Why Do the Affairs of a Zakir-e-Qalbi (Enlightened Heart) Get Worse?
Haji Wahid Mohammad Qureshi from India asks:
Walaikum Assalam - I have taken the Opening of the Spiritual Heart and practise it.
I wanted to know if a dormant heart can be revived?
I shall continue to practise it and may God help me, Amen.
My condition has worsened quite a bit ever since I obtained guidance which worries me.
Please pray for me.
Let's discuss why conditions worsen after one obtains guidance.
This is an important topic.
Becoming a Devout Believer, a Sufi, an Enlightened Heart - not only does this connect us to God and cleanse our inner and outer
but along with that we also gain automated protection.
Do you understand?
An automated [protection].
An automated protection from God.
And it is one that comes with intensive care.
You understand?
In order for you to become an Enlightened Heart, the permission for the invocation of the heart comes from God.
Your heart can only be initiated if God grants permission.
If your heart has been initiated then do not doubt for a second that God is reciprocating his love for you.
If your heart has been initiated with God's name, then this is a reply from God saying, 'Yes, I love you too.'
This is not for common people. It is only for those whom God loves.
You may carry out as much physical worship as you like
but that physical worship void of the presence of the heart will only earn sawaab for you.
It will not bring you closer to God.
And when your heart is revived with the permission of God, thereafter God takes control of all your affairs.
Now, God is responsible for you.
Do you understand?
Before obtaining Opening of the Spiritual Heart you did not have a screening or monitoring of your provisions to find out whether it is lawful or unlawful.
Right?
Obviously, deceiving someone to get money or committing fraud, etc such things are not lawful ways of earning provisions
and, of course, the common conception is that the provisions earned without any fraudulent method are lawful.
But this is not correct.
For example, you have a job somewhere and you earn £100 for 8 hours of work.
Now, if you did not do any work for 5 minutes out of the 8 hours,
then earning a salary for those 5 minutes would be unlawful.
But you do take it.
So now you have earned unlawfully.
Therefore, you have no idea how much you have earned unlawfully.
But this is something that comes under sensitive matters.
Muslims today, especially in Pakistan, are earning unlawfully; they are engaged in bribery and fraud and God knows what other indecent and immoral activities
but despite that, they go to perform Hajj and Umrah.
If a person's conscience is dead and they become so insensitive that they would earn money even if it means putting others' lives at risk
and they would steal from others just to feed their own family; cover them in gold and give them all the luxuries and comforts of the world.
They would rather let others starve to death.
They would even steal from those living on the streets.
What kind of Islam do they practise?
What Customs of the Prophet do you actually follow?
However, when somebody becomes a Zakir-e-Qalbi (Enlightened Heart), he comes directly under God's radar.
Now he is under God's radar.
Now God will not allow any unlawful provisions to come to him.
This is an automated protection from God that you will receive.
So what happens is,
before becoming Zakir-e-Qalbis, people have successful businesses and [a large income].
They live opulently.
As soon as their hearts are initiated [with the invocation], business slows down.
They face issues at work and other problems.
They start to become financially weak.
Then they ask, 'What kind of invocation of God's name have we taken?'
I often tell you about the woman from Dubai
the same thing happened to her.
She [and her family] were very wealthy before becoming Zakir-e-Qalbis.
Right?
When they obtained the Opening of the Spiritual Heart, they came under God's radar.
And whoever comes under God's radar -
- whoever comes under God's sight -
then God does not allow prohibited provisions anywhere near them.
This is God's benevolence. I would call it God's grace upon that person.
He doesn't allow the prohibited provisions to be used for such a person.
That person then only gets the provisions that are written in his fate and which are permissible.
When he starts to receive [only] the permissible provisions which are written in his fate, he doesn't understand.
He says, 'I used to deal in millions and now I am living hand-to-mouth.'
They become perplexed and just because they are suffering a loss in provisions, they leave God.
Then they will end up in hellfire.
If your [financial] affairs become worse after obtaining the Opening of the Spiritual Heart,
then they won't remain to be worse for very long.
God has simply stopped the way of unlawful provisions to you.
After that when divine energy enters your bloodstream,
then the angels will become your helpers.
Hmm?
Then when you give Zakat and charity, [the provisions written in] many other people's fate will cross paths with yours.
And then a time will come when God will give you [wealth] without any accountability.
Not only will what you have be permissible, but you will make the provisions of others permissible just by giving 2 rupees.
Do you understand?
So this is why many people's affairs worsen [after they obtain the Opening of the Spiritual Heart].
Now why is this the case for many people?
Because we are not very careful in making sure that our lawful provisions do not become prohibited [by accident].
Especially public servants in Pakistan.
In Pakistan, the people who work for the government - may God grant them hellfire, amen -
- they just go to work to give attendance.
That's it [they don't do anything else].
Some of them are at such a high level that they don't even deign to show up and give attendance!
