When Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) ascended to the Empyrean of God on the Night of Ascension
and when Prophet Mohammad reached the higher realms, before he stepped into the area where God's Throne is located, the Prophet removed his shoes.
When Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) removed his shoes, the Empyrean of God began to weep.
The Empyrean of God said, 'O Messenger of God, do not deprive me of this blessing
for I have been waiting a long time for you to place your feet upon me'.
What is the divine secret in this?
It obviously means the Empyrean of God here is something else.
Where is the Empyrean of God?
Syeda Iqra asks, ''Why do I get goosebumps while doing Zikr?
I can feel a blood rush in my entire body and my body becomes very hot''.
This is because it is the Zikr of God's Personal Name, Allah.
God said about his Personal Name, Allah, that he intended to manifest his name
upon the skies, the earth, the mountains and the seas but they couldn't withstand it
so God manifested his name in the Spiritual Heart of human beings.
And it was explained as to why a human heart was able to withstand the name of God.
'Innahu kana zaluman jahula' meaning there was so much darkness in a human heart that the light of God's name could penetrate and settle therein.
So you can imagine the intensity of God's Personal Name which the seas could not withstand
and the mountains could not endure, right?
That is the intensity of God's Personal Name and yet a human heart was able to withstand it. Why is that?
Due to the abundance of darkness.
That is how dark a human heart is.
When the heart is revived with God's name,
the heart has the power to move the seas and mountains.
This is why Sultan Haq Bahu said, ''Dil dariya samandar doongay kon dilan diyan janay''.
Which can be translated as: the hearts are deeper than the oceans, who knows what is inside the heart.
However, when you adopt the spiritual path, you will be surprised.
In the beginning, you will make a spiritual journey to Bait ul Mamour (House of Anointment).
And then you want to go to the Realm of Divine Union and the Realm of Nothingness.
But then you find out that all these things are inside your heart and you no longer need to go anywhere.
You will neither understand this nor can I explain it. How can I explain it if you won't understand it?
If I tell you the original Empyrean of God is the human heart
and the one up there is a copy, what would you say?
When you find out these secrets of God, you will have the strongest urge to share these secrets with others through your heart.
When Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) ascended to the Empyrean of God on the Night of Ascension
and when Prophet Mohammad reached the higher realms, before he stepped into the area where God's Throne is located, the Prophet removed his shoes.
When Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) removed his shoes, the Empyrean of God began to weep.
The Empyrean of God said, 'O Messenger of God, do not deprive me of this blessing
for I have been waiting a long time for you to place your feet upon me'.
God has verified this and said, 'O Messenger of God, ever since I made this Empyrean, it has been trembling and restless
and then I told it that I will call my Beloved who will walk upon you. So it has been awaiting you ever since.
And when Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) stepped upon the Empyrean of God, it finally obtained peace.
What is the divine secret in this?
It obviously means the Empyrean of God here is something else.
When Prophet Mohammad declared that the first thing God created was the Prophet's light, then where did the Empyrean come from?
The original Empyrean of God was the Spiritual Heart of Prophet Mohammad and all the others have been copies.
Do you understand?
The original Empyrean is the Spiritual Heart of Prophet Mohammad.
Why did God create seven realms and seven Sultan ul Fuqra?
Each realm was a copy of one of the Sultan ul Fuqra.
Now, if you have a genuine Spiritual Master you already have the original Empyrean of God. Why would you want to make spiritual journeys?
When the original Empyrean of God is with you in the guise of your Master, you wouldn't even think about going to the higher realms.
For you, this is greater than performing Hajj a million times.
Bulleh Shah said, 'Aye ishq, Bulleh Shah, okha awala.
Surat hai sanam di arsh e mualla.
Surat hai sanam di....
Yaar bina na koi Allah hai pawen rab naal jhagra pe jaway''.
Why is there no God without the Spiritual Master?
Go on, ask me.
Because the Spiritual Heart of the Spiritual Master is the true Empyrean of God so why wouldn't God be there?
You want to go to the knock-off Empyrean of God when the original one is right here?
For instance, if the image of the Lord settles in your heart
then you become the original home of Gohar Shahi, the one in Kotri is a copy.
The house in Kotri is a copy.
Even though the house in Kotri is a copy, the animals, birds and trees there
would prostrate and converse.
This is what made Nadeem inclined towards this path.
