Why is Permission Required to Perform Wird o Wazaif (Recitations)?
Ehsan ul Haq from Islamabad asks:
'Assalamualaikum. What is the meaning of having permission of Wazifa (recitations)?'
There are angel-like creatures attached with the verses of the Koran.
When a verse of the Koran is repeated in a special sequence,
the angel-like creatures attached with that passage are awakened.
And Jinns attack you so that you don't receive the benevolence of the verse.
This is why you need someone who can save you [from the Jinns]: a Perfect Spiritual Guide.
When you take permission from your Spiritual Guide to perform this act [of reciting a verse of the Koran in a special sequence],
it means your Spiritual Guide will supervise you while you perform it.
He will monitor you.
At any point you need it, his help will arrive immediately.
The Devil has an entire army known as 'Hanood'.
What is the name?
Hanood.
Whenever you try to bring the Personal Name of God in your heart,
the Devil's Hanood army will attack you.
For some time, it was a common in Pakistan and India for people to say, 'Do not engage in invocation of Allah Hu because it is a majestic name.'
You must have heard of people who sit alone and recite different Wazifas.
And they lose their sanity.
Do you understand what it means to 'go crazy'?
Meaning they have a few screws loose.
The Jinns attack such people and they suffer from mental illness as a result.
Had you had a Spiritual Guide, then he would have saved you when the Jinns attacked.
This is why you need permission [for the Personal Name of God].
Now, all these other names of God's attributes - like Rehman and Raheem -
- you don't need permission for them.
Why not?
Because God's attribute of mercy (Rehmat) has been kept open by God.
The attribute of God's mercy is found in animals too. So why would a lock be placed upon it?
The attribute of mercy is in animals too!
Why would you need permission to invoke upon God's name, Ya Rehman (relating to God's mercy) - it is not as if any Jinns will attack you when you do so.
God has placed the attribute of mercy in animals too. Don't cows and bulls exhibit mercy upon their offspring?
Ya Razzaqu - relating to God's attribute of granting provisions -
- God says he evens provides for the insects while live in the rocks.
So then why do you need to invoke upon it?
If you need anything, it is the name of God through which you reach God himself.
So that you may be connected to God, who is sitting on his throne in the higher realms.
When someone tries to bring God's Personal Name in his heart,
that is when the Devil is troubled.
It is quite important to understand the reason behind the Devil's animosity.
How does it affect the Devil if someone obtains a connection with the Lord?
It is necessary to understand this.
Why does the Devil need to hate?
You should understand that; it will only take a short while but you will understand it.
The Devil, whose name is Azazeel, originally lived here in this world - Alam-e-Nasoot (Terrestrial Realm)
Later, God promoted him and sent him to Alam-e-Malkoot (Angelic Realm) as the leader of angels because he worshipped God a lot.
And then a time came - until the progenies of the common Adams were coming into this world, who only had access to the exoteric knowledge, they would only engage in physical worship
until then, there was no issue of jealousy on the Devil's part.
You understand?
If we both earn the same amount of money then why would we bear jealousy for each other?
We are both hand-to-mouth.
We both earn the same amount.
So, [the progenies of previous Adams] and the Devil both engaged in physical worship.
Neither superceded the other; they were equal.
Then God decided to create Adam the Eminent One.
God decided to grant [Adam the Eminent One] the special type of knowledge.
The Angels objected, 'O' God, you are creating Adam again? He will spread mischief and cause bloodshed in the world again.'
'Are we not enough to glorify you?'
And God replied, 'Tell me, do you have the knowledge which I will give to this Adam?'
They said, 'How can we have that knowledge which you have not granted to us?'
Thus God told them to observe silence.
And then, God commanded everyone to bow their heads before and accept the eminence of Adam the Eminent One.
There had been many Adams previously but God had never commanded [the angels and archangels] to prostrate to them.
But now, God told them to bow their heads and the Devil exhibited arrogance.
He said, 'I will not bow down. He is not more eminent than me.'
And God asked, 'Why? Why won't you bow down?'
The Devil replied, 'I was made with Naar (fire) and you made him with clay.'
'I am more eminent than him.'
These sentences from the Devil prove that he was oblivious to the inner spiritual faculty of Adam the Eminent One as well as the esoteric knowledge granted to him.
The Devil did not know what kinds of worship God was introducing.
But then when he realised it was the esoteric knowledge -
Now, keep in mind that the Devil lived in the Terrestrial Realm, God promoted him to the Angelic Realm
but the Devil was not able to progress further than that.
And then he finds out that the knowledge granted to Adam the Eminent One by God enabled him to surpass all the realms and reach God,
and that particular thing - it wasn't just the knowledge.
[The Devil's animosty] was not just because Adam the Eminent One was being granted a special type of knowledge.
The real story is that the spirits [God placed] within Adam for the attainment of that knowledge:
the Qalb, Rouh, Sirri, Akhfah, [Khafi], Ana.
The Devil did not have these things.
Now, even if God had granted the esoteric knowledge to the Devil,
that knowledge is related to the Spiritual Heart (Qalb).
The Jinns do not possess a Spiritual Heart.
Therefore, even if the knowledge was granted to the Devil, it would be useless for him.
And that is when the Devil truly realised his loss.
He realised that even if that knowledge was given to him, it would be utterly useless for him because he did not have the ability to utilise the knowledge to reach [God].
And as a result, the Devil was enveloped in eternal hopelessness.
What was the hopelessness?