They pay another person to give their attendance for them!
And [on the other hand], they keep beards.
Now, it is not just public servants, Brother Ghafoor.
[It happens in] schools too.
Teachers don't show up for work.
Now why aren't they showing up?
They give their attendance at the public schools
and they are being paid a salary for it.
So what are they doing themselves? They have opened up their own tuition centres.
They teach people at their own tuition centres and at the same time they take a salary from the schools.
And they are teachers!
The ones who are supposed to dispense knowledge!
What kind of knowledge are they dispensing?
The level of heedlessness of our nation is such that when they hear about this, they say, 'So? What is the big deal? Everybody does it.'
Will you also do it just because everybody else is?
You are not responsible for everybody.
In the grave, you are responsible only for yourself.
This is a new excuse, to say that it is okay just because everybody else is doing it and that it is not a big deal.
Therefore, this lack of distinction you make between the lawful and unlawful provisions -
- when you become a Zakir-e-Qalbi, that won't fly anymore.
As long as you followed the sect of your own choosing - Shiism, Sunnism, Wahhabism, etc - it was fine. Because those sects have nothing to do with God.
[When you were following those sects] you had nothing to do with God. When you have nothing to do with God, God does not care whether you eat food that is permissible or prohibited.
You have nothing to do with God therefore he doesn't care.
But when your connection with God is established, then -
- I would call this God's blessings and grace upon you -
- then God won't allow anything prohibited anywhere near you.
Just as here [in the UK], the government cuts taxes from your wages when you work.
[As if to say], 'Don't trouble yourself. We will take out the money ourselves.'
Similarly, God takes the divine taxes from a Devout Believer himself.
So whatever they earn is very little. They make enough to just get by.
How do you recognise a person who God himself has made wealthy?
Such a person will be extremely generous - he will spend a lot of money but he will want for nothing.
And if a rich person is stingy, you can understand that his wealth was built unlawfully [using prohibited provisions].
That is why he isn't giving it away - he is not generous.
One who God has granted wealth will have a huge heart. He will never keep the money to himself.
Wherever he sees a needy person -
- whether that poor person is a Hindu, Sikh, Christian, Jew or anyone else -
- he will not care what that person's religion is.
He will not have peace of heart until he gives that needy person food or helps them.
He won't be able to sit peacefully until he does that.
There was a man.
There was a man who was sitting on the footpath outside his home at night
practising the loud invocation of God's name.
He wasn't enjoying the practice.
He was restless.
Then he performed ablution again and sat down for the invocation.
He thought to himself, 'Perhaps [the reason I am not enjoying it is because] I didn't perform ablution correctly.'
So he performed ablution again and sat down for the invocation.
He still didn't enjoy it.
So he stopped the practice and sat down.
He felt restless even while sitting down.
The feeling of unease was not going away.
In this state of uneasiness, he stood up and started to walk.
He kept walking but the uneasiness still did not go away.
At one point, he saw that there was a little girl, 4-5 years of age,
who had a fault in her leg.
Her mother had left her and she was sitting down where she had left her.
[He saw] that someone ran into her and she fell over.
Her head hit the pavement of the footpath and she was lying there. Her head was wounded and bleeding.
That man - who had been restless while doing invocation -
- when he saw the little girl, he picked her up and cleaned her wound.
There was a hotel nearby and he sat her down and fed her [at the restaurant of the hotel].
By that time, her mother came running, hugged her and took her with her.
That man then stood up and went back to where he had been doing the invocation.
This time when he sat down to engage in invocation, his Spiritual Guide appeared before him
He said, 'I am more pleased with you today than I have ever been from your performance of invocation. You helped an innocent.'
Sometimes, a human being feels enjoyment and progresses spiritually by doing acts that are not worship, but rather serve God's creation.
Serving God's creation.
When God watches over you, he doesn't just have you worship.
He also has you look after his creation.
This is for a Zakir-e-Qalbi (Enlightened Heart).
[God says], 'Forget about sending anyone else. Send this Zakir-e-Qalbi.'
That person goes and helps [the needy ones].
The secret behind this system that God has in place of helping the needy ones
is that perhaps someone from the needy ones is meant to become a Divine Lover of God down the line.
They are [destined] to be a Friend of God
Anyway, on this path, if you want to love God and obtain God's love by any means necessary -
- no matter what you have to lose to gain God's love you will not turn away from it -
- then you should walk this path.
If tomorrow after obtaining God's love, you are tested and you say that it is too much for you, then you will be left with nothing.
Right now, you have whatever you have
But after embarking on this path, if you quit it, you will just come under the wrath of God.
If you don't have the courage or strength to endure these minor adversities, then [quit this path] and go offer Salat in the mosques.
Make a fool out of yourself and others.
Right?
This path is for the people who, after finding this path,
do not leave God even if they have to leave the entire world [for God's sake].
They don't leave God and God doesn't leave them.
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