The tree in Kotri would prostrate because it has a Botanical Spirit but have you forgotten you also have a Botanical Spirit?
When the Lord enters your house (heart), your souls will also prostrate before Him. So how can the copy be better than the original?
How can HDE Gohar Shahi's house in Kotri be greater than a servant of HDE Gohar Shahi?
The trees in that house would prostrate to the Lord but the Botanical Spirit within you can also prostrate.
That house had a room but you have the Empyrean of Gohar Shahi within you.
The Kaaba was made of cement by Prophet Abraham but the heart is greater than the pilgrimage of Hajj.
''Dil badast awar ke hajj e akbarast''.
Meaning if your heart is in the Lord's grasp (panja) -
One day, I wondered what 'panja' means here.
Then I began to wonder what 'panjatan' (The Five) means.
I know what the Shiites believe about the Five - Moula Ali, Prophet Mohammad, Bibi Fatima, Hassan and Hussain.
But what is panjatan?
What has God said about it?
His Divine Eminence Gohar Shahi appeared before me
and He inserted His entire hand into my chest.
And He took my heart in the palm of His hand like this.
In the palm of His hand and He said...
Come, listen.
And then He said, 'God kept the heart of a Faqir between his fingers
but look here, I am grasping your heart with my entire fist'.
God only held their hearts between his two fingers - he did not let them come closer than that.
He did not let them come closer than that but look, I am holding your heart with my whole hand.
'I have your heart in my panja'. So I asked, 'What does panja mean?'
Panja here is referred to all five subtleties of the breast.
All five subtleties of the breast.
Do you understand?
The thumb of the Lord is atop one of the subtleties, the index finger on another, the middle on another, and so on.
Your entire inner faculty is under the Lord's control.
So a Panjatan is one whose inner faculty is under Prophet Mohammad's control.
If the five subtleties of the breast are all in the grasp of Prophet Mohammad then such a person is among the Panjatan regardless of who they are.
If Prophet Mohammad controls someone's heart then they are among the Panjatan.
I don't know about the Panjatan there but here, this is what it means.
One whose subtleties of the breast are within the Prophet's grasp.
So what is this panja?
In God's system, the image of God can only enter the Spiritual Heart. That's it.
From the Anna to the eyes, from the eyes to the heart.
That's as far as God's system goes.
However, in Imam Mehdi's system, His comely face settles into every single soul.
Even if it is just the Spiritual Heart, your first step in spirituality is the River of Divine Union.
And if His image is settled within all of your subtleties,
then you break the shackles of being a human being.
The Gardener of the World asks, 'Which garden do you hail from, O flower?'
The flower replies, 'I am just like your flora (I am just like your humans) but I am not from your garden'.
Gil means clay.
''I look like a human being but I am not of this clay''
Now, God kept the hearts between his two fingers
What do two fingers mean? Spiritual Heart and the Soul. That's it.
The heart and soul.
But this is panja.
Dominion over all the souls.
I will tell you these things slowly.
If you have faith in this then it will encourage me to tell you more.
Faith in what?
Faith in the fact that the original Empyrean of God is the Spiritual Heart of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH)
and the place where God resides is the copy.
Do you understand? It is a copy.
This is because the one who is up there is someone else.
The one who lives in the heart of Prophet Mohammad is the one whom we are connected to.
The original Empyrean of God is the Kaaba of the Kaaba.
The original Empyrean of God - and I am not joking here.
The original Empyrean of God is the Spiritual Heart of Prophet Mohammad
while the one up there is the copy.
The Empyrean of God did not exist when God created Prophet Mohammad.
So that is the original Empyrean of God.
So then imagine what the Spiritual Heart of Imam Mehdi must be like.
Once you become connected to Imam Mehdi, why would you need to go anywhere else?
The saints said that only lazy people go to worship in the Kaaba.
But I am saying this for the Empyrean of God.
Only those go to the Empyrean of God in the higher realms who cannot spiritually endeavour
otherwise, the original Empyrean of God is present in this world.
1400 years ago, that Empyrean of God would be in Mecca and Medina.
And now that Empyrean of God is walking this earth in the guise of Gohar Shahi.
Never compromise on this.
The original Empyrean is the Spiritual Heart of Prophet Mohammad.
This one secret is enough for you.
If you say this to the angels in the grave, they will run away.
If you tell them this secret.