What Is The Lower Self?
Mohammad Irfan from Damam, Saudi Arabia asks: Assalamu Alikum - Walaikum Assalam
I watch your videos frequently. I am caught in the trap of the Lower Self. How can I free myself from it?
The entire world is entrapped by the Lower Self and there is only one way out
and that is for our hearts to produce divine energy.
Training the heart to generate divine energy.
When divine energy is produced in the heart, it will reach the Lower Self thus commencing the process of reformation of the Lower Self.
A Prophetic Tradition states: one who has recognised the Self has recognised the Lord.
Meaning: one who has purified the Lower Self has recognised God.
The Koran 51:21 states:
I am hidden behind the veils of your Lower Self but you do not make attempts to see.
The greatest destination is purification of the Lower Self.
Koran 87:14
One who purifies the Lower Self is successful.
The Lower Self -
God has inserted 7 souls (subtleties) in our bodies.
5 souls are in the breast.
The 5 senses relate to these 5 souls.
The Subtleties are: Qalb, Rouh, Sirri, Khafi, Akhfah
These 5 subtleties are located in our chest.
One soul is in our head which is related to thinking and understanding.
It is called the Subtlety of Ana.
And finally, one is at our navel point.
For which, Prophet Mohammad said: when a human being is born, a satanic jinn is also born.
The companions asked the Prophet, 'Was one also born with you?'
Prophet Mohammad replied, 'Yes, it was also born with me, however, it was purified in my company.'
Purifying this soul is the act of a True Muslim.
The Lower Self is a satanic germ.
When a child is delivered from the womb of the mother, the angels are standing by
and that is when they insert the soul and the subtleties into the child.
The insertion of the souls makes the child cry.
The Devil is also standing by. He is instructed by God to insert his agent into the child's body so it can be tested.
When he inserts the satanic germ into our bodies, it settles at our navel point.
Do you understand?
This satanic germ, the Lower Self, is a tiny germ when it enters our bodies
and it reaches adolescence at the age of 12.
It is the Lower Self that inclines us towards wrongdoings.
It is the Lower Self that teaches us to commit fraud and be disloyal; it drags us towards the world.
It is the Lower Self that keeps us humiliated and disgraced.
Good people become entangled in its traps of lust; defaming and disgracing them.
Good people fall prey to fraud and disloyalty.
It is due to the Lower Self.
Purifying it is the job of a True Muslim.
Allama Iqbal said: the Believers built the mosques overnight but were incapable of enlightening their darkened hearts.
We have no value in the eyes of God until we purify the Lower Self; we are impure.
If the Lower Self is not purified then it is useless to throw the 7 stones [during the pilgrimage of Hajj].
Satan must stand there and snicker.
Saying, 'I am sitting within him and he throws rocks at me? He should hit himself.'
It is Satan within us all that keeps us entangled and confused.
The great spiritual dignitaries became as such because they purified the Lower Self and freed themselves of its mischief.
They escaped its mischief and evil.
Until we purify the Lower Self, the arrogance and false pride that makes us say, 'I am the best of all' will never depart from us.
It is due to the presence of satan within you that you constantly repeat the words that Satan said before Adam the Eminent One.
God commanded all to bow before him [Adam], all the archangels prostrated but Satan refused.
Why? He said, 'I am better than him.'
He said to God, 'You created me with fire and him with clay; I am better than him.'
Until the Lower Self remains impure, this sentence will remain to be heard:
I am better than him.
I am better than her.
Me. Me. All the luxuries must given to me.
All the properties, lands and money must be given to me.
You will see nobody else. Your world will revolve around you.
Arrogance - this 'Me, myself and I' is the Satan's being.
When it is purified then the 'me, myself and I' is rooted out.
Bulleh Shah said: Once I became His the 'I' left from within me.
The spiritual dignitaries removed the 'I' (arrogance).
This arrogance is not expelled just like that, it is removed with God's light.
