirk for an Ummati
to seek help from the Prophet (s) or Maula Ali (a) when he is in need?
If it was shirk to ask for help,
why would God feel the need to ask a common Ummati
to help the Prophet (s)?
If a common Ummati can be worthy enough to help the Prophet (s),
can the Prophet Muhammad (s) not help an Ummati?
These people have created this disturbance
and severed the roots of Islam.
Do not hope for any goodness from such people.
They dissuade you from asking for help [from the spiritual dignitaries]
whereas, God says, 'I have made the momineen
the heirs of Jannatul Firdaus’.
If you do not understand what inheritance is,
then you should beat your own head.
Inheritance is the wealth of your ancestors to be written in your name,
so now whether you decide to keep it with you till the grave
or you distribute it to people.
If I distribute it to people, who can stop me? It belongs to me.
It is my inheritance, I can give it to whomsoever I want.
So, if God has made his friends the heirs of Jannatul Firdaus,
then who is to say God would not have rendered the inheritance of Dar ul Naeem to someone else?
Or the inheritance of Dar ul Qarar, Dar ul Salam, Dar ul Adan, Dar ul Mawa or Dar ul Khuld?
When God has already decided the plotting of Jannatul Firdaus
and bestowed the inheritance of Jannatul Firdaus to his people,
all the aforementioned paradises are inferior.
The most difficult task would have been,
it’s like there is one house in Thornton Heath
and the other house is in Central London,
and someone buys an apartment for you in Avenfield, Central London,
would you then think that they are unable to buy you a property in Thornton Heath?
If he can buy you a building in Central London, why wouldn’t he be able to buy you one in Thornton Heath?
So, if God
has rendered the inheritance of Jannatul Firdaus to his people,
all the paradises below it are inferior,
then it's obvious that God would have made every Tom, Dick and Harry heirs [to those levels of paradise].
They were permitted to bless absolutely anyone.
Because, Jannatul Firdaus was regarded with the most scrutiny as that is where God renders them to witness his splendour.
The place where God renders his splendour to be witnessed,
if God has given that level of paradise in inheritance to his people,
then what else could be greater? What else is left?
Those whom God has made heirs of paradise
can take anyone [to the higher realms] and say, 'Come, witness God'.
Now, when I render the ethereal definition of the Qur'an,
people say that I am corrupting the Qur'an.
At least fear God and study the Qur'an yourself.
These are the words of the Qur'an.
I am not even reading the translations.
The way I am translating it, you would understand it if you understand Urdu.
Just study these words, what do they read?
'Al lazeena - those people…’
‘yarisoona - are heirs…’
‘al firdaus - of Firdaus…’
‘hum - and they shall…’
‘fee ha - reside within it…’
‘khalidoona - for eternity'.
I’m not reading the translations.
I am directly translating from the Arabic written in the Qur’an.
And God said it twice.
First, he said, 'oolaika hum al warisoon’.
The Qur’an states: the Momineen I have just mentioned,
‘oolaika hum al warisoon - they are amongst the heirs of paradise'.
Then he defines what they have been rendered the inheritance of.
He says, 'al lazeena yarisoona al firdaus,
I have given them Firdaus in inheritance’.
So, the Qur'an states that God has given the inheritance of Firdaus
to his people,
therefore, according to the Qur’an, when a spiritual guide wills,
he can render absolutely anyone entry into Firdaus
for God has made him the heir.
They’ve been given paradise in inheritance but you cannot ask them for help?
Wow. How ignorant.
Now tell me, if Maula Ali (a) says to someone,
'leave everything else, we shall give you a space in Jannatul Firdaus'.
Is Maula Ali (a) capable of doing this or not?
[Yes], and then these people say, 'his father did not recite the Kalima’.
These people will never change.
Actually, they begrudge the divine personalities.
They are envious of the saints and prophets.
These are the same individuals who opposed the saints, Maula Ali (a), the Fuqra, and the Household of the Prophet (s).
Just flick through the pages of history,
the Imams from the Household of the Prophet (s)
were either poisoned or imprisoned.
Don’t think it was just Yazid,
the progeny of the Prophet (s) has been subjected to oppression and persecution for 1,400 years,
whereas all you remember is the incident of Karbala.
You don’t remember nor know anything else.
This has been going on since the beginning.
The very beginning; the Prophet’s (s) progeny has been persecuted for 1,400 years.
However, this shall no longer be permitted, for Imam Mehdi has now arrived.