He found out that he did not possess the spirits which would obtain the special knowledge and enable him to reach God.
Because he did not possess this ability, therefore, he became hopeless.
He felt hopeless about his being for he did not possess the spiritual faculties.
And that is when he decided that the when the progeny of Adam the Eminent One engages in empty, physical worship; engaging in verbal invocation etc,
he says, 'It's alright. I am not bothered.'
'He [man] is not going to exceed in eminence in any way.'
'He will be just like me.'
This is why when the Muslim religious clerics wander around here and there
and the pandits are sitting half-naked in the temples,
the Devil is not bothered.
The Devil says, 'Carry on doing all of this. I am not bothered because you will stay here in the Terrestrial Realm, just like me.'
What do you say?
For example, if someone is here illegally, they will be hopeless because they cannot go anywhere.
He will want everyone to become illegal.
And someone who obtains a passport for England or America,
they will be able to go wherever they want because they have a passport.
Make sense?
This is why when a person engages in physical worship, the Devil is carefree. He says, 'Been there, done that.'
He is not bothered.
However, when someone is inclined towards the esoteric knowledge, to enlighten their Spiritual Heart,
then the Devil is reminded of the incident whereby God granted this knowledge to Adam which will give him access to the Empyrean of God.
The Devil is reminded of that and the jealousy he felt [towards Adam] is reawakened in him.
And the Devil makes it his personal mission to become a hurdle in the path of success for such a person.
Do you understand?
So the Devil harbours animosity.
For whom?
It is for that Knowledge of Eminence.
The Devil is hell-bent on leading you astray so that you are never able to access the esoteric knowledge
and his goal is for your subtleties, your inner faculty, to waste away and be rendered useless.
You live your whole life and your subtleties waste away.
The Devil will then entrap you into sectarianism and instil the types of teachings in you that incur God's wrath, as a result of which, God terminates the life of your Spiritual Heart,
so that God seals your Spiritual Heart.
Koran 2:7 'God has sealed their hearts and ears and has placed veils over their eyes. And a great punishment has been set for them.'
The Devil wants to deter you in such a way that the ability you have in you which enables you to access the Empyrean of God is utterly destroyed in your lifetime.
And then he says, 'What is the difference between you and me?'
He says, 'I didn't have this ability in me to begin with but I managed to destroy the ability granted to you by God. Now, you join my club.'
Right?
So the knowledge of the subtleties, the spiritual knowledge -
Our parents, uncles and aunties [and other relatives] seem like they are from Mars, or something. They do not understand anything.
They will just recite God's name on the rosary
If you tell them that God's name must be synchronised in the beating system of the heart, they will not understand a single thing.
The Devil is within them.
If you tell them to take the invocation, they will say, 'It already works for me.'
Oh?
It already works? Maybe your brain works but not your heart.
Your brain works now but your heart isn't working.
The arrogance and ego of people have surmounted.
Refusing to believe something is purely egoistical.
People are so arrogant, they say, 'God is already within us.'
Wow.
If God is within you then why are you sinning?
God does not enter everyone just like that.
[Per the Koran] the Angels of Blessings do not enter a house with dogs.
You have a dog inside you [in the form of the Lower Self], how will God enter you?
Until your Lower Self is a dog, you are a dog [impure].
The Commanding Self compels you to do wrong things.
The Lower Self looks like a dog in the esoteric realm.
A man will have a male dog and a female would have a female dog.
Make sense?
How will God's light enter you when you have an impure animal [the Lower Self] within you?
These assumptions are instilled in the minds of people by the Devil: 'Oh, God is within us.'
The Devil attempts to just stray you away from the esoteric knowledge which connects you to God.
He will never stop you from going to mosques and temples, in fact, he will push you towards them
'Go, go to the mosques and go to the temples.'
'Keep beards, tie the turbans and observe fasting.'
This is how the Devil is controlling the religious clerics.
'Yes, yes call everyone to the mosques and give them a lecture about keeping beards.'
The Devil knows all of this is a deception.
Has anyone ever found God in the mosques, temples, churches and synagogues?
Never.
The path of obtaining God - Sirat al Mustaqeem - the path which leads straight to God comes from the esoteric knowledge.
Man is able to reach God through this knowledge.
So it is the Devil who has concocted all these stories.
For example, issuing verdicts.
If someone speaks of the esoteric knowledge, [the religious clerics say], 'Catch him! He is a disbeliever!'
'Don't listen to him. He is a disbeliever, a polytheistic. He is going against the Koran! He is going against the Prophet's Customs.'
This is all the Devil's work.
The Devil uses many different guises to fool you.
He will steer you away from the Prophet's Custom of seeing God.
Rather, he will incline you towards the customs of eating dried dates, getting married, eating confectionaries
because despite being the Prophet's customs, these do not take you to God.
The esoteric knowledge - the knowledge which will take you to God - is what the Devil hates because he does not have the ability
therefore, all those who practise the esoteric knowledge and strive to reach God, then the Devil and his army of satans will go after them.
They will try everything to destroy such a person.
And this is why permission is necessary, so that your Spiritual Guide may keep you protected.
HDE Gohar Shahi said, 'When you make efforts for God's name to be settled in your heart, the Devil will come with his army to attack you but God also equips the Spiritual Guide with a divine army.
The divine army attacks the satanic army and God's name settles in your heart.
And HDE Gohar Shahi said, 'I will support your until God is awakened in you.'
This is why permission is necessary; so that you are protected from the Devil's animosty and you reach God.
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