With the help of a Saint of God, the arrogance from the Lower Self is removed with God's light; it is taught to recite the Motto of Faith
The job of a Perfect Spiritual Guide is to make both the heart and Lower Self recite the Motto of Faith.
When the Lower Self recites the Motto of Faith: La Ilaha Ilallah Mohammad Rasool Allah
divine energy is generated with the Motto of Faith.
When the production of divine energy begins so does the reformation of the Lower Self.
As divine energy is produced, the Lower Self changes from the Commanding Self to the Blameworthy Self to the Inspired Self and finally, the Contented Self.
When the Lower Self is purified, God becomes pleased with you.
And God says, 'The one who has a Contented Self; I am pleased with him and he is pleased with me.'
Islam is about purifying the inner satan and turning it into a Muslim.
We have only managed to make our beards and faces 'Muslim', we haven't given any thought to the inner devil.
True Islam is purifying the inner devil and turning it into a Muslim.
This Koranic verse 3:185 'All must taste death.'
There are difference explanations for this
The explanation of the exoteric Sharia is different
and the explanation of Spirituality is different.
The explanation differs in light of the knowledge one possesses.
But the common meaning of this is: all human beings must face death.
Q: Will the Lower Self of a Devout Believe also die?
When the Lower Self is purified it looks like you in appearance.
What is the benefit of purifying it?
One benefit is that the evil and impurity within it will diminish.
Another benefit is that when the Lower Self is purified and you die,
your soul will go back up and your Lower Self will remain in the grave will continue to engage in worship.
It will continue this until the Day of Judgement.
So who will be rewarded for this?
Your soul will be rewarded.
If you had also cleansed your heart, the spirit that emerges from it, the Spiritual Heart, will also continue to worship and invoke upon God in the grave.
This is why it is popular belief that the saints are alive in their graves.
Their souls go back up so then what is in the grave?
It is the inner being: the sub-spirits of the Spiritual Heart and the Lower Self.
On the Night of Ascension, Prophet Mohammad passed by the grave of Moses and saw him offering Salat
and when he ascended, he saw that Moses is also present up there.
The Wahhabis do not believe that there is anything in the grave after one dies.
That's correct. One who has died has died; there is nothing in the grave.
However, those who manages to revive the inner being before death are alive in the grave.
Their souls ascend to the Realm of Purgatory and their inner being is in the grave rendering benevolence to people.
Yes, the Lower Self of a Devout Believe will also face death.
When the Day of Judgement happens and the accountability is done then all the Lower Selves will perish.
When God will send the Devout Believers to paradise, he will grant them new bodies.
He will also grant them new Lower Selves called 'Nafs-e-Qudsi': Purified Lower Selves.
What does Nafs-e-Qudsi mean?
The real meaning of the word 'quds' is to praise God.
Nafs-e-Qudsi means they will be granted the Lower Selves who invoke upon God; they do not engage in evil.
The Lower Selves that will praise and invoke upon God.
The Lower Self can never be purified with verbal recitation of the Koran or performances of Salat.
If the Lower Self could be purified through recitations of Koran and Prophetic Traditions then why do the clerics engage in sodomy in the mosques?
We assume that one who recites the Koran must be purified.
There is purity in the recitation of the Koran but the thing [within you] that must recite the Koran is not doing so.
There will be purity when your heart recites the Koran.
There will be purity when your Lower Self recites the Koran.
You are only reciting it verbally.
What do you think?
Your body will not go up; the soul goes up.
All your life you offered Salat and recited the Motto of Faith with this tongue which will be buried
but you failed to revive your soul; it will go up there ignorant and oblivious.
Successful will be those who enlighten the souls with God's name in their lifetime.
Even though the body will stay, the soul that goes up learnt how to invoke upon God.
It is said that the Motto of Faith is the condition of entry into Paradise.
The tongue with which you recite the Motto of Faith will be buried here so how will you recite it there?
The soul which learnt how to recite the Motto of Faith in your life will recite it up there.
If you are blind and mute here, you are blind and mute there.
Only the souls of those who taught their souls to recite the Motto of Faith will recite it up there.